30th August 2002


1 MORE New member to SETI Synergy in the past few days.

GOKUSSJ2 joins us with 19 WUs complete! Our 42nd member from United Kingdom.


Babbling from Zain...

And on a sad note one of our Hall of Famers left us yesterday, Dick Mosley.  He didn't let us know why, and doesn't appear to be in any other team yet.  It is all a bit of a mystery.  I will keep you posted if I hear more.  Slips us back one spot to 100th overall again.

I wont be recruiting any new members personally until after my exams (when I plan to go VERY silly with some very big recruiting, HUGE updates and special things happening).  But if you know anyone that is in SETI, or has a spare computer around make sure you let them know about us...

Also in other SETI Synergy News, I have added TWO MORE sections to our FORUM!  The "SETI Synergy Cocktail Lounge" where people post just about anything they like was SO popular I decided to create individual forums for "Official SETI@home News and Information" which as our members notice official posts at the SETI@home page or anywhere else on the web the information and links are copied there, and also a humour section titled "The SETI Synergy Funny Farm" where members can post all things funny including jokes, pictures, email funnies that people spam out etc.  So far the response is great.

Following is a fairly large update... Enjoy.

Keep those profiles, invites, Gaussians and other things coming in... 

Zain.


2 more SETI Synergy members cruise into our Hall of Fame!
Congrats to PCTech and Erik Anon.


Check out all recently sent in Member Profiles!!!
View the NEW profile for Marlene


More members let us know how they heard of SETI SYNERGY!
** Dave Pettit of Flint, Michigan heard of us from Arutha **

 


26th August 2002


3 MORE join SETI Synergy!

Dave Pettit of Flint, Michigan joins us with 1426 WUs complete! Our 217th member from United States.
Anthony Gibson Jr joins us with 9 WUs complete! Our 218th member from United States.
Scout joins us with 13 WUs complete! Our 5th member from South Africa.


Busy  busy busy... sorry about the lack of updates.

"Tic tic tic".  That is what my brain says to me every day.  Time getting away for the final exams I have in just under 12 weeks.

A HUGE update today, I think you will all enjoy it.  Also a HUGE hello to all those that have joined recently and I haven't caught up with yet!

One member left us this past few days... "TeVaHs" created his own little team called "Space:Above and Beyond Commemorative SETI Team".  We wish them well in their SETI journey... and of course if they ever want to come back to Synergy they are more than welcome.

Enjoy the update, and keep crunching hard.  I will make sure I get in at LEAST 2 updates a week as everyone needs a study break and I KNOW how people need their updates!  SO sit back, enjoy the ride... updates will be slowly uploaded over the next few hours (I do a bit at a time as I study)!

Zain.


5 more SETI Synergy members SMASH into our Hall of Fame!
Congrats to Mortacan, Helen Fletcher, Mister Tufqibof, Lord Master of Computing and Dave Pettit.


** News from Official SETI@home site **

— August 25, 2002 —
Read about our exciting new future projects.

Site note:  WOW... this is WELL worth a read... very cool stuff... especially that new telescope in Parks, NSW, AUSTRALIA (I have relatives that live there!). I really do like it when admin post little things like this. 


More members let us know how they heard of SETI SYNERGY!
** The Paranoid Android heard of us from Zain Upton **


Check out all recently sent in Member Profiles!!!
View the NEW profile for Raducu1605
View the NEW profile for The Paranoid Android

 


20th August 2002


3 MORE join SETI Synergy!

RAUDCU1605 joins us with 152 WUs complete! Our 2nd member from Romania.
Samoa joins us with 5 WUs complete! Our 213th member from United States.
RudolfTheReentier joins us with 8 WUs complete! Our 215th member from Germany.


Thoughts for the day...

As you would have noticed I have updated the left side bar with the number of work units til we hit 90th, 75th and 50th.  Yes 50th is a LONG LONG way away *smile*.  Slowly we rise though... it hopefully is only a matter of time!

