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10-19-2013, 09:19 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Ireland
Distribution: Debian 12 Bookworm
Posts: 5,936
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What tasks can be done to keep computer busy at short breaks when you are AFK?
Hi.
What tasks can be done to keep computer busy at lunch time or other short breaks when you are AFK?
Could people post both offline and online tasks.
e.g.
Offline:- Virus scans (probably not relevant for Linux OS)
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Online:- Bitcoin Mining
- Seti
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Last edited by linustalman; 10-19-2013 at 09:22 AM.
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10-19-2013, 06:49 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Florida
Distribution: CentOS/Fedora/Pop!_OS
Posts: 2,992
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look into F@H for letting your system crank out some numbers that can really help folks lives.
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2 members found this post helpful.
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10-19-2013, 09:59 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Mageia 7
Posts: 406
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boinc/setiathome
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1 members found this post helpful.
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10-19-2013, 11:00 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: ...uncanny valley... infinity\1975; (randomly born:) Milwaukee, WI, US( + travel,) Earth&Mars (I wish,) END BORDER$!◣◢┌∩┐ Fe26-E,e...
Distribution: any GPL that work on freest-HW; has been KDE, CLI, Novena-SBC but open.. http://goo.gl/NqgqJx &c ;-)
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"cappuccino
an utility to let your boss think that you're working hard"
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1 members found this post helpful.
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10-20-2013, 10:09 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Ireland
Distribution: Debian 12 Bookworm
Posts: 5,936
Original Poster
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Thanks guys.
*** Updated lists. ***
OFFLINE:
* cappuccino - Utility to let your boss think you're working hard. sudo apt-get install cappuccino
* Virus scans (probably not relevant for Linux OS)
ONLINE:
* Bitcoin Mining
* BOINC: Malariacontrol.net, Rosetta@home, SETI@home, etc.
* FightAIDS@Home
* Folding@home (FAH or F@h)
* World Community Grid worldcommunitygrid.org
Last edited by linustalman; 10-20-2013 at 01:41 PM.
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10-20-2013, 11:57 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: ...uncanny valley... infinity\1975; (randomly born:) Milwaukee, WI, US( + travel,) Earth&Mars (I wish,) END BORDER$!◣◢┌∩┐ Fe26-E,e...
Distribution: any GPL that work on freest-HW; has been KDE, CLI, Novena-SBC but open.. http://goo.gl/NqgqJx &c ;-)
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Linux (user base growing fast) does have virus scanners but (still) more for winblow$ partitions: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/
Last edited by jamison20000e; 10-20-2013 at 12:01 PM.
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10-20-2013, 01:11 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: distro hopper
Posts: 11,352
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Online:
Downloading large files for personal use.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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10-21-2013, 11:28 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: SE Tennessee, USA
Distribution: Gentoo, LFS
Posts: 11,191
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I just fire-off a few "very nice" background jobs in the startup-script, and shut them down in the logoff. The jobs run all the time during the session but at such a low priority that they wind up only consuming otherwise-unused resources. (If necessary, specify a ulimit for the processes in the startup-script, so that they can't consume more than what you want to allocate to them.)
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