Happy New Year! ! !

[LandShark]

Happy New Year ! ! !

hehee...i guess nobody beat me this time.....:D

well, since it's the start of a new year, i think i would post some "review" for my SETI experience of the past yr, and everyone pls come join in to share urs too.....;)

this yr, means quite a big change to me as far as SETI goes. i signed up to run SETI since Jan, 2000. but only had 'bout 25 or so WU under my belt till early this yr!

well, that was changed after i've found this team around March time. and start really crunching SETI afterward. and now, i would say i'm addicted to it. and love to being in this team!

so, i guess the past yr i did pretty well, my own personal stats and worked quite hard for the team too. started from only 'bout 25WU early this yr, up to now 2324WU (at this moment, and counting ........ of course...). but honestly, w/out the team and the friendly competition in here, i would never reach this level.

so, is the coming year, i'm hoping i'll do much better, faster machine + more machine = more WU and hopefully dip into the 5 digit club by the end of the coming year.....i wish.......

how 'bout u??? :D

[TC]

I must say this year was my biggest "Seti" year so far. Just a little over a year ago I saw an idea being tossed around here about forming a team for OC. I had been running Seti for a little while and had even taken a stab at forming a team. I've been hanging around OC since it took off in the late '90's and the Seti team seemed like a great idea. I remember joining at the beginning and I was #1 woohoo!! Well that didn't last long. I kept getting bumped down as the team grew, but that pulled me into it. Before long I had more computers at home than I had ever dreamed of...4. The stats/web page began to materialize and that motivated me even more. I slowly added to my farm while watching the progress of the team. The team grew and I added a box here and there, primarily motivated by holding the fastest time at the Team Lamb Chop benchmark page. As the year unfolded a tragic event struck the team - our founder Daniel decided to leave. I had some doubts about staying, but I waited it out. Kris was doing a great job of developing the site and keeping the spirit alive, so I stayed with it. Around that time Chawken joined and I enjoyed some competition with him. Shortly after Kris had to retire, and the team appeared to be on a dead-end track. Temporary leadership had been setup by Kris, but motivation was lacking and the team appeared to be headed for a dead end. I hated to see that happen, so I worked with the team developers and together with the most motivated bunch of guys I've yet met we got the team rolling again. I decided the team deserved its own home, so I registered www.ocsetiteam.com and built us a dedicated server. For the past few months the efforts of so many have bloomed to fruition. There have been some unfortunate losses, but those have been put aside and we forge ahead. We have endured and continue to be one of the most motivated, formidable, Seti Teams in existence. This year has been great, and the next promises just as much. Happy New Year, and crunch on!

[JigPu]

Well, this is almost my second year of crunching (1.877 years to be precice :D ), and joining the SETI team has only increased my SETI fever.

I'd been crunching 24/7 for at least a year before joining (or even finding out about!) the team. When I found the OC forums for the first time, I was amazed that it had a SETI team, and after checking out the stuff down here, I decided to switch from my nowhere team (where I was the only active member) to this growing and rapidly rising team.

Before joining the team, I used SETI exactly as it was designed. In the background. I had SETISpy, but never really paid any serious attention to what SETI did. Hundreds of WUs passed by and I just racked up my count without any real motivation. As soon as I joined the team, my love for SETI was kicked into high gear.

Graphs, charts, produciton data, all the coolness of being on an active team. I really started looking at what SETI was doing, and after about 2 months of sticking with the GUI I finally gave into the CLC. I never really looked at the graphics anyway (but I still miss them :( ), but 2 hours less time ment I wouldn't fall quite as fast in this amazing team.

All in all, it's been a great time since I've joined. I've got one of my best friends crunching SETI now under my name, and he has managed to get one of his friends to attempt SETI. Should be good since he has a farm of computers already! Too bad more people from the forum don't join. They don't know what they're missing.

JigPu

[rogerdugans]

Happy New Year, my fellow OCSETITEAM Crunchers!

My past year of Crunching:

I was pretty pleased with myself last year: I had my 3 pcs running 24/7, all crunching Seti (gui!) and sharing my cable connection through a proxy server. I had some pretty rocking machines too: a dual Intel PII 400 and 2 AMD K6-2 450s!

I'd check my stats (worldwide) every week or so.....

And around last July, after finally getting an Athlon (and OCing it some) I found Overclockers.Com! First night in the forums and I was hooked, but that is another story!;)

Shortly after finding OC.Com, I decided I'd hitch up to the Seti Team. When I joined, I looked pretty good in the stats: mid 50s on the team.....for like one day!!!!
Well, since I am at least slightly stubborn and so forth, I got (mildly) annoyed :D at being passed by so many other Team members! And added another Athlon. And lost ground more slowly. At this point I had learned what a "seti Farm" was and realized that if I wanted to move forward in the stats I would have to start farmin'! Which is just a great excuse for a hardware geek like me to BUILD MORE COMPUTERS!

To finish the story off I got an XP courtesy of AMD Extreme Performance and slowly moved up. Then bought another duallie recently and forward progress has resumed!

You guys are great as a Team, and have helped me to both get things running well and spurred me on to BUILD MORE CRUNCHERS! Which is one of my goal's in the next year: to add at least the same number of rigs to my farm, and hopefully the same mhz, again: another 4ghz would be pretty good! The other is to become more active with the team.
Thanks to all of you: alone, I'd have about 1500 wus now, at best!

[Cy]

Happy New Year!

We've had many ups and downs in the short time I've joined the team but we are still going strong. I hope I am able to help contribute to the teams continuing success throughout 2002.

On to the top 25! :)

Cy