Posts by The MariahNet Network
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Graphs
(Message 327303)
Posted 5 Jun 2006 by  The MariahNet Network
Post: This somehow does not make sense... Total number of active users (last 60 days) (have granted credit in the last month) Total number of users (last 60 days) I guess it's possible if accounts are being created and just not active, but that's kind of silly. Or there's more people not getting credit (aka not doing work) than people joining. Or maybe something else... If you're reading this, WHAT DO YOU THINK??? :)) |
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An Answer To Whatever Problems with Credit
(Message 327239)
Posted 5 Jun 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: I have an answer to the credit thing... (for some people) Some people really just like high numbers. So we should have something like this.... * There is already a constant system for credits. * We should have multiplier variables given with something like an image of a pink rose on the user's profile. * Each rose would represent a multiplier. 1 rose equals something like 2x credit. 2 roses equals like 3x. 3 roses equals 4x and 4 roses equals 5x. * On actual rankings, they should be seperated with people with whatever number of roses and less roses. People with more roses should be excluded/hidden in ranking view for those with lesser roses. * The ability to set the number of roses a person wants should be allowable within the Your Account area. * A person viewing another profile that has equal roses, less roses or none compared to themselves should see no roses at all. A person viewing another profile that has more roses should see on that other profile a background of a ton of a roses. A person who views their own profile should only see really small images of roses on their profile and there should be an option to not view it at all. * With this given system, forum postings of their credits should not be allowed at all... maybe. * And finally, there should be a hidden link (that costs credits to view for those with roses) that displays the real set of credits and graphs of everyone. * Oh yea, AND IF the roses system is not good enough, credits should should be buyable at about 10 US cents each single credit. Once buying, it becomes like "donating" instead. If someone wants a million credits, they should be able to "buy" it at $100,000 (or whatever when USD is converted to other currencies). The credits should be applied as genuine, but the user will get the "donation" star like everyone else. * And if someone brags that they have no stars or roses when they shouldn't be bragging, they should get get a star and/or rose(s) for doing so. And if they brag that they have a star, they should be warned, and then afterwards, lose credit OR be blocked from the forums. Would that make everyone happy? I assume that the credits have no relevance with the scientific data needed for research. The credits are just a psychological compensation system for users. Does this sound like it would work? If so... give me a "HECK YEA!!!". LOL |
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Why are people really leaving?
(Message 327224)
Posted 5 Jun 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: Overall, I get the sense that the SETI tsars dismiss crunchers as serfs, rather than appreciating them as contributors. It is no surprise that the lowlier the serf, the more willing he is to kiss the tsar's ring. Give me a "U"... Give me an "H"... *acts spacey* Give me a clue to what you're talk about! lol :) -Kelly former cheerleader |
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90 Hours to crunch 1 task? Help!
(Message 324648)
Posted 3 Jun 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: The longer times, I can pretty much see, are basically the adjustment for CPU processing power advancement over the years. So for all the older CPUs, they can still run SETI@home stuff, but slower than before relative to the kind of CPU work of the here and now compared to the past. I do believe long, long ago, I was able to run on a 486 without too much trouble. It then became a joke to run SETI@home on it. (I think it was SETI stuff, or it could have been something else. But I'm pretty sure it was SETI.) Time changes, CPU processing power advances, software advances accordingly (or should), and all older things become proportionally slower and then, later on, completely obsolete. It's sad to hear, relative to what we have, at some point in time, but time moves on and technology advances. :-/ But if something still works, use it when and where it is still practical. E |
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Children
(Message 323222)
Posted 2 Jun 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: I generally avoid commenting on the childishness of some posters and stay away from the flame wars. What I see happening, as always, is the same names with the same old grudges and recriminations. Some people just need to grow up and leave past mistakes in the past. Real adults are able to move on with their lives and leave pettiness behind and not rake up old grievances at every opportunity. Well said! *cheers* K |
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Cost of Electricity ++
(Message 323086)
Posted 2 Jun 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: copy from News on the front page of SETI@Home ___________________________________________________ May 17, 2006 The costs of electricity, both monetary and environmental, are increasing. Be aware of the energy considerations associated with SETI@home and volunteer computing. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ They really should include the fact to point that there are many work units that some/many/whatever users will/may get that will error out somehow, thus the users will get no credit and the fact that the work unit provides no useful information as a whole. All on top of the fact that computer time was spent, electricity wasted, and with no gain to anyone because of work unit errors. (I think...) I'm not suggesting anything, but rather supporting the point of that news article posted on May 17th... I guess that would be, "Be Aware". LOL (I need to open me another bottle of the good stuff. I'm not drunk enough.) |
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Complete lockup
(Message 321905)
Posted 1 Jun 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: have you tryd running something else that takes 100% of the cpu? such as a benchmarking suite? Nothing else I know that I have takes up 100% of CPU resources. But you could be right about the memory thing itself. I've never really seen my computer go beyond 1GB usage. It has 2GB of memory. And I know for a fact that one of those memory sticks was sneezed on by person building my computer. Could be all those germs! ROFL j/k Hmm... I just might have to lure him down to my place by wearing something seductive to have him look at his work. I'll just knock on his door and when he opens, I say (what everbody says for me to say; a star trek quote), "Resistance is Futile"; and then I walk back to my place. LOL But before doing all that, I'll just find a way to go beyond 1GB memory usage. Thnx for help dear! |
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Complete lockup
(Message 321894)
Posted 1 Jun 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: main rig I noticed people have been using that expression, "rig"; to describe a computer of theirs... I think. Is that something new? I know it's slang; a figure of speach. But what is the source of that idiom? Kelly |
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Very long Completion times
