[Coco] Re: off-topic, space program

[Roger Taylor]

At 03:03 AM 1/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey, congrates Theodore.  I passed the 5000 unit mile marker last
>fall, and was at one time in 99.27% ranking, but when I shut them
>down while I was in Colorado for 2 months, I lost some ground I'll
>never gain back without throwing some more hor$epower at it.  Faster
>machines than this one are and have been working at the 25-35 units a
>day range for a fair amount of time now.  So I'm someplace in the
>37,000th place out of over 4 million.
>
>In case anyone is interested, a fellow West Virginian is in the top
>20!  Luke Mester, has something to do with the Brooke County Schools,
>and has the whole town plus a couple of racks of bare motherboards
>all working on seti.  One of his "Hillbilly Super Computers" is a
>square frame made of 2x2's, with 11 motherboards mounted in it.  Old
>slow baords, but when you add them up, he has crunched 695,571 units
>as of tonight.  We're just wannabees. :)

What is their definition of unit, and how exactly does your computer 
participate in this spreading out of chores?


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Roger Taylor