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Posted 6 Dec 2008 by  Rudolfensis
Post: Why would someone need to be active to be "allowed" to post? That sounds quite unfriendly actually and not really any habits of any boards I know. Obviously, the BOINC team thought this was the best idea to deal with spam but I must say I disagree with this, makes it strange for a vet to come and see he can't post unless he actually crunch some units, seems almost like blackmail. Anyway, we won't obviously agree, but in my opinion the RAC requirement is an exaggerated move, almost like using a shotgun to kill a fly. |
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Posted 6 Dec 2008 by Rudolfensis
Post: Ah.. that does explain things a bit, albeit not quite considering that I participate to so many project and return to the top of the list to increase my overall credit for each project. So actually, what the forum wants is recent average credits, not credits per-say. Wouldn't be more fair to have the forum simply require a minimum amount of credits to post instead of a RAC based privileges? |
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Posted 6 Dec 2008 by Rudolfensis
Post: Ok, trying under why do I get this message "In order to create a new thread in Number crunching you must have a certain amount of credit. This is to prevent and protect against abuse of the system. " Considering I have 11k of credits and I've been with the project since 1999, is there some ways to explain why me and probably many others aren't able to post in certain threads? |
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Posted 15 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
Post: As a result of today's bombing, 18 people dead, 18 innocent people, this include a family, mother and children dead. A while ago, the US was hit by a massive terrorist action which also resulted in innocent lives killed. One wonders, to fight evil, does one must become also evil? Terrorist use terror, they strike when people least expect it, maximizing the element of surprise. Today, in Pakistan, terrorists attacked, this time they weren't Muslims they were from the US. A silent spy plane, armed with powerful weaponry hit without discrimination. Who ever is responsible for this strike is guilty of crimes against humanity. Terror cannot be fought blindly as who fights terror becomes terror him or herself. Now, some Pakistan child has cause for revenge, a body for a body, a mother for a mother. Thank you for showing the world how some of you can be down right savages. |
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Posted 6 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
Post: [quote]Ok, I'm not following you at all there with the "Barbara Streisand" remark. I know her to be an actress and singer but I fail to see what's the relation to what I said? BS. 8^] Ok... I guess you've lost me there totally. I mean, I'm not from the US, I really cannot see nor understand this. But I guess it doesn't really matter. That's fine that you call it "modern slavery" but it's difficult to carry on a rational discussion when the terms are defined so loosely as to have nearly no meaning. People living in misery, in bad conditions, or with low standards of living are just poor, they aren't slaves unless other humans have enslaved them for their labor. No, that doesn't work at all. I'm not talking about poor people here. I'm not talking about poverty. I am talking about a form of slavery, whether you like the term or not doesn't really matter because outside of the US, perception is different than inside the US. These people are used as the cheapest labor there is. Their conditions are unacceptable and are NOT covered by legal laws and do not HAVE the same rights are other citizens. This pleases most if not all managers who hires them. You call it whatever you want, I call it modern slavery and this term is used in schools here to define these very same conditions. You profite from this inderectly, the industries, the economy. This is nothing new, when the US was born, it profited from entirely free labor, slaves, now its profiting from next to free labor. Conditions are better, but not by that much, if you have ever seen how some of these workers live, you may not be so cringy on the term or we would not have definiton fight. To address your specific point, they aren't paid less because they're Mexican, they're paid less because they are in the U.S. illegally. They are willing to accept lower wages in return for not being reported and then deported. The employers are willing to keep their mouths shut, because it keeps their labor costs down. They can leave at will. They can return to Mexico at will. They can refuse to work for what is offered. Do you actually think they like to leave their home? Their town? Their country to come live without any conditions other than extremely low wages? They leave because they can't live anymore where they live. They because they cannot understand how it is possible that it can be so different only next across the border. They are paid less because they are Mexican, they would be white they wouldn't be treated that way, they wouldn't have the pay they have. We just won't ever agree on that one. Of course, but sometimes that is evident from the beginning. So