Arecibo Observatory Repair Status

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Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1375 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 1010086 - Posted: 30 Jun 2010, 20:35:17 UTC
	A structural failure at the telescope on February 3rd was partially repaired in March, and we've been observing with reduced motion since then. The next phase of repairs is slated to start July 12th, and may take up to 6 weeks for full implementation and testing. ____________ -- 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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Helli Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Dec 99 Posts: 692 Credit: 66,762,579 RAC: 1,548	Message 1010272 - Posted: 1 Jul 2010, 12:42:09 UTC
	Uuh...and what does that mean for SETI@home? No Workunits or are there enough on the Tapes? Helli
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Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1375 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 1010335 - Posted: 1 Jul 2010, 16:38:25 UTC - in response to Message 1010272.
	There will still be work - our data collection may be reduce during repair times, but we have enough of a backlog to work on in the meantime. Plus after the repair will see more of the sky again. - 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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Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3361 Credit: 25,948,264 RAC: 1,297	Message 1010340 - Posted: 1 Jul 2010, 16:51:27 UTC - in response to Message 1010335.
	Thanks for the updates Matt, Claggy
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Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 2340 Credit: 11,689,838 RAC: 352	Message 1010387 - Posted: 1 Jul 2010, 18:25:18 UTC - in response to Message 1010335.
	Yes indeed, Thanks for the updates Matt. ____________
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Koskivirta M. J. S. Send message Joined: 11 Mar 06 Posts: 3 Credit: 105,906 RAC: 36	Message 1010415 - Posted: 1 Jul 2010, 20:38:23 UTC - in response to Message 1010335.
	Dear Sirs/Madams, I haven't got any new Seti-data to compute for 2 days now. Has this something to do with the repairs? Internet connection is working but I get the (quite common) "Servers may be temporarily down for maintenance" message lines and no workpackages are downloaded. Is this ok and normal? Best regards, Matti K., Finland ____________
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Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2682 Credit: 7,590,372 RAC: 23,562	Message 1010416 - Posted: 1 Jul 2010, 20:40:51 UTC - in response to Message 1010415.
	Dear Sirs/Madams, I haven't got any new Seti-data to compute for 2 days now. Has this something to do with the repairs? Internet connection is working but I get the (quite common) "Servers may be temporarily down for maintenance" message lines and no workpackages are downloaded. Is this ok and normal? Best regards, Matti K., Finland Read the main SETI homepage: Weekly Outage Every Tuesday morning (Pacific time) we begin a 3 day data distribution outage to focus on database/server maintenance and internal development. The upload/download servers and some web pages are offline during this time. ____________ /The grumpy old Swede. "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"
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perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3359 Credit: 9,611,657 RAC: 9,826	Message 1010418 - Posted: 1 Jul 2010, 20:43:05 UTC - in response to Message 1010415.
	Hi Matt, welcome to the boards, Yes, this is a new scheduled outage system they have just started this week. The outage started Tuesday and is just starting to come back online now. It will probably take a few hours before everything gets going good so please be patient. ____________ PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC
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Koskivirta M. J. S. Send message Joined: 11 Mar 06 Posts: 3 Credit: 105,906 RAC: 36	Message 1010435 - Posted: 1 Jul 2010, 21:43:13 UTC - in response to Message 1010416.
	"Read the main SETI homepage:" ... Thank you for your information Matt, but a (yet another stupid) question follows: Why dont't you simply put that kind of relevant and rather static information of your project to the messages that we get from your servers while our client software is trying to contact it and do its normal work? That would prevent a lot of questions and save your the time for scientific and managerial/admin/whatever usage. Btw. The word "temporarily" to me does not mean to me - as an IT worker for more than 30 years - "several days". Yours, Matti K. Finland ____________
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Aurora Borealis Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 2975 Credit: 4,228,169 RAC: 2,679	Message 1010501 - Posted: 2 Jul 2010, 0:44:11 UTC - in response to Message 1010435. Last modified: 2 Jul 2010, 0:53:36 UTC
	"Read the main SETI homepage:" ... Thank you for your information Matt, but a (yet another stupid) question follows: Why dont't you simply put that kind of relevant and rather static information of your project to the messages that we get from your servers while our client software is trying to contact it and do its normal work? That would prevent a lot of questions and save your the time for scientific and managerial/admin/whatever usage. Btw. The word "temporarily" to me does not mean to me - as an IT worker for more than 30 years - "several days". Yours, Matti K. Finland The Boinc software only queries the Upload and Download servers and when it doesn't get a reply post a message that the servers may be down. There is no way for the project to send a message back. A future Boinc version possibly 6.12.X but more likely 7.X.X will have a News tab and Boinc can collect news specifically posted by project admin's. The outage schedule is new and temporarily set to 3 days. This may change as they learn how much time is needed to start analyzing the results we have been supplying for the last 11 years and do maintenance work and reorganizing server which has been on hold for a long time. Seti was never intended to be available 24/7, They just don't have the personel or the funds to continue to keep the up times they have had over the past years. ____________ Questions? Answers are in the "Unofficial" BOINC Wiki. Boinc V7.0.27 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470
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Q Send message Joined: 15 Jun 04 Posts: 216 Credit: 329,924 RAC: 0	Message 1010640 - Posted: 2 Jul 2010, 12:30:36 UTC - in response to Message 1010435.
