[plug] SETI

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Wed, 26 May 1999 marks at fs.com.au wrote:

> Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 26 May 1999 marks at fs.com.au wrote:
> >
> > > Ya, maybe, what OSes can you get the clients for?
> >
> > Not meaning to sound "elitist" or anything, but if we're setting up a team
> > for the Perth _Linux_ user's group, would we be showing good faith if some
> > of our members were running anything else?
> 
> Hehe, true... My desktop machine is running linux, but I also have AIX,
> solaris, HPUX, DU, SCO and windows... I can't really put linux on them as we
> port our software to those OSes... I'll run it on my desktop machine, tho...
> It seems like a shame to ignore machines just because some people in the
> world don't know that they should be running linux :)
> 
> > > Do you need a permanent internet connection?
> >
> > No, it only needs to be connected to send its results to the server, and
> > download a new work unit.  My K6-200 does this every couple of days.
> 
> Can you submit results via email? The only machine I have here that is
> connected is a win95 box, but I am hoping to change that soon...

... NUP and you can't even connect at all from behind a firewall .... BUT that
will change in the next release of the software.


Yours Tony.