you prejudge instead of asking? I have no interest in insulting you. I may disagree with your position, but I won't attack you or anyone else personally. Nor will I, at least, until I feel I have been attacked on a personal basis and even then I will be the first to admit that is not the best of reactions. I fully understand that it would be very difficult for us to agree. Your perception is from within, mine is from the outside. They are two very ventage points. This is the very problem the US has right now, all over the world, how it is perceived and how you think we view you. Does it really matter? Not really, however someone sees you, that never really matters all that much. But when this influence is exported, whether by ideas, whether by arms, this is when it matters. I see my own companies, where I live, going and opening companies in Mexico. People lose their jobs here, I couldn't less about that, nothing in life garantees us anything. But what I cannot take is that these companies will not even pay the workers decent wages. I have no hatred toward the corporations nor the Mexican, both are working within that frame work called capatilist economy. Profit before anything. But if these workers were paid a similar wage as mine, it would be less interesting for companies to leave. Slowly, I realize also that everyone's wages will move down. Global economy will for this, the developpe world lived off the under developpe world for too long now. To accept that, within one's border, people will live without any conditions, legal or otherwise, is to profite from this. And that, I cannot accept. That's how it all resumes for me. Anyway, I still thank you... the exchange is most important. I'm not trying to change anyone's opinion, I just saw some writing here and I had to speak my mind. |
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Posted 6 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
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Ok, I'm not following you at all there with the "Barbara Streisand" remark. I know her to be an actress and singer but I fail to see what's the relation to what I said? And what I wrote isn't a generalization, is what as come to be accepted as modern slavery. The term speaks for itself, I didn't say they were beaten to death, I didn't say they were whiped until unconcious. I said it is what it is perceived as modern slavery. People living far below the standard of living of others. People living in intolerable conditions. People living with ridiculous wages. That is what I call "modern slavery". I'm not too sure what idealism as to do in this, but I would say that I do not agree with the fact that should be paid less than anyone else just because they are Mexican. But, it is your opinion of how you see me, I cannot change this opinion of yours if this is what to believe is your reality, your own interpretation. In fact, I'm not even sure why you say you can't respond to an argument because you see the author of being such way. When I read something, either very logical or flawed, I do not ask myself "Will this author actually accept my opposing him?". I write and hopefuly, we'll exchange and, afterward... AFTER we've exchanged, I will decide if the process was futile or not. But... hey... if that's how you work. It's ok with me. As long as they are no insults, I can deal with the fact of how you perceive me. That's very good intelligence and I do command you for that. yvan |
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Posted 5 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
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Don't bull me dude. All you did is attack, nothing else. You have the balls to talk about intelligence and act like a cromagnon! This wasn't AT all a personal attack and you know it damn well. You see a SINGLE name there? You see one person's quote there? So stop the bullshit and either talk or shut up if you can't say something intelligent. Now, since you don't contribute to anything but crap, I'll filter you. That way, I won't have to be subjected to your lack of intellience ever again. |
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Posted 5 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
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The concept of political debate is just that, nothing else. In theory they are co-equal since a well-planned collectivist economy could distribute resources ... Humaing beings don't live on theories, they don't eat on theories. They live with food and money to buy the first. How ever you explain the rules, how ever you explain the system. These living conditions remains unacceptable. No one has come up with the perfect system, but some are definitely better than others. I'll agree, not one system created by mankind is perfect or anywhere near that. No one in US politics is taken seriously if he or she can't deal with debate. I'm sorry but I totally disagree with you there. There is no such a thing as a debate in the US right now as far as the politcal branch is concerned. This is a mild debate going on, but nothing, no one dares going to the microphone and say that troops shouldn't be in Iraq, troops should have never been in Iraq to start with. No one is also saying that Bush lied, which he did and even (finally) admited it. Not that I needed to know he lied as we all knew he lied (most of the civilize world at least). You even had a French ambassador with enough balls to say it in the UN. Thank god there's nothing you can do against France or you would have invaded it a long time ago. There's just that tiny problem... the atomics... makes invasion somewhat complicated. But that is hard to take, someone standing up to you and telling the entire world that the war against Iraq is based on crap facts. However, all of these did come to pass. And the anti-war crowd has dutifully framed each of these successes as dismal failures. Objective observers of the debate have concluded that nothing will please the vocal part of the anti-war movement, and it is therefore generally dismissed. I'm not too sure I understand you there. Do you know what Anti-war means? It usually means... ANTI-WAR. Thus, prostestors against wars will never be satisfied until there is no such thing anymore. Why would an anti-war protestor have any other desires but that one alone? There's no debate there, if I tell you that I don't want troops oversea, I don't have to debate with you on that one, you'll tell me you want them and I'll tell you I don't. I will protest until the very last day, until there is not war anymore. They are not dismissed because they disagree, they are dismissed because they have no positive ideas of their own... No "they" are not dimissed. You are dismissing them, anyone *for* the war is dismissing them but no one against the war is dismissing them. I am not too sure why you take that illogical course there, maybe you think it could fly by me, is all I can guess. To see examples of this, look up news archives on the run-up to each Iraqi election and compare the same people's statements after the elections. Oh please! Lets not talk about an election there. You think the results are valid? There is a foreign invasion force which still occupies the country! You think for a SINGLE moment that the citizens there are voting out of freewill? Any recourse there which looks anywhere like democraty is a outright lie. There is no democraty at gun point. There is no democraty when there is a 60 ton tank right next to you. The US has enshrined religious pluralism in its Constitution, which is a lot more than most other nations. This as always been there problem. Between what is writen and between what is done. There is a huge bridge there to cross, one which hasn't even been built yet. In my personal opinion, businesses in the southern US that depend on illegal immigrant labor deserve to go bankrupt, along with the local governments that turn a blind eye to the problem. Your personal opinion doesn't change a thing. You won't change the fact that these States makes a pile of money out of these "illegals". They are proud of that fact, I would even venture as far as saying this is modern slavery. Albeit, changed, but man, many of those "illegals" which I actually call HUMAN BEINGS live in squallers, out of town, desolated conditions.
Again, when you rape the world, when you invade countries (how many countries did the US influence in Central America and South America? The word "influence" is mild compare to what I have in mind which murder, assassination, government overthrows, and so forth. Long live the CIA! Western Civilization (generally Europe and the Americas) is the only civilization in the history of the planet to cease using slaves by an internal decision. [quote] What other nations? You think race relation in the US is somehow the center point on which we should guide the rest of the world with? If that was the case, I guess the world would have come to an end a long time ago! You have a very narrow view of history. In the US South before the Civil War, a lot of swampland had to be drained before plantations could operate on the land. Clearing a swamp in pre-industrial times was dangerous. Its kind of funny there. I see an undertone to your arguments. You don't awknowledge at all the plight of slaves, in fact, you turn it around and talk about the Irish, which surely had a bad time but nothing at all compared to human slaves. The Irish were whites, don't even try to make me believe their conditions were far worst than those of the black trade. You talk about humans as if they were data. You don't even seem so much attach to your own history. Human slave, some, fled to the North to escape slavery. They thought they would live as free people in the North. True and false, they couldn't be "legal" slave, but they still could be slave and they would still be segregated. My ancestors are racists, just probably as I am too as I don't believe I am not racist. I believe that there is still ground for me to work on there, for I do not understand why I do not feel comfortable around some black people. It is unexplained a feeling, but it does exist and I admit it exist. In a way, I think every single human being on this planet is a racist. We kind of love it actually as it guide our hatred of one and other. We invente religion to seperate us, we invente color of skin to seperate us. We do everything we can to seperate us. I let go of being dettached from what I write. I speak out of my own precepts on life, I don't refer to a book or some well worked theory. Because I talk about humans, I know us not to be logical beings. This is straight from John Kerry's congressional testimony. Not only did he never produce any proof, he painted himself into a corner: by admitting that he took part in the atrocities, he is either guilty of war crimes or perjury Again, you're doing the exact same thing. You took my words... carried them on to Kerry? Which I am not too sure I see the connection there. I talked about millions of people murdered or butchered or raped or wounded. I talk about women, children, elderlies, men, some armed, most unarmed. 