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SETI @ Home Stats

Posted by on January 25, 2008 No comments

I wrote a fun little page-scraper script for the SETI@Home team statistics page that displays your team’s top 20 members in a snazzy interactive pie chart. You can compare by total activity or recent average activity.

Check it out at here

For those of you who don’t know, SETI@Home is a program you download that uses your computer when you aren’t on it and searches SETI data for non-natural radio signals. By installing and using the SETI@Home software, you are joining a massive distributed super computer that makes the search for extra terrestrial intelligence possible. So, go download the software (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.php) and become part of the magic. It costs you computer time you weren’t using anyway and a little extra power. Also, once you sign up, you’re welcome to join team MUA. Just search for MUA in the team area and click the link to join the team.

Ithilis 2.0

Posted by on November 6, 2007 No comments

I recently decided to bring back Ithilis, my text based game I started as my senior thesis. It died out after I graduated, but I’ve started on it again. The original code was my first real foray into PHP and, as such, it was mostly garbage. All the new Ithilis code is being written from the ground up and it is already drastically faster, better looking, and more stable. As usual, I welcome and encourage anyone to help with the project – I’ll even teach you what you need to know about php if you’re willing to learn.

Right now I have accounts and the farm up and running with some progress made on the dragon roosts. I don’t expect to bring on any beta testers for a while, but if you’re interested in playing with some alpha code (ESPECIALLY if you are on a mac), I’ll set you up on the test server and you can mess around.

I don’t really have any estimates at this point on when it will be up and running. I have other work that is higher priority right now, but it still sees a few hours a week. I’d like to tentatively say I will get a good summary written up in the next week or two and post it here.