Posts by Rev. Tim Olivera

1) Message boards : Number crunching : I don't get it?? (Message 959240) Posted 29 Dec 2009 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: I have been running setiathome for my god like 9 - 10 years now. And in all those year with out fail on a long week end I get "NO RUNNING TASKS" or "UNABLE TO DOWNLOAD TASK" or some other thing is wrong!! So for 3 or more days the systems I build just to run Setiathome are sucking electricity and sping the good old hard drive doing nothing, "I DON'T GET IT" is the equipment at Berkeley so unreadable it brakes down with no one there for longer then two days?? I thought the reason for spending a godzillin dollars on Sun equipment was because it is readable and dose not need some one watching it 24/7/265!! Am I wrong in that thought?? Rev. Tim Olivera P.S. No Running Tasks Again ;-(
2) Message boards : Technical News : Good Problems (Aug 10 2009) (Message 926572) Posted 16 Aug 2009 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: You guys only hear from me when I think something is worng :) so why have my computer said "Boinc is currently IDLE" for the last 4 days?? Somethinbg wrong? Rev. Tim Olivera
3) Message boards : Number crunching : AK V8 ported release ap. issues, install, questions etc. (Message 905482) Posted 9 Jun 2009 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: OK only one thing to say; "BOINC is currently idle" for the last 48hr on both computers??
4) Message boards : Number crunching : 6.2.18 (Message 800160) Posted 20 Aug 2008 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: I just installed the new BOINC 6.2.18 and the graphice that the old BOINC did when it was working is gone!!! The only thing on the screen when it's doing anything is "Computing for@home Task:23mrac bla bla 28%" I would really like the graphic back!! I have looked and looked but I can not find where to turn it back on!! Any one have an idea?? Rev. Tim Olivera
5) Message boards : Technical News : Ups and Downs (Aug 05 2008) (Message 793789) Posted 6 Aug 2008 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: Simple question, why has my BOINC gone from SETI@home to ASTRO PULSE?? I didn't sign on to any ASTRO PULSE... Tim Olivera
6) Message boards : Number crunching : A User has issues with BOINC 5.10.x (Message 697043) Posted 3 Jan 2008 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: True as the sun will come up tomorrow morning, you guys never let me down!! 1/3/2008 1:09:39 PM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks 1/3/2008 1:09:44 PM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 1/3/2008 1:10:07 PM\|\|Benchmark results: 1/3/2008 1:10:07 PM\|\| Number of CPUs: 2 1/3/2008 1:10:07 PM\|\| 1946 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 1/3/2008 1:10:07 PM\|\| 3032 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 1/3/2008 1:15:03 PM\|\|Suspending computation - user is active 1/3/2008 1:15:03 PM\|\|Suspending network activity - user is active 1/3/2008 1:15:11 PM\|\|Resuming network activity 1/3/2008 1:15:11 PM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 1/3/2008 1:15:16 PM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks another long week end and NO WORK " BONG IS IDLE" for two days now "BONG IS IDLE" thanks guys 4th year in a row every long week in of the year "BONC IS IDLE" god forbid that you supply work 24/7/365 why what would we do?? Yes I'm being a smart ass AGAIN! and will be every time my computer goes for longer then 48hr with no work.. You ask for more and more help when you can't supply the help you have with the work you have!! So when my computer's yes theirs and S on the end of that word are IDLE I will come here and I will be a smart ass.. Thats my job, your job is to not see me do my job!! Rev. Tim Olivera
7) Message boards : Technical News : Holiday Checkup (Dec 23 2007) (Message 694158) Posted 24 Dec 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: True to from just like on every long holiday no work! But the thing that made me really laugh this time was a letter asking for more folks to help with your program!! You can't keep the folks you hve now in work so you need more folks to leave there computers on to do nothing but use power and wear out parts!!! For 3 days now BOINC is Idle!! Keep up the good work guys don't let me down for Easter ot the 3 day in Feb I love to have my computers sucking up power and wearing out parts for nothing!!! rev. Tim Olivera
8) Message boards : Technical News : Grembo Zavia (Nov 08 2007) (Message 674594) Posted 9 Nov 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: It must be friday I see not one of our systems is doing any Seti work!! You can count on, when theirs a long week end, the Seti server well be down! Bet the farm and the house on that it's a sure thing! And I'm not a betting man but I would bet that!! The funny thing is I have a web server built in 1997, a dual Pentium Pro 200MHz system with 2 9Gig SCSI H/Ds' running FreeBSD 2.something that has never been off and never shut down and wroking for 3,000+ days with not one break down, but them $100,000 SUN systems with 40 Hard Drives and 10Gig of RAM you guys run, every other week end it's down?? whats up with that?? Oh well I told I would bitch if I came in and found our systems on and doing nothing so theirs my bitch. Rev. Tim Olivera As noted yesterday in my tech news item we had some database plans this morning. First a brief SETI@home project outage to clean up some logs. That was quick and harmless. We then kept the assimilators offline so we could