dcemu seti@home group

butters · Post by **butters** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:36 pm

I did a quick forums search for a dcemu seti group and, seeing none, made my own. The group is http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stat ... 87675.html

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:44 pm

reasons why seti@home is bad:

1) You put yourself directly at risk of alien memetic attack.
Don't laugh, it might happen.

2) More people use it than that cancer at home thing.
Sheesh, that's your average internet users priority system right there.

3) If there's alien intelligence out there technologically superior to us, they don't want to know about us as a race.
Frankly, I don't blame them.

4) If there's aline intelligence out there technologically inferior to us, I think we all know we're just gonna bomb shit out of them and steal whatever they have to offer in the name of colonisation.

edit: 5) you open up a bunch of ports and cpu processing power to do the governments job for it - woo!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 12:47 pm

When I get Seti i'll join

area · Post by **area** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:10 pm

I think the reason that SETI@home is used more than the Cancer version is simply because that SETI@home has a nicer output of data - at least it did the last time I checked. I currently run nothing along this vein.

butters · Post by **butters** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:15 pm

I would use a cancer thingy if one existed for the operating system I choose to use. I have seti running in the background in Linux with a niceness of 19, meaning anything else that wants to use the processor gets first priority.

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:17 pm

How do I register to join the group?

AmadeusZull · Post by **AmadeusZull** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:20 pm

there is a join button.

butters · Post by **butters** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:22 pm

You just need the email address you signed up with.

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:23 pm

That's the trick though...How the crap do I sign up?

butters · Post by **butters** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:25 pm

The first time you ran the client it asks for some basic info from you and you have an account from that point.

sixteen-bit · Post by **sixteen-bit** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:07 pm

Nyarlathotep wrote:reasons why seti@home is bad:

6) It costs me money. Why use software which causes a 45W AMD to run at full load all day?

7) I've only got 210KJ between charges, I want to make damn sure none goes to waste.

Post by **Quzar** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:05 am

Im quiting my current group to join this one. YAY!

butters · Post by **butters** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:11 am

quzar wrote:Im quiting my current group to join this one. YAY!

You can be in more than one group

Jaded JAaron77 · Post by **Jaded JAaron77** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 1:56 am

I processed an entire SETI@home data block in 10 minutes on my G4 the other day..the next one has taken over 16 hours....

where is this cancer at home thing? I can't find it

another one to look at: protein folding: http://folding.stanford.edu/
(Although I think my computer is too slow for it)

butters · Post by **butters** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 3:25 am

Well, now that quzar has joined, how about some others?

Post by **Quzar** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:09 am

according to the thing, once you join a group it removes you from all other groups.

Post by **Specially Cork** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 9:18 am

I'd join, but I didnt buy my computer to do somebody elses job for them.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:21 pm

You actually work for SquareEnixs advertising department then?

perry · Post by **perry** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 12:32 pm

Nyarlathotep wrote:You actually work for SquareEnixs advertising department then?

LOL.

Post by **|darc|** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:20 pm

perry wrote:
Nyarlathotep wrote:You actually work for SquareEnixs advertising department then?
LOL.

lmfao