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hi guys , this is my first post here... I am having a weird issue... I run my seti@home using the BOINC manager in ubuntu 7.04 . That computer has a:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz

2 gb ram.

Near that computer I use my MacBook for SETI too, which has :

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz

3 gb ram.


The thing is that the laptop is performing FAR faster than the Ubuntu machine.

You can go here and check for yourself:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=8891607

the laptop takes like 14.500 seconds maximum to crunch a signal. However the Ubuntu machine is taking 18.000 seconds max ( that's 5 hours ) for a signal.

I know this is not normal, any ideas ?

... But what if there is alien life, but it has not yet broke the bounds of it's own planet? ...

(Quoting myself earlier today): But we have known for years that there are complex molecules in interstellar gas-, dust- and molecular clouds, even including NH3, CH4, CH3OH and H2O.

From Imperial College in London, England, the news are that an important component of early genetic material, which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin.

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_13-6-2008-14-44-59?newsid=38534

Then maybe Arrhenius, Hoyle and Narlikar were right. Life comes from space.
Tullio

That was a huge help. Thanks!!! However I can't view the graphics nor does it give me an option for the screensaver.

I've downloaded BOINC on my server running Debian but don't know how to get it to run.

cd "/home/john/sw/BOINC" && exec ./boincmgr $@ &
[1] 7288 (i.e. pid)
connect: Connection refused
connect: Operation now in progress

I have prefs to allow for up to 8 waiting work units (pro tem. 2.74 MB) ...

There is no way to set the exact number of waiting work units. There is a way to set the amount of time that the computer estimates for the queue. This is based on time, not task count. There is also a way to set the number of files that can upload at a time.

(John McLeod VII): Or wait a couple of weeks and install 6.2.x - which does the split on its own during the install.

(Gundolf Jahn): But still, why should SETI request one more GiB aside from the 1.78 already available? SETI tasks usually are well below 1 MiB!

Hold on, let's start from the beginning. Where do you have BOINC installed to? And how big is this hard drive or partition that BOINC lives on?

And what does BOINC tell about "Preferences limit disk usage to..." in the message tab after a restart?

(druid): Would a warlike civilization ever beable to undertake such a demanding task as interstella travel? Look at us! If we can not stop waring against each other and our enviroment, we could be extinct before we make it to even our closet planets. I think it would be self limiting.

Counting supernovae in distant galaxies ...

Not only that, but *specifically addressing your issue*, Limeweaver further calculates that the "average 'Earth' in the universe, not just the galaxy, is about 1.8 billion years older than the Sun." (quoted verbatim)

As you know, the vast majority of stars in our galaxy are M-Dwarfs/Red Dwarfs (not Sun-like stars); when you say that "most" stars in our galaxy are 7-9 billion years old, you're probably referring to these.

(John): In that case ET will have to beam signals for millions of years at not just millions, but possibly billions of planets.

(Taurus): I'm still not sure how you're arriving at those numbers, but why exactly would ET have to beam signals to "billions" of planets?

Are you suggesting that billions of planets within the unobstructed portion of the observable galaxy would possess detectable atmospheric signatures of biology, like Earth does?...

(Matt:) The question to ask is, why they would broadcast at all? Even if they were sure we were here?

But, the thing that worries me is not could they, but would they?