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Candidate signal from SETI@home

Candidate signal from SETI@home 09/02/2004 11:51 AM

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“In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky. The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals at least twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were trying to reconfirm the findings. The team has now finished analysing the data, and all the signals seem to have disappeared. Except one, which has got…

Space signal studied for alien contact
thanks to SETI@Home

Space signal studied for alien contact
thanks to SETI@Home 09/02/2004 12:11 PM
England (Reuters) -- An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been picked up three times by a telescope in Puerto Rico.

There are other explanations besides extraterrestrial contact that may explain the signal. New Scientist said the signal could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon or even be a by-product from the telescope itself. But the mystery beam has excited astronomers across the world.

"If they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting," Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath in western England told the magazine.

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lin-seti - A cache manager for Seti@Home

lin-seti - A cache manager for Seti@Home 06/26/2004 11:19 AM
lin-seti 0.8.1

SETI Finds Interesting Signal

SETI Finds Interesting Signal 09/01/2004 09:18 PM

SETI finds suspect signal

SETI finds suspect signal 09/04/2004 03:37 PM

The folks in the SETI project are not real happy with a reporters mis-quoted of a possible signal they have found. It is true that a signal has been found and is on the suspect list but that is about as far as they are willing to go at this time. For the full details straight from the horses mouth read the release from SETI then read the distortion from CNN.

SETI Researcher Quashes Signal Rumors

SETI Researcher Quashes Signal Rumors 09/02/2004 02:04 PM

SETI@home - Mac Style

SETI@home - Mac Style 04/24/2004 06:06 AM
Working hard

SETI@Home to take a closer look

SETI@Home to take a closer look 03/13/2003 10:20 AM

SETI@home Turns Five Today

SETI@home Turns Five Today 05/21/2004 11:36 AM

SETI@Home: Our flagship is sinking

SETI@Home: Our flagship is sinking 12/02/2003 01:49 AM
SETI.Germany is closing in on Team Lamb Chop in the SETI@Home standings. Read on to see how you can help!

SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC

SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC 06/23/2004 05:24 PM

SETI@Home Dock App Monitors

SETI@Home Dock App Monitors 01/25/2004 06:23 AM
Wmufo 1.2.0 Released

retrieve your SETI@home stats

retrieve your SETI@home stats 12/11/2003 05:04 PM
seti-stat on line

Seti@Home updates client

Seti@Home updates client 06/24/2004 04:40 AM

The Gang at SETI who are using un-used processor cycles on millions of home computers worldwide in the search for ET have updated their home client software. Which runs under something they are calling BOINC which will make it software upgrades and various other things less cumbersome on the participants. [SETI]

SETI@Home Results Monitor 3.1.1 released

SETI@Home Results Monitor 3.1.1 released 07/12/2002 06:40 AM
SETI@Home Results Monitor is a small PHP script that you can use to show off your current SETI@Home work units total on your Website. When invoked, the script connects to the SETI@Home server, retrieves your user stats, and generates a PNG image to display the total number of work units processed so far.

SETI@Home Expanding Goals With Sun's
Help

SETI@Home Expanding Goals With Sun's
Help 12/18/2003 08:01 AM
GabeK writes "The Register is reporting that the SETI@home project is going to be expanding the scope of their project with the help of Sun. Sun is donating a ...

SETI@Home (finally) begins transitioning
to BOINC

SETI@Home (finally) begins transitioning
to BOINC 06/24/2004 01:19 PM
SETI@Home begins their transition to the BOINC client and infrastructure. Congrats to Team Lamb Chop members for their efforts in the "classic" portion of the project and we look forward to your contribution using the new BOINC client.

Site Update: Folding, SETI@Home,
GarageBand Forum

Site Update: Folding, SETI@Home,
GarageBand Forum 01/10/2004 06:49 PM
- MacRumors SETI @ Home Team is going strong and looking for new members. If you would like to help, see our SETI FAQ or visit our Distributed Comput...

"Three and a half-year old SETI@home
project identifies candidate radio
signals from space, heads for Arecibo to
take second look"

"Three and a half-year old SETI@home
project identifies candidate radio
signals from space, heads for Arecibo to
take second look" 03/13/2003 10:25 AM

Three and a half-year old SETI@home
project identifies candidate radio
signals from space, heads for Arecibo to
take second look | SpaceRef - Your Space
Reference

Three and a half-year old SETI@home
project identifies candidate radio
signals from space, heads for Arecibo to
take second look | SpaceRef - Your Space
Reference 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
the SETI@home screensaver that crunches data in search of intelligent signals from space has produced a list of candidate radio sources that deserve a second look

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Not Unusual

Not Unusual 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

Should I be scared that this is not an unusual message?

Well, okay, let's give the circumstances: I'm load-testing a server by taking several machines and command-clicking the URL of a dynamic page as fast as possible. When the link is fully-dynamic, the server cries in pain, fights back a little, and then falls to the floor screaming for its mommy. When I cache a very little bit, it looks at me and laughs.

Minimal caching == good.

Cruel and Unusual!

Cruel and Unusual! 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
This week I'm getting off my nocturnal state of being and coming back to regular adult like behavior. I was...

Cruel and unusual?

Cruel and unusual? 04/15/2005 09:30 AM
The Lancet publishes a research letter that finds inadequate anaesthesia is used in executions by< /a> lethal in jection

An Unusual Use for Panorama

An Unusual Use for Panorama 04/11/2005 08:22 PM
Adam C. Engst (~580 words)

I'm in the process of cleaning up some LetterRip Pro-based mailing lists in preparation for moving them to Web Crossing, and in doing so, I was faced with the age-old problem of determining which bouncing addresses to remove. After all, if an address bounces a few times, it's probably bad, but if it bounces only a single time, the problem is probably temporary. LetterRip Pro automatically generates lists of addresses that bounced after the last list message went out; the trick is figuring out which addresses appeared more than once. I pondered the problem briefly before realizing that ProVUE's Panorama database was just the ticket. (See "When You Need a Panoramic View" in TidBITS-770.) After all, what were these email addresses but records in a very simple database?

