Posts by SandJ
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Message boards :
News :
Arecibo still threatened with closure.
(Message 1794968)
Posted 10 Jun 2016 by  SandJ
Post: I'm pessimistic about the chances that it will change anything, as the President cannot change Congressional budget priorities, and only has limited ability to move money between NSF programs. However, bringing attention to the issues of science funding in this country cannot hurt. Actually, yes it can. A lot. Badly targeted futile gestures cause compassion fatigue, waste volunteer resources and bring discredit to the campaign. That petition as it stands can be read as "some privileged science people want money for their toys / this is charity for Puerto Rico" and I can's see that pulling many heart strings nor purse strings. Who are the actual decision-makers? When is their next decision point? What issues do they care about? Who has influence over them? Can they be swayed by any particular sections of the media? Is there anything in particular they are frightened of that can be used against them? Who else could or should be targeted to be high-profile support? Celebrity physicists? Public-friendly science presenters? Children's education programme presenters? Science-based media channels? Technical columns authors in the mainstream press? Popular science authors? Who else could or should be targeted for funding? Celebrity astronomers? Public-friendly science presenters? Space industry companies? What other revenue streams could it provide? Other governments' funding? Why isn't the dish covered in advertising? That petition as it stands says vaguely what could be lost but there is nothing in that petition for anyone to care about. What impact would its closure have on society? Science? Research? National pride? The local economy? How many jobs are affected? What sort of science project will be cancelled? What will be irretrievably lost? What opportunities may never be explored? What impact will its closure have on me, my children and my grandchildren? How can social media be used? What images of the local economy suffering? What catchy phrases? What exciting images tagged #nomorelikethis? What other campaigns have worked and can be copied? How does CERN get funding for ever-larger particle colliders? How was the money approved to fix the Hubble Space Telescope? Can students or pupils be motivated by "You won't get to use this"? Can educators be motivated to speak out? If you were to go to your bank manager to ask for a loan to fund the Aracibo telescope, what reasons would you give for the money? If you were selling shares in Arecibo, what marketing slogans could you use? Would an "Adopt an astronomy project" scheme work? (That last one is actually a damn good idea.) Who benefits from the telescope? Why can't they pay? I understand many USA citizens have a 'small government, low tax' philosophy. How can such-minded people be made to believe this funding is a worthwhile government investment? Some people think this is tax money being spent pacifying UFO conspiracy theorists - how can you show it is not? Arecibo is so closely linked to SETI that this looks to some like tax money being used to very inefficiently look for little green men, money that could be spent on climate change, looking for habitable exoplanets, funding ISS research projects - why shouldn't it? Why would this be money well spent? If there is a funding crisis, do some of those questions help? |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Why might this WU have failed for me?
(Message 877519)
Posted 20 Mar 2009 by SandJ
Post: BOINC FAQ for error -1Thank you for the link. I do have the latest drivers for my (oldish) NVidia card and the most recent DirectX. DXDiag is happy with my video drivers. "But the only sure workaround in case the project does have graphics is not to look at the graphics or to use the screen saver." :( Oh, well. Thank you for the reply. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Why might this WU have failed for me?
(Message 877389)
Posted 20 Mar 2009 by SandJ
Post: I had a work unit fail (after 8½ days of processing time) which someone else has since finished successfully. (So zero credits to me.) What sort of thing may cause such a failure? Is it worth me risking processing other workunits of this type / from SETI@Home? Workunit: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=417840361 My result: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1170821952 This is on a PC that is not overclocked, with Windows ME, BOINC Manager v5.4.11 (the most recent that actually still works on this PC). |
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Number crunching :
Anyone toasted thier PC/laptop because of 24/7 crunching?
