🚀 go-pugleaf

The problem is that far more people are participating than they ever
anticipated, and they're overwhelmed.

Sun Microsystems has donated additional equipment that will come
online in June (which is not that far off!).

There *is* such a thing as being too successful!

On Wed, 26 May 1999 16:48:28 GMT, czempel@ns.net (Chip Zempel) wrote:

>In article <374d69d0.36972401@news.earthlink.net>, tungsten_at_uptrans.com
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 21 May 1999 19:47:46 +0100, "Jeff Bishop"
>><jeffbish@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>>
>>} 
>>} Herve Kessler <kesslerh@club-internet.fr> wrote in message
>>} news:7i2hnp$hbc$1@front7.grolier.fr...
>>} > On both my PCs it seems that SETI@home dont finish the computations on the
>>} > Data Units.
>>} > The software asks me to connect for data transfert but I only have between
>>} > 95 and 99% computation done.
>>
>>Same problem here.  What's more, after reconnecting with Berkley, I
>>get a new Data Unit and the old finished one seems to vanish without
>>an upload.  The total CPU time and Data Units Completed, remains at
>>Zero.  Hope ver 1.1 fixes this and soon.  
>>
>>It appears that my computer is crunching numbers straight into the
>>bit-bucket.  I don't like it!
>>
>
>I lost one last night (PowerMac 7100/80, dial-up connection (no firewall,
>etc.)). I've turned off the auto-connect feature, and will do a manual
>connection next time I finish a work-unit. (I wonder how many hours of CPU
>time have been lost this way - it seems a lot of people are having problems
>uploading their results!)
>
>Crispin Roche suggested:
>>My current solution to this problem has been to connect, via normal internet
>>connection, to the Setathome page and to query my personnel stats.  If this
>>works (ie the seti server is available) then I use the screensaver "connect
>>now" feature and return data.  So far this has been 100% succesful (ie 2 of
>>2).
>
>and I'll give that a try, too, next time.
>
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