An Unusual Week For Apple

An Unusual Week For Apple 03/20/2003 08:34 AM
If Apple sends teams of salespeople to firms referred by the former vice president, maybe we'll begin to see lots of Xserves and Macs penetrating the business market. (Mac Night Owl via MyAppleMenu)

Gentoo for All the Unusual Reasons

Gentoo for All the Unusual Reasons 01/06/2005 03:08 PM
You might think of Gentoo as a bleeding-edge distribution for development workstations, but the simple packaging system can make it a good choice for any production system that needs to stay up to date.

Library of unusual materials

Library of unusual materials 03/31/2005 11:46 PM
David Pescovitz: Inside the basement of King's College London's engineering department, Mark Miodownik curates a "cabinet of curiosities" for materials scientists. He started the collection in 2003 after noticing that his colleagues trashed all kinds of unusual materials at the end of their research projects. From News@Nature:

His collection now includes more than 300 samples, including artificial skin made of rubber composites, and a material known as a superslurper that absorbs 400 times its own weight in water....

Miodownik trawls the globe in search of additions to his collection. On a recent trip to Australia, he found himself in the remote uranium-mining town of Broken Hill in New South Wales. He started hunting through antique shops there to find a special type of glass.

Miodownik explains that in the early twentieth century people thought that radioactive materials had beneficial health properties. For this reason, they manufactured glassware containing uranium, especially in places such as Broken Hill that had an abundance of the element.

In the Australian antique shops, Miodownik flashed an ultraviolet light on various glass pieces to find one that glowed, a sign that it contained uranium. When he found a bowl that did just that (pictured here), he brought it back to London and added it to the library.

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Unusual paintball equipment

Unusual paintball equipment 02/05/2005 09:02 PM
Speci al Ops Paintball's Razorback Mechanized Tank, made from an Israeli reconnaissance vehicle, can fire 30 .68-caliber paintballs per second, launches Nerf rockets, and has space for a driver and three gunners, all for just $42,000. Julius Tank looks more like a truck than a tank. I've never met these two tank crews, but after taking on similar vehicles, I know how humbling it is to watch 30 of your teammates get eliminated in mere seconds after one of these bad boys arrives. Luckily, they can be defeated by any medium-sized Nerf weaponry.

List of unusual words

List of unusual words 05/06/2004 09:50 PM
Gary sez: "This guy has an amazing collection of word lists: included are word lists for various topics: manias & obsessions, philosophical 'isms'--you name it. Also feathers The International House of Logorrhea, a 14000-word dictionary of obscure and rare words. The only people who won't like this site are morosophs and misosophs!"

cynartomachy -- bear-baiting using dogs

gigantomachy -- war of giants against the gods

pneumatomachy -- denial of the divinity of the Holy Ghost

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lin-seti 0.8.1

lin-seti 0.8.1 06/28/2004 08:11 AM
A cache program for Seti@Home compatible with Seti Driver.

lin-seti 0.8.2

lin-seti 0.8.2 07/29/2004 10:03 PM
A cache program for Seti@Home compatible with Seti Driver.

Sun to expand unusual pricing model

Sun to expand unusual pricing model 06/01/2004 10:30 AM

unusual approach to open source

unusual approach to open source 06/24/2004 07:57 PM
Peerio has an unusual approach to open source: "The source codes for the Peerio444 core will be kept proprietary so that we can avoid spawning hundreds of proprietary commercial systems (see Linux) that could jeopardize our ability to maintain a Forever Free platform. To be Forever Free we must protect the system from profiteers." It's probably not a coincidence that their site suffers from Trademarkitis™.

Motorola MPx Will Have an Unusual Memory
Arrangement

Motorola MPx Will Have an Unusual Memory
Arrangement 05/05/2004 03:31 PM
BrightHand May 5 2004 7:16PM GMT

Slow Q2 nothing unusual for most
hardware firms

Slow Q2 nothing unusual for most
hardware firms 07/08/2004 05:13 PM
BOSTON - As the weather heats up in the Northern Hemisphere, revenue from IT hardware tends to cool off. Despite a slew of recent earnings warnings from their software counterparts, the IT hardware industry should improve upon last year's second quarter amid the usual seasonal slowdown, according to analysts.

Lawyers Use Unusual Tactics in DWI Cases
(AP)

Lawyers Use Unusual Tactics in DWI Cases
(AP) 09/20/2004 11:03 PM
AP - North Carolina law metes out heavy costs for a drunk driving conviction, so it's little wonder many drivers choose to head to court to fight the charge. Among the thousands of cases heard in the state's courts each year, defense lawyers sometimes offer novel arguments to challenge the evidence.

Google Closes Unusual Auction to Set IPO

Google Closes Unusual Auction to Set IPO 08/18/2004 06:49 PM
The company closed its unusual auction to set its initial stock price after dramatically lowering its estimates for the offering, but the Internet search giant did not immediately disclose how much it will cost winning investors to purchase shares of the company.

Google unleashes unusual IPO plans

Google unleashes unusual IPO plans 04/30/2004 03:25 AM
USA Today Apr 30 2004 7:44AM GMT

Prosecutors Seek Unusual Appeal

Prosecutors Seek Unusual Appeal 11/15/2003 02:15 AM
New York Times Nov 15 2003 0:45AM ET
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