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Hi Everyone,
I'm a 36 year old computer professional who was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. I relocated to Melboure, Victoria (Australia) a little under 2 years ago now.
Have only been running Boinc since early February - using 2 computers at home that weren't doing much besides sitting idle and being used to access the internet when friends/family were staying - a slow Via based desktop machine with XP, and an even slower Win98se based Celeron desktop.
Finally upgraded one of the computers a week ago after the dodgy assembled-from-scrounged-parts win98 based Celeron 300 machine fried itself, and have taken the Via machine 'offline' for the time being.
Now running Boinc on the new machine. It's an Asus Pro31J series notebook, with Windows Vista Home Premium as the operating system powered by intel Centrino Core2 Duo processor.
I try to keep atleast one computation task running during the day when I'm working, but at night and during idle day time hours I utilise the dual cores and have 2 computations chewing away.
Having the dual cores has made significant improvements in the speed of computations, therefore increasing my average work load. I'm enjoying watching my rank climb (or sink, whichever way you look at it), and the sharp trend in the stats graphs.
When not pursuing the search (SETI@Home), I can be found tearing up the streets/trails on my Giant mountain bike (an excellent stress relief) which I do frequently as it is an opportunity to get away from computers and lifes other problems for awhile.
I'm also an avid general knowledge trivia fanatic, and don't mind the odd computer/console game or two - with my Playstation2 game collection increasing in size regularly.
I have recently stepped foot inside the World of Warcraft - something I had avoided for too long. I have been a huge fan of Warcraft3 though, and thought it was about time to investigate what all the fuss was about. It's only been 2 days now, and I can understand why it's addictive.
Having started playing Eve Online as well, another MMORPG, based in a space/sci-fi environment - a sharp contrast to WOW.
Since I run my IT consultancy from home, I need to be wary of ensuring my daily tasks are met before even thinking about logging into them - after all, the games won't pay the bills. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. Why do I run it?
I believe..
2. Views?
Its important to me, and I find being able to contribute towards the project in whatever capacity rewarding. Hopefully one day the skeptics will be proven wrong.
3. Any suggestions?
Bribing the CPU manufacturers into making multi-core CPU's with BOINC part of the internal BIOS settings. |
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