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Title: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: DreadlordGW on March 27, 2003, 09:46:35 am
BlockQuoth the Raven:

As of today:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_type_0.html

Talden's work unit production has placed it in the top 200 of all groups in the world. We are currently #8 in the small business category. But for a group of 150 or so gamers and developers this MUST be unheard of. I wish to thank Taldren for all their hard work for US. I hope Erik gets a good feeling when he looks at the Top 200 and realizes what he, Yeast the Beast, et. all at Taldren have created.

Big thank you to all in the SETI group.

Now lets get a new target, Erik?

GE-Raven

Proud Member of the most Kick-ass SETI group in existance!

-------
This needs to be here in Gen Forum
~Dreadlord
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on March 27, 2003, 10:36:55 pm
It is still not too late to join the team or the Great Moo Hunt.  

 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Erik Bethke on March 27, 2003, 10:54:35 pm
I must confess that this happened far faster than I thought could happen.

I was planning on getting some more Black9 screens for the SETI thread but I got rolled!

I am going to take three days off to go camping with my family, I will be back on Monday and then I will post some screens for you guys.

So the next Target... from what I can see there are two game related teams up ahead of us Halo and alt.games.diablo.  However, I think I really want to take down SONY what can be cooler than that?  And along the way we will knock over three countries: Estonia, Mexico and Taiwan!  Wow!

Very cool guys.

I think I will work on some sort of prize for the SETI team at large - I will have to be creative but I think this is very cool.

Thank you all!

-Erik
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: CD_NT on March 28, 2003, 01:04:58 pm
Congrats to the SETI team. The volume of work units that
the Taldren team cranks out is pretty amazing. Good work
guys.

May 10th marks my one year anniversary with the Taldren
team and my hamster powered P4 has done almost 900
work units.

Come on people, join up and put those spare CPU cycles
to good use.

 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Maxillius on March 29, 2003, 02:49:04 pm
I'm going to hit 60 in the week
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Iceman on March 30, 2003, 09:06:52 am
I've got 818 units in there, kinda makes you feel all mushy inside.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KD4 on March 30, 2003, 04:49:54 pm
bump  
Title: And now we have 250,000 units
Post by: GE-Raven on March 31, 2003, 12:28:51 pm
Well we have also just crossed the 250,000 WU threshold.

One-quarter of a million...
Pretty cool

GE-Raven
 
Title: WOOHOO
Post by: CD_NT on April 04, 2003, 01:34:46 pm
A little bump to let people know that Taldren is now
number 195 and moving on up.  
Title: Re: WOOHOO
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on April 05, 2003, 01:12:36 pm
Quote:

Poster: CD_NT

A little bump to let people know that Taldren is now
number 195 and moving on up.  




192) Taldren 156 members

Link to top 200  
Title: Re: WOOHOO
Post by: Vysander on April 06, 2003, 06:12:17 pm
FYI to all you seti users

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/download.html

Version 3.08 notes

<quote>Version 3.08 is a precautionary security release. There was a potential buffer overrun in the networking code of the client that is fixed with version 3.08. Note that to exploit this vulnerability, a potential attacker would have to trick the client into contacting a fake server rather than the actual SETI@home server. To our knowledge, no SETI@home client has ever been attacked in this manner. </quote>

Info on the exploit is found here http://spoor12.edup.tudelft.nl/SkyLined%20v4.2/?Advisories/Seti@home

although the site has been slashdotted and most likely won't be up at most hours of the day
Title: Re: WOOHOO
Post by: Apocolypse on April 08, 2003, 07:24:14 pm
I think i used to be on the Starlance group, but i dont remember, i just stuck myself and my measly 34 units on Taldren, figured someone could use em

I think its funny to note that Taldren passed Boeing.
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KBF-Dogmatix on April 08, 2003, 10:27:10 pm
Yay for our team!  I moved my units from AMDMB.COM's team to Taldren's as soon as the group was formed.  I'm glad I did!  This is kinda cool.  


Chipping in my 15 WUs a day...


