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Re: [OM] SETI searchers sought

Subject: Re: [OM] SETI searchers sought
From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:08:50 -0500 (CDT)
I'm up to around 40 datasets.


On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 21:59:47 -0600, Garth Wood wrote:

>At 06:41 PM 6/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>I hope this isn't an abuse of the list, but I'd like to solicit some 
>>CPU cycles for a good cause. I just started Searching for Extra-
>>Terrestrial Intelligence (I've given up on earth...) and have 
>>processed 5 datasets so far for the SETI project in the background.
>
>
>Five?  FIVE?
>
>Piker.
>
>So far, I've processed 522, which is more than 97.5810f the users, and I 
>consider myself a total failure.  There are *individuals* who've processed 
>tens of thousands of work units so far, not to mention those corporate LANs 
>chugging away.  So far, nothing.
>
>But if we do ever find 'em, they'd better be using Olympus equipment to take 
>pictures -- otherwise I say they're a boil on the butt of the Universe, and we 
>should nuke 'em 'til they glow and then shoot 'em in the dark.  8^>
>
>Garth
>
>P.S.:  If you've got Windoze 2000 installed, don't bother.  So far, my work 
>unit processing times have almost tripled in comparison to SETI@home on my 
>Win98SE machine.  Don't ask me what the Hell Win2K's doing with all the rest 
>of my cycles...
>
>
> 
>"A bad day doing photography is better
> than a good day doing just about 
> anything else."
> 
>The Unofficial Olympus Web Photo Gallery at:
>
>   http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/
>
>
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