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In article <5rOdnVCIYvcEMATeRVn-iw@giganews.com>, The Goblin
<gbb301@jaguar1.usouthal.edu> writes
[quote]so if this is the case why do i have 28 units waiting to upload? I haven>t
been able to get any up or down all week.
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This "sort of outrage" is caused by the large number of Classic users
switching to BOINC, at the same time the BOINC servers suffered database
over sizing and memory leaks. The nett result is the up load server
seems to be main one to suffer. You can see this in discussions at a
number of sites, like -
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/
- where there is a note (quoting ...
"December 9, 2005
We will be extending the deadline for returning results so that the
troubles with the result upload handler will not result in lost credit.
December 8, 2005
We are experiencing heavy traffic on our data server. This is currently
preventing some result uploads, but is getting better over time. More in
Technical News."
And similarly in the Technical News at -
"December 8, 2005 - 03:00 UTC
For the past few days our upload/download server has been dropping
connections, making for a frustrating experience for everybody involved.
We also had our hands full trying to complete the first stage of the
master science database merge.
Currently everybody who is requesting work can get it, thanks to
splitting the uploads and downloads onto two separate servers. This
isn>t reflected yet in the server status page, and it may just be a
temporary solution until we somehow obtain a machine capable of doing
both. As well, there may be more server shuffling as Classic ramps down.
Meanwhile, we are still dropping connections on the upload server. But
the good news is that we are successfully handling about 4 result
uploads for every work unit download, which means the upload server is
indeed catching up. We>re getting about 35 results a second and sending
out about 8 work units a second at the time of writing.
We hit several snags with the master science database merge and were too
far in to revert back. Since we were running low on work we went with a
backup plan - creating a third database. Since all new work units and
results are being inserted into this third database, we can leisurely
migrate the data between the other two databases without any time
pressure. This complicates our overall merge plan a bit, but reduces a
lot of the stress in the meantime.
December 6, 2005 - 04:30 UTC
With the influx of new users, bottlenecks were bound to happen. A couple
nights ago we started dropping connections on the upload/download server
(Kryten). This server was also serving the new BOINC core client
downloads. We immediately moved the client downloads onto the campus
network which was ugly, as this added about 20 Mbit/sec of traffic onto
the regular campus network.
On Monday morning we fixed this by making the secondary web server
(penguin) the BOINC client download server. In its former life penguin
was the BOINC upload/download server so it already had the plumbing and
hardware to be on the Cogent network. So without much ado, we were able
to move the core client downloads off the campus net. But what about the
secondary web server? Well, another Sun D220R (kosh) wasn>t doing very
much at the time, so we plopped apache/php on that and made it the
backup web server. Some people might be getting failed connections to
our home page as DNS maps need a while to propagate throughout the
internet.
Meanwhile, we were still dropping connections on Kryten. At first we
thought this was due to the upload directories (physically attached to
Kryten) getting too large, as the assimilators were backing up (and they
only read files in the upload dirs). Upon checking half the files in
upload were "antiques," still leftover from server issues way back in
August. We will delete these files in good time. We increased the ufs
directory cache parameters on Kryten but this didn>t help at all. So our
current woes must lie in the download directories (kept on a separate
server) or some other bottleneck further down the pike we haven>t
discovered yet.
And while all this was being diagnosed and treated we actually started
the master science database merge. This is why most of the back end
services are disabled, and will remain off until the first half of the
merge is done (about 2 days from now). We hope the results-to-send queue
lasts us through this first part. Having these back-end services off is
actually helping Kryten catch up on its backlog of work to
upload/results to download.
More to come as we discover more about current server issues and
progress further with the database merge..."
Further data, especially on connection errors (/BOINC Manager/Messages
tab/), including I/O errors, error 500 and -106s can be found in the
Community discussions groups at ...
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php
- under the heading /number crunching/
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:26 am Post subject: Re: Comms Failure |
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In news:jYosNdAu1imDFwCk@consltec.demon.co.uk,
John <fredclark@consltec.demon.co.uk> blithered:
[quote]In article <5rOdnVCIYvcEMATeRVn-iw@giganews.com>, The Goblin
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Wasn>t too unhappy not getting much in the way of uploads, but now that downloads
are frozen 'to let it catch up?' I>m out of work. And frankly it shows little if
ant sign of catching up. Among the, I don>t know 60 not uploads, are 9 ready to
report which suggests reports are also frozen out!
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If at first you don>t succeed,
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Big Bertha Thing sumation
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/sumation.html
Access Page for 78K Zip File
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including alt.politics
Count the number of polka-dots on an equilatteral triangle.
Ready to run Fortran 77 program software, using double
precision and extended precision versions. Complete
with source code in listing format and the original
extended precision subroutine source code.
Sumation N = N*N + N all over 2, where N=1,2,3,..N
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 2000
To comply with my copyright, please distribute
complete and free of charge.
