Camelopardalis (Apr 26 2011)

Heigh Ho - it's been a while. Not much to write about as most everything has been status quo, plus I was out of town for a few days in there. Yeah, there have been some minor quirks in the meantime - par for the course, I guess. We did have our Tuesday outage today, which beyond the normal tasks included swapping out dying drives with new ones in two of our major servers: thumper and bruno. You may have noticed the web site go dead for 15 minutes there while thumper was off line. The fact that both drive swaps/reboots went along quickly and without and hitches speaks well of our current server quality and configuration, I guess.

In case anybody missed it, Eric responded nicely to the current wave of news regarding the Allen Telescope Array going into hibernation. I swear every time there's a SETI related article in a major publiation (positive or negative) we have to do some kind of damage control, cleaning up various journalistic errors and reader misconceptions.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Thanks for the update Matt,

Claggy

Thanks for the update Matt. I think it would help if when the Seti Institute publshes stuff, they make it clear that Seti@Home is a separate project to them.

They did get the word out... right here. If anyone says otherwise, just point them to Eric's post.

There's always the grass roots option by word of mouth. Spread the word, SETI@Home is not shutting down (at least not yet!).

Heigh ho indeed, Matt.
And thanks for the news.

It's a great thing that you can take a couple of days off without the project falling apart, eh?
And swapping drives during an outage.....rather daring, aren't we?

LOL.

Glad things are flowing a bit more smoothly these days, and hope I don't upset the karma by saying so.

Meow.
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"Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty."

As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

They did get the word out... right here. If anyone says otherwise, just point them to Eric's post.

There's always the grass roots option by word of mouth. Spread the word, SETI@Home is not shutting down (at least not yet!).

Yes, the word is out on the web site, but there are a LOT of people here, that do NOT have internet. Hard to believe I know, but it's the truth. They get news on TV and that is about it. Most of the people that live here are older people, and they don't want a thing to do with computers. Anyway, I've been telling the people the truth. I'm not trying to make a fuss or anything, but we all must remember, that NOT EVERYONE has a computer. They depend on TV for information !!!! Even though there are a lot of people here that do not have computers or internet, they are still VERY interested in what is going on with SETI@home. They are always asking me if SETI has found anything yet, or, What is the project doing now ? Yes, they are VERY interested, but either they cannot afford a computer, or they might HAVE a computer, but cannot afford internet access, or, they are older people that do not understand computers and they just don't want one. Sorry for running my mouth for so long, but like I said, NOT EVERYONE has a computer.

I understand how misinformation can be frustrating when it's something you care about. Just try not to let it get to you. There's no point in getting all angry and shortening your life by stressing yourself out over this.

Unfortunately, misinformation happens all the time. The best solution against misinformation is to spread the correct answer. The best way you can do that is by word of mouth and providing your proof for your claims to the contrary.

...and in honor of the rumors of a new Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure sequel: have a most excellent day dude!

I think it would help if when the Seti Institute publshes stuff, they make it clear that Seti@Home is a separate project to them.

Well good to see that everything is still going well for S@H in fact things seem to be going especially smooth. Good work in getting things running so well.

Glad to hear that SETI@home isn't affected by thees budget cutbacks. I just saw a Headline that said SETI being put on hold and I didn't know if they were talking about S@H or the SETI Institute or what.

As always, keep up the good work.

i interrupt this thread only to point something out to a red-x'er


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelopardalis

No news, is good news!:)