Posts by gregh
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Number crunching :
Turn GPU use off.
(Message 1982383)
Posted 27 Feb 2019 by  gregh
Post: You want to go to the Seti website and look under your Account settings for the Seti@home preferences selection. If you know your type of gpu, then uncheck the manufacture type "Use XXX GPU" Thanks for that info but there is no such option under accounts. I had looked for it before posting but thought I could have missed it so checked again. Not there. Any other ideas? Greg. |
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Number crunching :
Turn GPU use off.
(Message 1982249)
Posted 26 Feb 2019 by gregh
Post: Years ago when I didnt have a GPU in my computer, I used to be able to see to turn GPU use off or on. I even turned it on when I got this computer, years ago. Unfortunately, the GPU on this computer is not going well so I have suspended GPU use on the app on my Win 10 machine 100% of the time. What I want to do, from there, is to tell it, somewhere, never to download GPU work units or use the GPU again but I cant seem to find that one in preferences here or on the app. Can someone help with that please? Thanks, Greg. |
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Cafe SETI :
Seti accounts hacked?
(Message 1957987)
Posted 1 Oct 2018 by gregh
Post: To Whomever in an Admin position, I just received one of the "naught boy" emails saying I had been doing this, that and the other. I always read them and have a laugh because they tell me they are looking through my web cam at me right now and my web cam, built in, has something on it 24 hours a day!! However, this time it wasnt so funny. They gave me a password I use which I looked up in my password list and it applies ONLY to Seti. It is the only way in which that password could have been put into the hands of that scammer. Would you be so kind as to check what is going on please? Also, for your own security and that of your users, force everyone to change their passwords. I just changed mine. Greg. |
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News :
Free Speech and SETI@home
(Message 1864228)
Posted 28 Apr 2017 by gregh
Post: I probably havent been on internet as long as a lot of people here. I first got my slow 300/300 dial up connection in late 1990 but before that for many years I was in the world of Fido BBS's going back to 1983. One thing I learned, in all that time still stands today: DONT FEED THE TROLLS! If you continue to get upset and show it, they get their daily feed. Use the quote "I am a rock, I am an island" or simply ignore them if you can. Either way, your life is better, they waste energy and dont get fed and in the long run, they tend to dry up and go away. I have also not been doing Seti packets as long as some. I think I started in June 1997 so only just about 20 years. However, as my computers change, one of the first things I do is to install Seti@Home and then connect to the Seti project and continue packet processing. I like doing it. I like remaining anonymous doing it and I like to think that even if a signal is discovered by someone else some day, I did my part my processing things that needed to be processed ruling out this or that so that other person finds the right signal. To all who want to destroy this, I have observed that wherever enough people gather, someone thinks there is a place to gather notice or power. I doubt this place is either of those things. Go find a life in politics. Trump proved that anyone can do it. That is where the power is. However, leave us small people to our small joys. Greg. |
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Lost credit
(Message 1077598)
Posted 15 Feb 2011 by gregh
Post: Finally, I can contact the Seti server to update everything - no WUs to get but that is another story - and all the WUs I had sent in over the downtime are not credited to me and I drop to around 33% of RAC as opposed to what I had before. Frustrating to say the least. I dont have the machinery most of you had but I had about 89 unreported but uploaded WUs to get credit for and now have lost. Sheesh. |
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Number crunching :
New message from Jeff Cobb
(Message 1044293)
Posted 28 Oct 2010 by gregh
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Suggestion - take the entire project down, including everything, not just part, then use the time to inspect and test. I build machines as part of my income and I have had a GREAT one with a temporary XP on it. I put BOINC on and make new machines do Seti crunching for a few days in order to up my averages and also test the machine to see if any part is faulty. I have processed a LOT of WUs on this quad core. Unfortunately I wont be able to upload them due to problems your end. While the WUs have served their test purpose for me, the work done isnt going to be available to you until you dish them out to someone else. In the meantime with Seti down entirely, should you decide to do that, I can just do WUs for someone else until you come back. In short, I would rather all or nothing and not wonder if the WUs that HAVE been uploaded will EVER show as credit on my averages and total work. BTW, this isnt a complaint, just a suggestion. |
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Seti bug with Win 7
(Message 968056)
Posted 4 Feb 2010 by gregh
Post: Dunno if this has been reported before BUT: I have 2 x Win 7 RC1. When installing a later version Seti it installed the Seti screensaver as default. When this is installed and you try to turn the machine off, it starts to shut down and then stays there leaving the background picture where it is, no icons showing etc and it doesnt stop doing that until you physically turn the power off or hit the reset button. Choosing any other setting for screensaver stops that happening so it is the Seti screensaver stopping shutdown. Hope this helps. |
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Project has no jobs available
(Message 931860)
Posted 8 Sep 2009 by gregh
