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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
I had this problem again a short while ago. Two files for Notepad open. Both files are the same one when it comes to filename. So I happen to edit one of the files, next saving the contents. Then I end up continuing editing on the second opened file, supposedly containing a specific content. In my case most of it is about numbers and their possible factorization. But when editing the second file, the contents becomes altered and not the same as in the previous file of the same name as was being edited. This is a bad software error as a result of thinking that simple and easy is better than nothing at all. Llike several other similar errors being around, this one better should be fixed. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Did it get off the tracks or was it because I went in this thread a little back in time. You still have the option of sending a PM to another user if something is hurting or otherwise on your mind. Always make a separation between those who are supposed to be users being members of this project by means of running Seti@home tasks by means of their client software and those people who are supposed to be staff. So, is it supposed to be either you or me all the time? Is it all about credit being associated with a given user account, or is it rather about user contents instead? Definitely people are always different, whoever they are supposed to be. You always know who I am because of the way I am phrasing my sentences and paragraphs, but could I always trust who you are? Therefore it is not up to me to say a bad word about a person in a thread, even though there always are those around who are having a bad day. Perhaps I should rather have a read at the "Joke thread" instead for more inspiration. Yes, ROMANCE... |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
So, because some people may perhaps be asking, is it not time to get back to the following important point. You are supposed to be doing science on what you already happen to know, not what you do not know. Our notion about the universe is that it started from an infinitesimal small point of space and expanded into a volume that became created as a result of the initial moment of creation. If I happen to be caught by an avalance of snow, I know that my only way to survive is not only getting air to breathe, but even more important, being able to dig myself out of the snow. This because I happen to know that outside the snow being everywhere around me there is space for me to walk around. Before the moment of creation there was no such space at all. It became as a result of it and to us this is the universe as we happen to know it by means of our current knowledge. Space is consisting of at least some 3 through 11 dimensions. We may forget the single point (not the singularity) at times, otherwise you may be able to walk the straight line which at times becomes curved. Next is the two-dimensional area which is making up your living room and of course ending up with a cube of sugar for your evening cup of coffee, which in the end is the most important of all. If you are trying to include time in the same context, you may be balancing on a shelf. Not everyone is going to believe in what you are saying. Still the notion of time has been more or less verified by means of observations based on Albert Einstein's Special Law of Theory. Science is about carrying out research and reaching out for the horizon. Mathematics is the tool being used in order to better understand the laws of nature and in order to be able to understand nature, we need to understand the most important aspects which are related to physics as well. Astronomy may be a hobby for most people, including enthusiasts as well. If you happen to be good at mathematics, you may also try becoming an astrophysicist. Astrobiology is another important subject field. There are places in space, like the surface of Mars, where life seems to be almost present, but still not conclusively so, at least when it comes to a general assumption of life originating by means of microbes, including bacteria and viruses. If the planet Mars for some reason are being inhabited by some invisible "Sing-a-Song" creatures, noone is supposed to ever believe in such a story. Science is supposed to be about proven facts most of the time and making any suggestions about the possible presence of such "Sing-a-Song" creatures being present and inhabiting our neighbor planet too soon may lead to speculations which are likely assumed to be based on falsifications and lies and not just pure speculations and guesses alone. Same goes with UFO research, assumedly. We think that these objects are for real and is as yet not completely understood either, despite quite extensive efforts at gaining knowledge and insight into these objects. By means of popularizing what we may assume to be the presence or existence of extraterrestrial beings, or better the intelligence being related to it, we may think that this in fact is for real. More important are real life experiences from ordinary people who are telling stories which for the most are not believed or is ending up becoming disregarded by scientists carrying out research. Other people working in this field may tell about crop circles or the similar where time for some reason is shown to either slow down, or more likely even speed up. Also spiritual experiences related to the mind may be associated by entering some crop circles which for now are lacking a complete explanation. Not all crop circles are created by wind or turbulence, or even lightning for that matter, but we have yet to prove that what may be regarded as orbs or the similar are behind their creation as well as their possible meaning. Whether or not we should believe in a divine force behind the creation of nature, we should know that not everything was created with only humans in mind. For now we may lack any conclusive existence of any existence of other intelligent civilizations in space. Most likely the universe was created by someone or something which could be related to either the divine or the spiritual. Not even a Category 3 or higher civilization thought of as possessing tremendous amounts of intelligence as well as the ability of constructing huge facilities as a result of highly evolved technological skills having been obtained should be regarded as being the originator behind its creation. In order to be able to understand the creation of the universe, or rather the reason for this happening at all, we may once again be back to the question about the existence of the possible divine. