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BACKGROUND
Full name: Robert Michael Straughn
Nickname: Rob or Puma
Date of birth: March 15th, Jurassic period!
Yes I could be your daddy! 40 something!
Birthplace: San Francisco, Ca
Nationality: American
Locations Lived: Ca, Fl, TX, Okinawa, JA., IL ,MO, MS, LA (Now)
Degrees: MIS, Computer Science, Computer Technology, and Criminal Justice
Job: Free Lance Systems (ALL!) Integrator and programmer
Hobbies: Astronomy, Astro-photography, Diving, TKD (4th degree), Model Rockets, Kiting, RC gliders
Car: 1999 Black Honda 2 door Hatchback
Favorite movie: "Contact"
Favorite TV shows: "Mash", "Star Trek old series", and "Seinfield"
Favorite music group: "Bachelor Girl (British Artist)", "Corrs"
Favorite Quotes:
"10 Words or Less" - Joseph R. Kelso
"The road to hell is paved with Good intentions" - Bible
"Damm Gina" - Nanette Wilson
"Do it, Do it now!" - Unknown
"Always ask the What, How, who, why of anything" - Rex Reynolds
"Never say, we can't do a thing, just that it will cost more" - Rex Reynolds
History
After about 10 years of working in the corporate world, usually as an MIS admin and programmer, I decided to strike out on my own, and start my own company. I write a lot of software, to date, over a 100 plus programs! After writing them if I have time, before next project, I put the up for sale on my web site:www.omnisoft.net
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Seti History - I started out, with a few PCs running Seti. Nothing spectacular. I installed Seti on one of my customers, now my boss. His enthusiasm, zest, and friendly competitive nature for Seti was unparalleled and frankly off-the-charts INSANE! But it launched me into taking the next step. I think I had 30 or so points after like 3 years of running Seti at various locations. Now with 12 plus computers, running 24/7 and friends running for me as well we are almost at 30 WU (Work Units) a DAY!and more everyday. To help distribute my efforts, I wrote a Seti auto-installer www.omnisoft.net/seti.htm which installs a pre-configured Seti! Our mission is to acquire 2001 Seti WUs this year!
Optimization Aid - Seti brings problems to Light having installed almost every version of Seti (3x !) I This has allowed me to optimally configure many PCs that I was unaware that even had a problem.
Utilize underutilized resources - Why not? Is all I am saying. I read somewhere that home computers are primarily just running screen savers 90% of the time. What a tremendous waste of resources!
Distributive/Distributive Processing - Wave of the future! "The most powerful computer, IBM's ASCI White, is rated at 12 TeraFLOPS & costs $110 million. SETI@home currently gets about 15 TeraFLOPs & has cost $500K so far." Let's get behind this wonderful & ambitious project!
Neo@Home - I am currently working on another project called neo@home that will parallel and maybe someday join w the Seti efforts. It will collect & use users PCs to process data for NEO's (Near Earth Objects) as well as other for processes.
Future Plans - In the near future, this year, We hope to build monster Seti machines. 10 Seti arrays. Each, rack mounted 20 slot passive back-planes, 14 PCI plugable motherboards with QUAD symmetrical 1.2Ghz> CPUs running BEOS OS. And finally, what if it works...HEHE! What a hallmark establish the first signs of intelligent life.
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