Give me something interesting to do with my PC

[McGraw]

Here's what I use my PC for at the moment:

1. Internet
2. Games
3. E-mail and Word based home work
4. Listening to music
5. Watching DVDs
6. Photoshopping photos and screenshots
7. MSN Messenger and E-mail conversations with friends and family
7. Google Earth

In my opinion, it is configured for max performance (bar more overclocking) so there isn't much more tweaking I can do. I can't use diskeeper anymore due to x64.

I have just downloaded Konfabulator which is fantastic. I am really enjoying playing with all the widgets.

Please can anyone make any suggestions of what I can do to get more out of my pc? Specific program suggestions are much appreciated.

Thanks very much.

[Nemesis]

This depends on the amount of time you have, etc.

Ever though of programming ?

[Angua]

Research your family tree! It's what my hubby uses it for a lot.

[bopdude]

Originally Posted by Simon M

This depends on the amount of time you have, etc.

Ever though of programming ?

Originally Posted by Angua

Research your family tree! It's what my hubby uses it for a lot.

How about some links please

[TheBlueRaja]

Y N07 b3c0m3 @ 1337 HaX0r?

[MovedGoalPosts]

Distributed computing: Most of the time your PC is on it will be only using part of it's potency. The rest goes to waste. You can help the search for aliens, predict climate change, fold proteins to perhaps help our undertstanding of how these might form cancers or other diseases, search for pulsars in space, and all sorts.

Look at the rather messy sticky http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=13051 for more information.

[Angua]

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
http://www.rootsweb.com/
http://www.familysearch.org/
http://www.genealogy.com/index_n.html

It does help to have a program to organise your files, we use Family Tree Maker http://www.familytreemaker.com/
Genealogy research is one of the most popular uses for the internet.

[McGraw]

No time or inclination for programming.

Will look at the other stuff though.

Cheers.

I noticed you didnt mention one thing in your uses list so ill put it to you that you can use your pc to download pRon


I might have a bash at the family tree thing. I know somewhere theres money would be nice to find some

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

I might have a bash at the family tree thing. I know somewhere theres money would be nice to find some

There's a title in my family tree.....the problem is that a couple of hundred people would have to die before I got it

Why not try writing the novel all of us are supposed to have within us.

[Gareth]

Why not install another non-Windows OS and learn to use that. Doesn't have to be Linux... you could try BSD or Solaris 10.

Links: http://distrowatch.com , http://www.bsd.org , http://www.sun.com/software/solaris , http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/

[McGraw]

Just installed XP x64 so I'm playing with that at the moment.

Internet=pr0n.