On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Maurice Hendrix wrote:
> I've already *heard* about seti@home, but information pertaining to the
> binary/source's whereabouts has sofar eluded me (I can't find it). Anyhow, I
> seem to need an Internet connection to make it do anything useful anyway and
> I don't have one, so I'm not really in a hurry to find it ;-)
You must've not looked at all, anyway almost a million users have managed
to find their site at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
And the unix clients are available at
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html
You can run it on a computer that is not connected to the Net,
transfer the whole dir to a floppy, and restart it on a connected machine.
It will send off the unit and fetch a new one. Then you can stop it and
take it back to your box. I haven't actually done it myself, but I've
heard it works even though the seti folks say they don't support it.
Oh, and they're not giving out their code. Precompiled stuff only..
Btw, making busywork for your processor is really easy:
1) encrypt an important file
2) forget the password
3) start cracking ;-)
netcat
