I noticed this morning that the CPU in my main Linux workstation wasn’t being used. This may seem like an odd statement if you don’t know that I’ve been in the habit of running the SETI@Home client on whatever Linux machines I can since May of ‘99. Running the command-line client with the “niceness” turned up from a cron job is part-and-parcel of my setting up a new workstation.

So I looked at the SETI@Home website to see if anything had changed. Boy, has it ever.

A few minutes ago I activated my transferred account and converted over to the new BOINC client code, and I’m once again happily churning out SETI results packets. Of course, now I have to make this update to all of the other machines I have that run the old client code…