Posts by MJKelleher

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Emergency fund drive for the project............. (Message 1040929)
Posted 11 Oct 2010 by Profile MJKelleher
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I donated the other evening (Friday?) while the thread was locked, so don't have my confirmation number now, but there's $10 coming.
2) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : Better than nothing... (Message 511084)
Posted 31 Jan 2007 by Profile MJKelleher
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One thing I've learned in life is that 90-95% of anything is crap.


Sturgeon's Law/Revelation

(Hi Matt!)

MJ (living in the home town of your former university/radio station)
3) Message boards : Number crunching : CLOSED -- SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ IX -- CLOSED (Message 498084)
Posted 5 Jan 2007 by Profile MJKelleher
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Accumulated more credit than % of all BOINC users 98.00%

And that's not including the LHC credits from the last few months. 8-)

MJ
4) Message boards : Number crunching : No work from project? (Message 496247)
Posted 2 Jan 2007 by Profile MJKelleher
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WU's are available - so why can't I have some?


From the front page:

January 1, 2007
We are currently experiencing database performance problems. This is resulting in erratic workunit downloads.


MJ
5) Message boards : Number crunching : No work from project? (Message 494917)
Posted 31 Dec 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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It looks to be sporadic:
12/31/2006 1:57:15 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
12/31/2006 1:57:15 PM|SETI@home|Reason: To fetch work
12/31/2006 1:57:15 PM|SETI@home|Requesting 450 seconds of new work
12/31/2006 1:57:21 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded
12/31/2006 1:57:21 PM|SETI@home|No work from project
12/31/2006 1:57:21 PM|SETI@home|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
12/31/2006 1:58:22 PM|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
12/31/2006 1:58:22 PM|SETI@home|Reason: To fetch work
12/31/2006 1:58:22 PM|SETI@home|Requesting 908 seconds of new work
12/31/2006 1:58:27 PM|SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded
12/31/2006 1:58:29 PM|SETI@home|Started download of file 25my00ad.22810.10305.204836.3.9
12/31/2006 1:59:10 PM|SETI@home|Finished download of file 25my00ad.22810.10305.204836.3.9
12/31/2006 1:59:10 PM|SETI@home|Throughput 9379 bytes/sec
12/31/2006 1:59:11 PM||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded
6) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Pop your clogs...English/Yanklish/Aussie translations (Message 465090)
Posted 24 Nov 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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Hornblower was a series of novels. Hornblower kept increasing in rank throughout the series. I do not remember the name of the author.

C.S. Forester

MJ
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Aborted Units...Any solutions... (Message 453761)
Posted 9 Nov 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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In the past ten days or so I have aborted at least 10 units that were failing to compute correctly. As the units were being worked on the completion time was getting longer. Many, many hours of computer time were wasted which of course doesn't help the US NAVY TEAM in overcoming the Air Force team lead in total credits.

Of the three computers I looked at, two are running BOINC version 5.2.13, and the third is 5.4.9. Current version is 5.4.11, with a 5.8.x version on the horizon. Have you considered upgrading to the most current production verion?

MJ
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Combining accounts (Message 450725)
Posted 4 Nov 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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I believe there's no way established to combine accounts. Sorry, you'll have to pick one to use and stick with it.

MJ
9) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Where were you when the 1st shuttle blewup? (Message 414492)
Posted 4 Sep 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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At work, windowless inside office, had my radio on the local National Public Radio station. I'm not sure now whether they broke in on the programming, or picked it up in their normal top of the hour news, but they stayed with the story for quite a while that day, and so did I.

MJ
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Feature Request (Message 390111)
Posted 6 Aug 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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Another issue with this would be the number of teams where the founder is long gone, or where the team founder doesn't care to get notified. If implemented, there should be an opt-in function so the founder could positively request the notification, not have it automatically happen.

MJ
11) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It (Message 385469)
Posted 2 Aug 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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This is how quotes are formatted over at Pirates@home. You can get some really weird pyramid looking formations. And the reduced font size is what Einstein@home changed over to not long ago.

