Office/Bedroom sound has been unpacked and reassembled. I am very pleased with the longevity of my Altec Lansing satellite speakers and subwoofer. *knocks on particle board*
Signal glut.
I was just saying, last night, that I could use some more signal.
SETI@Home is beginning to suffer from an infoglut. The telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico was just upgraded. And from the sounds of this article, it was UPGRADED. To follow suit, so has the SETI@home program.
I’ve been an enthusiast for a while, and this is more reason than ever to get off my butt and get my old computers (soon of the SETI@Home Graveyard) out of storage.
They need more people. More computers. More processing power. It doesn’t matter how old your computer is. If you’ve done this before, you know how simple it is – just a screen saver running when you’re not at your computer for Windows and MacOS users. If you own ancient hardware that’s collecting dust, a net install of Debian, with a quick install of SSH (for remote access) and the SETI program, and your old computer is actually doing something worthwhile.
A Pentium 1 system, 233 mhz with 192 megs of RAM can crunch a SETI packet in an average of just under 4 days. The system’s deadline to crunch a packet? 30 days.
Worth it, in my opinion. If you have old machines lying around, and you want to get a SETI Graveyard of your own going, just let me know. I’m happy to help out.
Weekly Word Count
Holy cats, writerly update, but no new word count. That will have to come later.
– I’m going to ConVocation this weekend. It’s very, very likely that the last of the Squirrel King badge ribbons will be given out. Get one while you can! :)
– The first issue – two chapters – of the fiction behind the Steven comic have been posted on the Short Fiction page. Yes, the comic book project is still going on. If I have to draw it in stick figures when I’m 60 years old, it’ll happen. :)
– High Voltage ConFusion pics have been posted on my Picasa page. I really need to turn off the automatic light correction on my phone’s camera, as it tends to give a yellow tinge inside of hotel rooms.
– I will be bringing some bookmarks for
– I think I’ve corrected all of the errors on my writery web page. Of course, this means that someone will find something I missed. If you do, please point it out. :)
How does he make it look so -professional-?
My brother,
Cute Couple
After dropping Wren off in St. Louis, I snuck a pic of her and Geoff. He looks none too pleased. Hee!
Oh. Carry on.
I’m ssh’ed into a racked server, and I’ve got one here on the table.
Both are Gentoo installs, and they’re compiling.
Sleepy Nikki
Be overwhelmed by the cute! Old Town Diner played host to a sleepy Nikki and a sleepy Skippy on Sunday morning. Not to mention burgeoning plague. Food and cofee/pop helped us a bit, company a bit more. I think chicken soup is needed for all.
Wouldn’t this make more sense?
Why do we have a Black History Month instead of integrating the African-American perspective into the year-long study of history?