Project Dolphin

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Project Dolphin

Post by UBT - PaulT »

This is an old project that I participated in years ago which is basically just a keystroke counter.   It requires running a small client program which just counts every keypress you make (please note it is NOT a key logger) and reports back to the main server every hour so no user interaction is needed.

I have set up a team, if anyone wants to join in the please do so.

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Post by UBT - Calum Mercer »

Excuse the great depths of my ignorance but why do they want to count keystrokes?

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UBT - Calum Mercer wrote:Excuse the great depths of my ignorance but why do they want to count keystrokes?

:scratch:  :?
Just for the hell of it basically.
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Post by UBT - Calum Mercer »

That must be the path to true enlightenment then!

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UBT - Calum Mercer wrote:Excuse the great depths of my ignorance but why do they want to count keystrokes?

:scratch:  :?
I think we're getting to the point of CPU power being so great that it's no longer an issue of "do I have enough power to run this (single) application" - more like "this PC is so powerful, it can do ALL of this all at the same time".

Expect to see more proglets like this coming - Instant Messnger is a similar program - it just sits in your Tray until a friend logs on and then you can be "chatting" as soon as you want. Great for keeping in touch, but can be a real "time-waster". I switched mine off, as friends were always expecting me to be available....and I've got work to do...!

I had another program that monitored the bit rate of send/receive over my modem line - it was great over the modem as you could tell what speed you were connecting at and hence if it was worthwhile to send/receive a big email to/from some-one. This was in the days of 33k and 56k modems that could connect at 9.6k or 14.4k and you wouldn't know it   :shock: - and then a big email might try to download and take ages  :oops: ....and bearing in mind that this was when using the phone line for (slow speed) data was expensive.

Hell, we used to be told not to telephone people until after 1pm, as it was expensive to call people in the mornings...!


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Tim
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Re: Project Dolphin

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UBT - PaulT wrote:I have set up a team, if anyone wants to join in the please do so.
Dunno on this one yet will have a look at it when I get home
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Post by UBT - Calum Mercer »

It sounds  bit like when I first got a blackberry and it also notified me when an email arrived and I would immediately look at it and respond before I learned to switch off the alerts and only check when I wanted to and not when someone else wanted to grab my attention. 8)

At the moment my CPU is busy working on the current 4 projects all the time and I prefer to have the vaguely smug feeling of potentially doing some good  :angel7:

So I think I will give this one a miss for now :walk:
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Post by UBT - BHCJackie »

I like the idea of a just for the hell of it project so I'm in :)
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Welome to the Team UBT - Halifax--lad and UBT - BHCJackie 8)
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Post by UBT - Halifax-lad »

Forgot to mention I had joined yesterday, thought I may as well have a look at it
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Post by UBT - BHCJackie »

Some more members would be useful

UK BOINC Team    24 May 2006, 19:00
No  User                      Contribution  Total Keys
1    UBT - BHCJackie     278,475        278,475
2    UBT - Halifax--lad   121,339        121,356
3    UBT - PaulT             43,894          45,245
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Post by UBT - Calum Mercer »

doing something just for the sake of it and for no real purpose sounds far too much like the day job!

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Post by UBT - BHCJackie »

What I've found really interesting is the number of keystrokes I do when I'm online.  TBH I didn't realise I typed as much as I do.  I blame thre UBT Chatroom but don't tell Darren & Tim ok  :D

I thought I didn't do much clicking because I'm still not totally into the touchpad and I've always used keyboard shortcuts anyway ;) but I was quite startled when I looked at my figures.

Why not join to discover how much you use the keyboard? You may be suprised!
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Post by UBT - Calum Mercer »

Jackie you are as persausive as only you could be - I am almost tempted now! :hello1:  :hello1:
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I've joined the project for a laugh. It'll be interesting to see just how many keystrokes I really make. Perhaps it'll persuade me to use even more shortcut keys than I do already. I know that that won't contribute so many keystrokes to the stats, but at least I'll be working more efficiently...

Actually, what I think would be more interesting is to measure the cumulative length of the mouse movements made. Even more interesting would be the number of keyboard -> mouse (or vice versa) transitions made.
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Post by UBT - BHCJackie »

WTG Gregory, that's the attitude  :D

If you're interested in your amount of clicks you do please consider joining the UBT team at WhatPulse

Come on Calum, you know you want to join us too ;)
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Post by gregoryw »

Where on the WhatPulse site does it say that it measures clicks and well as keystrokes?

EDIT: Oh, I see that the stats page shows clicks as well. I'll look at downloading this some time later today.
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Project Dolphin     Mon, 29 May 2006 03:02:18

No.    User                       Contribution   Total Keys  
1       UBT - BHCJackie      346,474         346,474
2       UBT - Halifax--lad    153,870         153,887
3       UBT - PaulT               47,278           48,629
4       gregoryw                  34,042           34,042
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Post by UBT - Halifax-lad »

Just seen Jackie is back, there goes my high score on Dolphin she can out type me any day
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UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Just seen Jackie is back
Cool  :thumbup:
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UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Just seen Jackie is back, there goes my high score on Dolphin she can out type me any day
Exsqueeze me but I've been absent since mid June and you ain't caught me yet:
No.    User                          Total Keys
1       UBT - BHCJackie         633,130
2       UBT - Halifax--lad       627,630
3       gregoryw                   149,904
4       UBT - PaulT                  66,793
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Post by UBT - Halifax-lad »

Well I nearly have
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I'm going to join this for the laugh! :lol:  :lol:
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Post by melter65 »

Right, problems already! :roll:

I'm trying to register on WhatPulse, but one of the *Required Fields* is 'Initial Pulse Profile'. What is this? Do I need to join the forum first and get a 'Profile' before registering? :shock:

Thanks :)
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Not sure if any of us are still doing it.

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Cheers for that, Mikee, I can't see for looking! :oops:  :D
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