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27th May 2001

Weekly Update # 12

Stats - 86 Members, 40387 Work Units complete,  73.91 CPU years time!  A HUGE week!  Over 12000 Work units added, largely in part to HisDad!  But even without his 10K WU the rest of us still added over 1200 WUs!  For a weekly breakdown of every statistics known to man (for ALL our members) check out our member weekly ranks  Click here for more info...

An amazing week for new members! 11 new member joined our team this week  Welcome to:
Tma, Tmalm, Citron, HisDad, Zynix, Morinon, @ltec, Frank Brown, Shadowkiller, Hannibus, Anonymous.

Congrats to ALL of these members for passing Big Milestones this week:
1000 WUs done: HisDad!
250 WUs done: Shadowkiller
50 WUs done: Gary Shaw
10 WUs done: Cadaver, Kylie, Goozoe
1st WU done:  CAL Staff, Anonymous

Over 50% of  our members have submitted their country (and optional town and state) for our Subgroups sectionIt would be great if we could get that to 100%!  It seems we have member from over 10 countries!  Check that section out.

Also, remember if you invite anyone to our team and they join up, make sure you let me know by emailing setiathall@email.com so they can be listed in your "Six degrees".  This way we can keep track of new members, where they come from, and have some fun seeing who is inviting who!

24th May 2001

HisDad joins us!  Welcome!

Another big day for our team!  HisDad joins our team with over 10K work units completed.  He was recently congratulated at the official SETI site for this milestone!  Watch out for his web site and dedication page in our "SETI Hall of Fame" section (in view member details).

His amazing totals slide him into our new #3 spot overall... still behind Matchles and Eight.

20th May 2001

Weekly Update # 11

Stats - 75 Members, 38300 Work Units complete, 56.50 CPU years time!  We are consistently averaging well over 600 Work Units a week now!  For a weekly breakdown of every statistics known to man (for ALL our members) check out our member weekly ranks  Click here for more info...

Just 1 new member this week... but a very important one!  Welcome to:
CAL Unit Staff!

CAL Unit Staff are the staff members (thanks Paul) who look after a set of computers that are running at Flinders Medical Centre (teaching hospital).  The CAL department is the Computer Assisted Learning team that is responsible for running the computers available to students in the Library and home rooms.  Welcome along and enjoy the search!

Congrats to ALL of these members for passing Big Milestones this week:
10 WUs done: Deon Pearson, DazzedElf, Erni, Terry Upton, Parrhole
1st WU done:  Peter Lim

13th May 2001

Weekly Update # 10

Stats - 74 Members, 37421 Work Units complete, 54.59 CPU years time!  A very big week with over 650 WUs churned out by existing members.  BUT the big gain came from somewhere else *queue mysterious music*.  For a weekly breakdown of every statistics known to man (for ALL our members) check out our member weekly ranks  Click here for more info...

This week we would like to WELCOME 3 more NEW members:
Marco Aldinucci, Unforgiven and Trav!

Marco Aldinucci comes to us with over 5200 Work Units already completed in over 8 years of CPU time!  An amazing record that rockets him straight into our 3rd spot overall.  Marco is also our first member from Italy.  Click here http://www.di.unipi.it/~aldinuc/ to have a look at Marco's personal site and see what he does in real life whilst not looking for Aliens!

Congrats to ALL of these members for passing Big Milestones this week:
100 WUs done : Helen Fletcher
50 WUs done : Eltharion_doa
10 WUs done: Elusive Princess, Rachel Thompson, Gary McLaughlin, Quadrapus
1st WU done:  Unforgiven

Our last little poll was quite a hit, with 50 people submitting votes.  The results were:

Do you think life exists apart
from on Earth?
 #   % 
Yes, and it is MORE intelligent
than us.
31 62%
Yes, probably just like us
running their own SETI project!
10 20%
Yes, but it is still primordial
ooze.
3 6%
I have no idea. May be, may
be not.
3 6%
No, dont be stupid. 3 6%

6th May 2001

Weekly Update # 9

Stats - 71 Members, 31513 Work Units complete, 44.97 CPU years time!  Another great week.  We climbed up 1 spot in the top 200 for university teams.  We are now at position 172! (link to top 200 from "Group stats")  Check out our member weekly ranks  Click here for more info...

This week we would like to welcome 2 more NEW members:
Ãñôñýmòû§® and Goozoe!
  Welcome and enjoy all we have to offer!

Congrats to ALL of these members for passing Big Milestones this week:
50 WUs done : Lisa Summarsell
10 WUs done: Stryder, Shadoweaver, Rodge, Wolverine, Beeblebrox, Soulweaver
1 WU done:  Terry Upton, Jono, Goozoe

More details to follow in the weekly newsletter.  If you aren't getting it just email setiathall@email.com and I will put you on the list.  Anyone can get the email... not just members!


1st May 2001

All systems are go again!

As many of you have noticed the servers are up.  Here is the official word:
"April 30, 2001
Yesterday, the informix engine running our science database hung, apparently with a resource contention. It did so again today. We are looking into the cause. We did take advantage of the downtime to upgrade the science DB machine (one of the Sun E450's). We added 2 more CPUs and another .5GB of real memory."

If you are having problems now let me know through email... cheers Zain. setiathall@email.com