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Nightma12
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This was my quote for a long time (I lost 4 loved ones to cancer so I had been doing this [grid.org] for a while):
Did you know one in four of us will at some time suffer from cancer? The high mortality rate, the suffering experienced by patients from the side effects of existing treatments, and the high costs of treatment all contribute to making cancer a priority for drug research. Please help us Beat Cancer!
The only time I run this kind of program is when I am not using the computer IE: when at work, out with friends, sleeping, in jail, when I am seeding, ECT....
This program only takes the CPU cycles that aren't being used (idle cycles). It doesn't slow down the computer. It releases the cycles it is using when another program needs them. It doesn't create a bottleneck. I use it on my 2 comps 1-2800xp, 1 gig ram and 2-celeron 700 with 128Mb ram. Granted it runs faster on the AMD, but the Celeron gets more points because of it being a slower machine. I have it running as a system service, and they (the wife and kids) never know it is working. Theirs is the celery comp. and it only uses the internet when it is sending the work packet info at the beginning and end of a work packet.I think this is really great that we (Team Demonoid) are doing this cuz I look at it this way. most of the people out there as well as but not limited to Game servers, File hosts, Message boards, FTP's, P2P leave the computers on for days at a time, and if you are going to have it on for days at a time why don't use help out mankind as well?
Install Notes can be found here http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm
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United Devices invites you to download our software — a small program called the UD Agent — and become a Member of the United Devices Community. The UD Agent can recycle your PC's unused resources and use them to perform valuable scientific and medical research without disturbing your usual computer use.
Join grid.org and make a difference. To become a member of grid.org and participate in these important grid computing projects, simply download a free, non-invasive software program that works as a screensaver. It runs when your computer has idle processing time. Your computer never leaves your desk and the project never interrupts your normal PC use
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there was a thread about this at:
http://www.msghelp.net/showthread.php?tid=34581
i was a lil concerned about privacy before i installed this, but i had a quick look on google, and at the countless replies in the msgplus forum and there wasnt one single complaint 
i currently have this running on my home computer, and if things go well (as far as security/privacy/CPU usage goes) i will be placing this onto ALL of my boxes 
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