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I just discovered I've been putting 2000 on each date instead of 2001. And no one emailed me about
it! Instead you probally just laughed at me, hurting my feelings, and causing my self-esteem to go
down. I hope you're happy with yourself at the immense psychological pain you've caused me!
In a surprising move, Microsoft decided to release the source code to their Windows operating
system. Sorta confirms what we figured all along huh?
I've been getting several hits from the SETI@Home project since I just passed 500 work units, so I figure I'll talk about Seti@home for anyone who isn't familiar with what
it is. SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestial Intelligence)@home is a program you run as a screensaver
that analyzes radio signals received from telescopes. It is hoped that civilizations on other
planets would send out radio signals to try to communicate with other intelligent life, so SETI
looks for these signals. Instead of having one super computer analyze all the data, the researches
split up the data into chunks and let computer users all over the world analyze the data for them.
And it gets done a whole lot faster this way too. You can find out more info from the Seti@home website and they have clients for almost
every hardware and software platform imaginable.
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