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| Personal background |
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I've loved the classic client so much: setihide, and setupfactory. I created an automated installer which at a double click installed a pre configured, wu caching, invisible, idle priority, system service and seti@home client. A while ago I passed the 10k classic WU mark. *woot* And now with the new system i recently crested 200K credits
This has been a passion of mine, producing the greatest number of results possible. I've been a CS type geek for years so I have an accumulation of computers and they were often not using the empty cycles.
Now I've moved out of college and out of the states, but the work goes on.
I've got silly webpages, and webservices, more IM accounts than can be counted with both shoes on. And far more money into my computers than into personal transportation.
Me personally: a boring, married, Afro-American man, who spends too much time online, gaming, and not nearly enough time in the real world, Develops pointless code to fulfill personal needs, and watches so many movies I need to catalogue 250Gb hard drives then replace them with a new empty one. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I remember the day that I heard about the teraflop machine from an Intel employee, I checked the processing stats of seti@home (100TFlops) and was blown away.
A minimally funded (in global, or even "US Federal" terms) activity can produce results so far beyond any corporation, any government. This distributed system is a amazing solution using spin offs of this solution the most complex encryption ciphers have been broken, and cures for cancer are being computed.
I cant imagine that we are the only "intelligent" life out there, but all that space is a big place, and there so little of us by comparison... Based upon our actions as a whole, I don't think we would be ready to actually meet an alien, but I think in the fullness of time we will be ready, or we wont exist anymore.
The benefits and dangers are the same as meeting new people on our planet, we dominate those we can and fight with those we cant. If we cant play nice with each other how could all of us play nice with the little green space women? But imagine the potential trade :-) they have things we've never seen or concived of and vice versa.
The most plausible thing I've yet heard for locating life was from a David Brin Story (Book: The River of Time, Title: Lungfish) hoards of self replicating robots search the stars in exponentially increasing areas.
I run seti because I can, it doesn't harm me, and possibly increases the chance that something important can develop from it either in the form of a computing solution for the next generation, or in establishing proof of alien life.
This new Client brings new possibilities to light too.. in terms of doing multiple projects with this single client. |
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