[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of The address@hidden Service

[dennison]

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Ted Dennison <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: The address@hidden Service
System name: seti-service
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
The address@hidden service is a Windows NT service that controls a 
address@hidden command-line client. Since it is implemented as an NT service, 
it is only usable on systems running Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.

The goal of the address@hidden Service is to help maximize your system\'s 
address@hidden work-unit output. It uses the command-line client, which 
elimiates processing cycles that would otherwise be lost to displaying 
graphics. As a further boost, even the client\'s text output is disabled. The 
client is run as a background process, so that it can continually work without 
impacting anything else you may want to do on your machine.

But the main benefit to running the client as a service is that it runs the 
client as long as your machine is booted. You no longer need to leave yourself 
logged on to process work units. If your machine is rebooted while you are away 
from it for any reason (eg: power outage), the address@hidden Service will 
resume processing immediately after your machine reboots. A third way the 
address@hidden Service helps you is with network outages. If your network 
connection happens to be down when the address@hidden client completes a unit, 
it will quite likely terminate. This can leave you without any SETI processing 
for an extended period of time until you come back to the machine and notice 
the client\'s window is gone. The address@hidden Service automaticly detects 
termination of the address@hidden client and restarts it. A fourth way the 
address@hidden Service helps you is with its handy built-in web server, which 
can report client status to any connected PC via your web-browser.


After the explanation say:
It already exists and you can download the latest distribution at 
http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/SETI/SETI_Service_src_2_1.exe


Other Software Required:
Use of this project requires an OS based on the Windows \"NT\" kernel, and the 
address@hidden Text-based client (an ftp script is provided to download it).

Building the source distribution also requires an Ada compiler, and a 
distribution of AWS (A GPL\'ed web server library, available at 
http://libre.act-europe.fr/aws). It is set up to work with the Gnu Ada 
compiler, but others can probably be used.

Other Comments:
The current version includes a built-in webserver which provides a link to 
www.gnu.org with every page served. I do what I can to spread the gospel. :-)