Posts by Ariel

21) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC magnets failed during test (Message 16820) Posted 5 May 2007 by Ariel Post: HG's Most Fearless Cruncher award he had to work real hard to win... "*...he* had to work real hard to win" ? "Looks better on *his* signature" ? ---I thought HomeGnome was a she. Boy am I embarrassed. I think that HomeGnome is gender confused. And yes, Ray, I say that without fear. Word to your Motherboard!
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Because you asked.... (Message 16814) Posted 4 May 2007 by Ariel Post: Perhaps the Admins have been busy with this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/03/sugar_viglen_cluster/ I think you may be right. There's nothing quite like a new toy to distract adult children from "other things". Yes, lhc@home is the "other thing" - we are the "others". Oh well....
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Gone in a flash! (Message 16812) Posted 4 May 2007 by Ariel Post: Whoa! 30K or so work units, and I didn't even get one. Looks like my computer is a little slow on the draw! they were not even peanuts... 15 min runtime on a 2.6 GHz P4 per WU.... I'm getting really upset about all of this now. This project is an exercise in patience. Try to find your quiet place within. Feel the zen of lhc... time fades into triviality. The Universe is unfolding as it should. Patience, grasshopper, is one of the few true virtues.
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Gone in a flash! (Message 16806) Posted 3 May 2007 by Ariel Post: Whoa! 30K or so work units, and I didn't even get one. Looks like my computer is a little slow on the draw!
25) Message boards : Number crunching : A Birthday Wish (Message 16791) Posted 30 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: Fingers crossed ! ;) Legs crossed ! - - * wink left * - - * wink right *
26) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC magnets failed during test (Message 16780) Posted 30 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: You mean lists like: you would pipe helium escaping a relief valve away from the confined space then no danger with electrical equipment ok, who's hoarding all the helium? Ooo, nice.... I like. Here are the reasons I like Dagorath's post: Look at me! I know how to use BBCode lists I'm a big smart ass Dagorath is a way-bigger smart ass Helium can make you talk like a munchkin! Sweet.
27) Message boards : LHC@home Science : How feels the Universe? (Message 16779) Posted 30 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: Weather forecast says that Entropy will be up from Yesterday. Thank goodness! Any less Entropy, and the Universe might become one crystalline singularity ...or would the process of singularity conversion of the Universe from it's present state contradict the afore mentioned and hypothesized crystal-state thus instantaneously producing another Big Bang which would support the theory of a Cyclical Universe which was largely disproved by the recent discovery that matter expansion in the Universe is accelerating? Hmmmm....
28) Message boards : Number crunching : Unable to connect to database - please try again later Error: 1040Too many connections (Message 16778) Posted 30 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: [...] These are a real pain when you are trying to use the message boards. Is everyone else getting the same...? Hella yes! And you're right about it being a pain when posting. I've learned to copy and paste all of my posts to a word processor before clicking "Post reply". Otherwise you can lose your work. Hella, hella, hella... boy, I love saying that word.
29) Message boards : Number crunching : Gone in a flash! (Message 16777) Posted 30 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: ...I've experimented with different cache settings (from 0.1 to 7) and my labors have revealed that 3 days is pretty good. Less than 3 will usually cause your machine to pick up very few (or ONE) work units even if the run is huge [ >50000 ]. A cache number more than 3 will result in often getting NOTHING from small runs [ <20000 ] ...but I encourage others to tweak my number and post if they find a better Magic Constant! Using 4 or 5 will work if you do the following: 1. Give lhc@home at least 75% resource share on any given machine. 2. Don't crunch for too many projects on any one machine, but make sure you crunch for at least one other project on each machine - Climate Prediction, Climate Attribution, SETI, Einstein, Rosetta, and the like are good candidates. 3. Keep an eye on the "other" projects running alongside lhc; they may have greedy tendencies that will block out lhc (even with a 0.01% resource share.. yes, I've seen it happen.) 4. Run your machine to death. You will get more lhc WUs if your machine has been crunching like crazy for other project(s) during lhc droughts. That's my word.
30) Message boards : Team invites : Team Smart Patrol (Message 16742) Posted 27 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: . Team Smart Patrol has no mission except to monitor the de-evolution of the species Homo Sapiens. Carefully hidden Suburban Robots are currently monitoring reality, and we are working to move industrial robots from the more advanced factories to society. Smart Patrol. Know where to go.
31) Message boards : Team invites : Team technutopia (Message 16741) Posted 27 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: . Team Smart Patrol has no mission except to monitor the de-evolution of the species Homo Sapiens. Carefully hidden Suburban Robots are currently monitoring reality, and we are working to move industrial robots from the more advanced factories to society. Smart Patrol. Know where to go.
