Lesson #1, Never use the word "fixed" (March 17, 2010)

Message boards : Technical News : Lesson #1, Never use the word "fixed" (March 17, 2010)

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N3UJJ Send message Joined: 23 Nov 09 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,979,778 RAC: 22	Message 980224 - Posted: 17 Mar 2010, 21:25:03 UTC - in response to Message 980219.
	Eric, My thanks also Scott ____________ N3UJJ My HamShack
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VBobier Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 41274 Credit: 32,367,878 RAC: 5,720	Message 980230 - Posted: 17 Mar 2010, 21:47:46 UTC - in response to Message 980219. Last modified: 17 Mar 2010, 21:56:39 UTC
	Thanks for the hard work and the update. You can use the word fixed for cats and dogs, but never computers. ;) Didn't IBM use the term "fixed drive" where everyone else used "hard drive". Sort of antonymic phrases... Back in the day? No, Not that I ever read and I was all over Byte and Computer Shopper magazines, Among others(Compute). Oh and before I forget, Thanks Eric for the news. :D ____________ BSG Anthem My Facebook page
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rebest Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Apr 00 Posts: 1292 Credit: 25,880,193 RAC: 16,573	Message 980247 - Posted: 17 Mar 2010, 22:06:11 UTC
	Thanks for the update. Much appreciated. ____________ Join the PACK!
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Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 12012 Credit: 19,614,992 RAC: 42,504	Message 980264 - Posted: 17 Mar 2010, 22:42:41 UTC - in response to Message 980230.
	Thanks for the hard work and the update. You can use the word fixed for cats and dogs, but never computers. ;) Didn't IBM use the term "fixed drive" where everyone else used "hard drive". Sort of antonymic phrases... Back in the day? No, Not that I ever read and I was all over Byte and Computer Shopper magazines, Among others(Compute). Actually, yes, IBM used the term Fixed Disk or Fixed Drive or even Fixed Disk Drive. Load a copy of FDISK from PC DOS (IBM's version of DOS) or MS-DOS and it will say at the top: Fixed Disk Utility (which is what the F in FDISK stands for). ____________
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[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6633 Credit: 51,268,015 RAC: 17,587	Message 980329 - Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 1:31:30 UTC Last modified: 18 Mar 2010, 1:33:32 UTC
	Validate errors again with 'hostid=5069275' after the weekly server maintenance. They were ULed during the maintenance and reported after. The same like for two weeks. :-( ____________ [Optimized project applications, for to increase your PC performance (double RAC)!][Overview of abbreviations, which are used often in forum and their meaning.] ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
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Dave Mickey Send message Joined: 19 Oct 99 Posts: 178 Credit: 9,081,342 RAC: 2,909	Message 980349 - Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 3:26:59 UTC
	In one of my previous lives (hw oriented), "fixed disk" was the complement to "removable disk", as in those drives where a cartridge or disk pack containing platters was user-loadable into the disk drive. This allowed such things as one system to support accounting, inventory, etc. applications just depending on which cartridge was loaded. Some even had a fixed platter and a removable, so the OS might be on the fixed, and the app and it's data were on the removable. Of course, you'd have to reboot to swap removeables out. When Winchesters came along, everything became "fixed"...... ____________ Dave
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Wembley Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Sep 09 Posts: 415 Credit: 882,420 RAC: 139	Message 980378 - Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 4:36:32 UTC - in response to Message 980349.
	Good old fashioned removable disk packs .... ah those were the days .... http://www.yourdictionary.com/computer/disk-pack ____________ Donate with your searches and online buys: http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/university-of-california-setihome
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parafa Send message Joined: 22 Jul 07 Posts: 11 Credit: 19,056 RAC: 0	Message 980466 - Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 11:51:00 UTC
	Try this: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=3034 Ageless wrote: "Ah, the infamous error 417. This is a HTTP error. This can possibly be fixed by telling BOINC to use HTTP 1.0 communications only. To do so, make a cc_config.xml file in your BOINC Data directory. Put these lines into it: <cc_config> <options> <http_1_0>1</http_1_0> </options> </cc_config> Open BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Advanced->Read config file. Now try to upload/download." It worked for me, I have just uploaded 2 results.
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VBobier Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 41274 Credit: 32,367,878 RAC: 5,720	Message 980544 - Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 16:32:03 UTC - in response to Message 980466.
	Try this: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=3034 Ageless wrote: "Ah, the infamous error 417. This is a HTTP error. This can possibly be fixed by telling BOINC to use HTTP 1.0 communications only. To do so, make a cc_config.xml file in your BOINC Data directory. Put these lines into it: <cc_config> <options> <http_1_0>1</http_1_0> </options> </cc_config> Open BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Advanced->Read config file. Now try to upload/download." It worked for me, I have just uploaded 2 results. Glad It worked for You, Here I still get no work available(But I'll try It, Can't hurt any to try), Which may be whats in the way for Me to get any new work, So I'll see how It goes with this file. ____________ BSG Anthem My Facebook page
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KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 1614 Credit: 4,510,832 RAC: 2,897	Message 980545 - Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 16:32:24 UTC - in response to Message 980378.
