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Nightbird
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2007-05-16 10:30:03

They crunch for Predictor with many machines, so that sounds normal.
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2007-05-16 10:46:50
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They crunch for Predictor with many machines, so that sounds normal.


not many credits/d before for crunching at many machines
and then ~99 000 credits at one day ???
or ~33 000 credits/d ???
did they get hundreds of new computers?

it may be normal but ...

can anybody explain me how
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2007-05-16 11:15:16
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They attached + 600 machines (Xeon and Opteron) recently, that's all.
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2007-05-16 11:24:11

@terve2 I always liked your loyality to absolute proof. From what I read from you I had assumed that you were no friend of kin liability. I would like you to say that you also feel that dlb did massively wrong with this mass deletion of accounts of participants who only happened to be in the wrong team.


Kalessin,

I also think about his over-reactions. But you know he is the admin. He makes rules. We just have to obey, or never access to that site. We have a choice. Do we need more ? What is our rights and what is the admin's rights ?
I wondered much some people wrote to ask to leave p@h, who still creating a new account for writing in the forum, and then creating a team. What's wrong ? I don't know what has been done at p@h recently. Onw wrote in the other forum that a member put large image file(s) to make fora not readable. If it were true, did dlb make wrong decision this time ? If it were false, still did dlb make a wrong decision ? If I were him, I would ask some people to leave quietly.
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2007-05-16 12:30:40
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...Onw wrote in the other forum that a member put large image file(s) to make fora not readable. If it were true, did dlb make wrong decision this time ? If it were false, still did dlb make a wrong decision ? If I were him, I would ask some people to leave quietly.

If there was really a member of the last BFL team that "put large image file(s) to make fora not readable" the admin must not have deleted the team as a whole!

Also I have left the project quietly. I just joined the BFL team at the point when I decided to never come back and crunch for P@H anymore.

But I still would like to see my account with my credits restored there. I have earned them in a time long before all this mess started.

I also have other projects in my BOINCstats overview I'm currently not crunching for, but the credits are still shown and they do count. So why not P@H?
Greetings from Cori
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2007-05-16 12:59:48
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I can explain you how, as I have one of them. We're crunching some 90,000+ Predictor results on 4 Linux clusters. They needed to be done quickly, while if Predictor was waiting for all of them to be done on the handful of Linux machines out there, it would take some 3 years or more before they all got validated, and people who did them wouldn't get credit before that. So we're just running them in a hurry.

I was asked if I wanted to help out and not expecting to get 80 Xeon's with 4 CPUs and 4GB I said yes. They'll be taken away from me after this run and I can't use them anywhere else.
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2007-05-16 13:01:18

...Onw wrote in the other forum that a member put large image file(s) to make fora not readable. If it were true, did dlb make wrong decision this time ? If it were false, still did dlb make a wrong decision ? If I were him, I would ask some people to leave quietly.

If there was really a member of the last BFL team that "put large image file(s) to make fora not readable" the admin must not have deleted the team as a whole!
[...]
But I still would like to see my account with my credits restored there. I have earned them in a time long before all this mess started.

I also have other projects in my BOINCstats overview I'm currently not crunching for, but the credits are still shown and they do count. So why not P@H?


That is what I want too. To ask for leaving quitely and to delete whole teams just without informing them is a very big difference!

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2007-05-16 16:12:32

That is what I want too. To ask for leaving quitely and to delete whole teams just without informing them is a very big difference!


That's your wish (and my hope), but you failed to understand "his" wish. That's why this whole incidents happened...
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2007-05-16 19:25:02
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@upi
Hope nothing.
I'm pretty sure that if you (and us) were (still) in the db, now you (and us) have disappeared.
For Predictor, never we have existed.


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2007-05-16 20:13:41
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Upi, feel free to use your stats
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2007-05-16 23:56:43

Hi folks.
Didn't have much time to post here the last weeks.
Just want to say: Kepp up fighting against the censorship and gamesmanship by defaming BANNED FOR LIFE members to be hackers without any proofs for it and without giving the names of accounts that should be guilty!
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2007-05-17 22:12:23

Hi, ThEfT
always banned at Predictor board ?
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2007-05-18 01:11:52



Upi, feel free to use your stats


Hey where did you get this from?

