From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 23 8:45:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D7814C1B for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-163.thuntek.net [207.66.52.163]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id JAA15228; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:45:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <37710068.45691461@thuntek.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:42:32 -0600 From: Donald Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@thuntek.net Organization: Wilde Media X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kelly Yancey Cc: Brett Taylor , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Team FreeBSD References: <000901bebd8e$bfcf6b80$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kelly Yancey wrote: > > 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 :) > SETI could be 5 minutes from finding the Bugs... or it could be 500 years. What matters is the benefit -- whether they're friendly or not =8-O -- not the work. If you crack an RC5 key, you're only cracking ONE message's code, and we already know IT CAN BE DONE, given enough cycles. -- Donald Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media PMB 117, 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd SE v: 505-771-0709 f: 771-1356 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 web: http://www.Wilde-Media.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message