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Sunday, April 28 Well, I just got back from fun fun Shropshire - where some of our friends live (they used to be our neighbours when myself and my parents lived in Altrincham, in the Manchester suburbs, back in the 80s - I was about 5 though so don't ask me what it looks like. ;) Anyhoo, I was well chuffed to find my computer still running perfectly on its new installation of Windows 2000. Damn I love Windows 2000. I'd also left SETIStash going - it downloads 10 lots of SETI@Home packets in one go then processes them one after the other and only dials up to send the results when it's finished all 10. Excellent idea for people still stuck on modems - just like me. It also uses the DOS SET@Home client, which runs a lot faster than the Windows screensaver client - the Windows screensaver client uses 60% of your CPU time to just dislay the graphics. ST0000pid, especially if you wanna use all your available CPU time for crunching data, not looking at pictures. Anyway, here's some nice linkies. The SETI@Home processing utility I use the most is SETIStash, //www.hereintown.net/~wink/setistash.html. It's the SETI@Home Helper programme I love the most - it processes up to 10 units at once without having to dial up for each one by downloading up to 10 units at once then processing them one by one. It's also a good excuse to whack a second processor in your rig - it can process two packets at once if you have 2 CPUs in your system. Yay :D SETIDriver - another cool programme - it has its own information panel for showing various bits and pieces of info. Using this (or any of the mentioned programmes in this blog) I can process units in a third of the time it used to take me to process them beforehand when I used to use the Windows screensaver client. (Mine take 10 hours now instead of 30 - yay!) To go to the SETIDriver site click here... //www.wakeassoc.com/setidriver/Download_and_Installation.htm SETISpy shows you a crapload of extra information - you can even see a Star Map of where your packet has come from, extensive stats on how fast your puter's processing the data, and a helluva lot of other info. It's as fast as SETIDriver too, because they both use the DOS command-line-interface (or CLI) SETI@Home programme instead of the Windows client. YOu can download that from the SETI@Home site or you can find links on all of the sites which I've mentioned here.To go to the SETISpy site click here... //pages.tca.net/roelof/setispy/ Oh, and please don't use patches for the SETI@Home client - they may speed up your processing time but they compromise the integrity of the scientific project and some can corrupt the data, giving back false readings. That's just lame. Ah crap, it just started to rain again. And now the phone's ringing, so I can't go online. Bugger. Right then. Off to polish off my IT coursework then that's that ove with... Study leave in 2 weeks =) oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah (does Ricki-style hand movements) Christopher Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 4/28/2002 09:54:00 PM. Roughly. Blog ID: 75935070· | Permalink |