Do you need an emergency shipment of George Orwell?

I see your George Orwell & Raise you one Gene Roddenberry.

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

It's worse than that! I only have 15 beers left!

LoL, send me one, I'm too lazy to go to market and no more left at all ;D

What happened to "to each according to his needs"?

Dont' even ask, we have "democracy" here now :P

No, the correct answer is "It sold out to free market capitalism".

"Democracy"? Is that as in "consumer choice"?

I can give you any number of examples of capitalist "consumer choice": like the postal service, where the sender chooses the carrier and the recipient has to chase incompetent delivery drivers round the county.

Or the railroad "Passengers' Charter", where the trains run on time but leave the passengers waiting at the stations.

Do you need an emergency shipment of George Orwell?

LoL, no thaks, better I'll swim to Jason for beer ;D ;D ;D

Has anyone heard if and when we can display results and computer tasks again?

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Classic WU= 7,237 Classic Hours= 42,079

Well then. I'm getting work when I ask for it. Actually, when I was on AP-only, I ran out of work and couldn't get the random luck to work out and feed me, so I threw the MB app_info back into the project folder and first work request got 23 MBs, and then a handful of 2's until I was full. However, looking at the server page now, looks like the splitters have burned through all the MBs already.

By the way, I was getting the "your app_info..blahblahblah" "error" as well, but mine was because I really didn't have any MB entries at the time. :p Don't think that counts.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Has anyone heard if and when we can display results and computer tasks again?

I expect it will be corrected at least by the next Tuesday outage.
I'm pretty sure it is only a display problem caused by the change in descriptions in the Application field of the Task records (last column), and that the underlying data in the database is intact.

I have had tasks in work units that originally displayed correctly, then had the curtailed display, but have since been validated even though the display is still curtailed.

Keith

Huuh? Who turns the Light on on Sunday Morning 8:00 AM ? :D

Woo it's alive!

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- Jarryd

The lights are on but... you know the rest.

New Message on the Front Page:

One of our internal servers crashed yesterday - we're recovering from that now. 13 Jun 2010 15:04:49 UTC

There are some downloads about but the 100 unit limit is still in force

I had 1 machine that was totally out of units and had no uploads pending. When I updated SAH, it scored 120 units (all GPU) and then the 100 unit error kicked in.

Brodo

What now brown cow?

Why is the thread listed as Panic mode,
versus Problem mode?

This is a constant problem,
with Berkley {Berkeley?> whichever spelling you prefer}
going off line, I thought that with "Distributed" Computing,
that, perhaps, there would be multiple computers as backups.

Such as, ok one unit lost power, there are 42 other units with the puzzle
info, still online. ;)

Lee
cavemanmoron

New Message on the Front Page:

One of our internal servers crashed yesterday - we're recovering from that now. 13 Jun 2010 15:04:49 UTC

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Why is the thread listed as Panic mode,
versus Problem mode?
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Because the original versions of this thread were meant as stress relieving humor. The "on" term wasn't in the thread title, posters would turn panic mode on when they saw something which might cause a newbie to panic, off when everything was going smooth as silk.

                                                                Joe

It's the panic thread because every time there is a problem a bunch of people PANIC!!!! Have I done something wrong? Why won't my computer get new work? Did someone drop a bomb on Berkeley? :-)

It would be great if they had multiple back up computers but they barely have enough money to keep the ones they do have running. This project is run on donations. Occasionally one of the big computer manufacturers will donate some equipment but it is usually stuff they would like evaluated or refab stuff they don't need anymore or don't know if it even works. Berkeley only provides space for SAH to set their equipment and provides some of their bookkeeping and a bit of webspace for them.(For which they take a small percentage of SAH's donations.)They do not provide any funds for this project.SAH is working on a shoestring and always have been.

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Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....

Somebody must have done something, I can now see all my tasks on the tasks page. Still can't get very far into them as most don't even show who my wingman is but at least it's an improvement. Of course all of them are pending except two. One I'm waiting to time out because the validater missed it and the other someone managed to report. Before, I could only go back a couple of days.

(Grasping at straws here trying to find something good to say! :-) )

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It's the panic thread because every time there is a problem a bunch of people PANIC!!!! Have I done something wrong? Why won't my computer get new work? Did someone drop a bomb on Berkeley? :-)

It would be great if they had multiple back up computers but they barely have enough money to keep the ones they do have running. This project is run on donations. Occasionally one of the big computer manufacturers will donate some equipment but it is usually stuff they would like evaluated or refab stuff they don't need anymore or don't know if it even works. Berkeley only provides space for SAH to set their equipment and provides some of their bookkeeping and a bit of webspace for them.(For which they take a small percentage of SAH's donations.)They do not provide any funds for this project.SAH is working on a shoestring and always have been.

I run on a shoestring too! One machine has no GPU and 750 Vlars, other machine has 50 CPU, 100 GPU and I'm almost out of beer too!

Giz.

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I run on a shoestring too! One machine has no GPU and 750 Vlars, other machine has 50 CPU, 100 GPU and I'm almost out of beer too!

Giz.

Come on over! I've got a bunch of beer! My rig is dormant, but I have beer.

Steve

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Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group.
GPUUG Website

There are some downloads about but the 100 unit limit is still in force

I had 1 machine that was totally out of units and had no uploads pending. When I updated SAH, it scored 120 units (all GPU) and then the 100 unit error kicked in.

Brodo

Lucky one...

I only got CPU WU's and my CUDA (Fermi) is still idle because of the "limit"...

I run on a shoestring too! One machine has no GPU and 750 Vlars, other machine has 50 CPU, 100 GPU and I'm almost out of beer too!

Giz.

Come on over! I've got a bunch of beer! My rig is dormant, but I have beer.

Steve

No GPU work here either, But I lent my lawn mower to the neighbor and he brought back beer. Thats a good thing.

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And no good credit hound!

That's a good thing so long as he isn't waiting for you to finish off the beer before he tells you he broke your lawnmower. :-)

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