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Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
Well before my time of course, but I heard stories. Sounded like a grand place. :) Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
Daniel Michel Send message Joined: 2 Feb 04 Posts: 14925 Credit: 1,378,607 RAC: 6 |
I was in the original SETI for only about 5 months before i starting BOINCing...I remember being amazed at the cool screensaver but i really didn't frequent the boards much back then...So i knew very little beyond that...I remember the "gold nuggets" that crunchers got for the various milestones...Some of the crunchers at original SETI had some very impressive totals... When the time was nearing for the old SETI to shut down i crunched a few more WU's so i finally reached the 100 WU milestone...I finally got my gold nugget!...During that time of transition i also made a few posts on the old SETI boards...I tried to reassure some of the people there that BOINC was going to be alright...It was not an easy job to convince some of them to change...when they had been happy for so long with the old system... PROUD TO BE TFFE! |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
The best part was, when I found my name in conjunction with a signal of interest. Still don't know what the 10,000 meant next to it, but it was so cool. Of course Mr Sagan's program got me started in 1999, but then a computer crash and not knowing the original e-mail address set me back a bit. But what is 8 mos in terms of what we are searching for, nothing. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24876 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
The best part was, when I found my name in conjunction with a signal of interest. Still don't know what the 10,000 meant next to it, but it was so cool. That's what happened to me. I could remember the original address but forgot the password. Just crunched the wu's as being on 56k dialup, didn't bother posting. |
Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
I remember the "gold nuggets" that crunchers got for the various milestones... ;) It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . . |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
I joined July 15th. I am pretty certain that I posted a couple of times... I remember you and Pam from the Seti Classic board. I didn't post there much though. I joined there in the summer of 2004 but only crunched about 50 classic WU's when the leader of the team I was in back then told me about Seti BOINC and suggested me to change to here. Which I did just right after it went public in July 2004, I think. So my time in the Seti Classic project was very short. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
I joined in 1999 and had nothing to do with the Classic forums, let alone had any idea they existed. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Stealth Eagle* Send message Joined: 7 Sep 00 Posts: 5971 Credit: 367,640 RAC: 0 |
I joined in September of 2000 and crunched that until they started the first Boinc Beta then I switched to that until Boinc went public and there were no more WUs for beta I continued to crunch classic for a while on my wife's computer but before Classic closed down I switched to Boinc. I posted very little in the classic boards mainly when I had a problem with the software. What you do today you will have to live with tonight |
Daniel Michel Send message Joined: 2 Feb 04 Posts: 14925 Credit: 1,378,607 RAC: 6 |
I remember the "gold nuggets" that crunchers got for the various milestones... Yep...that's the gold i was speaking of...I haven't seen one of those in a long time. PROUD TO BE TFFE! |
The Gas Giant Send message Joined: 22 Nov 01 Posts: 1904 Credit: 2,646,654 RAC: 0 |
I joined right before the great bandwidth meltdown around Christmans of 2001. I remember downloading a wu completing it then wondering why it would upload and get another...LOL, it took until mid-January to find SETI Driver and the CLI version, then find a "public" queue. During 2002 I slowly integrated various w#$^ computers and was a regular visitor to the SETI Stats site and the forums....such memories. I almost joined the clinic, but was entrenched in my existing team. When BOINC came along I was one of the 'first' to attach a computer to SETI. I had computer ID 31 - which has long since been deleted out of the database. Ahhh...memories! The King is dead, Long Live BOINC! Paul (S@H1 8888) And proud of it! |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
I joined July 15th. I am pretty certain that I posted a couple of times... The classic Cafe wasn't accessible for most of its lifespan. Yet the project got along just fine. me@rescam.org |
1202 Program Alarm Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 239 Credit: 19,164,944 RAC: 38 |
I had 26,060 hours SETI@home classic CPU time and I don't think I ever visited the original SETI classic forums. I have fantastic memories of it though, when I first started on SETI@Home a work unit took my machine around 60 hours to process. SETI became the reason to upgrade my PC and I no longer judged new components by how well they increased gaming performance, but on how many minutes they could shave off of my crunch times. Everything I know about upgrading and overclocking PC's is due to this project. Metal Detecting |
Fred J. Verster Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3252 Credit: 31,903,643 RAC: 0 |
I had 26,060 hours SETI@home classic CPU time and I don't think I ever visited the original SETI classic forums. Back then, there wheren't much MoBo's, that you could easily OC! I used the 'old' SETI screen-saver in 1999, moved twice, since then and lost my inlog name and got another E-Mail adress. Was aware about the forums, but never found the time and courage, speaking/writing very bad english then and being too busy with 'other (computerized)thing's, f.i. building them and then selling one, being out off a job, then. I started with BOINC, december 17, last year, although my starting day is, mysteriously, april 4th, 2004 :). |
GreggyBee Send message Joined: 9 Mar 01 Posts: 203 Credit: 1,600,521 RAC: 0 |
SETI@home classic workunits 2,621 SETI@home classic CPU time 22,678 hours I stopped in 2005- when my PC developed a severe case of death- until 2007, when I learnt about Boinc. I never visited the boards, until the big server crisis last year. I used to run the cli through seti-driver- you could actually cache wu's!!! It was all a more underground kinda feel than Boinc gives it- not that I'm complaining....the more crunchers the better |
rebest Send message Joined: 16 Apr 00 Posts: 1296 Credit: 45,357,093 RAC: 0 |
SETI@home Classic workunits: 389 SETI@home Classic CPU time: 17,903 hours What I remember most about Classic is the machines we were running then. I actually found one in my basement last week. AMD-K6-2 processor running at 400mhz, American Megatrends BIOS, Windows 98. That was a hot computer in 2000! Join the PACK! |
Stealth Eagle* Send message Joined: 7 Sep 00 Posts: 5971 Credit: 367,640 RAC: 0 |
I joined in September of 2000 and crunched that until they started the first Boinc Beta then I switched to that until Boinc went public and there were no more WUs for beta I continued to crunch classic for a while on my wife's computer but before Classic closed down I switched to Boinc. I posted very little in the classic boards mainly when I had a problem with the software. I ran most of classic on an AMD K6-2 500 with 32MB of ram. What you do today you will have to live with tonight |
Whiskey Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 981 Credit: 640,589 RAC: 0 |
I joined in September of 2000 and crunched that until they started the first Boinc Beta then I switched to that until Boinc went public and there were no more WUs for beta I continued to crunch classic for a while on my wife's computer but before Classic closed down I switched to Boinc. I posted very little in the classic boards mainly when I had a problem with the software. UNBELIEVABLE Eagle. Ya beat me by ONE WU. Joined 5th Sept 2004. 1,510 WU's. 6,597 hours. I crunched on an AMD 800 KHz PC and an AMD 1.0 MHz PC and had temperature problems. Over a period of approx. one month the CPU temps would rise from 68 to 78 Deg C and the CPU's would start to cut back on thermal protection so I had to replace the thermal grease between the CPU's and the heat sinks. When my wife died I stopped crunching and switched off; I was at around 1490 WU's and didn't collect my 1500 WU certificate. The rest were pending credits that were later verified. Join the #1 UAE Team. |
Whiskey Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 981 Credit: 640,589 RAC: 0 |
Yes that was a boon when I discovered the Seti-Driver and could cache Woo's Join the #1 UAE Team. |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
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