Two propositions: Listen to pulsars and screensaver mouse behaviour?
23 Apr 2010 12:15:06 UTC
Topic 194888
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1st:
When the number crunching is being done and the graphic is being displayed can there be an option to listen to what sound is actually being processed? It doesn't need to be in realtime just you know. To have a general idea of what the radio waves sound like that are being worked upon?
I would really like this option if it could be done.
2nd:
Can there be an option to disable exiting from screensaver on mouse movement?
Keep up the good work :)
Two propositions: Listen to pulsars and screensaver mouse behavi
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Both features are not completely trivial to implement from the current state of the code; until we know better we think that the programming effort needed does not match the demand of this features.
For the mouse: The screensaver source code is publicly available and actually well documented (see this thread). It should be relatively easy to disable the code that exits the screensaver on certain events.
For the audio: for the radio pulsar search you'd hear the same couple of seconds of noise (well, in radio frequency anyway - you'd need to shift this to the audio band) over and over again. After listening for possibly a few minutes max I'd find this rather annoying. Actually listening to /dev/random is probably more exciting. As for the GW search the frequencies are indeed in the audio range, but what's actually in a workunit is a frequency band that is so narrow you'd hear a single slightly modulated tone, which wouldn't be very interesting either.
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to 2nd: The closest option is to activate the graphic within the bonic client and hit the enter button. The screen will just look like the screensaver but without switching tasks and combined statistics therefor the mouse could be moved.
I admit it is not what you asked for. Maybe try some sort of password protection?!
Greetz
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