My goodness i just realized that i have been crunching on this project for 10 years. i remember the day i sighed up it seems like yesterday, everyone in the office was laughing histaricly, most of them still do. my first install was on a pentium 60 running Windows NT4 as a service. became such an obsetion that i installed it on every machine i could get my hands on, ppl in the complex heard and started giving me their junk machines. the building owner allowed me to fill a large closet with them. some of my coworkers discribed it as enslavement, when most old pc's were allowed to die and go to a landfill i installed nt4 wks put on seti and made it work like a slave untill something major let it die, even then i would most likely fix it. that continued until the end of classic seti. hard to beleive it has been 10 years.

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Sounds a lot like how I started, except the salvaged computers were all in my house, and the only people laughing (then and now) where my wife and kids. My dog, on the other hand, supports me 100%.

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Wow ten years for me soon also. 16 May 99. I started on a P1 running Win 95.

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I'll be damned...2 Aug 1999 here. Learned about Seti@home from a flyer posted on the bulletin board in my college Astronomy class. First computer was either a P-60 or a 486 DX-2 66. Either way, those were good times.

A farm of 20+ headless computers running Seti command-line client. I even got Seti working on a 386 SX-2 16mhz with 5mb RAM. The SX series didn't have a co-processor, so using Seti Monitor / Seti Spy, I calculated that it would take nearly 3 years to complete a single workunit. I later went on Ebay and bought the 387 co-processor which cut the time down to a more reasonable 1 year. :-P

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You will be assimilated...bunghole!

Sign me up too..

The first computer i ran it on was my Athlon K7 550 Mhz.. Which i ran overclocked and over night in my bedroom.

The fan was so loud so i couldnt stay in the bedroom , so i frequently slept in my livingroom at that time so i could get high rankings and low cpu times :)

This decade has gone by fast..

Regards Vyper

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Already 10 years for me. Actually more like 12.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Can someone give the exact date of birth from Seti@home?

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Wikipedia

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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm... that's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

Thanks a lot.

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Already 10 years for me. Actually more like 12.

- Matt

Congratulations!
I see new background colours.....great!

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It will be 10 years for me in May. I started after seeing a story in the SF Chronicle about Seti@home going live. I do not even remember what my first computer to run it was. All I remember was that it was extremely slow. And now, I have an AP unit of more than 150 hours. . . Some things do not change :)

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Already 10 years for me. Actually more like 12.

- Matt

Congratulations!
I see new background colours.....great!

Yeah I noticed that. Is it based on total credit, RAC, or post count?

Edit - must be based on either RAC or total credit, judging by the comparison between me and the poster below me. :)

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You will be assimilated...bunghole!

Less than a month to go. It got me into lots of fun things like Abit bp6, lapping, oc'ing 300Mhz celerons, writing fetch and buffer scripts for classic seti...

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Yep, the only good thing about the last decade is that it went by fairly quick.

Lets see, ten years ago the party was really about to go into a full blown drunk stupor. Speculation and hype ruled the day. DOT CONs were the so-called "new economy", even though they had no earnings. Advertising would bring those earnings, wouldn't it? Yeah, right.

But, it was sure was fun while it lasted. QCOM, YHOO, RHAT, and who can forget the LNUX IPO fleecing. As long as you didn't get sucked into an IPO (that is, if you are a "normal person"), there was money to made everywhere. It didn't matter where you threw your money, as long as you threw it. Who cares about the inevitable hangover that had to come, there was still booze to drink in the now.

I remember, by December of 1999, becoming anxious about the inevitable plug getting pulled from the tub. It had to happen and happen it did. The parallels of the 1920's were evident then.

The 1990's paralleled the 1920.

The 2000's seem to be paralleling the 1930's (to an extent). It would be a mirror copy if there weren't safeguards put in place.

God help us if the 2010's parallel the 1940's.

The 2020's should be a good time though.

I did the same as many others of you did. I got an iMac going and recruited every machine in the school that I could to help. Most of the other teachers really did not understand but they were willing to help (except for a few holdouts here and there.) We crunched quite a few units before I left. Since then I have expanded my own small farm, switched to BOINC, added some more projects, and have been going steadily ever since. I have enjoyed it very much.

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Plus SETI Classic = 21,082 WUs

Ah, the good old days:



And that was only what was in the garage!

Part of my SETI classic farm from back in the day.

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Coming up fast for me as well.

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The 2020's should be a good time though.

Isn't that when Seth Shostak predicted we'd locate ET? Good times indeed. :)

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You will be assimilated...bunghole!

I did the same as many others of you did. I got an iMac going and recruited every machine in the school that I could to help. Most of the other teachers really did not understand but they were willing to help (except for a few holdouts here and there.)

I actually Borged many of my local community college's computers back before such behavior was considered unacceptable. :)

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You will be assimilated...bunghole!

Ah, the good old days:



And that was only what was in the garage!

Part of my SETI classic farm from back in the day.

And all those rigs added together don't even come close to one of your Xeon's...how times have changed Rob....

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