Posts by [STS]LoB

21) Message boards : Number crunching : HE connection problems thread (Message 1130567)
Posted 22 Jul 2011 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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If the proxy solution worked for me as well...
It uploaded some three results and then stopped working again...
22) Message boards : Number crunching : HE connection problems thread (Message 1130336)
Posted 21 Jul 2011 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Will this ever get fixed eventually?
23) Message boards : Politics : Flattr for donations (Message 1054594)
Posted 10 Dec 2010 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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In my eyes WikiLeaks are doing a great job for transparency and thus human rights. Don't kill the messenger. ;)

Interesting turn the thread has made just because someone mentioned WikiLeaks by the way. :D
24) Message boards : Politics : Flattr for donations (Message 1054088)
Posted 8 Dec 2010 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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THough they clearly accept donations I think they have a problem with a 3rd party that is apparently going to take a bit of that donation for itself.


Well, they have been using Paypal for some time. I guess they are doing the same thing...
25) Message boards : Politics : Flattr for donations (Message 1045638)
Posted 2 Nov 2010 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Hey, have you ever thought of using flattr.com for donations for SETI@home? I think a lot of internet people are used to use flattr to donate / pay for services or products they like.

The difference to other payment methods: Single people don't decide on the amount of money they spend, but the number of flattr people who donate on a page decide on what part of the pool is used for what service. Sounds difficult, is easy:

100 people put $1000 into the pool, of these 100 people 30 click on flattr for SETI@home, thus $300 go to SETI@home, no matter how much a single person put into the pool - at least that's how I understood the concept :D
26) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Add flattr.com to the donation possibilities (Message 1006858)
Posted 21 Jun 2010 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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For who doesn't know flattr:

http://flattr.com/
Flattr is a social micropayment platform. People can pay flattr money, then they can click on flattr websites to show them they like them. Depending on the click rate, the website receive proportional money flattr received from its users.

* Flattr is a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like.
* Help support the people you like and enable them to continue with what they do.
* Add your own things to Flattr and receive appreciation from others.


I personally think flattr would be PERFECT for a "social computing" thingy like SETI@home. What do you think?
Anyway, I've just donated "classically" again. :)
27) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (28) Server problems (Message 970902)
Posted 16 Feb 2010 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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So higher your WU cache is, so more work for boinc.exe (BOINC client). So less CPU WUs calculated because the client need much CPU time.


True, but right now he gets back all the losses, while others run empty... ;)
28) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server (Message 970876)
Posted 16 Feb 2010 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Thank you!
29) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server (Message 970868)
Posted 16 Feb 2010 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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16/02/2010 14:38:56 SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server


I'm getting this all day today. Is it me or are the project servers down? http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html doesn't list anything special though.
30) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Earthlike planet discovered - Gliese 581c (Message 553637)
Posted 25 Apr 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I agree that it's a great discovery, but: The planet has a "gravity lock-in" (hope I got the words right), i.e. it's not turning around its own axis, and thus it's always showing the same side to the star (like our moon is always showing the same side to our Earth).

As a result of this, temperature on the one side is extremely hot, temperature on the other side extremely low => probably no life possible on this planet.
31) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Has seti found anything yet? (Message 553621)
Posted 25 Apr 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Also we humans have only been looking for signals from other civilizations for a mere 40 years. It could very easily take hundreds of years or possibly thousands of years before we discover that elusive signal. Even if we don't discover any ETs than that would still be useful knowledge. So whether we discover them or not, either way we still learn something significant about the universe. I run SETI@home because I believe.


I also believe :)


I want to believe. ;)
32) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI Certificate Frame? (Message 542302)
Posted 7 Apr 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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[...] *and* donate some money to seti@home.


...which I've already done, as you can see by the little green star beside my nick name ;)
But I especially like the original SETI@home certificate frame, so any news on this? :)
33) Questions and Answers : Web site : edit team info (Message 532725)
Posted 17 Mar 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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OK, the information has been updated now. Seems to take some hours.
34) Questions and Answers : Web site : edit team info (Message 532656)
Posted 17 Mar 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Hello!

I've just taken over the lead of my old SETI@home team an rightaway edited the team info. But the changes don't occur on the team page. I've cleared browser caches and reloaded the page.

So: How long does it take for the changes to take effect?

Thanks.

P.S.: I've tried searching the message boards and the BOINC wiki but couldn't find any answer.
35) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI Certificate Frame? (Message 532653)
Posted 17 Mar 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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They do deliver to Europe, but the shipment is very steep. We'll have to look into this, but I'm afraid the cost can't be reduced much.


Oh, allright, and what did he say in regard to producing and selling the frames again?
36) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI Certificate Frame? (Message 532302)
Posted 16 Mar 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I have sent a note to Eric Korpela about selling them again in the Seti store.


Thank you. While you're at it, could you also ask him to deliver to Europe? :D If I recall correctly, they were only delivered to US & Canada back in the years.

Anyway, thanks again for your help!
37) Message boards : Cafe SETI : SETI Certificate Frame? (Message 531408)
Posted 14 Mar 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I remember years ago there was an offer for a SETI@home certificate frame here on this website. When bought, a part of the money would directly go to the SETI@home project...

Aren't these frames available anymore? Anyone who wants to sell his one? ;)
38) Message boards : Politics : Fun with Global Warming - Part Deux! (Message 531296)
Posted 14 Mar 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Hi,

I'm not visiting this message boards on a regular basis, so I've noticed this thread just tonight. It's a very interesting thread, and I've read half of it allready (while ignoring the flame wars ;)).
I've found some nice advice, e.g. the LED light bulbs - I will consider using them - I've been using "conventional" energy saving bulbs 'till now. Any experience with the "warmth" of the light they emit? Does it "look" like light emitted from normal bulbs?

A phrase, which is coming to the point of this topic (and which I like) says: "Think globally, act locally!"

So, I'd like to see the discussion got into the direction whether or not using distributed computing like we do is good/appropriate, and to what extent.
In my opinion we should for example NOT dedicate computers to SETI@home (please don't feel offended, I have done so myself in the very early days of SETI@home, I just won't do it again), so in order to achieve this, one could think about a restriction in the BOINC system which rejects results from clients running 24h a day. Or an automatically shutting down BOINC client after some hours.
That way people wouldn't have BOINC as a reason to leave their computers running.

What do you think?

No matter what - keep discussing in a constructive manner, and do whatever you can - it's for the good of all of us - and our children!

BTW: I'm using a power meter on my PC, and I've compared power consumption with BOINC enabled to BOINC disabled: It uses 20W more (on my laptop cpu Intel Core Duo T2600)
39) Message boards : Number crunching : How much improvement do optimized clients give? (Message 529697)
Posted 11 Mar 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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I think I would remember my former RAC and watch it rise slowly to the terminal value, which takes several weeks. One could subtract total outputs of each machine and average the daily differences but then the pending credit and "Ready to Reports" would would cause those values to vary. Hours on per day is a factor, too.


Hehe, good idea, unless your RAC was nearly 0, and you were starting right away with the optimized client. Like I did ;)
40) Message boards : Number crunching : How much improvement do optimized clients give? (Message 529202)
Posted 10 Mar 2007 by Profile [STS]LoB Project Donor
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Thanks for all the answers, and keep up the good work! :)


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