October 29th, 1999
Ok, we have been slacking off at Team Mac Observer and haven't delivered a Team update in weeks. We apologize, but here we go, back in the swing of things again! We are working on having very regular updates again very shortly. Team Mac Observer is our SETI@home team. If you need more information on SETI@home, read all about it. The good news is that the Team continued to grow during the last month. We now stand at a proud 303 members! We also continue to see the Team become faster and faster. Our Top 10 Fastest Averages are solidly in the 8 to 9 hour per work unit mark. The entire Team is about to break into the sub-17 hour average, making us one of the fastest Mac teams in the project! In addition, our Top 10 Most Completed Units group is turning in some unbelievable results. The bad news is that we have slipped to #22 in the Top 100 Club Team rankings. We need all the Team members to make sure they are cranking out those work units so we can move back into the Top 20! There are currently 3 Mac teams in the Top 25, with the TidBits team sitting at #26 right now. Team Art Bell (tee hee hee) has taken over the #1 spot with an unbelievable lead of 11,000 members, more than 5 times the #2 and #3 teams. On the platform side, the Mac platform is still firmly in command of the #2 spot behind Windows. Despite improvements in the Windows client, the Wintel platform is still turning in an average of over 30 hours per completed work unit, while the Mac platform is averaging an average of about 20 hours, 51 minutes. Once threatened by the Solaris-Sparc platform for the #2 spot, the Mac platform now leads Solaris-Sparc by some 110,000 work units. :-) So what can you do to help? If you haven't already, join Team Mac Observer and help us show that the Mac kicks processing-butt! We have one of the fastest Mac teams, but we need your help! Get your friends and family to join too. It's a very easy process (we have all the instructions for doing so), and takes very little time (less than 7 minutes). Finally, we would like to officially welcome Low End Mac to the Team! We have added their logo and a link to their great site in the Company listings. Your company could have its logo on the Team Mac Observer home page too by signing up 2 or more computers on our Team.
[4:15 PM] SETI@home Team Mac Observer Update, FINALLY!