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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Corsair on April 06, 2004, 09:34:53 pm

Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: Corsair on April 06, 2004, 09:34:53 pm: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html

This has probably been posted here before, but I just got broadband recently and so I've installed this to help out. I figure, what the hell, it's for the cause.

Go! Help! Timeshare your computer! Look for aliens! ;)
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: übermetroid on April 06, 2004, 10:29:35 pm: Is there a HLP group login name?
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: Ace on April 06, 2004, 10:32:28 pm: What's funny is that this is a screensaver that winds up burning an image on your screen :p

A certain self-proclaimed computer genius I had as a physics teacher back in High School always had this running on his computers. Every single one of them had the SETI at home GUI burned into the screen.
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: an0n on April 06, 2004, 10:35:34 pm: I never understood why people used screen-savers when they could just set the monitor to go into standby instead.
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Post by: übermetroid on April 06, 2004, 10:35:53 pm: lol, I did that to my math teachers computers too!
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Post by: Thorn on April 06, 2004, 10:48:28 pm: Been doing this for years....
Had about 1000+ hours on it, then I stopped for about a year, since I had no internet and no way to get new sets of data, so they deleted my account...
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: Stealth on April 06, 2004, 11:26:25 pm: think of it this way.

Thousands of computers around the world running this program, by far the majority of them on high speed internet connections (i doubt anyone with 56K would be running this program) and some of them for long periods of time, with the computer's owner knowing the program's running. with a little bit of editing, the creators and owners of this program could launch one of the most powerful DoS attacks ever :drevil: :devil:
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Post by: übermetroid on April 06, 2004, 11:31:41 pm: Ive got it running on a 24k connection... Oh the joy of living in the woods!
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Post by: Stealth on April 06, 2004, 11:37:20 pm: wow dude, you must be one of the only people, because everyone i know that's running it has at least DSL/Cable
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: übermetroid on April 06, 2004, 11:42:06 pm: DSL/Cable and all the other cools things dont reach my house.

Acutally, there is a 56k dial up near by, but the phone line sucks SO BAD that I can only connect at 24k...

Sucky yes. The only way to download stuff is to leave getright on all night long.
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: Liberator on April 07, 2004, 12:01:04 am: uber, have you looked at satelite broadband?
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Post by: Admiral LSD on April 07, 2004, 12:05:24 am: Screw SETI, put your unused CPU cycles to something actually useful instead:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: kasperl on April 07, 2004, 04:22:12 am: i've been running SETI for ages on my desktop
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Post by: karajorma on April 07, 2004, 05:47:39 am: Quote
Originally posted by Admiral LSD
Screw SETI, put your unused CPU cycles to something actually useful instead:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

SETI is only useless until it finds something. Then it will probably turn out to have been one of the greatest ideas ever (or lead to the destruction of mankind if we bring bezerkers down on ourselves). :)
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Post by: J3Vr6 on April 07, 2004, 08:08:24 am: Wierd, I was just thinking of this exact thing a couple of days ago.

Kara is right, ya know. It would be considered the greatest idea ever devised if it actually found something. But I didn't think pepole still did this.
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Post by: Kazan on April 07, 2004, 08:36:46 am: burning images into modern monitors.... that's next to impossible
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Post by: Fractux on April 07, 2004, 08:47:16 am: I haven't been using SETI@home, but I have been folding for the past couple of months.

I figure if I'm going to run a distributed client, I would first rather aid medical developments than finding that there may be other inelligent life in deep space.

Because if I was an intelligent life form, and I saw the Earth, I may probably decide to avoid it altogether. :nervous:

Maybe we're atually the universes' TV. :rolleyes: ( But that's for another thread someday )

:)

Cheers!
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Post by: Janos on April 07, 2004, 09:44:29 am: Folding@Home >>> Seti@Home
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Post by: Thorn on April 07, 2004, 10:35:34 am: I have them both running now :p
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Post by: übermetroid on April 07, 2004, 11:12:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
uber, have you looked at satelite broadband?

I've looked in to it, but just not that much. Got any good sites that explain the process pretty well?
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Post by: Ryx on April 07, 2004, 01:25:23 pm: Been folding[folding@home] for awhile now. See sig.
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Post by: Joey_21 on April 07, 2004, 01:39:09 pm: Personally, I prefer this screen saver.

http://www.zetagrid.net/
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Post by: Setekh on April 08, 2004, 09:28:12 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stealth
(i doubt anyone with 56K would be running this program)

I'm on a 56k. ;)
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: Thorn on April 08, 2004, 10:29:34 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh

I'm on a 56k. ;)

DONT LET HIM TOUCH YOU
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: Rictor on April 08, 2004, 11:16:45 am: A more noble goal than any of those

Monkey Shakespeare Simulator (http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/index.html)
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: Stealth[cro] on April 08, 2004, 06:07:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh

I'm on a 56k. ;)

Brother in arms, I tell you :D

*points to signature*

edit: ERK. I forgot I removed the SETI counter from the sig. :mad:
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Post by: Liberator on April 08, 2004, 10:37:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ubermetroid

I've looked in to it, but just not that much. Got any good sites that explain the process pretty well?

Well, it's a fairly simple affair. Instead of using conventional wired and land-based wireless data transmission methods, the data is transfered via a satellite transceiver. The upside is you can get massive download speeds, the downside latency is very high, usually on the order of whole seconds depending on the weather.

Starband (http://www.starband.com/services.asp) is the only one I know anything about. If you've already got one of those mini-dishes you might check with your provider to see if they offer it.

You might check with some of the retail telecom companies in your area and see if they offer some kind of Wi-Fi or 802.11 network of some kind.
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Post by: Unknown Target on April 08, 2004, 10:52:03 pm: I use DirecWay, fast, and pretty damn good. Only prob is, my connection gets a little funky late at night, but I guess that's to be expected.

www.direcway.com
Title: Join the Search! SETI
Post by: Setekh on April 09, 2004, 09:20:38 am: That Shakespeare monkey thing is ridiculous. :lol:

Aye, comrades in the union of the 56k! To arms against these oppressive broadband fellows! *is slaughtered by all the broadbanders while waiting for lag* Well, so much for that.