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| Personal background |
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Howdy. I'm an electrical engineer who lives in the Portland, OR metro area. Even though my title says, "electrical," I do very little that has to do with electricity. Actually, I write software for real-time embedded systems.
If you look at my list of computers, you will see one or two Linux machines (in addition to some Windows boxen). These are actually SuSE Linux 9.3 virtual machines running as Xen user domains with NetBSD 3.1 as the domain0 OS. Unfortunately, nobody has gotten BOINC and SETI@home software working properly under NetBSD, so I have to run Linux in order to participate in these projects. Not that I have anything against Linux, I'm just partial to NetBSD. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I've run SETI@home software on various PCs for a number of years now because I believe in the the project as a whole. There would be nothing more exciting in my lifetime than to find out that we are truly not alone in the universe. Hopefully, we will find the answer before it's time for me to go.
SETI is a wonderful project that I hope can continue to find enough funding to continue its mission. In a way, it's a shame that it's no longer funded by tax dollars.
The only suggestion I have is that NetBSD were fully supported as an official OS release. |
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