What does Lapendos mean, anyway?

Lapendos Seti Club was one of the old school seti clubs, with volunteers computing in Slidell and Covington since the late 90's. We believe that volunteers are administrators of their own node and should do everything to make their system run smoothly. We also feel that the friendly competition helps to make sure that local node admins (LNA's) should put forth that effort to run faster and to return more work units.

Our Old Seti Club Page I can bend minds with my spoon. Our Seti Boinc Group Page They sure don't make time machines like they will Lapendos Guestbook/Forum Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive. Seti/Boinc Message Boards Department of Redundancy Department Seti/Boinc Help Forums Department of Redundancy Department Please Join our Seti group Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. 08-05-2004 I preach my dear friends you are about to receive on John Barley Corn, Nicotine and the temptations of Eve. We have shut down the seti project new (boinc) and old (seti1) on all the club-owned machines. We were unable to find any intelligent life at Berkeley. We still believe that with 600 billion stars in our own Milky Way galaxy and a seemingly infinite number of other galaxies, that there HAS to be other life out there. Hopefully they are smarter than us, because (as Frank Zapa said) "People, we ain't wrapped tight!" But, We no longer think that donating computer power to Seti@home is a productive use of that resource. The Seti Team at Berkeley has lost track of what made the project such a success. Money, praise, power all affected the project and soured the milk. There are WAY too many volunteers and the Seti Team would appear to want rid of those participants that want to diminish Berkeley's limelight by sharing in the credit in any way. Seti does not want users to donate large quantities of computer power (that would deserve credit) nor do they want anyone to offer suggestions (that would indicate that problems exist) instead they want more attention to shine on themselves, Seti, and Berkeley. Millions of participants are just wasted cpu cycles anyway! Club Members are invited to join us in trying a new project. It requires a little more computer savvy, and it is not a competition. But the community spirit is strong and the project is very goal oriented. http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/mmg20/dhe/ 09-15-2000 Hi, Whoadie; Thank you for helping in this noble (if somewhat fruitless) effort to find Extra Terrestial life. I'm sure you will agree that the distributed computing (one of the many break through technologies spun off of this collaborative work) is worth the price of admission all by itself. Our labors in this endevor have lead us to maximize our computing resources so as to inch forward in this race to accomplish more Work Units than the other participants. We have learned to reduce the needless load on our CPU's that MS Windows seems to squander and we have learned to overclock and tweak everything related to faster, more efficient processing. This has been a great experience, and we will gladly help anyone (who joins our group) discover the same things about their node in this massively distributed computer. You do not have to be from earth to join lapendos, but you must have a sense of humor. All you have to do is ask. hint -- post a question in our Forum Thanks to the Frenz of Lapendos: Old Man Ross Ross Jr Charlie Cahill Bryn Jeff Chris James Chris's Mom Setihide pwns! Those Teachers that allowed us to install the screensaver on school machines. the time where our group is from the date adjusted for our time zone the number of visitors (plus 21 million) Pleiades Cluster forms the interwoven mesh twill of heavenly hosts distributed grid computing. Business Linux, great support. Damn Small Linux, Easiest Install EVER!!	Quote of the day Happiness is like peeing in your pants... Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth. Lapendos is: Slidell - Covington Area Schools and Comp Geeks. Lapendos el St. Tammany en bobo shin Cray du Pietler. Bough dun to the Lourds of Micros! Lapendos adalah Lelaki Penuh Dosa. Lapendos? Il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher. Logical Array of Parallel ENumerators and Disk Operating Systems Š1999 More to Come on the Switch to Distributed Hardware Evolution!! The entire website will get another face lift shortly
	More Boinc News: 08-05-2004 The schedulers are down, the servers are down, the Stats are down, Team lookups are down, splitters are hopelessly behind, there are bugs in the system that stop our credits from counting and the Linux client software and "cobblestone" credit system are soooo bad that there is no way to compete with windows based systems. I wonder if Microsoft Donations had anything to do with this? After spending the evening working on a mirror of our help articles for seti, and waiting for the boinc forum pages to load, (I'm old enough -- but I just get older waiting for those pages to load!) I had just composed, crafted, spellchecked etc, an article to post to the boinc help forum when the damned thing timed me out and lost my work. It has done this to me before, and I have always re-typed my post -- but that WAS the "last straw." I know my help is not wanted (I believe it is needed) but there is no point in posting to the help forum when there is no hope for an answer. Good bye Seti@home, we tried very hard, but without a staff that will listen to the contributors -- there is no point in contributing. 07-01-2004 The software is very different -- old school number chrunchers have to get their heads together about the different way things are done. The split between server and client is less pronounced, it is harder to get enough work to do. 07-07-2004 Things look ruff. The berkeley/Seti technical staff is suffering under the strain of growing pains. We did not start with the beta version and expected the technical glitches to be all worked out by the time of the official release. 07-14-2004 Things are BAD with boinc, the seti staff has completely forgotten that the volunteers made this program a success. Each of us is the administrator of our own node in this project and it is our job to make sure our part is done efficiently. Unfortunately the seti staff has begun to think only of their system. They act as though they are at war with those that made this project great. Do they think that the volunteers can wait for jobs, wait for credit, we can be issued terrible software, and work the same jobs over and over? They think nothing of stopping our credits from the old system from counting before the new system is ready to run. They don't hesitate to turn off the servers, turn off the stats, turn off team lookups etc. instead of getting a machine from the old stack and putting it in the new stack. They add a cache feature and didn't think they might need more jobs for all that cache. They add all this pausing, counting and retrying but they didn't think that that would use more server resources than just handing out the job. They take the place of great software (with stats) like Setihide and force us to check our progress and set our preferences on the website, but they didn't think that that would require a more robust webserver. So shut it down -- the idiots (I mean volunteers) will wait, all the trouble makes everyone appreciate just how big a job it is and how special you are for doing it. Meanwhile we are all looking for other work to do. Maybe I can process some medical research for free so that the Drug Company can earn billions from my CPU's!!!