http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76211&postid=1608858

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The first one I found, selected only by means of having a look for this avatar.

Not the same as a supermarket being found in a U.S. city, as far as I am able to tell.

When you look at this picture, it should be a reminder of our history and the distant background of our ancestors.

It is still true that we are small in cosmos, but not necessarily when it comes to our mind capabilities.

Life originated here on earth because our planet is part of an evolving cosmos. Whether or not the water here on earth came from comets and asteroids over eons of time, or if it rather came from somewhere else, life originated in the ocean and eventually left this environment for the shore and mountains.

We do not regard ourselves as species from heaven because of the way we think evolution happened here on earth.

We are not using all of our abilities when sitting behind a desktop computer.

In an emergency we are sometimes supposed to be doing things better and if something is making us reflect about given things, we often are able to reach far out when doing so.

Those who built the stone monuments on Easter Island in the Pacific did this a long time ago.

A one way journey from Chile going by plane takes almost six hours. It is one of the most remote places here on earth.

Regardless of whether or not these people chose to do what they were doing because they encountered extraterrestrials is unknown, but most people living in such a desolate place would have used most of their day either fishing, hunting, or possibly harvesting the soil, enduring possible harsh weather at times.

These statues did not become as a result of daily life. We do have large pyramids in both Egypt and Mexico and also other places on earth as well. The history behind the origin of many of these monuments is probably an unknown or untold story and most people are not very familiar with this subject today.

It is our mind as well as a wish to explore our surroundings that makes us choose what we are doing, not necessarily what we usually have to do each day in our daily lives.

I know Dull... Doesn't make sense, your post.

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http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76211&postid=1608858

Check out the avatar for this poster.

The first one I found, selected only by means of having a look for this avatar.

Not the same as a supermarket being found in a U.S. city, as far as I am able to tell.

When you look at this picture, it should be a reminder of our history and the distant background of our ancestors.

It is still true that we are small in cosmos, but not necessarily when it comes to our mind capabilities.

Life originated here on earth because our planet is part of an evolving cosmos. Whether or not the water here on earth came from comets and asteroids over eons of time, or if it rather came from somewhere else, life originated in the ocean and eventually left this environment for the shore and mountains.

We do not regard ourselves as species from heaven because of the way we think evolution happened here on earth.

We are not using all of our abilities when sitting behind a desktop computer.

In an emergency we are sometimes supposed to be doing things better and if something is making us reflect about given things, we often are able to reach far out when doing so.

Those who built the stone monuments on Easter Island in the Pacific did this a long time ago.

A one way journey from Chile going by plane takes almost six hours. It is one of the most remote places here on earth.

Regardless of whether or not these people chose to do what they were doing because they encountered extraterrestrials is unknown, but most people living in such a desolate place would have used most of their day either fishing, hunting, or possibly harvesting the soil, enduring possible harsh weather at times.

These statues did not become as a result of daily life. We do have large pyramids in both Egypt and Mexico and also other places on earth as well. The history behind the origin of many of these monuments is probably an unknown or untold story and most people are not very familiar with this subject today.

It is our mind as well as a wish to explore our surroundings that makes us choose what we are doing, not necessarily what we usually have to do each day in our daily lives.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76329

A couple of interesting posts in this thread since yesterday.

I leave it for you since I am not that good when it comes to mathematics and physics.

But perhaps I could add that when I read about the cat in the box and it is not found where it is supposed to be, are we then back to the question of logic?

If there is some logic or relevance in all of this, then it becomes the way nature is supposed to be dealing with logic.

Whether or not you are able to deduce the location or specific properties of a particle because the measurement you are making is affecting the properties of the particle you are observing and in this way may be altering its physical characteristics and behavior, ultimately the same particle was having original properties that otherwise would have been left there to be.

It becomes kind of a Janus face. Nature is exhibiting its special properties and characteristics, but we are only able to measure these properties by means of the tools we are using. Possibly we will not always be able to tell the true story behind everything.

