h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

550 now.....

currently crunching unit 664 ...

1385 and within 15 units of taking over 4th place in the h2g2 group.

Way2go, Jeremy!

Watch out for shooting tonight and tomorrow night!

Marv!

I had a 28 minute unit yesterday

How is that?

That happens from time to time. I read that sometimes there are units that are somehow ... soiled (e.g. by a satellite passing right through the Arecibo observation beam). Instead of finding out that there seems to be intelligent life on a small object orbiting around our planet the SETI software prefers to rule these units out. Once I had a unit finished an sent back even before my dial-up connection closed after 5 minutes of idling ...

You are credited with these units, anyhow!

Recent extrapolations indicate that AGB will reach the 1.000 unit milestone on 20th Jan 2003.

Jeremy,

I think that you have far too much time on your hands

Errgh... I am getting so close to Spelugx that I can taste it.... I am trying to allow my country to get that much further up the charts in our group.

I am the only American in the top 10 and one of only four in the top 20. Though with only 35 Americans in the 121 of the H2G2 researchers group, I guess we are fairly represented in a group based off of a Brittish website extrapolated from a Brittish novelists work.

Time? Time is just an illusion ... lunchtime doubly so ...

Mr. Bill Gates claims to have invented a tool by the name of "excel" which works great for that kind of tasks ...

Congrats on overtaking spelugi, Marv!

I can see you being in second place by Christmas!

I don't think I will hit 1,000 CPU by January.

My pc only does 2 per day, and TCK is only doing 130 units for me altogether.

Something strange going on at the group
When I checked the team's score on 19/11 it was 44,016 CPU's.
Just now I checked it and it was 43,541.



Either someone's left the group or something strange is happening

I believe that when someone leaves a group that their units go with them, but I am unsure.

Yes, TCK & I were originally in The Cleethorpes and District Astronomical Society seti group, but we jumped ship when we found out h2g2 had a group.....



I'm sure we brought our units with us.

I wonder who left?

I would try looking at caches of the page, but while I am at work I am unable to access berkely.edu due to our connection filtering. If I could get the access I would be running seti on a lot more than 2.6 computers...

Hehehe

Shellers {#1 in our group} is running seti on all his work computers.



I have an old hand-written list, from before I had my pc rebuilt, so I'll have a glance/comparison with that.

I'll keep you posted.

And you thought you were nosey!

Sadly, I only run it on the two computers I have at work, and they're kinda busy doing ... well, work ... while it's running. I only finish about one a day that way.

I take it AGB, that I have overtaken speglux then? Still at work, and no end in sight...

4) marbike 1406 3.410 years 21 hr 14 min 40.8 sec Wed Nov 20 23:35:53 2002 United States
5) bsmith (spelugx) 1403

Yes, you have.

I kept the list from when I was in 39th place, and all the ones who were above me then are still with the group.
I didn't record anyone below me.
I don't know how to check cashes?
Although I do know how to cash cheques!


Keep up the good work Shea!
Tsk, having to let the computers do w*rk!

AGB, you can try the wayback machine at archive.org I think. Once I get a couple of minutes I will try to firm up that estimation.

Do you mind if we carry on this fascinating conversation when I return from London?
I'm going tomorrow for a mini-meet.

by all means!

Have fun at the meet, take photos!