SETI@home News Vol. 116 (19/09/2010)

Berserker · 28 Sep 2010 at 17:19

The outage messages are hard-coded. If it's Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, they appear. If it isn't, they don't. Obviously they had more important things to do than turn them off.

Area 51 · 28 Sep 2010 at 17:24

The message I was alluding to was from Jeff Cobb:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=61554

...and if you check the status now, things are warming up. Once the system is back and alive, don't expect to go down for the regular outage 'till next Tuesday

TheTross · 28 Sep 2010 at 17:56

That's good news! Sorry for the confusion, was obviously too hasty

Area 51 · 28 Sep 2010 at 18:00

TheTross said:
That's good news! Sorry for the confusion, was obviously too hasty

In fairness, the message wasn't up for that long before everything vanished!

Area 51 · 28 Sep 2010 at 18:22

ooohhh - 100% refund on my PSU RMA :cool:

edgedemon · 28 Sep 2010 at 20:05

Result - nice one, thats good news

Area 51 · 28 Sep 2010 at 20:38

edgedemon said:
Result - nice one, thats good news

Still slightly out of pocket, the return postage was a tenner - musn't grumble though. Just need to chase Corsair now on th H50.... :rolleyes:

ToxicTBag · 28 Sep 2010 at 21:18

Knit one...pearl one...knit one...

Nice result on the rma Mr Area 51 best of luck with corsir they seem ok compared to most. Don't mind me the seti suspense was killing me so i've taken up...

Pearl one...knit one...

Area 51 · 28 Sep 2010 at 22:02

ToxicTBag said:
Knit one...pearl one...knit one...

Nice result on the rma Mr Area 51 best of luck with corsir they seem ok compared to most. Don't mind me the seti suspense was killing me so i've taken up...

Pearl one...knit one...

I hear crocheting is much more intellectually challenging........

Berserker · 28 Sep 2010 at 22:30

You could always take up painting. Watching it dry might be less frustrating!

ToxicTBag · 28 Sep 2010 at 22:37

Well my attention span is shot for today, i will leave it on nnt and hope completed work has uploaded by morning. I have the perfect distraction now....am looking after 3 ferrets for 2 weeks, was never too keen on them but a favour is a favour, the pooch seems to like em, he's taken to carrying them around in his mouth :eek:

TheTross · 28 Sep 2010 at 22:50

The pooch may like carrying them in his mouth, but do they like being carried in pooch's mouth? :eek:

Biffa · 29 Sep 2010 at 00:16

Arent you supposed to keep em in your trousers?

ToxicTBag · 29 Sep 2010 at 11:29

You will have me wearing a flat cap and racing whippetts next!!

TheTross · 29 Sep 2010 at 12:47

ToxicTBag said:
You will have me wearing a flat cap and racing whippetts next!!

Aye, bluddy 'ell! Them whippets'r reet grand fer racin' alreet! An' ferrets deawn yer pants is definitely t'way t'go lad.

In other news, I'm just off to get me cup of tea and then cross me fingers that I can get hold of some SETI work for me idle graphics card... actually, before I do that, what's the current play with VLARs being sent to the GPU?

ToxicTBag · 29 Sep 2010 at 12:55

Supposedly its all sorted vlar wise, i have noticed a few getting through but nowhere near the quantity of the past. Fred's rescheduler works a treat i must admit

edgedemon · 29 Sep 2010 at 12:58

Looks like the forum is back up over at borkley, hopefully not to long before the upload chaos begins

ToxicTBag · 29 Sep 2010 at 13:05

Would be nice wouldn't it upload - detach - ditch ghosts - re attach, had my fingers crossed for 48hours now

Area 51 · 29 Sep 2010 at 14:47

TheTross said:
Aye, bluddy 'ell! Them whippets'r reet grand fer racin' alreet! An' ferrets deawn yer pants is definitely t'way t'go lad.

In other news, I'm just off to get me cup of tea and then cross me fingers that I can get hold of some SETI work for me idle graphics card... actually, before I do that, what's the current play with VLARs being sent to the GPU?

.....apparently a scheduler went live that shouldn't have :rolleyes:

. I ended up with 540 GPU-bound VLARS, which is what will probably prevent a detach for me

ToxicTBag · 29 Sep 2010 at 15:20

Ah well thats me completely out of seti tasks on all 3 machines, looks like Einstein for the foreseeable future