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i am almost 62 years old. i saw my first computer in about 1965. i have been heavily involved in computing ever since. i spent 13 years publishing a series of magazines about dec, hp and ibm "minicomputers". the best known was DEC Professional. we sold them in 1992 and i retired. i live in the zuni mountains in north-western new mexico (el. 7340').
currently, i have been reviving a beowulf cluster. at a los alamos surplus auction, i managed to acquire three 8-node boxen of what was once (1998) a 64-node machine called an AltaCluster. each of the original nodes has a pair of pii 333s and 512mb. as i write this, i have 19 of 24 nodes running seti.
i am producing close to 50 units per day and have a total of 13735.
my cluster heats my workshop. it's cheaper than the propane gas.
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i do seti because i believe we must.
i do it with linux because we should live free or die.
the chances of signal detection are miniscule at best, but there can be no detection without a detector. long shots are a real mark of humanity. maybe the signal we finally detect will be the result of another long shot on another world, but human to the core.
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