Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:40:41 -0400 From: "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com> To: "Brett Taylor" <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Team FreeBSD Message-ID: <000901bebd8e$bfcf6b80$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906221228150.29988-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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> > Hi > > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Kelly Yancey wrote: > > > > That's it for the news. Now, I have a question: does anyone know who > > > is freebsd@distributed.net? Since the rc5des client in the ports > > > collection defaults to this e-mail address, and it's doing a decent > > > keyrate, it would be nice if it would be a part of Team FreeBSD. But > > > I need to know who to contact. > > > > Maybe freebsd@distributed.net? :-) > > I'd guess: > MAINTAINER= dbaker@distributed.net > > Anyway, I'm doing seti@home - it's more fun for me than cracking keys - I > did rc5 for a year or so and their still not even 10% through the > keyspace. > And how far is seta@home along in finding little green men? ;) I have to admit that finding evidence of extraterrestial life would be one of the great, if not the greatest, milestone of mankind...but how long is it going to take? 1 year? 10 years? 100 years? In the meantime, I personally can derive a greater sense of accomplishment from more readily accomplishable tasks. True, cracking digital encryption isn't as sexy, but it has a tangible timeframe to completion. Also, distributed.net is organizing other, more practical, projects including OGR. Which when available, I intend to put equivalent effort into pushing Team FreeBSD to the top of that effort's rankings. But again, there are just my personal beliefs, since we were sharing :) > And besides Team FreeBSD is 4th at Seti (in clubs) and right now although > we have 1/13 the members as Team Slashdot, we have only 5 x less the # of > blocks. Imagine if we had equal (or even say 5x the members we have now)! > :-) > That's great...just another way to draw more attention to FreeBSD. There should be plenty enough idle cycles among FreeBSD users to push FreeBSD to the top of both distributed.net's and seta@home's team rankings. It's just a matter of drumming up support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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