Good to be part of the crew, Hoelder1in!

I had to take a byzantine path to get here. The first step involved quietening one of my desktops with quality components so I wouldn't go insane if I left it on continously. Then there was the partitioning of my hard drive to dual boot XP and Linux. Before, my Linux partition was tiny, barely enough to serve as a staging server for my web development. Now it's nice and roomy for me to install zillions of open source apps--including BOINC.

So here I am to contribute. When I'm in Ubuntu, which is now mostly, at idle moments the computer will crunch through Rosetta data. If I am in XP, which is rarely, SETI@Home will run. I may just transfer SETI to another machine entirely.

I was rather surprised to discover that Rosetta is associated with the University of Washington, Seattle--my alma mater. I used to work for a web production company that had its offices near one of the offices for the Gates Foundation. Argh! Seattle is so claustrophobic at times.