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Seti@Home Bandwidth Problems
reflexreaction writes: "With so many of the /. users actively using and supporting Seti@home, many of you have realized that in the last couple of weeks that Seti has had some serious problems receiving completed data and getting new data to process from its 3 million members because of network bandwidth problems. All the gritty details are here. The article details some things that users can do to alleviate some of the problems including connecting during off hours and downloading more than unit than once using programs like SetiQueue for PC and Seti Unit Manager for Mac. Donations are also accepted. There is also a plea for bandwidth donations. It will be truly unfortunate if this page becomes /.ted without benefit from /. users."
Ziggy posted first
Trolling good with spork and fucky
Like some kid with a script
He posted left hand
But he posted to fast
Twenty seconds man
Well-hung with an IP ban
Ziggy really trolled
Goatse links and screwed up spelling
He was the man
He could troll them by smiling
He could leave them to hang
He posted Taco-snot
But boy could he troll slashdot
Making karma no higher
Ziggy posted at minus one
Like a goatsex messiah
When they IP banned the man how could they crush his mouse hand
Fuck me - Wierd Al gets paid for doing this shit.
"Under the iron bridge, we fist" - The Smiths, Still Ill
Too slow.
It takes time to type all that crap.
It will be truly unfortunate if this page becomes /.ted without benefit from /. users
Is this some sort of sick joke?
The seti@home is already well saturated with users. Try something much more scalable than that -- distributed.net. You'll not get hardcore duplicate work unit and trivial work problems...besides, the reward is a hell of a lot better than with seti.
Think about it. IF there are aliens who fly around the universe with SUPERIOR technology - they'd have the means to contact us.... and when they DO - we'll know it.
I'm not trying to troll or bait a flame war - I'm just questioning the feasibility and practicality of SETI@home.
There must be OTHER projects to lend CPU cycles to. I know that Distributed.net has projects that are looking to create stronger encryption. And at my last job, a co-worker had a screen saver program that used his spare cpu cycles to work on cancer research.
SURE - it'd be cool to have the PC that decoded the first real ET message - but what are the chances of doing so?
Would it be more practical/feasible to donate those spare cpu cycles elsewhere???
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The rhythm is gonna get you...make your time! Propz.
And now: Timmah still can't post stories properly. Check the source in his Mozilla story from yesterday, that makes it twice now that he's screwed up an HREF. Internet Explorer is really keen, isn't it, Timmah?
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Donate your time to the folding@home project out of stanford instead. Are we really going to find ET by searching through some space noise? No. Donate your CPU cycles to a real cause. Visit folding.stanford.edu to help cure diseases and help mankind.
No shit, read the subject line. Save them some more BW
Do you honestly think the /. effect on a 5KB page of text is significant, in comparison to the millions of people who are periodically downloading large chunks of uncompressible data from their servers? Do you realize that most slashdot vistors aren't interested in the dicussion? They only read the front page and click the links. Filling up the comments page with that crap is just irritating, unless the site is down.
I read the subject line. As another poster put it, it's "whoretastic!".
I think you went to the same school-of-namechoosing as the person who posted the message below this one :-)
boB just sounds funny
And how do you think all the Bob's feel? Unless, of course, you were talking about Microsoft Bob, which look sfunny too!
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What is up with the aliens anyway? Why don't they respond? Don't they we have limited bandwidth down here which could have been better allotted to pr0n?
Reminds me of those mailers I get in the mail.
"Here, we've sent you a bunch of preprinted address labels with your name and address on them which you never asked for and can use while sending out snail mail. We ask that you donate $10 for some poor kids because we need to make up for the costs of sending out these mailers."
No, I'm not making this up!
Mmmm.. Donuts
You shouldn't have done that.
Anything anti-seti is an offtopic troll
muhaha
It's == It Is
Its == possessive version of 'it'
The rules of the apostrophe for it/its/it's are a special case and do not follow "Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots."
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Ok, so when I get Quake III Arena for Linux, it'll run on your 68K Mac? Oh, what's that? Software targets specific hardware too, and it isn't enough to identify software's target by its intended operating system?
I think what you really meant to say in your rant, is that software targets a platform, and a platform consists not only of the hardware (Gateway G6-300 PC, Apple G4 PowerMac, SunBlade 1000, SunBeam Toaster), but also the OS running on it (Windows / Linux, Mac OS / Linux, Solaris / Linux, George's Custom 30-word RTOS).
You're dealing with slang here. When people say PC without any further qualifiers, they mean "the typical realization of the PC hardware platform running the current mainstream operating system for that hardware." (Which, right now, typically translates to a Wintel box.) We all use shorthand for common phrases. Get over it. At least we're not asking "Does this computer have the Internet on it?"
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