A structural failure at the telescope on February 3rd was partially repaired in March, and we've been observing with reduced motion since then. The next phase of repairs is slated to start July 12th, and may take up to 6 weeks for full implementation and testing.

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Uuh...and what does that mean for SETI@home? No Workunits or are there enough
on the Tapes?

Helli

There will still be work - our data collection may be reduce during repair times, but we have enough of a backlog to work on in the meantime. Plus after the repair will see more of the sky again.

- Matt

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-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

Thanks for the updates Matt,

Claggy

Yes indeed, Thanks for the updates Matt.

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Dear Sirs/Madams,

I haven't got any new Seti-data to compute for 2 days now.
Has this something to do with the repairs?

Internet connection is working but I get the (quite common) "Servers may be temporarily down for maintenance" message lines and no workpackages are downloaded.

Is this ok and normal?

Best regards,
Matti K., Finland

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Hi Matt, welcome to the boards,
Yes, this is a new scheduled outage system they have just started this week. The outage started Tuesday and is just starting to come back online now. It will probably take a few hours before everything gets going good so please be patient.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

"Read the main SETI homepage:"
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Thank you for your information Matt, but a (yet another stupid) question follows:

Why dont't you simply put that kind of relevant and rather static information of your project to the messages that we get from your servers while our client software is trying to contact it and do its normal work?

That would prevent a lot of questions and save your the time for scientific and managerial/admin/whatever usage.

Btw. The word "temporarily" to me does not mean to me - as an IT worker for more than 30 years - "several days".

Yours,
Matti K.
Finland

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"Read the main SETI homepage:"
...

Thank you for your information Matt, but a (yet another stupid) question follows:

Why dont't you simply put that kind of relevant and rather static information of your project to the messages that we get from your servers while our client software is trying to contact it and do its normal work?

That would prevent a lot of questions and save your the time for scientific and managerial/admin/whatever usage.

Btw. The word "temporarily" to me does not mean to me - as an IT worker for more than 30 years - "several days".

Yours,
Matti K.
Finland

The Boinc software only queries the Upload and Download servers and when it doesn't get a reply post a message that the servers may be down. There is no way for the project to send a message back.

A future Boinc version possibly 6.12.X but more likely 7.X.X will have a News tab and Boinc can collect news specifically posted by project admin's.

The outage schedule is new and temporarily set to 3 days. This may change as they learn how much time is needed to start analyzing the results we have been supplying for the last 11 years and do maintenance work and reorganizing server which has been on hold for a long time. Seti was never intended to be available 24/7, They just don't have the personel or the funds to continue to keep the up times they have had over the past years.

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

There will still be work - our data collection may be reduce during repair times, but we have enough of a backlog to work on in the meantime. Plus after the repair will see more of the sky again.

- Matt

Thanks for clarification. :-)
Bigger range to the Sky? Sounds Cool.

Helli

Do ya needs a decent maintenence tech? Get me there, I can help. 2 years + in maintenence... good with electromechs, worked in food processing. If it goes wrong there, it goes wrong in a big way...

A structural failure?... Ouch!
Repair? That´s really ok!
Workunits? Neeeeeeeeed!!! For minimum 8 Weeks in the Test Phase of the Observatory.

Frank@Möller Tyriane

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SEE! You loan something out to a James Bond movie (Golden Eye) and it gets trashed.

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thanks for the heads up

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Give us a date when we can expect something to work on...

Give us a date when we can expect something to work on...

If you read the front page, you will see the project is down until Friday AM (left coast time). There should be work after that.

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i have just start, but i know that tuesday part of the system is down un til fri usa time, has some not seen the info on it, i am the one with the low I.Q and i know lol

No, Not all of us speak Finnish. A few of us still cling to Gaelic...Slan'

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