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Message 557329 - Posted: 1 May 2007, 10:38:28 UTC

If I find an alien signal when i search with "Boink Manager v5.8.16", will the proggie tell me in some sort of way?
Like a popup window with the text "possible signal found"?
Or will i dont know anything?

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Message 557392 - Posted: 1 May 2007, 13:17:03 UTC

Nothing so simple realy:-(
But if you get BoincLogX and Seti@home MapView you will get a lot of info, and after a while you learn to interpret them. Let's say that you get a good triplet with a strength of at least 11 and a gaussian running well over 6 in rating. Well then you might have something, but probably not. Remember that this is a search that might take many many many years to complete.

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Message 561281 - Posted: 6 May 2007, 13:45:04 UTC - in response to Message 557392.  

Nothing so simple realy:-(
But if you get BoincLogX and Seti@home MapView you will get a lot of info, and after a while you learn to interpret them. Let's say that you get a good triplet with a strength of at least 11 and a gaussian running well over 6 in rating. Well then you might have something, but probably not. Remember that this is a search that might take many many many years to complete.

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Ah

Ok thanx
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Message 575953 - Posted: 26 May 2007, 17:19:49 UTC - in response to Message 561281.  

After all the down time in the past week or so, my machines (I'm running 4) finally are crunching again.

Today when I checked SETIMAPVIEW I found a new high scoring Gaussian on one of the newer jobs. Score was 26.46+! 10 points higher than my previous best.

Anyone else got a big one?

BigEfromLC
Searching for intelligent life in Lake City FL for 26 years w/o success.

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