> Do you folks think my old K6-2 can crunch enough BOINC units to make it
> worthwhile for the team?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Dig
>
Digger, It only needs to crunch ONE WU if it's the right WU. LOL If you went through all that and crunched THE ONE the first time out, You'd be a happy person, and glad you did it.

[edit] I measured the current draw on that machine (PIII 500) and found it costs me about $6.10/month to run. It outputs about 10 WU/week. 10 X 4 weeks = 40 WU/month. 6.10/40 = .15/WU completed.[end edit]

Thanks again to everyone,

Murasaki said: "Isn't it weird how some boxes feel like that?"

Murasaki... you said it! This old K6-2 of mine has never let me down even once. It's become like an old trusty friend, and if i can still use it for SETI work it'll take some of the sting out of having to retire it. :)

Mmciastro said: "Digger, It only needs to crunch ONE WU if it's the right WU. LOL If you went through all that and crunched THE ONE the first time out, You'd be a happy person, and glad you did it."

Mmciastro... oh how i know what you mean! I have to admit to somewhat of a guilty little fantasy of mine: When THE signal is found, the ONE that we've all been searching for... i've always secretly hoped it was from some old PII machine, owned by someone who was only ever interested in donating what few resources they had to be a part of something bigger. Sure the odds are better that it will be crunched by a power-user with unlimited resources and 50 computers, but i'm still pulling for the little guy who has no concern for competition or notoriety. :)

Thanks again for all your advice!

Dig

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Dig, the old 300 cranks out a BOINC result in about 18 or 19 hours. Your 450 should do better. Feel free to click on my name to see my account page and go from there to my computers ("View" link) and then to my current results. Right now that 300 is the only machine I have that runs BOINC. The others are all devoted to maximizing my final Classic total. But that will change when Classic shuts down. You can register as many machines as you can legally use.

Running multiple machines on Classic is just as easy -- start up SETI, register as "returning" user, and enter your e-mail addy exactly the way you did originally (it's case-sensitive). To make sure you don't mess it up, you can copy the user_info.sah file from an existing crunching box to the Classic SETI folder of the new box before starting up SETI Classic. Then it won't ask any questions; it will just get to work.

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Crunch for the team that started it all: The Planetary Society

Clay Ruth wrote the following:

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> The Planetary Society, the late Dr. Carl Sagan's organization promoting space
> exploration, provided the initial funding that enabled SETI@home to become a
> reality. We continue to provide a significant portion of the funds that keep
> SETI@home alive. What better reason could you want for joining a team?

Please visit our team
page -- we'd love to have you aboard! And while you're there, consider
> becoming a member of The Planetary Society, thereby helping to support SETI
> financially as well.
>
> Several team members have asked me whether anything can be done about the
> difficult-to-navigate, non-hierarchical format of Berkeley's official BOINC
> team stats pages. Well, now something has been done.

Our official
team page now includes a link to our hierarchical
listing at the SETI@work site. Check it out -- you'll like it! On your
> line you'll find a yellow target. Click the yellow target to show the
> differences between you and the other team members, complete with projected
> days to catch up based on your recent crunch rate

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-------- please excuse me I am sorry to be off the topic and I do sincerely apologize ---------


But ____ I just wanted to wish ever succes to the ___ SETI@home Planetary Society team and its members

To Clay Ruth

Hi Clay .........

I just waited to say thank you very much for all the help you have given me
and so many other people over the past six years on the SETI@home Classic boards



<A><B> so , if any one is looking for a team to join , I encourage you to join the</B>

<B>
SETI@home Planetary Society team.</B>



byron wrote the following:

> I think it was in 1997 or 1998 that Dr. David Anderson and Dr. Dan Werthiner
> went to the Planetary Society , with this idea of giving sofeware away for
> free and then asking people to install it on their computers to look for ET
> ----- to ask for the funding to start SETI@home. the Planetary Society were
> the first people to put up the first money , I think it was $ 50,000 to start.
> so if it were not for The Planetary Society we probably , would not have
> SETI@home

--- byron





Clay Wrote: __ thank you, Byron.

I don't know the exact numbers involved but the concept is correct: Without the support of TPS, there would be no SETI@home. TPS provided the initial funding that got SETI off the ground, and it continues to be a significant source of the funding that keeps SETI going -

--- Clay



In Planetary Hallways

To be frank, the decision to fund SETI@home was neither straightforward nor easy. We immediately saw the potential to involve people in SETI by giving them a chance to actually participate in a real scientific experiment. This is EXACTLY what The Planetary Society was formed to do.

But there would be no financial payback. There were doubts the demanding and sophisticated software would work. In every way, funding SETI@home would be a gamble.

We had many, many hallway discussions -- and even screaming matches -- about whether we should commit our members’ money to SETI@home. I remember one Society Director, who deals with finances only grudgingly, demanding to see a business plan before considering the project. Despite consensus that SETI@home fit exactly with the Society’s mission statement, there were concerns that it just wouldn’t work, that very few people would participate, and that it would simply be a bad investment.