 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: jualdeaux on April 09, 2003, 07:46:03 pm
Someone has already posted about the update in the SETI thread. I just don't think it will affect many people in our group because most of us use the command line client for faster processing. Thanks for posting this though.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KATChuutRitt on April 10, 2003, 01:57:03 am
Ok guys I just joined,

I've know about SETI for quite a while but had no idea that I could help out so easily.

Perhaps a recruitment thread explaning how easy it is and what SETI is, and how everyone can help might bring in more team members.  Of course this might have already been done and I missed it, but I figured that it never hurts to make a suggestion.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KATChuutRitt on April 10, 2003, 08:00:35 am
And can someone explain this screensaver display to a novice?
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Cocomoe on April 10, 2003, 09:22:56 am
 Basically screen saver means it only runs when the screen saver kicks in.  But if you have a good computer basicallly 1 gig or higher you can keep it running most of the time.

  Cocomoe
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KATChuutRitt on April 10, 2003, 01:43:40 pm
Actually I was looking for an explanation of the meaning of the data displayed on the screensaver in layman's terms.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KATChuutRitt on April 12, 2003, 02:28:46 am
guess nobody knows...  
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Vysander on April 12, 2003, 09:09:40 am
*sigh*  internet connection botched between the half hour I started writing this and when I finished... so when I hit send obviously it couldn't.. hit back and it's all gone.......

*sigh*  well if I get the incentive to rewrite that spiel again I shall

daggone computer
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: CD_NT on April 14, 2003, 09:25:56 am
Taldren is now at 188.    
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: The Postman on April 15, 2003, 05:55:41 am
#186 and climbing    
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: GE-Raven on May 03, 2003, 12:54:03 pm
SETI Group has just passed the 300,000 Work Unit mark!!!

Too Cool!

GE-Raven
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on May 04, 2003, 02:21:26 pm
Query on using XP Pro and Seti. (latest version).

I was using Me and doing about 10-12hr turn-arounds on each WU. Then I upgraded to XP Pro and it dropped to around 8-10hrs per WU, but now for some reason it has started freaking out. It takes like 50+ hours for each WU and when I leave it on screen saver, it puts an endless number of seti icons in the taskbar tray, literally over 100 AND makes no progress.

It really is puzzling, nothing has changed in my system from the time I upgraded (upgraded seti at the same time)

Any ideas?

Getting close to 700 here and this is hacking me off.

Thanks


Have a nice day!  
 

EDIT:: OOPS, IM already at 720, but other than that what I said above is true.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: GE-Raven on May 05, 2003, 08:10:36 am
The problem is that Seti (SS - Screen saver) some times terminates and it will "autolaunch" a new process.  It doesn't do anything though.  I had this problem on XP when I would close SETI and the screen saver would kick-in when I had forgotten to manually run it again.

Best solution?

Switch to the commend line version !

You will see times dramatically cut.

GE-Raven
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: NannerSlug on May 05, 2003, 10:02:41 am
i looked into this and was sorta confused by it (maybe i didnt read that area properly). could you make some recommendations?
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: moofighters on May 05, 2003, 01:46:33 pm
Quote:

Actually I was looking for an explanation of the meaning of the data displayed on the screensaver in layman's terms.  




From what I understand it doesn't mean anything.  It's just there for looks.  (and to slow down your WU crunching )

MOO!!  
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: grave on May 05, 2003, 03:00:12 pm
Quote:

The problem is that Seti (SS - Screen saver) some times terminates and it will "autolaunch" a new process.  It doesn't do anything though.  I had this problem on XP when I would close SETI and the screen saver would kick-in when I had forgotten to manually run it again.

Best solution?

Switch to the commend line version !

You will see times dramatically cut.

GE-Raven
   [/quote
 


how do i set it to run in command line?
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on May 05, 2003, 03:02:03 pm
Can I run the command line version on XP Pro? I thought it would only run on Linux, etc. If so, that would rock.

Thanks for the response.

Have a nice day!  
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Commander Xizor on May 05, 2003, 08:34:23 pm
Yes, go to the SETI download page and look for the Win32 command line version.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: GE-Raven on May 06, 2003, 07:56:26 am
actually atjk I have a nifty little download that will auto install seti cmd line and run it as a service.

