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| Personal background |
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I am a student at school, living near Bradford, England, and hoping to go on to do Computer Science at university. My main interest is in computers - hardware, software, programming, web development, and almost everything else - and sooner or later I'll get around to finishing my web site on http://www.linuxresource.org.uk/ :-) I'm also working on a computer game project with a few friends, and occasionally help out with E-Consort (http://www.e-consort.co.uk) - a site run by Adam Roney (vEdLi), another SETI@home user.
In the photo you can see me in my home-made computer workshop in the attic of my house. I use this to keep random computer bits (anything from 286's to old Pentiums), and to assemble computers for myself, my family, or my friends. Home-made computers are much better value than pre-built machines - for the same price you can get a much better specified machine. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I have no idea whether extraterrestrial life exists. On the one hand, there are so many stars in the galaxy, many with stars, and uncountable galaxies in the universe, there's bound to be more life somewhere. On the other hand, it was a complete fluke that we ever evolved beyond the bacterial stage.But, of course, that's where SETI comes in! I encourage everyone to use SETI@home, so we may some day know whether intelligent life beyond Earth exists. It would be another "giant leap for Mankind" to find extraterrestrial intelligence, so I believe that we should make it a priority to look for it.I believe that mankind should certainly transmit a beacon that would be easily recognisable (e.g. sequences of prime numbers), but not attempting to containing too much information as ET may be unable to decode it. Why should ET use ASCII? :-)How I organise SETI
or: what's with all the usernames?!I use multiple SETI usernames, all beginning "Malc". It is a policy of my SETI group (United Geekdom Number Crunchers) to use one username per machine, as a sort of informal benchmark.All machines on my home network connect through jSetiDoor running on my Linux server.Malc Neptune (Athlon1.2): my main machine, primarily running SuSE Linux 7.3 (heavily customised!) but occasionally running WinXP & SetiService. Surprisingly, WU time is about the same for both OSes - probably since little OS-dependent work is involved in pure number-crunching.Malc Pluto (Duron800): my family's main machine, running WinXP & SetiService.Malc Mercury (Snail): my family's slower secondary machine, running WinME with SETI minimized.Malc BGS: a collection of machines at my school, which run SETI most weekends.Malc Temp (Athlon1800+): I was setting up this machine for a friend, using SETI as a burn-in test.Malc Misc (unused): no longer active. It was a collective ID before I split my computers onto separate usernames. |
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