Big Bertha Thing postings
Depleted uranium shells were once used at great cost,
in terms of Gulf War Syndrome.
At Agincourt the English long bow took a large toll,
due to the arrows being armour-piercing and re-useable.
The above shells were armour-piercing,
but can hardly be called re-useable
and should not have been used once.
Big Bertha Thing posting features;-
1. Ornate Engraving and Scrollwork.
2. Re-useable.
3. Armour-piercing.
4. Zero casualties.
5. Re-configurable.
6. Accurate.
7. Tactical.
8. Strategic.
9. Scientific.
10. Weighty.
11. Start of Thread.
12. Brand Name.
13. Banned on moderators conference.
14. Whole moderators thread deleted,
with the exception of tenure posting.
15. Tenure read only request withdrawn.
16. 2K Anecdote (Assault Rifle Bullet and detonator.) Day 23
17. 4K Preface (Anecdote and Attachment description.) Day 24
18. 50K Attachment
(Powder charge for shell with detonator.) Days 1 - 20
19. 600K Attachment
(powder charge for bomb with detonator.) Days 21, 22
20. 50K postings pair, with 12 on-topic and 6 off-topic.
Hydrogen bomb (2 shells with jacket of water; H2O) Days 25, 26
21. Odd configurations. (Landmine, boobytrap and armistice terms.)
22. Zip disc spanning.
(Manual operation encryption technique.) Day 21, 22
23. Potential CD-Rom triology.
24. Astrophysics web-ring web site.
25. PI web-ring web site with software.
26. Web publisher for unpublished scientific works,
including fringe.
27. Particle periodic table research project with results
and software.
28. First Aid Tent for Spam Attack Victim Support Group.
29. Sesame Street beat Darth Vader twice.
(1st and 2nd Battles of Cyberspace.)
30. To the victor the spoils; a web site built on them.
(level 2 HTML)
31. Politics makes poor science.
Tony Lance
peterpaul@big-bertha-thing.com
Big Bertha Thing rim
News from the Asian Rim front.
1. The basic mailing list has 2000 mailboxes. (two-way)
2. The rate of increase is 400 mailboxes per 6 weeks.
3. This gives 4000 mailboxes in 8 months time.
4. The 4th Battle of Cyberspace began on 21st October 2002.
5. There are 2000 new Yahoo mailboxes per 6 weeks. (one-way)
6. Each one has a Big Bertha Thing posting inside it.
7. These are not 2000 world-wide.
8. They are not even 2000 in english.
9. They are 2000 Asian Rim non-english.
10. The 8 months target is 10,000 Yahoo mailboxes closed.
11. The Big Bertha Thing web site shows that one field
of interest is spam attack strategic studies.
12. In theory the first three battles were unwinnable too.
13. The targets of all these mailboxes are newsgroup users.
14. Off-topic postings for the benefit of newsgroups are
considered to be on-topic.
15. Shi Tao got 10 years for email about China after Yahoo
named him to them. (see http)
http://www.out-law.com/page-6482
Big Bertha Thing SMTP
My paid email service provider (SP) is still a SMTP SP, but only just.
1. An infraction happened in July 2005.
2. The second infraction of the SMTP protocol began in September 2005.
3. Prior to July 2005, a limit of 600 postings per day was set, for every
5 mailboxes. (2004 AD)
4. 500 posting per hour was also set, which gives an average of 100 per mailbox.
5. Any postings exceeding these limits were not sent.
6. Notification of all email addresses not sent to, was sent to the mailbox.
7. This was in full accordance with the official SMTP protocol.
8. In July 2005, a posting was sent from 1 of the 5 mailboxes to another.
9. The TO: mailbox filtered the FROM: mailbox posting and it was not sent,
neither were the copies. (Fixed July)
10. No notification of the email addresses not sent to, was sent to the mailbox.
11. Previously the same posting worked normally as per SMTP.
12. In September 2005, all outgoing emails were filtered by subject line and
not sent. (Fixed October) See error message below.
13. No notification of the email addresses not sent to, was sent to the mailbox.
14. There appears to be two incompatible pieces of software, one of which does
not comply with the SMTP protocol.
15. These two lack of notifications invalidate the whole purpose of the SMTP
protocol.
Online Error Occurred.
Sending Email Message "Re: Big Bertha Thing blogs"
Reason: Error Reported by Server 451
Delivery Resource Unavailable (dm16.43286880.143cee)
Big Bertha Thing german
Warning on the The Rosary for the Holy Souls in Purgatory book, by Susan Tassone.
(Warning on the Pray the Rosary booklet by divinemercy.org)
1. This supports a meditation for each Hail Mary.
2. This excludes 3 minutes meditation on each decade.
3. The Simple Prayer Book by CTS gives 10 straight Hail Marys.
4. The CTS version fulfills most requirements for a Plenary Indulgence.
5. This Indulgence can get a Holy Soul out of Purgatory.
6. St. Dominic taught 10 straight Hail Marys.
7. St. Louis-Marie de Montfort taught 10 straight Hail Marys.
8. How can a book for Holy Souls not mention Plenary Indulgences?
9. St. Bernadette of Lourdes would not remember 200 meditations.
10. The Legion of Mary has issued warnings about the meditation for each
Hail Mary version.
