Posts by Dave Cummings

1) Message boards : News : SETI@home hibernation (Message 2035179)
Posted 2 Mar 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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No way come on
2) Message boards : Number crunching : One of my machines won't get tasks (Message 2035016)
Posted 2 Mar 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Hi all. One of my raspberry pis won't grab and tasks I don't believe it ever has had any, can anyone steer me to the reason why?
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8897004
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Strange reporting (Message 2032665)
Posted 16 Feb 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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My pc here https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8894800 is running through tasks and getting credit. However within 15-60 minutes of completing the tasks and them being valid they are disappearing from the went page. This only used to happen on a Tuesday but now appears to be pretty much instant. Any ideas why
4) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Astrobiology course on couresa (Message 2032108)
Posted 12 Feb 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Hi all,
I just signed up for a course on couresa from Edinburgh University called Introduction to Astrobiology.
Itseems interesting thus far.

Here is the link if anyone it interested
https://www.coursera.org/learn/astrobiology
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Help with what this means (Message 2032106)
Posted 12 Feb 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Sadly I can't see what happened to that workunit as it's been removed. Wish there was a way of logging all the tasks my machines do and store the info for me
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Help with what this means (Message 2029652)
Posted 28 Jan 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Thats great thanks. What happens if that doesn't match?
7) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hi everyone. Again (Message 2029631)
Posted 28 Jan 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Yep it does but it makes us so much stronger. I'm now training for as a young person councillor to try and help anyone that's struggling. That includes anyone here. I'm always available
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Help with what this means (Message 2029630)
Posted 28 Jan 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Can someone please advise what this result means it's confused me.
Thnks
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=3854181926
9) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Hi everyone. Again (Message 2029577)
Posted 27 Jan 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Hello all, some may remember me from years ago when I used to be on here quite often. However due to personal issues aka getting married and children... I left for a while.
What's happened during that time? Well two mental breakdowns and yes two attempts at suicide thankfully unsuccessful.
I have found my real birth family (I'm adopted)
I have two step kids and my own brat.
I have two dog's, one of which likes to piddle. A lot. She's tiny so. How she has so much piddle I don't know...
Anyway got a rpi running seti, an old netbool and my mobile
Phone. I do have my laptop on here but I'm gunna retire that soon, the same with my android tablet.
So basically hello again!
10) Message boards : Number crunching : My Internet modem plus an over excited puppy (Message 2029439)
Posted 26 Jan 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Well back online now but very few tasks
11) Message boards : Number crunching : My Internet modem plus an over excited puppy (Message 2028829)
Posted 23 Jan 2020 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Well I have my raspberry pi running running seti now. Its my former flight radar tracker which has been retired in favour of a lower spec rpi and dedicating this pi to seti.
However. Thanks to my puppy, a little accident which resulted in the Internet modem going bang its not meen in touch since early this week. New modem has arrived and will be installed soon
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Astropulse (Message 1918037)
Posted 10 Feb 2018 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Hi all,
I have been away for a while and just returned. Can I ask why we appear to have a lack of astropulse work units?
Regards
David
www.planespotterslog.co.uk
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Downloads failing (Message 1735907)
Posted 21 Oct 2015 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Well it's working now. I ended up reinstalling windows as when I was messing with setting the had started the click of death. So I replaced it.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Downloads failing (Message 1735871)
Posted 21 Oct 2015 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Now it's telling me I have reached my daily quota of 1 tasks
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Downloads failing (Message 1735870)
Posted 21 Oct 2015 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Hi all
On a new setup on a laptop and the machine is failing to download work. It attaches to the project appears to grab tasks and goes to "download failed" for every task.
Any ideas?
16) Message boards : Cafe SETI : David is back! (Message 1490070)
Posted 17 Mar 2014 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Hi all,
Well it's been a whole while since I was last active on seti. Well about 3.5 years.
Some of you may remember the problems I had my fiancee at the time left me in a whole load of debt I had a bad car accident and slipped into a period of quite bad depression with which I tried to commit suicide twice.
So what's changed? Um er everything? I am now married and have a baby on the way. (Well my wife has a baby on the way) I have had a few promotions in work and I am getting hold of the depression.
I have started a website www.b787register.com that details all of the Boeing Dreamliners built and incidents etc.
I have come back to seti at home as I have an older network sat under my desk in work doing naff all so I started it crunching late last week. I have also got a raspberry pi running seti but each task is taking about a week! Every little helps though eh?
Just thought I would pop my head in and say hi.
17) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Im back! (Message 1148613)
Posted 3 Sep 2011 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Hello all,
After some time away from the project due to illness (not being at home and looking after the PC's) I am finally back to crunching data.

Been away for a few reasons, mainly due to falling and hurting my knee, and being able to do anything much!

How is everyone>?
18) Message boards : Cafe SETI : advice needed re accident yesterday morning (Message 1096756)
Posted 13 Apr 2011 by Profile Dave Cummings
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I not going to go ringing around, the Police only took a witness statement and by the fact the driver in the mercedes ended up across one lane of traffic, over a foot (approx) foot wide path then 20ft up a grass bank, and about 50ft along it if not more, suggests to myself that he was at least speeding. I'm not normally effected by these things but this has shook me up a great deal, to the point my boss doesnt want me back in work for a coupld of days.
19) Message boards : Cafe SETI : advice needed re accident yesterday morning (Message 1096750)
Posted 13 Apr 2011 by Profile Dave Cummings
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Hi,
I was involved in a accident yesterday. I was travelling down a three laned road in Liverpool UK, in the middle lane, I was coming up to some lights approx 0.1 miles away at little over 30mph, when I noted this I slowed to below 30mph, I came off the throttle and put my foot on the brake pedal to prepare / start to slow the car down, dropped from 5th to 4th. A car behind me also started to brake, but the another car behind him swerved to avoid hitting the car behind me, cross the clear lane, and mounted the Kerb and seriously hurt two pedestrians. Myself and the KA were all in the middle lane I didnt see where the Mercedes came from.

Whats the likely out come of this? I and the Police noted that the man driving the car that mounted the pavement had a external cage fitted around his lower left leg.

Im worried sick for the young man involved, and in case its deemed I have braked too early etc and caused this horrific incident.

The Ford car in the middle (the one the Mercedes tried to avoid) didn't stick around and drove off.

any advice taken.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Timings all out of whack (Message 1085313)
Posted 9 Mar 2011 by Profile Dave Cummings
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yeah I have the same, its all on one machine though - http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5830000

they do seem to be adjusting, I might just leave the on over the weekend to see if it levels out.

I dont know if the fact I upgraded to Windows 7 (64bit) recently helps at all?


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