CTP2 and SETI Client

[Dale]

Actually, it's lucky I got an email sent from SETI with the password. It pointed out that we had an email fault on the exchange server. Lucky me eh? Now I look like a hero to the email admin.

Anyways, I've joined now.

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Author of Diplomod. The mod to fix diplomacy.

Rommell to a sub-commander outside Tobruk: "Those Australians are in there somewhere. But where? Let's advance and wait till they shoot, then shoot back."

[The Viceroy]

Reg entries for SETI Service ..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/RUNSERVICES

in there, add your SETI.EXE path ...

If you have it running on logon (not by screen saver) .. you should see it sitting in /CURRENTVERSION/RUN

you should remove it from there, and add it into RunServices

The only odd behaviour ive seen is if you logoff and logon again .. it sometimes stops .. but the idea of this is to run before you've logged on at all .. I just started it up from the menu, and no problems..

Golden rule with registry .. if your not sure, back it up before you change it !!!!!!!!
[This message has been edited by The Viceroy (edited February 07, 2001).]

[skorpion59]

Thanks Viceroy.
I did that a while back but stopped after a HD reformat.

On another side note, anybody see JAG last night? I was flipping through the channels and saw a Seti screen on JAG. As it turned out, the JAG office people (?, sorry but I don't watch JAG) were talking about and running Seti@Home on their computers. The interesting part was finally getting to see what was supposed to happen when you find something. I had never seen that before.

[The Viceroy]

Sorry, don't know what JAG is ?? anyhow, do tell, what happens when you find something ???



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"Wherever wood floats, you will find the British" . Napoleon

[skorpion59]

JAG is an American TV show which I flip to sometimes to view Miss Catherine Bell.

As for Seti, it plays musical spikes. They shoot up out of the graph all over and very fast. Of course, this was data made for a TV show show so it might not be like the real thing at all.

[Pyaray]

As I understand it, they don't tell you anything when your computer finds something. It gets reported back to the central system, and then they confirm it. If they actually do find something interesting, they e-mail you after the fact. As far as I know, the SETI@Home program doesn't notify you of anything.

Of course for TV they had to make it interesting. There are so many shows / movies I just can't bring myself to watch because of how badly they abuse reality.

Pyaray

[Dale]

You mean like "The Net" with Sandra Bullock? That was the biggest joke I've ever seen. I can't believe some of my mates believed it.

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Author of Diplomod. The mod to fix diplomacy.

Rommell to a sub-commander outside Tobruk: "Those Australians are in there somewhere. But where? Let's advance and wait till they shoot, then shoot back."

[Pyaray]

quote: Originally posted by Dale on 02-08-2001 06:28 PM You mean like "The Net" with Sandra Bullock?

Yeah, like that.

quote: I can't believe some of my mates believed it.

"Believed it"? ACK!!!!! They actually believed that you could crash a plane through the internet? That was like the first scene, and I couldn't even get my suspension of disbelief going that far.

Pyaray

[The Viceroy]

For me, Independance day took the buscuit ..

Here we have an alien computer system .. of which we understood absolutly nothing about, yet .. they worked out all the instruction sets on the alien CPU's (whatever they were made from), managed to program a virus which understands the entire system to the point of being able to interupt all vital systems ... and not just that, they managed to find a com port with which to download it, using the very same protocol as the aliens do with which to download it ... and still had time to write a nice little GUI with which to display download % complete

Good job Activision weren't involved ... the GUI would have been excellent .. but the virus would have been full of bugs ... mind you saying that .. at least the Aliens would have just massed there forces and never attacked in any challenging manor

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"Wherever wood floats, you will find the British" . Napoleon

[OmniGod]

Okay here's a challenge to all the guys at the bottom. Not sure what the prize would be, maybe just congrats is enough or a little pat on the back. The challenge is for all the people below me ranked greater than 40 to play a game of cat and mouse. I'll be the mouse you be the cat. Come on can you catch me (pass me in rank)? Not much else is happening on the board so why not something a little different Any takers? Darknight? Heck I'm going to take down DanQ Just a little competitive, I think
[This message has been edited by OmniGod (edited February 14, 2001).]

[Falconeer]

Funny you should say that, I'd already set my sights on you as the next person to 'shoot for'. Now I guess I'll just have to stay off my computer so I can do it. Can do a unit in 12 hours if I'm using the computer, can do a unit in 8.5 if I don't... Better watch out

[OmniGod]

Gunning for me eh? We both know it will happen question is when do I pass you again

[skorpion59]

The interesting race is Sten Sture, MarkG and don Don. They keep one upping each other. Every day when I run SetiTeam, they have traded places. Carlos113 and Murgatroyd is fixing to get interesting also.

[skorpion59]

If any of you are looking for a less strenuous version of a client processor, try Entropia 2000, available at http://www.entropia.com . It does AIDs research from Aids@Home. The interface is very nice and it doesn't appear to be nearly as compute intensive as Seti@Home. Personally, I am running the DOS Seti@Home and the windows screen-saver Entropia versions at the same time for testing. Talk about watching the CPU go to 100%. Another option is the Pioneer client from Parabon, http://www.parabon.com . It does cancer research which is what I am shooting for but alas the Pioneer client sucks big time.

[Falconeer]

Thanks Skorpion for those other suggestions. Though I like the idea of 'discovering' new life, I think it may be more important for the AIDs or Cancer ones. I didn't know there were similar programs for them. I'll have to check them out. Thanks!