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Speaking about a certain detective of past history... Anyway, this task for now slipped my log. 26fe12ab.15846.16599.4380866664197.12.129_0 Apparently not in my SMV yet, but has been uploaded, but not reported yet. Have not checked the server yet, so therefore no link. 20 seconds of run time for this task. Are these tasks perhaps ghosts? Edit: Found the task on the server being reported. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Oh! Guess what. Being reminded of something right now. I have seen the visual 9'th magnitude companion star of Cygnus X-1 through my own 2.4 inch refractor. Was able to locate it by means of charts provided by Burnham's Celestial Handbook. Perhaps I am getting used to my computer as well. Having a break right now. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Anyway, those Genefer tasks at PrimeGrid turned out to be n^131072+1 task rather than the anticipated genefer_1048576 tasks. They came in in quite big numbers when asking for new tasks and first I did not make a check of neither the task name, or the estimated remaining time to completion for each task. Possibly I therefore could run Seti@home CUDA tasks in between as well. Getting back to this tomorrow. Here is a playlist for you that is quite good. Starting with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD4Ks_EMQBY&list=RDXkZv3GHO8vA&index=27 and the video contents following next after this one. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
The other threads have not had any new posts today. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=77531&postid=1692536 Therefore, please read here for a little more. The whole reason we are doing this science is to put the results through NTPCkr I think. Or, put in another way, are possible hallucinations, reports of possible UFO observations, or even our current knowledge about mathematics and physics helping us in any way at giving a possible solution to whether or not we are alone in the universe? We happen to know about infinity ("~") when it comes to mathematics, but are we able to understand what this really is meaning? The singularity being present in black holes should be synonymous with infinity. Because of this, our current knowledge about mathematics and physics are unable to give a complete explanation here. Even the subject of UFO's can not match the principle of infinity. An explanation has yet to be given for the definition of this symbolic term or expression. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Pondering a little about a couple of things right now. For some reason I set NNT (no new tasks) for Seti@home. I chose to tick genefer_1048576 CUDA in my PrimeGrid preferences. The corresponding CPU tasks also available was found to blow already at the start. But doing so, now have given me a whole bunch of these tasks in my task list. I still could run Seti@home by means of the CPU only, but previously made a change of these preferences as well here in order to possibly get a higher result output or yield. With the BOINC Manager once again set to run 12 CPU tasks at the same time, the remaining Seti@home CUDA task freezes my system completely and becomes stuck. The task is running using 0.251 CPU's + 1 NVIDIA GPU. Either the first number is still too high, or it may have trouble running together with a couple of PrimeGrid ESP LLR (Extended Sierpinski) tasks, which I happen to know is suffering from a quite high error rate. If Seti@home should be set to new tasks once again, I will first need to adjust the Preferences on the server. Edit: Setting the Preferences to CPU tasks only, the Event Log is still requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU. The request by means of the Manager after I adjusted the Preferences. Here is probably a bug of sorts. Also I used the dictionary again for a somewhat difficult word. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Should tell that I came back to the computer room and found the machine to be still running. What even worse was that the floor standing heater had been left running as well. It has a temperature regulator, or thermometer built in, but guess it was hot in here. Fortunately, I had disabled CUDA for the evening and the tasks in my task list were not running. Those tasks which had been running, including those with PrimeGrid, apparently had finished. Apparently the system is hanging a bit again, so thinking about a restart of the computer. Became a typo again here, because I was struggling a bit. But there are right now a couple of windows open for Yafu factorization task. There are several results which should be noted down and perhaps reported as well. In the meantime, it is easy to find something else to do. Because of this, it may at times become an endless cycle and knowing where to stop becomes slightly difficult. A couple of Seti@home CUDA tasks here apparently became long. I am looking at the estimated remaining time for a given task before suspending it. It may in the end happen for another task instead. This is not only because of possible system hang or possibly other tasks running as well. When this is happening, the task may possibly be restarted, which also should be showing up in the finished result. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
