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September 2001?
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada I recently celebrated my 40th birthday. What's up? I thought it was supposed to be dramatic. Maybe 50 will be auspicious.
I've been working with computers for the last 15 years or so. 15 years ago all we had to work with were mainframes, I followed the classic path through what was then called "operations". I think I'm still there but now instead of carrying around reel tapes we carry around desktop PCs. I still can't believe I lived through the age of "automation". Operations was supposed to have been a lights-out affair. Well, what's a body to do? How about rebuilding from the ground up using Microsoft's GUI as an excuse. Good fun although I think the market's caught on, there's not the money in computers there once was.
High-school had me on a Wang PC till the late hours, that was followed by a Commodore 64 in 1984. University? You've got to be kidding, there's no way I'd go into debt for it. 1988 saw me with an Atari PC (no hard drive) followed by a 286, 486, Pentium 166 (still have it), PIII 500, Celeron 500 & finally an AMD 1.3ghz. What started out as fun with text & accounting has become a music machine... we could do with some speed enhancements in that area. I await speed, space & video.
April 27, 2007
Well... United Devices is no more as of this week. What are my computers to do? I'm returning to SETI@home. Tried BOINC out in Beta back in the beginning but it never really caught on, personally speaking. Well, initiating the connection now certainly was easy enough. Despite the years of absence, SETI remembers. Sweet! So here we go.
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September 2001?
I'm a sci-fi fan for sure. It's the rare sci-fi show that doesn't catch my attention. Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999, Stargate SG1, Earth Final Conflict, Babylon 5, SETI@Home's a natural. I really don't think we'll find anything this way. We're going to have to divine the dimensions before we find anything more than what's here on earth. Something that transcends light-speed in other words.
Now about distributed computing? I'm looking for something that's as user friendly as Seti@Home. It's the only way anybody will get on board. That may take a while, like firewalls & bloatware, people love to complicate in the name of progress.
April 27, 2007
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