Post: With all the troubles you lot point out that Seti experiences, you would think that just the distributed computing platform would be enough to interest some cash cow company into donating to Seti. The fact that they scan space should interest the military of many nations, too, who you would think would like to fund Seti as well. Maybe the problems that Seti have with income isnt the fact that there is no-one who wants to donate so much as the fact that Seti hasnt thought enough outside the box and asked the right people. An example - many years back with a smashed knee requiring 5 surgeries and being a salesman that meant I lost my job as I couldnt get around to do it (face to face not sales) I required some computing equipment of my own. I ran a BBS (pre Internet being affordable) and said to a local chain store who sold every darned thing including computers "I'll advertise you on my BBS and keep changing to whatever you want if you give me that" which was about $2500 worth of gear. They said "Sure! Sounds good to me!" and gave me it for free. I walked out of the store, put the gear to use and put their details on my BBS and kept changing them for a year whereupon the computet manager was changed and the new guy said he wasnt interested in doing that anymore and just keep the gear. You have to ASK, sometimes because that is what people are waiting for you to do. Dont ASK the same old people, though. Hell I'd LOVE to start up a campaign on the net for Seti funding. I can think of a lot of useful ideas to get it going. So if any Seti staff are interested in talking about that - all you have to do is ASK. You can obviously find my email address in your records but note I am not subscribing to this thread so wont see any of your replies in here. |
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Number crunching :
CPU use
(Message 931859)
Posted 8 Sep 2009 by gregh
Post: I have recently put Windows 7 on a C2D using machine and for the first time used it to do Seti packets. I have also brought up the CPU use sidebar program and float it on screen to show me CPU use. What that shows is that 100% of my CPU is in use on one side and 29% on the other. What I had attempted to do via local prefs for this machine ONLY was to have 100% of both CPUs in use doing Seti but I dont seem to be able to achieve that even though the machine processes 2 packets at the same time. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what to do to make this C2DE machine (4 gigs ram) use the full 100% on both sides, please? Thanks. Greg. |
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Welcome to the 10 year club
(Message 917786)
Posted 15 Jul 2009 by gregh
Post: June 10th, 1999 I started here. I actually started before that but they stuffed up my account about a month into it. Didnt matter. I dont give a shit about how many credits and such. I just like letting my computers do it because it may well help. One benefit for me, too - I work in the I.T. industry and am often asked to throw together a computer quickly. Well, I can BUILD it in 10 minutes but I cant do it any quicker. Getting XP on (for the heck of it) takes about 40 minutes at most and then I put BOINC/SETI on it and run it to the limits in order to check that nothing goes wrong. I HAVE caught some dud parts doing that. So, while I do Seti a service, it does one right back for me (at the same time as me getting more credits while testing). All in all, a good outcome for all. I think if you have been in it for 10 years, you think much the same as me - who gives a shit about credits when it may be that the one you crunch has data that leads to something enormous? |
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Server status page naming conventions
(Message 869188)
Posted 25 Feb 2009 by gregh
Post: Some years back if you suspected the servers may be down that handled whatever was your interest here, you went to the server status page and where there was, for example, a red against a server name, if you took note of the name then scrolled down to the bottom of the page, you could see if that, indeed, was where the hangup is occurring. In many cases, I would just "ho hum" and let it go and hope that in a few hours it would be corrected and often that was the case. Nowadays, you still get the same red bar, green bar etc next to names but none of the server names on the list have any connection to the legend at the bottom to tell us if the one out of service is an upload validator or whatever, thus rendering the server status page totally useless. What this thread is all about it to politely ask the workers in there to update the legend at the bottom of the page so we can see what is going on via that page. I have no idea what name you use is used for what purpose and the status page doesnt bother to explain it. So - would you mind updating it so those of us who, normally, quietly do Seti packets can keep ourselves informed without needing to bother you all so much? Thanks for any help. It WOULD be appreciated as it used to be appreciated when the server names meant something. PS, I know I am not one of the HUGE crunchers with only 513449 credit right now but I am one of the ones who just does Seti and even have old machines sitting together JUST doing Seti and nothing else. So I understand I get no say in what goes on but you would be helping yourselves if you were to allow us to make sense of the server status page out here in "the wild". :) |
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Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (13) Server problems
(Message 867999)
Posted 22 Feb 2009 by gregh
Post: Hi all, Havent been able to upload all day. Anyone know why? |
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Cant upload again
(Message 858873)
Posted 28 Jan 2009 by gregh
Post: Well, over 36 hours later and still cant upload, damn it. Cant download either it seems. Dunno what that all means but if someone working in there is reading this area at all, I hope it means something to you because the server status page names bear no relationship to the information you provide, at the bottom of the same page thus I cannot tell what is an upload/download server. If I knew what was the upload/download server and I could see it wasnt working then I would at least sit here contemplating my navel without this damned disturbance in the force bothering me. Oh look - blue bellybutton lint! Hey! I dont wear that colour! |
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Number crunching :