The mouse fell to the floor below the table underneath the work flat. Watching Enya right now. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Found this after reading a couple a postings at PrimeGrid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPXGZjh8nUQ&list=RDXkZv3GHO8vA&index=10 |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
From what I am reading here. Anthropology, possibly social anthropology is most likely an important subject. Trying Wikipedia for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anthropology Suggestions are coming back above my input. Better turn it vice versa. Getting back to this tomorrow. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Heard about my shopping blunder today? There apparently was a problem once again with my VISA card. I lost the PIN code for it and will have to call the bank for a new one. So, with some 300 in pocket money, I wanted some beer for the weekend. Also some cake as well. It was 20 off the price of two 6 pack bottles of beers. Therefore it rather became 11 bottles instead. But when arriving back at home, a dinner was being included as well. Also a glass of coffee. I was thinking that I only could afford the beer for this amount of money. Definitely, coffee I something that I always should have around. But the fridge already had three dinners stored. Why I ended up with the dinner instead of the cake, I really can not explain. Right now I am missing the tasty cake I came across. My local store is quite good when it comes to cake. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
http://factordb.com/index.php?id=1100000000784767278 Found this one while doing my factorizations. When it happens, it apparently propagates, meaning that it may become a factor or factors in even larger numbers you may come across. This eventually happened several times after the initial find or discovery. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Became a typo in the previous post. Also the linking, which took up a little bit of time, today does not go where I want it to go. Also I was quite busy yesterday regarding a Team membership at PrimeGrid and a misunderstanding there. Perhaps it should be hidden and rather made a repost? Too many tabs open here. Loosing track of it. Rather click at "Superclusters" to the right of Lists (hyperlinked). Clicking on Lists itself leads nowhere. The two "Supercluster" links points to two different articles and in my previous post it became the wrong one. Rather the second link should be selected here. Again, it is all about the entangled web which is supposed to be making up the universe. To us it becomes galaxies and clusters of galaxies, but maybe it rather is something else instead. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 33903 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 41
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
I read the posting, but for now lost its whereabouts. Getting back to it, since she is giving me a smile of sorts (yes he/she is part of BOINC). I think it was one of Gary Charpentier's post. Of course now I lost it. But since there probably is no meaning when it comes to certain things, Gary could have this smile in his face as well. Getting back to it. Not to make any fuzz about it. You certainly know about a particular taste. Night! |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
Here is something that I happened to notice. I was listening to the playback of some candidate signals being available on YouTube. I chose to open up the Realtek Sound Panel for the adjustment of sound. One option being available there is "voice cancellation" (and not noice). Activating this option when playing back, you are able to hear a bit more than else or otherwise. A recommended option if you should happen to be doing the same thing. |
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bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 4138 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 7 |
So I went into my Preferences and actually became a litte surprised. Both use CPU, ATI GPU, NVIDIA (which should read nVidia) and use Intel GPU was ticked there. I assume that this is something that is being automatically being detected by the server and has these boxes automatically ticked before users may make adjustments, but this is something that could possibly lead to confusion. Also I have seen this happening before, even though my guess was that this was being more intentionally than not. So, therefore for now ticking Use CPU and NVIDIA GPU. The other parameters are left unchanged. Also the submit box at the bottom reads %1 preferanser before submitting and the link visible after the update reads the same. The language bit there should be corrected. I do not know whether may current settings will affect Seti@home CUDA tasks when it comes to possible hang. I may have to adjust the settings if the CUDA tasks are straining resources too much, but I could give it a try first. Updating the Preferences, I got a new batch of CPU-only tasks, so this will have to wait until the next update. Edit: Manually updated one error .vlar task after first adjusting the Preferences. Only got new CPU tasks. Trying ticking those boxes which became unticked in order to perhaps get these CUDA tasks. Most likely these will come a little later on. Got several CUDA tasks in my task list now. Thank you. Quite a while since last time and should be interesting, despite no graphics being present. |
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musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2346 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
The Genefer WR task has now finished and I have received the Ruby badge (2 million credit). Also past 17 million in total credit on my primary account there. Getting back to Seti@home CUDA tasks after a short break. |
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