Posts by MikeSW17

21) Message boards : Number crunching : Thanks for no credit Seti, thanks for nothing! (Message 542018)
Posted 7 Apr 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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IBM 1620, and the venerable 026 for input....


Damn. Don't remember those... but then i did forget to mention the IBM 360.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Thanks for no credit Seti, thanks for nothing! (Message 542011)
Posted 6 Apr 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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Ah, more name dropping...

Decsystem 10s,
...HP 1000s,
.....CDC 6400s, CDC Cyber 73
......ICL 1901
.......PDP-8, PDP-11/70
........VAXes

KSR-33 (teletype with punch-tape, 80 column punch-cards and of course the infamous porta-punch!

And of course - the ARPANET

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 9 Year Club (Message 539384)
Posted 1 Apr 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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(Jumping the gun slightly to be the thread starter ;D )

In a few short hours I shall have done 8 years crunching:

SETI@home member since 3 Apr 1999

Seem to have come a long way from the screensaver on a 166MHz laptop, turning in one WU every 1 to 2 weeks, to turning in several each hour - across multiple machines!

Congratulations to fellow 8 year club members.

24) Message boards : Technical News : Switcheroo (Mar 21 2007) (Message 535029)
Posted 22 Mar 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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In case anyones' missed the obvious, a Google for 'zero length MYD files' does find several discussions re empty MYD files.
25) Message boards : Number crunching : Vista Fun (not) (Message 530897)
Posted 13 Mar 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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Eh, nothing new there then. AFAICR AOL has never managed to work with any new version of Windoze from '95 onwards. And the few people unlucky enough to get it installed and working never did manage to remove it.
Anyway, why bother to make anything Vista compatible?, it's just adding to the longest suicide note in history.
26) Message boards : Number crunching : Top 1000 Computers . . . #999 with a RAC of 0.11??? (Message 528733)
Posted 9 Mar 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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Not only is the Top Computer list a bit weird....

... this may just be me.... though the rest of the forum pages are fine...

... the links on the top computers list page are in a language that isn't English.... Eastern European at a guess...

Me thinks there's some corruption on those pages ;)

/edit
I meant links, not column headings....
27) Message boards : Number crunching : problems with work credit (Message 524534)
Posted 28 Feb 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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Berkeley have not changed the way credits are allocated.
But there has been a lot of network changes going on that has caused connection problems for many. As a result, Pending Credit shot up and RAC fell. AFAIK it is now recovering.
28) Message boards : Number crunching : SURVEY: What's Your CI? (Message 524525)
Posted 28 Feb 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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All six machines, from Celeron 2.0GHz to 2.6 Core2Duo: 5 days
29) Message boards : Number crunching : in a loop up loading result (Message 521499)
Posted 22 Feb 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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The commands you're searching for are:

ipconfig /flushdns

and

ipconfig /registerdns

Don't know if these will help the problem, the BOINC shutdown/restart might help though.
30) Message boards : Number crunching : Rogue User - Trojan installing BOINC illegally!!! (Message 521209)
Posted 21 Feb 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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Might be better to consolidate discussion into the Trojan boinc installation by rogue member thread?


Not to mention the fact that according to BoincStats he doesn't even run SAH (at least under the disputed Username), and thus has little bearing other than general interest here. ;-)

Alinator


Admittedly, I should have looked harder for another thread on the subject - I did look but didn't see it, sorry... bring back the search feature?

As for relevance to SETI, I did note that he didn't crunch for SETI, but IMO
(a) he's bringing BOINC into disrepute, and it's more likely that the developers and managers of BOINC will be made aware of the possible issue through posting here than relying on them browsing other bOINC project sites.
(b) As I pointed out, on this very site, (setiathome.berkeley.edu) is a page crediting the top 100 multi-project and number 5 on that page, clearly should not have the right to be there.
31) Message boards : Number crunching : Rogue User - Trojan installing BOINC illegally!!! (Message 521095)
Posted 21 Feb 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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It seems that there is a rogue user, who released a trojan to install BOINC in machines illegally.
Both CPDN and PrimeGrid have identified this user as Wate (See: http://www.primegrid.com/orig/forum_thread.php?id=514#4817 and News: http://www.primegrid.com/ .... also CPDN: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=5314)

Both those Projects have removed all credit from this user.