11. This false version has been called the German Rosary.
12. It had an appalling effect on the rosary in Germany.
13. There is no Plenary Indulgence on this false version.
14. The sponsers have a devotion to Padre Pio.
15. Can they quote Padre Pio as being in favour of a meditation for each
Hail Mary?
Thank you,
Tony Lance |
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Big Bertha Thing pastures
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/cricket.html
Access page to 138K ZIP file
Astrophysics net ring Access site
Newsgroup Reviews including alt.support.attn-deficit
Worked example of Outlandish Particle Periodic Table in Structure Order,
complete with programs, source code in listing format and documentation.
Pastures Software Package.
(Particle Structure Results Program, in Fortran 77.)
Sub-atomic Mesons, Baryons and Leptons Classification System.
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1997
Distribute complete and free of charge to comply.
Big Bertha Thing cricket
The Rules of Cricket
by Tony Lance
1. 1st side goes in till all out. (10 out of 11)
2nd side goes in till all out.
1st side wins.
Exceptions;-
i Rain stops play is draw.
ii 2nd side scores more, game stops they win.
iii Equal final scores are a draw.
2. Every run counts one.
Exceptions;-
i A no runs boundary hit counts 4.
ii A no runs clean over boundary hit counts 6.
iii A no hit too wide counts 1.
iv A no hit boundary counts 4.
v A no hit over boundary counts 6. (missing rule)
vi A no hit can still be run.
3. Caught out or bowled out. (owzat!)
Exceptions;-
i Stumped out.
ii Run out.
iii Thrown out.
iv Trod on wicket.
v Retired injured.
Exception to all of above.
Runner for slightly injured.
Street Cricket
Forget all the exceptions and rules 1 and 2.
Equipment;-
i Cut out bat.
ii Rubber ball.
iii Piece of chalk.
Owner of bat goes first.
Owner of ball goes first.
Fielder bowls next.
Bowled out, bowler bats.
Caught out, catcher bats and swaps bat for ball.
The end
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 2000
Distribute complete and free of charge to comply.
Tony Lance
tonylance@big-bertha-thing.com
Big Bertha Thing debit
UK big banks have now made debit cards mandatory.
1. Every cheque book has a debit card.
2. You do not sign agreement for debit card.
3. Lost or stolen cards must be cancelled.
4. Insure debit cards for 1000 pounds sterling.
5. For every 8 pounds loss charged to the customer, the bank can
lend 92 pounds. (Multiplier)
6. Cheque guarantee card included.
7. Cash Card included.
8. Phantom withdrawals included.
9. 50 pounds cashback at supermarkets.
10. 250 pounds 'Hole-in-the-wall' withdrawals.
11. 100 pounds Post Office and bank withdrawals.
12. How do you prove that you have cut the card up and disposed of it?
13. How do you prove that you did not use it before destruction?
14. Cut the card up and give to your solicitor or third party for
safe-keeping. (Escrow)
15. The survival of the banks depends on putting customers to the
sword. (Barbaric) Obviously not all customers, just enough.
16. Unauthorized access to debit card accounts, includes both
criminals and bank insiders, which seem to be synonymous.
17. Authorized access to debit card accounts, includes bank
insiders, grazing on the customers like milk cows, in their
official capacity, as per job description.
18. You no longer need to prove this in a court of law, since it is
endemic and ubiquitous. (Common knowledge) Case law sufficient
for class action. |
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"goddess" <jewel4127@hotbox.ru> wrote in message news:e7u7e8$r7q$1@netnews.hinet.net...
[quote]God' s summons space/¸t¤lªº¥l³ê/
Welcome to my space:
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[snip binary brainlessly posted to a text only newsgroup]
Welcome to my killfile:
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Big Bertha Thing moisture
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/moisture.html
Access page to 73K ZIP file
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including misc.health.aids
Working Prototype of second phase Pastures software,
with 20 polyhedrons model and 200 buckminster fullerine molecules model,
complete with programs, source code in listing format and using Pastures
documentation.
Moisture Software Package.
(Based on Particle Structure Results Program, in Fortran 77.)
Sub-atomic Mesons, Baryons and Leptons Classification System.
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1997
Distribute complete and free of charge to comply.
Big Bertha Thing virus
18th October 1999
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the Keyboard.drv, but Windows is still down.
The new messages are;
1. Clock General Protection Fault in gdi.exe (system)
2. Progman Ditto krnl386.exe (system)
Clock.exe see windows. Progman.exe see windows.
