EQInterface Forums - Seti-quest

08-25-2004, 01:00 PM	#31
Crackmaster A Snow Griffin Join Date: May 2003 Server: Tarew Marr Posts: 59	Beautiful pictures, cognitur. I had a site like that a while back, but I lost it after a while. Thanks very much for the link! __________________ Retired 66 High Elf Cleric Tarew Marr

09-02-2004, 12:55 PM	#32
Neori A Snow Cougar Join Date: Jan 2003 Server: Tunare Posts: 47	I just ran into this story on Fark: CNN.com - Space signal studied for alien contact I'm not sure how possible it might be, since it seems a bit early to jump the gun. But it's something to keep an eye on. __________________ Mersia Angelis - 55 mage Neori Willowwhisper - 55 druid Miane Thistlemere - 52 ranger Mandayilie D'Seet - 51 enchanter Kinyrae F`Lorn - 54 necromancer ----------------------------------- [re-retired] ----------------------------------- Former Guildmistress of Angelfire Glory - Tunare server

09-02-2004, 02:00 PM

#33

Crackmaster

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Wow great news article!

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The potentially extraterrestrial signals were picked up through the SETI+home project, which uses programs running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through the huge amount of data picked up by the telescope.

It could've been one of us!

09-02-2004, 04:05 PM

#34

Qinadwen

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From SETI@home website :

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While this makes SHGb02+14a interesting, the chances that it actually represents an intelligent signal from beyond remain extremely slim.

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Furthermore, as we reported in the SETI@home Update of May 17, 2004, the fact that this candidate’s frequency drifts rapidly makes it extremely improbable that it is a transmission from extraterrestrials.

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A signal that drifts so quickly that it can only be heard for seconds at a time at a given frequency can only be detected by blind luck. Needless to say, such a transmission is an unlikely vehicle for message from an advanced civilization.

Of course I will still keep my fingers crossed

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09-02-2004, 06:42 PM	#35
draxshar A Ghoul Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 15	This is the first time I've run into this, but I had to jump in because I think its a worthwhile cause. I have a question for those that have run this before. I was delving into the SETI site and was considering going ahead and downloading the BOINC based version since they will eventually be going to that anyway. My question is, what happens to the data that the old SETI@Home is working on, since its not uploaded until its complete? The only reason I'm asking here is that I couldn't find an answer on SETI's site. __________________ END OF LINE

09-02-2004, 07:31 PM	#36
Taleisin Guest Posts: n/a	not really sure what happens, I just downloaded BOINC to look it over.. I myself can't get it to work, but if anyone is out there who knows, I'd be most interested in finding out as well, if workunits can be transfered to the new seti

09-02-2004, 07:39 PM

#37

Qinadwen

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Originally Posted by draxshar

This is the first time I've run into this, but I had to jump in because I think its a worthwhile cause. I have a question for those that have run this before. I was delving into the SETI site and was considering going ahead and downloading the BOINC based version since they will eventually be going to that anyway. My question is, what happens to the data that the old SETI@Home is working on, since its not uploaded until its complete? The only reason I'm asking here is that I couldn't find an answer on SETI's site.

I believe they (after x time that it hasnt been delivered back) put it back in queue for download and processing.

09-02-2004, 07:53 PM	#38
Novawulf A Glorified Port Mule Join Date: Aug 2002 Server: The Nameless Posts: 34	I've played with the BOINC software and I'm not too impressed with it all that much ... lots of eye candy over the old system and I process it a little slower then the old system but one thing that got me is that I'm on full time DSL connection and its fails to get updates on a regular basis. It times out for a hour before it tries again to get a new chuck of data for me to process... I can be 1/3 done in an hour on my P4 2.8(E) with dual channel 1GB ram .. and to go 4-5 hours with out an update which is what has been happening isn't helping the Seti community. I've tried to force an update to get new data with out any luck so I've un-installed it and went back with the old tried and true setting. BOINC seems to be set up to process other activities like SETI at the same time. I'll look into it again futher once there is more then one product to analyise. __________________

09-02-2004, 11:19 PM	#39
cognitur A Hill Giant Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 34	Boinc I tried BOINC when they first made it available. It would not work reliably so I deleted it and went back to the old version. I don't use seti as a screensaver so the graphics are irrevelant. They will eventually get all the bugs worked out. It is interesting that the frequency of the candidate signal shifts. That could be Frequency Modulation which has real advantages over Amplitude Modulation. Maybe ... More than likely a bad chip in the receiver. I know the record of work units completed survived the change to BOINC and back to the original version because I did just that. A work unit that is not completed for whatever reason is simply re-assigned to another computer after some set time. Actually, all workunits are assigned to more than one computer for quality control. __________________ Cognitur of Cazic-Thule

09-03-2004, 01:25 AM	#40
Inokis Pale Scrawny Guy Join Date: Sep 2003 Server: Bristlebane // Erollisi Marr Posts: 920	Taking into account the span of Time as a whole. Consider that this probably is just one phase of the universe creating and destroying itself. We could exist in the first cycle or we could be on the 1millionth cycle. What are the chances that another life form could exist at the same point in time as ours? Given the span of time, reasoning and probability, I'd bet that two civilizations won't probably co exist. One will die out before the other is at a point where they could communicate. If they did manage to co exist, the chance of them being in a relatively close proximity for either of their technologies to provide a means of communicating is even more remote than the possibility of them existing at the same time. __________________

09-03-2004, 01:26 AM	#41
Taleisin Guest Posts: n/a	ohh hush Doctor Who

09-03-2004, 03:29 PM	#42
mortis42 eqmods.mortis42.net Join Date: Aug 2002 Server: Rodcet Nife Posts: 552	I tried BOINC when they first announced it and could never get it working properly. There was some kind of DNS problem and BOINC ws trying to send the workunits to the wrong server. I have no problems with the old version, and if they discontinue it, I would be more likely to move to a command-line version than use BOINC. __________________ My EQUI Blog Grazzt Takish`Hiz - Human Monk ~ Tzion - Dark Elf Cleric ~ Kitashi - Vah Shir Rogue ~ Cabre - Iksar Beastlord ~ Frazzt - Froglok Wizard

09-06-2004, 12:40 PM	#43
stoneaxe A Fire Beetle Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 3	Ill join your group.

09-12-2004, 05:26 PM	#44
Taleisin Guest Posts: n/a	welcome Stoneaxe

09-13-2004, 06:56 AM	#45
Hcetrepus A Ghoul Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 12	Jeesh it has been a while since I did any of these. My old stats are still there though. I guess I should try and run some WUs on this machine to see how fast they can crank out now.