Crushing on a computer you dont have admin priv. on?

[Evochuck]

It that possible, if lets say i wanted to R@H on my school computer?

[benbaked]

If you don't have permission - don't do it.

It looks really bad for the project and could open you up to liabilities, financial, legal, you could get into some serious hot water over it. The organizations running the project will very likely cancel out any points you receive from a computer you don't have permission to use. For example: Stanford's Pande Group has canceled out the points of several folding@home folders who didn't have permission to use the computers they used.

Worst of all it almost always results in bad publicity for the project. The majority of people don't see DC projects as beneficial, they see it as a waste of resources.

There was a story a couple years ago of a SETI@home user that installed seti on thousands of the school district's computers that he worked at, he never had it in writing that he had permission. Some woman who was a higher up in the district noticed the increased power consumption from the computers running SETI@home (a LOT of money), a witchhunt ensued, he lost his job and got into some other troubles over it too.

[4GHZ_or_bust]

Wasn't there a fiasco about someone who did seti@home on hundreds of school computers?

[Evochuck]

pretty sure thats what ben just explained :P

but yeah bad idea i get it

[Steveo989]

If you are in your comp lab long enough, it may be worth loading a client on a thumb drive and running it on the thumb drive while you are in the lab. However, then you have to run the thumb drive at home too to ensure you complete WU's on time. Another option, this is in the grey area, is coming to the lab in the morning putting the thumb drive in the back of the tower, and then coming back before going home to shut the client off and grab your thumb drive. The second option, IMO, is more trouble than it's worth.

[Psykoikonov]

If you are in your comp lab long enough, it may be worth loading a client on a thumb drive and running it on the thumb drive while you are in the lab.

Wouldn't this still count as running distributed software without permission, (that is of course unless permission was granted).

[Steveo989]

Wouldn't this still count as running distributed software without permission, (that is of course unless permission was granted).

The second example I had yes. However, for the one during class time, no. You have permission to use that PC for your academic endeavors, if you choose to fully use the systems resources, by running F@H/R@H, etc, that is your choice. You are not loading any unauthorized software onto the computer, or anything else.
The leaving the class while it's running, now there may be issues. I was just saying though.

I've run F@H off my thumbdrive while in A+ certification class in HS and completed a decent amount of WU's in this fashion. I had a right to be using that computer during class, just as bad as if you had 100 instances of Word, and powerpoint open, the difference is you are assisting stanford while doing your assigned work. It's something that you might get yelled at, but certainly not suspended. Now, if you load it on 100 computers in your lab,then you're looking at getting academic punishment.

[Psykoikonov]

All good mate just wouldn't want to see someone get in trouble is all.The second example I had yes. However, for the one during class time, no. You have permission to use that PC for your academic endeavors, if you choose to fully use the systems resources, by running F@H/R@H, etc, that is your choice. You are not loading any unauthorized software onto the computer, or anything else.
The leaving the class while it's running, now there may be issues. I was just saying though.

I've run F@H off my thumbdrive while in A+ certification class in HS and completed a decent amount of WU's in this fashion. I had a right to be using that computer during class, just as bad as if you had 100 instances of Word, and powerpoint open, the difference is you are assisting stanford while doing your assigned work. It's something that you might get yelled at, but certainly not suspended. Now, if you load it on 100 computers in your lab,then you're looking at getting academic punishment.

[Steveo989]

I know what ya mean, it definitely falls in the grey area.