Space Forum / SETI / September 2004

I have been away for a while, and now back again.
I am about to buy a new comp. system and looking at 2 candidates both about
the same price.
AMD64-3400+

FYI.
Hi,
I installed real Player on my system XP.
Usually I complete a work unit in 17hr. Wintout SETI, as soon as Real Player

I set up seti classic last week. Everything seems to be running fine -
i.e. I can return results and can check on my progress (you are ranked
nth milllion out of very high number) etc.
However, I want to alter my user profile. I enter my email address (I

Anyone experience a slowdown of Outlook 2003 while running the S@H
CLI?  Ive found it slows to an unusable state while S@H is running,
and shutting it down immediately alleviates the problem.
All of this of course on win32 systems, specifically WinXP Pro SP2.

AN UNEXPLAINED radio signal is the best candidate yet for "first
contact" by an intelligent alien civilisation, scientists have
suggested.
The enigmatic signal has been picked up three times since last year by

     I was wondering if others are also having problems getting a new
WU for the Classic S@H?
Anthony.

Anyone had problems sending WU results and collecting new WUs about now?
I cannot connect, via SETI Queue, using either broadband or dial up.

Seti@home working in Sheffield, England (yes, its cold).
After several months of good intentions, I finally got round to
installing the seti@home software this morning.
I have a few questions, I hope that they have not been raised too many

I've had a few errors recently:
"...not the correct file or was garbled"
"Starting result for wu using setiathome version 4.03" ( I've got 4.05
loaded)

By heck, all seems very quiet at the moment...
Does this mean that everyone is happy with full Boinc caches, various
oddball machines humming along contentedly, network lights blinking
furiously...?

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/methane_production_040923.html
A new test that produced methane under conditions mimicking the deep
interiors of Earth and Mars lends support to an idea that the gas could
theoretically support unseen colonies of microbes on both worlds. And

First of all an apology if this question has been posted before. Just
point me to the right part of the FAQ.
I'm a long-time seti-at-home user now on my 129th work package.
Recently, I was told, perhaps mis-informed, that Seti-at-home is being

What's SETI looking for? Life forms able to communicate with us? Life
intelligent enough to communicate with other similar life forms? Life that
can communicate with my dog?
How are the various SETI projects defining what they are searching for?

I haven't been around s@h website nor the usenet for a while, so this
caught me a bit off guard. I've just downloaded a new batch of WU's, and
the first one to process has RA +37°47'59". I know that there was talk
about expanding the search area, but I haven't seen any news on ...

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/account_setup.php
When I try to enter my account ID, after a few seconds, it just goes back to the
logon screen without errors.
I assume this is because the stupid software that I'm running (whose initials