Yeah, I did set the screensaver to blank. Maybe we’re just on the 'puter too much.
A couple questions:
Do they make a Linux client? The Linux side of this box seems to run everything faster.
Also, can you run the clients on multiple machines with one account? I just may decide to install it on a bunch of machines at work and let it run all night while no one’s there.
Linux will definitely require a text only client.
As for your second question, you can run as many machines as you want on the same account. Just plug your email address into each machine and you’re all set. There are ways to hide the client so that it’s virtually impossible to tell that it’s there, but I would recommend getting permission before installing it on your company’s machines.
Running SETI@Home on unauthorized machines is a gasp violation of the license agreement, but more importantly I’ve heard of a few people actually getting fired over this.
53 units 2626 hours
and i still haven’t found anything
i’m ready to call SETI and apologize for wasting their time
i must really suck at this
820 units, 13560h 7+m. V2.o4 of the screensaver on 2 Win98 machines, one at work, and one at home.
I started in June of '99, when SETI@home came out of beta, and have upgraded the machines several times. Processing times improved from ~60h to ~10 now, with faster boxes, and the blanking trick. And there was a month off while I was on holidays… sadly, my resources are committed to the Sluggy Freelance team.
What to do if your machine finds something? Don’t Panic, of course! 
But is it a waste of effort? It is argued that radio is less likely than searching for a light signal…
Hey, it gives our computers something to do to keep them out of trouble.
As if they needed that geobabe! Mine’s busy browsing straightdope message boards - there’s only so much ignorance you can fight! (&I’m now at 52 units & 654 hours CPU time)
Given the resources at hand, it is an excellent use of wasted power and resources.
Well, you tell me when anyone with such an argument begins collecting mass amounts of data to process, and establishes a distributed computing platform for it, and I’ll run their program.
In the mean time, my computer runs 24/7 anyway, so I figure I may as well let the SETI group use my otherwise wasted CPU cycles.
This is not intended to sound bitchy. My only point is that this is the program that SETI is running. I don’t know of any other scientific group that is actively searching the universe for intelligent life. If there were a better search method that were feasible for them to implement, they would be doing so.
The question is why not run SETI@Home? Unless you are into a different distributed computing project, I can’t think of a single reason. The program uses only idle CPU time. Donate you wasted CPU cycles today!
Exactly what I wanted to say … but felt less verbose!
So … yah!
Hey, sometimes as captain of the Straight Dopers I must lay the smack down! 
Verbosity is merely a side effect.
Keep on crunching!
Hey Gatsby, I think I might start cyber-stalking you. Just thought you’d like to know.
Um, Ok Geobabe, if that’s what you want to do. However, I should point out that willing prey needn’t be stalked. 
Well, alrighty then!
hey, is this turning into the geek flirting thread?
Sure, why not? Feel free to join in if you’d like. Paws off Gatsby, though–he’s mine 
Sorry, DeathLlama, I couldn’t resist someone actually flirting with me on the board. Rest assured, it has been taken offline and this thread may now resume it’s original geeky intent.
[sub]Geobabe: YGM[/sub]
You tha man! … you be all slapping down that verbosity! dem wakkk beatches be all bassing when dey be all slapping around at you.
Yah baby! , got another machine running today in a more permanent capacity. If I can get that freaking PS/2 running NT 4 WKS this afternoon, then I will have three machines pumping out the clock cycles in the search for life beyond!!!
Are they going to have a version for Windows 2000?