The two options seem to be, to try another four files
for windows 3.11 or save up and update PC. (130 pounds)
They have a nice 486DX66 16MB 270MB hard-drive 14" SVGA
and win 95, at the same place I bought the 386PC. It
is four times faster too. My biggest program takes 7 hours
on standard IBM PC, 90 minutes on 386 and 20 minutes on
486DX, which has a built in maths co-processor.
My DOS browser can read newsgroups, send/receive e-mail, browse
web, but not receive attachments, look up my own site or
update it.
Keyboard.drv worked, but closed down every app in windows,
so there was no way out. Clever that. The scrub round was
in the book, for bypassing emm386. Wait till boot up gets
to MSDOS loading and press F8. Step through Config.sys
line-by-line with y answer. It then goes through autoexec.bat
to last line of win. N answer drops you out to DOS prompt.
Strange to say I can still work on my science maths project
using Fortran 77 in DOS. Apps down with windows are Free Agent,
WS-ftple, Winzip, F-Prot, Anyware Virus, Chekmate Virus, FirstClass
client.
It looks like I picked up a macro virus off a wordperfect attachment
from e-mail of a guy in newsgroup. Three virus apps missed it.
It is visible in notepad view of file after saving with write.exe.
Isolate 386 and do not update site.
You might check that my site is still up, by the back door and let me
know the count. <www.bertha.ndirect.co.uk/series.htm>
It could not have happened to a nicer chap.
Thank you,
Tony Lance
Big Bertha Thing designer
Once there was Big Blue, Baby Bell and Pax IBM.
Now ther is Big Bertha, Baby Bill and Pax Microsoft.
1980 The Greater London Council, Central Computer Service installation
standards for IBM mainframe had standard date subroutines as mandatory.
1980 No standards for Prime minicomputer, so date subroutine for program
was written to be 2075 OK, by me.
All IBM customers and suppliers applied IBM standards. Enforcement of these
standards means that the following instances can only be designer
software obsolescence.(Smoking Gun features.)
1. First PC operating system DOS was written 1980 (IBM/Microsoft) No 2000
2. Next PC operating system MS-DOS (Microsoft) No 2000
3. Windows 95 enabled macro virus (Microsoft) admitted
4. Windows 95 macro virus written by Microsoft.(admitted)
5. Windows 95 macro virus released by Microsoft.(admitted)
6. Windows 98 enabled text virus (Microsoft) admitted
7. Windows 98 no product recall, fix is on Microsoft website only.
8. Windows 98 to release virus just say it exists and fix is on website.
9. 1997 MS-DOS 6.20 licensed copy sold for Microsoft with no 2000.
10. 1999 Windows 3.11 virus closes all applications leaving no exit.
Big Bertha Thing history
1st virus was boot sector virus, which was first sector of floppy disc or
start here sector.
2nd virus was program virus, which is enabled with on/off switch, by
operating system as primary function thereoff.(exe, sys, com)
3rd virus was macro virus, which is enabled with on/off switch, by
wordprocessor or other application software.(doc)
4th virus was zip virus, which is enabled with on/off switch, by
zip application software.(zip)
5th virus was text virus, which is enabled with on/off switch, by
operating system as a purely viral function, otherwise uneccessary.(txt)
Since 1980 the text virus has been impossible. 18 years to crack it, with
Windows 98 by Microsoft.
42 million Windows 3.xx users.
12 million e-mail only users.
Windows 95 not known.
Windows 98 not known.
Tony Lance
judemarie@uku.co.uk
Big Bertha Thing chronicles
Did you hear the one about the chinese historian, Wan Thing the Just,
also called Just Wan Thing?
1. He does not exist.
2. He is a contradiction in terms.
3. He is a student of mythology.
4. You cannot write history by enforcing it.
5. Unofficial history is not an executable offense.
6. The errors and omissions page is bigger than the book.
7. He is a storyteller of the chinese diaspora.
8. Politics makes poor history.
9. He is a bigger liar than I am.
10.The father of lies, wishes he had written it.
11.The ancient greeks had the decency to call it myths and legends.
12.It is a 6000 year long political diatribe.
13.He invented '1984 newspeak.'
14.His name is mandarin, princeling and warlord. |
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Big Bertha Thing mathematics
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/maths.html
Access page to 600K ZIP file
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including sci.physics.particle
Postings potentially suitable for fowarding to;-
1.SRF Classical Mathematics
2.SRF Classical Astronomy
13th March 2003 sci.math and sci.astro newsfeeds dropped by university.
Onenet UK Astronomy & Space conference feed dropped by university.
OUSA Research conference still up, by invitation only. (empty)
UK politics internal conference setup next to
Net Access Policy (empty bar 3),
which was last target of the book-burners.
Politics makes poor science.
Big Bertha Thing ISP
23rd June 2000
Finance Director,
Ision Internet Plc.,
UK
Dear Sir,
Further to your letter of the 21st June 2000, regarding payment
of 56.36 pounds sterling, for 77 days ISP charges.
