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

Welcome back Seti, what ever you did it worked!
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Finally managed to upload the finished tasks just now and I even got 2 new ones that are running now. I have a question though. I'm running on 2 systems, one windows7, one Mac OSX. The windows7 seems to have less problems connecting than the mac does. I am planning to upgrade to snow leopard this week but there doesn't seem to be a 64bits BOINC manager for osx. I suppose I could just run the 32bits again but it seems a bit of a waste. Anybody know more about this and why the mac is doing worse connecting to the server and getting new tasks?

The only other difference I can think of, besides the os and the windows7 being 64bits is that the windows machine is on 24/7, the mac only during the day.

Good luck to the seti team fixing whatever is going on the last couple of weeks! We'll just keep trying though I'm not manually updating the project anymore, figuring if everyone does that whenever they get something up and running they will be overwhelmed immediately

thx.

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.

Finally managed to upload the finished tasks just now and I even got 2 new ones that are running now. I have a question though. I'm running on 2 systems, one windows7, one Mac OSX. The windows7 seems to have less problems connecting than the mac does. I am planning to upgrade to snow leopard this week but there doesn't seem to be a 64bits BOINC manager for osx. I suppose I could just run the 32bits again but it seems a bit of a waste. Anybody know more about this and why the mac is doing worse connecting to the server and getting new tasks?

The only other difference I can think of, besides the os and the windows7 being 64bits is that the windows machine is on 24/7, the mac only during the day.

Good luck to the seti team fixing whatever is going on the last couple of weeks! We'll just keep trying though I'm not manually updating the project anymore, figuring if everyone does that whenever they get something up and running they will be overwhelmed immediately

thx.

Eric,
You've probably forgotten about this since its been over a year but you were going to do some sort of official announcement about the Good Search account you set up. Do you think you could get around to it sometime?
Cheers,
Bob
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Do you Good Search for Seti@Home? http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=888957
Or Good Shop? http://www.goodshop.com/?charityid=888957

Thanx Seti. Everything seems to be 'fixed';-) here in Belgium. Keep up the good work:)
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Well, I wouldn't go that far...

There is still a serious throughput problem with getting static content from wherever it is they are storing it.

This effectively renders most of the interactive areas of the websites useless for the most part.

Alinator

Hmmm...

Interesting. I came back to check for any new posts and now the site performance is pretty good again.

Don't know what the story was, but I had tested with different hosts, browsers, and at several different locations over the last couple of weeks.

Guess the team either got it fixed, or you just have to mention a problem in the forum for it to go away finally! ;-)

Alinator

LOL...

True, but all I know for sure was the slow loading and other problems had been making the site and project in general an agony to use lately up until last night when I posted, and now responsiveness is still good.

So I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, and take what I can get! ;-)

Alinator

since there has been a lack of news, I thought I would copy some here:

WEEKLY MEETING UPDATES 3/8/10
Mon, 03/29/2010 - 14:09 — travisk

Jeff is “pushing ahead” in joining the new high-speed internet connection from the Space Sciences Lab down to the UC Berkeley campus.
Matt has been seeing success injecting synthetic signals into our raw data for the purpose of testing our search algorithms.
Eric says the radiofrequency interference (RFI) rejection for Optical SETI’s Pulse search has reached 95%, and he is working to increase that number.
Ali is busy installing the new Informix-run database.
Andrew is looking into archiving our old data, as it will be invaluable in the future to have access to data in a non-degrading form.

* travisk's blog
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The replica DB is still offline since the server maintenance.

Maybe someone forgot to switch on again?

'http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html'


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