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Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 888 |
Web site is back. Not the schedulers or servers. Schedulers are UP! |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5123 |
Send it over to blighty, we can then have a good moan about the wrong type of snow on the tracks.About 5 inches on my yard in the last 24 hours, judging by what had arrived since I shovelled it yesterday. And as soon as I finish today's clearance, it starts filling up again. |
Send message Joined: 25 May 09 Posts: 1296 |
Aren't you the "lucky" one.... |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5123 |
Aren't you the "lucky" one....Actually, it can be quite fun once in a while. I have a low wall separating the yard from an open field: plenty of space for disposing of the fallout. If you catch it while it's fresh, soft and fluffy, over the wall it goes with the minimum of fuss. Even better if you can time it for the sunshine between the snow showers... |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 14 Posts: 656 |
I particularly like the way it sighs as it lands on my eyelashes. Compacting it into a snowball feels like vandalism, it's soooooooooo supersoft so I haven't. Nor have I shovelled any. I'll probably think I should have done at some point during a slide down the path into the gate in the morning or whenever. Not for myself as it'll make a nice difference to colliding with it from the other side when the catch doesn't entirely release, but for anyone else without a penchant for slipping about in a largely upright-ish fashion, more-or-less edit: it would seem I forgot the end of the sentence. It'll be down there if you're looking for it ...I probably should. |
Send message Joined: 30 Dec 05 Posts: 469 |
Aren't you the "lucky" one....Actually, it can be quite fun once in a while. I have a low wall separating the yard from an open field: plenty of space for disposing of the fallout. If you catch it while it's fresh, soft and fluffy, over the wall it goes with the minimum of fuss. Even better if you can time it for the sunshine between the snow showers... Not as bad as 1963, couldn't get to the Poly, Bradford district was gripped by weather in March 1963 |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5123 |
I remember that one. I wasn't in Bradford then: we lived in Manchester at the time, but I was staying with my grandparents when it started. They'd retired to a Cotswold village, and I can still see one of the access roads: a sunken road, flanked by high hedges, completely filled with a U-shaped showdrift with a single-track trampled line of footprints along the middle.Not as bad as 1963, couldn't get to the Poly, Bradford district was gripped by weather in March 1963Aren't you the "lucky" one....Actually, it can be quite fun once in a while. I have a low wall separating the yard from an open field: plenty of space for disposing of the fallout. If you catch it while it's fresh, soft and fluffy, over the wall it goes with the minimum of fuss. Even better if you can time it for the sunshine between the snow showers... |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15550 |
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Send message Joined: 12 Dec 17 Posts: 70 |
The dreary outrage has begin once again. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5123 |
The dreary outrage has begin once again.And unusually, this time they've disabled the upload and download servers as well. Maybe they have hardware to fix, maybe they have backlogs to clear. |
Send message Joined: 21 Nov 13 Posts: 641 |
Good morning everyone. :-) Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos Pluto is still a planet |
Send message Joined: 8 Mar 16 Posts: 177 |
The end is nigh? Uh-oh :( |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 14 Posts: 220 |
I raised a couple of baby turtles from birth, and once they got big enough, they were chowing down on cherry tomatoes just like in your avatar picture. :~) The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Send message Joined: 26 Feb 07 Posts: 71 |
Hi, I have only recently (2 months), restarted running SETI. What is the usual duration of the weekly outage ? It seems to last a lot longer than I remember from a few years ago. What is the usual start time and end time in UTC ? I know that some of the staff have moved on to other things, so I presume that is part of the reason for the longer outages. Sorry if this is a FAQ , but I couldn't find a list of FAQs on the SETI site about it. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5123 |
The usual starting time is a few minutes after 13:00 UTC each Tuesday. For the next couple of weeks, it is likely to be 12:00+ UTC because of Daylight Saving Time in the USA, before reverting to 13:00+ BST a couple of weeks later. Very rarely, the day is switched to Wednesday because of public holidays or other events. These times are not guaranteed, and variations are not usually signalled in advance - they depend on who is available and what needs to be done on the day. You are right that it takes longer than you remember, because the size of the things to be maintained - the databases - has grown much larger. We are routinely processing 120,000 tasks per hour (approaching 3 million a day) - we used to do maybe a third of that number. All thanks to returning volunteers like you, new recruits, more available work from Breakthrough Listen, and more powerful consumer hardware. Maintenance usually lasts at least 10 hours (start looking for signs of life around 23:00), but can take longer as the server hardware wears out and components (especially hard disk drives) need to be replaced. |
Send message Joined: 11 Apr 17 Posts: 3 |
I see that the guys are doing it a bit different this week. Looks like pretty much everything is disabled, including the upload server. Wonder if they are trying to catch up on delete and purge stuff? We'll see if it is another long outage. Hope not! Bruce |
Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1487 |
The dreary outrage has begin once again.And unusually, this time they've disabled the upload and download servers as well. Maybe they have hardware to fix, maybe they have backlogs to clear. Yep |
Send message Joined: 26 Feb 07 Posts: 71 |
The usual starting time is a few minutes after 13:00 UTC each Tuesday. For the next couple of weeks, it is likely to be 12:00+ UTC because of Daylight Saving Time in the USA, before reverting to 13:00+ BST a couple of weeks later. Very rarely, the day is switched to Wednesday because of public holidays or other events. These times are not guaranteed, and variations are not usually signalled in advance - they depend on who is available and what needs to be done on the day. Thanks, Richard. I am planning to wipe and reset one of my recently added Android hosts, as it has developed sound problems. Sounds are about 15% of what they should be using the built in speakers, but sound is ok via headphones. I'm not sure if it is a hardware or software issue. I set it to N N T a few days ago, final task before wiping is in the mid 90s % Hopefully the project will be back late tonight UK time. I have a few other things to back up before wiping, so I will probably do it tomorrow. |
Send message Joined: 26 Feb 07 Posts: 71 |
Even the S S P is Down now, my task completed OK, just waiting for that to upload and report before I clean everything off my tablet before I reset it. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 14 Posts: 656 |
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