Profile: brianlane

Personal background
I am a software developer and writer from Seabeck, Washington. I have been using Linux since 0.99pl14 (downloaded from a FidoNet BBS on 30 floppies), and developing software for Linux since 1995 or so. I am webmaster for the local Linux user group (KPLUG), and an embedded systems programmer by day. Yes, that is a picure of me with Maddog Hall, Its the only half-way decent picture of myself available. It was taken at the 2003 LinuxFest Northwest event.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Other life must exist in the universe. It would be a pretty boring place without someone else out there for us to run into eventually. I think that the possible benefits and dangers have been pretty well covered by Niven and Pournelle in Footfall.

Beacon transmission is a must, if only to get us thinking about what we should be looking for. We are already spewing out all kinds of transmissions (TV and Radio), but we need to include something more intelligent than the Oprah show in them mix.

I run Seti@home in order to keep my CPUs warm. Electrons tend to move better when warmed up (but not too warm! Don't want to let out the Magick Smoke).

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