I was just saying, last night, that I could use some more signal.<\/p>\n
SETI@Home<\/a> is beginning to suffer from an infoglut. The telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico was just upgraded. And from the sounds of this article<\/a>, it was UPGRADED. To follow suit, so has the SETI@home program.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>, with a quick install of SSH (for remote access) and the SETI program<\/a>, and your old computer is actually doing something worthwhile.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. … Continue reading