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this is a bit outdated now: SETI@home is a scientific experiment, run by UC Berkeley, that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
First, download the analyzing program . It has versions for almost any computing platform, and a nice screen saver version for desktop PCs (Win9x/NT) and Macs, so it doesn't even interferes with your work! the first time you run it you'll be asked to log in, and that's it! To join the Israeli team, click hereand click the "Join" link.

perturbences, chines, etc.

whatching all these reporters at the daily NASA briefing asking again and again if the "tile damage" will cause any problem, and if the chine perturbances* might blow the shuttle to pieces, leaves me amazed. it's not that suddently everything goes wrong. my guess is that these kind of minor damages happened before, and were not a problem, and won't be a problem now either.

i know this is the kind of line of thought that eventually brought the Columbia down, but from what i see, the only reason reporters are asking about this is because now is the first time we can actually see them in orbit. in the past, we only saw the remains of the chimes after landing, and the flight computer managed to get over the disturbances.

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* these chines or whatever they are spelled are small and thin pieces that are inserted in the gaps between the tiles on the shuttle. sometimes, some of them fall off, or partly fall off, and stick out. and when you travel at Mach 20, it starts to become a problem.

2005-07-31 23:17:33 GMT

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In 1997 I tried studying for a degree in physics at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev , but failed a course in thermodynamics and machanical statistics, and couldn't complete the degree. After working here and there to save money I started in studying something easyer and more appealing in 2002: Computer Science at the Tel-Aviv-Jafa College.

I am also involved in the Mozilla project, where I lead a team of people that translate Mozilla to hebrew. we have a web site at www.mozilla.org.il.

I made a page explaineing how to write Assembler code in MS-Visual C++ 6.0, you might find usefull.