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February 25, 2002
Bandwidth Clog Plunged
Welp the problems with getting work units seems to have cleared. I
am not exactly sure what was going on, I don't know if the S@H staff know
what was up either. From some posts on alt.sci.seti it seems they
weren't getting the bandwidth they were entitled to. It may have
been a problem with the packet strangler on one of the Berkeley
routers. From another post it seems that S@H has actually been
buying bandwidth over and above that the university gives them for
free. The money they have been using to purchase the additional
bandwidth has come from donations to the S@H program. Cool.
Page Modifications
As maybe stated before, I am working on a script to produce HTML from my
Excel sheets. I have modified a script found on the web and have had
some success with it, but it still may need some tweaks. You can see
what the output of what I have so far here.
Compare it to this page here.
I am not sure if some of the tags I put in the script are supported by
some browsers. I need to check with some other browsers to make
sure. If there are any glaring problems with it let me know.
One tweak that is needed has to do with column spacing that I know
of. One benefit of the new script is it reduces the size of pages
considerably. The size of the page that Excel pushes out is a hefty
140KB. This script knocks that size down to ~80KB. Cool eh?
February 20, 2002
Update
Unfortunately this morning the server crashed that is hosting the
site. That is why there was a delay in getting the stats up.
IronBits pulled an allnighter getting the server back going and
online. I am currently having problems adding new files to the site
(server permission problems) and the page listing the public SetiQueues
isn't on the server yet. Col. Forbin has also added a queue to the
list it can be found at www.irishguys.org:5517.
There are still connection problems and Eric Korpela was
seen on the alt.sci.seti newsgroups. He basically said he isn't sure
why there is problems with connections to their servers. The problem
doesnt seem to be with their servers, or any problems due to them.
For some reason it looks S@H isn't getting the bandwidth limits lifted at
night. Maybe someone hit a wrong switch. He doesn't know what
is up, and is trying to get some answers from the Berkeley network ppl.
One last thing...my email address zamboni@mediaone.net
is dying at the end of the month. I can be reached at zamb0ni@NO.SPAM.comcast.net.
BTW...get rid of the NO.SPAM to reach me :)
Connection Problems
People have been having problems for the past couple of days
connecting to the Berkeley servers even in the early hours of the
day. I have been having the same problems as all of y'all. Not
sure what is going on at the moment. There hasn't been an update on
the Berkeley page yet. For those of you who are not into caching
yourself, there are some public SetiQueue servers available for your
use. You can connect to them to get some downloads and they are set
to connect to the servers in the early hours. I have set
up a page for listing the public queues and have put a link on the
menu on the left to the page. I will update the list if more come
available.
New Server
IronBits moved the site over to a new box. This change occurred late
Monday night and we are currently on the new server. Thanks go out
to IronBits for his hosting and keeping the site alive! He is also
working on putting up bplog on the page so other people will be able to
update the news. If anyone is interested in helping out with the
news a bit drop me a line!
Other Site Stuff
I am working on getting the weekly stuff updated automatically. In
the meantime I have also updated the weekly stats for the past week.
I am also working on a script to convert Excel stuff to HTML. I have
done a couple of tests with it and it seems to work a bit and the major
benefit of the script is that the page sizes for the charts etc are
significantly smaller. They are about half the size as the current
pages. Hopefully I will have the stuff up and running sometime this
weekend. I may have to check to see if things work on different
browsers first.
February 11, 2002
Ok I'm Back
Here is an update for y'all. Sorry it has been so long for any type
of news updates here. I am working on things here so there should be
some long neglected updates coming in the next couple of days. First
off, I have a weekly update for
you. I am working on a script to get the weekly stuff updated
automatically.
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