Cant upload again
(Message 858757)
Posted 28 Jan 2009 by gregh
Post: Havent been able to send in results for the last 12 hours. Had a look at server status page but the names bear no relationship the explanation underneath so I cant see if an upload/download server is running or not. Anyone know if it is going to get going again soon or is this the post Xmas breakdown? ;-} |
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Random Musings About the Value of CPUs vs CUDA
(Message 848445)
Posted 3 Jan 2009 by gregh
Post: Its good to see Seti able to do more workunits and get the results faster from less computers.....but I have to ask where does this leave those of us with older (non-CUDA capable) PCs....... For my part, it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. I started crunching simply because I wanted to do it. I started doing it, in 1999 on a P2 233mhz (since junked) and continued, later that year, on a P3 600 that I built. I still have that same machine working and doing ONLY Seti along with 2 x P4 3.0Ghz machines. They are definitely not state of the art, any of them, but they DO actually do the work and that is all that is really needed. Will people finish their WUs faster than me? Sure! They always have no matter WHAT machinery I have had. Will I ever make the top of the list? Sure! If I win the lottery I will buy an array of machinery JUST to do Seti stuff in and build a big room for the computers and I only. That will work, too! Until then, me and my 2 x P4 3.oGhz and 1 x P3 600Mhz machines will happily continue doing crunching on what we have. Sure, I could also go buy a new video card that is CUDA capable but I dont feel the need for it right now. Eventually I will. Until then, as the great Bill and Ted said "Party on, Dude!" |
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Number crunching :
WU's not uploading
(Message 795999)
Posted 10 Aug 2008 by gregh
Post: just evenings and weekends possibly 50-60 hors per week, see the Busy boy! You must be on some sort of stimulant to do that! ;-} |
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Number crunching :
WU's not uploading
(Message 795439)
Posted 10 Aug 2008 by gregh
Post: Eric has been contacted but is having issues getting to the machine remotely. So he is working on it. No ETA Not having a go at anyone but I remember when I first heard of the Seti work around 9 years ago. I mean the fact that I could add to their data just by running a program on my PC. Loved the idea. Did it with an old P2 233 and a dial up line and progressed over the years to what I have now (which isnt much compared to all of you). I was, back then and still am now, happy to put in time when my computers are on and running (excepting my laptop which I really have to conserve for income purposes)and love the idea that in my lifetime, maybe something will come of it. Maybe not but hey, it isnt hurting me any to do it. What I can never understand is the push to be number one. Oh sure, I check my own stats now and then. Sometimes for fun, a lot of the time to see if Boinc is having yet another "rest". ;-} So I can never see why I would try to do the work of other projects. Sure there are some good reasons for doing them but so long as Seti has packets to feed me, I have computers to process them (even the old P3 600Mhz does its bit, built by me back in late 99). I guess I am saying I cant see why people just cant be happy with it and leave the competition for the bowling days etc.... ....but then that's me. I dont see helping as a competition in that I have to help MORE than others to be BETTER than others. Its almost like religion. If you dont have a certain brand, others dont like it. Bugger it. If you like it, be happy with it and I LIKE SETI!! Crazy time over for now. Have fun, be happy and remember the one important thing in life: Friar Tuck was the butt of Spoonerism jokes amongst the Merry Men. |
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Number crunching :
What is the matter with BOINC updates since 6.31?
(Message 792670)
Posted 4 Aug 2008 by gregh
Post: Every single update to BOINC after 6.31 has been a bust! ALL of them remove the previous install and install nothing that works. I have to fully uninstall BOINC then put in 6.31 again in order to get a working version. Sorry b ut they DO remove them. They remove all the working parts rather than just update what has to be updated. Using Vista as I have been since the day it came out. No other updates caused this but after 6.31, every single one you install removes the 6.31 instead of updating it so that you dont have a working BOINC/SETI. |
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Number crunching :
What is the matter with BOINC updates since 6.31?
(Message 792451)
Posted 4 Aug 2008 by gregh
Post: Every single update to BOINC after 6.31 has been a bust! ALL of them remove the previous install and install nothing that works. I have to fully uninstall BOINC then put in 6.31 again in order to get a working version. Can someone tell me what is going on please? |
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Number crunching :
Installation of Boinc - ERRORS!
(Message 690007)
Posted 9 Dec 2007 by gregh
Post: I put together a Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz with 1gig ram today and decided to stuff about by putting old XP on from an OEMSP2 disk to see how it handles it. By default it will eventually have Vista on it as it is much better and not such a toy OS but I wanted to see how this CPU and XP got on. So, I decided a good test would be to run Seti/Boinc on it for a few days using that XPSP2. Imagine my surprise when I had to go back to 5.10 to get a version that actually RUNS! Nothing newer than that will fully install. They all say they cannot connect to the localhost no matter what I do but 5.10 will. I have 2 x P4 3.0Ghz machines, one with Vista business and the other with XPSP2 running on much later versions of Boinc but with the new CPU there is no way. Anyway, just thought someone who codes the program may like to know of this error. As for me, moving it on to Vista in a few days. I dont like the errors XP throws up and prefer a real OS in any case. |
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