Just think, this poor "ex-civil servant" could have bypassed all these
problems by simply requesting permission to run the program after hours on a
"non-interference basis" ....

The desire to find intelligent life does not necessarily indicate someone
with "smart thinking".....


"George" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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A google search will reveal that seti is frequently used to stress test a

computer

since it runs the processor at 100% capacity with a lot of numerical

calculations. A

CPU that runs seti without problems is unlikely to overheat under other

circumstances.