This description possibly gives a small insight in how the Uncertainty Principle is working. My best guess is that it goes by means of several names or descriptions, including Schroedinger's cat and the like. It better could be described and interpreted by means of one specific terminology when it comes to the whole subject.

When it eventually does happen.

Does it ever happen to you?

By the way.

I notice a couple of things apparently have been fixed. Most things are working better now than previously.

Still, I do not get straight to a maximized Notepad window. Either a DOS-based Yafu task running in a window is the active application if it is not the Desktop itself.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76383

My question for you here.

Is the Event Log the same as the Notices tab?

For keeping watch of things like running times and what may have happened while being away, the Event Log is a very useful tool.

Having the icon for the Boinc Manager on the taskbar, I get somewhat annoyed when the Event Log is located below the Manager itself and possibly coming up as the first option or choice.

It usually does not come up when the Manager is started up, when accessing it through the icon from a web-page that may be maximized, I want to get to the Manager most of the time and not the Event Log.

Therefore I choose to close the Event Log when it is not being used.

When it eventually does happen, should better read.

Apparently several better factors here today, including two factors being a P299 and a PRP534, respectively.

A third one was a P134, but I need to go back checking. I have lost it for now among all the other numbers.

Anyway, those web-advertisments.

One page I just visited has an advertisment for watches.

You need to click on the picture associated with it because it is in fact a multimedia presentation carrying with it sound which possibly needs adjustment from having been initially turned completely down.

But the otherwise nice, black-haired woman is having the nails on her fingers painted in red (nail varnish).

Do not do that thing!

It does not make you more attractive. At least when it comes to me.

That said.

Also I took notice of a female weather broadcaster who was wearing the costume belonging to Santa Claus.

At least she was not in disguise, having long legs. But there are times when I wonder who is behind the disguise when it apparently is a male, at least when voice only is concerned.

Should you trust Santa Claus in disguise at all times?

Anyway, there is no chance even Santa Claus may arrive at my flat using the fireplace in my living room which is a locked one, for wood only and not refined oil or petrol.

It is not being used either. It could be so depending on the temperature both outside as well as inside. If it should get too cold here, it may be used in an emergency, but then I need something to feed it, bringing it up from the start, as well as matches to light it up.

Perhaps I should have a set of mathces in the kitchen? Right now I do not have such a box of matches lying around.

Also makes me remember a cottage visit several years ago.

The outdoor shelter was empty for the small pieces needed to start the big fire being possible with the big pieces of wood. It became a cold week with only part of the heat needed for comfortability.

Everything comes in at a price. Do not take anything for granted.

If not well prepared in advance you may well be in for a surprise which at times may be an unpleasant one.

Thanks, Julie.

I really should be celebrating instead, but for now I am stuck with what I am doing.

Also I could tell you that I went up the thread "Real Pictures of Real Seti Friends" which for now has become 12 days ago since the last posting there.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=74532

Apparently some nice pictures there. Some people become old, other people unfortunately carries slightly too much when it comes to their weight.

Blame eating too much food at times. It should be even more time for the same right now.

Also some nice faces belonging to some dedicated people. And if it happens to be even more of it, you are not supposed to be asking, of course.

But it should be a true fact that both knowledge and ideas, as well as the abilty of intuition and making a relation or correspondence between otherwise unrelated elements is something that comes along with us as being more or less educated people?

This knowledge is there regardless of whether you out lawning in your garden in the summer or perhaps riding a bike or moving your car while out shopping or visiting your family. Meaning that the knowledge about things which you may have is there with you all the time, but does not necessarily show up while doing the ordinary things of your life.

Great results are often being accomplished as a result of ideas and thinking process which may have lasted for quite some time. It may start up as being a spontaneous idea in your head or mind, but in the end needs verification either by means of a lengthy computer calculation or the use of a particle accelerator in order to be able to prove the same idea or intuition, making proven facts of it all.

When this eventually happens it becomes science of it and not only pure fiction and entertainment.

