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My little sister is WAY into Seti at home - she's getting a new laptop, and all she keeps talking about is how much faster her computer will process it now.....
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Heh. I was an enthusiastic supporter of SETI@home a few years ago. Unfortunately, their implementation of the screen saver version for OS X is rather lacking, because they refuse to make a version that can be integrated with the system's screen saver module. That system panel has the ability to require a password before the screen saver is turned off -- something that I consider important for my laptop security. Their "recommended" solution is to run both screen savers. Go figure.
I'm thinking of installing the Darwin-compatable command line client and a freeware GUI menu extra to control it, but I haven't worked up the interest to go to the effort of going through the relatively difficult (and potentially dangerous) process of installing it, since I'm still a relative newbie when it comes to Unix.
At any rate, I haven't had much of an opportunity to use SETI anyway since I got my iBook, my first laptop. It's better to shut the case and put it to sleep in most situations. And I won't leave it running and awake all night, because the processor is a little loud in a quiet bedroom.
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quote: My little sister is WAY into Seti at home - she's getting a new laptop, and all she keeps talking about is how much faster her computer will process it now.....
I couldn't believe how much faster this computer could do the scans.
quote: Heh. I was an enthusiastic supporter of SETI@home a few years ago. Unfortunately, their implementation of the screen saver version for OS X is rather lacking, because they refuse to make a version that can be integrated with the system's screen saver module.
If you can run it in the background, and leave the screen saver off, it will run a lot faster. I've got enough RAM now that I don't notice Seti running.
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The last still-functional part of TNO: The SETI@home group...
And I'm sure you will catch up to me, Kosh, but not for the reason you think. Previous computers that I've had the program on weren't up to the task, and thus they took forever to finish up a data unit. And I mean forever. This computer is going through them in no time. However, I think this computer will be offline for most of the summer, allowing more than sufficient time to catch up.
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I run it on my main PC (as yet unpacked) and belong to the uk.media.tv.scifi.farscape group - or I did, unfortunately when I changed PCs they seem to have lost my info, and won't let me log back in to rejoin; they still qute happily keep sending me data packets to process, but God knows what happens to them when the results get sent. . .
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I don't think they're necessarily all "Lee Kelly." I searched for "Simon Sizer" and got plenty of hits, but all of them were just Simon, not Sizer. I'm reasonably certain I'm the only one. Anyway, some other distributed computing projects and collections of projects:
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I Googled once, lots of girls with the surname Kelly and middle name Lee. . . Even a couple of actresses, Kristen Lee Kelly and Laura Lee Kelly I think. A sculptor, but we knew about him. Any page that has a list of pornstars, since you got, er, somebody Lee and Kelly O'Dell. I'd probably do a project to locate all the Lee Kellys in the world if Dave Gorman hadn't had the idea first (to find Dave Gormen that is, not Lee Kellys). 8)
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Slight problem, I changed my email recently. So although I've located my account by that email, I can't get a reminder of the password. And I've tried every password I've ever used.
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