Hi all,

It's been a very long time since my last newsletter.
My new job keeps me extremly busy, my appologies for
that!

The next version of SetiHide would've been ready and
out already, if it wasn't for the berkeley guys...

If I understand
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/setifuture.html
correctly, the SETI@home data server (as we know it)
will get shut down around February 2003. Something
new will start right away - Southern hemisphere data
recorder.

Will there be a new seti@home client? Will it still
produce those .sah files? Any compability with the
old client?

I sure don't know. Unfortunately, I don't really
have the time to do excessive research on this topic,
so I decided to "freeze" the next version of SetiHide
until we know what's coming. 

Coding SetiHide is fun, don't get me wrong, but I simply
don't feel like spending a lot of time on a project, that
might be dead in a few months.

Also, the core code of SetiHide 1.6 is still in a state
where it could get adapted to small changes of the Seti@Home
client quite easily.

Anyone who has info on the next generation of seti@home clients,
feel free to let me know... (mailto:oli@scheit.de - please
do not simply click on the "reply" button to this mail... thanx!)

Please understand if I don't find the time to answer. There's
quite a few hundred people on this list, and quite a few
thousand SetiHide users out there. I'm still getting a lot of emails,
but since I'm working from 8am till 8pm most days, I simply
don't find the time to write back.

I read them all, though.

Have a nice weekend,
regards,
Oli

P.S.: for the curious: I'm the it-department manager
of a German insurance company.