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| Personal background |
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First of all, Hi, I'm Mike, and I am a contributor to the Seti@Home project. My good online friend (Neil) turned me onto this project because he was (at one time) a contributor. He's not really involved in Seti@Home anymore. I'm still a part of his Team (The Badger Farm) only because he was the one who turned me onto this project.
I started to use computers in my house around the year 2000. I started to get online in the year 2001 (I lived for around a year without internet) and I've done very well since I started using computers. I've excelled above many others (such as my uncle, who first got me into computers) and am proud of what I have accomplished over the past couple of years online.
My life on computers wouldn't have been possible without the help from my father. He started me off with an older Dell Latitude laptop (in which I broke), so, for a couple of months, I had no computer to work on at my house. A couple of months later, he found me a used tower that we could use at home (it was only around a year old at the time) of which, at the time, was worth the money that we paid for it.
I outgrew that computer a few years ago, and now I've surpassed that computer and moved into better computers, with ones that I've built and ones that I've bought and repaired; as well as my laptop, my T-Mobile MDA cellphone (which is a Windows Pocket PC combined with a cellphone). I've set some of these desktops of mine up here on the Seti@Home project.
My whole life is built around computers. I don't know what I'd do without them. As with my schooling and education, I went to DeVry University in 2007 (not very long) for computers, I was in the Computer Repair course at my high school, I was even in 2 Website Design classes at my school, of which I scored really good grades in. Even, my teacher for my Keyboarding class called me "Mr. Speedy Fingers" because of how far ahead I was of everyone in the class. I was weeks ahead of where I should have been. :)
I have a website, a personal website, which I haven't updated in some time actually. Lately, I've not been much motivated to work on my website, but I should get my act together and do a lot better with it. I sold my old gaming website a couple of years ago. That was one of the worst mistakes I ever made. I shouldn't have sold it, but I'm still trying to keep myself in the loop of web design with my personal website. It's in Public Beta presently, it has been for awhile, and it's coming along slow. I need to work on it.
I like having a few of my computers crunching numbers for Seti@Home, otherwise they'd be sitting and doing nothing, letting those computers' technology go to waste. I think that every bit counts, no matter what kind of hardware you're running. I feel great contributing my spare machines to science.
I've changed a couple of my Seti@Home computers ever since I started, mainly because I got newer machines to replace those older ones, or I've given one of my old Seti@Home machines away to someone who needed it that wasn't as fortunate as I am. I've got plenty to go around, so I can set up all of my computers to work for Seti@Home if I'd wish.
- Mike. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think Seti@Home is a splendid idea indeed. I believe that there could be other life forms out in this universe. It is big enough to be possible. If life happened for us, then surely it could have been repeated in other places of the universe. The universe is expanding more and more and more, which is hard to believe, and it surely could be possible.
It would be really great to see Seti@Home pulling up a sign of a lifeform other than our own. It may take time (considering the universe is expanding more and more and more) but I'm sure something will be found.
I don't care if it's me or not, but just to take my role in the project makes it fun and interesting. If one of my computers returned a sign of a lifeform, that would be really, really, really surprising. Out of all the people who are in the Seti@Home project, the chance of that would probably be one in a million. But if it's in the news saying that Seti@Home found a life sign in another part of the universe, I'm going to feel so great about it, since I know that I was doing my part and volunteering.
- Mike. |
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