from the seti FAQ
http://setifaq.org/faq.txt
2.4 I heard I was getting the same work unit as everyone else. Is the
program wasting my time?
Nope, because the only time you're giving it is time your
computer would have wasted anyway. Yes, early in the program
there were times when the same work units went out over and over,
due to overloading of the SETI@home servers that were supposed to
be making new ones to send out. (They didn't expect half a
million people to sign up, and they don't have enough staff or
computing power to keep up with it.)
And since then, the same work units are still sent out to several
people, for various reasons (for instance, more than half the
people who signed up have never returned their work units, and
probably dropped out) But new work units are being sent out too,
so just leave your SETI@home program working and it'll take care
of the details.
Note:
If workunits are sent out multiple times, they can be
doublechecked by SETI@home.
As I understand it, for each unitl they send a number of redundant units out and then compare the evetual results taking the most popular result to be the correct result for that unit.
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yeah we even had that one in the UK at the time.
god, H.U.R.G. and the "jet set willy construction kit" sucked up so much of my time as a kid.
Josh Whedon wrote Alien Resurrection, so that could be the reason behind the similarity ; )
from the seti FAQ http://setifaq.org/faq.txt 2.4 I heard I was getting the same work unit as everyone else. Is the program wasting my time? Nope, because the only time you're giving it is time your computer would have wasted anyway. Yes, early in the program there were times when the same work units went out over and over, due to overloading of the SETI@home servers that were supposed to be making new ones to send out. (They didn't expect half a million people to sign up, and they don't have enough staff or computing power to keep up with it.) And since then, the same work units are still sent out to several people, for various reasons (for instance, more than half the people who signed up have never returned their work units, and probably dropped out) But new work units are being sent out too, so just leave your SETI@home program working and it'll take care of the details. Note: If workunits are sent out multiple times, they can be doublechecked by SETI@home.
Seti does check,
As I understand it, for each unitl they send a number of redundant units out and then compare the evetual results taking the most popular result to be the correct result for that unit.
doesn't the US have some form of "data protection act" like Europe to stop this sort of thing?
I could get a first post!
I thought that only the newer (win2k and XP) versions of ntfs were jornalled ?
chkdsk seems to be much faster under win2k than NT4, at least on my hardware anyhow, ymmy.
you can't really get a better filesystem for nt based machine tho.