Posts by Uioped1
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Technical News :
Magic Carpet RIde (Jul 19 2007)
(Message 607907)
Posted 23 Jul 2007 by  Uioped1
Post: Big problem with UPS's is that they use lead acid batterys. While they can last as long as 6 years, 4 years is pushing it. If up time is important, put the date the new batterys were installed on the outside of the unit and replace the batterys before they have time to fail. I work with APC and the only failure I have seen were due to batterys and an incorrectly wired outlet. There are intriguing possibilities in flywheel-based UPSes I think only a couple of companies have brought products to the market for datacenters, but it's a very nice alternative to batteries. |
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Horizontal Hold (Jun 14 2007)
(Message 589170)
Posted 19 Jun 2007 by Uioped1
Post: [snip] Also remember that software raid is the norm there, (a conscious decision.) |
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Slowly Approaching... (May 08 2007)
(Message 563836)
Posted 9 May 2007 by Uioped1
Post: Maybe they can figure out how to make Google maps show a map tracking its current location... http://isnoop.net/tracking/ Check it out! |
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SETI@home Staff Blog :
Eric's (quarterly?) Post Number 5
(Message 554364)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by Uioped1
Post: As far as the tax code for individuals goes, that is a start, but a huge part of the tax code deals with other entities: Partnerships, Corporations, Etc. Personally, I'd like to see a corporation's taxes simplified nearly as much as you describe for the individual's. For a start, I'd like to see the corporation's taxable income directly related to the income statements released for investors (with multinationals, you'd have to figure out the income attributable to the us, without opening huge loopholes like exist currently) with the exception that income distributed as dividends should only be taxable once, payable by the owner (shareholder) or the company, but not both. Edit in response to Simon: You know, the Romans outlawed that sort of lobying for money. You were not even allowed to pay for legal representation. Of course people got around this by writing into their wills large payments to those who helped them in the senate. |
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Switcheroo (Mar 21 2007)
(Message 540934)
Posted 4 Apr 2007 by Uioped1
Post: Perhaps my problem has something to do with this, perhaps not. At any rate, my Seti completed task does not upload because it is "locked by file upload handler". I had this problem with the previous task and eventually I just detached and reattached, meaning I had lost all credit. I had that problem as well yesterday. Restarting the boinc service did not help, but a reboot did fix it. I was having intermittant internet access at the time, so I assumed it was related to that. |
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Technical News :
Echoes of Classic (Mar 20 2007)
(Message 540930)
Posted 4 Apr 2007 by Uioped1
Post: Well, here's some anecdotal evidence: I probably have somewhere between 50 and 100 hosts still trying to get some classic workunits. Those were from previous jobs, where I had SAH running as a windows service in the standard workstation build. I had permission to install those clients, but I was the helpdesk and I didn't want to receive complaints from users about their processor utilization, so I hid the process. It wouldn't suprise me if whoever is running IT at those places doesn't know or doesn't care about it. Those workstations will likely keep attempting to pull work until they're finally retired or rebuilt. |
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Number crunching :
If your name is William (boinc debugging)
(Message 462532)
Posted 20 Nov 2006 by Uioped1
Post: If your [computer login] name is William and you run LHC, please check out this thread. There is a host over there with unusual errors, either trying to execute lhc data using the seti client, or where boinc is mixing up the slots. or it is another problem we haven't thought of. If that is your host, it would be interesting to try to debug it. |
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Number crunching :
a modification to the seti analyze algorithm
(Message 264370)
Posted 18 Mar 2006 by Uioped1
Post: There is a mailing list specifically for discussion of the optimization of the S@H application, which can be found here There are several optimized applications out there; if you have interest in the sources (I think Harold Naparst has the fastest sources, but his are temporarily unavailable.) Someone on that list may be able to point you to a better starting point than the standard UCB sources. Also note that we are about (well, relatively) to be switched to the new SETI Enhanced App, so if you feel like putting in some effort, it would be better spent on that app than on the old version. |
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Number crunching :
New project open for first 10000 participants
(Message 260309)
Posted 11 Mar 2006 by Uioped1
Post: http://attribution.cpdn.org/ WUs are much shorter than typical cpdn models, and as I said, they have 10000 WUs available. Get them while they're hot. (oh, you need 500MB of free RAM, so that means at least a gig installed, and they recommend a 2.4 ghz proc.) |
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SETI@home Science :
life
(Message 259326)
Posted 8 Mar 2006 by Uioped1
Post: Well, I'm glad my brusque attitude didn't offend; it never hurts to make sure though. I think the nature of the problem is such that we cannot design an experiment that will be conclusively negative, without a great deal more information, such as why we're here. I suppose once religions prove that one, then we can go about proving the existence of ET life. So, have we learned anything? Well we've learned how to quickly attract a large number of computers to do something usefull. I guess I remain convinced that the universe is so very vast that there is likely to be life out there. We may one day find other life, but I somehow doubt the current SETI program will come close to finding it. My main argument against it is if we consider how difficult it is to get funding for SETI, think how vastly more difficult it would be to get the enormous funding necessary to broadcast a signal that we would be able to hear... That's a lot of barrels of oil worth of broadcast energy. But, my computer's not using it's spare cycles, and I have a sadistic love of overloading the team's poor servers, (in the hopes of a better BOINC, of course) that on I crunch. |
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SETI@home Science :
life
(Message 258368)
Posted 7 Mar 2006 by Uioped1
Post:
