Message boards :
Number crunching :
Welcome to the 13 year club
Message board moderation
Previous · 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · Next
Author | Message |
---|---|
Neal Watkins ![]() Send message Joined: 21 May 99 Posts: 192 Credit: 289,148 RAC: 0 |
Me too. My how the time fly's. ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Give me a bit, but happy 13th Carlos. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 8 May 99 Posts: 43 Credit: 23,945,396 RAC: 1 ![]() |
Still here after all these years ....and computers, and homes, and jobs...but the interest remains. Confidence: Remember that feeling you had just before you truely understood the situation? |
tbret ![]() Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 3380 Credit: 296,162,071 RAC: 40 ![]() ![]() |
That's a good hope, and I hope so, too. Chances are you'll be here when some of us have gone to our final reward. Then it'll be your turn to get the next 13 yearer's started. They'll have RACs that can only be shown in engineering notation. And Berkeley will still have a 100Mbit line into the office. <just kidding, nobody throw things; and put down that knife> Nobody said this'll be quick or easy. |
alan ![]() Send message Joined: 18 Feb 00 Posts: 131 Credit: 401,606 RAC: 0 ![]() |
First result logged Thu Apr 08 20:23:15 1999 :) |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 28 Jun 99 Posts: 134 Credit: 6,203,079 RAC: 0 ![]() |
13 Years ago today The Universe is not only stranger than you imagine, it's stranger than you can imagine. SETI@home classic workunits 1,405 CPU time 57,318 hours ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11446 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 ![]() ![]() |
It is close enough, I'm celebrating my 13th. As a present to me I'm buying a Zotac PCI GT430 to put into my old P4 box. It had not run for over a year but it fired up yesterday, so away we go. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 419 Credit: 166,294,083 RAC: 125 ![]() ![]() |
Oh I missed mine last month *eats virtual party cake to celebrate belatedly* Brian. |
Gene ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Apr 99 Posts: 150 Credit: 48,393,279 RAC: 118 ![]() ![]() |
1999... I think that might have been the year I upgraded from an i386 to one of those fabulous 486 chips! I couldn't let all those 100 Mhz CPU cycles go to waste. I didn't run 24/7 in those days either; dialed up an internet connection when a work unit was done -- uploaded the result and downloaded ONE new one, all at a blazing 9600 bps. No way to keep up with today's multiple-GPU crunchers but still chugging away on Seti, as well as a couple of other Boinc projects to carry through any Seti slack times. |
C Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 240 Credit: 7,716,977 RAC: 0 ![]() |
|
Todd Madson Send message Joined: 4 Aug 99 Posts: 71 Credit: 30,888,293 RAC: 15 ![]() ![]() |
I kind of wonder - will some of us still be crunching away at twenty years or even longer? What kind of machines might we have then. Will we look back at our original crunching rigs and laugh thinking that today most of our smartphones are as powerful as those original rigs. Think about it! ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 22 Jul 99 Posts: 768 Credit: 24,140,697 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Guess I forgot to check in when my turn came up. I think it won't even be 20 years that we'll be running a hundred tasks at a time on a smartwatch, while it is streaming a movie to the wall screen and we're talking to others with it's video screen. But we'll still be griping about shorties and bandwidth! Another Fred Support SETI@home when you search the Web with GoodSearch or shop online with GoodShop. ![]() |
KB7RZF ![]() Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 9549 Credit: 3,308,926 RAC: 2 ![]() |
Wow, I'm 8 days late! 13th year as of August 15th. Still chugging along! ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 1432 Credit: 110,967,840 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
I'm not AWOL, just reporting in six days late!! Don't plan to be leaving any time soon. 13 years, doesn't seem that long but, 6 machines/countless CPU upgrades/3 op systems/four printers and countless HDD replacements/upgrades. HERE'S TO ANOTHER 13 YEARS!!!! ![]() ![]() I don't buy computers, I build them!! |
![]() Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 7 Credit: 5,094,738 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I'm late to this thread too. Proud that i have been here 13 years. Still want to build a new computer :( |
![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 18 Credit: 53,634,823 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I'm still here. FWIW I can't believe how far the technology has progressed. For me it all started on a 486 system and now I have a high performance CPU and 2 video cards that do the same work in seconds. When I started my user group, we had about 20 active users that would do the same work I now do on one computer. ![]() |
David S ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 ![]() ![]() |
Just happened to think about it: today is my 13th! I think it's the first time in a few years I've noted it on the day and not missed it by a few. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
![]() Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 154 Credit: 104,147,344 RAC: 21 ![]() ![]() |
And... still here :) |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Another just passed the 13 years, now September has closed ... It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 ![]() ![]() |
Another just passed the 13 years, now September has closed ... Yep another September and another year on SETI@Home. So much data. So little time. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours ![]() |
©2025 University of California
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.