Gripes and Kudos II

Kudos that we have all this new hardware

Gripes that we are still having significant system issues.
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Gripes: Another stretch of Shorties, No AP's and Me Green Star that should have lasted till Feb. ;(

Kudos: A BIG Shout out to the shoestring Staff who do quite well with keeping stuff running and keeping Us with some WU's. Even if they aren't AP's. ;))
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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott

Kudos:

finally getting a couple AP units
they'll run on the new ATI app
This project is still trying to innovate

Gripe: dl at 1.44 KBps and 0.07 KBps and the dl keeps stopping. 50 minutes for 1.19% is more than just a little ridiculous. [edit] aborted those 08se12aeb0p0 isn't even on the splitter list as far as I can see (I'm old, mebbe missed it) [edit2] now the website reports that I should have 4 other tasks, none are downloading and the ati app has changed its name) YAAAAARGH! [edit3] downloading after restarting BOINC...speed is below .05 KBPS (no I didn't mistype that...)

Only gripe....
The problems in cutting through the Berk politics to get some sorely needed additional bandwidth for this science project. They should be more supportive.

Kudos...
Many and varied.
The dedication of the small staff (da boyz in da lab, as I like to call them) that keep this project afloat with their meager resources.
And the tremendous things the GPUUG (shameless plug, my team) has been able to do for the project with the wonderful support from you dudes and dudettes, my fellow participants.

Without all your dedication and passion for this project, it would not be where it is now, and that, my friends, is in a very good place.
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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.

Gripe:
... and yet host 5893094 has over 5000 WUs and they are oh-so-very-slowly timing out.
Can someone please, please cancel the WUs on that host and block it?
Right now it is a wingman-of-death.
I have been waiting over 1 month for WU 1088698302 to be returned.
It looks like I'm going to have to wait at least another week before it gets handed out again, like the 5000+ other volunteers who are waiting and waiting for work / validation.

Kudos:
Yay. The database issues were fixed. Someone still cares :)
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I hear you AMDave, we all have to deal with those occationally. Nothing to be done, but wait it out.
If my wingperson is someone I know, I just send them a PM and asked them to get with it.
Got one completed a day before it was set to expire.
So Kudos to the Kittyman and a very big Kudo to who ever got the scheduler issue fixed.
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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Cash Donation Specialist

I do have another gripe.
Some of you pay attention to the User of the Day thread. It erks(?) me, when I see someone is elected, that hasn't crunched in years/month. How hard is it, to set the random generator to >1 RAC?
This should be for active users only. Right now, I feel it is a sham.

Kudos for Eric picking up the slack on keeping us informed.
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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Cash Donation Specialist

I do have another gripe.
Some of you pay attention to the User of the Day thread. It erks(?) me, when I see someone is elected, that hasn't crunched in years/month. How hard is it, to set the random generator to >1 RAC?
This should be for active users only. Right now, I feel it is a sham.

Kudos: All the work required to get the DB back into Shape.

Gripe: None

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