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Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
More of the same from yesterday. Getting the SETI gang ramped up on the wiki. When there's actual content I'll announce it. I had to screw around with the BOINC database a couple times. First, there was a minor issue with the my.cnf file, but the server has to be stopped/restarted to enact any changes (which meant quickly bringing the project down and back up). We're also continuing to have mod polarity issues due to DNS round robin not working as it should (one scheduler has plenty of work in its queue, the other gets pegged at zero so clients connecting to it are erroneously told we are out of work, etc.). We need a better solution instead of continually reversing the polarity "by hand" (changing command line options on the feeders and restarting them). We tried "balance" which may ultimately be our best bet, though I don't like that our apache logs only reflect the IP address of the balance server (and the IP addresses of the connecting clients). Anyway... What else... oh yeah... The connection client type page *was* working, it just was firing up the same time as the web log rotater, so it was analyzing empty log files. Ha ha. Suddenly some pigeons are nesting right outside the lab. Every so often I feel like I'm being watched, and I turn to find a pigeon standing on the other side of the window next to my desk, staring intently at me ("what is that funny monkey doing in there?"). - Matt -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
seti@elrcastor.com Send message Joined: 30 Jan 00 Posts: 35 Credit: 4,879,559 RAC: 0 |
where the bb gun at when you need it? |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14669 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Careful - might be the E.T.s in pigeon form. Nobody said intelligent life-forms had to be dolphin-shaped. ;-) |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the Post Matt . . . Pigeons (what's neXt?) ;))) BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
Splitters are online, but not (apparently...) creating new WU's... No work from project. . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
We're on it. No big deal. I'll explain later... - Matt -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
Clyde C. Phillips, III Send message Joined: 2 Aug 00 Posts: 1851 Credit: 5,955,047 RAC: 0 |
They're cute but they also can dirty things up. How about getting some cats? I saw one carry away a pigeon years ago. I'm not guaranteeing that will work. I might not. Mark Sattler will know. Las palomas son lindas pero pueden suciar las cosas un poquito. ¿Cómo te parece conseguir algunos gatos? Hace años vi uno que estaba llevando una paloma allá. No estoy garantizando que esto funcione. Es posible que no lo haga. Mark Sattler sabrá. |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
I HATE Pigeons (Columbia Livia). I consider them feathered rats... and just as dirty. They're exotic imports from Europe, known to ornithologists as "Rock Doves", so you may fire when ready, Gridley! Other California exotics that should be stamped out, if possible: Blue Gum trees (Eucalyptus Globulus) Monterrey Pine -outside the Monterrey peninsula- (Pinus Sp?) Starlings (Sturnella Neglecta) . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Matt Lebofsky Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1444 Credit: 957,058 RAC: 0 |
Regarding the pigeons: The windows in this particular lab do not open or close. This is for various reasons (lab cleanliness and climate control more than anything else). So the pigeons aren't actually ever going to make it inside. They just stare at me and make me nervous. - Matt -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude |
Tklop Send message Joined: 11 May 03 Posts: 175 Credit: 613,952 RAC: 0 |
Here's lookin' at you, Matt! All in good fun, my friend... Thanks much for all the updates, and information! Keep on crunching, all... SETI@Home Forever! ___Tklop (Step-Founder, U.S. Air Force team) |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Put a pic of a cat in the window. Or an owl. me@rescam.org |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19293 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Put a pic of a cat in the window. Or an owl. African Eagle owl's are good they just love pigeons, Yummy. |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
Peregrine falcon pictures should work, too... Correction to my earlier post: Rock doves are Columba livia (no i!) . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Bounce Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 66 Credit: 5,604,569 RAC: 0 |
Squab! You might suggest a win-win situation that helps the homeless at the same time! |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
Squab! Sorry, city feral Rock Doves have too many diseases and/or parasites (lice and fleas) for your suggestion to work. . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Pawly Send message Joined: 13 Jan 07 Posts: 2694 Credit: 1,049,945 RAC: 0 |
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John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Squab! Parasites are killed by thorough cooking. Only a few diseases or parasites pass on anything harmful after cooking. BOINC WIKI |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
Key phrase: "thorough cooking"! How many homeless are goin' to do that? (or have the facilities to do that?...) Eating your typical urban Rock Dove would be like chowing down on a Norwegian Rat (Rattus Norwegicus) - you might do it if you're hungry enuf, but there's plenty of better options out there. Another homeless suggestion that's slightly cleaner than pigeons - 24 Starlings (the "blackbirds" of the song) baked in a pie! . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 |
Try this, it's the only way to eat Dove. http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zdove7.html |
dulcimoo Send message Joined: 16 Oct 99 Posts: 13 Credit: 675,138 RAC: 0 |
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here. Life is skittles and life is beer. I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring. I do, don't you? 'Course you do. But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me, And makes ev'ry Sunday a treat for me. All the world seems in tune On a spring afternoon, When we're poisoning pigeons in the park. Ev'ry Sunday you'll see My sweetheart and me, As we poison the pigeons in the park. When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide, But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide. The sun's shining bright, Ev'rything seems all right, When we're poisoning pigeons in the park. Lalaalaalalaladoodiedieedoodoodoo We've gained notoriety, And caused much anxiety In the Audubon Society With our games. They call it impiety, And lack of propriety, And quite a variety Of unpleasant names. But it's not against any religion To want to dispose of a pigeon. So if Sunday you're free, Why don't you come with me, And we'll poison the pigeons in the park. And maybe we'll do In a squirrel or two, While we're poisoning pigeons in the park. We'll murder them{ all }amid laughter and merriment. Except for the few we take home to experiment. My pulse will be quickenin' With each drop of strychnine We feed to a pigeon. It just takes a smidgen! To poison a pigeon in the park. Tom Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons In The Part. |
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