Perfect Storm, Inc. (Jun 16 2010)

WE are not harrasing the messenger.
Everyone has the right to voice their opinions on these boards.
However, what no-one has the right to do is abuse, insult or put down people that work long hours, in their own time to make this THE most successful BOINC project there is
If you don't understand why the project is unstable at the moment, or don't understand why there is frequent downtime then please ask. There are plenty of people around that will answer questions about what is going on at the moment.

Please do not insult the people that have dedicated a lot of their lives to making this project what it is as that will just annoy people spend a lot of time and effort on this project
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I wonder what the WU used as a bribe?

Hi Hiamps,

I did some investigation in to the SETI code to see what the WU kidnapper's wants are and soon discovered their shocking demand. "All your cats are belong to us," a clever modification of "All your base are belong to us."

You see, they meow have access to all SETI cat pictured profiles--- including yours. This means all feline pictured must deliver shown fur balls to the Berkeley SETI server room by 12 midnight tonight or the results will be catastrophic!! Seeing to how many "Puss in Boots" pics there are on these damn threads, I'm assuming we will lose half of our members.


"Insert sophisticated reply hee."

Keep crunchin'

BDDave

Eric etc. aren't, they are paid staff. When they aren't being paid, they don't work. What is the problem with this concept?

Its very arrogant to leave those of us Volunteers in the dark

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'd rather the crew at SETI deal with the problems, fix them as quick as they can, then worry about letting us know what the problem was. We all know there's a problem, there's nothing WE as volunteer's can do about it, other than DONATE to the cause. I've donated in the past, and if I didn't have so many damn bills, I'd donate again. I'd love to hit the lottery, and send half of it to the crew @ SETI to let them get top of the line stuff, and minimize the outages.

This project is the poster child of distributed computing. They run on a shoe string budget. They were not expected to stay up this long, but they are doing it. These guys also have lives outside of this project. These guys are some of the most professional people I know. Just because they don't answer every question or complaint every day, doesn't mean they aren't professional.

BOINC was designed to run multiple projects. Yes, many only want to do SETI, and that is their choice, but then you also have to realize that the project never, ever promised to be up and running 24/7, and have plenty of work to satisfy everyone's needs.

And, about the BETA testing stuff. If more people would go over to SETI Beta, more stuff could get tested before it came here. Server code changes come here simply because this project has the most users, and they can identify problems a lot sooner than if it was on any of the other projects, and, the head honcho behind BOINC is also at the SETI headquarters. A lot of other project administrator's probably don't want to "beta test" server code, so what other choice does Dave have?

Anyhow, off my soapbox. I'll happily go back to crunching many of the other projects, with this one on the side for when they get back up and running.

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Things seem to be on the mend. No chickens being counted, but credits are coming through - which should in turn mean downstream services can clean up and delete the result files that are taking up all the disk space.

Thanks for the work to get everything back up and running, and hope it stays that way.
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Stats site - http://www.teamocuk.co.uk - still alive and (just about) kicking.

Not to mention that there's no such thing as BOINC Classic. It's SETI Classic (though obviously even that is an after the fact name).

/nitpick
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Stats site - http://www.teamocuk.co.uk - still alive and (just about) kicking.

Guess the old adage is true, Teachers teach - others do

Guess the old adage is true, Teachers teach - others do

Robert it is slightly different, the phrase correctly is

"Those who can do, those who can't teach"

But that is rubbish anyway as I can do, otherwise I could not be able to teach. I do wish you could be a bit more positive. There is enough negative vibes around here at the moment without you adding to them.

Or being the family of that person in that NATO vehicle, knowing there's not a damn thing you can do should the worst happen.

No personal experience, but the UK just having marked our 300th death as a result of the conflict certainly adds some perspective.
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Stats site - http://www.teamocuk.co.uk - still alive and (just about) kicking.

Nah, I tell you about real negative vibes. That's what you feel when you come driving in a NATO marked vehicle, outside a mosque, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

That my friend is real negative vibes.