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Message 1414248 - Posted: 11 Sep 2013, 15:17:18 UTC

I had http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1313363741 in my inconclusives yesterday, but now in my valids since the 3rd host agreed with me, and http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=3144617228 still inconclusive, waiting for the 3rd to report back.

I don't think I've ever seen units come back all 0s before, although I suppose there's no reason why they shouldn't.
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Message 1414265 - Posted: 11 Sep 2013, 15:58:03 UTC - in response to Message 1414248.  
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AFAIK, that's not abnormal.

ET was just keeping his head down when the telescope was looking in that direction.
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Message 1414326 - Posted: 11 Sep 2013, 17:40:21 UTC

I even had one all zeros marked inconclusive once because the wingman and mine didn't agree on the zeroness of the zeros (I mean my wingman also returned all zeros). There are results produced, they are just below the minimums to report them as interesting.
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Message 1414362 - Posted: 11 Sep 2013, 19:07:21 UTC

I have seen all 0's in the Stderr output before. Just remember that is not the only data being returned & compared. It is just kind of a summary IIRC
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