Here is what you need to do:

Download the seti.zip from http://people.dbq.edu/staff/swolfe/seti/seti.zip

Unzip contents to a temp directory

replace the file user_info.sah with the file of the same name from your current seti install.  (doesn't matter what version)

Edit the seti.reg file (right click on it and select edit) so that the following line:

"Application"="c:\\program files\\seti\\idle.exe -proxy 172.16.100.137:5517"

becomes:

"Application"="c:\\program files\\seti\\idle.exe"

Then save changes.

Finally run the install.bat file.

This will do the following:

Install seti command line as a WindowsXP service (you can access it under the services menu).

Tell it to run always when the machine is on.

It will download Work Units whenever it needs them (as long as it has an internet connection)

A good program to get with this is seti queue if you are not always on the internet.  If this is the case I can give you an easy setup for that.


Once all of this is done you can uninstall the screen saver version of seti.

ENJOY!!!!

GE-Raven


 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on May 10, 2003, 10:35:02 am
Thanks Raven! I appreciate the in-depth explanation greatly, most kind of you.

HAND!
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on May 12, 2003, 09:01:47 pm
Team Pages are fixed and Taldren is in 4th on the Small Company Teams

Small Company Teams
Last updated: Mon May 12 22:47:25 2003 UTC

Name Members Results received Total CPU time Average CPU time per work unit

1) Master Strategy Group 217 1061853 1337.875 years 11 hr 02 min 14.9 sec

2) El Reg 364 585144 748.615 years 11 hr 12 min 28.2 sec
3) Spot_E.T. 98 323620 402.343 years 10 hr 53 min 28.8 sec
4) Taldren 163 308244 268.264 years 7 hr 37 min 28.0 sec


Quote:

Eriks agenda for us (rankings are current)

Target 1: 185) SETI@Estonia 423 294481 455.941 years13 hr 33 min 48.7 sec

Target 2: 173) Mexico Team 82 308903 411.636 years11 hr 40 min 36.0 sec

Target 3: 168) SETI@Taiwan ¥xÆW¹Î¶¤486312807 382.518 years10 hr 42 min 46.4 sec

Target 4:183) Sony 172 299853 421.251 years12 hr 18 min 24.8 sec

Target 5: 159) Halo 729 322247 478.411 years13 hr 00 min 18.6 sec

Target 6:140) alt.games.diablo 270 355565 479.327 years11 hr 48 min 33.9 sec






Current Rank :
174) Taldren 163 308244 268.264 years7 hr 37 min 28.0 sec

Target 1: Achieved  

Target 4: Achieved  

Target 2: Working on it.
173) Mexico Team 82 308903 411.636 years11 hr 40 min 36.0 sec
     
Title: 1st 2nd and 4th Objectives achieved
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on May 14, 2003, 05:20:28 pm
Team Pages WERE fixed  but they broke again.  But we achieved the 2nd target today


Quote:

Eriks agenda for us (rankings are deleted because wrong but WUs are right and current)

Target 1:  SETI@Estonia 423 295311 445.709 years13 hr 27 min 37.9 sec

Target 2:  Mexico Team 83 309995 401.293 years11 hr 43 min 52.0 sec

Target 3:  SETI@Taiwan ¥xÆW¹Î¶¤ 489 313889 379.438 years10 hr 36 min 35.6 sec

Target 4:  Sony 172 300247 422.331 years12 hr 17 min 53.4 sec

Target 5:  Halo 728 321364 479.712 years13 hr 00 min 24.1 sec

Target 6: alt.games.diablo 271 357262 478.599 years11 hr 48 min 31.2 sec






Current Rank :
Taldren 163 311149 284.029 years7 hr 48 min 14.4 sec

Target 1: Achieved  

Target 2: Achieved

Target 4: Achieved  

Target 3: Working on it.

