[H-GEN] SETI at home

[Martin Pool]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com>)

Rob Kearey wrote:

> > Perhaps they could use a more efficient format but since the data is
> > essentially random it can't be compressed.  This may be a problem if
> > you're concerned about volume or connection time charges.
> 
> Well, let's see:
> 
> -rw-rw-r--   1 robk     robk       356281 Jul 26 15:00 work_unit.txt
> -rw-rw-r--   1 robk     robk       270208 Jul 27 09:48 work_unit.txt.bz2
> -rw-rw-r--   1 robk     robk       270485 Jul 27 09:47 work_unit.txt.gz
> 
> Seems to compress OK to me - I'd call 86k a worthwhile reduction. I
> accuse you of lies and perdition.

Not guilty, your worship.  That comes under "more efficient format"
because IIRC the data is base64 encoded.  It still seems like a
worthwhile feature request.

--
Martin

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