[Merged] Team Seti & distributed computing

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts

Weybridge, but that's probably saying too much, if the little oiks who have all my PCs are browsing this forum, so they know where to go for their next load.

The really dumb thing is the police didn't want to know. Because only one sensor was tripped, the alarm was "unconfirmed" so they won't attend. For anyone relying on a burglar alarm, make sure that it is upgraded so that anyone entering the building must trip at least two separate sensors, else nobody will be interested, and they just deem it to be a fault

I'm a keyholder for a friend. The monitoring company will call his house, then me if a single sensor is tripped, and if two are tripped, the police. The monitoring co seem pretty good, they send an engineer round each time a sensor trips false to see whether anything needs looking at, it has only needed me to visit twice in the last 3 years.

[Rob]

Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Well isn't there proof about the stolen computers? Well there must be, a desk that has probably a monitor etc on it with no computer? And loads of office's having this? Stupid police.

The police did come eventually, an hour later, once we had confirmed there was something suspicious i.e. broken windows, and missing computers. They just wouldn't come when they might have had a remote chance of doing something about it all, i.e. when the alarm first went off. What's the point.

Oh and by the way, to the bloke seen by the Local Authority's CCTV cameras (now those have been played back) walking past our office on the opposite side of the road, who stopped twice to look at something going on, thanks for calling the police. Not.

Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts

Oh and by the way, to the bloke seen by the Local Authority's CCTV cameras (now those have been played back) walking past our office on the opposite side of the road, who stopped twice to look at something going on, thanks for calling the police. Not.

A person who doesn't bother with other people's business. Very nice of them isn't it? What if some one was killed? Would they not ring up still? (probably not)

[Nemesis]

...erm ... sorry though I am, this is not the right thread for this ....

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Nemesis

...erm ... sorry though I am, this is not the right thread for this ....

It kinda is as these were a nice collection of SETI borged machines that were keeping the team up the rankings. Now they are not.

My PC is sitting patiently for more SETI work again. Got through the 15 I got late last week.

Both of my machines are crunching away, and are also waiting for Predictor@Home to send me the files it needs and some WU's.

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

Have a read of this http://homepage.mac.com/pauldbuck/si...eferences.html, especially the "Keep enough work on disk to last between" explanation.

Increasing your minimum and maximum cache sizes should help with problems getting WUs - BOINC will be connecting to the server less often because each time it does, it will be downloading plenty of WUs. I've configured BOINC to have a cache of between 4 and 6 days worth of work. Six SETI WUs are waiting to be processed and it's working on a Predictor WU.

If BOINC is waiting to contact the SETI server you can always nudge the process by right-clicking the SETI project in the Projects tab of BOINC and selecting "Update".

Thanks but it's no real help.It would appear the entire site is down again.Leastways the parts I'm interested in anyway.

Never mind it's not as if I'm going to shoot us up the rankings anyway.

Lets hope I can get BOINC to work on Mandrake. If I get problems, would any one help me please?

Hmm, I "run" the file in the zip I got for BOINC, and it does nothing. Now what do I do?

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Thanks but it's no real help. It would appear the entire site is down again. Leastways the parts I'm interested in anyway.

Never mind it's not as if I'm going to shoot us up the rankings anyway.

So defeatist. I dunno. Upping the cache size will work when there are WUs - BOINC will download a shed load, then if the server is down it won't matter because you'll have a full cache to going on with. The default cache size is too low - BOINC will be forever connecting to the server.

I think SETI have altered there servers and/or DNS - I had to update my links. The main site should be http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Hmm, I "run" the file in the zip I got for BOINC, and it does nothing. Now what do I do?

Did you download the Linux version? Is the zip corrupt? If all else fails you might have to build BOINC and the projects

OK, I'l let my laptop do all the work then. It has nothing else to do, so hopefully it's ok

I'l try again another time, hopefully it works.

[Maggy J]

Bah! the tarts knickers are almost down permanently.


Incog.

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Bah! the tarts knickers are almost down permanently.


Incog.

And what does that mean really? Or shouldn't I have bothered asking?

[swoop101]

It means that SETI is down for maintenance again