[FMO] Re: Stardust@home experiences
- From: tonyhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: fmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:11:26 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
I've only gotten two of those "Error from Stardust" messages, but in both cases
there were obvious particle trails (though not enormous, like those
characteristic of the beta testing) in the images--very frustrating.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Aug 3, 2006 10:35 AM
>To: fmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [FMO] Stardust@home experiences
>
>Hi all,
>
>Finally managed to log in to stardust@home last night.
>
>The tutorial was very good, and I passed the test with zero mistakes.
>
>Then got to real reviewing (ha, reviewing again at last!!). All in all I
>managed
>to do 71 real pictures plus 27 calibration images (all identified).
>
>I had to re- login 4 times though to get so far, as several times I was bumped
>out with an error message (either "error from stardust" or "database error").
>After each such event, it generally took some time before I was able to
>re-login
>again.
>
>My experiences so far:
>
>
>Positive:
>
>* Review mechanism very easy
>
>* it is fun!
>
>
>Negative:
>
>* website soooooo slow...(and I have a FAST connection...)
>
>* too many website crashes necessitating re-login
>
>* they throw in way too many calibration images. For the first hour or so over
>half of my images were calibration images, later about 1/3rd. That is too
>much,
>I found it very annoying.
>
>
>Oddities:
>
>* I had a number of movies where the sharp surface focus was way at the bottom
>of the bar. I reported them as "bad focus" but wonder whether these were
>actually movies with the image sequence the wrong way around.
>
>* I had one movie where halfway the frames clearly were of another area.
>
>
>Nevertheless, it is good to have something to do again. This is a good new
>alternative to the late FMO project.
>
>- Marco
>
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