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jshenry1963 Send message Joined: 17 Nov 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 68,878 RAC: 0 |
Hopefully, the answer is to find something out there. That by computing these numbers, you could be contributing to the greatest find of the millenium. If a find never occurs, who cares, at least you helped. Hopefully, you want to crunch as many numbers as you can. That is good. Hopefully, it isn't soley for the credits. If that is your sole purpose, then I rate you no higher than the lowest of the dung heap. Sorry, but that is my impression. One of mankinds biggest problems is trying to be number one. When it should be trying to help others out. Keep on crunchin' you may find something. John Henry Sevierville, TN Thanks, and Keep on crunchin' John Henry KI4JPL Sevierville TN I started with nothing, and I still have some of it left. <img src="http://www.boincstats.com/stats/banner.php?cpid=989478996ebd8eadba8f0809051cdde2"> |
Pascal, K G Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 2343 Credit: 150,491 RAC: 0 |
I am here for the entrainment value of the posts...... Semper Eadem So long Paul, it has been a hell of a ride. Park your ego's, fire up the computers, Science YES, Credits No. |
Digger Send message Joined: 4 Dec 99 Posts: 614 Credit: 21,053 RAC: 0 |
I'm here for the free coffee and donuts. :) |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
I'm here because the Illuminati were afraid I'd take over... |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
I am here, simply, because it is logical to be. >:-) L8R.... T'Khasi Time: Saturday, 16 April 2005 - 08:05 PM --700 (Pacific Standard Time) CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
Neil Walker Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 288 Credit: 18,101,056 RAC: 0 |
Be lucky Neil |
Bruno G. Olsen & ESEA @ greenholt Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 875 Credit: 4,386,984 RAC: 0 |
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Kajunfisher Send message Joined: 29 Mar 05 Posts: 1407 Credit: 126,476 RAC: 0 |
somebody got to the coffee and donuts before me, so i made my own dang coffee! . No matter where you go, there you are... |
Hans Dorn Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 2262 Credit: 26,448,570 RAC: 0 |
> Hopefully, the answer is to find something out there. That by computing these > numbers, you could be contributing to the greatest find of the millenium. If a > find never occurs, who cares, at least you helped. > Hopefully, you want to crunch as many numbers as you can. That is good. Full ACK. I don't think the earth is the only place where life exists. Finding someone else out there would be outstanding. > Hopefully, it isn't soley for the credits. If that is your sole purpose, then > I rate you no higher than the lowest of the dung heap. Sorry, but that is my > impression. I also like the competition here, so I feel offended by this statement. > One of mankinds biggest problems is trying to be number one. Hmmm. We came to be this way after 4 billion years of evolution. Competitiveness is hard coded into our brains. It makes no sense to complain about this fact. > When it should be trying to help others out. Fine. Just mail me your hardware, I could use it :o) > Keep on crunchin' you may find something. > > John Henry > Sevierville, TN > Regards Hans |
Kajunfisher Send message Joined: 29 Mar 05 Posts: 1407 Credit: 126,476 RAC: 0 |
i'd hate to think that we were all the life that existed "out there"... seems like an awful waste of space if it was true . No matter where you go, there you are... |
Steve Cressman Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 583 Credit: 65,644 RAC: 0 |
I'm here to find out when I have to look for a new hiding spot in this grand old universe. You earthlings are still too primative for first contact. 98SE XP2500+ @ 2.1 GHz Boinc v5.8.8 And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer. |
Chilean Send message Joined: 6 Apr 03 Posts: 498 Credit: 3,200,504 RAC: 0 |
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Heffed Send message Joined: 19 Mar 02 Posts: 1856 Credit: 40,736 RAC: 0 |
To do a little distributed computing. |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
> I was here to find something, to help new projects get on their feet, and to > serve the boinc community. Not much of that is left Don't let a couple of jerks get to you.... |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
>>I was here to find something, to help new projects get on their feet, and to serve the boinc community. Not much of that is left >Don't let a couple of jerks get to you.... I'm assuming you're not implying anything there :-) |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
> >>I was here to find something, to help new projects get on their > feet, and to serve the boinc community. Not much of that is left > >Don't let a couple of jerks get to you.... > I'm assuming you're not implying anything there :-) I thought, in context, it was fairly clear. Bruno found "folding" through a link that someone made public and should not have. Don't know who posted it, don't really care. The project admins at "folding" were apparently relying on security through obscurity, and that's just silly. They told people and they passed on the exciting new news. So Bruno joined the folding test project -- and got chewed. That was just wrong. How can Bruno be to blame when the project failed to properly secure the "join" links and when someone else leaked the info to the public. I can see why the folks at folding were mad, but taking it out on Bruno is just plain wrong. He didn't publish the link, and he wasn't the one who left the "create account" link open. ... that's all. |
Dwarlock Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 27 Credit: 156,907 RAC: 0 |
I'm here because a old friend asked me to join up, and I'm adding computers to my network to help the seti project, to help the advance ment of distributed computing, and for the same sort of insanity that origionaly led me to roll an IBM system 36 (full size not the fits in an AT case one) with displays about 3 miles down a poor quality road, and lower it down the narrow stairs into my basement myself... <img src="http://teamstarfire.org/boinc/summary.php?name=Dwarlock&team=Kansans%20Searching%20for%20a%20Planet%20With%20People%20More%20Interesting%20Than%20This%20One&seti=7832952&cbg=grey"> |
N/A Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0 |
Now I follow. Thanks for the clarification, Ned. Obscurity is not security. Those guys at Folding should read a page or two of 2600... |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
> Now I follow. Thanks for the clarification, Ned. > > Obscurity is not security. Those guys at Folding should read a page or two of > 2600... My point exactly. Obscurity is not security, and if you tell a couple of people, obscurity isn't even obscurity. Bruno got chewed for Folding's mistake -- it isn't his fault. I hope he takes a short vacation and comes back. Everyone needs to relax just a little and take time off once in a while. |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
> Now I follow. Thanks for the clarification, Ned. > > Obscurity is not security. Those guys at Folding should read a page or two of > 2600... P.S. they shouldn't be mad at the person who posted the link either. They should have handled it the way Einstein did it, with individual, one time invitations. |
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