1) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2041690) Posted 30 Mar 2020 by Thund3rb1rd Post: As Major Hoople would so eloquently put it: Fap! (If you don't remember Major Hoople, then you weren't really there.)

2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Change name of computer (Message 2009204) Posted 25 Aug 2019 by Thund3rb1rd Post: If I change the name of one of my computers, does anyone know what happens to the credit accumulated under the original name? Do they stay with the original name (same computer) or do they follow the computer regardless of the name?

3) Message boards : News : Free Speech and SETI@home (Message 1864444) Posted 29 Apr 2017 by Thund3rb1rd Post: I just hope SETI isn't spending any time or effort searching for intelligent life on the UC Berkeley campus. From what I've seen on the news lately, there probably isn't any. Just sayin'.

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Reload S@H to get Astropulse? (Message 1818717) Posted 21 Sep 2016 by Thund3rb1rd Post: I must not have been as specific as I intended. My plan is to download SETI@Home from the BOINC site; not to download BOINC again. I understand that SETI files come from SETI. No, now that I re-read my original question, I was more than specific enough in describing what I would like to do. The problem seems to be that you had difficulties understanding my description. In looking at the S@H files in the projects subdirectory, it looks like I'm missing some files. My plan is/was to finish up all my current S@H tasks, completely unload S@H, reboot everything and reinstall S@H from the BOINC site on the assumption that I will get a complete fileset.

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Reload S@H to get Astropulse? (Message 1818695) Posted 21 Sep 2016 by Thund3rb1rd Post: I'm going to go completely against all my instincts and ask a question BEFORE I do something dumb. Usually, it's the other way around. My account has been set to receive Astropulse work units for some time, but I've never received even one on any of my computers - a Q9650, an I5 and an I7. All have 8Gb of memory and 1Tb of disk space. In short, I would think I would have gotten one work unit by now on one of them. In looking at the S@H files in the projects subdirectory, it looks like I'm missing some files. My plan is/was to finish up all my current S@H tasks, completely unload S@H, reboot everything and reinstall S@H from the BOINC site on the assumption that I will get a complete fileset. Does this make sense? Will it help get Astropulse work? Who REALLY shot JR?

6) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (Message 1818320) Posted 20 Sep 2016 by Thund3rb1rd Post: That squares with what I'm seeing. I found a message thread on the BOINC site dated 2014 indicating that the ability to move BOINC to the SD chip would be forthcoming in a future release. Guess it didn't make it. Thanks.

7) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (Message 1817891) Posted 17 Sep 2016 by Thund3rb1rd Post: Not sure if this question should go here or over on the BOINC website. Purely for kicks, I installed BOINC and S@H on my Galaxy Tab 2. Everything runs ok - I've even gotten a few credits. I added an SD micro chip, but can't get either BOINC or S@H to use it. Is there a setting or something somewhere to tell S@H to move to the SD chip? The Android version is 4.2.2, which is current for this device.

8) Message boards : News : Did SETI@home ever find aliens? (Message 1816482) Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Thund3rb1rd Post: I find it significant that since the question came up about whether or not SETI would be permitted to independently release information regarding a definite ET contact that we haven't heard one single word from anyone officially connected to the project. Volunteer moderators and testers have chimed in, but no one from the project itself. Not one word. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine that 1) a signal has already been found, 2) a cover-up is already in place, and 3) project scientists are participating in and supporting this cover-up. Not too much of a stretch at all. One wonders...

9) Message boards : News : Did SETI@home ever find aliens? (Message 1814094) Posted 31 Aug 2016 by Thund3rb1rd Post: When I first started with SETI@Home 18 years ago, I was still a kid in his late 40's who was under no illusions that an extraterrestrial civilization would be discovered anytime soon, but we live in hope, Dexter. I'm no longer a 40-something kid, and I'm starting to glimpse the Big Bright Light at the end of the tunnel, but I still live in hope that the inevitable discovery will take place in my lifetime. I absolutely cannot believe that the human race - who are at best a 500 million year long series of evolutionary accidents - is the only intelligent species in the universe. Frank Drake cannot be denied; only postponed. If we haven't found ET yet, perhaps it doesn't wish to be found, by us, anyway; or perhaps we're looking in the wrong place; or we're looking in the wrong way; or we haven't the right tools yet. After all, if your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like nails. Or maybe, just maybe we're too damned stupid and immature as a species to know what we're doing. Maybe what we need is a better script writer. Where's Rod Serling when we really need him. “It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.” - Rod Serling

10) Message boards : Number crunching : "Orphan" work units (Message 1523921) Posted 3 Jun 2014 by Thund3rb1rd Post: Done (I think).

11) Message boards : Number crunching : "Orphan" work units (Message 1523920) Posted 3 Jun 2014 by Thund3rb1rd Post: No, no GPU are selected, although I do have an Nvidia card. I think I've unhidden my computers. At least I check the box and updated the preferences.

