> > As another point, I know many who are in SETI solely for the nice
> > graphical display. I don't know whether GIMPS, given the abstract
> > nature of the work we do, could ever really develop such a display.
> I imagine a better GIMPS graphical display would look like part of
> the set from "twelve monkeys" with fake big black dials and twitching
> needles, that indicate system performance and available swap space
> and so forth. It could be a cute graphical system monitor application.
>
> Of course you can maximize your prime95 window.
Hmm... not all that interesting to most folks...
perhaps just have Prime95 update some SNMP counters... I think it'd be
"neato" to use MRTG to track various counters of the machines I have running
Prime95/NTPrime. Then you're just offloading the task of doing charts and
stuff to some other machine.
Doesn't really address the issue of having it show some cool stuff locally,
although someone could write a screen saver that takes those counters and
does something with it on the client itself. Also has the nice benefit of
keeping the task of groovy displays out of the code of the program, and lets
others write their own "plug ins" in any way they want.
Aaron
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