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 Albi 
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Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject: |
 
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Have been participating in the SETI@home DC project since it started (5.5 years ago). I know some sites that a team as a community effort but it requires enough people to be interested otherwise it's not worth the trouble. Oh, I won't change my team to SST   |
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 j2brown
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| Albi wrote: |
| Oh, I won't change my team to SST |
Well, uh, thanks for nothing then. 
jeff
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 Obi-son
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LOL
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Albi
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Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| Albi wrote: |
| Oh, I won't change my team to SST |
Well, uh, thanks for nothing then.
jeff
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You're welcome  It's just that this team already exists for more than 5 years as well, can't abandom them now (I'm the founder of the team after all ) |
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j2brown
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Just wanted to bump this thread, and perhaps get some new folks involved on one of the teams.
jeff
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 Muriel
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Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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I've also started a StreamingSoundtracks.com group on the new BOINC powered SETI@Home.
SST SETI@Home BOINC
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j2brown
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Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Another bump for the thread.
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j2brown
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Thought I'd give this another bump.
jeff
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 mellowman
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Can I ask a silly question? What is the idea behind this? I guess, being linked to SETI, that it is somehow using computer power to analyse signals from space? Or something along those lines. Does SST get something out of it? Or is it just a community thing to do? |
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Muriel
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: |
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Just a community thing to do.
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Obi-son
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high beings listen to SST 
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j2brown
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As for Folding@Home, it's just something to do as a community that can also help fight many diseases. See their homepage for more.
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j2brown
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:32 am Post subject: |
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Thought I'd bump this thread again for all the new arrivals.
jeff
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Albi
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Found this funny news item this morning. Thought I would post it here to convince more people to start crunching
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Missing laptop found in ET hunt
SAN FRANCISCO - The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, has signed up more than 1 million volunteers worldwide in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They've found no aliens yet, but they have at least turned up one missing laptop.
The Berkeley effort, better known as SETI(at)home, uses volunteers' computers when they go into screen-saver mode to crunch data from the Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico. The computers are trying to spot signals in the radio noise from space.
One volunteer, James Melin, a software programmer for a county government agency in Minnesota, runs SETI(at)home on his seven home computers, which periodically check in with University of California servers. Whenever that happens, the servers record the remote computer's Internet Protocol address and file it in a database that people running the SETI software can view.
One of the computers on which Melin installed SETI(at)home is his wife's laptop, which was stolen from the couple's Minneapolis home Jan. 1.
Annoyed — and alarmed that someone could delete the screenplays and novels that his wife, Melinda Kimberly, was writing — Melin monitored the SETI(at)home database to see if the stolen laptop would "talk" to the Berkeley servers. Indeed, the laptop checked in three times within a week, and Melin sent the IP addresses to the Minneapolis Police Department.
After a subpoena to a local Internet provider, police determined the real-world address where the stolen laptop was logging on. Within days, officers seized the computer and returned it. No one had been arrested as of Wednesday and the case remains under investigation, said Lt. Amelia Huffman of the Minneapolis Police Department.
Kimberly's writings were safe, and the thieves didn't appear to have broken into her e-mail or other personal folders. But the returned computer contained 20 tracks of rap music with unintelligible lyrics, possibly from the person who stole the computer or bought it on the underground.
"It's really, really horrid rap," Melin said. "It makes Ludacris look like Pavarotti."
Kimberly was more enamored with Melin's detective work.
"I always knew that a geek would make a great husband," she said. "He always backed up all my data, but this topped it all. It became like `Mission: Impossible' for him, looking for hard evidence for the cops to use. ... He's a genius — my hero."
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j2brown
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Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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bump-da-bump |
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