Call me stupid, but after I read a book about conspiracy theories, I got paranoid about giving someone access to my computer. I canceled my SETI@home account. I need to pick it back up though, it was the best screensaver I ever had.
I would be interested in a group seti@home too. I have 24/7 internet access through the university, and I don’t usually have my computer turned off, so I can definitely contribute some time and processor power.
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” --Whitman
Well, if we’re gonna brag, (I was wondering if we were, and beginning to lose hope)
Name Triskadecamus
Results received: 72
Total CPU time: 2049 hr 54 min
Average CPU time per work unit: 28 hr 28 min 15.7 sec
Your group info:
You do not currently belong to a group.
You are not currently the founder of any teams.
Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 1701318 total users is: 194249th place.
The total number of users who have this rank: 2066
You have completed more work units than 88.461% of our users.
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Okay, so I go to set my account with SETI back up. I try logging on for the first time, and bam. Nothing. Error -23,687 or some such thing.
I ask around. Turns out our university has blocked the port that we use to access SETI@home. Apparently they are contending that it uses too much of the school bandwidth.
Yeah, you know those two or three minutes every few days is just eating up the power of those T1s!!! I cannot believe this outrage, and I intend to fight it til they either change it or yank my internet priveleges all together.
Doug Arnold (not the sys admins real name, but it will work) is a fucking bastard with a God complex big enough to outdo God’s.
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” --Whitman
Well, now. I’ll never be a player in the “who has the most posts” obsession. However, this may be my only chance to report my SETI statistics to someone who might give a hoot. So…
752 Data Blocks.
12727 hours computer time.
(Stats not totally up to date because the SETI site is unavailable right now–I’m shocked!!)
If anyone would like to recruit me for their team, I’m easily seduced (females only please).
“Did you ever wake up,
Bullfrogs on your–
Bullfrogs on your–
I mean mind?
Did you ever wake up with bullfrogs on your mind?
That’s a sure sign you got bullfrogs on your mind.”
– Wm Harris
I’m trying to do the SETI thing, but I can’t get it to connect. It may be the same problem SINsApple had because I’m at a university as well.
I think it might also matter that SETI@home needs an HTTP protocol and my school uses TCP/IP protocol. Is there any way to get around this?
SETI@Home has serious problems with connections. The server they use is overloaded and plagued with all sorts of problems. You could ask your college’s computer help people about the connection but I doubt that it’s causing a problem. HTTP and TCP/IP are two independent protocols. TCP/IP is the underlaying transfer protocol that everything else runs over.
