Posts by Joseph Stateson
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
We may actually be unique in the galaxy, maybe even the universe
(Message 2120917)
Posted 14 Jun 2023 by  Joseph Stateson 
Post: No goldilocks plants yet discovered in all the exoplants found so far. Even if any discovered what is the likelihood of an asteroid hitting just the right location and at the exact angle do destroy all the large reptilian life and allow the burrowing mammals to survive? |
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SETI@home Science :
Arecibo Observatory
(Message 2114936)
Posted 18 Feb 2023 by Joseph Stateson
Post: Some stills and stories https://www.space.com/arecibo-observatory-radio-telescope-collapse-photos Videos and more stories https://www.space.com/arecibo-observatory-collapse-drone-video-nsf-evaluation This happened Dec 2020 but I assume it contributed to closing SETI |
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Number crunching :
All things Window's 11
(Message 2088362)
Posted 18 Nov 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: Got windows 11 working on second try. Almost gave up Gory details with all the blood are here |
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Number crunching :
Advice on remote web camera
(Message 2087571)
Posted 6 Nov 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: Wi-Fi cameras can be a challenge to setup but are worth the effort. I have 7 Amcrest that are wired and one, my critter cam, that I kept Wi-Fi. I can use my iPhone's Amcrest View App, Microsoft's IE11 or BlueIris to control them. What I found that is not included or explained properly in the Wi-Fi setup: WiFi cameras like Amcrest are inexpensive "made-in-china" like most, and use 2.4ghz The Apple iPhone cannot be forced to 2.4ghz. If the router uses 5 and 2.4 even with same password the iPhone will always use 5. I had to disable the 5ghz signal at the router before the iPhone connected to the camera. If you don't select static IP then you got to go through the same setup the next time the power fails. If you do not have a smartphone then use IE11 to control the camera. Neither Edge, Firefox nor Chrome work AFAICT. If interested PM me for details. from iPhone's "Amcrest View App" live stream selection  Actual live stream from my Wi-Fi critter cam on the right, left is wired camera. Software is BlueIris http://162.204.3.199:81/ username guest password guess |
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Questions and Answers :
Unix/Linux :
Strange boot failure after power loss
(Message 2087246)
Posted 1 Nov 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: Have 18.04 Ubuntu. I had turned the power off without a proper shutdown and had a strange problem. The system is working after I rebooted. Maybe one of the Linux guru's here can explain what happened and how to avoid it. When the system came back up after the bad shutdown the monitor was black. i hit CTRL-SHIFT-F1 and the burnt orange screen appeared after a few minute but my password was not accepted. I click on some icon under the password prompt and got the following 4 options (I did not take a picture) Gnome something with gnome, dont remember exactly Ubuntu Ubuntu with Wayland Ubuntu was the one that did not like my password. When I selected Gnome I managed to log in but the display was empty. It was not like anything I had seen before. Clicking on the display did not bring up the terminal option. When I clicked on the bottom left were an icon was all the gnome apps showed up on the screen. I managed to find "terminal" but nvidia-settings did not run. It as as if none of my NVidia cards were working. I shut the system down and rebooted and this time was able to log in using the "Ubuntu" selection and all was back to normal. Not sure why my password was rejected earlier. I had checked the keyboard to ensure the cap lock was off I am afraid to shut the system down. Is there any way to get rid of the boot options so that only "Ubuntu" is there? What good is Gnome if it does not recognize the NVidia cards. The cards are for mining and have no video out of course. |
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Cafe SETI :
Bugs, Insects, and Spiders
(Message 2087134)
Posted 30 Oct 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: ]Feral hogs and armadillos will take care of grubs That is strictly a first world problem similar to Global Warming. Anywhere else the hogs and dillo's would be in the BBQ pit. Chicago has far bigger problems. |
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Cafe SETI :
Bugs, Insects, and Spiders
(Message 2087006)
Posted 28 Oct 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: I have never seen such a grub worm infestation! Feral hogs and armadillos will take care of grubs. |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Bugs, Insects, and Spiders
(Message 2086787)
Posted 24 Oct 2021 by Joseph Stateson
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Thanks, that was good! Went directly to my son who is deathly afraid of spiders. |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Bugs, Insects, and Spiders
(Message 2086658)
Posted 22 Oct 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: The spider that was adjacent to my jalapeno plants is missing (see its pic posted earlier). There is not enough of its web left to take a picture. I assume a bird made a meal out of it. To bad those goliath bird eating spiders are only in Venezuela. Be nice to have one or two up here. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
SETI orphans
(Message 2086643)
Posted 22 Oct 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: One of my SETI motherboards just found a new home. An old eVga SLI type mombo went south. I had already sold most of the SETI 1060 type boards on eBay easily recouping what I had paid new a few years ago. I went through my parts drawers and found the following 1x pci cards: Wifi and bluetooth combo, USB3 with internal header, eSata with port multiplier (I have a box of disks that can connect to it). Not counting the inaccessible 1x slot under the GPU, there is one left over 1x slot. If I had a firewire card I could fill it in but 1394 is as dead as SETI To the tune of the Boston M.T.A. Will SETI return? No it'll never return and its fate is still unlearned (poor old SETI) You can crunch forever on your fine computer but the data will never upload --sorry for my terrible lyrics-- feel free to add to them! Include a video if you can strum a guitar . 
