What will they do with all that Money even the Servers are paid?

More harddrives, more memory, a new switch or router? There's many things they need but couldn't afford before. I'm sure it will all go to a good purpose.

And I forgot to add thank you to all the people that made this possible. Both the large gifts and the small and even those that could only wish us well.

Maybe a large Capacity Cable up the hill to the SSL.?

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

Yupp, that would be the next where I would invest.

Helli

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Whoa! It's raining Money over Berkeley. :-)

What will they do with all that Money even the Servers are paid?


Thank you for your gift of $250.00 via Visa on 11/14/2010.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $250.00

Your confirmation number is:
64185



Helli

If it's not against the Rules, the staff could have a beer and pizza party
( with pictures maybe ) in celebration of the new servers. Pepperoni, sausage, and mushroom turkey for Thanksgiving? They can use my donation if anybody objects.

(snippage)
Maybe a large Capacity Cable up the hill to the SSL.?

How much does that cost?

From what I understood
The Hi capacity cable is already up the hill
Seti is only being allowed part of it
and that the routers Seti has are not capable of more

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What else is up the hill to soak up so much capacity?

What else is up the hill to soak up so much capacity?

Seti@home is inside the Space Science Lab. And by far the largest use of bandwidth.

An OC-3 is 3<typo edit> T3's, roughly 28X1.544MBPS(math edit)x3. Tack on a 100M router, and they are pretty full. ( I am guessing also the reason they never hit 100MBPS )

So OC12 or OC-48 should unclog the congestion completely (new optical hardware at least, depending on condition of existing fiber prehaps new fiber as well)

They keep trying to get more. In the mean time, we need to be as gentle as we can on it. Not something we are very good at. But the servers, we can and are helping with. They do not last forever.

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Janice

Whoa! It's raining Money over Berkeley. :-)

What will they do with all that Money even the Servers are paid?


Thank you for your gift of $250.00 via Visa on 11/14/2010.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $250.00

Your confirmation number is:
64185



Helli

If it's not against the Rules, the staff could have a beer and pizza party
( with pictures maybe ) in celebration of the new servers. Pepperoni, sausage, and mushroom turkey for Thanksgiving? They can use my donation if anybody objects.

I think a certain person covered that. I will post an update tomorrow. Been a long day.

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Seti Ambassador
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Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $400.00 - via Visa on 11/15/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $400.00
Your confirmation number is - 64216

Hi, The new servers are in!!, But Eric says he does not have time to play with them today.

$55 msattler
$800 Helli
$100 ryeomans
$50 Dorphas
$100 MJS
$10 SciManStev
$200 JohnDK
$20 jason_gee
$100 Geek@Play
$20 Niteryder
$100 Fourmyle of Ceres
$100 bill
$50 RoosStar
$20 perryjay
$175 Clifton L. Harding Jr.
$50 Albireo380
$75 dnolan
$3.000 MarkJ
$50 Bernie Vine
$100 rebest
$100 S@NL - Fred - www.efmer.eu/boinc
$50 Big Don
$2,267 Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan
$300 samuel7
$30 Silje
$100 Klurt
$150 Magnet
$25 Robert Ribbeck
$124.75 Zebra3
$200 soft^spirit
$100 Rabbit&Carrot
$25 gomeyer
$25 Tony DeBari
$50 Eve - Pyro nl
$20 Anthony Coleman
$250 Roman Wagner
$35 Chris S
$50.25 razamatraz
$25 Frizz
$25 dan
$25 tnmjr99a
$25 arkayn
$20 _heinz
$50 Eewec
$25 Philhnnss
$100 Anthony G. Todd
$108 Justin M. Morford
$250 RWZeitgeist
$15 SockGap
$50 Bearcat
$50 Donald L. Johnson
$20 Arjant2
$500 Orioneti
$50 Ingrid Brouwer
$50 The_bestest
$100 Thomas Arnold
$10 John
$200 David Anderson
$200 J. Mileski
$100 James Sotherden
$100 Egad Ivegoninsane
$50 yank
$12 VW Bobier
$50 Blake Bonkofsky
$50 Ocna
$15 CLYDE
$40 Area 51
$50 Terry & Laura
$20 Dean Sheaffer
$200 Claggy
$100 WendyR
$100 dcappello
$25 119FWMXS
$10 MJKelleher
$2,175 -ShEm-
$50 CHARLES JACKSON
$50 Spectrum
$25 Fuzzy53
$25 JimHilty2
$100 Tom Mehrens
$15 APCyberax
$25 [DPC] hansR
$10 Zeus Fab3r
$215 Doug vE
$25 KWSN - Xfer.cns
$10 Mike Bader
$300 Tony Baczynski
$50 Xeltrix
$30 Francis Noel
$100 Frederic Salve
$50 Lutz66
$50 Neal Chantrill
$175 Al
$250 PT
$250 owensse
$10 Eric Bigham
$10 B-Man
$50 tbret
$100 Kibble(KB7TIB)
$20 ACisnero210

