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| Personal background |
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Hi, I'm currently a Network Administrastor working in a small rural school District. I'm 25 at the moment and I belong to the DAY 1 class of seti@home. That's right Monday May 17th 1999. It seems so recent, and yet so far back at the same time. Seti has come a long way. I was actively involved in starting the University of Wisconsin - Platteville team which was a top 50 team in Universities and Higher Education section back in the day, but I have since moved on to my own team made up of myself and a few friends. I consider myself seti@home's biggest supporter in Southwest Wisconsin, however I'd love to talk to someone from the area that takes exception to that. My current machines are:
"mkultra" (Windows XP Pro SP2)
AMD Opteron 165 Denmark Core @ 2.0Ghz per core (ultra conservative OC I know)
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
2GB (2x1024) G.SKILL PC3200 DDR in 2-3-2-5 Dual Channel timings
eVGA nVidia GeForce 7900GT CO Edition @ stock 500/1500
74GB Western Digital Raptor boot drive on nForce 4 SATA controller
Two 250GB 16MB cache Maxtor HDDs on a SIG3114 RAID controller card in RAID 0
Plextor PX-716SA SATA DVD-RW on nForce 4 SATA controller
NEC ND-2510A PATA DVD-RW
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
Aspire X-SuperAlien case (yellow)
Antec NeoHE 550 PSU
Sennheiser HD555 headphones
Linksys WRT54GS v1.1 running DD-WRT v23 standard
"shiva" (Windows XP MCE2005 SP2)
Intel Pentium 4 2.0Ghz Northwood core
Intel D845GRG with i845GL Chipset
256MB Micron PC2100 with 2-2-2-5 timings
40GB Western Digital 7200 rpm boot drive
"csd_gamma" (Windows XP Pro SP2)
Intel Mobile Pentium II 400Mhz
Dell Latitude CPi R400GT with i440BX Chipset
256MB Micron PC100 with 2-2-2-4 timings
All other machines associated with my profile are those of friends who agreed to crunch Boinc work units for me. I collect the older versions of seti@home, so if you have a text version before 1.3 or a graphical client before 1.06 please e-mail me and let me know. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I love seti@home. My feelings on it have moved from it just being a cool screensaver, to a sort of competition between my friends and I to see who could rack up the most WU's, to a feeling of really contributing something to humankind albeit a few spare CPU cycles. Seti@home's influence on distributed computing specifically and computing in general has been phenomenal, and larger then I think any of the founders had imagined. I do believe there are ET's out there, however I do not think seti will help us receive a message, but rather just to sniff out some deep space sine waves that tell us we've got company. I hope everyone has fun, and continues to support Seti@Home! |
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