Posts by meckano

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Stand back....... (Message 19759) Posted 2 Jul 2008 by meckano Post: oh that's right, we are not crunching on the data, but the setup of the whole system. once running, we are obsolete; ok, BOINC turning off again. :( Had some excitement though. lol
2) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Greetings! I'm new to LHC (Message 19758) Posted 2 Jul 2008 by meckano Post: Welcome! :) Hopefully, this year will expand our wu numbers, and crunchers.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Stand back....... (Message 19757) Posted 1 Jul 2008 by meckano Post: alright, BOINC is setup and waiting, LHC only. lets purrrrrrrty :D
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Overclocking?....Not! ;) (Message 18796) Posted 2 Jan 2008 by meckano Post: depends on definition of overclock... I've never own'ed an AMD 3200+ cpu, it has always been an: AMD 2500+ 333mhz. I got lucky with an underclocked model, and with 2 jumpers in the cpu socket, I got it to run at 400mhz bus speed, and because the mutiplier is the same as that of the 3200+, all is good. (not even a temperature increase :D ) I did much checking when I started, every time I had a glitch, but it always turned out to be a software issue; so it remains um, boosted. I did nothing else, and not a program yet has stated it to be anything other than a 3200+. (was glad I bought all 400mhz ram, yet the system could run the ram at 333 if need be.) While I'm on odd things, the Kingston ram for this system CL3 does not work; maybe due to the Corsair being CL2.5 @ 400mhz... ... So I was given a Kingston CL2.5 to try, even though my mobo ain't on its list, and it works. I now have 3 x 512, 1 Corsair, 2 Kingston, at CL2.5 @ 400mhz with 2.2 ghz cpu.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Happy 2008 (Message 18795) Posted 2 Jan 2008 by meckano Post: Thank you, and same to you! ... and to all :) addit: WOOhoo!! I've hit 20k here at LHC.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Stil a pending credit (Message 18790) Posted 2 Jan 2008 by meckano Post: I've got some pending from nov. too fyi
7) Message boards : Number crunching : jwe0019i-u The program was terminated abnormally with Exception Code EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. (Message 18421) Posted 28 Oct 2007 by meckano Post: The reason is, the only internet results to the problem are Fortran related, and, I saw an error on an LHC wu. If someone here got the same thing, all ok. - If not, I may have hacker-ware? ps the first reply eased my heart enough.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Stand back....... (Message 18412) Posted 28 Oct 2007 by meckano Post: don't care how many ya do, so long as you give back results before getting more. I'm here to help, not to get my alloted share. :D
9) Message boards : Number crunching : jwe0019i-u The program was terminated abnormally with Exception Code EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. (Message 18411) Posted 28 Oct 2007 by meckano Post: anyone else get this? 27 oct 2007
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Threadmaster help please (Message 12804) Posted 20 Feb 2006 by meckano Post: Just a thought, Don't forget firewall / (maybe)anti-virus. There are free ones on net.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC still requires Boinc 4.45? (Message 12648) Posted 6 Feb 2006 by meckano Post: Awesome feedback folks! Thanks, thanks, thanks!!! :)
12) Message boards : Cafe LHC : More about light (Message 12324) Posted 23 Jan 2006 by meckano Post: from the link you posted, I also understand better, and prefer, that earth is held in place around the sun because it is the shortest path created by the sun's gravity effect on the surrounding space/time rather than trying to picture a 'string' of pull on the earth. addit: To expand that view, I'd like to understand better the breakup of comet levi9 around jupiter, and see if it brokeup in a way that: 1) looked like it was pulled apart due to uneven pull, or 2) looked like it was squished apart, like an egg in your hand, because parts of it were in a smaller and smaller space faster than the comet bits could react to the change. addit: - as an egg would be squished in the middle, in your hand, the center bits would fly out ahead of the leading bits(shell), whereas a comet has it's leading edges progressively squished.
