| Personal background |
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| I have lived in Portland, Oregon most of my life, but I was born in Eastern Oregon. I am quickly approaching 30 years old and have done a number of jobs to support myself. I was interested in cars when I was younger, and so I became an ASE Master Automotive Technician. After being involved with that for several years a couple of close friends wanted me to join thier new small tech company building high-end servers & RAID systems. That lasted for two years until economy & stock market destroyed most of our large clients budgets. Now I am very interested in becoming involved in law enforcement and specificly forensics. My hobbies include computers, networking [PC's], and trying to learn FreeBSD. I also enjoy going to the movies, and reading the latest science magazine to show up [MIT Technology Review is the best IMHO]. Married, no children [I don't want any]. I am currently working on setting up my rack cabinet and getting ready to install my rack equipment into it. Which will include 1 4U Winblows 2KPro w/ 160Gb RAID 5 [3x Seagate 80Gb Controlled by Escalade 6410] w/ 866Mhz PIII /512Mb PC133. And my 8U FreeBSD Server [Tyan Tiger/ 1 AMD1900 /1Gb DDR PC2700/ 400Gb RAID5 (6x 80Gb Maxtor D740X controlled by Escalade 7500-12). I plan on expanding the server capabilities to include dual processor and more drives on the RAID set later on. BTW if you need someone to build you a high quility capable server, drop me a line. I have alot of expereince. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| As far as the SETI project goes I became involved because I really like the idea of massively distributed processing power. I do believe that there is other intelligent life forms in our galaxy and billions of other galaxies. But I am pessimistic about SETI@home project finding it. I believe in UFO's, just not alien ones. Even if we did find something within 50 light years, there are all kinds of problems, first have to figure out there language (start with math). Then we have to communicate with them. Imagine a walkie talkie that only works once every 30 - 50 years. You get one message sent in your lifetime, and probably don't live to hear the reply. Forget an alien invasion, despite Hollywood. It would take to much time and energy to travel a fraction of that distance. But on the upside, maybe we can learn from SETI@home to figure out other projects that can use distributed processing to directly benifit humanity. [I would like to see a Proteonomics sp? project that uses this technology] At the very least I hope that astronomers are able to draw some scientific data out of all the processing done on the radio signals that our PC's analyze, and not just look for ET's meep! meep! pud pud sound and sign. I the mean time I'll keep my machines idle time crunching numbers to stay thier bordom. I'm Nick for Earth, saying goodnight, we'll keep the light on. |
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