Ok I come up with a total of $16,042.

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Thanks for the Update, Uli.

Helli

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A loooong time ago: First Credits after SETI@home Restart

I am truly amazed that the contributions continue to come in to SETI. Previous history of contributions gave no indication that this kind of generosity on your part was to be expected. Each of you are to be congratulated for your generosity and support to SETI.

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

And another round of thanks from myself and the kitties to all who have, and still are, contributing to bolster the health of our favorite project.

The arrival of the new servers is joyous news indeed!

Meow meow meow!!!

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

And not to forget to thank YOU, Mark.

About $42.000 in the past 100 Days are not bad. :-)

Helli

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A loooong time ago: First Credits after SETI@home Restart

I hereby dedicate my 4,000th post to Carolyn, Oscar and all you donors.
$55 msattler
$800 Helli
$100 ryeomans
$50 Dorphas
$100 MJS
$10 SciManStev
$200 JohnDK
$20 jason_gee
$100 Geek@Play
$20 Niteryder
$100 Fourmyle of Ceres
$100 bill
$50 RoosStar
$20 perryjay
$175 Clifton L. Harding Jr.
$50 Albireo380
$75 dnolan
$3.000 MarkJ
$50 Bernie Vine
$100 rebest
$100 S@NL - Fred - www.efmer.eu/boinc
$50 Big Don
$2,267 Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan
$300 samuel7
$30 Silje
$100 Klurt
$150 Magnet
$25 Robert Ribbeck
$124.75 Zebra3
$200 soft^spirit
$100 Rabbit&Carrot
$25 gomeyer
$25 Tony DeBari
$50 Eve - Pyro nl
$20 Anthony Coleman
$250 Roman Wagner
$35 Chris S
$50.25 razamatraz
$25 Frizz
$25 dan
$25 tnmjr99a
$25 arkayn
$20 _heinz
$50 Eewec
$25 Philhnnss
$100 Anthony G. Todd
$108 Justin M. Morford
$250 RWZeitgeist
$15 SockGap
$50 Bearcat
$50 Donald L. Johnson
$20 Arjant2
$500 Orioneti
$50 Ingrid Brouwer
$50 The_bestest
$100 Thomas Arnold
$10 John
$200 David Anderson
$200 J. Mileski
$100 James Sotherden
$100 Egad Ivegoninsane
$50 yank
$12 VW Bobier
$50 Blake Bonkofsky
$50 Ocna
$15 CLYDE
$40 Area 51
$50 Terry & Laura
$20 Dean Sheaffer
$200 Claggy
$100 WendyR
$100 dcappello
$25 119FWMXS
$10 MJKelleher
$2,175 -ShEm-
$50 CHARLES JACKSON
$50 Spectrum
$25 Fuzzy53
$25 JimHilty2
$100 Tom Mehrens
$15 APCyberax
$25 [DPC] hansR
$10 Zeus Fab3r
$215 Doug vE
$25 KWSN - Xfer.cns
$10 Mike Bader
$300 Tony Baczynski
$50 Xeltrix
$30 Francis Noel
$100 Frederic Salve
$50 Lutz66
$50 Neal Chantrill
$175 Al
$250 PT
$250 owensse
$10 Eric Bigham
$10 B-Man
$50 tbret
$100 Kibble(KB7TIB)
$20 ACisnero210
$10 Sutaru Tsureku


Ok I come up with a total of $16,052.