My last payment of 14.09, as detailed in your letter,
covered the three dates as follows;-
1st March 2000
2nd March 2000
13th March 2000
These were the only days of the previous 107 days,
when my site was not disabled, in more ways than one
and my mailbox locked up from me. Apparently the only person,
who can enable site access and password reset,
is your accounts manager. He can only be contacted
via national telephone lines, complete with revolving door
and canned musak.
You want a further payment of 56.36, to bring the charges
up to 23.48 per day. (At a rate of 8570.20 pounds sterling per annum.)
Please find enclosed herewith my cheque for 56.36
and a copy of my previous letter to you,
dated 12th June 2000. (recorded delivery)
In view of the extraordinary nature of these charges,
I would ask you to confirm just three things;-
1.That you have received payment by issueing a reciept. (Received)
2.That you will close my account as from todays date. (Closed 3rd July)
3.That there will be no further charges made against this account.
In mitigation of the conduct of your staff, it would appear
that they had some difficulty with my Usenet newsgroup postings,
as detailed on my new site.
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/news.html
I trust that this will be in order and will be looking forward
to the favour of your reply.
Thank you,
Tony Lance
mickalice@bigberthathing.co.uk
Big Bertha Thing Probe-B
In the Sunday Telegraph of 11th April 2004, the QED section, gave the story of
the Gravity Probe-B satellite launch. This is expected to prove the existence of
a new force of nature, proposed by Einstein.
Free Press Pack Download (11MB PDF)
http://www.gravityprobeb.com/gpb_presskit.pdf
There are one or two problems with this:-
1. Einstein never proposed this new force of nature. (Funding canard)
2. It is a magnetic force directly proportional to angular momentum. (Memomagnetism)
3. It is weak at Newtonian speeds and strong at near light speeds.
4. The big three in gyroscopes are Einstein, Professor Francis Everitt of
Stanford University and Harold Crabtree M.A.
5. One wrote the definitive book on the subject and the other two read it.
6. The relevant extract from the book is given below. (Spider published 4th March 1998)
7. They do not credit the costermonger, with the definitive experiment,
which proves the existence of the new force of nature.
8. They do not accept that the novelty item was a valid experiment.
9. They believe that the spider wheel was magnetized.
10. The costermonger did not magnetize the spider wheel, he exploited a force of nature.
11. The costermonger discovered, applied and sold the first working application.
12. There is an eye-witness account from 1850 by the author, which kindled his
life-long interest.
13. The description was published in 1909, in the same book.
14. The force of nature has been missing for 150 years, since its discovery.
15. The first modern publication on the subject is spider, on 4th March 1998. (Usenet)
16. Attribution and due credit are two of the failings of modern science.
Big Bertha Thing spider
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/spider.html
Access page JPG 11K Image
Astrophysics net ring Access site
Newsgroup Reviews including uk.rec.cycling
Drawing of a clockwork spider wheel and hairpin.
Extract from Introductory Chapter;-
The "Spider tops," which are frequently sold in the streets of London,
consist of a heavy little disc mounted on a spindle (Fig. XIV.).
When the disc has been set spinning a small curved piece of
metal is placed to touch the toe, and at once begins to slide round it,
first the side (a) in the figure, and then the side (b),
the motion continuing backwards and forwards till the top comes to rest.
The fact is that the toe is magnetic, and this being the case it is easy
to see that the rolling of the toe on the side of the metal produces
the motion.
From the book
An Elementary Treatment of the Theory of
Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motion.
By Harold Crabtree M.A.
Formerly Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Assistant Master at Charterhouse
Longmans, Green and Co. 1923
First Edition 1909
Second Edition 1914
New Impression 1923
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1998
Distribute complete and free of charge to comply.
Big Bertha Thing fact
Anything but a fact, changes the face of twentieth century science.
1. No iron moons and planetary cores.
2. No red shift measure of speed.
3. No Patrick Moore star at 95% the speed of light.
4. Muons arrive on earth.
5. Relativity is like an imaginary number; useful but not real.
6. Einstein-Haas gives a field strength 1/10000th the electric field.
7. Wave particle duality is a field effect.
8. Schroedinger is an approximation.
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Big Bertha Thing hacked
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/hacked.html
Access page to 15K ZIP file
Astrophysics net ring Access site
Newsgroup Reviews including alt.politics
301 files from the third battle of cyberspace.
Big Bertha Thing hacked
I can perhaps make a unique claim.
My Fortunecity web site has been closed, opened, hacked
and disabled by Fortunecity.
1. 30th October 2000 Closed
2. 30th December 2000 Opened
3. 31st December 2000 Hacked
4. 1st January 2001 Net ring code deleted
My Astrophysics web ring picture was replaced by a Fortunecity logo.
All I did was fight the third battle of cyberspace,
using my FC mailbox, amongst others and a mail to newsgroups gateway.
It was a text only battle, no hacking or even anonymous mail was used.
Site references were used instead of attachments.
