Probably safer to stay there Mark, the way the world is going :-))

You're probably right about that. Not looking very good lately.
Glad to hear that Uli is back home safe and sound with her grranimals.

Meow.

Absolutely Mark, and as always grand to be in her company again.

Saw the pics on Seti, seems like a great time was had by one and all.

and we are back

Hit them once, hard, and they won't bother you again.

But, anyway, here is what I wuz taking about.
Phil and Dave Alvin.
Nice kids. You can see how Phil had aged since my days./

But they still can play.....
In 1986, Dave Alvin left the band to pursue a solo career, but Phil remained as a solo artist of his own.
In this cut, they get back together once again......and the fact that they are brothers is soon evident.

This cut should remove any doubts about who the Blasters are and will be.
The venue alone should convince you.
Carl Perkins, Elvis's axe man.
Willie Dixon, master of the art.

Once removed, all music of today derives itself from the blues, and the way it has been played for eons.

I do not even need to link the cut I originally referred to, not necessary.

This special tribute makes it all clear.
Sorry that some of my ignorant Setizens shall never see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R5DpH8NCR0

My vacation is over, back to managing you lot. :-)

In the past weeks without much computer(ing) I have come to a decision: due to upcoming changes in my daily life, effective immediately I'll stop crunching data for the projects. I've uninstalled BOINC, backed up my data directory and removed it from my drive, and gone by all projects I can remember and log-in on still and removed all my computers.

I will continue to do the Alpha BOINC Change Logs and may on occasion test a BOINC to see what changed that needs changed in the documention or translations, but it'll be uninstalled afterwards.

Logging in everywhere has given me the chance to store all my logins in a more secure external password manager (KeePass2).

And then you come across things like this one at World Community Grid (WCG):

Password Format Requirements:
* 6 characters minimum (alphanumeric: A-Z, a-z, 0-9)
* 32 characters maximum
* No "special" characters (!@#$%^&*_+=:;, etc...)

Okay, so you're the first project to use secure connections for everything, but then for the login you're hampering us as we're not allowed to do a difficult, not easy to hack password because we're not allowed to do 'special characters'. You can just as well drop the secure connections then. My normal password these days is 21 characters long, including several special characters. Not allowing me to use special characters is not very secure. And I don't see why it's not possible either, the password is just a string, it shouldn't have a maximum, it should be possible to fill in a whole sentence if necessary. So why projects do this, I don't know.

Ofcourse the other weird thing at WCG is that they use unique usernames. Instead of the unique email address you use at the rest of the BOINC universe, at WCG the unique identifier is your user name. No two kittens can be called Ageless at WCG.

Now, one thing I'll do this week is reinstall Windows 7 again, because of my broken right-click context menu. Now that MS stopped pushing Windows 10 onto everyone, updates should be coming in fast again. And eveyone with Windows 10 will now go curse MS because of the changes coming in the next update, be it that you'll get Cortana chucked onto you with no option to disable her, or the need for signed device drivers - else they're uninstalled. And on top of the drivers you get chucked at you, now MS can decide whether everyone needs certain programs from their store as well, and of course advertisements on the lock screen that you cannot disable anymore. Yep, good luck with Windows 10.

10 reasons you shouldn't upgrade to Windows 10.

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Glad to see ya back in the saddle, Jord.
Sorry to hear about your non-crunching decision, but I am sure you have your valid personal reasons.

Meow.

Ah, Mister Sattler. Yes, but me coming back from well-rested vacation does not mean I'm here all day to keep an eye on your antics now that you've had the boot again at Seti. So please, do keep things at peace around here.

Edit: double t, not double d.

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Ah, Mister Sattler. Yes, but me coming back from well-rested vacation does not mean I'm here all day to keep an eye on your antics now that you've had the boot again at Seti. So please, do keep things at peace around here.

Edit: double t, not double d.

I shall try, Jord.

Meow.

Good morning everyone. :-)

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Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos
Pluto is still a planet

Yes good morning and both Seti and Einstein are down. We shall survive and prosper.

And the kitties stop by to give a meow to one and all during the outage.
Of course, my outage is scheduled to last a bit longer than yours is.

Meow.

Well then. My linux laptop (Toshiba Satellite A20-S207) ended its record uptime run... again. This time, the power brick died. Made it to 1511d 20h 19m of uptime. I've ebay'ed another power brick, so I can get that started once again.

The previous uptime run was 1484d. That one ended when the UPS the laptop was plugged into died and I didn't realize it until 14 hours later when DNS queries were failing and I started investigating.

I just seem to run into issues with this laptop once it gets to around 1500 days of uptime. It's pretty odd. If that happens a third time, then I'll know for sure I'm cursed.

Do you not have any anti-virus on that machine which normally requires a reboot once a month or so.

Everybody knows that Linux is invulnerable to viruses...

The only thing that machine does is SSH, DHCP, DNS, IRC, and Murmur. I used to crunch on it absolute eons ago (so long ago, in fact, it doesn't show up in the computer list on the website anymore (and yes, I did click 'show all')) but I stopped because it ran really hot.

I just like using it for a DNS caching server, and micro-managed control over DHCP. Plus, it does IRC and voice chat, too. I could probably replace it with a Pi, to be honest.

re: security/virus risks.. Ages ago.. I used to just do everything as root, because.. well, it's MY machine, and if I want to be root, then I'm going to be root. But for these services and daemons... I made user accounts for them, and they are restricted to the appropriate home directories and can't go outside of them.

I even put a MOTD on that machine so that if someone does successfully hack into it.. the MOTD will congratulate them on their "1337 h4x0r" (elite hacker) skills, and then proceed to tell them that there is absolutely nothing of value on the machine.

Ed, Ted, and Vi.
I'd forgotten about them. Thank goodness. Not fun at all.

I'm not meaning to hijack this thread but I really hope Einstein comes back soon.

It looks like the data migration is not going as planned. The home page is showing some changes though.

The data migration might take a few days but we expect to be fully back online later this week.

Einstein Forum is back. It's REALLY different... Going to take awhile to get used to...


TL

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Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos
Pluto is still a planet

Nice, love the new look :-)

When those forums were in testing, I requested that they add who started a thread to the forum index. But that wasn't interesting. That I use it for things as not going into threads started by people I don't want to read anything from, was beyond them.

You can also see that Drupal is specifically for mobile stuff, because on a computer screen it looks crap, as you have everything in the middle, and then two big white bars left and right. I hope no one is following their example.

Of course, being a Member since: 1 January 1970 is nice and all... but really, going to your account and then changing preferences has never been made so frickin' difficult as in here.
Edit: try changing your signature... the text is white and a white background. Why can it never be that when they roll out crap like this that it's been tested to the bone?
Edit2: and you can't really do anything. Hate someone, want to put them on ignore? Not an option.
Want to rearrange the forums so all those stickies aren't at the top? Not an option.
Edit3: ....just look under the "Post new comment" section, couldn't they put that under a link to a new page? It's the "Help, how do I post crap" section. Now a three post thread becomes huge because of all the scrolling.

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