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| Personal background |
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Hi, I am from the east coast, but love the weather on the west coast, so this is now HOME. I do computer consulting and have a degree in electrical engineering. I have plenty of hobbies from ham radio, to flying planes to traveling the world. I have driven in all 48 contiguous states and traveled recently to south of the equator and also to west of the international dateline... so I am managing to get around!
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I hope to have more work that takes me around the world. I like learning about other cultures and their languages. I speak enough German, Turkish and Spanish to travel easily in any of those countries and want to add to the list of countries I have visited and lived in. Anybody need a traveling computer guy?!
Best wishes to everyone! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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SETI is a fun project on 3 levels. Contributing to the analysis of data that might detect non-Earth intelligent signals, a demonstration of distributed processing and a performance test of my computer. I have used both the screen saver version (with and without the screen saver portion i use which has a drastic speed reduction if you let the screen saver run) and now the "command-line version" which I run in a small DOSbox window. This is the very fastest way to process units in a windows environment (Win 98SE now). When started in a DOSbox the priority of the SETI process is low (idle) so I use TaskInfo 2000 to raise the priority to "Normal". This does have a small noticible effect on other running programs (menus are slower and windows close a little slower) but it is not a bad performance hit if you have an overclocked K7-900 (but 7% over now, so closer to 960 MHz).
We will probably not find a smart ET this way. Their methods are probably not detecable by this method. Heck, mine would not be if I were back doing interstellar space travel! Searching for ET this way is like using the technology of smoke signals to hear radio waves! Those tracks just don't cross.
A beacon? Why? Do you want them to find us before we are ready for them? ;-)
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