OK: This has gone all too long now...
20 Jan 2006 14:37:08 UTC
Topic 190642
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I'm totally hooked. I'm dreaming about BOINC now.
Hmmm... Somehow that seems a little dirty.
Credits! Credits! Where are my credits!
I must go check my stats.
Quick call Nurse Rachette!
Quick find the local BA.
All in fun of course.
Kathryn
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
OK: This has gone all too long now...
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I am hooked on BOINC and several projects (although one project is about to lose me, because they are lacking in giving good information, anymore).
I have added another machine to my farm, last weekend. That now takes me to 9 total machines.
I am dedicated to this project, because it's in my home town (Hey Bruce, want to do lunch some day?). They have the most stable project of the ones I run, and the developers are really with the people.
I am glad I found this, and am part of a fun community of people, worldwide.
BTW: I know I've said I loved your Pooh avatar. I've been known as Winny/Winny The Pooh/Pooh Bear all my life. It has to do with my last name, and how "cruel" kids are. Oh well, it stuck, and I'm now "Grandpa Pooh".
I still need to get that Pooh tatoo. Maybe someone will give me one for my birthday.
Once upon a time, BOINCing
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Once upon a time, BOINCing had a different meaning but we won't go there.
Seti@home hooked me shortly after I found signs of intelligent life on the Internet, not that I was particularly avid to find little green (or grey) men. Unlike many of you, I am a newbie to computers - my first PC ran Windows ME, the idiot step-child of the Microsoft clan. My work experience with computers was on a UNIX mainframe, courtesy of Bell Labs, and my exposure was a pretty low level user without access to anything seriously powerful (or thankfully damaging.) But I could use the [man] command and learn.
I always felt indebted to the clever folks who made programs and offered them online as freeware. I also respect the folks who make their living creating software or writing clever ways to apply the things computers allow us to do. Even if their things were buggy, as long as they were working in good faith, I wished them well.
Being able to give back a bit this way is very satisfying.
To err is human; to really screw up requires a computer.
