Are you one of those people that feels guilty when they know they can be doing something good but aren’t? Well fear not! I think I have the solution. PLUS you get to say you are a unicyclist.
Curing diseases is good, right? Right. Well, why not use those useless unused CPU cycles (not some new vehicle) for something useful?
Okay, here it comes: there is this thing called Folding @ Home and some of you may be familiar with it, or have it. The good people at Stanford University (I think it’s a university…) have been good enough to make this and they have a team system. You can be one of those lowly people with no team, or you can join a team! You don’t “join” as much as you type in the team number that you want to have you’re part count towards.
My brother made a team, called Cool_CPU. I am going to get him to change it to UNIque or something, unless someone GIVES ME A COOL TEAM NAME. This is going to be the unicycle team, where unicyclists and people who want to learn to uni can join. (Well, anyone can join, but it’s representing unicyclists.) All we need is some more people to join.
I am rapidly approaching 2,500 units for Seti@Home; I should reach that figure in a day or two. I could be very easily persuaded to call it a day for SETI and start folding if there’s a unicycle team.
Is there a team statistics page, showing who’s in it and how much the team has done?
If you are making the name unicycle based, make it obvious that it refers to unicycles, and not cheesy. Perhaps something that mentions Unicyclist.com; might as well try for some free coverage…
phil, how long have you been running seti@home?
i’ve had mine going for about six months and have only clocked up about 27 workunits (on a 166 pentium thats fairly busy doing other stuff)
do you have a room full of seti clients?
also tempting is the possible effort in the near future to crack the xbox key, in order that people will be able to run non microsoft software on the xbox.
it seems that you are a valuable assest to seti, and i am not.
I first started just under two years ago, and have run it on a variety of computers since then. I remember looking at various other peoples’ results back then and thinking how on earth they had done that many, when I was in single figures…
Given the total number of units returned is 738,197,609, I don’t think the difference is particularly important…
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence At Home. Remember the huge dish at the end of Goldeneye? That telescope records radio information from outer space; that information is then downloaded to people running Seti@Home, which trawls the information looking for any signals of interest.
The film must have lied… it didn’t get blown up at all. My vision of reality, shattered…
OK. How does “CPUniCycles” sound? You got your unicycles, and you’ve got the idea of CPU cycles being used and stuff. I made that one up last night. Please join, as we need to get to the top of the list to get some more uni exposure! Team number 13392…
I don’t know. That may be perceived as cheesy. Oh well. I tried.
I left it running all day while away and it did a full 112 WU’s in a mere 6 hours! Where is this list you speak of vortex because i want to see what place I am In.
Ok im New to this, I downloaded it and did all that stuff (im OnzaTrials1) and now I dont know what to do with it.
What am i supposed to do?
What are those 3d dots?
