Seti@home & murc, part 7

[Hecubus]

Methinks FurSETI will be eating our dust very soon...

[paulcs]

There's no way our European teammates would know this. I believe The Register was quoting the Weekly World News, arguably the US's most notorious "supermarket tabloid." The Weekly World News engages almost entirely in shamelessly fabricated stories about alien abductions, Elvis Presley and Hitler clones, half-human/half-alien babies, half-human/half-shellfish babies, Jesus visitations, Elvis's ghost visitations, Hitler's ghost visitations, Satan visitations, Satanic cults led by rogue nuns, miracle cures, etc.

There's some celebrity gossip thrown in. TV talk show hosts appear to be a particularly hot topic.

The report was submitted by The Register's Washington correspondent, so I'm pretty sure we're talking about the same publication.

I am not exagerating about the editorial content of this publication.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

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[Rick]

Using the winnt-cmd line version do you have to press anything before you close down thw window? Or does it save itself when you close it down?

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[CHHAS]

If you press Ctrl + c you'll terminate the program, and then you can close your dos-box.

This being said, I haven't had any problems with just closing the windows, without terminating the program.

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[breezer]

35 * p3-350 = 100 units per day.
There are another 160 pcs & macs in the building with internet access, now how many units would they crunch. if only I had time to set them up at the end of each working day...

No worries about No.1 ess, they'll all be off on wednesay when everyone is back at work.

Happy unit or easter egg crunching
breezer

[jeepman]

Guru,

I think it would be as simple as getting an E-mail account from like Hotmail and having all interested login with the Seti account associated with that address. This way multiple people will work on WU's but only "one" account receives credit.

I just don't know if anyone could carry their current units forward to the new name. For example, would my 1636 WU's carry over, or would they just sit there?

[Guru]

Is it possible to creata a seti group inside another group?

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[Mark F]

'I'm a lumberjack, amd I'm OK...'

Geeh, did the KWSN go away, and without a shrubbery.

Mark F.

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[DentyCracker]

Hi Jorden, just waving as I pass

[Ees]

Jorden requested an updated "top 20 fastest" SETI@Murcers list, so here goes:

<pre>+----------------+------+--------+---------+
| name | rank | tot_wu | ave_cpu |
+----------------+------+--------+---------+
| Manex | 26 | 832 | 3.83 |
| Rags | 22 | 965 | 4.97 |
| KvHagedorn | 24 | 886 | 6.33 |
| Ace | 106 | 201 | 6.74 |
| Eye MD | 157 | 110 | 6.85 |
| T_Burgler | 148 | 123 | 7.12 |
| Guru | 38 | 725 | 7.50 |
| Martin | 123 | 164 | 7.53 |
| Rakido | 74 | 320 | 7.94 |
| Daniel Ackerot | 173 | 91 | 8.01 |
| hominid skull | 110 | 197 | 8.02 |
| Jakob Kruse | 29 | 799 | 8.07 |
| Batknight2 | 99 | 225 | 8.24 |
| Qualar | 187 | 74 | 8.36 |
| Punko | 200 | 59 | 8.48 |
| Mark F. | 13 | 1510 | 8.57 |
| Greebe | 11 | 1647 | 8.78 |
| Jorden | 89 | 252 | 8.87 |
| paulcs | 14 | 1492 | 8.90 |
| Dyre | 50 | 547 | 8.92 |
+----------------+------+--------+---------+
</pre>

Sorry Jord, some newbies got in, so you're still at 18 . I've sort of fallen out of the top 20, if it weren't for the fact that I'm still in there as Martin; phew

Like last time, the top 20 is taken from the top 200 SETI@Murc members, and the average cpu time is in fractional hours.

(In related news: I'm now in the top 99.9 percent of all individuals. Yes!)

Martin

[jeepman]

The race for 11th place heats ups! Just two away as of 16:30 GMT(UTC)+2.

Yeeeeee Haaaawwwwwwww!

