In case anyone wants a neat little program to eat up those spare CPU cycles, go to the Folding@Home Project homepage. This program runs in the background of your computer and takes up CPU cycles that would normally be wasted by the System Idle Process and put them to better use: namely, performing protein folding operations with the hope the data gathered will assist researchers with finding cures for sundry medical ailments (cancer and Alzheimer's Disease to name a couple).
If you are interested in finding out more about Folding@Home or installing the software, go the above link and click on the FAQ and Download links on the left sidebar. I'm a member of the Maximum PC Folding@Home Team, which is team #11108 (the software will give you an opportunity to choose a Username and, optionally, a team number upon execution or installation). Check out my current folding stats and ranking here.
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