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I want to believe - If it is just us... seems like an awful waste of  
space.
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The BlackICE BBS starts the search for extraterrestrial intelligence with  
the Seti@Home project.

What is SETI? and SETI@HOME?

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term  
for the scientific search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. For  
example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions  
from civilizations on other worlds.

SETI at home is an Internet-based public volunteer computing project.  
Hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California,  
Berkeley - USA. Its purpose is to analyze radio signals, searching for  
signs of extraterrestrial intelligence capture by the Arecibo radio  
telescope.

Observational data are recorded on 2-terabyte SATA hard disk drives at the  
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, each holding about 2.5 days of  
observations, which are then sent to Berkeley. Arecibo does not have a  
broadband Internet connection, so data must go by postal mail to Berkeley.

Once there, it is divided in both time and frequency domains work units of  
107 seconds of data, or approximately 0.35 megabytes (350 kilobytes or  
350,000 bytes), which overlap in time but not in frequency. These work  
units are then sent from the SETI@home server over the Internet to  
personal computers around the world to analyze.

And the BlackICE BBS spends now a part of its CPU time to the Seti@Home  
Project. The installed Software, called BOINC can be scaled in many ways.  
The Board or other processes running on that machine are not affected with  
the higher CPU load.

Of course, you can watch the status in the BlackICE BBS itself. You will  
find a new entry under the SysInfo-Menue!

If you're also want to compute for SETI visit this webpage: http:// 
setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

If you're a SySoP and like also to show your running tasks with boinc, use  
the 'boinccmd --get_tasks' command to print out the status. You'll find  
the boinccmd executive file in your Boinc install directory.

Running Windows? Try 'boinccmd --get_tasks >tasks.txt'. That will create a  
file named tasks.txt with all Boinc taskinfos in it.

Happy computing!

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