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Message 2089540 - Posted: 4 Dec 2021, 0:48:36 UTC

Millions shocked over secret Alexa code that unlocks hidden Super Mode

The phrase in question is the Konami Code, a string of button descriptions from classic gaming joypads.
The secret code to tell Alexa: “Alexa, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start”, as revealed on TikTok.
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Message 2090260 - Posted: 14 Dec 2021, 17:11:31 UTC

"BIG IRON" computing is not dead yet...
AWS has a sexy new modernization play – and it's all about unsexy mainframes

Whatever the historic merits of mainframes, there simply aren't many people today who know how to use them. Universities may teach ancient Egyptian history, but even they don't waste time teaching mainframe skills. That means there's a big swath of enterprise computing that is on a collision course with obsolescence...
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Message 2090377 - Posted: 16 Dec 2021, 13:18:24 UTC

The European Center for Midterm Weather Forecasting has been moved from Reading, UK, to Bologna, which already hosts the Italian Computing Center CINECA, It has four mainframes in two pairs configuration, all from a French firm which was called Bull and now is Atos. The French Gov is still supporting its electronic industry, contrarily to the Italian Gov. I have worked for Honeywell Information Systems Italy, which no longer exists. Honeywell USA has made a joint wenture with a Cambridge spinoff to develop a quantum computer, like IBM and Google.
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Message 2090434 - Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 7:04:20 UTC

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Message 2090435 - Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 7:08:12 UTC - in response to Message 2090434.  

The Turing Machine Captcha will get you every time.
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Message 2090438 - Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 11:28:36 UTC - in response to Message 2090434.  

. . Good one Grant.
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Message 2090480 - Posted: 17 Dec 2021, 20:18:44 UTC

Some very interesting numbers.
Semi CapEx to Hit $152 Billion in 2021 as Market on Track for $2 Trillion by 2035
“It took 50 years for the semiconductor business to turn into a half a trillion-dollar business," said Khaldoon Al Mubarak, CEO of Mubadala, in an interview with CNBC. "It is going to take probably eight to 10 years to double [by 2030 ~ 2031]. And it is going to double right after that, probably in four to five years.
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Message 2090699 - Posted: 22 Dec 2021, 12:55:16 UTC

. . Anyone here doing WUs for E@H? All my machines look like E@H found a local black hole and fell into it at 8:50 am today.
. . Feeling very isolated about now :(
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Message 2090701 - Posted: 22 Dec 2021, 13:24:06 UTC - in response to Message 2090699.  
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Try again - give the crunchers a kick if needed. E@H came back a bit before 11 UTC.

Edit - new work seems to be in short supply still, but at least you should be able to complain about it on their own website!
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Message 2090709 - Posted: 22 Dec 2021, 14:48:09 UTC - in response to Message 2090701.  

Try again - give the crunchers a kick if needed. E@H came back a bit before 11 UTC.

Edit - new work seems to be in short supply still, but at least you should be able to complain about it on their own website!


. . It seems that during the problem time I suffered many failed transfers and the security function has placed me on the bad boy list. I have "reached my daily quota of 114 tasks". So no new work for me :(
. . Not sure now whether to let it run and hope I get work soon, or just shut down and restart tomorrow.
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Message 2090712 - Posted: 22 Dec 2021, 15:24:59 UTC - in response to Message 2090709.  

Bernd wrote:
A few hours ago the Einstein@Home servers experienced a hard shutdown. Apparently several safety measurements failed, for most of these it's still unclear why. We're trying to get the servers back up running and replace the ones with terminal failures and are working on restoring all services before Friday. Until then you may experience some limitations. In particular the O3AS workunit generator isn't running.
https://einsteinathome.org/content/servers-power-failure
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Message 2090713 - Posted: 22 Dec 2021, 15:31:41 UTC - in response to Message 2090712.  

Bernd wrote:
A few hours ago the Einstein@Home servers experienced a hard shutdown. Apparently several safety measurements failed, for most of these it's still unclear why. We're trying to get the servers back up running and replace the ones with terminal failures and are working on restoring all services before Friday. Until then you may experience some limitations. In particular the O3AS workunit generator isn't running.
https://einsteinathome.org/content/servers-power-failure


. . Thanks Richard.

. . All I need now is for the watchdog to go back to sleep so I can get some of whatever work is available.

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Message 2091192 - Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 7:48:20 UTC

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Message 2091194 - Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 8:06:06 UTC

Haven't seen any posts in Projects other than mine. Milkyway has been down and not available for over a day now. No idea what is going on there unless someone who does social media has seen any news on the project.
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Message 2091209 - Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 15:57:16 UTC - in response to Message 2091194.  

. . Hi Keith
. . Sorry but I don't do Milky Way.
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Message 2091210 - Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 16:36:32 UTC - in response to Message 2091209.  

Thanks for the reply Stephen.
Looks like MW is back this morning . . . and absolutely no posts in News or any posts as to why they disappeared.
I even tried to find the campus network status page at Rensselaer yesterday to figure out why the domain went missing. Nothing found.
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Message 2091228 - Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 23:32:46 UTC - in response to Message 2091210.  

. . Maybe they were busy preparing for their NYE celebrations :)

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Message 2091229 - Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 23:45:06 UTC - in response to Message 2091228.  

The active admin stated he has no clue why they lost the server. It wasn't related to the previous server issue either. The server spontaneously crashed again after the initial reboot.
Sounds like pending hardware failure of some type to me.
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Message 2091271 - Posted: 1 Jan 2022, 11:42:02 UTC - in response to Message 2091229.  

. . Sadly electronics do not run 24/7 forever, they eventually go to the great bit bin in the sky ...
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Message 2091603 - Posted: 7 Jan 2022, 3:20:29 UTC - in response to Message 2091210.  

Hi Keith, did you see the following? I have a feeling it was related to this the reason why you weren't able to access the page

Server Outages
Hi Everyone,

I'll be working for the rest of the night to try to resolve the large number of workunits waiting for validation. This will involve the server going up and down for maintenance, and certain processes may be turned off for periods of time tonight. I'm hoping that things are resolved tonight, but it is definitely possible that things may not be resolved by tomorrow.

Thanks for you patience and support!
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