Profile: gav

Personal background
I am a computer enthusiast/web designer/programmer/nerd. I am a computer enthusiast for myself, a web designer for my school and various firms, and a computer programmer for Extreme Behavioral Risk Managment.

My computers

468MHz P3 running WindowsXP

566MHz Celeron running Slackware 8.1

900MHz P3 running WindowsXP

1.2GHz Celeron running WindowsXP

all of them are running 24/7 crunching numbers for SETI@home

When Im not at my computers or school I enjoy fencing. It seems to be a little practiced, under appreciated sport, but I have fun at. For the future I hope to work with cryptography and computer security.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I have always be interested in distributed computing because it can create something more powerful than any supercomputer and still not have any of the drawbacks of a supercomputer, like excess heat. SETI@home and distributed.net are the two distributed systems I have worked on. I like SETI@home much more than distributed.net because of its purpose. Searching for extraterrestrials will be much more impactful in the end than factoring a prime number that can probably be broken with mathmatical advances.

If there are extraterrestrials out there we should undoubtedly try to contact them, after all they might be listening just like us.
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