SETI@Taiwan ¥xÆW¹Î¶¤ 489 313889 379.438 years10 hr 36 min 35.6 sec  
Title: All objectives achieved. Thanks to Cyberkada's return
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on August 10, 2003, 12:29:32 pm
Eriks agenda for us (rankings are deleted because they are wrong but WUs are right and current)

Target 1:   SETI @ Estonia 452 357502 511.648 years 12 hr 32 min 13.5 sec Target 1: Achieved  

Target 2:  Mexico Team 100 406171 504.367 years 10 hr 52 min 40.1 sec Target 2: Achieved

Target 3:   SETI @ Taiwan ¥xÆW¹Î¶¤ 615 433188 495.689 years10 hr 01 min 26.0 sec Target 3: Achieved

Target 4:  Sony 174  320982  Target 4: Achieved  

Target 5:   Halo 737 331066 486.376 years 12 hr 52 min 10.2 sec Target 5: Achieved  

Target 6:  alt.games.diablo 268 371307 498.077 years 11 hr 45 min 02.9 sec Target 6: Achieved  


Current Rank :
Taldren168 451730 298.887 years 5 hr 47 min 45.8 sec
 
Ok Erik, whats next?
   
Title: The View from the top...
Post by: EschelonOfJudgement on August 10, 2003, 06:04:36 pm
You may find this link of some interest.  It does take a short while to load though...

The view from the top:
http://www.setiatwork.com/cgi-bin/compare_teams.cgi?type=0&pre=10&post=125&id=14240

Results are a little buggy at the moment (as happens from time to time, especailly when trying to list a lot of teams at once), but it should give you an idea of who's who at the top of the SETI food chain...

If there is interest in this, someone might want talk to the Seti At Work guys about setting up a Taldren team page.  The team I founded has one, and the team members visit there fairly regularly to see how we are doing.  
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: GFL-Tomolock on August 12, 2003, 12:31:11 am

Nice going!

Tomolock  
Title: Re: All objectives achieved. Thanks to Cyberkada's return
Post by: Gambler on August 23, 2003, 09:21:42 am
Bumpage cause we need new goals.  

Unless we've already gotten some and I missed them.
Title: SETI team passes 500,000 WUs and we STILL don't have any new objectives. :)
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on September 04, 2003, 09:34:03 am
Description   Taldren, "the Art and Science of Gaming". Creators of "StarFleet Command II : Empires at War" and "Orion Pirates".

Members   170
Results received   500270
Total CPU time   383.765 years
Founder   Kenneth Yeast    
Title: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: DreadlordGW on March 27, 2003, 09:46:35 am
BlockQuoth the Raven:

As of today:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_type_0.html

Talden's work unit production has placed it in the top 200 of all groups in the world. We are currently #8 in the small business category. But for a group of 150 or so gamers and developers this MUST be unheard of. I wish to thank Taldren for all their hard work for US. I hope Erik gets a good feeling when he looks at the Top 200 and realizes what he, Yeast the Beast, et. all at Taldren have created.

Big thank you to all in the SETI group.

Now lets get a new target, Erik?

GE-Raven

Proud Member of the most Kick-ass SETI group in existance!

-------
This needs to be here in Gen Forum
~Dreadlord
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on March 27, 2003, 10:36:55 pm
It is still not too late to join the team or the Great Moo Hunt.  

 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Erik Bethke on March 27, 2003, 10:54:35 pm
I must confess that this happened far faster than I thought could happen.

I was planning on getting some more Black9 screens for the SETI thread but I got rolled!

I am going to take three days off to go camping with my family, I will be back on Monday and then I will post some screens for you guys.

So the next Target... from what I can see there are two game related teams up ahead of us Halo and alt.games.diablo.  However, I think I really want to take down SONY what can be cooler than that?  And along the way we will knock over three countries: Estonia, Mexico and Taiwan!  Wow!

Very cool guys.

I think I will work on some sort of prize for the SETI team at large - I will have to be creative but I think this is very cool.

Thank you all!

-Erik
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: CD_NT on March 28, 2003, 01:04:58 pm
Congrats to the SETI team. The volume of work units that
the Taldren team cranks out is pretty amazing. Good work
guys.

May 10th marks my one year anniversary with the Taldren
team and my hamster powered P4 has done almost 900
work units.

Come on people, join up and put those spare CPU cycles
to good use.

 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Maxillius on March 29, 2003, 02:49:04 pm
I'm going to hit 60 in the week
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Iceman on March 30, 2003, 09:06:52 am
I've got 818 units in there, kinda makes you feel all mushy inside.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KD4 on March 30, 2003, 04:49:54 pm
bump  
Title: And now we have 250,000 units
Post by: GE-Raven on March 31, 2003, 12:28:51 pm
Well we have also just crossed the 250,000 WU threshold.