Below find the Gaussians sent in over the last couple of weeks.  There are MANY of them... so enjoy! Quite a few other submissions have been sent in by members (including profiles, invites etc)... those will be for another day.  Time is always short... especially considering there is only a few months til my nasty nasty exams.  Still... the updates will roll on!

Zain.


Geraldo sends in an AMAZING Gaussian!
New #9 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests"!
SAME one ranks as New #11 in "Top 20 Member Gaussians - OVERALL BEST" section!!!

Zolstead ALSO sends in an AMAZING Gaussian!
New #10 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests"!
SAME one ranks as New #13 in "Top 20 Member Gaussians - OVERALL BEST" section!!!

HansJ gets in the swing with a Top 20 Gaussian as well!
New #13 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests"!
SAME one ranks as New #17 in "Top 20 Member Gaussians - OVERALL BEST" section!!!

Mark Lunn finds a TOP 20 Gaussian also!
New #16 in "Top 20 Member Gaussians - BEST SCORE" section (see below)!

 


17th August 2002


SETI SYNERGY 100th in ALL SETI@home!

Werner Humann joins us with 2891 WUs complete! Our 215th member from United States.
Carnage joins at starts up at SETI@home! Our 216th member from United States.
Marlene joins at starts up at SETI@home! Our 6th member from Switzerland.

As soon as the TOP 200 updates I predict we will be 100th overall in the teams rankings!  An amazing day for us again!  Thanks to everyone for your continued support... SETI Synergy is special in so many ways.  Great individual members, but the sum of all those members is SO MUCH MORE.

The question is WHAT do we show in our little box in the left panel.  We have got the 100th place now... do we show 99th? 90th? 50th?  Even 1st?  We have a little poll made up at our forum ... click here to have your say FORUM POLL: 100TH PLACE IN THE WORLD!  (note you need to be registered at our forum to vote... it takes 20 seconds.)


ANOTHER Member creatable subgroups (or "Virtual Team") Created!

It seems the "Over the Hill Gang" now has some competition!  The subgroup is called...

  • Young'uns

Short and simple.  Created by Ncmtngems, this subgroup is for anyone in SETI Synergy that is under the age of 40!  If you fit this description you may want to drop on over to "Member Created Subgroups" and find out how to add your name to the list!

If you have a group of people that run SETI and have something in common... then let us know and we can create a subgroup for you as well!


Werner Humann SMASHES straight into our Hall of Fame!


Check out all recently sent in Member Profiles!!!
View the UPDATED profile for Alainus
View the NEW profile for Carnage


More members let us know how they heard of SETI SYNERGY!
** Pctech heard of us from Zain Upton **
** Marlene heard of us from Richard W. Lubrich Jr. **


16th August 2002


Official News from SETI@Home site.

— August 15, 2002 —
Outage Alert: There will be another quick one hour outage on Friday, August 16, starting at 17:00 UTC. The data server will be unreachable during this time.


Skullz crashes into our Hall of Fame!


Check out all recently sent in Member Profiles!!!
View the NEW profile for George Milburn
View the NEW profile for Thom Souza
View the NEW profile for Goofy
View the NEW profile for OmniDude
View the NEW profile for Paul
View the NEW profile for Simon Treen


More members let us know how they heard of SETI SYNERGY!
** George Milburn heard of us from Zain Upton **
** Simon Treen heard of us from Zain Upton **
** Ron Bobarsky heard of us from Richard W. Lubrich Jr. **
** Paul heard of us from Ncmtngems **


13th August 2002


2 MORE join SETI Synergy!

PMWSF joins us with 801 WUs complete! Our 213th member from United States.
George Milburn joins us with 120 WUs complete! Our 214th member from United States.

Ffenliv comes back to us after a BRIEF leaving fully explained on our forum (not by his choice!).  PMWSF actually has a blank name in our team stats... and I have let him know how to fix it.

 


11th August 2002


Closing in on 100th team overall in ALL SETI!

KillerMolch24 joins us with 12 WUs complete! Our 21st member from Germany.

LeRoy D.L. didn't actually leave either (as listed in the side panel) rather he changed his name to SmoothOperator.

