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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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>> So they could make themselves a favor and run something like seti@home.
>
>I didn't want to point to the unused CPU cycles, but to the wasted money
>spent to buy the hardware.

Well, they certainly won't trash the hardware they have ATM...
might run <your favorite distributed client> on 4 machines rather than 1 ;-)


Jan Engelhardt
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