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I enjoy being part of a greater whole, so I volunteer my computer's unused time to process radio from space recorded by SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The project, called "setiathome" (setiathome. berkeley.edu) downloads small packages of these signals, which my computer processes in its off-hours, looking for indications of intelligent life. It normally takes my computer about eight hours to chew its way through one package, whereupon another is downloaded, and so on.
Mysteriously, I noticed a few months ago that packages were taking 10 hours, or even 12, to calculate. It took some sleuthing, but I traced the slowdown to a mysterious program named "dssagent.exe' It apparently starts when I reboot, which isn't very often. It was placed on...
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