But a few of us refused to let The Planetary Society turn this one down. We called Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan’s wife, and laid the matter before her. After Carl’s death in 1996, Planetary Society members had created the Carl Sagan Fund for the Future -- its purpose was to provide funds for projects that would fulfill Carl’s vision of enabling everyone to participate in the adventure of planetary exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life. We asked if we could use some of the fund for SETI@home.

Annie leaped at the idea. This, she said, was exactly the sort of thing Carl would have supported whole-heartedly.

The naysayers relented; the Society would put up $50,000, half of the needed start-up budget -- with a proviso. The SETI@home project had to come up with matching funds.



<A><B> everyone ___ Please read the whole story here:</B>[/url]


<B>http://www.planetary.org/html/UPDATES/seti/seti@home_and_planetary_society.html</B>




<A><B> so , if any one is looking for a team to join , I encourage you to join the</B>

<B>
SETI@home Planetary Society team.</B>

My very best Best Wishes to ___ Clay Ruth ___ and to all the approximately ___ one thousand , nine hundred and thirty _ eight Members of the ____ SETI@home Planetary Society team ___ (1938)





My very best wishes and kindest to every one ................ and ___ please ____ keep on crunching ____ :)

friendly and respectful
byron

Hi All They are a great team!

I have found BOINCsynergy to also be a great site!

Hi Byron!


Timmy The Team Player!

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Tim ---- [Captain Avatar] -- wrote the following
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> Hi All They are a great team!
>
> I have found BOINCsynergy to also be a great site!
>
> Hi Byron!
>
> Timmy The Team Player!
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:)

Hi Tim .......

thank you for replying to to my post.

How are you ?

I hope you are well ? ....... I haven't seen you on boards the last couple of days ?

so good to hear from you ....... I always enjoy reading your posts

Tim ... you alway bring a sense of civility to the message board

thank you for your Humanity and you Eloquence .... you are the best ..

My very best and kindest wishes to Tim .....



I feel so very sad ....... but ... .. I don't know why .. ?....




My very best wishes and kindest to every one ................ and ___ please ____ keep on crunching ____ :)

friendly and respectful
byron

Byron,

I have to tell you that, although I am not new to SETI (I joined in December of 1999), I am fairly new to BOINC. I would like to say that I have enjoyed reading your posts immensely, especially over in the SETI@Home Science forum. People like yourself have made my transition to BOINC seem effortless, and I am so proud to have joined the Planetary Society team recently.

I'm just a one-horse cruncher like so many others here, but folks like you and Clay Ruth make us all feel like we're part of a bigger team. And that's exactly how it should be. I appreciate that. :)

So...

Thanks to you and Clay and everybody else who have continued to make this a fun and extremely worthwhile project to undertake. :)

Sincerely,

Jim Lieb (Digger)

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Thank you for your comments, Byron. It's always good to hear from you and to see your avatar bearing Dr. Sagan's cheerful countenance.

Thanks too to Digger Jim for your kind words. The ol' 300 keeps plodding away like the tortoise who raced the hare. Your 450 can do the same, and it surely ought to do better than my 300, which appears to be on a pace of about 8 WUs (roughly 240 cobblestones) per week.

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Congratulations, Byron, on being selected BOINC User of the Day! It's a very fitting tribute to a man who honors Dr. Sagan as you do.

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hi Clay ,

thank you very much much for your kind words , about me being selected .............SETI@home ............ User of the Day! I very much appreciate your kind words .

My very best and sincere wishes ... and .. kindness ........... to....... <A><B>_Clay Ruth_</B>[/url]





friendly and respectful
byron

The Planetary Society, the late Dr. Carl Sagan's organization promoting space exploration, provided the initial funding that enabled SETI@home to become a reality. We continue to provide a significant portion of the funds that keep SETI@home alive. What better reason could you want for joining a team?

Please visit our team page -- we'd love to have you aboard! And while you're there, consider becoming a member of The Planetary Society, thereby helping to support SETI financially as well.

Several team members have asked me whether anything can be done about the difficult-to-navigate, non-hierarchical format of Berkeley's official BOINC team stats pages. Well, now something has been done.

Our official team page now includes a link to our hierarchical listing at the SETI@work site. Check it out -- you'll like it! On your line you'll find a yellow target. Click the yellow target to show the differences between you and the other team members, complete with projected days to catch up based on your recent crunch rate.

The Planetary Society looks like a Cool Team to me. Count me in:)

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Hey, Tim! Good to see you here.

I just received an official notice from SETI that moderator misfit had moved this thread to the Team Recruitment Center. Good move, misfit!

BTW, I've had two requests in recent months from other team members wanting to take over the team founder's role. I guess people have noticed that I'm not turning in much RAC in SETI lately, so they assume I've lost interest. That's not the case at all. I've merely re-prioritized my BOINC projects so that SETI now has a much smaller share. I rode at the top of the team for quite some time, but once I hit the 2 million mark, I figured it was time to step back and let others step up to the top.

Thank you to all who have joined, and who continue to join, our TPS crunching team!

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