MindScanner #56
SETI, the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, has embarked on an historic two year mission... With a clever screen saver, it has built the world's largest supercomputer. Visit their website, and you can become part of it, while supporting the Klingon Assault Group at the same time!

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!)
 

  1. First, you get the software from the main page at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
  2. Second, you install it on your machine. (Most Win95/98 users prefer the 1.06 version for use as a screen saver.)
  3. Third, get on the website for our team: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/_cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name =klingon+assault+group
From there, click "Join This Team" and fill in the form that asks your email address and password. Chances are, you'll have to find your password by clicking beneath that password slot where it says "If you don't know your password, CLICK HERE." They will email you a numeric password... It takes a few minutes. When it arrives, type that into the form, and YOU'RE IN!

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