Posts by NightHawk
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
I'm out of here! For now, anyway.
(Message 164378)
Posted 7 Sep 2005 by  NightHawk
Post: For the last 6 years, I have enjoyed crunching through tens of thousands of SETI WU's. I have seen my computers changed from the Pentium 166 MHz with 32 MB RAM to P3 3.0 GHz with 1GB RAM. I have been glad that I can contribute to the SETI efforts in searching of ET. Although the recent changes from SETI classic to BOINC did not look like a well thought out process to me, I still the collective efforts of the SETI crunchers will someday put big headlines on all news media and proof that truly we're not alone in the universe. This will truly make hundreds thousands of CPU years worthwhile. But for now, with all of the problems UCB's having with SETI BOINC project, I think it'll be a good time for me to take a break from the project and cut down on my utility bill. I do plan on coming back to crunching more SETI WU's as soon as I find a job that pays REAL money to support my SETI "addiction." Hopefully by that time UCB will have all of the problems ironed out. See y'all later. Keep an eye out for ET and Crunch on! |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
I'm out of here! For now, anyway.
(Message 164377)
Posted 7 Sep 2005 by NightHawk
Post: For the last 6 years, I have enjoyed crunching through tens of thousands of SETI WU's. I have seen my computers changed from the Pentium 166 MHz with 32 MB RAM to P3 3.0 GHz with 1GB RAM. I have been glad that I can contribute to the SETI efforts in searching of ET. Although the recent changes from SETI classic to BOINC did not look like a well thought out process to me, I still the collective efforts of the SETI crunchers will someday put big headlines on all news media and proof that truly we're not alone in the universe. This will truly make hundreds thousands of CPU years worthwhile. But for now, with all of the problems UCB's having with SETI BOINC project, I think it'll be a good time for me to take a break from the project and cut down on my utility bill. I do plan on coming back to crunching more SETI WU's as soon as I find a job that pays REAL money to support my SETI "addiction." Hopefully by that time UCB will have all of the problems ironed out. See y'all later. Keep an eye out for ET and Crunch on! |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Quote of the .......
(Message 152739)
Posted 17 Aug 2005 by NightHawk
Post: All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 SMP. Anyone else had problems with this?
(Message 150793)
Posted 13 Aug 2005 by NightHawk
Post: I got the same problem with 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 SMP on my Intel P4 3.0GHHT box. I had to disable HT and force FC3 to boot with non-SMP kernel. I think it's some sort of race condition when initializing the kernel in SMP mode. |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Never Again
(Message 148763)
Posted 8 Aug 2005 by NightHawk
Post: I find it hard for me to shade tears for the victim of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The cause of their suffering was the Japanese imperialism and their self-proclaimed racial superiorly that started the Pacific chapter of WWII. Like the modem day Muslims who cheer and dance in the street after the 9/11 attack in the New York city, the Japanese people were celebrating and praising the “brave†Japanese soldiers who raped and murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the invasion of Nanjing in 1937. Murasaki, without 9/11, there would be no Abu Ghraib and no camp Gitmo. You are missing the whole point. Chinese were not cheering and dancing in the street when Japan got nuked because they know there were thousands of Chinese people in those two cities. They were the taken to Japan as slaves. They got turned into ashes by the atomic explosion with the Japanese civilians. I can see that you're one of the anti-war Americans who just cannot wait to blame America first. That's just fine. I respect your opinion. But in no mean will ever wish atrocity of war or holoccaust of war upon someone you love and cherish. [b]So please leave that baby in my avatar out of the discussion.[\b] Murasaki, please note that I had never said "all Japanese are guilty for the Nanjing Massacre so bombing civilians is just fine." It was you who said that. At that time during WWII, the action taken by the United States to use atomic weapons was the only mean of communication that the Japanese government and military can comprehend that Japan was wrong to invade other countries and the war needed to be stopped. So, if you would, please don’t inject your own feeling about the Iraq war into this time of memorial. I simply stated my feeling and the facts from the history. For every candle lit for the victim of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, shouldn’t be 10 more candles lit for the victims of Japanese military during WWII? Did you look at that picture I included in my previous message like every other picture you see in the news magazine or can you hear the injured child crying because a Japanese bomb aimed to kill civilian had just killed that child’s mother? |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Never Again
(Message 148643)
Posted 8 Aug 2005 by NightHawk
Post: I find it hard for me to shade tears for the victim of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The cause of their suffering was the Japanese imperialism and their self-proclaimed racial superiorly that started the Pacific chapter of WWII. Like the modem day Muslims who cheer and dance in the street after the 9/11 attack in the New York city, the Japanese people were celebrating and praising the “brave†Japanese soldiers who raped and murdered over 300,000 Chinese civilians in the invasion of Nanjing in 1937. The Japanese military officers and soldiers were competing who had chopped off most heads of Chinese civilians and had raped most women. Pregnant women had their bellies cut opened, their fetus pulled out and tossed into the air and be cut up with swords before hitting the ground. Civilians and POWs were used for bayoneting practice of the new Japanese soldiers to give them a taste of blood. Women of all ages were raped and murdered. Girls from women’s college were rounded up and taken to a hotel where they were raped and then were tossed out of the windows and fell to their death. Bodies of infants and toddlers were littering the street of Nanjing. And is only the atrocities the Japanese military had done in one Chinese city during WWII. Up to this day, the Japanese government still had not apologize for the Nanjing massacre. Furthermore, the Japanese are working on changing school textbook to erase the criminal acts and glorifying their invasion of neighboring Asian countries during WWII. Let’s jus hope the Japanese people will not be so stupid to forget the history and walking down the path of repeating it. For many of the Chinese, the dropping of atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima symbolize peace and justice. In the glowing light of every candle lit in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, I cannot help but see this image...  Never again! |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Validators not validating?
