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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: SETI@Home Prize
From: Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:52:01 -0500
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Your chances at the $1000 price at distributed.net's RC5-64 project are
probably greater during those 2 weeks :)


On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 02:26:39PM -0700, Curtis Hawthorne wrote:
> 
> I read on Slashdot today that SETI@Home is nearing the
> half-billion mark for number of submitted results.  They're
> also giving a $500 reward for the user who returns the
> 500-millionth result.  I went over to the SETI@Home page
> (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu), and over there it
> says:
> 
> ? April 23, 2002 ? 
> The Wichita State University team has offered a $500 prize
> to whoever returns the 500 millionth result!
> 
> So apparently it even has a local origin.  Normally my
> distributed computing client of choice is distributed.net,
> but for a chance at $500, sure I'll change for week or two
> :-).
> 
> Current stats are: 497814690 total results received, 799821
> in the last 24 hours. 
> 
> Curtis H.
> 
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