# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/221 "2003-06-11T05:01:52Z")
Cool…I never saw this thread before. I just joined the group (as jools\_78, since that’s the name SETI@home has for me) and brought in my 187 units. It’s not much compared to a lot of you guys, but every bit helps right? 🙂 ---
**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:** [June 11, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/222 "2003-06-11T05:16:11Z")
Absolutely! Welcome to the group, **JulKatBo/jools\_78**! And looking forward to seeing what your new computer can do, **gotpasswords**. We’re within 80% of the enemy…uh, of our good friends and fellow ignorance fighters in the alt.fan.cecil-adams group. ---
**Author:** ![a\_bird\_on\_the\_wire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@a\_bird\_on\_the\_wire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_bird_on_the_wire)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/223 "2003-06-11T07:21:48Z")
Yeah, count me in…just 289 units but hey, I been sick. How sick? Well it took 7318 hr. 49 min and 1.04 sec to get that far. ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/224 "2004-03-27T22:44:46Z")
Yeehaaaa… The wife’s new laptop is knocking them over at just under three hours with the screen saver version. P4 3.2G Toshiba Satelite with 1G Ram, well with that and my four older machines together should get them done a little quicker so I’ll jump in as well. But I really gotta ask why have we only got 85 members in on this thing, we should be looking for first place overall. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/225 "2004-03-27T23:05:32Z")
I’m currently in the [alt.fan.cecil-adams](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_31937.html) group. Soon the [BOINC SETI incarnation will be out](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/setifuture.html), which will effecitvely clear work units. I think we should all band together when that time arrives. Can’t we all be friends? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/226 "2004-03-28T00:14:05Z")
I had it on another computer, but my old man changes computers so often (he’s a gamer). I’ll sign up here and download it again. I’m in. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![leenmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@leenmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leenmi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/227 "2004-03-28T00:16:06Z")
This is a slight hijack, but last year I was doing an install at a customer site. Two Sun Fire 15000 platforms fully loaded with about a month between installation and go-live. The local administrator was going to burn them in by running SETI packets. Two servers with 72 900MHz UltraSparc III processors and 144GB Memory running packets for a month. Unfortunately, I moved on to the next project before I could see any results. I’m sure they were spectacular, though. sigh. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/228 "2004-03-28T05:49:24Z")
Well, I’ll be with \*\*Demo \*\* and join a Doper BOINC group at the change-over. I haven’t followed the afca much since Rutgers gave up on the news server. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/229 "2004-03-28T19:18:53Z")
OK, I just joined with my 290 units, even though the team page doesn’t admit it yet 😉 I don’t run it all the time, so it takes a while for me to get through a unit, but it also doesn’t sit idle for too long either. And away we go… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/230 "2004-03-28T23:40:04Z")
> [@brachyrhynchos](#): > > Well, I’ll be with \*\*Demo \*\* and join a Doper BOINC group at the change-over. I haven’t followed the afca much since Rutgers gave up on the news server. I’m comin’ to get you, **Brachy**! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/231 "2004-03-29T00:06:03Z")
sorry, i’m not as computer literate as some of you but here goes: if i have two other computers in the house, other than this one, can i set those up under my same account? and will it read different sections of data and add it all to my account? i hope that made sense. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/232 "2004-03-29T00:29:40Z")
> [@LolaBaby](#): > > sorry, i’m not as computer literate as some of you but here goes: > > if i have two other computers in the house, other than this one, can i set those up under my same account? and will it read different sections of data and add it all to my account? > > i hope that made sense. 😃 Basically yes, the first time you run the program after installation it will ask you if you are a new user or returning user. Select returning user type in the email address and start adding up the work units. Of course each computer will have to have access to the internet to get new work units but it will all count towards the one total. On top of that if you join the group as well then you’ll be helping out with the [total here also](http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_147143.html). ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/233 "2004-03-29T00:42:56Z")
Thank you! I’ve already joined. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fluffball86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@fluffball86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluffball86)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/234 "2004-03-29T03:08:51Z")
I get a 500 internal server error, should I try again later, or what can i do to get around this? ---
**Author:** ![fluffball86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@fluffball86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluffball86)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/235 "2004-03-29T03:34:24Z")
> [@fluffball86](#): > > I get a 500 internal server error, should I try again later, or what can i do to get around this? Never mind, it let me join, I’m now number 76 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/236 "2004-03-29T04:20:50Z")
I and my 2650 completed workunits have just slotted in at #9, between **Geobabe** and **GawnFishin**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/237 "2004-03-29T21:07:32Z")
Thanks for the help, **12parsecs from home**. Got the other computers running with them. I just wish it was faster. One of them seems to be much much faster than the others. I saw the links to make them faster but I like the pretty colors. 😃 Besides, it’s not like I could be in contention for anywhere in the top 80. 😛 cheers ---
**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 29, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/238 "2004-03-29T22:06:04Z")
Well, I see we’ve crashed on past the century mark for total CPU time. And are closing on 90,000 total units processed. In the interests of post-BOINC togetherness I will refrain from whipping everybody up into a competitive frenzy over the fact that we’ve closed to within less than 2,500 units from our fraternal AFCA comrades (and are now at over 97% of their total). Although they started it. ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/239 "2004-03-30T00:05:25Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > In the interests of post-BOINC togetherness I will refrain from whipping everybody up into a competitive frenzy over the fact that we’ve closed to within less than 2,500 units from our fraternal AFCA comrades (and are now at over 97% of their total). I’d say seeing how far we’ve managed in the last few days, we should stir the beehive and see how well we can do on the overall lists. There are supposedly around 7000 of us Dopers and less than 100 running Seti@home…?? Besides that and we’d really beat the sh!t out of the UselessNet guys and girls… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035/240 "2004-03-30T00:33:32Z")
I’ve just added my 130 units. I’m no. 64 with the name Tony. I just changed my Seti profile name to Legion, but don’t know when that will be reflected on our group stats page. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-seti-home-straight-dopers/133035.md?page=13)