12) Message boards : Number crunching : "Orphan" work units (Message 1523910) Posted 3 Jun 2014 by Thund3rb1rd Post: If this has been covered somewhere else in another thread, please forgive me repeating it. Since I'm not sure what is happening or what to call it, I don't know what to look for. The symptoms are SAH work units version 7 7.00 (CUDA 50) that appear to be hung up or something. Two are well past their drop-dead date, and others soon will be. When I let my cursor hover over the name, I get a fly-over that says "GPU suspended - user request (0.00364 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU)" in the status column, and that's all. The work units appear to be running because the run-time counter is creeping up - infinitesimally, to be sure, but creeping up. So what say ye? Kill 'em, don't kill 'em, let them continue to piddle along toward something? I await knowledge from someone with more experience in this than I.

13) Questions and Answers : Windows : SETI@Home has gotten a little too arrogant! (Message 886414) Posted 19 Apr 2009 by Thund3rb1rd Post: I'm coming up on my 10th anniversary with S@H. I joined in May 1999, and as I visit the various message boards, I seldom see anyone who has been with you as long as I have. Today, I wanted to post a question about why my S@H wouldn't even ask for work anymore, however, I was snottily informed that I had insufficient credits to post to the message boards because you didn't want my kind creating problems. Ten years ago, when S@H was first getting started, you were more than happy to get CPU cycles whereever you could. Of the 5,000,000-plus people who signed up back in those days, very, very few are left. Who the hell do you people think you are? If it wasn't for my kind, you wouldn't be where you are today. I welcome any comments back, after all, my kind love causing problems.

14) Questions and Answers : Wish list : WISH: Ability to delete project access request from BOINC (Message 157352) Posted 26 Aug 2005 by Thund3rb1rd Post: There should be a way to stop BOINC from trying to access a project when such access is clearly impossible. For example, as I write this (08/25/05), SETI@home has been offline for three days and will likely be offline for another day or so. However, I didn't know that when I asked for more work. Now, BOINC is going through the "Deferring communication with project for..." routine, incrementing up by however many seconds. I can't see any reason for it to continue trying to access SETI for another day or so, and would like a way to kill the request. Besides, I use a dial-up connection and when I post this, I'll be disconnecting for a day or so. Does this make any sense?

15) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC/SETI not worth the trouble anymore (Message 122548) Posted 12 Jun 2005 by Thund3rb1rd Post: Someone many posts down said they thought I was "...afraid to jump back in..." to this thread because of all the hammering. Not hardly, folks. What I had was a two-year-old grandson badly in need of a Dairy Queen ice cream cone! Truly important things take time. I have to admit a certain astonishment at the traffic generated by my original rant. Frankly, I rather thought it would pass unnoticed. At any rate, I read all the traffic and while there were a couple of good points, nothing mentioned changes my argument substantially. I think the point being missed is that SAH and it's younger BOINC siblings are guests in our homes and quite often behave like my above-mentioned grandson. (By the way, I do subscribe to more than one BOINC project.) Furthermore, I think it's worth pointing out that without the continuing goodwill of folks such as ourselves, who are willing to try something new (such as SAH was 6 years ago), these distributed-computing projects would quite simply not exist. The whole selling point of SAH back in 1999 was that this science could be done on the "unused cycles" of home computers. Had SAH not been the resounding success it was, EINSTEIN and the others would never have been attempted. Bottom line, it is not we, the user community that needs to accept a shoddy and ill-mannered system (nothing personal directed to the SAH team), but rather quite the opposite. It is we, the user community who look for an easy-to-manage, stable and well-mannered hobby to participate in. In SAH@BOINC, we are still getting neither. One wonders if we ever will. Cheers.

16) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC/SETI not worth the trouble anymore (Message 122200) Posted 11 Jun 2005 by Thund3rb1rd Post: Back in the "good ol' days" of classic SETI@home, there were server problems, but they were simple and repaired relatively quickly. Nowdays (June 2005), all we get are server problems, database problems, power problems, communications problems, and on and on and on.... As I write this, I've been waiting for three days for SAH to bless me with a work unit, and all I get is the maddening "no work from project". And forgive my bad manners, but this BOINC thing sucks canal water! Apparently, I'm not alone in feeling this way. At the demise of classic SAH, it had (I believe) some 5,000,000 users. SAH/BOINC has fewer than 125,000. Apparently, some 97% of the old users didn't bother with the switch. Frankly, had I not been doing this since 1999, I doubt I would have switched either. I'm not sure who was supposed to benefit from BOINC, but the SAH users sure as hell didn't.

17) Questions and Answers : Web site : Updating SETI@Home URL within BOINC (Message 85717) Posted 13 Mar 2005 by Thund3rb1rd Post: How do I update the SETI@Home URL within the project on BOINC. When I originally set up BOINC, I used your "old" URL. I note you now want people to use the "new" BOINC URL. When I tried to change it, all I got was a second SETI project.

18) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Classic SETI@home credit (Message 27329) Posted 17 Sep 2004 by Thund3rb1rd Post: I would like to see the classic SETI@home credit transferred to the BOINC account when it's activated. I would also like to see another update of classic credit made to the BOINC account for people who have more credit on the previous system that was transferred last May.

 
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