# ATTN: SETI@home Straight Dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035 "2002-10-20T01:26:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/201 "2003-02-08T19:56:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by coosa \* > \*\*I don’t know about that - I’ve been staring slack-jawed at **Beelzebubba’s** 160-unit-in-one-week total and wondering . . . maybe we have found the alien, and he is us? \ > \*\* [whistles innocently] ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/202 "2003-02-10T14:45:21Z")
Hey, everyone, check out the main [SETI@home](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) page–the User of the Day is our very own [Triskadecamus](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/fcgi?cmd=view_feedback&id=6486)! (Of course, they really should have waited until this Thursday, but still, congrats, **Triskadecamus**!) ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/203 "2003-02-18T02:11:17Z")
My IT guy said that he will be giving me Admin access to all the PC’s in my department!!! That means 14 P4’s running SETI!!! (Fingers Crossed!!!) ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/204 "2003-02-18T02:31:42Z")
You know, I wanted to set mine up to run as a service but last time I tried to follow the links there to download the appropriate files it didn’t work. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/205 "2003-02-18T15:16:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > \*\*You know, I wanted to set mine up to run as a service but last time I tried to follow the links there to download the appropriate files it didn’t work. ☹ \*\* I took note of the name of the program from the SETI site and then Googled it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/206 "2003-02-18T15:27:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by erislover \* > \*\*You know, I wanted to set mine up to run as a service but last time I tried to follow the links there to download the appropriate files it didn’t work. ☹ \*\* [Here](http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/SETI/SETI_Service.html) is the working link. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/207 "2003-02-23T18:14:55Z")
I’ve been reading through this thread hoping to find a way to cut down on my processing time. I’m at an abysmal 40+ hours per unit. I’ve read a few of you mention a commandline executable. Please pretend that I am 5 years old and have no clue what you’re talking about. How do I bring my unit time down to 3.5 hours like some of you are claiming to have? ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/208 "2003-02-23T18:49:37Z")
Ok, I’ll try. I’ll assume that you use Windows. Step 1. Download the command lin client here: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/setiathome-3.03.i386-winnt-cmdline.exe Step 2. Download SETI Driver here: [http://www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/SETIDriver.zip](http://www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/SETIDriver.zip) Step 3. Follow the instructions here: [http://www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/first\_run\_instructions.htm](http://www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/first_run_instructions.htm) If that’s not enough, please ask again. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/209 "2003-02-23T19:01:17Z")
Fantastic, I will try it out today! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/210 "2003-02-24T15:36:06Z")
**mkl12** , Thanks. It took awhile to get the entire thing set up and running. I think the problem was they weren’t both DLed to the same folder and so they couldn’t communicate with each other. But I’ve solved the problem and it’s up and running now. So I’m running it on the driver and…well, just curious, is this a one time thing I have to run it through there? What about the colors? The squiggly lines? The bar graphs? I want pictures, darnit! ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/211 "2003-02-24T15:50:56Z")
No, it’s not a one time thing. If you want shorter times, you must live without the pictures. They make the screensaver version so slow. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/212 "2003-02-24T22:55:39Z")
I’ve got the driver running right now, great stuff **mkl12** , great stuff indeed. I wonder if it is worth my time to try more than one process at a time… I noticed 4 at high prioroty practically crashed my computer so that’s a no-go 😛 Running one at normal priority so we’ll see how that works out. If it is around three hours I’ll push the bar up a notch and see if that helps anything… probably won’t, but who knows. Also, I’ve signed up for another erislover account, so there’s two of me there now, but one with an account I actually have access to. I was thinkin’ this time and saved the password. 🙂 Go dopers! ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/213 "2003-02-24T23:08:46Z")
If you are running the command line version, I recommend [Seti Spy](http://pages.tca.net/roelof/setispy/), as it monitors your client, and gives a graph of the results, even if it’s not quite as pretty as the screensaver version, but quite nice nonetheless. It gives you all kinds of nifty statistics and even a link to a sky picture of where your current work unit came from, and still goes screamin’ fast. ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/214 "2003-03-10T20:34:18Z")
[And he takes the lead!!!](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_147143.html) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rackman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@rackman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackman)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/215 "2003-03-10T23:05:30Z")
Sorry, I never saw this thread until now. I’ve been looking for a good SETI@home group to join, so I joined. Didn’t mean to displace you **Kwyjibo**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/216 "2003-03-10T23:12:17Z")
Woot! Finally got all my stuff here in San Diego, and even got net access this AM! I’m back! Took me forever to get Seti@home to work with my new ISP, though… hehe… ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/217 "2003-03-10T23:35:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rackman \* > \*\*Sorry, I never saw this thread until now. I’ve been looking for a good SETI@home group to join, so I joined. Didn’t mean to displace you **Kwyjibo**. 😉 \*\* Not a problem. At about 15 units per day, it won’t take me long to catch up. 🙂 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/218 "2003-03-17T12:52:16Z")
A little late, but welcome to the group, **rackman**. (And to the SDMB!) ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/219 "2003-06-11T01:34:44Z")
Just thought I’d jump in and say that [The Straight Dopers](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_147143.html) and creaping closer to the [alt.fan.cecil-adams](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_31937.html)! **TSD** : 50947 units **A.B.C.A** : 63617 units Getting closer!!! ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/220 "2003-06-11T02:06:27Z")
Coming soon, to a spot under the desk, next to my feet: A new 3.0 GHz PC that should be good for whacking out units like mad. Supposedly, there’s a way to make SAH aware of hyperthreading, so the thing can do almost twice as many per day. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035.md?page=12)