Llamasoft seti group...

Dvorak · Post by **Dvorak** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 2:39 pm 0

ICEBABY wrote:Just joined...

You!
You are the one that made me drop to 8th place in the group stats lately!

So have a warm welcome to this wonderful place, icebaby.

Hope you enjoy your stay!

(And since my Average CPU time per work unit is 30 minutes better than yours I have no doubt that I'll get you soon enough...

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ICEBABY · Post by **ICEBABY** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 3:02 pm 0

Dvorak wrote:
ICEBABY wrote:Just joined...
You!
You are the one that made me drop to 8th place in the group stats lately!

So have a warm welcome to this wonderful place, icebaby.
Hope you enjoy your stay!

(And since my Average CPU time per work unit is 30 minutes better than yours I have no doubt that I'll get you soon enough... )

In which case I will leave an extra machine on, just to tip the balance in my favour! hahahahaha (He laughs insanely)

Dvorak · Post by **Dvorak** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 5:33 pm 0

ICEBABY wrote:In which case I will leave an extra machine on, just to tip the balance in my favour! hahahahaha (He laughs insanely)

*shiver*

[aside]
Then I'm lost...

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Elk · Post by **Elk** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 11:42 am 0

Even though I am an Elk it seems that I am a KOwin from Sweden at the bottom of the list...

Dvorak · Post by **Dvorak** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:18 pm 0

Elk wrote:Even though I am an Elk it seems that I am a KOwin from Sweden at the bottom of the list...

Elk, you should not compute these results by hand, man. Use a computer! It's faster!

everklear · Post by **everklear** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 7:45 pm 0

Hey, look at me, the first Canadian on the team!
Go me!

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 9:16 am 0

Woohoo, just broke 3 years CPU time

Dvorak · Post by **Dvorak** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:02 am 0

everklear wrote:Hey, look at me, the first Canadian on the team!
Go me!

Canada just joined forces. Welcome, everklear!
(Ok, I had to scroll very long way down the list to find you, but... )

uh, I make this a too competitive thing, sorry... *mumbling* we're a team, we're a team, we're a team...

Dr. M · Post by **Dr. M** » Mon Nov 24, 2003 12:52 pm 0

ICEBABY wrote:Just joined, maybe partly to blame with regard to LLamasoft group stats...... I have a few PC's assisting me to scream pat sKar in less than 2 weeks, I will reduce my daily block count so as not to upset..!

Welcome, ICEBABY, to the fluffiest forums on the Internet

randomdude · Post by **randomdude** » Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:57 pm 0

I have joined. Storming ahead with a stonking 0 Units so far..

Dvorak · Post by **Dvorak** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 9:43 am 0

randomdude wrote:I have joined. Storming ahead with a stonking 0 Units so far..

But no: You delivered your first result tonight at 05:18:36! You're on your way, randomdude...

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:11 am 0

Dvorak wrote:
randomdude wrote:I have joined. Storming ahead with a stonking 0 Units so far..
But no: You delivered your first result tonight at 05:18:36! You're on your way, randomdude...

And now the addiction starts. Minimising processes on your own machine in order to maximise SETI throughput. Sneaking a SETI client onto machines at work/uni/girlfriends house.

One of us... one of us...

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:35 am 0

moobaa wrote:Sneaking a SETI client onto machines at work/uni

I'd be careful about it if you live in the US.

One guy in Georgia (US state) called Dave McOwen was charged with bandwith theft a few years ago for installing the distributed.net client and could have faced up to 15 years in prison. He spent some time in prison and was given probation and community service eventually. The state of Georgia still wants to shut down all distributed network systems because they consider it a "criminal technology".

http://www.freemcowen.com/index.htm

With the Patriot Act's specification that "hackers are terrorists" they may not be so lenient in the future.

Edit: the UK apparently has the same in their anti terrorism law so I'd also be wary if you live there:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/0 ... orists.idg

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 11:04 am 0

Oh yes, well aware of the legal issues. IIRC, it's even mentioned somewhere in the SETI pages that it's naughty to do that.

Lucky for me, though, that my location is happily described as "Australia"

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 11:13 am 0

moobaa wrote:Oh yes, well aware of the legal issues. IIRC, it's even mentioned somewhere in the SETI pages that it's naughty to do that.

Lucky for me, though, that my location is happily described as "Australia"

I have an English friend who wondered what twat thought up the concept of sending people to Australia as a punishment for crime. He said a proper punishment would have been moving all non-criminals to Australia and leaving the criminals back in England.