Project Dolphin

UBT - PaulT · Post by **UBT - PaulT** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:23 pm

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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UBT - Calum Mercer · Post by **UBT - Calum Mercer** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:02 pm

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

:scratch: :?

UBT - PaulT · Post by **UBT - PaulT** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:05 pm

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.

UBT - Calum Mercer · Post by **UBT - Calum Mercer** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:10 pm

That must be the path to true enlightenment then!

:newb:

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:11 pm

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

- 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...!

regards,

Tim

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:13 pm

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

UBT - Calum Mercer · Post by **UBT - Calum Mercer** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:23 pm

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.

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:

UBT - BHCJackie · Post by **UBT - BHCJackie** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:05 pm

I like the idea of a just for the hell of it project so I'm in

UBT - PaulT · Post by **UBT - PaulT** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:15 pm

Welome to the Team UBT - Halifax--lad and UBT - BHCJackie

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:29 pm

Forgot to mention I had joined yesterday, thought I may as well have a look at it

UBT - BHCJackie · Post by **UBT - BHCJackie** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:02 pm

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

UBT - Calum Mercer · Post by **UBT - Calum Mercer** » Wed May 24, 2006 8:48 pm

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

:dontknow:

UBT - BHCJackie · Post by **UBT - BHCJackie** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:21 pm

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!

UBT - Calum Mercer · Post by **UBT - Calum Mercer** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:39 pm

Jackie you are as persausive as only you could be - I am almost tempted now! :hello1: :hello1:

gregoryw · Post by **gregoryw** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:17 pm

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.

UBT - BHCJackie · Post by **UBT - BHCJackie** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:43 pm

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

gregoryw · Post by **gregoryw** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:14 am

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.

UBT - BHCJackie · Post by **UBT - BHCJackie** » Mon May 29, 2006 2:11 am

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

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:47 pm

Just seen Jackie is back, there goes my high score on Dolphin she can out type me any day

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:53 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Just seen Jackie is back

Cool :thumbup:

UBT - BHCJackie · Post by **UBT - BHCJackie** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:44 am

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

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:42 am

Well I nearly have

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:01 pm

I'm going to join this for the laugh!

:lol:

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:13 pm

Right, problems already!

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?

Thanks

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Tue May 22, 2007 6:54 am

Not sure if any of us are still doing it.

Does this help? http://whatpulse.org/pulse-profiles/

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Wed May 23, 2007 8:50 pm

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

:D

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