65,000 dead. Well armed soldiers 3,000,000 citizens of a forein country murdered or wounded. Now... doesn't that actually makes you think a bit about them? Are they just numbers to you? Is that too far ago? 30 years or so back? Where I live, in 1970, they were soldiers out in the streets, I was so young but I can never forget their weapons, they arrested many of my follow citizen out of the simple desire to quail what was to them a "treath" but what was to all of them a lie. When you are at the other end, when you are at the receiving end of violence. Your view point changes, even if too your to understand why these men are carrying these weapons, why do they hate us so much. But I wasn't burn alive or partially, my mother wasn't raped. Fathers would be beaten and tortured, but that would mostly end there. No villages burn, no chemical sprayed on our forests and cultures. Nothing to that nature. War crimes don't have a Statute of Limitations. True and false, the US will not abide by the international court. We all know why, it is because they love to torture human beings. Thus they cannot sign on. Many war crimes took place in Wolrd War II, some by US soldiers, many war crimes took place in the Vietnam war, some again by US solders. Few if not none we were ever tried. I've posted Iraq's links to terrorism several times before. Iraq was not linked to the 9/11 attacks, but many apear to have difficulty separating the two concepts. Iraq wasn't linked in any way, shape or form to any known terrorist attacks. Hussein never alloud these groups to come and settle in his country. But again, that was another lie which Bush used at his own discretion. The Taliban government was legally recognized by three other nations on Earth. The rest of the world saw the Taliban as an illegal regime opporessing the people who happened to live there. Should it matter how many people around the world doesn't like the Taliban? How many people around the world liked Pinochet? How many people around the world like the Khmer rouge? And that's just a few, those monster still carried on, nobody really cared about the Chilians nor the Cambodians, did they? No. There is a difference between liking a regime and doing something about it. It is not your right to dictate another country how they should live by. If Afghans didn't want the Taliban, it was up to every single afghan to take on the Taliban and liberate their own country from this kind of dictatorship. You only learn what is good for you if you are subjected by this. It is not up to me to dictate terms to a foreign country, not am I hypocrite enough to say that the US actually went their to eleminate the Talibans, they used the Talibans as a shield, a political and popular shield while they could go after the training camps. To debate, I don't have to attack you on a personal level (not that I am saying you did), I just have to do my best and convey my points to you. I can be open about your points or totally closed to them, that is my responsibility. But, by making this one single effort in writing this, consuming valuable time. It shows that, on a basic level, we care about freedom and speech. I know how easy it is to carry on and just insult, it is the small man's way of doing thing. When he cannot actually take the time and write back his emotions or frustrations or simple questions. It is far more easier to just "plonk" a person than to actually respond to a person. yvan |
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Posted 5 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
Post: I'm impressed you took a shot, Octagon. I just couldn't see wading into that screed. 8^] Typical answer coming from someone who isn't able to use his brain :) |
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Posted 5 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
Post: Score: Actually... dude, he made the effort, he made -an- effort to reply. You, on the other hand, all you have is a pity personal attack. So, as far as being a winning or losing, I think I'd score you in the second option. :] |
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Posted 5 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