Not TOO far and we break the break into the top 100 teams of ALL SETI.  It seems like the milestones are dropping like flies!  Is it possible we hit the top 50 by the end of the year?  Surely not!


Check out all recently sent in Member Profiles!!!
View the NEW profile for SmoothOperator
View the NEW profile for Ron Bobarsky


More members let us know how they heard of SETI SYNERGY!
** ELLIE heard of us from SmoothOperator **
** Hyperbunny heard of us from Zain Upton **
** MWyatt heard of us from Zain Upton **


Official News from SETI@Home site.

— August 9, 2002 —
Our SETI@home data recorder is currently being serviced. We'll let you know as soon as it is up and running again.

— August 5, 2002 —
We've completed our user DB migration. (See Technical News Reports for details.)


9th August 2002


500 MEMBERS!

Mwyatt joins us with 3151 WUs complete! Our 210th member from United States.
Jimbo_2400 joins us with 73 WUs complete! Our 211th member from United States.
Goofy joins us with 38 WUs complete! Our 212th member from United States.
(United States ranked #1 for Number of Members, ranked #1 for Work Units by Country)

AXXXLP joins at starts up at SETI@home! Our 20th member from Germany.
(Germany ranked #3 for Number of Members, ranked #6 for Work Units by Country)

500 MEMBERS!  A huge day for SETI Synergy.  To think just 18 months ago we had just 1 member (me) and slowly but surely we have grown each week to the wonderful team of world wide crunchers we are.  Some people enjoy SETI for the personal achievement, others for helping the project... I enjoy it cause of our wonderful team!

As to exactly WHO was our 500th member?  Well that may remain a mystery.  It was either Goofy or Jimbo_2400.  At 7am yesterday we have 499, and by 4pm when I arrived home we had 501.  There is no official record of these type of things kept by SETI for me... so to be our own little unexplained phenomenon!

As for the people that "left"... Rudedog renamed (as did Adam earlier in the week), and Ffenliv actually didn't mean to leave, it seems a "friend" of his hacked into his account and made him leave... he will be coming home REAL soon *grin*


MWyatt ROCKETS into our Hall of Fame!

 


7th August 2002


498 Members!... Who will be our LUCKY 500th?

Ron Bobarsky joins us with 554 WUs complete! Our 208th member from United States.
Ellie joins us with 16 WUs complete! Our 209th member from United States.
Garry Brown joins us with 409 WUs complete! Our 40th member from United Kingdom.
Mik_M joins us with 173 WUs complete! Our 3rd member from Italy.
SpeedyII joins at starts up at SETI@home! Our 19th member from Germany.
(Germany ranked #3 for Number of Members, ranked #5 for Work Units by Country)

Today another member left, I had no word of why... it was all a bit strange really.  Like I always say to people, find a team which is great you... maybe SETI Synergy was just not for Ffenliv.  Good luck where ever you end up crunching.


MORE recent Hall of Fame MEMBERS!!!
Congrats to Alainus, Bolgar and Lynn Ross for hitting 1000 Work Units


5th August 2002


One more member closer to our 500!  Just 5 to go...
AND WHAT A GREAT MEMBER!

The Paranoid Android joins us with 7096 WUs complete! Our 40th member from United Kingdom.

The Paranoid Android... WOW... 7000+ work units... I only dream of such work unit totals!  It is great to see we still have the ability to pull members no matter if they have 1 work unit or nearing 10000!

The member that left today "Adam" was really just a name change to "Adam (SATownChevy)".


Funnily enough The Paranoid Android ROCKETS into our Hall of Fame!


Gaussians remain a HOT FAVOURITE of many members - These just in
Are these messages from outer space?

Volfann as well sends in a great PB Gaussian!
New #10 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests" section (see below)!
SAME one ranks as New #14 in "Top 20 Member Gaussians - OVERALL BEST" section!!!
also sent the New #4 in "Individual Member Gaussians - The UNLUCKY Ones" section.

Beast of War finds a TOP 20 Gaussian!
New #10 in "Top 20 Member Gaussians - BEST FIT" section (see below)!

