Quite True Tim.

I have been waiting for something to come through but .... yep, that's right, nothing. I have been wondering why there are so may problems with SETI. I mean, I work for a large organization that processes millions of transaction everyday. And I mean millions literally and in 17 years I have never seen a single day when the system has been down other than for upgrades and the normal cleaning. And it only last a couple of hours every now and then. I joined SETI some 10 years ago and left it because of all the problems it had. Now I am back thinking that all should be OK but I find that nothing has really changed. The same problems of a decade ago are still there. Isn't it time they got a real computer guy? so that tese problems are fixed?. GUYS GUYS OF TEAM SETI, do something about all this crap. I dedicate 2 machines to this project and it upsets me to have them doing abosluty nothing with their time.

Orlando

Orlando,

How many people, and how much money, does your organization need to get near 100% uptime?

Are they using decade-old SUN servers because that's what they can afford?

Do you ever have to scrape for hardware??

The "do something" could very well be "make cash donations mandatory for participants" -- that would help the budget and reduce load.

-- Ned

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Ned:

Nor did I run out of work either over the past long weekend. My pending credit also shrank today by a considerable margin.

Kenn

So in the last 6 days we got maybe 10hr worth of work.. And if it sounds like i'm bitching I AM.. When folks volunteer you shouldn't have them standing around with there thumbs up there butt. An yes after 24 years in the US Army I get just a little pissed off when I see 12hr work down in 6 days... So I will continue to bitch and complain as long as a dual 3.6GIG machine is doing nothing but sucking up power.

Tim Olivera
http://mysite.verizon.net/moment_1/

At the same time, under the same conditions, I've not run short of work.

Why? You do the math.

Quite True Tim.

I have been waiting for something to come through but .... yep, that's right, nothing. I have been wondering why there are so may problems with SETI. I mean, I work for a large organization that processes millions of transaction everyday. And I mean millions literally and in 17 years I have never seen a single day when the system has been down other than for upgrades and the normal cleaning. And it only last a couple of hours every now and then. I joined SETI some 10 years ago and left it because of all the problems it had. Now I am back thinking that all should be OK but I find that nothing has really changed. The same problems of a decade ago are still there. Isn't it time they got a real computer guy? so that tese problems are fixed?. GUYS GUYS OF TEAM SETI, do something about all this crap. I dedicate 2 machines to this project and it upsets me to have them doing abosluty nothing with their time.

Orlando

As others have stated, SETI@Home is a scientific endeavor run by an education institution. UC Berkeley may be more well endowed than some Universities, but even that is far short of the capital budgets available to corporate IT departments whose executive Managers DEMAND 99.999% uptime and reliability. With all of that in mind, this is a real labor of love for the SETI@Home staff and volunteers, and it offends me to hear someone denigrating them as not "real computer guys". As a "real computer guy" I know what it's like to work with legacy and hand-me-down hardware in a production environment, and that's without having to support an evolving scientific research environment where your next project might literally never have been done before!

Stop griping and whip out the checkbook if you are seriously committed to helping this project, or take your CPU cycles and find another playground!

Bill Finch, MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, CCNA
Senior Database Administrator
LCG Technologies, Inc.

Well spoken, Bill. There is somebody forgetting the good way of life. I can understand the pressure into a business staff, but not around you and your project.

Sincerely,

Jose Rebes
IT Engineer
Spain