Where does one find such an interesting and now necessary addition to
his growing collection of Seti software?
Mark
Barny Swain wrote:
>
> Moral of story - Use something like SetiDriver and have a local cache of WUs
> to process...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SETI@home - Outage Update
>
> PLEASE NOTE :
>
> The following SETI@home outage report is a excerpted reposting of
> information available at the 'Team Ars Technica Lamb Chop SETI@home web site
> @ http://www.teamlambchop.com/ . Visit it regularly for interesting,
> informative and often entertaining news, reviews and analysis of most every
> matter concerning active SETI@home participants.
> --
> Jeffrey Ottie
>
> ========================================
>
> February 27, 2001
>
> How to Bring Down a Project
> All you need is 1) a construction worker, and 2) a backhoe.
>
> I am sure you are waiting for the servers to get back online to dump your
> caches, and fill them back up. The Berkeley servers have been down for the
> most part of the day...but they really haven't been down themselves. The
> servers are probably up and running fine, but they are kind of useless when
> no one can connect to them. So what happened? Well I'm not too sure
> exactly what is going on, but here is the latest found on alt.sci.seti:
>
> Well, we seem to have isolated the cause:
>
> NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS AS YET UNCONFIRMED!!!! DO NOT QUOTE!!!
>
> At about 0330 PST (GMT -0800), a contractor (possibly working for either the
> City of Berkeley or the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab or maybe even the
> University) cut a fiber bundle that connects voice and data between the UC
> Berkeley campus and LBL and other buildings at the top of the hill, such as
> the Space Sciences Lab, home of seti@home. I wish it were something more
> exciting like bombs or rebellious office computers.
>
> Based on past experiences, this will probably require a manual splice, which
> will likely take all day.
>
> So sit back, relax, hang out at the Clinic or whatever, and give your
> computer a rest.
>
> One more thing, if you're one of those people who likes to complain about
> lack of redundancy between the SETI servers and the rest of the world, be
> prepared to offer free co-location at an enterprise grade facility and/or
> provide all funding for said service as part of your "suggestion."
>
> Remember: ET isn't paying for this.
>
> :-)
>
> Michael Sinatra
> Network Services
> UC Berkeley
>
> When will things be back up? Hrmmmmmm it has been the good part of a day
> since the site has been down. I don't know. I have heard one day. But Im
> not sure how fast those guys can get things fixed. Manual repair of a
> screwed up fiber optic bundle may take some time. I hope you all have a
> good cache of work units!
>
> As you have gathered already....I can't do the stats if I can't access their
> website :/. So the next update of the stats will be dependent on when they
> get their act together over there.
>
> BTW....WTF were they doing operating a backhoe at 3:30 am????
>
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