Profile: Nathan Gast

Personal background
I am from the beautiful beaches of Miami, Fl. I love anything having to do with the water. I traveled from Virginia, where I graduated, all the way down here to get back to the water! It's Great! I love SCUBA most! My own iner-space if you will. Closest thing I figure I'll get to see in my time. I am a university instructor in the field of networking, as well as computer repair. My Specialties are Linux, NT, Cisco, 2000, and dont laugh but DOS! It was through a student that I started seti@home. He had been doing it for a while, and mentioned that he'd love to see how fast my personal servers could crunch a data-unit. that set it off! i spent two months building systems, and installing, and bounding my head. Then it hit me, 2000/NT doesnt support active clustering! I was trying to build a cluster to get a data-unit down to under 15 minutes. I saw guys that had under 30 secs so i knew it was possible. But in the end I had to settle for 50 pc's running seperate data-units. But thats ok. In my first month i hit 100 du. 3 days later 200. i want to hit 1000 by month 3. I hope to be a major contributor. My students are now joining the group i setup. That should be interesting. I'm trying to get my department head to pass it through so I can set Seti@home as the standard screen saver on all systems school wide. That would be over 700. I hope it goes through. Good Luck Guys. I'll keep crunchin if you keep dishin.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I like so many others feel there are two side. Erogance to think that we are all alone. Yet the lack of Evidence to say otherwise. Therefore, we must seek out one or the other. Only a fool would seek out his own Erogance! So lets seek out the Evidence instead. Logic at its finest ehh.
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