Thank you,
Tony Lance
Big Bertha Thing reason
1. Third Battle of Cyberspace.
2. Death Threats.(3)
3. Newsgroup Review.
4. Odd newsgroup users with 1000 postings.
5. Berserker attacks on legitimate postings to sci.astro et al.
6. Political and totally innexplicable.
7. Net Newbie basket cases.
8. Violent spam busters.
9. Abuse complaints procedure.
10. Web site closure.
Take your pick, the opposition will not give you the choice.
Tony Lance
judemarie@uku.co.uk
Big Bertha Thing handcart
1. Gardening section of Daily Telegraph, on Saturday
17th November 2001, shows full front page spread
picture of pin-wheel rickshaw.
2. For another picture see;-
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/pinwheel.html
3. Both show load perfectly distributed.
4. Both are idealized pictures of a rickshaw that does
not exist.
5. A 19th century cheque-book journalist requested a
picture of an unnusual rickshaw, which was promised
for tomorrow.
6. A portrait painter, a landscape artist and a
cartoonist submitted quotes, which the cartoonist won.
7. A wheelborrow uses straight arm technology.
8. In common with a handcart, the so called pin-wheel
rickshaw, uses bent arm technology.
9. It is physically impossible and so unviable.
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Big Bertha Thing redoubt
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/redoubt.html
Access page to 600K ZIP file
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including sci.physics.particle
Postings potentially suitable for;-
1. SRF Classical Astronomy
2. SRF Classical Mathematics
3. SRF Classical Physics
4. SRF Classical Chemistry
After 15 months, an armistice term has just been fullfilled.(2nd Battle)
Student research project conferences, by invitation only, now available.
Battles without cost are not battles.
I have just had the following shot out from under me:-
1. www.bertha.ndirect.co.uk (disabled)
2. Paid UK ISP Net Direct. (15 months)
3. Professional newsgroup SP Dejanews.com (3 months)
To the victor the spoils. See my new newsgroup review
section, complete with copyright.
Big Bertha Thing memoriam
Tony died raising his best friends family,
His wife needed two helpers, his poor heart and him.
Carer, postman, welder and domino player.
RAF aircraft fitter at Battle of Britain and El Alamain.
Outboxed a voortrecker at middleweight.
Raised trade union branch president and
National officer of voluntary .org
Taught me to keep the faith,
Mend my bicycle and trigonometry.
His story is ended, but not yet finished.
Tony Lance
judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk
07 May 1998 19:29:10
Message
From: Tony Lance
Subject: Educating Rita
To: FC Mods FC Queries
Educating Rita
This film portrays a dominant spouse and a long-suffering
student, to the extent upto and including divorce,
book-burning and forced pregnancy.
There was zero privacy. Any attempt to re-register or
change the password would not work, because the secret
could not be kept.
Every posting by the spouse is a violation of OU rules
and the students education, causing real pain. Vetting
by one moderator or by several using a non-public Rita
conf. would not work, because the spouse would use the
students name, with all the further alienation that
would cause.
A new policy needs to be adopted. The last resort
punishment measure, needs to be the first resort
measure on compassionate grounds; that of making the
student read-only on FC. The student would thank you
for it, but not publically.
It would need to be agreed between ACS and OUSA, which
is what they are there for.
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Big Bertha Thing proton
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/proton.html
Access page JPG 55K Image
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including soc.history.medieval
Round photographic plates.
Caption;-
A pair of tracks, apparently arising simultaneously,
from a common point, outside the field of view.
The particles responsible for these tracks, have been ejected,
when a cosmic ray was absorbed.
The thinner track is that of a 120 MeV electron.
The more dense track is that of a 130 MeV proton.
This photograph was taken with a field of 17,000 oersteds.
From a book by
J.D.Stranathan Ph.D.,
Professor of Physics and Chairman of
Department, University of Kansas.
The "Particles" of Modern Physics.
(C) Copyright The Blakston Co. 1942
Big Bertha Thing laundry
My beautiful laundrette only had two machines,
so I asked my customers, if they would bring there own in.
Now we have seven machines and it is very nice.
Once we get the water pipes and electricity laid, it will be magnificent.
For water read data and electricity read documentation.
Pastures was released on OUSA Classical Particle conf.,
on 5th November 1997(Bonfire Night UK)
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1997.
To comply with my copyright,
please distribute complete copies, free of charge.
Tony Lance
judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk
10 December 1997 19:05:39
Message
From: Tony Lance
Subject: Big Bertha Thing jeremiah
To: OUSA Classical Particle
A film Jeremiah Johnson, not necessarily true.
A mountain man asked him, whether he was any good at skinning
bears. He said that he could skin them, faster than the mountain
man could catch them.
So running down the mountain, with a bear in hot pursuit. His
friend runs in the front door of the cabin and jumps out the
back window.
Quote
"You skin that one and I>ll go catch me another one!"
