Space Forum / SETI / December 2004

so what are you running in your Seti Farms?
this has been a good year on the Franco Farm...
in order of joining the farm:
PII 400 about 14 wu/week

Your credit:
Name: Steve Midgley
Results Received: 34086
Total CPU Time: 11.890 years

I have been running the Windows screensaver version of SAH for quite some
time with a 1.5 gHz P4 processor, 512 GB ram and Windows XP.
I just upgraded to a 3.2 gHz P4 processor.
All my other software runs fine and the system is otherwise stable.

Howdy...I recieved my first workunit a few days ago. Computer has been
on almost constantly. Screensaver says 61% completed and CPU time is 31
hours and 45 minutes. At this rate it will about four days to complete.
I do not normally use the computer for more than a few hours a day, ...

From news:comp.distributed
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- new ( http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html#041125 ) news rticle:
a study of how much more electricity a computer uses to run a

Greetings Earthlings,
I'm new to the world of SETI, and I'm looking not only for ET, but some
answers I can't find at the SETI website.
For example : I can see what things like pulses, gaussians, triplets and

Back to basics :
If intelligent life in the universe overcomes practical issues, then some
species in the Galaxy would have evolved to a class III civilization on the
Kardashev scale. No theoretical limits prevent us from going there :

Howdy...I recieved my first workunit a few days ago. Computer has been
on almost constantly. Screensaver says 61% completed and CPU time is 31
hours and 45 minutes. At this rate it will about four days to complete.
I do not normally use the computer for more than a few hours a day, ...

After some years of having SETI in my mind but doing nothing I finally
got broadband so thought I'd take another look.
Some questions I hope you can help me with.:
Is the SETI shared computing network still as lively as it looked

I'm taking care of three cats of a friend who went for a trip. He has a
PowerMac G4 400 Mhz 768 Mb of RAM, with a V90 connection and as I don't
have anything interesting to do, I downloaded Boinc from
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php and double clicked on the file I

In quantum mechanics, all the forces of nature are mediated by the
exchange of particles such as photons, and these particles must obey
this cosmic speed limit. So an action "here" can cause no effect "over
there" any sooner than it would take light to travel there in a

I had used setigate + setiGui for almost six months with no problems.
I suddenly start having problems, and I decided to reinstall both
components
Now, my setigate 1.95 + setiGUI 3.08 client are not working properly.

                       GLOBAL EMERGENCY ON PLANET EARTH!
            The human race is being systematically  exterminated by a
race of malevolent alien beings that possess a remarkably human
appearance.  This human(hybrid) alien race has been  living amongst the

    I know, no UFO crap but when by implication this explains "where are
they" and paves the way to stone S@H people, and damn the demon computers
which should they ever succeed. Anyway, some things are too absurd to not to
post.

When I signed up, I never received my password.  Also, the SETI@Home web
site Forgot Password? reminder has never worked for me (I can sit here
and ask it to send my password, but I never get anything from it)
I had to search for David Anderson's e-mail address and ask him to help ...