Precedence Bulk (Dec 10 2009)

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Author	Message
Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1375 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 953685 - Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 21:33:23 UTC
	So the first round of donation pleas are being sent. Sending out mass-mails is an art and a science, none of which I claim to be good at. I'm sure lots of these mails are being spam blocked or whatever, but we can only do so much to given our resources to get the word out. One good piece of news is that paypal donations may actually be a possibility in the very near future. Imagine that. I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: I appreciate all the efforts and contributions (in all forms) of our wonderful volunteer user base. I know we're already getting your valuable computer time, so the monetary donations you may decide to give us are in addition to your current level of generosity. Anyway.. back to work. What was I working on? Oh yes. Data pipeline stuff. What else... So we did end up abandoning that strangely resource-hungry science database index building task. We're now just dumping the whole table fragment to an ascii file, dropping the fragment, and rebuilding from scratch via that file. That may end up being a lot faster after all. An ATI version of the client is currently in beta test. I have no idea about anything beyond that, but it seemed worthy of at least mentioning it here. - Matt ____________ -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude
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Ageless Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 11636 Credit: 2,001,903 RAC: 4,142	Message 953702 - Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 22:53:04 UTC - in response to Message 953685.
	Can you tell how big the database is these days, Matt? The Informix database at that. It was asked a couple of weeks ago in one of the lower forums. People wanted the ability to download it or browse through it. ATI app? Oh no! /me changes all GPU preferences to No. ;-) ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception.
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Neil Blaikie Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 142 Credit: 5,566,899 RAC: 1	Message 953709 - Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 23:19:08 UTC Last modified: 10 Dec 2009, 23:22:58 UTC
	* CORRECTION *OOOPS I did a quick search and didn't pay attention to the fact it was you that answered that question. In response to that question, see this thread http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=56306&nowrap=true#951600 ____________
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B-Man Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Feb 01 Posts: 253 Credit: 147,366 RAC: 1	Message 953714 - Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 23:38:09 UTC
	Matt got the e-mail but only the headers nothing of the message got to me. It did not end up in the spam filter. ____________
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arkayn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 3088 Credit: 40,317,856 RAC: 65,976	Message 953719 - Posted: 10 Dec 2009, 23:42:40 UTC - in response to Message 953685.
	An ATI version of the client is currently in beta test. I have no idea about anything beyond that, but it seemed worthy of at least mentioning it here. - Matt I will be willing to bet that I recognize the app that is there as I was alpha testing it on Lunatics. ____________
	ID: 953719 ·

