Posts by Gary Charpentier

1) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 113762)
Posted 7 days ago by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Seti forums getting slow again.
2) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 113567)
Posted 8 Feb 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Again?
"Unable to connect."
3) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 113511)
Posted 30 Jan 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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server missing again
4) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 113506)
Posted 30 Jan 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Hacking seems to be finished.
5) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 113505)
Posted 30 Jan 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Well, it has gone from bad to worse. Now the server isn't responding at all.

I hope that means someone is hacking on it.
6) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 113498)
Posted 29 Jan 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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We all knew this day would come. Everyone is on the round the world vacation by camel.
7) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 113480)
Posted 28 Jan 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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I knew this thread had some life left
8) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 113479)
Posted 28 Jan 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Think of this, a radiator immersed in water vs a radiator in a vacuum. Now 100% humidity isn't quite a pool of water but it is to the point there is liquid water, fog. 0% humidity isn't a true vacuum but illustrative.

The hunk of metal (radiator) heats faster when it isn't throwing heat into water. But how fast the metal gets hot may not be indicative of how fast a human perceives it to be warm in the room. Think of getting out of the shower and then after you have dried off.
9) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 113460)
Posted 27 Jan 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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The message probably happens when they take it off-line to perform backup of forums (occasional spasms).

/Sarcasm on >
I would hedge my bets on chance of project revival are about the same as odds of the Dallas Cowboys Football team winning the Superbowl this year!
</Sarcasm off

5 hours on and the message is still there I'd say it crashed and no one has the root password anymore.
10) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113426)
Posted 22 Jan 2024 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Dexter Scott King
11) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 113312)
Posted 23 Dec 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Grumble, blown power supply. Grumble everything closed for holiday.
12) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 113217)
Posted 3 Dec 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Welcome to rose colored glasses computer filters
13) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113206)
Posted 30 Nov 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Henry Kissinger, Rest in Peace.
14) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 113205)
Posted 30 Nov 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Ah, sounds just like what UPS did several years ago to my workplace. The even "helpfully" repackaged it, even with a few sheets with tire marks. Seller sent a new shipment.
15) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. (Message 113144)
Posted 19 Nov 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Rosalynn Carter, Rest in Peace
16) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 113003)
Posted 28 Oct 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Driver will be called on to the carpet for not making the delivery because weather and obstructions don't exist. They weren't programmed in.
17) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112913)
Posted 13 Oct 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Ah, the seller says in transit, the transport says label created. In transit inside the warehouse?
18) Message boards : The Lounge : Science and Technology in the News (Message 112850)
Posted 8 Oct 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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In preparation for its latest round of ion-smashing tests, CERN boosted its storage array for the experiments to more than [i]one million terabytes in total size.
A decent enough data set to train an AI on.
19) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112788)
Posted 2 Oct 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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Congrats, tying to sneak up on me are you. Not going to happen.
20) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 112782)
Posted 1 Oct 2023 by Profile Gary Charpentier
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You could be right.

Spent a fair amount of time yesterday analysing all the monthly logs.
All showed a slow increase in the daily usage cost.

Reminds me of a story of a long term successful bank ripoff. Systems guy wrote the interest calculation to take all the rounded fractional cents and deposit them into the last account alphabetically. Got away with it for years. Total deposits times interest rate equals total interest paid to all accounts. Then some bloke with more Z's in his name opened an account. Asked what the deposits were. Exposed. (If he kept his mouth shut, free money for years)

Would not surprise me if the same kind of fraud crap is going on when they derive the rates. All the fractions get added up and bingo another full cent higher for everyone.

Rounding is such fun. Standards have been published on it. Not all floating point processors get it right.


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