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| Your personal background. | |
| I'm a Canadian living in Vancouver BC with an interest in sciences, technology, and things that helps make the world a little bit better place to be. BOINC provides a useful framework that allows you to help science by making use of your spare CPU cycles (which otherwise would be wasted power and heat) when and while you use your computer for your own personal use. Computers continue to become easier to use, and BOINC has also continued to get better too, but for those of you interested in computing and how it works, I have made a HowTo web page that helps you understand a bit more about your computer and also a litle bit about BOINC by taking you step-by-step through the process of installing BOINC on a Linux (Mandiva) computer. The webpage is located at: BOINC HowTo for Mandriva Linux | |
| Your opinions about Einstein@Home | |
| Einstein, is like many science projects out there, it may not have any immediately recognizable results, funding may or might not often be sufficient because nobody is going to spend money to watch scientists do their thing (yet we spend abundant amounts of money on "entertainment"). Science brought us and continues to bring us many things that make life better, such as electricity and electronics, which spin-off useful stuff like the telephone or the computer, or medicines which render past sicknesses into nothing worse than a common cold. Science has made possible things which would be otherwise unlikely such as put a man on the moon, satellites in orbit, or take us down to the deepest oceans and much more. Einstein may hopefully tell us more about our neighbouring stars and it is an interesting pure science project worth running with your spare computer cycles. | |
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