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

I'm excited about the new hardware.

I've been crunching slowly since 5/99.

So I'm thinking to myself... I says, "Self, if you were to spend a few hundred on a nVidia card, you could out-crunch a bunch of folks."

Then I sits myself down and does a little talkin' t'me.

I says,

"Yeah, but Self, if you were to give dat money to dem men out at Berzerkely, then a whole bunch more people could crunch a lot more numbers than if you just spent it selfishly and foolishly thinkin' your pride is important. Ain't nobody gonna remember how many wu you crunched when you are gone. So, it's more important to just be helpin' somebody in findin' them little green fellas' trying to reach out to us from across maybe 100,000 light years of distance."

But that devil on the other shoulder kept tellin' me it would be more fun to own somethin' with the name of Tesla on it, and since I can't afford me the car, I figured somethin' I could plug in that might help keep the shack warm in the winter would do.

But that would be wrong; putting myself ahead of the whole goal like that.

So I has mysef all convinced that even here close to dat river and dat bayou I don't need no more heat anyoldhow.

Gotta dribble it out in drabs, but then, we don't get in a hurry much around here.

Now ya'll, just cause we got us two new servers don't mean there ain't nothin' else they need. Last I hear, we gotta whole lotta data that gotta be looked-at for the second time.

Thank you for your gift to the SETI@home.
We received your gift of $50.00 via Visa on 11/18/2010. Your confirmation number is 64281.

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I'm excited about the new hardware.

I've been crunching slowly since 5/99.

So I'm thinking to myself... I says, "Self, if you were to spend a few hundred on a nVidia card, you could out-crunch a bunch of folks."

Then I sits myself down and does a little talkin' t'me.

I says,

"Yeah, but Self, if you were to give dat money to dem men out at Berzerkely, then a whole bunch more people could crunch a lot more numbers than if you just spent it selfishly and foolishly thinkin' your pride is important. Ain't nobody gonna remember how many wu you crunched when you are gone. So, it's more important to just be helpin' somebody in findin' them little green fellas' trying to reach out to us from across maybe 100,000 light years of distance."

But that devil on the other shoulder kept tellin' me it would be more fun to own somethin' with the name of Tesla on it, and since I can't afford me the car, I figured somethin' I could plug in that might help keep the shack warm in the winter would do.

But that would be wrong; putting myself ahead of the whole goal like that.

So I has mysef all convinced that even here close to dat river and dat bayou I don't need no more heat anyoldhow.

Gotta dribble it out in drabs, but then, we don't get in a hurry much around here.

Now ya'll, just cause we got us two new servers don't mean there ain't nothin' else they need. Last I hear, we gotta whole lotta data that gotta be looked-at for the second time.

Thank you for your gift to the SETI@home.
We received your gift of $50.00 via Visa on 11/18/2010. Your confirmation number is 64281.

No hurry, y'all......
But thanks fer stoppin' by.
I tink even dem bayou folks know da 'portance of lookin' for little green men.
Bet dey even got them lil' kitty creatures on da bayou lookin' on over da search. Guarontee!

Anyways....thanks tbret, for joining in for our common cause.

Jess keep dem kitties 'way from da gators now.....hear?

Meow.