I just looked at Einstein's message board, it appears to have the same font size as SETI did before the change - bigger than is here now. QMC@Home has the smaller fonts all over their site, not just on the boards. Too small for my <whimper> ageing eyes.

MJ
12) Message boards : Number crunching : CLOSED **** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ VIII **** CLOSED (Message 385463)
Posted 2 Aug 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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For XtremLab, I've racked up 999.99 credits.



Oh come on, you can round up and say 1,000 at least! :p

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. 8-)
Good job! I've been slacking off on my xtremlab WU's...

They've only got about a 2% resourse share on my main box plus the laptop when I turn it on, but they do keep inching up there.

I finally got a Seti WU that was optimized to work, under 3 hours!

Nice!

MJ
13) Message boards : Number crunching : CLOSED **** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ VIII **** CLOSED (Message 385306)
Posted 1 Aug 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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For XtremLab, I've racked up 999.99 credits.

MJ
14) Message boards : Cafe SETI : If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It (Message 385287)
Posted 1 Aug 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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I like the blue quote boxes. However, the smaller default font is making it more difficult for me to read the posts.

MJ
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Beta message boards down? (Message 385272)
Posted 1 Aug 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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When I try to read any of the Beta/Astropulse forums all I’m getting today, aside from the title, is the following:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: gettitle() in /disks/setifiler1/home/boincadm/projects/beta/html/inc/forum.inc on line 415

It makes no difference whether I go in through a bookmark, from the link on the front page, or from one of my old postings on my home/Account page. I’ve also tried logging out and in again, but no dice. Suggestions?

Be patient. I've logged the problem on the Q&A message boards on this side of the project, it's something they'll have to fix in Berkeley. Looks like somebody's playing with the code today, the default font is smaller than I've seen before.

MJ
16) Questions and Answers : Web site : SETI-Beta/Astropulse message boards down (Message 385265)
Posted 1 Aug 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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On the main message board page I get the error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: show_forum_summary() in /disks/setifiler1/home/boincadm/projects/beta/html/user/forum_index.php on line 32

The Q&A Board lets me get as far as the sections, but then I get the error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: gettitle() in /disks/setifiler1/home/boincadm/projects/beta/html/inc/forum.inc on line 415


MJ
17) Message boards : Number crunching : rankingin WU (Message 383436)
Posted 31 Jul 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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There is no such ranking. Because of the differences in size in the work units, it's not really fair to count as equal the work that takes 15 hours to complete vs. the staticky work that finishes in a minute or less. Comparisons and ranking are calculated by cobblestones, which are the units you see in your credit number, and are based on the amount of work your computer actually does.

MJ
18) Message boards : Number crunching : On vacation (Message 382629)
Posted 30 Jul 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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I wish these message boards showed more info on each post, like what post or user they are writen in reply to, etc.
The top line of your own message says
Message 382622 - Posted 30 Jul 2006 21:38:13 UTC - in response to Message ID 382618.
If you click on the "in response to" message number, it'll take you back to that message where you can see who wrote it, and what message that one is in response to.

MJ
19) Message boards : Number crunching : How do i Contact a SETI or BOINC manager for this program not just the forum?? (Message 381742)
Posted 29 Jul 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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The "-108" error you're getting is described in the Wiki as:

The file is "open" and in use by another process, or write access to the file cannot be obtained. Error Codes

There's a gap in the send dates of the work showing for your computer. In that gap, did something change about the system you're on? It looks to me like BOINC don't have write-access to all the folders it needs to operate. Geek@Play's tips are good for getting you going quickly, but this problem needs to be resolved or you'll just see a lot more compute errors again.

MJ
20) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Verbal IQ Translation (Message 381739)
Posted 29 Jul 2006 by Profile MJKelleher
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It's possible that the OP misquoted the tester, who may have used the phrase "standardised test". The standard (norm) for these would be the performance of the general population on the same test, with the average defined as 100. For his question, we don't know what the average raw score would be on the test, nor the standard deviation, so can't tell how his score would translate to an IQ.

MJ


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