13) Message boards : Cafe LHC : More about light (Message 12323) Posted 23 Jan 2006 by meckano Post: well, I always understood it as the fact that light is in space, which is expanding, as to why it gets expanded/stretched. I like the gravity factor much more!
14) Message boards : Cafe LHC : More about light (Message 12253) Posted 22 Jan 2006 by meckano Post: For clarification: My point here is trying to find how tightly time and space are connected to each other. Roughly worded: That, at the speed of light, does all space get covered in one time(instant) and at the speed of stopped, does one space see all time? A source is: http://www.astronomynotes.com/relativity/s1.htm
15) Message boards : Cafe LHC : More about light (Message 12252) Posted 22 Jan 2006 by meckano Post: Photon travel backwards in time? Now i have heard everything. Travelling into the past and staying in the past is different and important to relativity, the way I understand relativity.
16) Message boards : Cafe LHC : More about light (Message 12251) Posted 22 Jan 2006 by meckano Post: Red shift is visible when a light emitting source (i.e. a star) is moving away from the view of the detector (i.e. a human) as it elongates the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation. I thought it only had to be far away? - If the light source has to be moving, then I see 2 parts to relativity: 1) The light source is not moving away. - A photon in this scenario better fits this thread and how I understand(stood) relativity. 2) The light source is moving away. - This blows away relativity in my eyes, sort-of. A) But the above is the reason I posted, I have questions. And, it's true that only the speed of light is mentioned in relativity, and not it's make-up/frequency(observed color at destination), when it speaks of light from moving sources. - You have helped me zero-in on my confusion. Thanks! :) As a result, a photon parallel to another photon, both in a vacuum, will see each other at the wavelength they are emitted (imagine they have eyes and can see the photons moving). - just to remove confusion, that also presumes that the photon being watched would be emitting copies of itself in the direction of the watching photon. (otherwise they'd have to cross at right-angles to each other.) 1) Ok, time stops; For the photon, relative to the photon. A1) Yes, I would agree. Only if the photon was purely observing the other photon. If it observed a different reference frame, then time would change. - so blue light would see white light, as we do on earth, when it intersected it. Hmm, I'm really trying to make the photon the impossible human travelling at the speed of light, and trying to understand if the brain would be able to process light information. As I understand things, the brain is not aging relative to everything else that it is seeing and should not be able to process the info even though the photon would/could enter the eye. 2) Yet, it does change. It gets red-shifted. A2) This doesnt comply with what I've been taught or any scientific journal I have read. Have a link/reference? - I can only repost what you said: Red shift is visible when a light emitting source (i.e. a star) is moving away from the view of the detector (i.e. a human) as it elongates the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation. - So I think we may have a misunderstanding on what I'm trying to get across. (althought the first point does cover this in a whole new 'light'.)
17) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC still requires Boinc 4.45? (Message 12146) Posted 18 Jan 2006 by meckano Post: i don't see any probs with latest version. If you check other computers with the manager window, you will have to get its password in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file first.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC still requires Boinc 4.45? (Message 12140) Posted 17 Jan 2006 by meckano Post: Added note: I just recalled that I had some computer crashing going on on those days. - related to having done the recent java update. ;)
19) Message boards : Cafe LHC : More about light (Message 12137) Posted 17 Jan 2006 by meckano Post: Based on: "At the speed of light, time stops." Ok, time stops; For the photon, relative to the photon. Yet, it does change. It gets red-shifted. Although we see a photon as moving at speed x, medium dependant, we say it does not age... at the end of it's trip, that is. (sort-of a trip into the futur.) Whether the photon travels a meter or 10^99 million kilometers, it would not be able to tell the difference, except if it checks it's red-shift coefficient. So what is that telling us? Is it possible to stop the red-shift? Does red-shift only happen in inter-galactic space? Would the shift happen if the photon where trapped for 10 milllion years in a project on earth? - meaning it would require a lack of gravity, or a lesser gravity, to cause the shifting?
20) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC still requires Boinc 4.45? (Message 12133) Posted 17 Jan 2006 by meckano Post: Thanks everyone! I made the switch and so far, so good.

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