Posts by RandyC
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Message boards :
SETI@home Staff Blog :
If fire insurance were like health insurance.
(Message 933791)
Posted 16 Sep 2009 by  RandyC
Post: Are we on the wrong page…? You figures are correct if everybody who used the C4C program drives their car for one year and then trashes it. I don't know about you, but I drive my car for quite a few years after I buy it. Cars are being driven for a lot more years now than they were in the past; frequently 10 years or more. So multiply that $350 million by the number of years the vehicle is expected to be in service and use THAT number instead. You might also add in the expected increase in the cost of oil over that timeframe too. |
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SETI@home Science :
Optical SETI - Something else to look for...
(Message 932552)
Posted 11 Sep 2009 by RandyC
Post: The best way of disposing high activity nuclear waste is to embed it in a glassy substance, enclose it in a steel container end store it in a salt mine. But also the ocean trenches could be a suitable location, to the horror of environmentalists. Water is a good radiation absorber. I don't think any sensible person would put nuclear waste in a rocket, with the danger of it exploding in the atmosphere. The best way to dispose of high activity nuclear waste is to recycle and reuse it rather than throw it away. Only AFTER it no longer has potential to provide energy should it be thrown away. Putting it in the ground and ignoring dangers posed by plate tectonics or dumping it in ocean trenches is irresponsible. As for the danger of a rocket exploding in the atmosphere and scattering nuclear waste all over the place... Everyone knows that about one in three rocket launches explode, don't they? And the fuel lines run right through the payload compartment for most efficient dispersal of fragments after exploding! I think not! It is quite possible to develop an economical launch vehicle that could survive such an explosion and still leave the cargo intact. The major problem I've found with Solar disposal of nuclear waste (after discussion on another board and some extensive research) is the difficulty of actually getting TO the sun! Using chemical rockets to do this is an extreme waste of fuel and energy, and even an ION drive engine would have a hard time. The most practical way to do it would be using a Solar (Light) Sail since the energy used would be practically free. The only problem currently is that it is untested technology. |
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (24) Server problems
(Message 932056)
Posted 9 Sep 2009 by RandyC
Post: More like Catch22 I got some! GPUs no longer idle...for now. If the uploads stay stalled I won't be able to download more... |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Science :
Optical SETI - Something else to look for...
(Message 927559)
Posted 20 Aug 2009 by RandyC
Post: Civilizations at, or near our level of sophistication will most likely be using nuclear reactors to produce energy. It's possible that, instead of disposing of their radioactive waste in salt mines like Yucca Flats, perhaps they may decide to use a giant nearby nuclear reactor (think sun) to dispose of it. It might be worthwhile checking the spectrums of likely stars for traces of Plutonium, Strontium 90, etc. Discussion??? |
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (22) Server problems
(Message 926247)
Posted 15 Aug 2009 by RandyC
Post: Start of a bad day..no SETI work units... No Einstein work unit...no Bionic simap work units... no Leiden Classic work units...finally got a bunch of World Community Grid. Malaria has plenty if you restart that project. |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Staff Blog :
If fire insurance were like health insurance.
(Message 921477)
Posted 26 Jul 2009 by RandyC
Post: 3. Doctors want to have a decent and comfortable income to meet their needs...don't you? You paint with too broad a stroke. Doctors are people (human) and most are dedicated workers with a love for humanity. They probably range the same spectrum as any other career (excluding lawyers, of course ;) ). |
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Politics :
NORTH KOREA ATTACKING US
(Message 921388)
Posted 26 Jul 2009 by RandyC
Post: Every one who reads this please take care ,what i am writting is for real Information from snopes.com regarding the postcard virus hoax: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp Basically, an email arrives stating that an e-postcard or similar from a friend or family member can be read at address such and such. Clicking on the link sends you to a web site that installs malware or worse on your system. Solution: don't click on links you are not expecting from someone, and usually not even then. |
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Message boards :
SETI@home Staff Blog :
If fire insurance were like health insurance.
