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| Personal background |
Hi!
My name is Jim Walls and I live in Glendora, Calif. (about
30 kilometers east of Los Angeles). I am 44 years old and
work in Telecommunications for a large electric utility.
I've been a computer geek for many years and have played
with various unix computers, a couple of Amigas, and DOS
and later Windows based PCs. There are now 5 computers at
home and my office at work has 5 computers and 3 x-windows
terminals - is that enough of a geek?
I've been an amateur radio operator for almost 25 years
with the callsign of K6CCC. I'm a member of the AMSAT team
which is a international group of amateur radio operators
that have built and operate via amateur built satellites.
More information about AMSAT can be reached at their web
site at
http://www.amsat.org.
You can find more about me from my web site at
http://home.earthlink.net/~k6ccc/
I joined SETI@Home on 4 February 2002, and have several
dozen computers that are all using idle time to crunch Seti
workunits. Unlike many high performers, none of the
computers I am using are left on solely for S@H - they are
all on for other purposes and crunch Seti workunits only
during idle times.
The photo shows me with a satellite communication trailer
that I helped set up after the Alaska Airlines flight 261
crash off the California coast in February 2001 for the
California Governor's office of Emergency Services.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
I have to believe that there are other life forms out there
somewhere. I hope that we will be able to find them one of
these days. Will the Seti@Home project find them? Maybe,
and maybe not. |
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