Is there any chance to inform all the other users at P@H about what dlb did?

Can we ask the other teams to leave P@H?

Is there a chance to get P@H of from BOINCstats?

Mr. Charles L. Brooks did not answer me too. It seems like Mr. Brooks is fully supporting Mr. Braun. Therefore I would like to organize a big boykott of P@H.

Greetings from Berlin,

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2007-05-18 02:53:40
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I don't think that the 'bad apples' news announcement could be on the front page of Predictor@Home without the agreement of the main people at Predictor. The statement is astonishing and unprecedented for a boinc project, but it looks very official indeed.

Whether or not the Scripps Institute as a whole is aware of what has been happening at Predictor for a long time now is an unanswered question.

For those who read German, Miko's summary on the Spinhenge forum of much of what has happened is worth reading:

http://www.altes-beckhaus.com/fusion/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=7&thread_id=297&rowstart=0

Predictor crunchers cannot be 'spoken to' unless they visit their forum or another forum such as this where the situation has been discussed. Only the server and the project administrators have access to email addresses. As we know, many crunchers rarely visit the forums and much of the time remain incommunicado. This is how boinc was designed. We cannot change this and should not try. Boinc is open-access for projects. Crunchers remain private at home.

Team leaders are of course at liberty to contact their members.

On the other hand, the discussions about events and attitudes at Predictor have been so widespread and longlasting that any internet search for 'Scripps' or 'Predictor' must necessarily reveal the many problems and concerns. Whether P@H and the Scripps Institute will feel obliged to deal with this abnormal situation is another doubtful question.

I am sure that Willi here at Boincstats is aware of this thread. He and his moderators have been very generous in keeping this discussion open. Bearing in mind their continued hospitality I think the best idea is to let them decide for themselves what Boincstats should do. I don't think we should try to put them under pressure.

As the number of boinc projects grows, we may need to get used to the idea of investigating the reputation and characteristics of projects before attaching to them.

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2007-05-18 06:52:04

Wow--
Sure has been a big change in mo.v since HER posts got dissappeared!!!
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2007-05-18 10:09:52

@ Upi
A backup
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2007-05-18 10:59:09
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Hi George

Many of my posts on Predictor have disappeared but are still accessible in partially-deleted threads. If you click on '35 posts' here

http://predictor.scripps.edu/show_user.php?userid=79893

you get yet another exciting opportunity to read them all, albeit in hopelessly broken bits and pieces. Even the verse of which you were one of the intended recipients. What I find so regrettable is that so many of the mostly reasonable posts surrounding my own do appear to have gone for good.

I don't think my position has changed fundamentally. You can see in the Let's say goodbye thread that on 28 March I posted

It's unfortunate that PAH didn't receive or read the notification from boinc at the same time as the other projects.

So it's unfortunate that PAH couldn't take action about Wate when other projects did.

It's unfortunate that some members, unaware of the situation, reacted rudely on this forum.

It's unfortunate that polite and informative posts were also deleted.

It's unfortunate that exceptional bannings were imposed.

It's unfortunate that a credit limit was imposed for posting without informing members of the details.

Some of these unfortunate situations have already been resolved. Many former and current members of PAH are hoping that the remaining problems can also be resolved soon.

and on the same day I said
But ultimately I'll only crunch for a happy project and post on a happy forum. Life is too short.


What has changed since then is that the administration at Predictor, far from seeking a conciliatory solution to the longstanding problems on that forum, has allowed the situation to escalate even further with the further wave of bannings and the blanket accusations on the Predictor front page news. Almost everyone is quite naturally reacting to these changed circumstances.


