Hehe, that’s awesome.

Although, if I were to hear it used I might think it was a bad thing.

"Hey Rich, is this new desktop Fully Farquared?"

"What?"

"You know, Fully Farquared? Best performance, cheap price, enough to do the job, measured twice cut once?"

"Man, what are you on?!"

“Fully Farquhared”

Heh. Now there’s something which needs to make it into the ol’ lexicon 😉

Related side note: the "Fully Farquhared" Win95b box I built back in 97 for work (P-200 Asus) is likely coming down this week to the immense satisfaction of the IT department (they don’t do retro well <g>). With the exceptions of a few weeks of vacation each year that machine has been running 24×7 since it was built…

Lending your CPU cycles to distributed computing projects like that is a good way for your computer to do something useful while it’s powered on, but its power consumption willl be higher while it’s doing so. Windows NT and Linux idle the CPU when it’s not in use, cutting down on power consumption. It depends on whether you’re more interested in academic research or cutting your electric bill.

One thing though: Don’t run stuff like this if you’re overclocking your CPU. Projects like this have to filter out results from computers with overclocked CPUs, so adding an overclocked CPU to a project like this actually does more harm than good. Overclocked CPUs are error prone when it comes to basic math. They’re right often enough to not be much of a problem when you’re playing Quake, but it’s a much bigger deal when you’re simulating folding proteins.