	Good old fashioned removable disk packs .... ah those were the days .... http://www.yourdictionary.com/computer/disk-pack I once worked at a place that had 8 (numbered 0-7, of course...) disk drives and 4 permanent disk packs, with about 7 temporary packs for various projects - and swappable addresses. I ran one job (I was a system operator - this is back in mainframe times...) where steps 1-7 required one address (say 5) to be a scratch pack, and steps 8-end required address 5 to be the project pack. You'd just pop out the address plug for 5 and put it in the drive (already spinning, of course... these drives took about 1.5 minutes to come up to speed!) that had the project pack. ____________ .
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[B^S] madmac Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Feb 04 Posts: 1111 Credit: 2,554,006 RAC: 1,675	Message 980606 - Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 19:30:11 UTC - in response to Message 980329. Last modified: 18 Mar 2010, 19:32:07 UTC
	Validate errors again with 'hostid=5069275' after the weekly server maintenance. They were ULed during the maintenance and reported after. The same like for two weeks. :-( ____________ [Optimized project applications, for to increase your PC performance (double RAC)!][Overview of abbreviations, which are used often in forum and their meaning.] I have got three validate errors all 17th March done uploaded either before or after the outage and one both of us have got validate errors. Host ID = 5250323 my new machine this is the fourth validae error from this machine and it is new well bought Jan this year. ____________
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[seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6633 Credit: 51,268,015 RAC: 17,587	Message 980662 - Posted: 18 Mar 2010, 22:49:23 UTC - in response to Message 980606.
	Validate errors again with 'hostid=5069275' after the weekly server maintenance. They were ULed during the maintenance and reported after. The same like for two weeks. :-( I have got three validate errors all 17th March done uploaded either before or after the outage and one both of us have got validate errors. Host ID = 5250323 my new machine this is the fourth validae error from this machine and it is new well bought Jan this year. One of my both validate errors got the 3rd wingman, so it'll be 'deleted' soon and won't be fixed. Your machine [hostid=5250323] with your three validate errors. This validate errors (yours and mine) are server related. If your wingman have the same result, for sure - and not because of your machine. I made a small look at your validate errors and your wingmen have the same results. One of your three validate errors [wuid=582108644] have a wingman also with validate error. BTW. I saw you let run only SSE3 opt. app on your Q8300. I would guess this CPU can also SSSE3, or maybe SSE4.1 . And then you would see a little speed up in calculation. ____________ [Optimized project applications, for to increase your PC performance (double RAC)!][Overview of abbreviations, which are used often in forum and their meaning.] ____________ >Das Deutsche Cafe. The German Cafe.<
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Nate Itkin Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 3 Credit: 578,097 RAC: 207	Message 980723 - Posted: 19 Mar 2010, 1:46:08 UTC
	Looks like seti had a dazzling 48 hrs. of uptime before going down again (now approximately 03/19/2010 01:45 UTC) ____________
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 23367 Credit: 4,633,292 RAC: 3,932	Message 980819 - Posted: 19 Mar 2010, 8:44:12 UTC
	Just got a load of work at 08:30 GMT friday morning ?? ____________ Damsel Rescuer, Kitty Patron, Raccoon Friend, Uli Fan, Julie Supporter, ES99 Admirer, PETA Member, 1st Childhood
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Robert Skjöld Send message Joined: 26 Oct 09 Posts: 2 Credit: 380,626 RAC: 0	Message 981816 - Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 22:42:44 UTC Last modified: 20 Mar 2010, 22:43:22 UTC
	No work available for the last 2 days now (neither SETI@home, nor Astropulse)
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KB7RZF Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 9427 Credit: 2,172,598 RAC: 2,686	Message 981826 - Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 23:17:39 UTC - in response to Message 981816.
	No work available for the last 2 days now (neither SETI@home, nor Astropulse) Hmm, I got 14: 3/20/2010 4:16:11 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 3/20/2010 4:16:11 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks 3/20/2010 4:16:16 PM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 14 new tasks They are all Enhanced, no Astropulse, but still getting work. :-)
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arkayn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 3148 Credit: 41,364,562 RAC: 32,448	Message 981832 - Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 23:26:09 UTC
	I got a AP unit on my Quad. ____________
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jjwhalen Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Jul 99 Posts: 8 Credit: 902,873 RAC: 107	Message 981836 - Posted: 20 Mar 2010, 23:34:50 UTC
	I've been able to pull a few cuda23 WUs (32 to be exact) in among dozens of "Project has no jobs available" messages. So I think it's just a matter of letting the splitters catch up with demand. I got a couple hundred Seti Beta WUs before that server was taken down. Too bad they're not transferable. ____________ Best wishes:)
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yank Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 501 Credit: 12,321,497 RAC: 1	Message 981954 - Posted: 21 Mar 2010, 3:11:34 UTC
	Good news...I just received a few work units on a couple of machines. ____________
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Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 12012 Credit: 19,614,992 RAC: 42,504	Message 981956 - Posted: 21 Mar 2010, 3:21:20 UTC - in response to Message 981836.
	I got a couple hundred Seti Beta WUs before that server was taken down. Too bad they're not transferable. FYI - for anyone reading that may not know the answer to this: the reason why they're not transferable is because you're not actually BETA testing the workunits, but the application and the backend server processes themselves. Most of the BETA workunits are sent out over and over again, so as to provide a repeatable environment for troubleshooting purposes. It does no good to transfer those workunits to the live project because there's a good chance they've already been crunched scientifically. ____________
	ID: 981956 ·

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