Posts by Diego -=Mav3rik=-

1) Message boards : Number crunching : CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones [tm] XII ** CLOSED (Message 689748)
Posted 8 Dec 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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I'm throwing a "Welcome to the millionaire club" party. You are all invited.
:)

2) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Top Gun II (Message 664052)
Posted 22 Oct 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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The highest rated fighter of all time...the P51-D Mustang with the Rolls Royce Merlin engine.


Yes the Mustang rocked!
3) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Top Gun II (Message 663783)
Posted 21 Oct 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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F-14 Tomcat


Yes, my favourite. imho the most beautiful fighter plane ever.
Let's add some more pics.





:)

"The Borg assimilated my race, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt."
4) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hola (Message 662511)
Posted 19 Oct 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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Hola Diego! Long time no hear from.


Indeed. Been crunchin' without socializin' :)
I see many changes in the forums.

I see nothing wrong with that. Some of us socialize more than crunch, & I see you're a serious cruncher.

We've got Personal messaging & previewing. All the comforts of home.


I meant lately. ;)
Sometimes you have the time and sometimes you just don't.
Life is funny that way.

Aaanyway, thought I'd drop by and see what's cooking in ye olde cafe.

Hola Diego. It's good to see a Mav3rik here. There should always be Maverick if an Ice Man is around :)


Hello.... ice.... man. We meet again at last. You are right! Although I hate to admit it, of course. ;)

/Later



5) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hola (Message 655192)
Posted 6 Oct 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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Hola Diego! Long time no hear from.


Indeed. Been crunchin' without socializin' :)
I see many changes in the forums.

I see nothing wrong with that. Some of us socialize more than crunch, & I see you're a serious cruncher.

We've got Personal messaging & previewing. All the comforts of home.


I meant lately. ;)
Sometimes you have the time and sometimes you just don't.
Life is funny that way.

Aaanyway, thought I'd drop by and see what's cooking in ye olde cafe.
6) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hola (Message 655144)
Posted 6 Oct 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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Hola Diego! Long time no hear from.


Indeed. Been crunchin' without socializin' :)
I see many changes in the forums.
7) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hola (Message 655141)
Posted 6 Oct 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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What's up?
8) Message boards : Number crunching : ***CLOSED*** SETI/BOINC Milestonesâ„¢ X ***CLOSED*** (Message 590358)
Posted 22 Jun 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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W(())(())H(())(())
500,000 is such a nice number that I had to login from work just to show it.

Ok, it's higher now. The moment has passed.
Oh well... ;)

Regards


PS: Yay me.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Using optimized apps without app_info.xml (Message 575907)
Posted 26 May 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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My app_info.xml looks like this:
<app_info>
    <app>
        <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>[i]Optimized_Client_filename[/i]</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>515</version_num>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>[i]Optimized_Client_filename[/i]</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
</app_info>


It's running smooth.
I'm not saying it works because of this, I'm saying it also works like this. ;)
10) Message boards : Number crunching : S@H server out of work (Message 574016)
Posted 22 May 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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I have found that ghost wu's seems to be due to optimized clients.

Umm … yes, more or less … have you not read any of the hundreds of messages on the subject that have been posted here over the past couple of days?


If you need to ask how much, you can't afford it.


Cuack!

Hey guys, seriously, could any of you explain to me what's this app_info bug about? I haven't really been able to read all the threads due to time issues, as in I don't have time these days.
When I dettached/reattached it seemed to kick start something, tried to download a couple WUs, then got stuck, then finally downloaded everything + the official client. Then I replaced it with an optimized one and left it crunching. Today I found it all stuck and getting several differente error messeges from SaH.
I assumed it was due to server overload or something, but now I read about a "App_info bug".

Read my lips: Huh?

:)
11) Message boards : Number crunching : S@H server out of work (Message 572886)
Posted 21 May 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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Yes, we are definitely not up and running.
12) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Before the "Big Bang"... (Message 553802)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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The big bang is a concept by which we try to explain something we can't wrap our minds around. And I don't believe in the biggie banggie.

