Reading over my morning role call, I found a Slashdot Article about how Seti@Home found something…
Basically, a geek’s wife had her laptop stolen and Seti was running on the computer. It checked in and he grabbed the IP addresses. Long story short, he got the laptop back.
More interesting though, is the actual Slashdot Article. The very first comment starts out as:
SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the volunteers home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Those of you that are visiting Slashdot for the first time and didn’t know that, you might want to stick around (and scroll down) because we’re going to explain what a Beowulf Cluster is next.
…And the jokes role from there. It’s a pretty funny read of all the stale Slashdot’esq jokes. The whole top section of comments is rated +2-5 Funny. It’s a good read for an otherwise boring morning.