Could I stress that in this whole thread I have posted as a private cruncher. In no way should my posts be considered to represent my main project which is cpdn.
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2007-05-18 16:03:19

I don't think that the 'bad apples' news announcement could be on the front page of Predictor@Home without the agreement of the main people at Predictor. The statement is astonishing and unprecedented for a boinc project, but it looks very official indeed.

Whether or not the Scripps Institute as a whole is aware of what has been happening at Predictor for a long time now is an unanswered question.

For those who read German, Miko's summary on the Spinhenge forum of much of what has happened is worth reading:

http://www.altes-beckhaus.com/fusion/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=7&thread_id=297&rowstart=0

Predictor crunchers cannot be 'spoken to' unless they visit their forum or another forum such as this where the situation has been discussed. Only the server and the project administrators have access to email addresses. As we know, many crunchers rarely visit the forums and much of the time remain incommunicado. This is how boinc was designed. We cannot change this and should not try. Boinc is open-access for projects. Crunchers remain private at home.

Team leaders are of course at liberty to contact their members.

On the other hand, the discussions about events and attitudes at Predictor have been so widespread and longlasting that any internet search for 'Scripps' or 'Predictor' must necessarily reveal the many problems and concerns. Whether P@H and the Scripps Institute will feel obliged to deal with this abnormal situation is another doubtful question.

I am sure that Willi here at Boincstats is aware of this thread. He and his moderators have been very generous in keeping this discussion open. Bearing in mind their continued hospitality I think the best idea is to let them decide for themselves what Boincstats should do. I don't think we should try to put them under pressure.

As the number of boinc projects grows, we may need to get used to the idea of investigating the reputation and characteristics of projects before attaching to them.


I have no doubt that staff at P@H and Scripps Institute know and have no problem with that.
Amazing since they don't take care about their reputation in the Boinc community. Probably it doesn't matter.
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2007-05-19 03:05:37
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Did you see the last news at Predictor ?
2007-05-14: Predictor@Home
Due to recent attacks on the Predictor@Home forums by a small group of malicious hackers we have enabled some restrictions in the forums. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause our volunteers. As so often is the case a few bad apples can spoil the lot and their behavior has forced us to enforce policies we would prefer not to. The accounts used by the attackers have been deleted. Despite these issues, which we will weather, we continue to value your efforts and the resources you volunteer toward the scientific objectives of the Predictor@Home project. Thank you.

What's this unbelievable story ?
And the next step ? terrorist maybe ?
Who are the "malicious hackers" ? what accounts have been deleted ?





BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Post on a forum complaining for something, and your account will be deleted for hacking! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I have seen correct and wrong uses of the word "hacker"*, but THIS is absolutely ridiculous.

* see the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker]wikipedia article on hacker[/b] and you'll see that "hacking into a system" maliciously is actually an incorrect use of the term.
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2007-05-19 03:33:43

The work 'hacking' in the announcement on the P@H front page apparently does not refer to posts expressing disagreement or protest. On 15 May Jorden said it referred to more than one massive spam attack.

http://www.altes-beckhaus.com/fusion/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=7&thread_id=297&rowstart=0
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2007-05-19 13:56:15
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But finally All guilty.

edit :
And because my account was deleted, so it was used by the attackers (?) (according to the famous news) ; i would like to know how.

I'm pretty sure that never my account was "hacked".
So what's the proof ?


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2007-05-20 15:54:08

A new joke came up to your information - see tread:

http://predictor.scripps.edu/forum_thread.php?id=2597

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2007-05-20 17:47:58

In regard of that thread, and with the mass-deletion of random accounts, I think this project should be scaped from the stats sites, as it is unreliable and it doesn't adhere to the BOINC credit system.

The status quo ante should be restored and the project should be put in the retired area.
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2007-05-21 07:20:33

In regard of that thread, and with the mass-deletion of random accounts, I think this project should be scaped from the stats sites, as it is unreliable and it doesn't adhere to the BOINC credit system.

The status quo ante should be restored and the project should be put in the retired area.


I support this proposal. It looks like this project is not reliable in several ways!

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