(Message 139799)
Posted 20 Jul 2005 by NightHawk
Post: Thank you guys for the update. |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Beam me up Mr Scott....for the last time.
(Message 139798)
Posted 20 Jul 2005 by NightHawk
Post: Good journey, Scotty. You will be missed. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Validators not validating?
(Message 139792)
Posted 20 Jul 2005 by NightHawk
Post: The new upload dataserver seems to be doing fine now. No more pending for upload WU's on my machines. However, the number of WU's waiting to be validated are getting close to 300K. According to the server status page, sah_validate1 through sah_validate4 are all up and running, no? Any idea? |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Happiness is...
(Message 131914)
Posted 3 Jul 2005 by NightHawk
Post: Happiness would be having a broadband connection that stays up and doesn't slow to a speed less than dial-up and drop to 0 when I'm frequenting the fora. On the thing you bumping into? |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Validator is ON
(Message 130096)
Posted 30 Jun 2005 by NightHawk
Post: Now we all can look back and laugh about this outage... until next time. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Validator is ON
(Message 130095)
Posted 30 Jun 2005 by NightHawk
Post: Good job, guys! Thanks to everyone who have worked hard to resolve the problems and those who have bitched hard to keep the waiting time entertaining. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Validators off... till when?
(Message 130094)
Posted 30 Jun 2005 by NightHawk
Post: Damn! Did I just see my stats go up? Good job, guys! Thanks to everyone who have worked hard to resolve the problems and those who have bitched hard to keep the waiting time entertaining. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Validators off... till when?
(Message 129396)
Posted 28 Jun 2005 by NightHawk
Post: SOmeone finally decided to spend a couple minutes to sit down in front of the keyboard and ytpe up something for the Technical News - June 27, 2005 - 22:00 UTC General update: There were some brief semi-outages over the weekend, all having to do with BOINC server software development. We added two fields to the hosts table that enable us to better calculate how much work to send to users (and prevent sending too much work that cannot possibly get finished before particular deadlines). Some server processes had to be recompiled/reinstalled to accommodate these new fields. Currently the validate processes are all failing. This is probably a separate issue that was noticed on Sunday and is currently being diagnosed/debugged. While not a show-stopper by any means, the validation queue will grow until this is fixed (resulting only in a delay of granting credit, not a loss in credit), and then the queue should quickly drain. In order to keep up with the growing user base and the increasing demands for work, another splitter has been added to the splitter pool: a Sun Ultra 10 called "gates." We're sure people will ask about the name so let's nip this in the bud. It our pool of PC's we had one called "gates" which slowly fell into disuse as it aged. One day a Sun Ultra 10 needed to get called into service ASAP, and instead of waiting for the powers that be to grant us a new IP address, we simply shut down that PC for good and reused its address. Not all that interesting, really. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Poor feedback (again)
(Message 129394)
Posted 28 Jun 2005 by NightHawk
Post: Finally some info about the validator outage from "Technical News" - June 27, 2005 - 22:00 UTC General update: There were some brief semi-outages over the weekend, all having to do with BOINC server software development. We added two fields to the hosts table that enable us to better calculate how much work to send to users (and prevent sending too much work that cannot possibly get finished before particular deadlines). Some server processes had to be recompiled/reinstalled to accommodate these new fields. Currently the validate processes are all failing. This is probably a separate issue that was noticed on Sunday and is currently being diagnosed/debugged. While not a show-stopper by any means, the validation queue will grow until this is fixed (resulting only in a delay of granting credit, not a loss in credit), and then the queue should quickly drain. In order to keep up with the growing user base and the increasing demands for work, another splitter has been added to the splitter pool: a Sun Ultra 10 called "gates." We're sure people will ask about the name so let's nip this in the bud. It our pool of PC's we had one called "gates" which slowly fell into disuse as it aged. One day a Sun Ultra 10 needed to get called into service ASAP, and instead of waiting for the powers that be to grant us a new IP address, we simply shut down that PC for good and reused its address. Not all that interesting, really. |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Fortune Cookies
(Message 117256)
Posted 1 Jun 2005 by NightHawk
Post: Or, beauty is in the eyes of beer holder. |
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Questions and Answers :
Web site :
What had happened to "Language Selection" page?
(Message 112848)
Posted 19 May 2005 by NightHawk
Post: It will be fixed soon (next morning in Berkeley). Thank you for your response. I'll be checking back in a couple of days. |
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Questions and Answers :
Web site :
What had happened to "Language Selection" page?
(Message 112452)
Posted 18 May 2005 by NightHawk
Post: I can no longer set the SETI/BOINC diaply language by going to the SETI/BOINC language selection page at "http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_translate.php" and click on "selecting a specific language" link. It's giving me a "missing or bad parameter: set_lang" error. Ether the PHP program "http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/language_select.php" is broken or it's linking to the wrong URL. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
What happened to the language selction (trandlation) page?
(Message 112412)
Posted 18 May 2005 by NightHawk
Post: I can no longer set the SETI/BOINC diaply language by going to the SETI/BOINC language selection page at "http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_translate.php" and click on "selecting a specific language" link. It's giving me a "missing or bad parameter: set_lang" error. Ether the PHP program "http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/language_select.php" is broken or it's linking to the wrong URL. |
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