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

$55 msattler
$800 Helli
$100 ryeomans
$50 Dorphas
$100 MJS
$10 SciManStev
$200 JohnDK
$20 jason_gee
$100 Geek@Play
$20 Niteryder
$100 Fourmyle of Ceres
$100 bill
$50 RoosStar
$20 perryjay
$175 Clifton L. Harding Jr.
$50 Albireo380
$75 dnolan
$3.000 MarkJ
$50 Bernie Vine
$100 rebest
$100 S@NL - Fred - www.efmer.eu/boinc
$50 Big Don
$2,267 Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan
$300 samuel7
$30 Silje
$100 Klurt
$150 Magnet
$25 Robert Ribbeck
$124.75 Zebra3
$200 soft^spirit
$100 Rabbit&Carrot
$25 gomeyer
$25 Tony DeBari
$50 Eve - Pyro nl
$20 Anthony Coleman
$250 Roman Wagner
$35 Chris S
$50.25 razamatraz
$25 Frizz
$25 dan
$25 tnmjr99a
$25 arkayn
$20 _heinz
$50 Eewec
$25 Philhnnss
$100 Anthony G. Todd
$108 Justin M. Morford
$250 RWZeitgeist
$15 SockGap
$50 Bearcat
$50 Donald L. Johnson
$20 Arjant2
$500 Orioneti
$50 Ingrid Brouwer
$50 The_bestest
$100 Thomas Arnold
$10 John
$200 David Anderson
$200 J. Mileski
$100 James Sotherden
$100 Egad Ivegoninsane
$50 yank
$12 VW Bobier
$50 Blake Bonkofsky
$50 Ocna
$15 CLYDE
$40 Area 51
$50 Terry & Laura
$20 Dean Sheaffer
$200 Claggy
$100 WendyR
$100 dcappello
$25 119FWMXS
$10 MJKelleher
$2,175 -ShEm-
$50 CHARLES JACKSON
$50 Spectrum
$25 Fuzzy53
$25 JimHilty2
$100 Tom Mehrens
$15 APCyberax
$25 [DPC] hansR
$10 Zeus Fab3r
$215 Doug vE
$25 KWSN - Xfer.cns
$10 Mike Bader
$300 Tony Baczynski
$50 Xeltrix
$30 Francis Noel
$100 Frederic Salve
$50 Lutz66
$50 Neal Chantrill
$175 Al
$250 PT
$250 owensse
$10 Eric Bigham
$10 B-Man
$50 tbret
$100 Kibble(KB7TIB)
$20 ACisnero210
$10 Sutaru Tsureku
$50 tbret
$10 HAL

Angela insists she owes me ten Dollars, so I have asked her, to donate it in HAL's name, may he rest in peace, so his star can be with us for a bit longer.



Ok I come up with a total of $16,112.[/quote]

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
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Dem gaitas gots so many dem rats to chew dey leave my chat be (all 13 of dem).

Most night we got chaoui in dat carport and we even feedin' dat oppossum on ocassion; love dat O.N.E. I says "Shoo possum, doan be eatin' d'chat's O.N.E." and dat possum look to me an hiss somethin' horrible. The chaoui pay me no mind at oll. I holler at dem, but day just look to me as if to say, "You crazy. Dis chat chow too good to pass-up main."

Okay, I'm all out of cajun... and everything else.

Seems to me you did really well raising funds when we knew exactly what the funds were needed-for. I've always found it was easier to get people to "buy a thing" than to simply donate money - even when someone else was doing the buying.

The whole "Donate to SETI" may be classic, but it's also boring. "Help us buy a new ____!" is so much easier to get your mind around.

"This is Eric. There are almost a dozen just like him who wake-up every morning hungry for more drives in their RAID array; hoping someone like you will donate just $0.25 per day to help them keep what hair they have left."

Or there's the other tactic - "Let's see how much electricity we can use that Berkeley will pay for."

In any case I hate to see the momentum fade when I know there must be something else needed. From what little I've read, there's an awful lot of pre-crunched data sitting around that has to be gone-through. Who knows, we might already have a signal from some long-dead race of ETs out there, somewhere.

Somebody's gonna have to have one heckuva number-comparing-fool desktop supercomputer to sift through it all. I'd hate for it to take a decade to review a decade's worth of crunching.

And yes, I really am feeding, vet-taking, and de-fleaing 13 cats, none of whom I found. They all found me. 100lbs of "dietary" DE at the front door now just to keep the yard fleas only ankle deep this year.

I'm just blessed like that. <heavy sigh> Soft heart / soft head to match.

Trick or Treaters lead a kitten to the front door and he just came-on-in like he owned the place. Fortunately, that one was wearing ID.

None of these are able to make any more, so I'm just a magnet, not a source.

Anybody want a young cat or two?

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