Gold leader Posted November 23, 2001 Posted November 23, 2001 Oh, I seem to have fixed it. Probably no one cares, but hey, it's my good deed of the day.
Nitro Posted November 23, 2001 Author Posted November 23, 2001 I'm pumping packets when I get the chance, but ever since we got broadband, dad's über paranoid about leaving the computer on... Like someone would want to h@x0Rz my system to get at his tax files... He's like Fox Mulder with a jar of oil. (You'll have to think wayyyy back to get that one, kiddies) ------------------ Ryan "Nitro" Cole - The man who can fly anything with wings... And some things without... "If they could get a washing machine to fly, our Nitro could land it!"
edlib Posted November 23, 2001 Posted November 23, 2001 Get a rock-solid firewall like ZoneAlarm! http://www.zonealarm.com It's free and also the best one. Another cool thing to have with broadband is My Net Watchman. It takes all your firewall attack logs and e-mails the ISP of those who are trying to hack your system automatically for you. Free also. http://www.myNetWatchman.com/
Nitro Posted November 23, 2001 Author Posted November 23, 2001 While that'll give me peace of mind, it won't do much for my dad... He doesn't realise that anyone with enough skill/time to hack through a firewall, ISN'T GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO US! ------------------ Ryan "Nitro" Cole - The man who can fly anything with wings... And some things without... "If they could get a washing machine to fly, our Nitro could land it!"
edlib Posted November 23, 2001 Posted November 23, 2001 I see. Hmmm... Step 1: Send dad over to http://grc.com/ so he can do some major research on the subject. Or,.. if that fails there's always- Step 2: Get your own system!
edlib Posted November 23, 2001 Posted November 23, 2001 I just thought of solution 3: Pull the cable out at night! Nobody can hack a system that isn't connected to the net. I do this from time to time when running defrag. I shut down all my programs in the background including anti-virus and firewall so it will go faster. I just pull the eithernet cable out of the network card so I'm not vunerable. It might be worth a try running it past dad.
GUNNER Posted November 26, 2001 Posted November 26, 2001 Well I am now down to 2 PCs. I just removed it from my folks over the weekend. They have been having problems with their PC so SETI only ran for breif periods of time anyway so I just decided to delete it. Now I'll just see if I can get to 4000 before tagt passes me.
Guest Rogue 9 Posted November 28, 2001 Posted November 28, 2001 It'll be awhile before I manange to displace anyone in the top 5 :-)
Nitro Posted December 17, 2001 Author Posted December 17, 2001 I'm trying my best, but the Pope is having power supply problems...
Nitro Posted December 22, 2001 Author Posted December 22, 2001 ME = Pumping out a unit or two when I can.
edlib Posted August 21, 2002 Posted August 21, 2002 Hey, how many people here are still doing this? It seems to have fallen out of popularity. I just checked our results at the XWA Seti page and it seems there's just a handful of us left pumping out packets. And what happened to Gunner's and Rogue9's (not Nine) results? I think they left us. Bummer. And here I was thinking that maybe we should expand to try to get everyone from the entire Lucasforums network interested,.. perhaps starting a new LF group.
Rogue Nine Posted August 21, 2002 Posted August 21, 2002 I might reinstall it once I get a reasonably faster computer and Internet connection.
Ikhnaton Posted August 21, 2002 Posted August 21, 2002 i obviously haven't done it in about a year. just not very much fun anymore.
Thrawn Posted August 22, 2002 Posted August 22, 2002 I actually just got SETI again a few weeks ago, and I'm doing about a unit and a half a day on average, depending on how much gaming I do:)
Gold leader Posted August 22, 2002 Posted August 22, 2002 I'm sort of involved now with the ECCp-109 project, as a member of the "Dutch Power Cows".
Gold leader Posted August 22, 2002 Posted August 22, 2002 The ECCp-109 is a code-breaking challenge, where a discrete logarithmic problem has to be solved. The DPC currently holds the 1st place in the stats of this project. I joined them to help to keep the 1st place, and for the prize money of course Here 's some more info. The Dutch Power Cows is a clan of (mostly) Dutch teams competing in distributed computing projects, like Seti@home, RC5-64, ECCp-109, Genome@home and a few others. Info on the various projects: http://www.ductchpowercows.org DPC forum: http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_topics/5
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