Post: Some of you people are so full of themselves. I mean, I read the thread and could almost puke. Pictures, arguments, freedom, "we are the best", "god bless america", and so forth. "Le nombril du monde"... should resume this thread pretty much. Talk about freedom, people living in areas that look like even worse than third world countries, desolate towns and villages, abandon blocks, zones that looks like war zones. This "self-pep-talk", trying to reassure yourselves that you are -always- doing what's right as if you do no wrong, ever. Send troops to fight, don't let anyone dare not agree, don't let anyone dare say its wrong for whatever reason if only loving your son or (in rarer cases) your daughter. No, because they are fighting for the ol' mighty freedom. The word of the century... freedom. It use to be we would shed blood for faith, mostly Christians and Muslims fighting to take over the world, good old conversion, nothing all of us being exactly the same since there's no place in this world for a multitude of gods. There's the talk about the dreaded Mexicans, them' invader your borders, evil they are, evil! And yet, what the economy of the southern states relies on? Cheap labor, yeah, there's that word again.. "cheap". Fight them, keep them out, but not too many out, makes sense, makes nice profit. If that doesn't work, might as well built some nice companies there, convince them there's no benefit in crossing that border, pay them cheap of course, nothing compared to what a worker doing the -exact- same thing across the border is paid for. Of course, when you are standing in the wrong side of the road, when all the lights are aimed at your direction, you must have a way to defend your action. Build a wall, it's nice, it's logical of course... "Defend our borders, I say!". But, down the logical and emotional gutter, walls are still walls, keep people in, keep people out. Now why so many people want to go across that border? Wouldn't be because the standards of living is so high because the Statians (as I prefer to call americans since I'm living in North America which means I am an american) profited from centuries of living off the world, feeding off the world. Boosted their economy with slavery, that helped a lot (oh... did I say cheap labor again? Dreaded word!). When it became a wee bit too difficult to live with that gross human indecency, for slavery remains slavery, people actually chaining other people... yeah, wouldn't that be nice if we could erase bad history? When it became intolerable for some to live with others doing that (not that they believed that blacks (or niggers or negros) we equal in any way, shape or form to whites), slaving other humans, you had a little war, kill some, not that many of course, small cause, freedom? No way... freedom? Yes, Statians against Statians, free the slave but keep them out still, for after all, they do remain black, color doesn't change, flags do, but not color. Until the late 60's, still having to ride in the back of the bus, most people would have preferred behind the bus actually. Couldn't even drink at the same fountain, those filthy blacks! Imagine if we were to share microbes with them... shudder? Came a phrase at one time, early in the 20th century "Le nègre blanc d'Amérique", white slavery. People from Quebec going to the Northern states, trying to find jobs. Now of course, the threat wasn't quite the same, white man, white man, doesn't too problematic. Yet, slowly but surely, one by one they were driven out, threats, they were. They came with their religion, damn they! They spooked french, my god! They were underpaid... well, that's ok, we'll sweep that off and under the rug. Conditions of living, nothing that bad compared to the desolation, the hatred, the violence, the utter violence against blacks, but still conditions far from those of their neighbors. Fighting for freedom, killing people is quite fun. Makes you proud, makes you ride on a wave, testosterone. Ahhh yes, Kurds being massacred, doesn't speak about the countless bodies killed by Statians soldiers around the world. No way, how many.. mmm.. 3 millions dead or wounded in Vietnam (i know, I won't venture too far with that one). How many raped? How villages burns? Looted? How many tortured to death? But that's long ago, this doesn't happen anymore, Statians have grown up since then, matured. Statians don't torture people anymore, they don't rape people anymore, they don't make people piled up on-top of one and other totally naked with dogs biting at them (shouldn't go to far with that -one- single bad example... no). These are exceptions, Statians fight the evil of terrorism, around the world. Brutally attacked and destroy Iraq, where they were no terrorist groups before, open the border up for so many they can't be counted (never can actually be counted... those terrorist census are somewhat rare). Oh...but I hear Osama... the bad dude. He's enraged, he does like Statians (wonder why?). Rage is nice, makes you blind, makes you do anything, murder being one of them. You kill mine, I kill yours. You have a few bombs, a few guns, I got atomics, you'll see! Fight... fight for Iraq's freedom? Yes... freedom? Concept is somewhat difficult to grasp, even if Statians believe that they have actually pretty much define the word by now. Don't like those religious fanatics in Afghanistan, lets free the country, lets help the poor fighting, killing, it's fun! Doesn't speak a word for "Let people decide their right and their wrong". Let us decide for them. The real strategy behind Iraq, a good one, some oil but not only oil, gotta position yourself, extend your power, makes it easier to strike all over the world. This same world which is slowly living by the rule of Statians which, themselves (not all but many) live by religious fanatic rules themselves. Christians are terrible