I woke up this morning to find that I had started getting a trickle of WU's. Could the drought be over?

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

I got some work assigned to the crunchers by the scheduler, but can't seem to download any of it right now.

Fortunes of war, I suppose.

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

Well my 3 pc's survived the extra extended outage and are back up to their limit of tasks.

Cheers.

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Well my 3 pc's survived the extra extended outage and are back up to their limit of tasks.

Cheers.

You bia.........
Ok, I won;t finish that statement......
LOL.....get on wit the crunching, eh?

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

Just took a trip down memory lane as it were. Looked through the tasks I got with a 3, 4, or even 5 on them. Most had started life on 5 July, timed out on the 21st of August and then timed out again on the 6th of October. Two ghost cycles plus a few aborts and abandoned. Well, at least I've got them now and they shall be done. I guess I should say I think I got them all. I haven't checked to see if any of them went to ghost on me again yet.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Well my 3 pc's survived the extra extended outage and are back up to their limit of tasks.

Cheers.

You bia.........
Ok, I won;t finish that statement......
LOL.....get on wit the crunching, eh?

Don't worry, while they're crunching I'll not only have another drink for myself but I'll have 2 for you straight out of my brew room. ;)

Cheers.

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Well my 3 pc's survived the extra extended outage and are back up to their limit of tasks.

Cheers.

You bia.........
Ok, I won;t finish that statement......
LOL.....get on wit the crunching, eh?

Don't worry, while they're crunching I'll not only have another drink for myself but I'll have 2 for you straight out of my brew room. ;)

Cheers.

I'll have another swig on you too....LOL.
Straight up outta the bottle.

And........wow......this is a blast from the past.

I was trying to remember an artist that I heard as a young lad a week or two ago.
It just now came to me........

Bent Fabric.....Alley Cat.

It always comes back to me somehow.

A dear old departed uncle took me to the tavvy when I was sooooooo a youngster..

I marveled at the way the juke worked........
And this was the song it played.

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

Well my 3 pc's survived the extra extended outage and are back up to their limit of tasks.

Cheers.

You bia.........
Ok, I won;t finish that statement......
LOL.....get on wit the crunching, eh?

Don't worry, while they're crunching I'll not only have another drink for myself but I'll have 2 for you straight out of my brew room. ;)

Cheers.

I'll have another swig on you too....LOL.
Straight up outta the bottle.

And........wow......this is a blast from the past.

I was trying to remember an artist that I heard as a young lad a week or two ago.
It just now came to me........

Bent Fabric.....Alley Cat.

It always comes back to me somehow.

A dear old departed uncle took me to the tavvy when I was sooooooo a youngster..

I marveled at the way the juke worked........
And this was the song it played.

Well I hope that you enjoyed those 2 dark rum & cola's that I had for you but I'm listening to AC/DC myself. ;)

Cheers.

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Well my 3 pc's survived the extra extended outage and are back up to their limit of tasks.

Cheers.

You bia.........
Ok, I won;t finish that statement......
LOL.....get on wit the crunching, eh?

Don't worry, while they're crunching I'll not only have another drink for myself but I'll have 2 for you straight out of my brew room. ;)

Cheers.

I'll have another swig on you too....LOL.
Straight up outta the bottle.

And........wow......this is a blast from the past.

I was trying to remember an artist that I heard as a young lad a week or two ago.
It just now came to me........

Bent Fabric.....Alley Cat.

It always comes back to me somehow.

A dear old departed uncle took me to the tavvy when I was sooooooo a youngster..

I marveled at the way the juke worked........
And this was the song it played.

Well I hope that you enjoyed those 2 dark rum & cola's that I had for you but I'm listening to AC/DC myself. ;)

Cheers.

You and I are obviously not on the same planet.

Rum and Coca Cola.......
Working for the Yankee dolla.

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

And now you got the fire stoked......
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy........

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

Well my 3 pc's survived the extra extended outage and are back up to their limit of tasks.

Cheers.

You bia.........
Ok, I won;t finish that statement......
LOL.....get on wit the crunching, eh?