Gabitza sends in their first Gaussian!
New #53 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests" section (see below)!

HansJ sends in another PB Gaussian!
New #26 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests" section (see below)!

Dark-Snow also sends in another PB Gaussian!
New #64 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests" section (see below).

~IceMan~ lucks out with this Gaussian by just 0.020!
New #13 in "Individual Member Gaussians - The UNLUCKY Ones" section.

Steve Meads ROCKETS up the PB Gaussian List!
New #35 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests" section (see below)!

Jim Loucks sends in a great PB Gaussian!
New #18 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests" section (see below)!

David Cook also sends in a great PB Gaussian!
New #33 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests" section (see below)!

and FINALLY K9_3000 sends in a great PB Gaussian!
New #44 in "Individual Member Gaussians - Personal Bests" section (see below)!


4th August 2002


More members let us know how they heard of SETI SYNERGY!
** John Hetherington heard of us from Zain Upton **
** Alex heard of us from Zain Upton **


Check out all recently sent in Member Profiles!!!
View the NEW profile for Alex
View the NEW profile for Scott Bird


3rd August 2002


4 More members join SETI Synergy!
** ANOTHER new member from a NEW COUNTRY! **

Henry_Zhangxh our 1st member from the China!!!!!

Henry-Zhangxh joins us with 1 WUs complete! Our 1st member from China.
Saral Talwar joins us with 120 WUs complete! Our 3rd member from India.
dcmike joins us with 48 WUs complete! Our 207th member from United States.
Frank Fileccia joins us with 100 WUs complete! Our 29th member from Canada.

Another great day as yet ANOTHER country from around the world joins up with SETI Synergy!  China, a country I find absolutely amazing with well over 1 Billion people.  Not too far to go until we have 50 countries represented from around the world!


Official News from SETI@Home site.

— August 2, 2002 —
We are currently working on several nested problems that have been affecting web/data server access over the past couple of days. Please stay tuned...

— August 1, 2002 —
The Planetary Society wrote a new article, Solving Problems at Arecibo, about our current receiver situation.


A big HELLO to anyone with a profile I read today!

I had a little spare time today, so had a read through some of the SETI@home profiles again and let the owners of the profiles that are NOT in SETI teams (and some of them are GREAT profiles) about SETI Synergy.

For those people... Enjoy having a look around our site, feel free to post on our forum and meet some of our members, or to reply to the email with any questions you may have.  Many many people running SETI eventually find us (for whatever reason), see the things we have here to keep SETI exciting (even for the old school crunchers from 1999), and end up joining!  I hope you will consider us too.


1st August 2002


8 More members join SETI Synergy!

Joseph Stans joins us with 701 WUs complete! Our 203rd member from United States.
TeVaHs joins us with 579 WUs complete! Our 204th member from United States.
Alex joins us with 361 WUs complete! Our 205th member from United States.
Paul joins us with 239 WUs complete! Our 206th member from United States.
John Hetherington joins us with 194 WUs complete! Our 40th member from United Kingdom.
Janne Ollikainen joins us with 183 WUs complete! Our 3rd member from Finland.
Scott Bird joins us with 97 WUs complete! Our 96th member from Australia.
Walter joins us with 3 WUs complete! Our 28th member from Canada.


Congratulations to 
Renι S@ndi Andersen
 for crunching past 10K Work Units!
...and Congratulations to TriStar105 - Our latest Hall of Fame Member.

An amazing effort by Renι who is still FLYING up the rankings.  10K work units is just mind-blowing for most of us, and it is one of the GREAT achievements for any SETI member.  A BIG round of applause from myself and ALL at SETI Synergy!  Not only that but Renι had the 369th SETI profile out of ALL set users (no over 31000 at the official SETI site)... well worth a look below.


Official News from SETI@Home site.

— July 31, 2002 —
OUTAGE NOTICE. UFO Communications, which carries our data server traffic down to the PAIX, will be doing some equipment maintenance tomorrow. This will result in a 2 hour outage beginning sometime between 07:00 and 13:00 UT.