(Message 877386)
Posted 20 Mar 2009 by SandJ
Post: I foolishly installed BOINC on my Sony VAIO FX201 laptop. The processor fan lasted nearly two months before it wore out and died. Sadly, that allowed the processor to cook. But it did give me the excuse to replace a 700MHz Duron with a 1400MHz Athon. |
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Questions and Answers :
Web site :
Cannot set forum preferences nor attach
(Message 238418)
Posted 27 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Do other websites have the same behaviour when posting large amounts of data? I don't know about other web sites but the WinGate clue helped in conjunction with the hints at MTU. Problem: Windows ME Home local network Using WinGate for NAT These messages in the log: Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of 500 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|No schedulers responded http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Couldn't connect to URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.Please check URL. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Detaching from project Solution: Upgraded WinGate v6.0.4 to v6.1.1 which allowed me to change the MTU from 1500 to 2500 (2500 value picked at random) Search in the WinGate help file for MTU, two hits. DHCP Configurable Options: follow the advice to allow local MTU values. Network Connections: Override interface MTU - I chose 2500 and its working for me so far. I have attached to SETI@Home and the SETI Beta. As for being able to change my forum preferences: see the .sig |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 238414)
Posted 27 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Problem: Windows ME Home local network Using WinGate for NAT These messages in the log: Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of 500 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|No schedulers responded http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Couldn't connect to URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.Please check URL. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Detaching from project Solution: Upgraded WinGate v6.0.4 to v6.1.1 which allowed me to change the MTU from 1500 to 2500 (2500 value picked at random) Search in the WinGate help file for MTU, two hits. DHCP Configurable Options: follow the advice to allow local MTU values. Network Connections: Override interface MTU - I chose 2500 and its working for me so far. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 238409)
Posted 27 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Hi SandJ, Ooh, that was helpful. Thank you for taking the trouble to find that for me. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\VxD\\MSTCP PMTUBlackHoleDetect from 0 to 1 PMTUDiscovery left at 1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Class\\NetTrans\\0001 MaxMTU from 1500 to 1472 to 1500 to 548 to 8548 to 2548. I tried all those and although I could make it less that 1500, I could not make it more at 1500. I tried various settings down to 400 and it made no difference. Meanwhile, my troubles with the forum made someone suggest WinGate might be the problem: it was. Solution follows ... |
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Web site :
Cannot set forum preferences nor attach
(Message 238151)
Posted 27 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Do you connect through some kind of firewall or restrictive proxy? I am on a home network using WinGate for NAT. The PCs are running Windows ME. My internet connection is ADSL via a Thomson Speedtouch 330 modem thingie. I am not running a software firewall that I am aware of. I do not know what is meant by "restrictive proxy" - I have done a quick Google search and I'm pretty sure there isn't one of those involved. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237911)
Posted 26 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Incidentally, I am on a local network. Does this help: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC>ping -f -l 1492 server Pinging Server [192.168.253.201] with 1492 bytes of data: Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set. Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set. Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set. Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set. Ping statistics for 192.168.253.201: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms C:\\Program Files\\BOINC>ping -f -l 1454 server Pinging Server [192.168.253.201] with 1454 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.253.201: bytes=1454 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.253.201: bytes=1454 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.253.201: bytes=1454 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 192.168.253.201: bytes=1454 time<10ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for 192.168.253.201: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237897)
Posted 26 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Incidentally, C:\\Program Files\\BOINC>tracert setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to galileo.ssl.berkeley.edu [128.32.18.173] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 * * * Request timed out. 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 * * * Request timed out. 4 * *^C C:\\Program Files\\BOINC>tracert setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu Tracing route to setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu [128.32.18.151] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 * * * Request timed out. 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 * * * Request timed out. 4 * * * Request timed out. 5^C C:\\Program Files\\BOINC> |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237893)
Posted 26 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Incidentally, >ping localhost Pinging simon.sandj [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms C:\\Program Files\\BOINC>ping setiathome.berkeley.edu Pinging setiathome.SSL.berkeley.edu [128.32.18.152] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 128.32.18.152: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237884)
Posted 26 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Have you read Wander's posting? It looks to me that you have the same problem (that Status 500 error) as he had ... That directs me to a M$ site that talks about changing the MTU but it "APPLIES TO • Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition • Microsoft Windows XP Professional" and I'm running Windows ME. Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\tcpip\\parameters does not exist. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237713)
