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Ragnarok
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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Israel

Seti@Home

Well, most of you probably heard about it, or even have it installed.
But I'll introduce it anyway!

Seti@Home is a program in which you can help SETI (Nasa's Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) from your very own computer at home/school/work!

Here's a little explanation:

quote:

[Seti@Home readme file.]
SETI@home actually consists of two parts: an "application"
and a "screensaver". The application does all the work: it
downloads blocks of data through the Internet, performs the
number crunching on that data (looking for orderly patterns
that might be artificial), returns the results, and gets
another block of data. The application is represented by a
green radio telescope icon in the System Tray (normally at
the lower right of your screen). You can open the applica-
tion window by double-clicking on this icon, or right-clicking
on the icon and selecting Maximize from the popup menu..

The screensaver program runs when you haven't used your key-
board or mouse for a while. It displays color pictures
showing the data analysis process. Normally the application
processes data only when the screensaver is running.
Optionally, you can have the application process data all
the time.

Sounds cool enough?
Get it at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu

Who knows? You might pick up a trance from outer space!

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Nov-04-2001 21:17 Israel

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YELLOWBEE
Senior tranceaddict

Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Uk

wow, that sounds very cool actually, im gonna check that out.

Thanks, never heard of that

Cyaaaaa
Ybee

Nov-04-2001 21:22 United Kingdom

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NucleuzBoy
Junior tranceaddict

Registered: Sep 2001
Location: San Francisco

yeah I ['ve heard of that, But i was wondering, cant that send viruses to your computer or soemthing?

Do you know anything about it??

I think it is cool though

Nov-04-2001 21:26 United States

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Ragnarok
tranceaddict

Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Israel

A virus?
From Berkely University of California?
I doubt it...

Nov-04-2001 21:32 Israel

djSlain
[Suspended]

Registered: May 2001
Location: San Diego CA

SETI@Home is a waste of time. it takes like 18 hours to analyze ONE GODDAMN PIECE of information.

Folding@home all the way. http://folding.stanford.edu
edit: and you can analyze data WHILE you are working on the comp, with no slowdown to what ever you are running. Fuck aliens when u can find cures for CANCER yay!
and teams! teams damnit! anyone want to make a TranceAddict team? I'd be glad to switch teams if TA wants to make one

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Nov-04-2001 22:27

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lMIlk
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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: super size fries

make a team for what?

Nov-04-2001 23:45 United States

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djSlain
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Registered: May 2001
Location: San Diego CA

i'm all for making a TranceAddict team for Folding@Home. I'm already on this team
http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=150 (i'm ErickWithaCK)

if u TAs want to create a team to save the world, i'd be glad to switch over.

"but DJSlain, that's boring..."
you are obviously very virgin and very cool. only nerdy geeks like me are into Distributed Computing. it's actually quite fun and competitive. I'm sure if we could get @ least 100 of the 5000 TAs folding, we could be in the top, hmmm, 15 in no time

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Nov-05-2001 00:04

lMIlk
Moderat0r

Registered: Aug 2001
Location: super size fries

i'll join...

Nov-05-2001 00:17 United States

hypronix
[presence.of.absence]

Registered: May 2001
Location: in the heart of a Flaming June

I've heard of SETI@home about 2 years ago I think, but as I have been on dial-up internet I don't believe it is worth it... whenever I will switch to something fast (includin a new comp) I will get one of these apps... whatever I can do to save the world.

as for viruses, more likely U should worry of hackers. bc if someone gets access into the Berkeley server, it gets access in all those SETI running comps... also, for whoever watched SF movies, think that data can be a way in which intelligent existance forms can be materialized.

hell, if we R to die...

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Nov-05-2001 00:20 Romania

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AnotherWay83
The B00b Maintenance Guy™

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: land of d(-_-)b

i knew of that over a year or so ago...but if u think about it, its completely stupid..

if aliens wanted to, they would've made contact with us way back...they wouldn't need our radio technology anyway...

peace

Nov-05-2001 00:25

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djSlain
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Registered: May 2001
Location: San Diego CA

I wanna know how many of you TAs plan on Folding. maybe make a seperate thread, but i'm so scared! ahhh, new thread! social anxiety! ah!!!!
anyways here is the TA team page:
http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=351
(team number 351)

i'm not going to start folding for that team until we can get at least, say 25 members on it. and no, u don't need cable internet. it processes everything on the CPU, it only needs internet at the very end and beginning of each project to:
send the folded protein
get a new protein

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Nov-05-2001 01:16