Perhaps it may bring some sense of satisfaction and even proudness as well when it eventually does so.

How much non-essential stuff are you supposed to be able to fill up on the root of a partition or volume?

The same question goes for Windows as for at least Unix.

My experience with Unix system V and in some part its X-Windows feature or application is now starting to become some 20 years old.

Quite much has happened both on the hardware as well as software side in the meantime, although we were able to get things running on even 486 computers at that time.

Checking this out, I apparently am having some three files on my current C: drive.

Two of them are system files. The third one is related to the installation of an audio package, possibly RealTek which by means of hardware is built-in on the motherboard.

For now I leave these three files in their place. Not worth fooling aroud with these ones.

But for Unix, at least directories and possibly even files may be present by means of symbolic links as well. At least a particular directory entry should be related to a file that is present on the disc. Otherwise, security may at times be compromised by either a virus or a trojan and you may receive a message about a full disc which eventully is able to store even more than it already is doing.

The important is that when you get used to things, the way they should be handled or mananged often becomes forgotten while doing the usual things. When the problems starts showing up, they could end up becoming a nightmare at times before eventually being fixed.

Merry Xmas mp:)

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It became 11:30 here and time for breakfast, or maybe it should be called lunch instead.

It could be mentioned that apparently a couple of facts that I was able to pick up in fact ended up on the Yahoo newsfeed including the main page as being one of many featured articles available.

I am looking for a picture of a big particle smasher I came across a little earlier.

Remember in the old gambling rooms, they were having a big spinning wheel because of its size probably was located in the centre or middle of the room.

A coin or the similar was put into a designated hole or slot and they let the wheel spin around.

It may have taken a while each time. But when the wheel came to a halt, this coin was expected to have ended up somewhere else.

If this endpoint was designated to be a winning slot of sorts, you would expect to become a winner and receive money in return.

However, the chances for this to happen would at times be slight at best, depending on which slot was being designated as being the winner.

The question becomes as follows:

When doing such a thing, you are supposed to be gaming. It becomes a question about winning and losing and it is all about chance, unpredictability and coincidence.

Not necessarily being random, because there is always a winning chance. Therefore it becomes at least the next best option.

If you have just tried it, or at least the similar thing only once, it may have been that chance, or better luck, have struck luck on you.

Why does such a thing happen at all when we know that the chances are that slim and the possibilities may seem almost endless at times?

Give me an explanation for why such things eventually happen when they eventually do, will you?

Compare this example with what we are observing in nature. Are the results we are able to obtain and record because of what we are able to observe?

Again, by means of pure science only, we are back to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

Apparently some interesting stuff there when reading this article.

Apparently I slept away the whole 24'th of December.

What a Christmas.

But supposedly most people, at least the British choose to celebrate on the 25'th of December instead.

I never get it correct, it seems.

"...pain" ended up on a line on its own.

Also it should better read "Diamonds may be worn by means of a necklace..." .

Perhaps someone else out there may be better than us keeping with the cold.

Who should I be asking?

Are there still someone around.

Do there happen to be someone around.

If I happen to be decorated by the President (and not being forgotten by the same).

Definitely always some people there to keep up the good things (including the music).

You certainly know that everything is built with a purpose in mind.

But not definitely at your taste at all times as well.

Blame language capabilities and intended purposes.

I notice something slightly disappointing here when it comes to system performance.

Right now I have Yafu-x64 running in two separate DOS-boxes or windows.

Usually, BOINC Manager is running with two such tasks also running.

But not right now. The tasks have been suspended there.

Except for some more or less idle applications which are not consuming much processing power, only WinPFGW is running in the background at Low Priority, having been iconized to the system tray.

I do not bother about setting processor affinity for given tasks, only let them go as they come.

Is it possible to have this even better distributed, or the like?

My guess is that if I keep a watch, BOINC Manager will again be running soon, but that the timeslice between the separate applications becomes more about minutes, rather than the usual seconds, or less.