[Ees]

And just for the heck of it: the same for the 20 "slowest" contributors ("slow" as in "high average time"; these folks are making a substantial contribution):

<pre>+------------------+------+--------+---------+
| name | wus | hours | average |
+------------------+------+--------+---------+
| Dracular | 5 | 304.27 | 60.8540 |
| falkyre | 4 | 175.32 | 43.8301 |
| Alastair | 1 | 38.13 | 38.1300 |
| MikeGibbs | 5 | 176.49 | 35.2980 |
| EliSoft | 2 | 68.27 | 34.1350 |
| xgates | 18 | 613.62 | 34.0900 |
| Stealth9 | 13 | 403.32 | 31.0246 |
| rookie35 | 1 | 26.90 | 26.9000 |
| Cabo_Wabo | 7 | 184.05 | 26.2929 |
| Electric Amish | 7 | 175.77 | 25.1100 |
| Gary Walker | 4 | 98.44 | 24.6100 |
| Absalom | 1 | 24.60 | 24.6000 |
| Ken Russell | 6 | 130.13 | 21.6883 |
| Kevin & Michelle | 33 | 701.28 | 21.2509 |
| Agent31 | 12 | 251.03 | 20.9192 |
| Blesk | 1 | 20.81 | 20.8099 |
| AMC | 8 | 162.44 | 20.3050 |
| Helevitia | 7 | 138.55 | 19.7928 |
| Modsim | 8 | 153.62 | 19.2025 |
| totall | 1 | 19.09 | 19.0898 |
+------------------+------+--------+---------+
</pre>

Dracular: what *are* you running that on? Two P90's?

Martin

[AMC]

Hi,
I'm AMC (one of the slowest ...)
But in my favor I'm the one who tipped Ant about TheRegister.com contest , so not everything is bad
I'd like to ask for ideas why my machine crnch faster while I'm using it ? During my woking hours a WU takse 11-12 h but on weekends and at night it can take up to 24-26 h. Any ideas why ?

(I'm running a 2.04 client on NT 4.0 and a PII at 350 with 128 Mb )

[Ees]

A new and improved top 20 fastest murcers; this one only looks at WUs submitted in the last week, so any units submitted long ago with inferior machines don't bring down your average... For people using multiple machines: it's still an average over those, I can't do anything about that.

<pre>+---------------+------+--------+---------+
| name | wus | hours | average |
+---------------+------+--------+---------+
| Rags | 47 | 87.57 | 1.8632 |
| Manex | 121 | 347.42 | 2.8712 |
| Mark F. | 55 | 262.98 | 4.7814 |
| Greebe | 61 | 350.64 | 5.7482 |
| Eye MD | 6 | 35.46 | 5.9100 |
| paulcs | 84 | 525.96 | 6.2614 |
| Jorden | 11 | 69.22 | 6.2927 |
| Guyver | 41 | 262.98 | 6.4142 |
| KvHagedorn | 62 | 417.06 | 6.7268 |
| Atelier Media | 65 | 438.30 | 6.7431 |
| Jakob Kruse | 42 | 285.65 | 6.8012 |
| VSA | 63 | 438.30 | 6.9571 |
| Guru | 44 | 309.73 | 7.0393 |
| minsoo | 23 | 167.00 | 7.2609 |
| Kruzin | 8 | 58.20 | 7.2750 |
| Rik Flor | 93 | 701.28 | 7.5406 |
| Android | 16 | 120.96 | 7.5600 |
| John Collins | 22 | 172.02 | 7.8191 |
| Jtwolf | 40 | 313.70 | 7.8425 |
| Batknight2 | 21 | 164.72 | 7.8438 |
+---------------+------+--------+---------+
</pre>

As usual, "average" is in digital hours.

Now how the fsck does Rags get an average of 1.86 hours (1 hr 52 min)?

Martin

[MegaManX4]

*sniff*
It seems that we are at place 6 long enough now, in Maggis opinion :-).
So, do waht you must maggi, at least it is all for the team.
Are that the Sparcs Maggi?

Mega