| Personal background |
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| I live in Houston, Texas. I work for a Texas-based furniture retailer in logistics. I am 40 and single. I spend quite a bit of time online doing various things, alot of which is chatting with my many friends in Texas, and a few from other places too. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe that extraterrestrial life exists in some part of the universe. I hope that someday, hopefully in my lifetime we will make contact. I hope that if indeed we do make contact, that we meet a friendly race of beings.
This is one of the reasons I run SETI@home. I started running SETI in early 2001 on a Celeron 400 machine running Win98. With that machine I was averaging about 105 hours per workunit. I had completed just under 30 workunits by early June when I built a PentiumIII 733 machine running Windows2000. At first it was taking about 50-70 hours to complete workunits, then in early August I discovered a couple of incorrect settings and corrected them. Suddenly it only took about 10 hours to complete a workunit. Except for a few months when I was on dialup, I have been running SETI on the PIII machine and had completed just over 750 workunits when I rebuilt the Cel machine with a newer motherboard and a Celeron 1.2Ghz and lots more memory. Now both machines run SETI turning out workunits in about 10 hours each, which adds up to nearly 20 workunits a week. That was in December of 2003. I switched to the BOINC client on both machines in late Spring of 2005 and both have been averaging 8 hours per workunit. I just built a new machine on Aug. 21, 2005 with a Pentium 4 2.4ghz processor, 1gb of RAM and the drives/video card from the P3 machine and so far it is running workunits in around 3 hours. I have plans to make the P3 into a Media Server in the near future once I get new drives to put in it, so more than likely it won't run SETI/BOINC again. |
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