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 Carlos  Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 30479 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 
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Twenty Years! Time really goes very fast. I plan to play around with other colors today. Any requests? 
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Pierre A Renaud  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65 
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The latter combination seems most sober and appropriate. The wildcard is in your hand; surprise us, Carlos ^^Question, I used red and gold because I like it on my avatar, it make it easy to find my last post. But the official colors of a 20 year anniversary are platinum and Emerald,Twenty Years! Time really goes very fast. |
Cliff Harding  Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 1432 Credit: 110,967,840 RAC: 67
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WOW Twenty years. Multiple tasks are now done in minutes and I remember when just 1 used to take at least a day and that was just using the CPU.   I don't buy computers, I build them!! |
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Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65
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Congrats on both your 20th year and your recent 100k total credits milestones, Cliff. As these Wow! Event stats demonstrate, even though the number of participants declined this year, their average credits augmented significantly ! My old pentium computer (used 'til two years ago for minor word processing, cat's heating-pad and dust-collecting purposes) took almost 3 days to crunch a WU, compared to 1 - 5 hours/WU/cpu^gpu today (which per *my* standards is an improvement lol) WOW Twenty years. Multiple tasks are now done in minutes and I remember when just 1 used to take at least a day and that was just using the CPU.    Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020
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dallasdawg Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 49 Credit: 142,692,438 RAC: 2
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20 years today. My how things have changed. Congrats to all who have come this far!!! 
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Michael Gamble  Send message Joined: 8 Sep 99 Posts: 67 Credit: 39,033,066 RAC: 6
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SETI…. Goodbye. I have been a contributor for 20 years as of the 8th of September. I have been processing packets all of that time except for those times when I made a new machine. My first machine was an IBM 286 which cost $8,000.00 and I discovered it was brain dead. It took that machine 27.5 hours to process a packet. In those days when the APP was down, I would call Dan and tell him about it, for me it was a fun., I was involved in something other than my petty problems. When the 286 died I started building my own machines after all I had degree in IT and Programming so why not. In those days there was only 640 K of RAM and a staggering clock rate of 4.7 Meg! The file names were 8x3, so you had to be very creative naming your files. My first home made machine was an 80386. It had a US Robotics 1000 BPS MODEM, a daisy wheel printer, which would send print arms sailing around the room, and it took forever to print a document. On top of that you had to keep your eyes open when the printer was rattling as print arms went everywhere. My first monitor was orange prosperous, and you had to be very careful or you could burn a hole in the screen, enter the screen saver. I had a 10 Meg IBM disk drive that cost $1,500 and was left over from my 286. Now I am running a 6-core processor and I can run 18 instances of SETI, but it runs so hot that the water cooler can’t keep up, so it is throttled back to 8 instances. I had tried a Peltier cooler but froze the CPU and shorted it out. I have overclocked processors and burned holes in some. I have made duallies to increase throughput. I have had very large electric bills and very large CPU bills and have spent a great deal of money on my effort to get us off this ball of dirt and now it ends. Today I retire and pass the baton to others. It has been fun. I have over 38 million packets processed. Mike Gamble Any day above ground is a great day! |
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Spartana Send message Joined: 24 Apr 16 Posts: 99 Credit: 41,712,387 RAC: 25
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I appreciate your service and dedication, Mike. Good luck in your SETI retirement, and I'm sure you'll enjoy those lower electric bills! |
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Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65
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By pressing the right buttons, it appears Mike has decided to postpone any kind of SETI retirement, Spartana. 20 Year Club Stuff right here - congrats to all involved ^^ I appreciate your service and dedication, Mike. Good luck in your SETI retirement, and I'm sure you'll enjoy those lower electric bills! Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020
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bloodrain  Send message Joined: 8 Dec 08 Posts: 231 Credit: 28,112,547 RAC: 1 
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i just realize my late friend. drfoo is about to to hit this. so in his spirit he both thanks you all and hope more people use boinc or other software to help mankind to improve themselves. 
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Michael Gamble Send message Joined: 8 Sep 99 Posts: 67 Credit: 39,033,066 RAC: 6
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I have not left even though I said I was going.... my ball-and-chain told me to keep at it! She might let me leave at the 25 year mark but I doubt it. If I stop ending packets you low I am dead! Mike Any day above ground is a great day! |
Computer Addiction    Send message Joined: 23 Sep 99 Posts: 27 Credit: 71,549,861 RAC: 258
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Made it! |
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rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22456 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 
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Well, if I'd chosen the correct email address when I restarted back in March '03 I would now be a member of the 20-year club. But I didn't, I chose the one with the biggest score :-( Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Ian&Steve C.  Send message Joined: 28 Sep 99 Posts: 4267 Credit: 1,282,604,591 RAC: 6,640
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Looks like I've just passed this also recently. woohoo Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours  
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Pierre A Renaud Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 9,101,544 RAC: 65
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Well, if I'd chosen the correct email address when I restarted back in March '03 I would now be a member of the 20-year club. But I didn't, I chose the one with the biggest score :-(@Rob : well, if you're the Rob Smith who created the May 20th, 1999 account, you sure deserve that membership hands down ! I have not left even though I said I was going.... my ball-and-chain told me to keep at it! She might let me leave at the 25 year mark but I doubt it. If I stop [s]ending packets you [kn]ow I am dead!@Mike : ^^ Besides, if any of us stops crunching the incoming data before SETI@home hits the galactic jackpot, won't we at least subconsciously know that a part of us will have died (inside, a little bit)? To all recent (or less recent, or even future) 20ers -- who obviously have understood conquests are better achieved through endurance and persistance --, cheers ! :) |
QuietDad  Send message Joined: 2 Oct 99 Posts: 83 Credit: 28,926,603 RAC: 59
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Oct 2 makes it 20 yrs here. Still amazed we cruch in hours now what used to take use months. One day I might eventry and organaze an optimizemy equipment over the stcok Lunatics. So convinced swapping the gpus on my I3 (Nvidia 750ti) and my Q9700 (Nvidia GTX1060ti) HAS to improve things..... 
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-= Vyper =-  Send message Joined: 5 Sep 99 Posts: 1652 Credit: 1,065,191,981 RAC: 2,537 
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Hey i managed to miss my 20th anniversary date. Congratz to me 🙂  _________________________________________________________________________ Addicted to SETI crunching! Founder of GPU Users Group |
Michael Goetz  Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 56 Credit: 622,268 RAC: 0
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KB7RZF  Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 9549 Credit: 3,308,926 RAC: 2
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20 years in August, time sure flies!! |
Kissagogo27  Send message Joined: 6 Nov 99 Posts: 716 Credit: 8,032,827 RAC: 62 
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twenty years ... \o/ |
Arych  Send message Joined: 20 Oct 99 Posts: 18 Credit: 141,650,178 RAC: 244
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Wow. Time sure has flown by; just passed my 20 year mark last month! Amazing how the technology has advanced from where we started with the CLI! 20 years was my "go to" point for this project, and as such, I'll probably be powering down most, if not all of my machines for a while to see what my power cost savings would be before bring some or all back online. Congrats to the rest of you in the 20 year club! -Arych |
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