add signal table indexes on the science database. Jeff's continuing work on developing/optimizing the signal candidate "nitpicker" - short for "near time persistency checker" i.e. the thing that continually looks for persistent, and therefore interesting, signals in our reduced data. The new indexes will be a great help. Of course, there were other things afoot to make the above a little more complicated. The science replica database server hung up again this morning. We found this was due to the automounter losing some important directories. Why the hell does this happen? The mounts time out naturally, but the automounter fails to remount them next time they are needed. Seems like a major linux bug to me, as it's happening on all our systems to some extent. I adjusted the automounter timeouts from 5 minutes to 30 days. Doing so already helped on one other test system. Meanwhile, back on the farm... we're sending out some junky data that overflows quickly so that's been swamping our servers with twice the usual load. Annoying, but we'll just let nature take its course and get through the bad spots. This has the positive by product of giving us a heavy-load test to see how our servers currently perform under increased strain... except with the simultaneous aforementioned index build the extra splitter activity was gumming everything up. We have the splitters offline as I write this. Hopefully we'll be able to get them back online before we run out of work. If not, then so be it. - Matt
9) Message boards : Technical News : Weirder (Sep 06 2007) (Message 635309) Posted 7 Sep 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: I said I was going to keep bitching as long as BOINC was not doing anything!! Over the last 9 days BOINC has been able to long on the SITE server once to get work, my systems are Intel duan 3.6GIG systems with 2GIG of RAM so it takes them about 12 hours to crunch a downloads worth of work.. They have not been able to log back on the server and get any more work! What follows is the message: 9/7/2007 8:30:34 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 9/7/2007 8:30:34 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: no work from project 9/7/2007 8:31:34 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 9/7/2007 8:31:34 AM\|SETI@home\|Requesting 44928 seconds of new work 9/7/2007 8:31:39 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/7/2007 8:31:39 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 9/7/2007 8:31:39 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: no work from project 9/7/2007 8:32:39 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 9/7/2007 8:32:39 AM\|SETI@home\|Requesting 44928 seconds of new work 9/7/2007 8:32:44 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/7/2007 8:32:44 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 1 min 2 sec 9/7/2007 8:32:44 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: no work from project 9/7/2007 8:33:49 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 9/7/2007 8:33:49 AM\|SETI@home\|Requesting 44928 seconds of new work 9/7/2007 8:33:54 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/7/2007 8:33:54 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 3 min 23 sec 9/7/2007 8:33:54 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: no work from project 9/7/2007 8:37:19 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 9/7/2007 8:37:19 AM\|SETI@home\|Requesting 44928 seconds of new work 9/7/2007 8:37:24 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/7/2007 8:37:24 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 12 min 26 sec 9/7/2007 8:37:24 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: no work from project 9/7/2007 8:46:59 AM\|\|Suspending computation - user is active Anyone else not getting anything from the SITE server?? Are we just wasting are time leaving our systems running?? Tim Olivera
10) Message boards : Technical News : Into the Long Weekend (Aug 31 2007) (Message 633362) Posted 4 Sep 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: Thu no work, Fri no work, Sat no work, Sun no work, Mon at 0900 it download some work, When we went home the computer was crunching! When we came in Tus morning no work. So we uninstalled BOINC and removed all trace from the reg, we downloaded the newest ver and installed on a 250Gig drive. one houre later this is what we are getting. 9/4/2007 9:06:58 AM\|\|Benchmark results: 9/4/2007 9:06:58 AM\|\| Number of CPUs: 2 9/4/2007 9:06:58 AM\|\| 1853 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 9/4/2007 9:06:58 AM\|\| 2807 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 9/4/2007 9:10:40 AM\|\|Resuming computation 9/4/2007 9:10:40 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 9/4/2007 9:10:40 AM\|SETI@home\|Requesting 44928 seconds of new work 9/4/2007 9:10:45 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/4/2007 9:10:45 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 9/4/2007 9:10:45 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: no work from project 9/4/2007 9:11:45 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 9/4/2007 9:11:45 AM\|SETI@home\|Requesting 44928 seconds of new work 9/4/2007 9:11:50 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/4/2007 9:11:50 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 9/4/2007 9:11:50 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: no work from project 9/4/2007 9:12:50 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work 9/4/2007 9:12:50 AM\|SETI@home\|Requesting 44928 seconds of new work 9/4/2007 9:12:55 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/4/2007 9:12:55 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec 9/4/2007 9:12:55 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: no work from project So in the last 6 days we got maybe 10hr worth of work.. And if it sounds like i'm bitching I AM.. When folks volunteer you shouldn't have them standing around with there thumbs up there butt. An yes after 24 years in the US Army I get just a little pissed off when I see 12hr work down in 6 days... So I will continue to bitch and complain as long as a dual 3.6GIG machine is doing nothing but sucking up power. Tim Olivera http://mysite.verizon.net/moment_1/