One-quarter of a million...
Pretty cool

GE-Raven
 
Title: WOOHOO
Post by: CD_NT on April 04, 2003, 01:34:46 pm
A little bump to let people know that Taldren is now
number 195 and moving on up.  
Title: Re: WOOHOO
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on April 05, 2003, 01:12:36 pm
Quote:

Poster: CD_NT

A little bump to let people know that Taldren is now
number 195 and moving on up.  




192) Taldren 156 members

Link to top 200  
Title: Re: WOOHOO
Post by: Vysander on April 06, 2003, 06:12:17 pm
FYI to all you seti users

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/download.html

Version 3.08 notes

<quote>Version 3.08 is a precautionary security release. There was a potential buffer overrun in the networking code of the client that is fixed with version 3.08. Note that to exploit this vulnerability, a potential attacker would have to trick the client into contacting a fake server rather than the actual SETI@home server. To our knowledge, no SETI@home client has ever been attacked in this manner. </quote>

Info on the exploit is found here http://spoor12.edup.tudelft.nl/SkyLined%20v4.2/?Advisories/Seti@home

although the site has been slashdotted and most likely won't be up at most hours of the day
Title: Re: WOOHOO
Post by: Apocolypse on April 08, 2003, 07:24:14 pm
I think i used to be on the Starlance group, but i dont remember, i just stuck myself and my measly 34 units on Taldren, figured someone could use em

I think its funny to note that Taldren passed Boeing.
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KBF-Dogmatix on April 08, 2003, 10:27:10 pm
Yay for our team!  I moved my units from AMDMB.COM's team to Taldren's as soon as the group was formed.  I'm glad I did!  This is kinda cool.  


Chipping in my 15 WUs a day...


 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: jualdeaux on April 09, 2003, 07:46:03 pm
Someone has already posted about the update in the SETI thread. I just don't think it will affect many people in our group because most of us use the command line client for faster processing. Thanks for posting this though.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KATChuutRitt on April 10, 2003, 01:57:03 am
Ok guys I just joined,

I've know about SETI for quite a while but had no idea that I could help out so easily.

Perhaps a recruitment thread explaning how easy it is and what SETI is, and how everyone can help might bring in more team members.  Of course this might have already been done and I missed it, but I figured that it never hurts to make a suggestion.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KATChuutRitt on April 10, 2003, 08:00:35 am
And can someone explain this screensaver display to a novice?
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Cocomoe on April 10, 2003, 09:22:56 am
 Basically screen saver means it only runs when the screen saver kicks in.  But if you have a good computer basicallly 1 gig or higher you can keep it running most of the time.

  Cocomoe
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KATChuutRitt on April 10, 2003, 01:43:40 pm
Actually I was looking for an explanation of the meaning of the data displayed on the screensaver in layman's terms.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: KATChuutRitt on April 12, 2003, 02:28:46 am
guess nobody knows...  
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Vysander on April 12, 2003, 09:09:40 am
*sigh*  internet connection botched between the half hour I started writing this and when I finished... so when I hit send obviously it couldn't.. hit back and it's all gone.......

*sigh*  well if I get the incentive to rewrite that spiel again I shall

daggone computer
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: CD_NT on April 14, 2003, 09:25:56 am
Taldren is now at 188.    
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: The Postman on April 15, 2003, 05:55:41 am
#186 and climbing    
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: GE-Raven on May 03, 2003, 12:54:03 pm
SETI Group has just passed the 300,000 Work Unit mark!!!

Too Cool!

GE-Raven
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on May 04, 2003, 02:21:26 pm
Query on using XP Pro and Seti. (latest version).

I was using Me and doing about 10-12hr turn-arounds on each WU. Then I upgraded to XP Pro and it dropped to around 8-10hrs per WU, but now for some reason it has started freaking out. It takes like 50+ hours for each WU and when I leave it on screen saver, it puts an endless number of seti icons in the taskbar tray, literally over 100 AND makes no progress.

It really is puzzling, nothing has changed in my system from the time I upgraded (upgraded seti at the same time)

Any ideas?

