If you’ve got a computer and it’s got some spare clock cycles/bandwidth/memory (which is almost certainly true), then you really should be running the following programs. This is “should” in the sense of “you should feed the poor”.
- Tor — This system provides anonymity online. Even if you don’t use it yourself, running a server in the Tor network provides opportunities to the vast array of people who use Tor to protect themselves and evade oppressive governments: see the description of various users here. At least run as a non-exit node in the Tor network (
reject *:* in torrc, or unchecking all the boxes in Vidalia), although allowing exits to port 80 (“Websites” in Vidalia) and 422 (“Secure Websites (SSL)” in Vidalia) make lots of people happy with relatively minimal abuse possibilities.
- BOINC — Although this started as SETI@Home1, there are all kinds of projects you can subscribe to now from across a variety of fields. The big ones are here.
1 Please read all the way through Brian’s The Fermi Paradox post before committing your clock cycles to the SETI@Home project in lieu of more immediately and directly beneficent project.
If you’ve got a computer and it’s got some spare clock cycles/bandwidth/memory (which is almost certainly true), then you really should be running the following programs. This is “should” in the sense of “you should feed the poor”.
reject *:*in torrc, or unchecking all the boxes in Vidalia), although allowing exits to port 80 (“Websites” in Vidalia) and 422 (“Secure Websites (SSL)” in Vidalia) make lots of people happy with relatively minimal abuse possibilities.1 Please read all the way through Brian’s The Fermi Paradox post before committing your clock cycles to the SETI@Home project in lieu of more immediately and directly beneficent project.