monsters too, probably worse than Muslims for they did rule this world with an iron fist for too long. But again, it's all about conversion, whether religion, whether economy, whether social. Easier when the guy living next door believe and live the same way you do. Ok, that doesn't work, it's easier to make belief he lives the same way you do but you do prefer that he doesn't earn as much as you or the entire system will fall apart. Iraq is on fire. Cities devastated, people hungry, people without electricity, water, education. The entire country is a chaos zone. The iron fist monster that lived before the Statians came, well, he would murder (had quite some expertise at it too), but somehow, his country was doing well, people eating, drinking, educated (yes, real education). But he's a monster, he's evil, he's a monster. He says that Statians are bad (he's probably right!), he says they'll take over the world (damn it I think he's right again!), he says that Kurds are less than human beings (wait, didn't Statians say the same thing about the bl... oops... won't say the dreaded word!). So might as well kill Kurds since no one wants them. Iran doesn't want them and kills, its fine by Statians, Turkey doesn't want them and kills them, its fine by Statians. Over time, every one people has to choose. Do fight or do we let ourselves, our culture slowly die? Kurds are courageous, not more, not less than any other people. Some decided to fight, some decided to live under other people's rule. But when you come as an invader, when you tell people they should do this or that, you pretty much tell them you are the beholder of sacred truth. Tell Afghans they have to get rid of Taliban because they are bad. But they do nothing, strangely enough? Why do people like pain so much? Let people decide their wrongs for themselves or they never will grow. Now, Afghans have become puppets, Statians puppets. They are discovering this other word which is so often thrown around by Statians "democracy". Evil word again for Statians know not the meaning of the word, no one actually really knows the meaning of that word. If you consider that there will always be opposition, take us, here in Quebec, 49.2% voted to separate, 50.8% voted to stay, 50% of the population must live and abide by the other half's rule? Is this actual democracy or polite dictatorship? Evade a country, wipe why you believe to be wrong, put a new system in place and hope to g... err hope that the people will accept this new way of life. So they can spend a lot, so they can rape the earth around them a lot, so they can profit a lot, so they can lose their own culture a lot. Of course Taliban's are thugs, brutal beings. But then again, aren't Christians thugs too? How many cultures around the world Christians have annihilated? Wipe all previous belief, place a new one in, make everyone good little christians. Don't me wrong, I like using Christians as an example, but all religions are the same, they collide, they built real walls which separates humans from other humans. The real evil is god, these gods, these walls, these beliefs. You're god is wrong, mine is right. You're going to hell, I'm going to heaven, what's heaven's address anyway? I know, this is a utter mix bag of opinions, makes little head or tail. But this being a political thread, I thought it fun and nice to slap... many times as I could... Statians. Makes me feel strong... makes me feel I got the power. For I am right, I am supreme and beholder of mighty truth. You don't agree with me, I'll invade you! Power... the more you have... the more you want. One day... power slaps you back... it bites back... no one person should hold power, all power as it is a monster which corrupts you. Bless Statians! Lets not bless the world! Bless Statians because they are good people which don't dump their garbage, which don't pollute the entire world, which don't rape the entire world. Think about it, Statians live because their profit from other. Imagine if 1.2 billion people suddenly lived like Statians? How long before the poles would melt? Would that be so wrong? I mean, if Statians have the right to destroy the world, why others wouldn't have that right too? I want 1 SUV per every Chinese citizen! Had to get this off my chest :) Oh... a footnote. Some words used in this giant intellectual vomit can be quite offensive. But they are not used in that context although easily can be taken out of context. These words were used and so I have to also use them. And, in all honesty, I could not have writen this if I would have been a Statian myself. I'm your worse nightmare... I'm french speaking! Not French... but still... that's close enough! |
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The fortran dynasty.
(Message 225459)
Posted 4 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
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Actually, no.. that wasn't quite my point. The more projects doesn't mean more people of course as you reach a saturation mark. No, on the contrary, the more people the lessen the CPU power for each project has less people participating. 1 million people, 2 projects, 500,000 people. 1 million people, 500 projects... you get my point. |
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The fortran dynasty.