Let me evolve a couple thousand years more, and get back to you.

Note: By "me" I mean us. By "you" I mean it.
13) Message boards : SETI@home Science : When Did Science Become the Enemy? (Message 553781)
Posted 26 Apr 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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Funny.
Last time I read the boards, months ago, people were trying to argue with Jeffrey. I come back and people are still trying to argue with Jeffrey.

One would think that by now people should have learned not to try to argue with Jeffrey. :p
14) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Now the Arecibo observatory is observable (Message 531034)
Posted 14 Mar 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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Area 51 also has what appears to be a baseball diamond in the northwest corner.


That's because if you build it, they will come...

:>
15) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Dusty old star (Message 519500)
Posted 18 Feb 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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Akhenaton said:
I think the Helix Nebula is annoyed that the hobbits stole its Ring.


LoL
I thought the same to myself the first time I saw that pic, "That looks like Sauron's eye".
/grin

Tiare: :) by the way, great photos!


Walla: Provided the idiotic greedy politicians and moron religious fanatics don't screw up our beloved 3rd rock from the sun before we can get off it for good, by the time our star dies we are going to be populating other solar systems in our little Milky Way's backyard.
Heck, we might even be all around the galaxy. Alone? Don't know. Hope not ;)
16) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Before the "Big Bang"... (Message 517147)
Posted 14 Feb 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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I wish people would stop referring to the big bang as if it was a proven indisputable scientific fact.
17) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Dusty old star (Message 517140)
Posted 13 Feb 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The dead star lies at the center of the much-photographed Helix nebula, a shimmering cloud of gas with an eerie resemblance to a giant eye.


"We were surprised to see so much dust around this star," said Dr. Kate Su of the University of Arizona, Tucson, lead author of a paper on the results appearing in the March 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. "The dust must be coming from comets that survived the death of their sun."

Full article and images @NASA homesite
18) Message boards : SETI@home Staff Blog : So where's the science..? (Message 509540)
Posted 27 Jan 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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Many many years from now, the man in charge of the SETI project will adress the crowd during the celebration after the first extraterrestrial signal was found, confirmed in its source and planet of origin, and answered.

At the end of his speech, this man will say something like:
"...and let's not forget about the people that stood by the project during the first stormy years, and overcame the frustration and the incertitude. We wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for them."

I know it probably won't happen in my lifetime. I'm just happy to continue to donate one more grain of sand to help build the foundation of what's to come.

Hey Matt, it's cool being the frustrated stubborn pioneer. ;)

For those about to crunch, I salute you.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Please, STOP wasting our CPU time! (Message 504744)
Posted 18 Jan 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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Validate errors is becoming a rule, day by day.
Once sometime is possible; more is diabolic.
Please investigate and solve the problem.
ASAP.
Or we'll find other projects.

20) Message boards : SETI@home Science : If The Earth nucleus stopped rotating... (Message 501277)
Posted 12 Jan 2007 by Profile Diego -=Mav3rik=-
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I say that because I saw a show on the discovery channel that was discussing the Earth and they mentioned that our planet may look like Mars one day because Mars has no electromagnetic field and its core is no longer spinning. I did a google search and came up with this article about that movie and it also backs up the discovery channel show.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/b557359b9fa84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Their reasoning is almost completely backward. The inner core rotates because there is a magnetic field, not the other way around. If the magnetic field somehow did decay away -- the one on Mars, for example, no longer exists -- it would take several thousand years for the core to stop spinning.


This quote is from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Due to a lack of seismic data for Mars, little is known about the structure of its interior. Estimates of the size of Mars' core range from 2200-4000 km in diameter and account for 6-21% of its mass. It is believed that Mars' core consists primarily of iron. However, its weak magnetic field suggests that the core is either small and solid, or larger and semi-solid or liquid.


Heh, yes the movie was entertaining, but that's it.
Regarding Mars and the future of Earth, well we all already sort of know that it's not going to be a green paradise forever, and that we will have to "move" someday. Of course, provided we survive as a species long enough.


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