SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation 621
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently the most prolific of users in the SETI@Home community has resigned his job as a school technology supervisor after it was revealed he had the software installed on some 5000 school machines. The school claims to have lost $1 million in upkeep on the affected machines."
Guys, focus on what's important (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Would cancer research been a better use? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Commendable... (Score:5, Funny)
One day I came to work, and my boss was breathless (I wished physically, not just literally), he couldn't figure out why all these boxes were all running at 100% CPU. After several hours (he was SOOO slow) he figured out it was SETI. He tried in vain to prove it was me, I wasn't going to admit it, I knew that between him and HR they would hang me, over at best the theft of some company power (which is stupid because every linux admin had super shiny screensavers that their computers couldn't quite handle, and they had to be running at 100% util for 16+ hours each day once they went home). It's been a while since I've ran SETI, but what I recall is he could have figured out it was me if he knew to check the ID it was uploading the results under, then went to SETI's site and check the ID, which would have at least pointed him to the name Tynin, which since my personal email address uses tynin in it, it should have been the nail in my coffin. Luckly, he was incompetent, and missed that detail, and I sail past what would have been one of the more silly disasters of my life.
If you are reading this Ed, please know your staff will celebrate the day you die, pizza and beer in the hallways!
Re:Some figures don't quite add up... (Score:3, Funny)
How did they quantify the $1 million dollar amount?
They got it from the guys that calculate the "street value" of marijuana busts.
Higley superintendent Denise Birdwell... (Score:4, Funny)
Higley superintendent Denise Birdwell does not in fact welcome our new extra terrestrial overlords.
Re:$1 Million... Really? (Score:5, Funny)
PHB: I've got a great idea, why don't we run all our programs as screen savers?
Dilbert: How will we type? As soon as someone hits a key the application will close and we'll be back at the desktop consuming electricity again.
PHB: Couldn't we login remotely? We could create a terminal application that ran as a screen saver!
Dilbert: Again, how will we type?
PHB: We could type really slowly.
Wally: I already do, somedays I don't type anything at all!
PHB: See Dilbert, you need to be more like Wally!
Re:Commendable... (Score:5, Funny)
Luckly, he was incompetent, and missed that detail, and I sail past what would have been one of the more silly disasters of my life. If you are reading this Ed, please know your staff will celebrate the day you die, pizza and beer in the hallways!
Why you dirty son of a %$#& Ty, you'll pay for this! I knew it was you! No more pizza and beer for anyone or you're all fired!
Who wants that? (Score:3, Funny)
So the issue is not the installation of the program, which would have been okay if the technician had installed Cancer@Home instead.
Anybody wants Cancer@home?
Re:Commendable... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but it was *alien* pornography. I don't think there are any applicable Earth laws..
Re:$1 Million... Really? (Score:5, Funny)
...after it was revealed he had the software installed on some 5000 school machines.
IIRC, this guy was in charge of about 5000 computers.
Your memory is astounding.
Re:SETI (Score:4, Funny)
Seriously, I don't believe in God beyond the movies, and I don't understand the interest about religion. I'd like to know why would someone go to church, can some god-people tell me about it?
(But please no conspiracies)
That's why I run NUKES@HOME (Score:5, Funny)
The world's population is already too high, and growing beyond the unsustainable level. While it's nice to think we can get rid of something that causes pain and death, pain and death are part of life. If you reduce the death rate, you'll have to reduce the reproduction rate.
My school district's network of 8000 computers is running NUKES@HOME, helping our government figure out ways to build better nuclear weapons to save the planet for the right kind of humanity.
$5/machine? Depends on the machine... (Score:2, Funny)
As like most posters here, I ran seti@home, years ago, but I ran it on a Quad core PPC G5 - it ran one instance on each core, causing the machine to draw about 840VA - for about 20 hours a day...I figured out this was costing me about $30-35 a month. That's when I stopped running seti@home...
Re:Commendable... (Score:3, Funny)
Did I just get modded troll for quoting the article?
I broke the sacred /. commandment of not reading TFA!
What was I thinking?
Re:Oops (Score:5, Funny)
Re:$5/machine? Depends on the machine... (Score:5, Funny)
Flamebait (Score:4, Funny)
Has to be said
When will they start firing administrators for installing Windows!?