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Do andriods dream of electric sheep?
Does anybody reading this use Electric Sheep? Is it any good?
I had a go with it last night. I got it to display one looping
animation, but that's all I could get it to do. Hmm.
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> Do andriods dream of electric sheep?
>
> Does anybody reading this use Electric Sheep? Is it any good?
>
> I had a go with it last night. I got it to display one looping
> animation, but that's all I could get it to do. Hmm.
>
I used to, but stopped because the MPEG video showing at fullscreen
(plus the fact that you may end up rendering frames for them) needs some
CPU time, which means less CPU available for BOINCing
(http://boinc.berkeley.edu/).
Recent versions of the screensaver get the videos via BitTorrent. The
server doesn't overload as much since then :) But may cause problems to
download. For example, it may take a while to connect to enough people
to get a decent download speed.
Try getting a sheep pack for a start:
http://draves.org/blog/archives/000470.html
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Invisible wrote:
> Do andriods dream of electric sheep?
I don't know, but I just finished a book called "The Android's Dream"
which was rather amusing. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
It's not feature creep if you put it
at the end and adjust the release date.
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Invisible wrote:
> Do andriods dream of electric sheep?
>
> Does anybody reading this use Electric Sheep? Is it any good?
>
> I had a go with it last night. I got it to display one looping
> animation, but that's all I could get it to do. Hmm.
I do. It's my default screensaver. Tend to turn it off when doing heavy
compilations (using Gentoo here). Then forget to turn it on again for
days/weeks.
Takes a while before it builds up some nice patterns. Sometimes it just
plain doesn't work and leaves a message along the lines of "Failed to
retrieve sheep" or something.
Nice patterns. No regrets.
--
Cartoon Law: Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.
/\ /\ /\ /
/ \/ \ u e e n / \/ a w a z
>>>>>>mue### [at] nawaz org<<<<<<
anl
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> I used to, but stopped because the MPEG video showing at fullscreen
> (plus the fact that you may end up rendering frames for them) needs some
> CPU time, which means less CPU available for BOINCing
> (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/).
>
> Recent versions of the screensaver get the videos via BitTorrent. The
> server doesn't overload as much since then :) But may cause problems to
> download. For example, it may take a while to connect to enough people
> to get a decent download speed.
Hmm. I seem to be getting between 3 and 20 KB/sec. It managed to
download 6 sheep in fairly short order, but I'm getting really bored of
watching the same 6 animations endlessly repeating now. A few sheep seem
to be quite excellent, and the majority are unspeakably lame. (This is
based on a sample of 6 though, so perhaps unrepresentative?)
> Try getting a sheep pack for a start:
A sheep... pack...
LOL! That's wrong on so many levels! :-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
> Do andriods dream of electric sheep?
>
> Does anybody reading this use Electric Sheep? Is it any good?
I only read this because the thread title is the same as a title of one
of my IRTC entries.
Regards,
John
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Invisible wrote:
> Do andriods dream of electric sheep?
>
> Does anybody reading this use Electric Sheep? Is it any good?
I used it for a long time. Even used a few of the sheep 'formulas' in
Apophysis to make some backgrounds. Then I started needing CPU time for
other stuff and for some reason never enabled a shiny screen saver again.
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Hmm. I seem to be getting between 3 and 20 KB/sec. It managed to
> download 6 sheep in fairly short order, but I'm getting really bored of
> watching the same 6 animations endlessly repeating now. A few sheep seem
> to be quite excellent, and the majority are unspeakably lame. (This is
> based on a sample of 6 though, so perhaps unrepresentative?)
Well, last night it finally downloaded a 7th sheep.
This morning I turned it on and did see it peak at 95 KB/sec. So
apparently my Internet link is much faster than the 20 KB/sec typical
download rate I've been seeing. (I have no idea what 2 kilobits per
second of theoretical bandwidth equates to in kilobytes per second of
*useful* data. In particular, I don't know what percentage TCP adds...)
I left the screen saver running this morning before I left for work.
Hopefully by the time I get home tonight it will have downloaded at
least 1 additional sheep.
PS. Do you think changing my firewall to allow incomming connections
will make any positive difference?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> PS. Do you think changing my firewall to allow incomming connections will
> make any positive difference?
If it is downloading via bitTorrent then yes, you should forward the port
that the software is using to speed things up.
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scott wrote:
>> PS. Do you think changing my firewall to allow incomming connections
>> will make any positive difference?
>
> If it is downloading via bitTorrent then yes, you should forward the
> port that the software is using to speed things up.
Right, OK.
I wonder if I can configure that...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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