11) Message boards : Technical News : Into the Long Weekend (Aug 31 2007) (Message 631973) Posted 2 Sep 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: Your not the only one, I have 2 system on 24/7 just to crunch but over the last week they have not been able to get work ether! So elect, hard drives and everything that wears out when you leave it on is just setting there doing nothing... I wrote about this problem the other day, it seems like any time theirs a long week end we get no work from Site to crunch.. When they should have everything running at peak and giving everyone something to do we get ZIP, notha, nutin.. At first I thought it was me or my system so I formated the drives and reinstalled everything!! 3 days later and still no work from site!! 9/2/2007 9:02:52 AM\|\|Resuming computation 9/2/2007 9:36:41 AM\|\|Suspending computation - user is active 9/2/2007 9:36:57 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 9/2/2007 9:36:57 AM\|SETI@home\|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks) 9/2/2007 9:37:02 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/2/2007 9:37:02 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 11 sec 9/2/2007 9:37:02 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: requested by project 9/2/2007 9:37:22 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 9/2/2007 9:37:22 AM\|SETI@home\|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks) 9/2/2007 9:37:27 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/2/2007 9:37:27 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 11 sec 9/2/2007 9:37:27 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: requested by project 9/2/2007 9:37:42 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 9/2/2007 9:37:42 AM\|SETI@home\|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks) 9/2/2007 9:37:47 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] 9/2/2007 9:37:47 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 11 sec 9/2/2007 9:37:47 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: requested by project is what it says.... Tim Olivera
12) Message boards : Technical News : Subversion (Aug 30 2007) (Message 630294) Posted 31 Aug 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: Here we go again! Another long week end and again NO WORK FROM SETI. So again I have 2 computers left of sucking up electric and wearing out hard drives and fans for nothing.... Hey SETI what's up with no work for my system to crunch??? Tim Olivera
13) Message boards : Technical News : Hooray? (Aug 08 2007) (Message 618429) Posted 13 Aug 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: I'm having a problem with the way things are running or not running! Over the last ( 2 ) two weeks my system has been on and ready to do work but for some reasion I get: 8/12/2007 10:53:13 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 9 min 16 sec on download of file 07ap00aa.3881.29073.704834.3.231 8/12/2007 10:53:15 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. 8/12/2007 11:02:30 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Started download of file 07ap00aa.3881.29073.704834.3.231 8/12/2007 11:02:52 PM\|\|Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 8/12/2007 11:02:52 PM\|SETI@home\|[file_xfer] Temporarily failed download of 07ap00aa.3881.29073.704834.3.231: system connect 8/12/2007 11:02:52 PM\|SETI@home\|Backing off 1 hr 48 min 55 sec on download of file 07ap00aa.3881.29073.704834.3.231 8/12/2007 11:02:54 PM\|\|Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down. So two $3,000.00 new computer system have been on and ready to do work for seti if you could keep your just running and servering that work you think we might even find something. Why in the heck should I keep running system if you can't keep a server servering that work to me?? Simple question, I have asked it before. And the way you guys run thing I will ask it agian! But if my ISP was down as much as you guys I would have been out of business year ago!! Rev. Tim Olivera
14) Message boards : Technical News : Takin' Care of Business and Workin' Overtime (May 11 2007) (Message 567096) Posted 14 May 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: It worked for about 10min on Saturday!! 5/14/2007 9:01:17 AM\|\|Starting BOINC client version 5.8.16 for windows_intelx86 5/14/2007 9:01:17 AM\|\|log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 5/14/2007 9:01:17 AM\|\|Libraries: libcurl/7.16.