Definitely, Yafu, which is a DOS-based application, is consuming a lot of system resources at times.

I love doing the factoring stuff, but also keep an eye on what is happening with my BOINC Manager tasks as well.

Any suggestions?

Perhaps some add-on software for processor and memory handling like MemTurbo or PC Booster could be an option?

Right now I do not run too much of these ones either, because they again become more applications and tasks which themselves are consuming both memory and processor cycles.

Which leads to an evil cycle of sorts when it comes to the running of the tasks.

Should perhaps correct current version of SMV v.6.54 to be v.6.55.

Small error there.

Apparently my RAC (Recent Average Credit) is at 27, which is a little low.

I missed that the previous time when I selected to have only CPU-based tasks because I have a PrimeGrid Genefer CUDA tasks waiting to finish up and I am only running on one graphics card.

I do not want to leave the computer unattended when running such a task. I need to be present at the computer, so for now this task is not going any way.

The thing which did not satisfy me completely is that I apparently was assigned to a new "computer" here when again using this account for the running of tasks.

Having a couple of PrimeGrid CPU-based tasks in my task list, it may appear that these tasks are getting the higher priority because of shorter deadlines.

So for now there apparently is one Astropulse v 7.03 running by means of sse2. Checking further, I apparently also received 5 Seti@home CPU-based tasks as well which are more or less ready to go. A couple of PrimeGrid tasks need to be suspended first.

Checking "Remaining (esti....)", it is easy to determine that this task is running on the CPU.

But apparently there is no graphics being associated with the running of this task.

As long as there is no graphics associated with such a task, there is not that much excitement around. It takes quite a time to complete such a task and right now there are no definite results or gains being associated by running these type of tasks.

My only guess is that E.T. is having its own Disney Channel for Christmas for their inhabitants to enjoy in the late evenings, but that is another story.

Of course there is not that much to look at in the graphics for an Astropulse task when compared to an ordinary Seti@home task. This is the reason why the Astropulse task does not suit my taste as well as the ordinary Seti@home tasks.

However, Astropulse is initially being included as an option in the Preferences and have to be manually unselected in order not to be downloaded or run.

In my opinion, having Astropulse as an option when it comes to the running of the tasks and not being selected by default could have been a better option.

At least when it comes to me, should really say.

Maybe the initial Preferences could be given a little tweak?

Just a small suggestion.

Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja3SAM_H0og

Make entertainment out of it and not science.

Or should I perhaps switch it the opposite way when it comes to directions?

If you do not mind, can you please define a narrowband signal for me when it comes to the possible numbers being associated with such a signal if it ever should be present?

The closest I get to this is the "metascore". I have nothing to compare with when it comes to such scores.

Definitely the project has not been put on the shelf and abandoned yet.

My current task in progress says 24no.14aa..., so apparently things are still up and running.

Most likely a signal has already been detected or found, but is being witheld for security and other reasons.

The study of extraterrestrial intelligence may at times be a controversial one, depending on the angle in which it is being approached as a subject.

Still you may be able to contribute to such a project from your desktop computer located in a small room.

Oh, ran for just 2 seconds right now.

Where is the "Choosing Optimal Functions" in all of this?

Checking.

Apparently empty line here.

The last CUDA task apparently ran for 4 seconds only.

Again, a question for you.

I had to log off my local user, because it became too much once again.

I probably lost a couple of results by doing this. It became quite much.

So now I am back at running BOINC again and finishing up the CUDA tasks in my task list.

The question is about the Wow signal again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

There is mentioning of the background signal or noise intensity.

But what does that become when running Seti@home - is it some -0.69, or is it somewhere between -0.23 to -0.25?

If a signal is said to be 20 - 30 times stronger than the background signal intensity and you only measure this against a spike score, you may end up at some 20,7 or so, which is very high indeed.

Checking my current SMV, my lowest spike score is about -0.26 . The lines above (or below if you will) when sorted on spike score are empty. Most of them have spike count 0, the rest has spike count 30. One line has spike count 15, another line has spike count 27.

