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I'm a 40-something (and probably will be by the time you've read this)individual who likes computers, science, science-fiction/fantasy and playing computer games against friends. If I can't spend time in front of a PC, then I need to be reading something and just lazing about is utterly boring.
I live in Queensland, Australia and have a lovely family.
I work as a Unix Administrator mainly on Sun servers. However, a O/S is just a platform and I'm happy working on any Un*x machine.. though Irix and Unixware are getting a bit old.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I assume that life exists somewhere else, though of course having billions of years on the timescale of the universe doesn't help for Jabber like messenging with other similar cultures. Still, I hope someone does find something and I'm the one that crunches one of the packets with the signal as I'd be famous (somewhat.. I guess).
I've been doing SETI@home soon after it started (or really.. after I heard about it), but I'm not religious (now there's an interesting topic combined with SETI, ha ha) about having it running and so I'm sending results in steadily, even if it's not a large number. I guess every little bit helps, but I was worried early in the piece when I found out there is a time limit for results to be returned, as I don't always have the latest chips running at gigahertz.
I like the project and the way that it's always coming up with new things to keep people interested (like these here profiles). Otherwise, you'll find when people rebuild their Windows PC's (as they have to do from time to time, you know it, I know it, get Bill to admit it though...) they won't bother to load the clients.
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