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Big Bertha Thing Halfrail
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/halfrail.html
Access page JPG 22K Image
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including uk.rec.gardening
Detail in photgraph of a model of Track on the Bottom Monorail Half.
Caption;-
Schilowsky>s Monorail Car.
Extract from Chapter V;-
73. Another ingenious application of the gyroscope to a monorail car
has lately (Feb., 1914) been made by Monsieur Schilowsky, a Russian
inventor.....
So far as experiments have gone at present the weight of the gyroscope
is designed to be something between 1/10th and 1/25th of the whole
weight of the car, while the two pendulums together are about 1/3rd
of the weight of the gyroscope.
The author is indebted to M. Schilosky both for the diagrams and the
photograph from which plate IV has been made. A model of the car has
been presented by the inventor to the Science Museum at South
Kensington and can be viewed by the public at anytime. An article
on this monorail is to be found in the issue of The Engineer
for January 23, 1914.
From the book
An Elementary Treatment of the Theory of
Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motion.
By Harold Crabtree M.A.
Formerly Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Assistant Master at Charterhouse
Longmans, Green and Co. 1923
First Edition 1909
Second Edition 1914
New Impression 1923
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1998
Distribute complete and free of charge to comply.
Big Bertha Thing handbook
1. Handbook thread one posting long.
2. Correctly attributed.
3. Professional.
4. Steet savvy.
5. Well read.
6. Appropriate.
7. Source softly spoken.
8. Solitary.
9. More Sesame Street than Darth Vader.
10. Optional, optimal and optical.
Tony Lance
judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk
From: Tony Lance <judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk>
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.chem
Subject: Re: Big Bertha Thing strategic
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:58:31 +0000
Tuesday, November 18, 1997 10:04:23 PM
Message
From: Tony Lance
Subject: Big Bertha Thing 1
To: FC Mods Discussion
From Bibliography of Pastures.(Optional)
The preface from
An Elementary Treatment of Gyroscopes and Similar Spinning Tops
by Crabtree 1909
Classic Cartoon and animated cartoon of
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
NB (2006) Stateside, all investment funding for super-colliders
is at ground zero; past, present and future.
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Big Bertha Thing astronomy
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/astro.html
Access page to 600K ZIP file
Astrophysics net ring access site
Newsgroup Reviews including sci.astro.amateur
Postings potentially suitable for fowarding to SRF Classical Astronomy
OUSA Research moderator gone missing
OUSA Astrology moderator gone missing
NOUS VOUS downgraded to OUSA VOUS
C-in-C winning side 1st and 2nd battles of cyberspace,
not yet reinstated.
Vice-chancellors heads should roll.
Big Bertha Thing ME
There is no test for ME, no diagnosis.
It is just a process of elimination.
So a doctor, who does not believe
Is just as right as one who does.
Where does this leave the hot and tired,
Pole-axed, without a leg to stand on victim?
The incidental pain of disbelief
Is compounded by the length of the chain.
Each link forged by an unshakeable lack.
Cigarettes were once not linked to cancer.
CJD was not linked to mad cows.
Crack nicotine cigarettes not branded by makers.
Pity the child taken into care for being ill.
A taxi used less and less cannot be justified.
Cancel a taxi because there are no medical grounds.
Attendance at school is purely subjective,
It depends on how the child feels getting up.
A medical note can improve exam marks.
DHSS guidelines believe in ME, at last!
Complex numbers can solve all the roots of polynomials to N powers.
Collapse numbers can count all the polka dots on any polygon exactly.
Tony Lance
judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk
From: Tony Lance <judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk>
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.chem
Subject: Big Bertha Thing warlord
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:17:10 +0000
Big Bertha Thing warlord
The last time I heard that an apology given under duress was valid,
was in the Monty Python' comedy sketch on the Spanish Inquisition.
Everytime anyone said Spanish Inquisition,
then 3 red cardinals turned up to organise it.
What do I have in comon with a Texas cattle baron?
He thinks that he is a bigger liar than I am. I think I am.
What does a drill sargeant have in comon with a chinese warlord?
He says that the sun will not rise tomorrow. His men believe it.
What is the difference between a Texas cattle baron and a
chinese warlord? The one knows he is lying. The other has never had the problem.
Big Bertha Thing adversity
Milton (1644) from The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing.
First, when a city shall be as it were besieged and blocked about,
her navigable river infested, inroads and incursions round,
defiance and battle oft rumoured to be marching up
even to her walls and suburb trenches;
that then the people, or the greater part, more than at other times,
wholly taken up with the study of the highest and most important matters
to be reformed, should be disputing, reasoning, reading, inventing,
discourcing, even to a rarity and admiration,
things not before discourced or written of,
argues first a singular good will,
contentedness and confidence in your prudent forsight,
and safe government, Lords and Commons;
and from thence derives itself to a gallant bravery and well-grounded contempt
of their enemies, as if there were no small number of as great spirits among us,
as his was, who when Rome was nigh besieged by Hannibal, being in the city,
bought that piece of ground at no cheap rate
whereon Hannibal himself encamped his own regiment.
