And by the way, when I look upwards of the thread I see a lot of green stars. Except on you JJnobody. If you truly had donated religiously you should be in green too. I can dig that you do not want to show it normaly, but now I am calling you out so to speak. Turn on the green star for a couple of hours or be quiet.

ooooh . stuff's happening :D

ooooh . stuff's happening :D

[snip] So we had a very long outage, probably the longest we have ever seen.

Doesn't everyone remember the Sept 2005 2-3 week outage???

"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

[snip] So we had a very long outage, probably the longest we have ever seen.

Doesn't everyone remember the Sept 2005 2-3 week outage???

Do I remember? Oh yes!!! :-o

It was actually those outages which made me start the original donation threads for this project. And look how far we have come since then. :-D

Please stop the flamings.

Please stop the flamings.

I'm sorry for contributing to the mess. I should have stopped when it was suggested, and I really should learn to let those kind of things drop.

It's just that I get so upset when people make such (IMO) outrageous demands....

They're running for no reason while all the while we get broken promises of tomorrow.


"Even if you had been crunching SETI you'd still have the electric bill."

Exactly, I would be having an elec. bill for crunching seti, but I'm not crunching seti.

They're doing the best they can! They are only a few people (three or five people from what I'm told). They even came in on their day off to get things running again.

Can't you cut them some slack? Your electric bill in minor compared to what they're doing. Or is that all you can think of: yourself.

yep, my machines, my connection, my elec. bill. If they are going to run a service of this magnitude, have decent machines and a decent connection.

Hopefully something worthwhile and decent comes along soon to the boinc infrastructure...

Ozz, they were wearing me out too. It looks like the parents had to get involved and close the other thread :)

[snip] So we had a very long outage, probably the longest we have ever seen.

Doesn't everyone remember the Sept 2005 2-3 week outage???

Do I remember? Oh yes!!! :-o

It was actually those outages which made me start the original donation threads for this project. And look how far we have come since then. :-D

So your the one behind the donations threads? Nice going, here ya have a brewski!

"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Ozz, they were wearing me out too. It looks like the parents had to get involved and close the other thread :)

Well, at least I don't feel so bad now since I'm not the only one. 8-)

"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

They have arrived at the lab and kicked something. The cricket shows almost full bandwidth in use. Currently: 45.09 Mbits/sec

Ozz, they were wearing me out too. It looks like the parents had to get involved and close the other thread :)

Well, at least I don't feel so bad now since I'm not the only one. 8-)

Ok guys, cheer up, have a cyber beer while we're waiting for the Berkeley guys to arrive to the lab.



Cheers.

They have arrived at the lab and kicked something. The cricket shows almost full bandwidth in use. Currently: 45.09 Mbits/sec

"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Actually, and to also disagree with an earlier post of yours, UPS would probably take those six trailers for Chicago over to the nearest railroad intermodal loading facility, where they would be put on a train for Chicago.

In the SF area, there are two possibilities: They can give them to BNSF Railway, which will take them southeast through San Bernadillo,

northern Arizona and New Mexico, far northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, ending up at Willow Springs, IL.

Not only is the railroad cheaper than paying all those drivers (and the number of people willing to drive long-distance is rapidly dwindling; most would rather stay close to home and spend time with the family), it's also much more fuel-efficient and less polluting. And as long as UPS delivers the trailers to the railroad by the agreed-upon time every day, the railroad will be pretty reliable about getting them to the other end on a specified schedule.

I'm not saying that UPS may not use the train occasionally, but the vast majority of UPS travels by truck. While wandering the country as a big-rig driver, especially on I-40, (Barstow, CA to Oklahoma City, OK - 3 round trips, & one more west-bound run) which parallels BNSF's route that you're talking of, I've noted many trains carrying "pigs" (piggy-backed truck trailers) and I've never seen either a FedEx or a UPS trailer on one such train - many other carriers were noted, though (All from the competition, though - I never noted the carrier I worked for... [C.R. England]) Agreed that it would be more fuel-efficient and less polluting, but they don't do it that way!

UPS drivers don't drive the whole (for example) SF to Chicago route - typically they would drive to (say) Sparks, Nv, and return to SF (with different trailers). A team (two drivers) would take a sleeper cab tractor, and continue the trip from Sparks to Salt Lake City, UT and return the next day. This would continue all the way to Chicago... the driver(s) getting relieved at either 8-10 or 16-20 hour intervals (depending on whether a single or a team is driving)

I worked for the air transport part of UPS... (specifically: loading planes)