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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :
Tried it once. Can't get it to work past the Firewall.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I have it at work. Since my compy has minimum requirments, it doesn't run fast, but it runs well enough. It's through about 85% of the first block of information.
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[This message has been edited by Kosh (edited August 19, 1999).]
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
This will probably never turn up anything, of course. It seems more of a way to make the public think that they're doing something useful when they really aren't.
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Uhm..... excuse me if I don't understand what in the HELL this does?
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
SETI watches the skies for radio signals of intelligent origin. All of the data they gather needs to analyzed for the patterns inherint in ordered signals. As a private program, SETI does not have unlimited computer resources. This allows them to distribute chunks of data to computers all over the world, each one working on a tiny piece of the overall puzzle. Parallel processing in its most nifty form.
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
In other words, you lend them some functions of your own computer?
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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Exactly.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
There are two or three computers here at the office, running the screen saver. I am on the road a lot, so mine gets a good bit of time to work with it. Very slow going though. It still hasn't gotten through the first block of data.
------------------ Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx
Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :
I have it downloaded and installed a while ago, but it NEVER connects to the server, even when I'm online!
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Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on :
Hey Tora are you behind a firewall of somekind, that's the only thing I could think of that could interfere. No actually this is the best way to process anything really really big, because can you image how much processing power is wasted while the computer is on doing nothing, it this kind of way is how they finally beat the 127 bit code the creators said it take a million, or so years to break.
------------------ HMS White Star (your local friendly agent of Chaos:-) )
Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
Yeah, my computer takes forever to do a data unit as well.
Anyway, here's some advice:
1. I think the latest version of the program is designed to function behind firewalls. Try it.
2. The program doesn't recognize an existing connection to the Internet. Disconnect, then use seti@home to connect again. This should work.
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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :
*Just installed it on his other computer*
By the way, would anyone be interested in starting up a Flare seti@home group?
------------------ Darlene: I read a lot of science fiction. Herbert: Bless you, my child. Kay: The world needs more people like you.
-Deep Space Nine, "Far Beyond the Stars."
Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :
First, I'm not behind a firewall. My computer's at home. Second, I use AOL. That might be the problem.
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Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on :
Tora, you use AOL, I am so sorry . No really that's likely their problem, O well, actually I have already sent my second data package off and am beinging to process my third.
------------------ HMS White Star (your local friendly agent of Chaos:-) )
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Tora: I just got Mindspring at home. It kicks butt. Fastest connections I've had since I've been on line at home.
------------------ Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx
. No really that's likely their problem, O well, actually I have already sent my second data package off and am beinging to process my third.