Just posted this to an '8 year' thread in the Cafe, and thought that some of you might enjoy it here.....



'Twas so long ago, but not so far away
that a busy young lad while off on his way
read about a new project, not so long undertaken
that searched through the stars
for signals that others just might have been makin'.

Your computer, it said, is just all that you need
to help search through the stars with plenty of speed
and help us to look for this particular behaviour
and in return we will give you
this most nifty screen saver.

A computer, the lad thought, I do not have one now
but I'll build one and then I can find out just how
these fellows that search though the stars and the skies
and can look for these signals
not seen by our eyes.

A fast one, he thought, that would be just the best.
And he went out and bought a new 233mmx.
Just the thing for researching those signals I'll bet.
'Cuz he knew at the time
'Twas the fastest thing yet!

He fiddled and fuddled and tinkered and cursed.
He poked and he prodded and threw things and worse.
And just as he almost gave up from the strife,
He heard the thing 'beep'
and it then came to life....

And he learned dos and windows and the things that were written,
and the passwords and keywords and the secrets laying hidden.
And finally when the effort had almost made him blind
he typed in 'Find me Seti'
wondering what it was it would find.

The hard drive it clicked and it clacked and it roared,
a program downloaded, the cpu usage soared...
A new 'puter crunching, away on a quest.
And the young lad just smiled...
"Let it run, that is best".

A few months from now, I'll see eight years a running
that Seti search program, so precise and so cunning.
Though the answers we sought then those eight years ago
are still enticing us now
to go where we must go....

And so there's the story of a young lad gone Seti.
Much older and wiser now, the lives touched of many.
The computers are faster, and he has written this song,
to say thanks to Seti, and to those who have stayed,
To smile and say bravo to who have been at it this long.


Top notch, fellow crunchers!!!!!

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about to join the club. joined 28th feb 2000. crunched more in the last year than the previous 7 and a half years. so here to the next yeat so we should crunch about the same again as the last 7 years or more.
so good luck to every body elses time and effort they have put into seti.

les ( greenfinger ).

Congratz to all to the 8 Year Club...

Nice to see so much old People here...

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

The 9 year club will be starting soon.....

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about to join the club. joined 28th feb 2000. crunched more in the last year than the previous 7 and a half years. so here to the next yeat so we should crunch about the same again as the last 7 years or more.
so good luck to every body elses time and effort they have put into seti.

les ( greenfinger ).

CONGRATULATIONS TO Les (greenfinger) - les-helen-day THIS IS YOUR DAY - 8 YEARS CRUNCHIN' WITH BERKELEY - JOINED FEBRUARY 28th 2000 . . .

No. 471 - greenfinger - Mon Feb 28 21:48:11 2000 - Thu Apr 8 09:55:16 2004 - 322 - 2584 hr 15 min 8 hr 01 min 32.3 sec - United Kingdom

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I don't remember whether I was using my old Mac II (System 7) or iMac (OS 9.2) then. Average of 30 hr/wu.

It must have been the iMac. I’m pretty sure there was never a 68k version of S@h—and you wouldn’t get times like that with any PPC older than a G3. My Power Mac 7100s, for example, (with PPC 601 CPUs) would take five or six days per WU. According to MacTracker, Mac OS 9.2 wasn’t released until 2001, but v9.0 came out a couple of years earlier.

I think there was a (classic) version for 68040, but I could be wrong; the first PPC mac I ran seti on was a performa 6360 (from sears, $1050, 1.2gig(!) hdd) still have it in the closet, and it was replaced (on seti) w/ a g3 333 that ran classic until it was orphaned (os8); until we got the mac mini (1st osx mac) I had no computer I could run seti on (the dell laptop overheated on boinc until throttling came along) I also had several computers at that ran seti, but I had to manually port the files to a computer with internet access; I think the main one was a 486dx33. might have been a 100M pentium. I had to quit using work computers, the owner was worried about possible viruses or data corruption on the work lan/server data files (that network has been running since apr 93! oldest computer still running on it is from mid 1994)

congrats everybody! another 4+ months and it'll be 9 years. wow. SMR

thanks dr. c.e.t.i but its your turn tomorrow only one day between us m8 good luck to you and i hope all is well with you.
good luck to all with there crunching,and may you all hit your targets for the next year.
les ( greenfinger )

about to join the club. joined 28th feb 2000. crunched more in the last year than the previous 7 and a half years. so here to the next yeat so we should crunch about the same again as the last 7 years or more.
so good luck to every body elses time and effort they have put into seti.

les ( greenfinger ).

CONGRATULATIONS TO Les (greenfinger) - les-helen-day THIS IS YOUR DAY - 8 YEARS CRUNCHIN' WITH BERKELEY - JOINED FEBRUARY 28th 2000 . . .

No. 471 - greenfinger - Mon Feb 28 21:48:11 2000 - Thu Apr 8 09:55:16 2004 - 322 - 2584 hr 15 min 8 hr 01 min 32.3 sec - United Kingdom

Makes me almost a 'half member'.
Shame i lost my 'old' SETI account, since i moved 4 times since then.

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thanks dr. c.e.t.i but its your turn tomorrow only one day between us m8 good luck to you and i hope all is well with you.
good luck to all with there crunching,and may you all hit your targets for the next year.
les ( greenfinger )

Thanks Les - Today IS Today - so iT's YOUR DAY SIR!!! Congratz to the MAX

@ Fred - yes indeed you be 1/2 Member - All of everyone counts when iT comes to SETI BOINC ;)

ps - SETI@home classic workunits 2 - SETI@home classic CPU time 56 hours . . .

something @ least ;)

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right its after 12-00 here so its your day now dr.c.e.t.i. have a good day m8.
and lets hope theres many more.you signed up 29 feb 2000 m8.

good luck to all crunchers out there.

les ( greenfinger ).

right its after 12-00 here so its your day now dr.c.e.t.i. have a good day m8.
and lets hope theres many more.you signed up 29 feb 2000 m8.

good luck to all crunchers out there.

les ( greenfinger ).

But there's only been two 29 Februarys since 2000. He's just joining the two-year club! ;)

Wow! How time flies. I joined the 8 year club last month and didn't realize it until I starting reading this thread. :) Congrats to all fellow club members.
Keep on crunching....

Mike C.

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Seti Classic: 204,777 WU /113.636 Yrs

Happy aniversay DR CETI. See you again in 4yrs, or we February crunchers can adopt you ;)

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Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

right its after 12-00 here so its your day now dr.c.e.t.i. have a good day m8.
and lets hope theres many more.you signed up 29 feb 2000 m8.

good luck to all crunchers out there.

les ( greenfinger ).

But there's only been two 29 Februarys since 2000. He's just joining the two-year club! ;)

good one Randy . . . though, since iT was a leap year (or is) . . . the numbers are quite a bit higher than that . . . as well as a whole lot MORE than even 8 years Sir ;)))

Thanks btw . . .

richard

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Happy aniversay DR CETI. See you again in 4yrs, or we February crunchers can adopt you ;)

uli - You are such a fine person - Thanks again and i shall see you about young lady

re: adoption - this calls for an 'Adoption Thread' in the SETI Cafe . . . ;))

With Respect,

richard

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Made it! 16 March 2000.

Say, isn't it time for the 9 Year Club to start racking up members?

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Made it! 16 March 2000.

Say, isn't it time for the 9 Year Club to start racking up members?

Congratulations John - 9 Years begins with Today ;)

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. . . Congratulations to All the 9th Year Crunchers @ SET BOINC

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I'll eventually get there later this year. :-)

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I'll eventually get there later this year. :-)

Yup, and later than you.Time flys when your crunchen.......