Posted 26 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: More information: a full log of all the messages from starting Boinc Manager. I used the Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs to 'fix the installation' of BOINC. On restarting Boinc Manager and trying to attach to SETI@Home: 26/01/2006 08:18:58||Starting BOINC client version 5.2.13 for windows_intelx86 26/01/2006 08:18:58||libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3 26/01/2006 08:18:58||Data directory: C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\BOINC 26/01/2006 08:18:58||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz 26/01/2006 08:18:58||Memory: 254.95 MB physical, 1.75 GB virtual 26/01/2006 08:18:58||Disk: 38.28 GB total, 2.29 GB free 26/01/2006 08:18:58|Einstein@Home|Computer ID: 495152; location: home; project prefs: default 26/01/2006 08:18:58|LHC@home|Computer ID: 92481; location: home; project prefs: default 26/01/2006 08:18:58||General prefs: from LHC@home (last modified 2006-01-18 23:24:14) 26/01/2006 08:18:58||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 26/01/2006 08:18:59||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address 26/01/2006 08:18:59|Einstein@Home|Resuming computation for result r1_1216.5__1501_S4R2a_2 using albert version 437 26/01/2006 08:19:41||Fetching config info from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php 26/01/2006 08:20:19|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Master file download succeeded 26/01/2006 08:20:19|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi 26/01/2006 08:20:19|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Reason: Requested by user 26/01/2006 08:20:19|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work 26/01/2006 08:23:02|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of 500 26/01/2006 08:23:02|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|No schedulers responded 26/01/2006 08:23:02|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Couldn't connect to URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.Please check URL. 26/01/2006 08:23:02|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Resetting project 26/01/2006 08:23:02||request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks 26/01/2006 08:23:02|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Detaching from project Einstein @ home is running ok. I have set LHC@Home to not download work. Has anybody got any ideas what else I can try? |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237547)
Posted 25 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: More information: In C:\\Program Files\\BOINC these files get created: sched_request_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml master_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml sched_reply_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml where the last one is zero bytes. |
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Web site :
Cannot set forum preferences nor attach
(Message 237543)
Posted 25 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: I have discovered that when posting to the forum from home, I can do so provided the message is no more than about 1K. I tried a 2048 character message, click on 'post' and nothing happens. 1500 chars fails, 1000 chars succeeded and 1024 chars succeeded. The same is true when I edit a post. Why might that be? I know that from work I can post very long messages. And could it be related to why I cannot attach to SETI projects? And I can set my forum preferences from my work PC but not my home PC. Again, it just sits there doing nothing when I try to post the changes back. |
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Web site :
Cannot set forum preferences nor attach
(Message 237538)
Posted 25 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Sorry about this ... this messge was me trying to diagnose why I am having so much trouble posting to the forum. |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237386)
Posted 25 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Well... They are the most common answers I've seen posted here that are relevant to the problems you've been having, I'm just sorry I couldn't have been any more help. If I think of anything else, I'll get it on here as soon as. Thank you for your help. Extra info: I am on ADSL using a Demon account and a Thomson Speedtouch 330 modem. (There must be thousands of UK ASDL connected PCs using SpeedTouch 330s.) I am on a home network using WinGate for NAT (and have been for some years without trouble). More clues: Test Services Preparation: ------------------------------ scheduler galileo Running feeder galileo Running Test A: do everything properly ------------------------------ Attach to project Project URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Use existing account: lister@sandj.demon.co.uk Password: <correct p/w> result: "Communicating with project" for a minute or so then "Failed to attach to project" and was detached automatically. Test B: invalid server ------------------------------ Attach to project Project URL: http://WIBBLEathome.berkeley.edu/ result: "Project not found" conclusion: [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/] WAS found in test A. Test C: invalid account ------------------------------ Attach to project Project URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Use existing account: WIBBLE@sandj.demon.co.uk Password: <sometext> result: "Account not found" conclusion: account lister@sandj.demon.co.uk WAS found in test A. Test D: invalid password ------------------------------ Attach to project Project URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Use existing account: lister@sandj.demon.co.uk Password: <WRONG p/w> result: "Account not found" conclusion 1: it is not possible to differenciate between an invalid account name error and an invalid password error. Unhelpful, but good security. conclusion 2: account lister@sandj.demon.co.uk WAS found in test A and with the correct password. Test E: pretend it's a new account ------------------------------ Attach to project Project URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Create new account: lister@sandj.demon.co.uk Password: <correct p/w> result: "Communicating with project" for a minute or so then "Failed to attach to project" and was detached automatically. conclusion: Something is not managing to fetch/read/process the account details. Test F: create a new account ------------------------------ Attach to project Project URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Create new account: bored@sandj.demon.co.uk Password: <some p/w> result: "Communicating with project" for a minute or so then "Failed to attach to project" and was detached automatically. conclusion: Something is not managing to fetch/read/process the account details. Test Services Doublecheck: ------------------------------ scheduler galileo Running feeder galileo Running The bit that is so niggly is the entry in the messages: 24/01/2006 23:22:01|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Detaching from project which means I have to reattach rather than it keeping trying. [The above is the text I had to upload to my web site because I could not post it to the forum from home. Now trying to post this long message from work to see if I can...] |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237347)
Posted 25 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: long reply ... Hah! There's a limit to the message length I can post. Please go here: http://www.sandj.demon.co.uk/seti.html to see the description of the problem I'm having attaching to the project. (Gosh, there's a maximum message length for the forum. What is it?) |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237345)
Posted 25 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Curiosity. I've been trying to post a long reply and failing. Can I post a short reply? That's interesting ... now I'll try a long reply (after this message)... |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Unable to attach for 4 weeks
(Message 237344)
Posted 25 Jan 2006 by SandJ
Post: Well... They are the most common answers I've seen posted here that are relevant to the problems you've been having, I'm just sorry I couldn't have been any more help. If I think of anything else, I'll get it on here as soon as. Curiosity. I've been trying to post a long reply and failing. Can I post a short reply? |
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