Don't worry, while they're crunching I'll not only have another drink for myself but I'll have 2 for you straight out of my brew room. ;)

Cheers.

I'll have another swig on you too....LOL.
Straight up outta the bottle.

And........wow......this is a blast from the past.

I was trying to remember an artist that I heard as a young lad a week or two ago.
It just now came to me........

Bent Fabric.....Alley Cat.

It always comes back to me somehow.

A dear old departed uncle took me to the tavvy when I was sooooooo a youngster..

I marveled at the way the juke worked........
And this was the song it played.

Well I hope that you enjoyed those 2 dark rum & cola's that I had for you but I'm listening to AC/DC myself. ;)

Cheers.

You and I are obviously not on the same planet.

Rum and Coca Cola.......
Working for the Yankee dolla.

Maybe we ain't but I was beered out about 7hrs ago. :)

Cheers.

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And you really wanna womp me up??

This Be fine......

Candy man...........don't make me post the original cuts..........oh, but what the heck....I know some gurls pop the cherry for the kittyman.

They were racy.....even in the 50's.......

Another remix....dandy fun.

And there is a mix version.
Done poking fun at the kittyman now?

LOL, no offense taken.

BTW.......THIS was the original cut.........
If I remember right, I think it was Maxine that was the lead.

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

If my BOINC-Preferences-network usage are right...

Finished all the tasks using ten-days cache. Last contact 24 Oct. How the buffers are for 10 days if I have nothing more to work after 4 days? Maybe it's just about the latest crashes of SETI dbs.

I suppose for next few weeks - until the new SETI server(s) will be ready - I am running out of work. It's that true?

PS: sorry for my stupid question: what mean "ghosts"?

Thanks

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Mens sana in corpore ETI & Maze

Iulian,
Last question first, ghosts are work unit that were supposed to be sent to you but due to a mistake they didn't make it from the server to your computer. They don't show up in your BOINC Manager but do show as in progress on your web based tasks page.

For the first question, Jeff posted over in the tech news forum that they have decided to keep the project down until they get the new servers up, and ready to go. We wont be getting any new work for about a month if everything goes right or maybe a bit longer if the run into teething problems. We can upload our work now and should be able to report shortly but wont download anything new. The forums will be up for us though so it wont be a total loss until we are back up.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

from the way i read they were discussing what to do until the new servers are up and running. Did I miss something?

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Until the new servers are up, uploads and reporting are enabled, downloads are disabled, forums and website will be up.

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I saw that! Perryjay was saying no new work until the new servers were running. All i can see on tech news is that they were discussing the next step. No mention of stopping new work issues yet.

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Yup, no new work until new servers are up. At least that's my understanding of the situation.

From Jeff:

We've decided to keep the project down until the new servers are up and running and the databases migrated to them.

The forums will stay up.

The back end and the upload server will stay up until we clear the outstanding results.

The time line we are looking at is about one month - two weeks for the servers to arrive and another two to get them going. We'll see as time goes on whether or not that's too aggressive.

The down time will be used for preparing the databases for migration. For example, on the science side, we can finally finish a big merge of the spike table and drop the old spike table. This will make the database smaller and easier to migrate.

We will also use the time for science processing and analysis.

Granted, he doesn't say "no new work," but that's what I understand "keep the project down" to mean.

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Ok thanks. I didn't see jeff's last message

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Jeff just posted this a few minutes ago in the News forum...

The machine that was running the main BOINC database has become too unreliable to use. The backup server does not have the capacity to run the project on its own.

The very good news is that we just ordered two new servers! One will be the new BOINC database server and the other will be the new back end science database server. Our capacity to both distribute and analyze our data will increase significantly with these new machines.

While we prepare for these new servers and get them going once they arrive, the project will be down. Although no new work will be distributed, all outstanding work will be uploaded and credited. This web site and the forums will remain up for most of the remodeling period.

Funding for the new servers has come entirely from very generous donations from the SETI@Home community.
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Bold added by me. :-)

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC