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WHAT IS
IT?
SETI@Home is a project out of Berkeley
University in California. The data collected by the Arecibo Radio Observatory
is stored in chunks of 170 second interval work units. Your computer can
process these packets, analyzing frequencies, if it has some 'brains to
spare.' It takes a Pentium computer with at least 32 MB RAM, a megabyte
or three of spare storage, and a winsocks dialup connection to the internet.
(Several other Power Macs and Unix or Linux machines can participate too!)
What a fantastic banner to rally under: help SETI and KAG at the same time! Here's a chance for anyone with a pentium and 32+ MB RAM to join, cause every bit counts! A Pentium 100 might take a week of 24 hour running to put out a single workunit, but it all adds up! In its first few months, the SETI team for STARFLEET has accumulated eight times the number of participants that we have, and eight times the data. But we have a year and a half to overtake them. It's not often we have a project in which every contribution great and small will be so helpful to the Klingon Assault Group.
- KwISt
participant in all things KAG