Posts by Dr Who Fan

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1) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace.
Message 116266
Posted 7 hours ago by Dr Who Fan
FedEx founder Fred Smith, a Marine Corps veteran who revolutionized package delivery, dies at 80
2) Message boards : Projects : .Denis at Home.
Message 116259
Posted 3 days ago by Dr Who Fan
I just tried and had no problem loading website. Must have been a short outage.
3) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 116257
Posted 3 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Another scheduler instance is running for this host <---<<<

Same problem... Have seen it before and ...
This is more than likely an issue with the WCG SERVERS.
In fact it happened a little more than 1 month ago Posted: 16 May 2025, 15:16:27 UTC

All you can do is wait for Krembil to fix it on their end.
4) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe
Message 116252
Posted 4 days ago by Dr Who Fan
All our millions (maybe it's billions?) of hours crunching for SETI did not go to waste!

SETI@home papers accepted for publication
Great news! Two papers on SETI@home will be published in The Astronomical Journal, a well-regarded scientific journal!
5) Message boards : Projects : iThena.Measurements
Message 116249
Posted 5 days ago by Dr Who Fan
No suprise....
One month has passed since the project websites were briefly active. I have not received any reply on the project X/Twitter account from the project owner.
6) Message boards : Projects : New Project dodo@home
Message 116202
Posted 16 days ago by Dr Who Fan
In reply to adrianxw's message of 6 Jun 2025:
My anti virus software/security software does not allow me to open any of the links I have tried to join the project.....

Don't waste your time trying to join. The chance it becomes a project again in the next year are probably less than 1/10 of 1% (0.001).
7) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 116195
Posted 18 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Not really a project but will post it here since it's the closest thing without creating a new topic...

Anyone know what happened to Free-DC stats aggregate website login and forum?
Not Found
The requested URL /forum.php was not found on this server.

Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at www.free-dc.org Port 443
8) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe
Message 116177
Posted 24 days ago by Dr Who Fan
Looks like SETI@home website is slumbering. Keep getting ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
9) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace.
Message 116174
Posted 27 days ago by Dr Who Fan
'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson dies at age 79
10) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe
Message 116173
Posted 27 days ago by Dr Who Fan
To me the "mysterious optical object" looks like a solar flare or filament.
11) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace.
Message 116133
Posted 20 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
George Wendt, who played beloved barfly Norm on ‘Cheers’ and found another home onstage, dies at 76
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : Project urls change on occasion: can BOINC update it's all_projects_list.xml
Message 116123
Posted 18 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
After 20+ years since the program inception, I think this should be an automated process that BOINC updates the all_projects_list.xml to add/remove/update project url's without user intervention and without shutting down, updating & reinstalling the whole thing.

BOINC already knows/checks if there's a new program version available to download periodically.

At least every 3 months or preferably a monthly check for outdated project links can't be that hard to implement.
13) Message boards : Projects : .Denis at Home.
Message 116104
Posted 15 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
Beta work units now loaded.

Now empty:

Beta of DENIS-fiber:
Unsent 0
In progress: 54299
14) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 116097
Posted 13 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
NFS - Number Fields System website & BOINC services have been mostly down/unreachable for slightly over 24 hours...
Probably due to the spamming mentioned in a News posting yesterday.
15) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe
Message 116083
Posted 11 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
Here in the Fort Worth, Texas area we are possibly expecting 104°F/40°C for Wednesday and the "normal" average high is 83F/28.33C.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/fort-worth/76102/daily-weather-forecast/351196

I wonder what our summer high temperatures will be like if this keeps up.
16) Message boards : BOINC client : Change of deadline.
Message 116073
Posted 11 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
Dave, I don't think anyone has requested this option so... why don't you create a new ticket on the BOINC git repository?
17) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 116058
Posted 6 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
Website is back up
18) Message boards : Projects : iThena.Measurements
Message 116047
Posted 3 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
Surprised to see website and project tasks for both
iThena.Measurement & iThena.Computational
active.
19) Message boards : Projects : iThena.Measurements
Message 116043
Posted 3 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
Might as well try guessing what the magic number between one and a million is.

I've tried way to many times to get in contact with someone from the project in last year or two on X/Twitter and via the project websites with no success.
20) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 116039
Posted 2 May 2025 by Dr Who Fan
Today's Inspirational Quote:
"A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument."

~ Author Unknown
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