January 7, 2025

Netowrking issues have been resolved. The data centre staff is finalizing our access.

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 21 Dec 2024:

In reply to Grant (SSSF)'s message of 17 Dec 2024:

Some issues at Rosetta- on Friday (the 13th) they set about cleaning out all of the spam from their forums.
What happened was the loss of over 8,500 user accounts, many of them still very much active crunchers. Cleaning up of the clean-up is progressing, several previously lost accounts have returned.

Well, I had an account on Rosetta, a couple of years ago. I don't remember if I ever attached any computers to it. However it seems as if that account no longer exists. "No such account"
I guess they haven't been able to restore all 8,500 user accounts.

If there are no computers attached to it and thus no points it is probably part of their target and has been deleted as a potential spam account.

Some issues at Rosetta- on Friday (the 13th) they set about cleaning out all of the spam from their forums.
What happened was the loss of over 8,500 user accounts, many of them still very much active crunchers. Cleaning up of the clean-up is progressing, several previously lost accounts have returned.

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 25 Nov 2024:

Not a word from the Dodo team, for 16 days. A very short project.....

Post on forum today saying they want to sort out some more of the errors crunchers are experiencing before releasing more work.

mvnForum Fatal Error Message : Cannot init system. Reason : Assertion in ForumUserServlet.

Edit: Forums may be down but MCM tasks still downloading on my phone.

Well here is s a BOINC project. dodo@home

We're embarking on one heck of a journey, one with a thousand steps... our ultimate aim is to bring the Dodo back from extinction. Using our unique software and your help, we will decode the genome AND many, many others along the way. Join us and let’s make history! Together, we will make the saying 'as dead as a dodo' a thing of the past.

https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/

Three things frighten me about this:

1. The mainstream media completely failed to see this coming. There were hundreds of polls, but any of them that even hinted at this were sidelined and ignored.
   
2. The number of American voters that simply lap up tRump's assertions that he, personally, put everything back to rights with the powers at his disposal. As Britain (well, the Conservative party) discovered during Brexit, you can't change the behaviour of other countries by simply passing laws on your own side of the frontier: you have to negotiate and persuade as well.
   
3. tRump ignores the reasoning behind some of the policies he wants to reverse - notably Net Zero. If the USA goes back to polluting beyond the carrying capacity of the planet, that will rebound on the USA. I wonder if he's even noticed the increasing number and strength of hurricanes recently? If he has, he sure hasn't joined the dots.