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| Personal background |
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I'm currently a website programmer, specialising in javascript dhtml effects, but I have a keen interest in computer and web security (search securityfocus.com's bugtraq for "tom micklovitch" - a pseudonym of mine) I started off on the ZX Spectrum (128k) programming in BASIC and some assembler when I was about 4 years old, then we got a PC in 1995 (75mhz, 16MB RAM - top of the range!) I quickly learnt MS-DOS and win95, along with QBASIC and html.
A good few years on, I now know pascal, C, C plus plus, Borland Visual Cpp , PHP, SQL, JavaScript, html, some cgi/perl - you get the idea!
And what better to complete my geekiness than to be able to say "my screensaver is searching for Aliens!"
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I know ET exists. It's simply a case of looking at probability - if there's over a thousand lifeforms on Earth, there's got to be at least one lifeform elsewhere in the universe!
I think we should transmit something, but not from Earth, how about launching a new satellite, with a looping radio message of it's current distance and direction away from Earth?
I run Seti@Home at work (because the only PC's I have at home are the forementioned P75, a 386, a 486 and a P133 Thinkpad) At work I have a Celeron 800, and Seti runs in the background, as I don't run many processor intensive programs - all I run in internet explorer and a text editor.
I think the project is a great idea, and think Seti@home shoul be shipped as standard with new PCs, really! |
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