SETI

[landdaddy]

Anyone else?

[punpirate]

1. Yup. Same username. n/t

[Obviousman]

2. On my old computer

It doesnt get turned on much anymore

[bpcmxr]

3. Yep! You should join the DU SETI group

here:

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_138630.html

[Briarius]

13. just installed it, but can't join the group

:( Running linux, and it doesn't recognize my email as valid. Do I have to wait till I've finished my first work unit is done?

[Dukkha]

4. when I worked at a Mac store

I had about 22 floor models running SETI simultaneously

[intrepid_wanderer]

5. hee hee

I had the same sort of situation... most of the chemistry computers would idle-over to my SETI account

:bounce: I'm almost to my 4000th work unit :bounce:

that's a lot for me!!

<jjamezz>

[intrepid_wanderer]

6. unfortunately..

the chemistry computers were quickly taken under the evil control of Windoze2000 'architecture.'


BOOOOOOOOO

[Thor_MN]

7. Not to start flames or anything, but who would put macs in a lab?

I suppose that you could do it now that most instruments have their own built-in computer and serial communication is enough for data acquisition. But Macs in a lab are like elevators in an outhouse, they just don't belong.

When I was doing chemistry, (not all that long ago) the most common set-up was an A to D board in the computer reading a voltage signal off the instrument. The only way you do that with a Mac of that era was to have a fanatical Mac person around - Apple didn't want anyone adding anything to their computers. It was virtually impossible to buy what you needed off the shelf, you had to make it.

On the other hand, there were numerous boards and plenty of software to run your instruments on a PC platform. Since much of my early computer work was data collection in a chemistry lab, I considered Macs to be expensive toys for word processing. It doesn't surprize me in the least to see Windows in a lab, but a Mac in a lab is unusual enough to warrant a "WTH??" eyebrow raise, and wondering why someone bothered to interface an orphaned computer to an instrument.

The SETI programs run on Windows platforms as well, so that shouldn't stop you.

[intrepid_wanderer]

8. no no no... silly

They just transitioned from open 'user machines' to 'managed' log-ons w/o any access to install apps.

The benefit was when they finally started using wasted cycles for some 'folding' work.

:bounce:

[qnr]

9. Results Received 5017 n/t

[intrepid_wanderer]

10. What is:

n/t??

I'm new & somewhat dumb in the arena of figuring out acronyms and abbreviations I haven't already been exposed to.

me :bounce:

[qnr]

11. No text. If there is a thread long enough to necessitate a [view all]

it means, "Don't bother clicking on me, because this is all I have to say."

[intrepid_wanderer]

12. excellent... I'll learn n/t