Profile: ni_knight

Personal background
Born, bred and still living in Bristol, UK. Aged 32, mad on computers, football (Bristol CITY FC) and my family. Came back to using SETI@HOME in late 03 and decided to try to make up for lost time, before they swap to the new client.



Have a little farm of seti clients.

Athlon 1.4Ghz w/512MB PC2100 running XP (Command line client)

Athlon 2600 XP w/512MB PC2700 running XP (Command line client).

Redhat Linux 9 box, P2-300 @ 392Mhz w/128MB (Linux command line client)



Pentium3-450 @ 558Mhz w/256MB (Screensaver client)

Pentium3-600 w/256MB (Screensaver client)

Pentium2-300 w/64MB Toshiba Portege Laptop (Command line client)

Pentium 200MMX @ 225Mhz w/64MB (Command line client)

all running 98SE.




The Linux box, Athlon 1.4, Pentium MMX and the laptop are running 24/7, with the other 3 running during waking hours.



Looking for a socket 370 motherboard with 128MB RAM to put a P3-933 onto and turn into another 24/7 cruncher.



Have:

2x 56k Modems

1x ISA 3com 10base Combo ethernet card

Various 72pin Simms

8MB ATI AGP Video card

going spare..... ;-)

Email me @ craig@nadsac.com to trade
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I don't think that we should send out a beacon for others to find. If it were to be found by some species who are far advanced to ourselves, they may not even regard us as a legitimate, worthwhile lifeform. They may regard us, as we do viruses and bacteria. If they look at our history, the way that we treat each other and the way that we discriminate, based on petty differences like skin colour, who would blame any lifeform for wanting to eradicate us for the good of the rest of the universe? We can only hope that any ET species that we encounter, are a whole lot more intelligent and don't share our traits like materialism, classism and all that. If they are like us, in those ways, but more advanced technologically, then what hope would we have? Think about it.....

Just hoping to get through as many work units as possible, before the client change. A real stat freak, have written my own windows network monitor which gives me the work unit stats for all my clients, in a nice little box, with no added lard.

Will SETI be successful? Haven't the foggiest, but I am very intrigued as to when we will make first contact. Quite like it to be in my lifetime, as long as we aren't going to get our collective arses kicked, but I doubt it somehow.

Pity it's coming to an end with this method, otherwise I'd release my monitor app. Worried that the lowest spec cruncher, P225MMX/64MB won't be up to standard for the new seti.
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