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Posted 4 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
Post: I remember, in school, our Fortran classes, I still hear the noise of the giant printer that would spit out sheet after sheet of perforated paper of fortran coding lines. You'd get from time to time a little graphic made of stars ************ * * * * ************ With whatever text inside. Back then, I was hoping for the computer to actually crash or better yet, the server to crash! Of course, my pain wasn't over yet, then came dBase IV. ugh. 
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The fortran dynasty.
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Posted 4 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
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Yeah, I've seen this grinding to a halt all too often now. Not long ago, I decided to quit SETI, I couldn't see any more gain (in my strick opinion), scientifc gain that is after all these years even if I know there's only a tiny fragment of data computed yet and so much more to go. So I decided to venture a bit, in septembre, I fell that predictor meant these standards of mine but wasn't quite ready to quit SETI yet. Someone did clear my mistake as I couldn't believe that BOINC itself could be anywhere near writen in fortran. But thanks for the clarification here also. It's funny when you think about it, BOINC opened up the world community global project aspects even more. But at the same time, this opening up kind of deals a deadly blow to the philosophy of "global community" as I can very well see, years from now, Universities running their own BOINC for any and all internal student projects. The more projects you have, the more diluted the global CPU power. For every one gain, a loss. |
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Posted 3 Jan 2006 by Rudolfensis
Post: Hey, I thought that FORTRAN died when that big meteor hit Earth 65 million years ago? And all those old FORTRAN programmer dinosaurs slowly vanished being replaced by more nimble, less resource hungry, C++ programmers? Never thought that BOINC was a legacy program! ;)  
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(Message 216819)
Posted 17 Dec 2005 by Rudolfensis
Post: [quote]They're the ones that don't have a file size of 361,xxx. There was a spate of bad results sent out from the server recently, they'll pass through the system quickly. Yeah, saw those. And I did suspect they wouldn't go far, I do get those from time to time. I believe the server can't do much but pass them along. |
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BOINC going beserk.
(Message 216813)
Posted 17 Dec 2005 by Rudolfensis
Post:
Yvan actually :) This is way funny since this is exactly what I was looking for. As I was browsing the directories, my firewall sprung up and told me that LiveUpdated wanted to update. Funny since I had uninstalled NAV2005 two hours ago! But, to be fair, there is no proof that NAV caused this. I actually don't have a clue to what might have happened here. It's not that much of a big deal when you think about it, no stats lost. But still, I'm annoyed when my computer doesn't do exactly as it is told. We have a great relationship going on, I am Ze Master, it is ze slave. Well... it's not always that case ;) Kind of ironic to use a Symantec product to remove another Symantec product. But this is digressing much from my original topic :) |
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BOINC going beserk.
(Message 216784)
Posted 17 Dec 2005 by Rudolfensis
Post: But that would be the case only for units which would be in progress. It couldn't be the case for a unit which wasn't touched yet. |
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BOINC going beserk.
(Message 216773)
Posted 17 Dec 2005 by Rudolfensis
Post: Here's a small picture of both BOINC and the project directory. Picture of BOINC Itself and Picture of project directory You can see clearly the 14,15,16 ones. |
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BOINC going beserk.
(Message 216706)
Posted 17 Dec 2005 by Rudolfensis
Post: If you do want to go ahead and try a repair of the xml file, my only suggestion would be the obvious of making a backup before you start to work with it, so you can restore a working file if it doesn't work. Good luck! Right about the backup, always a -very- good suggestion. Well, it may seem hopeless, I did try two very powerful tools to recover files. The very most powerful one couldn't recover the client_state's I was interesting in, the ones from this morning. The strange thing is that, there is a gap between dec 9 and dec 17, nothing in between as far as recovering client_state even its own backup client_state_prev. I see nearly a thousand files there, BOINC makes regular backups of that file. But why wouldn't have made these backups during that time period would be a mystery to me since I'm quite sure it must have made these backups. I was also concern about delays, if I do let them time out, it will delay others from getting their credits. I mean, this is almost funny, the files are there, the units are there, and yet BOINC cannot see them. |
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