Next, it is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory.
For as in a body, when the blod is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous,
not only to vital, but to rational faculties,
and those in the acutes and the pertest operations of wit and subtilty,
it argues in what good plight and constitution the body is;
so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up,
as it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety,
but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of contyroversy,
and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated,
nor drooping to a fatal decay,
by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs,
and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue,
destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man
after sleep, and shaking her inincible locks;
methinks I see her as an eagle nursing her mighty youth,
and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam;
purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance;
while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds,
with those also that love the twilight, flutter about amazed at what she means,
and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Big Bertha Thing liberty
Milton (1644) from The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing
What should ye do then,
should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung up
and yet springing daily in this city?
Should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it,
to bring a famine upon our minds again,
when we shall know nothing but what is measured to us by their bushell?
Believe it, Lords and Commons! they who counsel you to such a suppression,
do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves; and I will soon show how.
If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking,
there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild, and free, and humane government:
it is the liberty, Lords and Commons,
which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us;
liberty, which is the nurse of all great wits;
this is that which hath rarified and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven;
this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged,
and lifted up our apprehensions degrees above themselves.
Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing,
less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves,
that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty.
We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, slavish, as ye found us;
but you then must first become that which ye cannot be,
oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
That our hearts are now more capacious,
our thoughts more erected to the search and expectations of greatest and exactest things,
is the issue of your own virtue propagated in us; ye cannot suppress that,
unless ye reinforce an abrogated and merciless law,
that fathers may despatch at will their own children.
And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others?
not he who takes up arms for coat and conduct, and his four nobles of Dangelt.
Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities,
yet love my peace better, if that were all. Give me the liberty to know,
to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all liberties.
Big Bertha Thing indomitable
(1938) about biography of Lord Grey of Falloden
Lord Grey of Falloden sprang from a Northumberland family of country squires,
who for generations had played a part in public affairs.
His own pleasures lay in the country, but his sense of duty drove him into politics.
He was happiest fishing for trout, and watching wild birds,
but once he was a member of parliament his abilities and character
won for him a prominence that gave him little time for such pursuits.
From 1905 to 1916 Lord Grey was Foreign Secretary.
It is strange that the man whose heart was never entirely in politics
should have risen to such a high office, should have held it so long,
and in such crucial years.
It is possible to consider Lord Grey>s life as a failure.
His sense of duty prevented him from living the life he loved.
His efforts to preserve the peace of Europe suffered the defeat of August 1914,
that darkened the rest of his life.
He sacrificed his eyesight in his wartime service in the government.
When at last release came, and he returned to his birds and books,
he could no longer see them. Domestic griefs beset him.
Yet as our extract from his biography shows,
from this tragic material his serene and strong nature
won a greatness that is an inspiration and splendid example.(Two extracts follow)
He was equally cut off from books, of which as life advanced he had grown scarcely less
fond.
I classify the different parts of my body as being
of different ages, as thus:
Sense of smell aged 99 years
Eyes 95
Stomach 85
Sense of Hearing 56 (My age)
Brain 56
Heart and lungs 45
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Big Bertha Thing tidings
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/tidings.html
Access page for 4K Web Page
Astrophysics net ring Access site
Newsgroup Reviews including de.sci.physik
Tidings of the battle of Lens
From the book
Twenty Years After
by Alexandre Dumas
Published by George G.Harrup & Co.Ltd., 1923
Reprinted 1929
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1998
Distribute complete and free of charge to comply.
Big Bertha Thing nation
In "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute the heroine has to ride
forty miles through the "wet", at her first time on a horse,
to save someones life. She does it and ends up in hospital,
OK but unable to sit down for a week. Her fiancee gets told
"Thats some Sheila that you have got there mate."
Tony Lance
judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk
From: Tony Lance <judemarie@bigberthathing.co.uk>
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.chem
Subject: Re: Big Bertha Thing testament
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:00:03 +0000
Thursday, November 13, 1997 01:53:36 PM
Message
From: Tony Lance
Subject: Re: spam and tony
To: FC Mods Discussion
Guilty as charged, I should not have done any of the following;-
1. defended you in the mods conf.
2. given you an invitation, when the dogs were at the door.
3. offered a refuge for the explosion survivors.
4. ticked off the mods.
5. put your name up in lights on OUSA Astronomy and Astronomy and Space.
6. Put back the release of my software package, just because of the troubles.
Personally I would take me out and shoot me, there is no punishment too bad for
any mod, who gets even one complaint. We should be above reproach,
like Caesers' wife.
I will of course remove the words 'Extract to explain the project to Philip Sims'
from all further postings.
Please accept my appologies for all the bad things I did,
before your elevation to mod. I only pick on little people.
Thank you,
Tony Lance. |
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