Although he doesn't seem to be running SETI, he does figure at No 5 in the Top 100 multi-project users (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/chart_list.php)

Anyone else agree this record should be erased totally?
32) Message boards : Number crunching : Suitable SETI cruncher? (Message 516700)
Posted 12 Feb 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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What would the RAC of one of these be?
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Are RAC's going down for some reason? (Message 515235)
Posted 9 Feb 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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Same here. Although my RAC hasn't changed much (~3500), my Pending Credits have shot way up from around 800-1200 to ~3400, around 3 times larger than normal.
34) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (3) (Message 502035)
Posted 13 Jan 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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Failing Uploads - again - since around 07:40 UTC

Is it the server or cogent?

Anyway, to protect completed work, I'm suspending networking - again.
35) Message boards : Number crunching : Upload Problems (Again)? (Message 500967)
Posted 11 Jan 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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Yes, Damn it, Validate Errors Too... at least 3 WUs LOST

Network SUSPENDED until issued seems resolved!
36) Message boards : Number crunching : Upload Problems (Again)? (Message 500958)
Posted 11 Jan 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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11/01/2007 12:10:03 Error on file upload: can't open file
11/01/2007 12:10:03 Temporarily failed upload of 03se03aa.21736.7488.909646.3.62_0_0: transient upload error
11/01/2007 12:10:03 Backing off 3 hours, 17 minutes and 25 seconds on upload of file 03se03aa.21736.7488.909646.3.62_0_0

Since about 11:40 UTC

/Edit
Was just one system, now 2 systems have upload failures.
37) Message boards : Number crunching : happy new year to all (Message 497415)
Posted 4 Jan 2007 by Profile MikeSW17
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Sun nien fai lok; Xin nian yu kuai; Godt Nytår; Gelukkig nieuwjaar;
Aide shoma mobarak; Bonne année Aith-bhliain Fe Nhaise Dhuit;
Gutes Neues Jahr; Hauoli Makahiki Hou; hanah tovah;
Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab; elamat Tahun Baru; Buon Capo d'Anno
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu; Godt Nyttår; Maligayang Bagong Taon
Szczesliwego Nowego roku; Feliz ano novo; La Multi Ani ; S Novym Godom
Feliz Año Nuevo; Wilujeng Tahun Baru; Gott Nytt År;
Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun; Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

... to all from the UK!
38) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 7 year club (Message 494477)
Posted 31 Dec 2006 by Profile MikeSW17
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Congratulations on 7 years.

Currently, in this thread, it seems pschoefer and I maybe the oldest members - joined 3rd April 1999.

Anyone earlier than that around?

What was the launch date of SETI@Home?
39) Message boards : Number crunching : 4,000 credits claimed (Message 494194)
Posted 31 Dec 2006 by Profile MikeSW17
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Umm, well I didn't realize it was your own system - so firstly, no implication that you're cheating was intended.

Most of your other results seem to be quite normal, so I'm not at all sure what's going on.

Claims of thousands of credits for a WU are, to the best of my knowledge, not right.

I would be inclined to try some diagnostic tests, like memtest86+ (google for memtest86+) and Prime95 - between them they should prove that your system is stable.
40) Message boards : Number crunching : 4,000 credits claimed (Message 494135)
Posted 31 Dec 2006 by Profile MikeSW17
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I think that should read "*fortunately* not granted"

Any machine claiming thousands of credit per WU is either massively unstable, or is trying to cheat. The validation process is designed, in part, to prevent fraudulent claims, and in part, to detect faulty (unstable) machines returning scientifically useless results.


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