[ale] Monitoring Win SETI at home from *nix

[jeff hubbs]

David S. Jackson wrote:

> I recently caught the SETI at home bug.  I've got some old (very!)
> machines that aren't doing much else, and I thought I'd put their
> extra cycles to use.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to monitor a windows me box
> running the graphical s at h client from a unix box?  So far,
> setilog looks best, but it only works with the cli version of
> s at h, which doesn't run on Win ME.  
> 
> My basic plan is to mount an smb share from windows and look at a
> log file.  If there is no other way to do it, I could install
> Perl on Win ME and run Perl Seti.  But that's a lot of work for
> just looking at how seti is doing remotely.  :-)  Setilog would
> have been great.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> 

One way is to use VNC (Virtual Network Computing), distributed (IIRC) by 
AT&T UK.

- Jeff


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