1) Message boards : Number crunching : Special SETI@Home Fundraiser - 26 x 16TB datacentre drives required for the project's data storage (Message 2025927) Posted 1 Jan 2020 by chthonic Post: wow that was over fast, I "just" got the notification.

2) Message boards : News : Fall/Winter 2019 Funding drive has started (Message 2021066) Posted 29 Nov 2019 by chthonic Post: I already beat you to the punch! I made a significantly larger donation this year at the start of Nov. I "might" donate an equal amount in Dec (I am not certain yet). Right now I am trying to get back my top 1% slot!

3) Questions and Answers : Web site : Unable to set "Are your donations anonymous?" to No (Message 2017779) Posted 4 Nov 2019 by chthonic Post: I am a bit old and cranky.. just old enough to have met them. LOL as for the current donation, despite having chosen the option to make it anonymous from the donation form. when I checked my profile after it posted, I still had to manually set it for anonymous because the donation form wasn't respecting that choice.

4) Questions and Answers : Web site : Unable to set "Are your donations anonymous?" to No (Message 2017695) Posted 3 Nov 2019 by chthonic Post: I am getting just the opposite problem... despite the checkbox set for YES the actual profile page says NO... I don't want my donations publicly spammed and the University donation form refuses to accept that request as well.. so I am back to the same issue I originally complained about. but in this case I think it's a visual glitch and the conditional coding that regulates the change isn't working right.

5) Message boards : SETI Perspectives : What to Expect from ET? (Message 2010277) Posted 1 Sep 2019 by chthonic Post: very well written, aside from the spelling and syntax checker.... who both seemed to have been on an extended doughnut break.

6) Message boards : News : 20 years and counting! (Message 1994211) Posted 18 May 2019 by chthonic Post: I had to disable the BOINC screen saver option because it kept locking up both machines when it was running under GPU (this started two updates ago), and as powerful as both boxes are.. I was a bit shocked at the lockups... but I am throwing it down to some issue with with Win10 as BOINC has consistently been the one and only app on my machines with the absolute least number of problems. But I do agree with the original poster... I miss the classic SETI screen saver!

7) Message boards : News : 20 years and counting! (Message 1994210) Posted 18 May 2019 by chthonic Post: Cheers!

8) Questions and Answers : Windows : long standing work unit issue (Message 1381420) Posted 15 Jun 2013 by chthonic Post: I wont accept that this can't be done until an official staffer confirms beyond all doubt that it isn't possible.

9) Questions and Answers : Windows : long standing work unit issue (Message 1381035) Posted 14 Jun 2013 by chthonic Post: I am aware of those postings. and the application is still "ignoring" those guidelines.

10) Questions and Answers : Windows : long standing work unit issue (Message 1381026) Posted 14 Jun 2013 by chthonic Post: I stopped using seti@home awhile ago because it persistently kept ignoring files with the shortest deadline and favored files that weren't due for 1month or more. I reported this problem and it was never addressed. I am back on seti@home with a new high end machine and I see that the same issue still exists. work units with the shorter deadlines should have priority over a file that isnt due for 2+ weeks etc... and this problem occurs regardless of my sorting by deadline in the application.. it still ignores groups of units and processes files completely out of order. this is a waste of resources.. and should be fixed the way I see it, units should be processed according to 3 factors (in order): Deadline, Progress and GPU (if any) the files that require GPU resources should only run one at a time in queue and an option to auto activate GPU resources based ONLY on the presence of a unit that requires those resources.. then turns itself off if no such file exists in the queue. This way the app is not sucking up resources that it doesn't need at that point in time. additionally.. it would be nice to tell it to focus (in order) on single files so they complete much faster.. with the extra option to tell it to focus on priority files such as GPU and Astropulse (still based on queue order) and an option to tell it how many units to queue at a time. this way I can allocate more computing resources to the application because it wont be sucking up resources needed by other applications... it would only request those resources "as they are needed"... this is more efficient. it would also be nice if I could tap into my file box multi-core cpu on my network without having to install a separate copy of boinc.. this box sits idle 95% of the time on my network and that idle processing power could be used for boinc on the active machine.

11) Questions and Answers : Windows : Boinc is not compatibpe with Windows 8? (Message 1381022) Posted 14 Jun 2013 by chthonic Post: yes it works LOL

12) Message boards : Number crunching : Has anyone else seen this sort of result before? (Message 515366) Posted 9 Feb 2007 by chthonic Post: ok.. good thing I understand that LOL... its still very interesting to watch on screen

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Has anyone else seen this sort of result before? (Message 515351) Posted 9 Feb 2007 by chthonic Post: so then something created it.. interesting results

14) Message boards : Number crunching : Has anyone else seen this sort of result before? (Message 515083) Posted 8 Feb 2007 by chthonic Post: the work unit was at 90% when I noticed it... it started when I was asleep.. was just lucky to have caught it

15) Questions and Answers : Windows : graphic oddity (Message 515026) Posted 8 Feb 2007 by chthonic Post: oops... and .. "yes" it is some form of interference... and on the strong side to make such a noticable pattern... it is very regular and criss/crosses through the recorded data. as stated... "good thing I saved a copy of that work unit"

16) Questions and Answers : Windows : graphic oddity (Message 515025) Posted 8 Feb 2007 by chthonic Post: as suggested... I posted tothe science forum... I cant post in the staff blog because Iam not a staff member.

17) Message boards : Number crunching : Has anyone else seen this sort of result before? (Message 514972) Posted 8 Feb 2007 by chthonic Post: I had a work unit a couple of days ago that was showing sme very strange patterns.. I have posted the url for the screen captures. I am curious to know if anyone else has seen this. Google Web Album

18) Questions and Answers : Windows : graphic oddity (Message 514420) Posted 7 Feb 2007 by chthonic Post: I do not know how much of the troughing occurs in that work unit.... but I do know that it is inteh last 10% of data. just to be safe I kept a copy of that work unit and put it in a safe location.

19) Questions and Answers : Windows : graphic oddity (Message 514356) Posted 7 Feb 2007 by chthonic Post: this is the URL for the screen captures http://picasaweb.google.com/chthonic49503/SETICaptured

20) Questions and Answers : Windows : graphic oddity (Message 514229) Posted 6 Feb 2007 by chthonic Post: ok I ahve screen captures.. so how do I post them? .. there is no option for it.. and I dont run a website so I cant post the URL

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