Saturday morning

Saturday morning and again up at 6am. Looks like it will be warm here today. It has been very warm, mid-thirties, over the past few days. I am going to try and beat the heat and go for an early blade.

I received a new laptop at work yesterday. It is a lot of work to transfer stuff from my old environment, to my new one. Not sure what it is doing right now, tells me it has 3 hours worth of work to do, synchronizing my mail or something. I am hoping that I did not scramble it somehow last night when I was attempting to transfer my 15,000 mail messages I have accumulated. Probably. The way I use our corporate email is different than the way that they want us to use it. I prefer to keep my mail local on my machine, not on their server. In this way I can review my email wherever I am, on or offline. Why have a laptop if you have to be connected to the corporate network to review your email. Anyways, they make snarly faces when I do this.
I think it is attempting to send all of that email to the server. Oh well, just let it run I guess.

Since about 2000/2001 I have been running SetiAtHome on my machines, as many as I have control over. I see recently that they have changed to a new form, called BOINC. Berkeley will use this to distribute the software so that they can modify the algorithms without forcing us to download new software all of the time. I liked Seti@home before as it had a pretty nifty screen saver, showing its signal processing. I see that this is gone, or I have not been able to find it as yet. However, looks like this software calculates how fast your machine is and attempts to keep you ahead and pre-download stuff to do. So far it has not told me that I have done any work, maybe this is not yet running. In the old version you tracked your progress through the number of work-packages you completed and the total CPU time. I had 6-odd years of CPU time accumulated, good enough for 75,000 place if you can believe it.

I am not sure that I actually believe in the presence of ET. However, it is a neat idea to search for it using radio signals, who knows, maybe it will be found one day.