Getting close to 700 here and this is hacking me off.

Thanks


Have a nice day!  
 

EDIT:: OOPS, IM already at 720, but other than that what I said above is true.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: GE-Raven on May 05, 2003, 08:10:36 am
The problem is that Seti (SS - Screen saver) some times terminates and it will "autolaunch" a new process.  It doesn't do anything though.  I had this problem on XP when I would close SETI and the screen saver would kick-in when I had forgotten to manually run it again.

Best solution?

Switch to the commend line version !

You will see times dramatically cut.

GE-Raven
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: NannerSlug on May 05, 2003, 10:02:41 am
i looked into this and was sorta confused by it (maybe i didnt read that area properly). could you make some recommendations?
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: moofighters on May 05, 2003, 01:46:33 pm
Quote:

Actually I was looking for an explanation of the meaning of the data displayed on the screensaver in layman's terms.  




From what I understand it doesn't mean anything.  It's just there for looks.  (and to slow down your WU crunching )

MOO!!  
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: grave on May 05, 2003, 03:00:12 pm
Quote:

The problem is that Seti (SS - Screen saver) some times terminates and it will "autolaunch" a new process.  It doesn't do anything though.  I had this problem on XP when I would close SETI and the screen saver would kick-in when I had forgotten to manually run it again.

Best solution?

Switch to the commend line version !

You will see times dramatically cut.

GE-Raven
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how do i set it to run in command line?
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on May 05, 2003, 03:02:03 pm
Can I run the command line version on XP Pro? I thought it would only run on Linux, etc. If so, that would rock.

Thanks for the response.

Have a nice day!  
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: Commander Xizor on May 05, 2003, 08:34:23 pm
Yes, go to the SETI download page and look for the Win32 command line version.
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: GE-Raven on May 06, 2003, 07:56:26 am
actually atjk I have a nifty little download that will auto install seti cmd line and run it as a service.

Here is what you need to do:

Download the seti.zip from http://people.dbq.edu/staff/swolfe/seti/seti.zip

Unzip contents to a temp directory

replace the file user_info.sah with the file of the same name from your current seti install.  (doesn't matter what version)

Edit the seti.reg file (right click on it and select edit) so that the following line:

"Application"="c:\\program files\\seti\\idle.exe -proxy 172.16.100.137:5517"

becomes:

"Application"="c:\\program files\\seti\\idle.exe"

Then save changes.

Finally run the install.bat file.

This will do the following:

Install seti command line as a WindowsXP service (you can access it under the services menu).

Tell it to run always when the machine is on.

It will download Work Units whenever it needs them (as long as it has an internet connection)

A good program to get with this is seti queue if you are not always on the internet.  If this is the case I can give you an easy setup for that.


Once all of this is done you can uninstall the screen saver version of seti.

ENJOY!!!!

GE-Raven


 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on May 10, 2003, 10:35:02 am
Thanks Raven! I appreciate the in-depth explanation greatly, most kind of you.

HAND!
 
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on May 12, 2003, 09:01:47 pm
Team Pages are fixed and Taldren is in 4th on the Small Company Teams

Small Company Teams
Last updated: Mon May 12 22:47:25 2003 UTC

Name Members Results received Total CPU time Average CPU time per work unit

1) Master Strategy Group 217 1061853 1337.875 years 11 hr 02 min 14.9 sec

2) El Reg 364 585144 748.615 years 11 hr 12 min 28.2 sec
3) Spot_E.T. 98 323620 402.343 years 10 hr 53 min 28.8 sec
4) Taldren 163 308244 268.264 years 7 hr 37 min 28.0 sec


Quote:

Eriks agenda for us (rankings are current)

Target 1: 185) SETI@Estonia 423 294481 455.941 years13 hr 33 min 48.7 sec

Target 2: 173) Mexico Team 82 308903 411.636 years11 hr 40 min 36.0 sec

Target 3: 168) SETI@Taiwan ¥xÆW¹Î¶¤486312807 382.518 years10 hr 42 min 46.4 sec

Target 4:183) Sony 172 299853 421.251 years12 hr 18 min 24.8 sec

Target 5: 159) Halo 729 322247 478.411 years13 hr 00 min 18.6 sec

Target 6:140) alt.games.diablo 270 355565 479.327 years11 hr 48 min 33.9 sec






Current Rank :
174) Taldren 163 308244 268.264 years7 hr 37 min 28.0 sec

Target 1: Achieved  

Target 4: Achieved  

Target 2: Working on it.
173) Mexico Team 82 308903 411.636 years11 hr 40 min 36.0 sec
     
