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| Personal background |
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Retired research chemist, former chief of Analytical Chem Lab.,ARS,USDA.
Now living in Pensacola, FL.
Married, 2 adult children, 2 granddaughters.
I operate the equivalent of 8 home-built computers, 4 at a time. Two cabinets have 3 bootable HDs each (switch selected by Trios switches) running Win 2000 Pro, or WinXP. One unit runs at 2.4 Ghz.(AMD 64 bit CPU)using DSL, the other(this one)a Pent 4 at 3.0 Ghz. using cable. A third cabinet runs Win 2000 Pro at 2.8 Ghz which was set up for my 98 yr. old mother, who lives with us, to write letters, but can do the net with a dial-up. The fourth cab runs Win 2000 pro on an old AMD 64 bit chip at 1.8 Ghz and dial-up.
The ability to switch identical HDs electronically saves a lot of grief when a crash or virus occurs. Just shut down the bad drive and switch to a good one. Then the bad one can later be re-formatted and restored using the DVD backups described in the tip below.
Had to hide my computers when BoincSynergy kept adding up each HD when I switched them and the count got to a silly 29.
Besides SETI,Einstein,LHC,Rosetta,Predictor,Folding@Home,Proteome Folding and FightAids@Home on the World Community Grid I mess around with computer animation using Vistapro 4 and games like the Myst series (just finished Myst V, end of ages).
Joined team BoincSynergy when there were only 850+ members but switched to team USA when it got above 2000.
Tip: By using the backup software supplied with HP DVD+RW drives (it works with other brands too), it is possible to do a complete back-up of a hard drive on one or more DVDs. One can then re-format and restore a drive to its original state if infected by a virus or any other problem. This has saved my systems hundreds of times in the past 5 years. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why not? Computer idle time is too valuable to waste. But I began having second thoughts recently about SETI when they started to re-run 7 year old data (if it wasnt there then it is not likely now!)
Are there ETs out there? Of course. But so-called UFOs cannot be from other worlds due to the physics involved (nearest planets light-years away) as the propulsive energy required would be infinit!. I saw what others would call UFOs in 1986 (5 or 6 bright white lights in rough V formation just below low clouds in broad daylight, definately not normal aircraft). Probably some form of ball lightning as a storm was brewing.
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