In return, your point that I was being a jerk is taken as well. Sorry about that. I guess I was reacting on the supposition that you were implying that it proved, or at least uniquely supported the "there's no one home" theory. Actually, I've long ago lost interest in SETI, and am far more interested in advancing boinc. I consider SAH to be the boinc improvement project. |
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SETI@home Science :
life
(Message 256929)
Posted 3 Mar 2006 by Uioped1
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Occam's Razor does not generate hypotheses, it merely decides between two competeing suppositions. You could make a case that from the universe of possibilities for why we haven't found life there is a subset of those that satisfy the test compared to each other, however that set contains more than one element. For example, the two statements: "I have not won the lottery after playing for 40 years therefore I am going to win the next time I play." and "I have not won the lottery after playing for 40 years therefore I will not win the next time I play." Are equivalent according to the principle. Each assumes one property of statistics (wrongly). What's more, the following statement may be correct, but would be rejected out of hand by occam's razor: "I have not won the lottery after 40 years and have never met anyone who won, therefore the lottery is fixed and no one actually wins. Finally, Occam's razor is not predictive, thus you should not take the results of an experiment such as SETI as giving more weight to two competing theories that it supports, just because one of the theories is more likely. Back to the lottery example, if I suppose that there is a conspiracy against me, and you suspect that the lottery is very hard to win, and we go about testing it by playing the lottery for 40 years, (without winning) that does not give any more weight to your theory than mine. |
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Cafe SETI :
Stupid or Funny Signs [CLOSED]
(Message 255661)
Posted 1 Mar 2006 by Uioped1
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Nope still hates em. Anyway, that was as much of the story as I ever heard. I think he didn't last long as a rancher. |
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Number crunching :
Initial feedback on BOINC and SETI@Home
(Message 255622)
Posted 1 Mar 2006 by Uioped1
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I agree. You'll actually see in some projects that the number crunching forum takes the place of even the two other existing options, simply because that's where the action is... |
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Number crunching :
Panic mode ON
(Message 255577)
Posted 1 Mar 2006 by Uioped1
Post: Looks like the Seti@home Classic server fought to the bitter end, when they went in to remove it from the server closet! On the bright side, the status page for the status page is temporarily unnecessary. |
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Cafe SETI :
Stupid or Funny Signs [CLOSED]
(Message 255335)
Posted 28 Feb 2006 by Uioped1
Post: Misc. hitting wild animal stories I know a guy who took up cattle ranching for a while, only he hated horses, so he'd heard the cows on his motorcycle. The guy has a short temper, and one day this one cow was being stubborn, and wouldn't go where he wanted so he revved and ran his bike into the side of the cow. Needless to say, the cow was unfazed, while he flew over it landing on his back. |
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Number crunching :
Configuring dual core dual processor
(Message 255315)
Posted 28 Feb 2006 by Uioped1
Post: I thought I read somewhere on this forum, a week or two ago, that XpPro can handle dual processor, each processor dual core and hyperthreadable (eight threads in this case). I guess that would mean Xeons only at this time, because Opterons can't hyperthread and Pentiums don't go two-on-a-board, per my understanding. That is correct; Microsoft has changed it's licensing model, to say that per-processor licensing refers to the physical package, not to the number of cores or virtual processors. Thus, as long as the OS is able to tell that you have the correct number of physical packages (2 for xp pro) then you will be allright, even if those 2 packages have 2 (or 4) cores each with two virtual processors. I forget the exact link on the MS page, but I'm sure google can find it. I thought that the newer dual-core p4s had hyperthreading enabled as well. Anyone? Bueller? Anyone? |
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Number crunching :
Getting More Bang For My Buck.
(Message 251819)
Posted 22 Feb 2006 by Uioped1
Post: [edit]Skunked![/edit] Well, the first place to start is by downloading the optimized science application from crunch3r A discussion of optimized apps can be found on the Boinc Wiki it sounds like you have some misperceptions about optimized apps, so I'd recommend reading that. It also has detailed instructions for installation. As for tweaking, the only thing I can say is win2k installs a lot of services by default. You might check to make sure IIS is uninstalled (from add/remove program files|windows components) if you're not hosting a webserver. Also Index service if you don't do a lot of searches for local files. Check to see how much of your processor SETI@home is using when you're not doing anything You should see about 99% usage. If not, something else might be taking up more than necessary. As far as "tweaking" (Meth anyone?) hardware you may be fairly limited as to what you can do. . . Did your friend build that computer? it may already be tweaked to (past?) it's limit. I like tom's hardware guide for hardware info, but if you're a novice it might be overwhelming or hard to find applicable info. "tweaking" is a great way to learn about computers, but I recommend starting on a computer that is not your primary one. I don't know how many time's I've brought my computer down by messing with settings or hardware I didn't fully understand. If you're not confident in your ability to recover from your mistakes, be very careful. Also, science apps like SETI tend to be fairly sensitive to overclocking. If you decide to go that route, I advise going slowly and making sure that the seti workunits complete without problems at any new setting. How's that for a long post that doesn't give you much of what you asked for? -uio |
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Number crunching :
Configuring dual core dual processor
(Message 249137)
Posted 16 Feb 2006 by Uioped1
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Well, I looked on the Intel site, and as I'd thought dual-core Xeons do indeed exist. Whether Victor has them or not -- well, your guess is as good as mine. |
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Number crunching :
Configuring dual core dual processor
(Message 249008)
Posted 16 Feb 2006 by Uioped1
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Ah. Perhaps that's the confusion... |
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