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Number crunching :
Windows 10 - Yea or Nay? (2)
(Message 2086348)
Posted 17 Oct 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: Been running Windows 10 Pro un-activated for some time. While it has not been a month yet, googling I read numerous reports it will keep running but I will lose some benefits like customizing wallpaper and other cosmetic stuff. I would see $25 advertisements for Win10 pro on Facebook and I used to report them as fraud but not anymore. Its down to under $17 on Amazon and everyone know Jeff Bezos does not lie. I have mint "20.20" running on an old system. It looks really good but It thinks my AMD S9100 is a W8100 and my S9000 as an ATI FirePro V with 3gb ram. The S9100 works ok but the S9000 crashes mint. I asked about the problem over at AMD community and was told to use "20.04". I complained that the driver is reporting the wrong info, not the OS and my complaint never showed up nor did my complaint about the complaint not showing up. I can still log in so I am not banned. Both boards work fine in windows 10. AMD knows where the money is and listens when Microsoft speaks. Another thought: I used to dump out the bios and look for corporate keys like Dell, HP, IBM, Asus, etc. Not any more. No need to find the matching corporate key to activate an old motherboard. Just put in windows 10 and try to live without changing the wall paper or customizing the desktop after a month. |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Bugs, Insects, and Spiders
(Message 2086308)
Posted 16 Oct 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: I have a nice spider watching my Jalapeno plants. Not sure what is causing the brown streaks but it is late in the season and this is the 3rd harvest.  
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Cafe SETI :
Whatcha Watching?
(Message 2085028)
Posted 26 Sep 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: I've been rewatching Stargate Atlantis on Hulu, and I'm finding that I've lost all patience for stupid people in this show. The Earth people in Atlantis are supposed to be above-average or even Genius, yet they do a lot of stupid things. I loved all the stargate series and bought the complete DVD collections when they came available. Copied them all to MP4 so I could watch from laptop. Was disappointed with Universe but was even more disappointed when it was canceled. The reboot of Nikita was not as good as the 1999 version and I just read there is a reboot of the reboot! A reboot of true blood in the works supposidly. There seems to be no reboot of Dresden Files. Fans complained that Paul Blackthorne was not 6'6"" tall like the book said he was supposed to be. if that show as cancele4d for that type of comment they got what they deserved. my 2c |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
SETI orphans
(Message 2073435)
Posted 15 Apr 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: To late to edit my first post but I did manage to find some statistics on completion of the COVID apps Significantly faster times for GPU calculations as shown in attached pic. About 3 minutes to do a calculation as opposed to 2.5 to 6 hours for the CPUs. Not all results were in my Boinctasks history. WCG site shows 300+ results of which 17 were invalid.  ====and best of all==== 
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Number crunching :
SETI orphans
(Message 2073419)
Posted 15 Apr 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: I don't know what "TDR" refers to.TDR is a Windows specific concept, but I think it accounts for a large proportion of the iGPU 'time limit exceeded' errors under Windows. Thanks, I was unaware of TDR nor that app. Thinking about this, I do not recall seeing "Nvidia driver was reset" warnings recently (like since last year) and I suspect they are being hidden or dealt with another way. I do get occasional and unexpected "desktop refresh" but the event viewer noes not list nvidia which I think is suspicious. nvidia-smi gives the error message "NVidia requested a reboot" on rare occasions which I trap for on my linux temperature reporting app. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
SETI orphans
(Message 2073413)
Posted 15 Apr 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: Just realized I got in 300+ WCG GPU tasks I was unable to do an exact count of the valid ones as there was no way to filter on "OPNG" and too many pages to review at their website. 300 Valid -vs- 17 Invalid on 3 different systems, all GTX 1070 or better Unfortunately, my fastest system was not crunching when the boatload of tasks came in nor was it recording BoincTasks history which would have been useful for statistics. |
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Number crunching :
SETI orphans
(Message 2072768)
Posted 7 Apr 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: I scanned through 40 pages (no, did not look at each page) and all COVID tasks that I contributed to were identified as "OPN1_xxx". There were no OPNG tasks. I have 3 systems capable of GPU tasks, a fourth one if RX-570 is ok (I suspect not). Running 24x7 it seems to be that at least one OPNG should have shown up. A thread started by a user gave statistics for a number of GPU boards. https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,43317_offset,0#654788 I assume those stats were from the users contribution as I cannot find any detailed statistics for "leaders" I just put a {X} in the beta testing program. Maybe that was needed to get GPU tasks? can someone provide a link to a OPNG task so I can see what the results look like? TIA |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
SETI orphans
(Message 2072739)
Posted 7 Apr 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: I have not yet sold all my boards on the German eBay market for 2x what I paid for them so I can possibly help with your request. I still 1660ti and RTX2080 and i9 7900x so can run gpuz if you tell me what to crunch. Incredible! I had no idea they have a GPU project! All my CPUs are doing COVID while I am waiting for my 2nd Pfiizer. Will kick off all my Einstein tasks! [EDIT] It appears I had previously set GPU tasks to OK and there are no GPU tasks available except for an Intel GPU which I would not use even if I had one . World Community Grid 4/7/2021 11:26:44 AM update requested by user World Community Grid 4/7/2021 11:26:50 AM No tasks sent World Community Grid 4/7/2021 11:26:50 AM No tasks are available for OpenPandemics - COVID 19 World Community Grid 4/7/2021 11:26:50 AM No tasks are available for OpenPandemics - COVID-19 - GPU World Community Grid 4/7/2021 11:26:50 AM Tasks for Intel GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
SETI orphans
(Message 2072737)
Posted 7 Apr 2021 by Joseph Stateson
Post: I have not yet sold all my boards on the German eBay market for 2x what I paid for them so I can possibly help with your request. I still 1660ti and RTX2080 and i9 7900x so can run gpuz if you tell me what to crunch. Lemme know as I have not much else to do. |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
SETI@home in the News
(Message 2062409)
Posted 28 Nov 2020 by Joseph Stateson
Post: Jean-Luc Margot is almost certain a man not a woman, and probably associated with the SETI Institute not SETI@Home. Thanks! My thoughts were on Margot Kidder as I had just watched a re-run of superman and was not thinking clearly. |
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