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[Guest]

From what I've heard, some contractor with a backhoe cut a fibre bundle to the Seti servers sometime yesterday. I have no idea when it will come back up.
Damn, I should have installed Seti driver

 

[necroscope]

that's no good, lucky i still have 18 left in my cache!

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[scarecrow]

I heard the same thing, except I think it was the hole campus or most of it that was nocked out. When there back up I think I'll have to install setidriver.

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[JoeHead]

Lucky for me each sys has 10 cached. This one has 5 done already. Going to have to start caching more. Last week I was out of Thurs - Mon. morn and all 10 were done. Between that, redoing my Home sys., games and forgetting to turn it on I've been losing time lately. Sorry Seti and fellow Seti Toms.

Glutzie

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[necroscope]

i put this on my news page also

Fiber cut silences SETI@Home
At about 3:30 AM PST on 27 February an optical fiber cable connecting the U.C. Berkeley campus with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was cut, apparently by vandals trying to "salvage" copper from other nearby cables.
The broken fiber carries data and voice connections for LBNL and also for the Space Sciences Lab. SSL is where the SETI@Home project is located, so the millions of participants helping to analyze data have been unable to contact the SETI@Home servers for more than a day.
Contractors are pulling new cable now. It's expected that service to SSL will be restored by Friday, 2 March 2001. We'll update this page as we learn more about the progress of the repairs.
taken from http://www.net.berkeley.edu/setiathome.shtml


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[Hammy]

I had SETI Driver setup on one computer, so I have been coping WUs from that computer to the others that I didn't get it installed on. The SETI site now points to a server elsewhere on the campus with an error letter (or somethingl ike that) on it.

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[Guest]

My 5PCs all had 5 units cached (except the notebook with 9), however two computers are already idle and in another 12 hours two more will be idle... This is NOT good for us, the Betel Nuts!
After this I will be installing SetiQ to cache units on my home server, maybe leave 50 or so... that should last 4days.

I wonder how much money they got for the copper cable... causing 3million SETI users and hunderds of thousands of students to be without Internet... 10-20 USD?

 

[icEDragon]

Yeah, murphy got me too - I ran out of WUs late Thursday (CET) and if it's not back up Friday evening (as they say), I loose the whole WE, 'cause I'm away... :-(

BTW, does somebody know a reliable caching tool for seti under Linux? (V3.03(?), static linked)
currently I run 8 parallel instances to keep the machine busy for 4 days. IK, quite quick 'n dirty.

IceDragon

 

[jeffg007]

damn I just now notice it at work. I bet that guy who cut the line is in some deep dodo. When the sever goes back on line there is going to be one hell of a spike!

Jeff

 

[Lowlypawn]

They updated the message, Seti won’t be up until tomorrow late (Saturday). Dam! I’m all out of work units.

The rain is keeping them from fixing it. Must be in a remote area.

There must be a picture somewhere on the web of the cut cable!
If anyone finds one post a link, I want to see why it’s so hard to fix.

Thx & Cya


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[scarecrow]

FYI
This from there site today:

BERKELEY NETWORK OUTAGE NEWS: Around 11:00 GMT (3:00am PST) on Tuesday, February 27, 2001, network fibers were broken, cutting off the entire Space Sciences Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Labs from the internet. The SETI@home website and data server were unaccessible for several days during the entire length of the outage. Due to the large bandwidth SETI@home requires, it may be as long as 24-48 hours after the Space Lab comes back on-line before the data server is fully functional and accepting all connections.


So it may still be a while before you get your units sent in and get some new ones.

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