(Message 921377)
Posted 26 Jul 2009 by RandyC
Post: "la sute non si paga" health is not for sale There are three primary reasons why Doctor's bills are so large: 1. The cost of medical schooling is enormous and needs to be paid off. 2. The cost of malpractice insurance is out of sight. Mainly because jury awards are tens/hundreds of times larger than justified to provide remedial care and a legitimate portion for 'pain and suffering'. 3. Doctors want to have a decent and comfortable income to meet their needs...don't you? |
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Technical News :
More Groaning (Jun 10 2009)
(Message 918470)
Posted 16 Jul 2009 by RandyC
Post: Because we are bored, and have no workunits. Einstein@home warms the cpu up pretty good. You could try using it at low resource share for a backup project. |
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Politics :
NORTH KOREA ATTACKING US
(Message 916211)
Posted 9 Jul 2009 by RandyC
Post: I was surfing last weekend when my computer started doing strange things ,then my screen turned black and message i got after reboot was that windows had shut down my system to protect my computer. I tried everything safemode,scanning with norton-knocked out ,malwarebytes-knocked out, avira-knocked out. so i tried booting from cd-rom found no windows installation on any of my drives,it was like the website in us i was browsing cleaned all my 3 hard drives. so i reinstalled and started the pain full recovery of every drive for selected files.Then i came across these. It pays to keep Windows, Internet Explorer, and Anti-virus updates current. Best to use a browser other than Internet Explorer. And of course, stay off those porn sites. ;) |
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Technical News :
Busy Bytes (Jul 06 2009)
(Message 915312)
Posted 7 Jul 2009 by RandyC
Post: How about sending more of the AP 5.05 and less Seti@home 6.03. More time out in the field processing with less contacts to the sever for more work. Days worth work at a time instead of hours. This is what many people (including myself) would like. The problem is that the AP and MB WUs are split from the same input datasets. To make a long story short, the AP splitters chew through the input files FASTER than MB WUs are being processed. Two or three weeks ago we had the situation where the AP splitters had processed every single one of about 100 input files while the MB splitters were busy working on the first 10 - 20 input files! The AP splitters were basically shut down for a couple of weeks to let MB catch up on the backlog. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Unexpected shutdown
(Message 914850)
Posted 6 Jul 2009 by RandyC
Post: My stdoutdae.txt has new seti wu starting and the next message is restarting boinc, so no time when it closed. The machine just restarted after a thunderstorm had to re-sign into my ISP. So basically you know the system crashed sometime between the wu starting and when you had to re-sign into your ISP. That might be as close as you can get. |
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Number crunching :
First time GPU
(Message 914840)
Posted 6 Jul 2009 by RandyC
Post: I have noticed that Grey objects have little dot grids in them on my screen. Other colors do, too, after I installed CUDA, so that might need to change. Looking at that computer, BOINC says driver: 17626 I don't work with laptops, so I can't say for sure, but the desktop drivers are numbered around 185.xx-186.xx, so I'd verify if you do indeed have the latest nVidia driver for that system. The older drivers have had all sorts of problems running the CUDA apps. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Unexpected shutdown
(Message 914831)
Posted 6 Jul 2009 by RandyC
Post: My machine has just restarted for I think no reason, however there has been a thunderstorm at the same time. Is there a prog which will tell me the exact time it happenned? Do not know if it belongs here so if it gets moved I will understand. You could go into the BOINC stdoutdae.txt file in your BOINC\DATA folder. If your system is fairly active you should see a gap from when it crashed 'til when you restarted. |
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Number crunching :
More Video Card Upgrade and CUDA Chat.....
(Message 912176)
Posted 28 Jun 2009 by RandyC
Post: Now that I finally have decent hardware for crunching (a single Core I7 Xeon E5520 @ 3.7 Ghz, using 8 threads & 12GB DDR3), I am going to work towards getting Optimized Apps up and running. Go get the Lunatics Unified Installer here. I believe registration is required to download, but it's free. Answer a few questions, click a few buttons, and in less than 15 mins per machine you can have all the opt apps you need installed and customized. The only additional info you need is your level of SSE support. |
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (18) Server problems
(Message 911689)
Posted 26 Jun 2009 by RandyC
Post: Nope.... didn't work. The ...download_fanout URL didn't show up in the messages, therefore all following steps couldn't be taken. you can find the URL in your client_state.xml file if you search for the WU name. BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO SAVE THE FILE WHEN YOU EXIT OR BOINC WILL GO BONKERS! |
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Number crunching :
can 't upload
(Message 911683)
Posted 26 Jun 2009 by RandyC
Post: I do have the same problem. Einstein is currently broke: Einstein@Home is down as the result of a fileserver crash. I am working on repairing |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
How big is the backlog?
(Message 911672)
Posted 26 Jun 2009 by RandyC
Post: Server status page shows what is currently being ran. It looks like they are running Tapes that were previously rejected. You can see that there are large parts that are bad. I still think they should pull out the really old Tapes and run the Astropulse on them. Thats at least 7 or 8 years of work to run through I believe that IS the plan, once they get the software Radar-blanker going. |
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Technical News :
More Groaning (Jun 10 2009)
(Message 910386)
Posted 23 Jun 2009 by RandyC
Post: I do recall one PDP system we had that suddenly started to re-boot itself when no-one was around. After much headscratching, this was tracked down to the latest batch of fan-fold paper on the line-printer being wood-free and building up an excessive static charge; eventually it would throw a spark to the nearest earthed metal and... And then there was the janitor who kept unplugging the modem so he could use the outlet for the floor buffer... |
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Technical News :
More Groaning (Jun 10 2009)
(Message 910384)
Posted 23 Jun 2009 by RandyC
Post: Anyone else remember drum printers? Yes, the IBM FE had a print job that would make it sing (forgot the song though). Anyone else remember what happened when you printed a line of underscores followed by a page feed? No, but I suspect it would cut the page in half and then do a paper dump. The main problem I found with drum printers is that the print line came out wavy when doing a high-speed printout. |
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