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| Personal background |
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I'd like to thank everyone who has contacted me the day i was chosen as user of the day ! Let's all push for Seti :)
Location: I live in Paris, France.
I work as an Intranet/Extranet applications developer for a Worldwide Company.
I also care for a small company running since 3 years: internet hosting, design. Benchmarks of new hosting machines are done with seti !
www.2ice.com
I'm 24.
My hobbies are: Programming (of course !) small AI, TCP games platforms; Kites (big kites, four lines), In line skating ... And travel abroad !
Computers:
Working Comps
- 1 Athlon 1.66Ghz Win Xp Pro (april 2003) - running SETI
- 1 Duron 850mhz Win XP Pro (july 2002) - retired from SETI
- 1 Duron 800mhz Mandrake Linux 8.0 (june 2002) - retired from SETI
- 1 Crusoe Transmetta 733mhz Win XP home(april 2002) - running SETI
- 1 Pentium II 400mhz Win 98se (the pentium made almost all the Seti work for the two first years) - retired from SETI
- and why not, soon, try to run seti on PS2 Linux ?
( PS2 runs linux since august 2002, pictures, diagramm on --> www.2ice.com/ps2linux )
[i]Burnt comps (alas, its too hot around here)
- 1 Amd Athlon Thunderbird 1ghz (rip july 2001)
- 1 Amd k6-2 366mhz (rip october 2001)
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The first time i heard of Seti was in 1999. I thought it was the concept. I was amazed by the fact that at last anyone with a computer and an internet connection could "touch" data from great telescopes and radiotelescopes ! Some kind of barrier disappeared. The concept of shared networking is definetely the idea of the future: we are going to accelerate greatly our researchs. Not to think that we are to discover an alien signal right now, but to think that we alltogether started something new that will open gates for all and will be used in the future intensively. That's why i talk about seti@home to friends, even if they look at me strangely: i dont think they realize at all the importance of it, as an historical concept.
And with the crazy speeds the comps achieve nowadays, at affordable prices (note, april 2003: true !), i think we are to complete great things (note, april 2003: waiting for results of best signals).
My guess: We are to discover something big within 5 years.
[b]Asimov was right[b]. Fundation.
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