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| I'm a 19 year old college student at the University of Texas at Dallas. I was born and raised in Houston, TX. I'm majoring in computer science. I've been really in to computers ever since I was little. Over the past 14 years I went from playing with .bat files on my PC Junior to playing with C on my 400mhz PII to playing with perl on my current machine, a custom built 1.4ghz Athlon rig. In my spare time I like to write DHTML web pages that do strange things like move objects across the page in sine wave patterns, or make the entire screen shake, or just do wierd things in general. http://utdallas.edu/~gnm013000/ I also used to do a bit of professional caliber web design for free. http://quesths.tripod.com I also like to play with perl and write my own message board systems in CGI when I get bored. I provide technical assistance to some of my non-computer literate friends. I generally read up on the latest hardware and software platforms for HomePC use and networking. I'm in to the open source movement but I'm not an advocate or anything like that. I think "certification" courses for Cisco, Microsoft, Novell, ect...are stupid. I strive to understand them all. To know when to use which one and for what. The best network system does not run on one OS or platform but on all of them, with each machine using the OS and accompanying software that is best suited for that machine's specific purpose on the network. I wonder why people try to figure out which programing language is the "best"...I don't care which is better...I want to learn them all. I already know six. The flexibility of understanding all the major platforms and languages is far more valuable than knowing only one by heart. With respect to SETI@home I guess for me the question is not "are we alone?" but rather "when will we find our nearest neighbor?". Some people put up x-files posters and go around saying they want to believe. I don't need to believe, I'm looking for them. Besides this should be a good way to see just how fast my computer really is. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| Why do I run SETI@home? Because I have a fast computer and I don't like wasted clock cycles. Besides, it would be cool to be the person who discovers evidence of extraterrestial life. |
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