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SETI@home
Topic Started: Nov 1 2009, 06:24 PM (402 Views)
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Does anyone else use the BOINC software and participate in the SETI@home project? If not, you should try it. Basically what it does is disperses work from the severely underfunded SETI project amongst the computers of normal people like you and me. It downloads tasks for your computer to complete and then it uses your spare RAM and CPU power that you aren't utilizing at the moment to complete those tasks. And SETI isn't the only project that the BOINC software lets you particpate in, I'm also doing Cosmology@Home (I'm not sure what exactly it is) and Rosetta@Home (decodes genetic sequences of diseases in order to help us understand and develop treatments and cures for them). Here's some information if you want to help out:

SETI@Home: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
BOINC: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
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"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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I remember years ago looking at the site after watching Space with Sam Neil. But I could not make heads or tails of it. Perhaps I'll try again tomorrow.
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How much memory does SETI@home use?
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You can adjust how much it uses, but at default it will use up to 50% of your system resources while you are using the computer, but it gives everything else priority over itself, so it just uses whatever you're not using at the time. Though when your computer is idle it will use up to 90% of your system resources (since you aren't using them anyways).
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Alright then.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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