No power are given for these lines since they are otherwise empty.

The SMV v.6.54 (and also the previous v.6.54) marks the uppermost field element when switching from Sky Map view to WU's. Probably the other tables in a similar way.

I have not checked this yet.

Guess this makes me bored. It is a bug in my opinion which needs a fix.

Also, if I could click or double-click on either the spike count or spike score and by doing this getting straight to the corresponding line for the same in the spike table in SMV is something that could be much desired.

If these things could be fixed and/or implemented, there should be no need for a big database when running as a single user, even though I am approaching 6 million in total credit on this project.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76298

If I slip on the "l" in gmail.com, which I unfortunately did, where do I end up?

I did not use http or https since I am using Google Chrome.

The web is still an ugly place at times.

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Also I just paid a visit at the Seti Institute before finishing the day.

http://www.seti.org/

The slider at the top shows an enlarged version of the picture above it when hovering the pictures in the slider with the mouse.

The enlargement of the "Rosetta: Wild Bounce at comet Churymov-Gerasimenko" makes me think that this a shortcut to a video, which in fact it is, but only when clicking on the picture in the slider.

I did so and was able to notice that the caption for the video which is available in the link when selected, has its second line thrashed or removed.

Only the bottom two thirds or so of the text on that line is visible.

Perhaps someone could fix this error.

It is really a small thing only, but if it happens to be graphics and not text, it is often hard to redo once again.

In fact I only was able to notice this only when returning back to their main page after having clicked on the link.

Should perhaps tell you that I came across a P255 some 15 minutes ago.

Even better, some 2-3 minutes ago there also came up a PRP748 as well in my Yafu factoring software.

These numbers have not been reported yet. I will have my dinner right now and getting back to this after the coffee.

And you certainly know that I am having a break from BOINC right now.

In fact, by doing this factorization thing I may possibly have encountered the wall right now.

Meaning that it became a quite hard thing to do, taking a long time to get a result back at times.

So perhaps I rather should stop those tasks that are still running and get back to Seti@home and PrimeGrid instead?

Anyway, it has been an informative thing to be doing this kind of stuff. I have learnt quite a lot from all of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation

About a third downward that page, possibly slightly more.

There is also a nice picture above it showing thought space curvature.

Also by clicking on the link having the text or label "Gravity"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

Those equations being found there. They are embedded in pictures.

I would like to have those equations on a pure text format only.

I do not have the Microsoft Equation Editor ready at hand, so the only possible option or alternative may be to use Charmap.exe, which is located in Accessories, System Tools, or the similar on the Start-menu.

Any suggestions to this?

Otherwise, doing this manually could be possible way of doing it, but definitely would be a quite cumbersome thing.

Also, played back the hammer and feather video using the .ogg format at the same time. This did not work earlier.

I notice the small logos or tabs coming with the playback control. For the Volume Control Button, this tab comes up when pointing at the icon control itself, but not the slider to the right.

This could possibly be added as well. Just a small thing.

By the way,

Losing track of my tabs here using Google Chrome.

Should add the following:

By the way, do you spell it noone or no-one?

Apparently Google Translate says both could be used.

Thanks!

Make an analogy out of it.

Yesterday, while watching a YouTube video, I noticed the playback became frozen and hung up.

It may have been continuing playing back. Right now I do not remember exactly.

But it may have been the line. I had taken a break from my numbers and the machine had enough resources.

So, when Jim Cantore (great man) is out documenting hurricanes and tornadoes, you typically get those squared boxes, sometimes gray colored, in the playback.

Then I assume the playback and/or recording is a digital one and not an analog one.

So the question becomes what happens when data that are not digital but analog instead becomes lost or garbled because of errors in the transmission.

Again you are back to the wave, of course.

What is the answer to this question?

Thanks!

Numbers have special meanings mp, used to study Numerology in my younger days:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology

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