Title: 1st 2nd and 4th Objectives achieved
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on May 14, 2003, 05:20:28 pm
Team Pages WERE fixed  but they broke again.  But we achieved the 2nd target today


Quote:

Eriks agenda for us (rankings are deleted because wrong but WUs are right and current)

Target 1:  SETI@Estonia 423 295311 445.709 years13 hr 27 min 37.9 sec

Target 2:  Mexico Team 83 309995 401.293 years11 hr 43 min 52.0 sec

Target 3:  SETI@Taiwan ¥xÆW¹Î¶¤ 489 313889 379.438 years10 hr 36 min 35.6 sec

Target 4:  Sony 172 300247 422.331 years12 hr 17 min 53.4 sec

Target 5:  Halo 728 321364 479.712 years13 hr 00 min 24.1 sec

Target 6: alt.games.diablo 271 357262 478.599 years11 hr 48 min 31.2 sec






Current Rank :
Taldren 163 311149 284.029 years7 hr 48 min 14.4 sec

Target 1: Achieved  

Target 2: Achieved

Target 4: Achieved  

Target 3: Working on it.

SETI@Taiwan ¥xÆW¹Î¶¤ 489 313889 379.438 years10 hr 36 min 35.6 sec  
Title: All objectives achieved. Thanks to Cyberkada's return
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on August 10, 2003, 12:29:32 pm
Eriks agenda for us (rankings are deleted because they are wrong but WUs are right and current)

Target 1:   SETI @ Estonia 452 357502 511.648 years 12 hr 32 min 13.5 sec Target 1: Achieved  

Target 2:  Mexico Team 100 406171 504.367 years 10 hr 52 min 40.1 sec Target 2: Achieved

Target 3:   SETI @ Taiwan ¥xÆW¹Î¶¤ 615 433188 495.689 years10 hr 01 min 26.0 sec Target 3: Achieved

Target 4:  Sony 174  320982  Target 4: Achieved  

Target 5:   Halo 737 331066 486.376 years 12 hr 52 min 10.2 sec Target 5: Achieved  

Target 6:  alt.games.diablo 268 371307 498.077 years 11 hr 45 min 02.9 sec Target 6: Achieved  


Current Rank :
Taldren168 451730 298.887 years 5 hr 47 min 45.8 sec
 
Ok Erik, whats next?
   
Title: The View from the top...
Post by: EschelonOfJudgement on August 10, 2003, 06:04:36 pm
You may find this link of some interest.  It does take a short while to load though...

The view from the top:
http://www.setiatwork.com/cgi-bin/compare_teams.cgi?type=0&pre=10&post=125&id=14240

Results are a little buggy at the moment (as happens from time to time, especailly when trying to list a lot of teams at once), but it should give you an idea of who's who at the top of the SETI food chain...

If there is interest in this, someone might want talk to the Seti At Work guys about setting up a Taldren team page.  The team I founded has one, and the team members visit there fairly regularly to see how we are doing.  
Title: Re: SETI Update - Taldren is now in the top 200 of ALL groups in the WORLD
Post by: GFL-Tomolock on August 12, 2003, 12:31:11 am

Nice going!

Tomolock  
Title: Re: All objectives achieved. Thanks to Cyberkada's return
Post by: Gambler on August 23, 2003, 09:21:42 am
Bumpage cause we need new goals.  

Unless we've already gotten some and I missed them.
Title: SETI team passes 500,000 WUs and we STILL don't have any new objectives. :)
Post by: IKV Nemesis D7L on September 04, 2003, 09:34:03 am
Description   Taldren, "the Art and Science of Gaming". Creators of "StarFleet Command II : Empires at War" and "Orion Pirates".

Members   170
Results received   500270
Total CPU time   383.765 years
Founder   Kenneth Yeast