T. Bell Send message Joined: 27 Mar 06 Posts: 19 Credit: 36,467 RAC: 19	Message 953732 - Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 0:20:18 UTC
	Thanks for that Matt. I had been wondering why the splitters were running again after the routine Tuesday maintenance as you had wanted to commit a lot of database resources to rebuilding that large Astropulse table's index. If it can get done quicker through means other than consuming the database resources it saves having to halt workunit production which is great for all of us. -- Tom :-) ____________
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Swibby Bear Send message Joined: 1 Aug 01 Posts: 236 Credit: 6,575,943 RAC: 3,127	Message 953771 - Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 3:33:23 UTC
	Happy Holidays, Matt
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Link Send message Joined: 18 Sep 03 Posts: 671 Credit: 1,184,620 RAC: 654	Message 953851 - Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 10:57:43 UTC
	Is actually everyone getting the email with the words "You've been identified as one of our most active volunteers"? Well, I got one and all my job done this year fot seti was worth about 130,000 Cr... that's what some others do in a day. Not that I don't like to be one of the most active ones or something, but it made me curious if there is a limit? ____________ .
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Wandering Willie Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 133 Credit: 1,283,425 RAC: 217	Message 953854 - Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 11:38:29 UTC - in response to Message 953851.
	I believe so received mine a few minutes ago Michael
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Aurora Borealis Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 2975 Credit: 4,236,518 RAC: 2,605	Message 953855 - Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 11:57:38 UTC - in response to Message 953851. Last modified: 11 Dec 2009, 12:04:41 UTC
	Is actually everyone getting the email with the words "You've been identified as one of our most active volunteers"? Well, I got one and all my job done this year fot seti was worth about 130,000 Cr... that's what some others do in a day. Not that I don't like to be one of the most active ones or something, but it made me curious if there is a limit? I'm guessing it's sent to all active accounts. My Seti RAC is in the neighborhood of 15-20. Got mine yesterday. It doesn't appear to be personalize in any way other than the salutation, unlike the WCG newsletters for example, which contain specific sub-project number breakdown. ____________ Questions? Answers are in the "Unofficial" BOINC Wiki. Boinc V7.0.27 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470
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DJStarfox Send message Joined: 23 May 01 Posts: 1040 Credit: 485,117 RAC: 71	Message 953877 - Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 15:23:39 UTC - in response to Message 953855.
	I'm guessing it's sent to all active accounts. My Seti RAC is in the neighborhood of 15-20. Got mine yesterday. It doesn't appear to be personalize in any way other than the salutation, unlike the WCG newsletters for example, which contain specific sub-project number breakdown. If they could tie a work unit to a particular candidate pulse in the NitPkr, then you could put those candidate signals in the email. What a way to reward a year's worth of results. Maybe they could do that for next year's email.
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Wingless Wonder Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 11 Credit: 12,134,175 RAC: 11	Message 954075 - Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 2:23:44 UTC
	I received the email and it appears to be a plain text attachment, rather than plain text in the body of the message. I think plain text in the body is best, if I had a preference.
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 5059 Credit: 40,868,788 RAC: 53,038	Message 954137 - Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 8:31:34 UTC - in response to Message 954075.
	I received the email and it appears to be a plain text attachment, rather than plain text in the body of the message. I think plain text in the body is best, if I had a preference. It's html. How it appears depends on your email programme & how i'ts configured. For me, it was an attachment as well as in the message body. ____________ Grant Darwin NT.
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mjdb Send message Joined: 5 Jul 00 Posts: 11 Credit: 5,891,920 RAC: 6,497	Message 954146 - Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 9:51:22 UTC - in response to Message 953855.
	Aurora Borealis wrote ... It doesn't appear to be personalize in any way other than the salutation ... The version I received didn't have a personalised salutation in the body of the email, it just says "Dear SETI@home volunteer, I'm Dan Werthimer, the Chief Scientist of the SETI@home project. You've been identified as one of our most active volunteers," Seti@home knows my name and where I live, but I am happy to get a generic non-personalised email rather than have Seti@Home waste resources on something more complicated. However I was actually a little offended by the (presumably unthinking ?) assumption in the email that everyone who donates computer time and or money is a resident/taxpayer of the USA. It said "your gift is tax-deductible" - I assume that is true for those paying US tax, but I don't think it is true everywhere else in the world. as an example http://www.ird.govt.nz/donee-organisations/ It would have been easy to substitute "may be" for "is", or specify "for US taxpayers" or whatever the appropriate correct wording actually applies. Martin.
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Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2688 Credit: 7,659,703 RAC: 22,624	Message 954149 - Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 10:14:57 UTC - in response to Message 954146.
	Aurora Borealis wrote [quote It said "your gift is tax-deductible" - I assume that is true for those paying US tax, but I don't think it is true everywhere else in the world. as an example http://www.ird.govt.nz/donee-organisations/ It would have been easy to substitute "may be" for "is", or specify "for US taxpayers" or whatever the appropriate correct wording actually applies. Martin. The fact is that it is NOT true in the majority of countries on this globe. U.S stands out almost by its own even in that regard. As a side note, that special tax deductible rule, is one of the reasons why the U.S has such enormous amount of crazy religious cults (yes they too can become tax deductible entities very easy) One example only would be the criminal cult of Scientology. Sten-Arne
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Albireo380 Send message Joined: 21 Mar 08 Posts: 117 Credit: 1,021,817 RAC: 1,036	Message 954244 - Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 18:33:22 UTC
	Well, I received my "request for cash" yesterday. It worked - perhaps a mellow feeling after a few glasses of wine was a plus also : ) Payment sent last night - can't wait to see that green star against my name. A small donation just before Christmas, to something we all believe is worthwhile seems reasonable. Tom
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T. Bell Send message Joined: 27 Mar 06 Posts: 19 Credit: 36,467 RAC: 19	Message 954287 - Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 23:31:47 UTC Last modified: 12 Dec 2009, 23:35:09 UTC
	I thought something was odd when I left this account unused for 3 years (demand was far higher than I realised) and actually only got into it around October this year yet I was considered "as one of our most active volunteers". I look at most people's records here and wonder how I even come close to that :-P ____________
	ID: 954287 ·

rob smith Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 5451 Credit: 20,720,148 RAC: 127,780	Message 954397 - Posted: 13 Dec 2009, 13:11:51 UTC
	As the stamp said "Philately will get you everywhere...." ____________ Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?
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wulf 21 Send message Joined: 18 Apr 09 Posts: 70 Credit: 10,747,292 RAC: 11,818	Message 954410 - Posted: 13 Dec 2009, 14:20:10 UTC
	According to BOINCstats only 17 % of the users are active at all; from that point of view everyone who has RAC>0 is one of the most active volunteers. :) Maybe everyone with RAC has received that mail?
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jravin Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 717 Credit: 61,260,377 RAC: 70,894	Message 954412 - Posted: 13 Dec 2009, 14:41:23 UTC
	Geez - I must be prescient. I actually donated 5 days prior to this post - guess my thiotimoline diet is working!!! ____________
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