So... who uses SETI@Home?

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I just recently got into seti (set up a couple linux boxes to run it constantly + my main comp). im curious if any one here uses it, and if anyone is interested in making an hl2.net team?
 
seti? is that something to do with stars?
 
seti@home is "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home". basically, theres a bunch of ginormous telescopes around earth scanning space all the time for radio signals that arent our own. since there are so many (caused by us, stars, radiation, whatever) they need many (millions) of users to look at all the information and put it all together. when someone gets some promising results, they are sent to berkeley and they are looked at, if its another civilization you get co credit. thats basically the gist of it.

the actual program is tiny. it runs in the backround and will consume very few cpu cycles, and uses 16 mb's of ram. it transmits its results to berkeley every couple days, so you dont need a continuous internet connection
 
gh0st said:
seti@home is "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home". basically, theres a bunch of ginormous telescopes around earth scanning space all the time for radio signals that arent our own. since there are so many (caused by us, stars, radiation, whatever) they need many (millions) of users to look at all the information and put it all together. when someone gets some promising results, they are sent to berkeley and they are looked at, if its another civilization you get co credit. thats basically the gist of it.

the actual program is tiny. it runs in the backround and will consume very few cpu cycles, and uses 16 mb's of ram. it transmits its results to berkeley every couple days, so you dont need a continuous internet connection
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a link would be nice...
 
I use it. I also use UD, which finds patterns for agents to cure cancer.
grid.org <-We also have a half-life2.net team for it.
 
gh0st said:
seti@home is "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home". basically, theres a bunch of ginormous telescopes around earth scanning space all the time for radio signals that arent our own. since there are so many (caused by us, stars, radiation, whatever) they need many (millions) of users to look at all the information and put it all together. when someone gets some promising results, they are sent to berkeley and they are looked at, if its another civilization you get co credit. thats basically the gist of it.

the actual program is tiny. it runs in the backround and will consume very few cpu cycles, and uses 16 mb's of ram. it transmits its results to berkeley every couple days, so you dont need a continuous internet connection
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hey if you want radio signals check the center of the galaixy... thares an object so small its undetectable and its emitting radio waves aka black hole (probly not your sci-fi spin around suck the universe in) but it is a spaining object and that would give a good reson on why the galx spins...

aka thares a very small object spinning in the center of the galaxy with extream gravity and its emitting radio waves but the object is to small to detect... no worries where all guna be somewheres else before where sucked in
 
I used to, but I hit some weird compatability issues and gave up at one point.
 
Is there a leader board? I would join a HL2.net team
 
i use it as often as possible. just leave the pc on whenever i'm not around and leave SETI doing it's thang. nifty.
 
i used to use it.. i used to even be part of teamanadtech's seti group. i can't recall how much time i logged on that thing, it was quite a lot. i just lost it somewhere in the formatting over the years and lost interest.. i wanted immediate alien signals :frown: maybe i'll start using it again.
 
i'm trying to join that but i've forgotten my password and it's taking aaaages for them to email it to me...
 
I dunno why -
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Doesn't works for me.

edit- I just made a search for the team, I don't find it on the groups DB
 
It gave me that once or twice as well you just have to keep trying
 
ill join up once i try and figure out how to get my password, the password retrival system isnt wokring
 
Revisedsoul said:
ill join up once i try and figure out how to get my password, the password retrival system isnt wokring
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it gave me my pass immediatly... oh well.
 
Cool!, the site is good again.

But now I forgot my freakin password...
 
just a note on the password email: i signed up with my hotmail email account, and when i requested the new password of course it didn't arrive. i waited and waited and got a bit pissed off. i just now checked my junk email folder and lo and behold my SETI password recovery email was sitting there. so if you've got junk email filters turn em off or something.
 
I'm gonna join you as well, been doing it for a while now. every little bit helps. By the way I also use google toolbar with the folding @home distributed computing plugin. this works when seti dosent which is quite good. And + protiens are arguably a more economic research topic, more payback in the medium term. However that ain't gonna stop me reachintg for the stars! ::)
 
can you run folding and seti at the same time? ineed more bad computers :(

edit: efficiently
 
XenoSpirit said:
hey if you want radio signals check the center of the galaixy... thares an object so small its undetectable and its emitting radio waves aka black hole (probly not your sci-fi spin around suck the universe in) but it is a spaining object and that would give a good reson on why the galx spins...

aka thares a very small object spinning in the center of the galaxy with extream gravity and its emitting radio waves but the object is to small to detect... no worries where all guna be somewheres else before where sucked in
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It's a supermassive black-hole. They've found one at the center of every galaxy that they'vel looked at. That's the theory how the galaxy's formed, or at least, one of the theories. I think it makes the most sense. I'll look for a link a bit later on.
 
Some advice: Don't use the screensaver, it's a resource hog. Instead use the command line. It can cut the time it takes for a WU by around 2 to 3 times.

Currently at 1734 WUs.
 
Just delete it or something. Or, you can go into your Control Panel and switch to a different screensaver.
 
change to a different screen saver (control panel > display)
 
Yea, it happened to me. Just switch to the command-line. Faster and not much of a resource hog.
 
Wow, I never knew there were so many users right under my nose. I'll certainly join the team.
 
How do we switch to command line? Or is that just disabling the screensaver?
 
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