Trevor is cool.

I thought he was a squirrel until after I posted that pic. Turns out Trevor is a prairie dog. I think he is anyway. Last time I looked at one close was at the Salisbury zoo quite a few years ago.

Virtual Prarie is still running I think.

I wouldn't mind getting some work from LHC. Attached over a month ago and still got zilch, nothing, nada.

And don't expect to ever see another WU either. The project was how to design the machine, not to crunch results.

There were plans to crunch results but someone decided a cluster equivalent to 5000 machines on site was better than 200,000 that could easily be had from distributed computing.

I'm keeping faith that someday they'll come to their senses.

I think they did come to their senses. I think it is all the people who don't understand their crunch requirements that need to come to their senses. A different approach than BOINC is needed for their work units. http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/public/

Quote from Bigmac who is project (LHC@home) developer, volunteer developer and project scientist.

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=3060&nowrap=true#21647

Posted 21 Nov 2009 12:00:43 UTC

Dear All; I havent seen it in
writing but it looks like CERN/IT will NOT support the BOINC servers.
We are looking at an
alternative solution locally.
In the mean time I guess you just have to
volunteer for other projects until this is resolved.

The good news is that Beam 1 circulated for 2! turns
in the LHC last night. Now
for Beam 2
and then tuning to stabilise the beams for a
longer lifetime. First collisions in the
New Year we hope.

Thanks for your patience. (On vacation the
in flight movie was Angels and Daemons!
Well it was good to see CERN
and the tunnel
even if the Science is dodgy
to say the least!)

Please bear with us; we too are volunteers.

OK, I see the use of BOINC is probably out of the question now. (Thanks for bursting my bubble Gary!) :) I'll still crunch for them if/when they need volunteers on whatever platform they use.

Wanna see a great indie movie? Watch Ink.

Thanks! I'll watch it next chance I get. Probably not until Saturday.

OK, I see the use of BOINC is probably out of the question now. (Thanks for bursting my bubble Gary!) :) I'll still crunch for them if/when they need volunteers on whatever platform they use.

Tell us how you get your connection to Internet2. Some of us are speed freaks.

I think the only way to help at this point is to cut a check.

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OK, I see the use of BOINC is probably out of the question now. (Thanks for bursting my bubble Gary!) :) I'll still crunch for them if/when they need volunteers on whatever platform they use.

Tell us how you get your connection to Internet2. Some of us are speed freaks.

I think the only way to help at this point is to cut a check.

If you REALLY want to know. I rented a trencher and spent over a year cutting a trench between my house and the nearest community college ten miles away. Then I ran weather insulated cat5 cable and spliced into the network via an 100 yard underground tunnel. Many illegal aliens died digging that tunnel, Gary, and I'm not ashamed to say it was worth it. I have an amazing kick a** Internet connection! :)

OK, I see the use of BOINC is probably out of the question now. (Thanks for bursting my bubble Gary!) :) I'll still crunch for them if/when they need volunteers on whatever platform they use.

Tell us how you get your connection to Internet2. Some of us are speed freaks.

I think the only way to help at this point is to cut a check.

If you REALLY want to know. I rented a trencher and spent over a year cutting a trench between my house and the nearest community college ten miles away. Then I ran weather insulated cat5 cable and spliced into the network via an 100 yard underground tunnel. Many illegal aliens died digging that tunnel, Gary, and I'm not ashamed to say it was worth it. I have an amazing kick a** Internet connection! :)

You really should have installed at least Cat6e. Cat5 just isn't rated for high enough speeds for Internet2...

I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

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OK, I see the use of BOINC is probably out of the question now. (Thanks for bursting my bubble Gary!) :) I'll still crunch for them if/when they need volunteers on whatever platform they use.

Tell us how you get your connection to Internet2. Some of us are speed freaks.

I think the only way to help at this point is to cut a check.

If you REALLY want to know. I rented a trencher and spent over a year cutting a trench between my house and the nearest community college ten miles away. Then I ran weather insulated cat5 cable and spliced into the network via an 100 yard underground tunnel. Many illegal aliens died digging that tunnel, Gary, and I'm not ashamed to say it was worth it. I have an amazing kick a** Internet connection! :)

You really should have installed at least Cat6e. Cat5 just isn't rated for high enough speeds for Internet2...

Nothing ever gets past you guys here. lol

To tell the truth, the story was totally fabricated.. Yes, I know it's hard to believe I would lie about anything! I'm just as shocked as you are.. LOL And I didn't know enough about networking cable to know cat5 cable wouldn't work with Internet2.

I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

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I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

Sure I've heard of it. Is the megaphone principle better than the can and string principle?

I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

Sure I've heard of it. Is the megaphone principle better than the can and string principle?

That depends if you're using string or rope.

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Designed for multiple failures.

Engineer for what you expect, I guess.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

Sure I've heard of it. Is the megaphone principle better than the can and string principle?

That depends if you're using string or rope.

Everyone knows you use cat gut for the string, but who makes the best cans?

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I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

Sure I've heard of it. Is the megaphone principle better than the can and string principle?

That depends if you're using string or rope.

If I smoked, I guess I would go for the hemp joke.......

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

Sure I've heard of it. Is the megaphone principle better than the can and string principle?

That depends if you're using string or rope.

I would think string would carry sound better than rope.

I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

Sure I've heard of it. Is the megaphone principle better than the can and string principle?

That depends if you're using string or rope.

Everyone knows you use cat gut for the string, but who makes the best cans?

They use it on violins so it obviously carries sound great. Personally, I wouldn't play an instrument that uses cat guts. It's just wrong..

I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

Sure I've heard of it. Is the megaphone principle better than the can and string principle?

That depends if you're using string or rope.

I would think string would carry sound better than rope.

But it would be much easier to fashion conical rope than conical string.

So it's Friday. Who's into the rot gut?

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I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

Sure I've heard of it. Is the megaphone principle better than the can and string principle?

That depends if you're using string or rope.

I would think string would carry sound better than rope.

But it would be much easier to fashion conical rope than conical string.

So it's Friday. Who's into the rot gut?

Thanks for the reminder. Heading there now!

I heard the way to use school internet was to run a cable across and down the middle of the street. You can put up some really big BOINC numbers doing that. Allegedly.

Let me guess... The electromechanical induction caused by the moving vehicles pushes the data along the cable at a faster rate than normally possible? That must be how Berkeley does it.

You ever hear of conical coax? It uses the megaphone principle.

Sure I've heard of it. Is the megaphone principle better than the can and string principle?

That depends if you're using string or rope.

I would think string would carry sound better than rope.

But it would be much easier to fashion conical rope than conical string.

So it's Friday. Who's into the rot gut?

Thanks for the reminder. Heading there now!

I made sure to finish mine. Now I'm in an alcohol-free household.

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I made sure to finish mine. Now I'm in an alcohol-free household.

What? You don't have any to clean your floppies?

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