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    Lightbulb SETI@home

    Hey, I was just wondering why noone ever set up a cprogramming.com SETI@home team? http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Im sure there are some of you who run it on your pc's. So why dont we set up a team?
    Last edited by xds4lx; 09-28-2002 at 07:11 PM.
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    Hmm intresting idea...I'll look into it, I run it so lemme look into it and talk to the webmaster.

    Oh and I'm adding a Poll to this thread to judge intrest...I think it's a great idea.

    Dang won't let me add Poll...well who's intrested?
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    come on guys, i know there has to be someone else here that runs seti@home. right now im on team gamedev but im more than willing to leave.

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    http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...eam_79972.html

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    Didnt see your post yet Kermi, I should of made it a poll but wasnt thinking.
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    this is a really cool idea, count me in!

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    Heh, how long have you been running it kermi? me just a little over 2 years. have 1880 units completed for 2.156 cpu years
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    ewww I've had it a long time...like my registration date is Oct 3 1999....I have 330 units and 4464 hours...I'd have a lot more but until a month or so ago i was on 56k...so it was a until every couple days...now I do 4-5 a day.
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    I've talked to the webmaster, he's going to set it up. I'll have details in next couple days.
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    sweet I get 5-6 results a day from 2 computers both way different ends of the spectrum, one is Celeron 400@550, and an Athlon xp 1800+
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    Sorry, but you'll have to count me out

    My home PC isn't on during the day, and if I did it at work, I'd get shot
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    just run it in the background of your home pc when its on hammer, if you have at least 256 mb or ram then you wont notice a slow down at all, just remember to close it before playing any games
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    Ok then, change of plan.... if we get a team going, count me in.
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    Or leave the home PC on during day ...Why would you get shot at work? It just hovers in background helping the scietific community and mankinds .

    I used to run it on a 166, then a 550 256mb ram, now a 2.0 gig (P4) with gig of ram.
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    >Why would you get shot at work?
    Well, there's a number of reasons.... I won't go into them all here though. The simplest rule for me to quote is that I'm not allowed to install software unless it's been company approved, and I'm authorised to use it yaddy yaddy blah blah <corporate site with no vision >

    Of course that's never stopped me before...
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    my tech admins at school are retarted, i could run it on they're server on its dedicated T1 24/7 and they'd prolly never know.

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