Just got an e-mail from Berkeley

[Steve]

Dear Kez:
We'd like to invite you to reconnect with SETI@home. Our records show that you've been with SETI@home since 03 April 1999, but it's been 1174 days since you last returned a work unit. We want you back, and here's why:
These are exciting times for SETI@home. Last year we implemented a new SETI@home data recorder at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. This recorder is attached to a state-of-the-art multibeam receiver, so we can now measure signals from 7 positions on the sky at once, with greater sensitivity to weak signals compared to the data from the flat feed antenna we've used since 1999. We've greatly increased the sensitivity of our data analysis, and the likelihood that we'll find the first signs of extraterrestrial life. We're also close to releasing a second application, Astropulse, which will look for extremely short pulses of astronomical (and possibly intelligent) origin.
With these new developments comes an increase in required computing power, for which we depend on people like you. We hope you will consider signing back on with SETI@home, and help in this wonderful scientific venture.
If you experienced problems running SETI@home, please try any of the resources listed at: Help including the new BOINC Online Help System which lets you talk live, over the Internet, with a help volunteer: Getting help with BOINC
We thank you for your involvement in SETI@home, and hope that you rejoin us in our search for signals from other worlds.
-- The SETI@home team

I'm crafting a reply, that'll go something like this:

Dear SETI@home,

I'm folding for HEXUS now, bitches

Peace.

And yes, I've been in this distributed computing lark for NEARLY TEN YEARS (on and off, hopping around projects) now. Blimey.

[matty-hodgson]

nice 1!!

ice cold

[Mithrandir]

[Agent]

I remember when you were Kez. Young Kez at that.

I always thought you had stole your name from that woman in Star Trek: Voyager. I remember recommending you for mod. I remember when.....

My god we're getting old

[menthel]

You were a kestrel? Impressive.

[alsenior]

You were a kestrel? Impressive.

yes he even had a working class boy as a keeper in the 1970's

[DR]

I remeber the first distributed thing I did was RC5 it was the heart and soul of HEXUS with Man1ac and B1ack.... (!)

[Funkstar]

I did RC5 for a while as well, but nothing else other than a spot of Folding for a while.

[TAKTAK]

CLICKY CLICKY
i've been doing SETI in the past week or so

[peterb]

Ah nostalgia - it isn't what it used to be...!

I used to be part of the UD grid project - went to check the stats last year and discovered the project had terminated 9 months earlier... I was always a tad miffed that they wouldn't (or couldn't) release a *nix client.

Interesting place, Berkely - just been reading "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Cliff Stoll

Amazon.co.uk: The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage: Cliff Stoll: Books

[Zak33]

this is the FIRST thing that I'm youngest at

COOLIO

Im not even ONE YEAR OLD to Distributed..... you lot are OLD GEEZERS and I'm the PUP!

COOLIO

[peterb]

this is the FIRST thing that I'm youngest at

COOLIO

Im not even ONE YEAR OLD to Distributed..... you lot are OLD GEEZERS and I'm the PUP!

COOLIO

Get back in your basket!!