	Terve, Matti! Ahoy, shipmates! Järjestelmässä voi olla katkoja, mutta otetaan tyynesti vain. Uskon, että Berkeleyn porukka tekee kaiken, mitä kohtuudella voi odottaa. Me muut voimme kyllä mennä välillä vaikka kalaan. (And, as for some strange reason not everybody in this world speaks Finnish, a translation: There may be hiccups in the system, but let’s take it easy. I believe, that the Berkeley bunch is doing all you can reasonably expect. In the meantime, us others can e.g. go fishing.) Terveiset, regards ;-) PK Finland
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Helli Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Dec 99 Posts: 692 Credit: 66,762,579 RAC: 1,548	Message 1010650 - Posted: 2 Jul 2010, 13:05:38 UTC - in response to Message 1010335.
	There will still be work - our data collection may be reduce during repair times, but we have enough of a backlog to work on in the meantime. Plus after the repair will see more of the sky again. - Matt Thanks for clarification. :-) Bigger range to the Sky? Sounds Cool. Helli
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Lucifer Send message Joined: 29 Jun 10 Posts: 2 Credit: 71,892 RAC: 89	Message 1011503 - Posted: 4 Jul 2010, 4:10:55 UTC - in response to Message 1010086.
	Do ya needs a decent maintenence tech? Get me there, I can help. 2 years + in maintenence... good with electromechs, worked in food processing. If it goes wrong there, it goes wrong in a big way...
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Frank@Moeller Send message Joined: 7 Aug 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 83,047 RAC: 0	Message 1011580 - Posted: 4 Jul 2010, 8:41:01 UTC Last modified: 4 Jul 2010, 8:45:21 UTC
	A structural failure?... Ouch! Repair? That´s really ok! Workunits? Neeeeeeeeed!!! For minimum 8 Weeks in the Test Phase of the Observatory. Frank@Möller Tyriane ____________
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Tom95134 Send message Joined: 27 Nov 01 Posts: 205 Credit: 2,694,629 RAC: 2,337	Message 1012884 - Posted: 6 Jul 2010, 19:03:28 UTC
	SEE! You loan something out to a James Bond movie (Golden Eye) and it gets trashed. ____________
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Chris S Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 22634 Credit: 4,499,956 RAC: 5,993	Message 1012929 - Posted: 6 Jul 2010, 20:58:45 UTC
	SEE! You loan something out to a James Bond movie (Golden Eye) and it gets trashed. Well what do you expect with a director linked to a cabbage??? :-) ____________ Damsel Rescuer, Kitty Patron, Raccoon Friend, Uli Fan, Julie Supporter, ES99 Admirer, Dishonourable Mentions **
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bloodrain Send message Joined: 8 Dec 08 Posts: 93 Credit: 6,068,282 RAC: 7,415	Message 1015090 - Posted: 12 Jul 2010, 19:20:32 UTC - in response to Message 1012929.
	thanks for the heads up ____________
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K3UZZ Send message Joined: 8 Jun 99 Posts: 6 Credit: 27,278 RAC: 18	Message 1015814 - Posted: 15 Jul 2010, 11:52:19 UTC
	Give us a date when we can expect something to work on...
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Bill Walker Send message Joined: 4 Sep 99 Posts: 2857 Credit: 1,778,308 RAC: 223	Message 1015819 - Posted: 15 Jul 2010, 12:14:53 UTC - in response to Message 1015814.
	Give us a date when we can expect something to work on... If you read the front page, you will see the project is down until Friday AM (left coast time). There should be work after that. ____________
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platium Send message Joined: 5 Jul 10 Posts: 212 Credit: 262,426 RAC: 0	Message 1015935 - Posted: 15 Jul 2010, 18:54:05 UTC - in response to Message 1010418.
	i have just start, but i know that tuesday part of the system is down un til fri usa time, has some not seen the info on it, i am the one with the low I.Q and i know lol
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