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| Personal background |
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As the self-appointed manager of our company's SETI@Home effort, I speak not only for myself, but for all of us.
We at Mantacore are a group of young people, dedicated to our work of delivering business solutions for insurance and financial applications.
Me, I'm Petri Oksanen, 27 years old, born in Helsinki in Finland, raised in Stockholm in Sweden.
I work as a systems/network engineer at Mantacore, which basically means I make sure all the behind-the-scenes technology and services, that we and our customers need to run our businesses, won't suddenly crash and burn.
Well, eventually something will fail, but I'll be there to clean up the mess.
When I'm not working, I pop the heads off other people in online battles of Unreal Tournament, mostly in the Facing Worlds map.
Other than that, I get goose bumps from figuring out new, cool and easy solutions in Perl to menial day-to-day problems in systems administration.
Learning more about network security and tinkering with OpenBSD are other things that keep me busy.
I hope to continue travelling the world on my holidays and trying out new extreme rollercoasters where ever they get built.
I live just north of Stockholm with my girlfriend Jeanette and our cat Sarek.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I remember people at some of my regular sites raving about SETI@Home a long time ago, must have been in the early days of the @home-project.
I've known about the SETI-project since I was a kid and have always been fascinated by it.
Early this spring one of the guys at work installed the screensaver client on his computer, and I got intrigued by it.
I decided to check out the project and ended up installing the console client on my computer to evaluate what impact it would have on the load on my computer.
It worked great, I couldn't even tell a difference in Unreal Tournament if I was running the client or not.
So I decided to distribute the client to all our computers, and keep'em running.
So far, we are doing great progress. At the moment I have committed 22 computers to fulltime continous background processing at 24x7.
They are all Intel PIII's, mostly in the 550 to 700 MHz range, and a couple of Xeons with 1 MByte L2-cache.
Some old 350 MHz PII's are also thrown in for good measure.
I think it would be a fulfillment of our destiny as mankind, to seek contact with other intelligent species in our galaxy and beyond.
Only then will we realize how petty our internal struggles and wars really are, in the grand scheme of things.
We should definitely try our outmost to contact other civilizations in the universe, and start colonizing the other planets in our system as soon as possible, so that we can gather experience for long-term space travel.
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