(Message 321175)
Posted 31 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: Yea, I've seen those work units before. Basically, they start off with some random completion time, and after some certain point, the estimated completion time will just rise instead of decreasing. But the actual Progress does not appear to go up. I have actually found a WU that continues going even after my steps mentioned above! (A FIRST! One that stays up long and hard for a natural failure. In the end, an abortion is needed because it just won't stop.) http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=334570453 For things like those, let's just give it up for a failing work unit and bid a fairwell, while highlighting it and clicking "Abort". |
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Can't Upload
(Message 320686)
Posted 30 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: Just wait a day...everything should be back to normal... I know I'm patient! ;-) *releases her fingers from the mouse to stop clicking* Patients is a virtue. (I think) __________________ -Human Beauty Is Finite- |
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Very long Completion times
(Message 320542)
Posted 30 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: Yea, I've seen those work units before. Basically, they start off with some random completion time, and after some certain point, the estimated completion time will just rise instead of decreasing. But the actual Progress does not appear to go up. When you see these, just go to Activity, then Suspend to suspend all activity in the BOINC Manger. Go to File - Exit in the BOINC Manager to exit out of it. Then finally, rerun the BOINC Manager client and go to Activity, and then check Run Always. The work unit should finish up in less than a minute or two and most likely report an error. The error is fine and all, but for all the time you placed to have your computer work on that work unit, you will NOT get any credit for it. That's probably the real upsetting part of it all. A computer reboot works as well... And speaking of Very Long Completion Times... here's one that I've got going on. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=79900335 After 13 and half hours, I still have another hour to completion at 92.620%. I do believe that's that LONGEST completion time I've ever gotten. There better be a fairly large credit for it. No one else have even completed their's. If the Progress percentage were not moving up, that work unit would have errored out with a reboot or a BOINC application restart. |
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Complete lockup
(Message 320499)
Posted 30 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: CRASH!!! Spybot was disabled during that time... Now wandering eyes move to the BONC Manager... I ain't turning on that on until the next day. These trouble shooting things are quite twicky. How do you all put up with these? I'm already out of wine. :( I'm going back to bed... I was in Windows Safe Mode with practically nothing running but SETI... CRASH, within a couple hours! (system rebooted.) Internet connectivity was enabled, but the router was set to not allow traffic to the computer. There was no crash when I did not have SETI running at all before going into safe mode with only SETI running. Nothing outside could have communicated with the computer. The room was/is like an ice box, and the system has never overheated or even could. I just had to try the safe mode thing first. I'll go the night without SETI running and I'll report my findings here. |
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No New Work?
(Message 320473)
Posted 30 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: Greetings: is the server down still cause I can't upload any WU? Not sure, but I know I cannot upload? |
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Impact of S@H enhanced on Berkeley server load?
(Message 320463)
Posted 30 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post:
I over heard a couple people mention at work that they know about a dozen of their friends have stopped running SETI@Home because of all the problems they had. One mentioned having to do an "enhanced reformat" for their hard drive. I have no idea what that means. As for me, SETI keeps crashing/rebooting my computer when nothing is even running; aka windows safe mode, but just SETI running. Once I'm done with this one work unit, this one computer of mine is outtie. And I most likely will pull out all together once I can UPLOAD all my work! That's probably another reason why uploads should be kept down and not working, but only to allow work units to be uploaded that are about to hit the deadline. LOL TRICKY trick to trick tricked users tricking tricks with tricky tricks during tricky times that are tricky!!!* ROFL!!! * humor... laugh |
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It's too hot!
(Message 320380)
Posted 29 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: Hot, Hot, Hot! Gotta lose control. Break it down... *dances* |
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Do not hijack the threads
(Message 319840)
Posted 29 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: Where it says on number 7, "# Do not hijack the threads of others with irrelevant or unkind comments or images." What if it it's an irrelvant question and not a comment or image? What IF, the creator of the thread hijacks his own thread with irrelevant images like this... ???  It's basically "hijacking", BUT by the actual creator and her/his "OWN" thread; NOT others. I really think number 7 (rules when posting) should read: "Do not hijack the threads with irrelevant or unkind comments, questions, or images based on the theme of the current ongoing conversation." |
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BOINC 5.4.9 problems
(Message 319702)
Posted 29 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: I vote to say that BOINC 5.4.9 has been a problem along with problems causing problems. Ever since I installed it, weird stuff has been happening. It hasn't been running in.... the last few hours and my computer appears to be ok now, finally. I hated the reboots. LOL A bouncer walking by me shouted, "word to your modem from cyberspace!" LOL |
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Complete lockup
(Message 319650)
Posted 29 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
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CRASH!!! Spybot was disabled during that time... Now wandering eyes move to the BONC Manager... I ain't turning on that on until the next day. These trouble shooting things are quite twicky. How do you all put up with these? I'm already out of wine. :( I'm going back to bed... |
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Intel or AMD?
(Message 319639)
Posted 29 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
Post: I vote for Intel. |
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Complete lockup
(Message 319633)
Posted 29 May 2006 by The MariahNet Network
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I also have Spybot Search & Destroy with SDHelper and TeaTimer running in the background as well. I've just deactivated that and I'll just have to take a gander at my computer every few hours. I'll have to run the BOINC Manager now to prove it really is Spybot. LOL The first sentence I read when I looked down at your message, John, was "Lubricate or replace". I spilled my drink on my keyboard at that very moment and everything went dark. (A trailer parked and blocked the window to the room at the same moment.) ROFL (Darn wandering eyes... LOL) |
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