32) Message boards : Team invites : Team technutopia (Message 16740) Posted 27 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: . Team Smart Patrol has no mission except to monitor the de-evolution of the species Homo Sapiens. Carefully hidden Suburban Robots are currently monitoring reality, and we are working to move industrial robots from the more advanced factories to society. Smart Patrol. Know where to go.
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Good news and bad news. (Message 16739) Posted 27 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: Btw... is there any way to force a gphx to appear even if other project is being active? Nope. The screen saver gphx can only be seen when you are crunching an lhc work unit. This is frustrating for some because they have NEVER seen what the gphx look like... Even if a WU is downloaded, it is often completed and returned before the machine's user even knows what happened. A pity, because lhc has a pretty cool screen saver!
34) Message boards : Number crunching : What do we crunch for? (Message 16709) Posted 14 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: I understand that if you gather 32 of them (hill-folk) in the same room, you get a full set of teeth. ...err, I bet this crowd could post an entire thread employing this kind of comedy. I shudder to think where it would end though. --NBIT With no work to crunch, we get bored. If you're offended by the "hill-folk" jokes, just post some comedy of your own... I'd appreciate some fresh material; tell us what you think is funny, NBIT. Later - - ;)
35) Message boards : Number crunching : What do we crunch for? (Message 16679) Posted 8 Apr 2007 by Ariel Post: Don't like my "negatives vibes"? Ariel, with this project if you don't have hope you don't have anything. Your RAC of (currently) 10 and mine of zero supports that....What I think is that my comment was meant humorously, tongue-in-cheek. Don't take it serious. Yikes! (seems to fit the mood of this thread) and Happy Easter. Yo, Mr. "Nothing But Idle Time" - aarg - I did take your post as being humorously light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek, nose-in-pants, etc. I was just playing off of you, man! Relax. Take a chill pill; I prefer Xanax myself... it really takes the edge off, and the stuff makes you feel goooooood. My reply to your post was a funky, awkward, off-beat, weirded-out, positive vibe to you and all the LHC folk. Speaking of "folk" I don't really know much about hill-folk at all... but I did see Deliverance. Peace.
36) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Any news from Planetquest? (Message 16639) Posted 29 Mar 2007 by Ariel Post: I'm a big supporter of PlanetQuest. My online bill-payment service has been donating a BIG whopping $5 a month for over a year. That's enough to pay for three weeks of coffee service! Just a bump to get the attention of other PlanetQuest enthusiasts... got any info to pass along? Luv ya all!
37) Message boards : Number crunching : What do we crunch for? (Message 16638) Posted 28 Mar 2007 by Ariel Post: "Don't worry" usually means you should worry, or at least not get your hopes too high. We don't take kindly to any o' dem "high hopes" here at LHC (spoken with Mountain Folk/inbred/hick accent) ...ya want high hopes? Go crunch fur one uh doze fancy pro-teeen foldin' projects. There's work when there's work, ya hear? Dern whippersnappers.
38) Message boards : Number crunching : Trojan used by dishonest BOINC cruncher (Message 16637) Posted 28 Mar 2007 by Ariel Post: Freezing the Wate account is too little too late. Until Mr. Braun has been completely removed from the Admin staff (which will probably only happen when he dies of constipation) I won't be back.
39) Message boards : Number crunching : Fairer distribuiton of work(Flame Fest 2007) (Message 16630) Posted 26 Mar 2007 by Ariel Post: Sorry about the "backfiring fart" [...] it flared up a bit That sounds... uh... painful and smelly! Perhaps you should see a doctor... I did see a doctor, who referred me to a GI specialist, who referred me to a proctologist, who referred me back to a generalist, who referred me to Internal Medicine, who referred me to the Hospital Director, who asked me to leave the facility and not come back. My HMO just canceled my plan and refunded the premiums from the past 6 months. Feeling much better now, though... thanks for your concern --;)
40) Message boards : Number crunching : Trojan used by dishonest BOINC cruncher (Message 16629) Posted 26 Mar 2007 by Ariel Post: In regards to this issue, Dagorath is on fire!... but this time the heat is hitting dead center!! His words are precisely on target and I couldn't agree more. Good thing he wasn't banned for the infamous flame-throwing in the renamed "Flame Fest 2007". Ironically, I disagree with nearly everything he said in that thread (a.k.a "Fairer distribution of work") but it was lots of fun. You have a hot head Dagorath, but it often thinks well.

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