[aclug-L] Re: SETI@Home Prize

[Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know, I know - but the results will come back faster, so
I /feel/ like it's a better chance.  Or at least I did til
you went and ruined it for me :-).

Curtis H.

--- Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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