Wednesday, June 02, 2004

What to do with oodles of computer stuff

I could record everything. This could be done with tons of web cams. I could place sound recorders. I could also do temperature monitors. I could wear web cams almost all day. I could record or capture screens from tv. This data might be useful if someone spent time to analyze it. I could use the computers to search for life within computer networks or systems. I could capture all my web traffic and then display it or summarize it on a web site. I could also scour the web for interesting data and summarize it on something useful.

Probably the easiest and least legal thing to do is caputer screens for tv. It would eat up the most storage and computing power. The other thing is what to do with these large hard drives I have at home but can't be used to serve data since it would kill my broadband connection's upload capability. I guess I'll have to do more analysis on the data. Perhaps some poorly tuned long running jobs. Also, what to do with the large amounts of memory in the system which is not being used since the long running jobs will probably be optimized to run like old-fashioned tape-drive computers with a few passes and temporary tape.

Speaking about power, it runs up a pretty big bill, all these computer things. If your computer uses 1KW, leaving it on all year racks up a 900 power bill at California's residential 10 cents per KW*hr. Time to get those solar panels and run the site and capture data only during daylight.

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