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3 5/14/2007 9:01:17 AM\|\|Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC 5/14/2007 9:01:17 AM\|\|Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4] [fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx] 5/14/2007 9:01:17 AM\|\|Memory: 1.50 GB physical, 3.35 GB virtual 5/14/2007 9:01:17 AM\|\|Disk: 14.65 GB total, 5.85 GB free 5/14/2007 9:01:18 AM\|SETI@home\|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 2896286; location: home; project prefs: default 5/14/2007 9:01:18 AM\|\|General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2006-01-30 10:18:19) 5/14/2007 9:01:18 AM\|\|Host location: home 5/14/2007 9:01:18 AM\|\|General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 5/14/2007 9:01:23 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 5/14/2007 9:01:23 AM\|SETI@home\|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks) 5/14/2007 9:01:28 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509] 5/14/2007 9:01:28 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 11 sec 5/14/2007 9:01:28 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: requested by project 5/14/2007 9:06:29 AM\|\|Suspending computation - user is active 5/14/2007 9:06:38 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user 5/14/2007 9:06:38 AM\|SETI@home\|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks) 5/14/2007 9:06:43 AM\|SETI@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509] 5/14/2007 9:06:43 AM\|SETI@home\|Deferring communication for 11 sec 5/14/2007 9:06:43 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: requested by project
15) Message boards : Technical News : Timing is Everything (May 09 2007) (Message 564569) Posted 10 May 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: "In case you don't know the replacement server will arrive on Friday." You have been saying that for over a week now, With Sun just down the road from you, you could have walked down there picked it up and walked back by now!! I have shut down my systems because of your "it's going to be another day" bull! If it's so important that your asking the public to help you with this program, then why in the hell did you not have a backup system incase this very thing happened?? This is not the first time you lost a server and the folks doing this work have had to set on there ass while you ran around looking for a system to take up the slack!! And the fact that any computer could run your data base and server XX amount of time files to the public means you could have had a cheap home system as a backup to server a time file so folks doing the work would not be waiting for over a week on YOU! all it really needs to do is run the data base that folks log into and get XX amount of work, heck a Max or and old Pentium 200MHz Pro could do that!! It does not have to be a $20,000 SUN system... D'oh O'pps Yup some of us are computer literate and some of us even design and build them for a living! D'oh... Your notebook could do the job, so get a computer on line and get the damn job running.. Yeah I said that.
16) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Radio Scanners (Message 502608) Posted 14 Jan 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: I have a question, I heard that Rockwell built a radio scanner that scanned from 0.0001KHz to 30GHz with no brakes. dose anyone know anything about this scanner?? Dose it actually exist?? If so dose anyone have a model number? Rev. Tim Olivera Well I asked a simple question looking for a YES or NO and a model number if the answer was YES. And look at the answers I got!! The question had nothing to do with birthdays or antennas or HAM radio catalogs. But for the folks that wanted to know the answer, it's YES and the scanners range is from 1KHz to 3GHz not 30GHz like I was told. It's no longer made and the only scanner reciever made today that comes close to it is the AOR AR5000 http://www.aorusa.com/ar5000a.html#5000ac So thanks for all the none answers that had nothing to do with the question!!! Rev. Tim Olivera http://mysite.verizon.net/moment_1/
17) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Radio Scanners (Message 499737) Posted 9 Jan 2007 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: I have a question, I heard that Rockwell built a radio scanner that scanned from 0.0001KHz to 30GHz with no brakes. dose anyone know anything about this scanner?? Dose it actually exist?? If so dose anyone have a model number? Rev. Tim Olivera
18) Questions and Answers : Windows : No work from project (Message 256776) Posted 3 Mar 2006 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: Any one eles having this problem??? 3/3/2006 7:29:28 AM\|SETI@home\|No work from project 3/3/2006 7:53:08 AM\|SETI@home\|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi 3/3/2006 7:53:08 AM\|SETI@home\|Reason: To fetch work 3/3/2006 7:53:08 AM\|SETI@home\|Requesting 1728 seconds of new work I have been getting that for the last eight days! It start as "unable to find server http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi" and now it's "No work from project" Whats up?? Are the servers down at Berkeley?? Tim
19) Questions and Answers : Windows : Boinc shuts down my Internet (Message 239822) Posted 30 Jan 2006 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: Check the settings under "your account" on the web page. One of them is this option: Disconnect when done? (matters only if you have a modem, ISDN or VPN connection) yes . As you can see mine is set to yes, but I have cable so it makes no difference to me. And I have DSL and that setting is set to NO on the web-page Tim
20) Questions and Answers : Windows : Boinc shuts down my Internet (Message 239344) Posted 29 Jan 2006 by Rev. Tim Olivera Post: Why is BOINC shuting down my internet connection?? Sometimes I have to reboot the system to get it come back on!! It's really annoying.

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