Posts by old_user5306

1) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Main CPDN boards down? (Message 10516) Posted 7 Mar 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi all, Great news! The phpBB board should be back up by the end of the week! Sylvia has spoken to Open University, where they were being hosted before the hacking problems, and they are now happy to put the board back up again. The new release of phpBB fixes the problems with the older version, so they feel that it is now safe to put the board online. We'll keep you all posted as things happen - you'll be the first to know when it's up! Thanks again for your patience, Hannah
2) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : CPDN WOWmugs are available to buy! (Message 10345) Posted 4 Mar 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Climateprediction.net WOWmugs are now available to buy from the University of Oxford Shop: <a href="http://www.oushop.com/acatalog/Climateprediction_net.html">http://www.oushop.com/acatalog/Climateprediction_net.html</a> Pour hot water in them and see the climateprediction.net design appear! The message around the top says "What will the climate be like in 2053?" The mugs were designed and commissioned by participants, and special thanks go to Honza and Martin Sykes. All the profits go to the project for communication purposes, which means another project open day may be on the horizon...
3) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : User of the Week! (Message 10107) Posted 28 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi, Our new User of the Week is KeeperC! <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/user_week/user_of_week.php">http://www.climateprediction.net/user_week/user_of_week.php</a> Note that the most recent trickle date is probably totally out of date now. That's going to be the last User of the Week for a little while - I'm away on holiday in New Zealand soon, but User of the Week will return when I do in April :o) Cheers, Hannah
4) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : French-Canadian Radio Programme about Climate Change (Message 9978) Posted 25 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi Arnaud, I think they're Windows Media Files, so it might be that Winamp can't play them. Hannah
5) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Main CPDN boards down? (Message 9837) Posted 23 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi, Well, I can now you give you an update on where we are with the phpBB. Everyone here is really keen to get it back up, somewhere, somehow, but it's going to have to be hosted at one of the project's organisations: either here in Oxford, or at RAL. It seems that the bugs in phpBB have been fixed, so as soon as we sort out a new machine and hosting, we'll import the database from the old forum and get it up and running for everyone to use on the new machine. As you can imagine, this may take us a little while, and I can't guarantee you a date, so please, please be patient with us. In summary, the phpBB forum will be back soon! Thanks, Hannah
6) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : User of the Week! (Message 9694) Posted 21 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: And this week's User of the Week is DaveN! <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/user_week/user_of_week.php">http://www.climateprediction.net/user_week/user_of_week.php</a> Congratulations and thanks for all your help :) Hannah
7) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Main CPDN boards down? (Message 9688) Posted 21 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi, Just to update people about the situation with the phpBB. We're in daily discussions about what the best move to make is. It's become a difficult issue about server security and personal information, as I mentioned recently, but that doesn't mean that nothing is going to happen! We really appreciate everyone's frustrations about the boards - both the phpBB and the BOINC forum are vital to the project, and we are very sorry if some participants feel the need to pull out of the project entirely because of these problems. We are working on a solution, and would very much appreciate your continued patience while we sort it out. As always, the project could not exist without its participants, so thank you to everyone who's contributed computing power, and equally thank you to those who've helped create the climateprediction.net community. Hannah
8) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Main CPDN boards down? (Message 9356) Posted 15 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi, Sylvia's point about security and legal issues was specifically about the Data Protection Act. When you sign up to the phpBB forum, you give us your personal information, including your email address. The University of Oxford, where the project is based, is covered by the Data Protection Act, and we cannot give out that information to a third party without your consent. We take the protection of your personal information very seriously, and so it's very difficult for us to allow a server outside the University to host the old forum, as it is, with its database of names and email addresses. We very much appreciate your offer, Beezlebub, and we don't want to sound like we're dimissing it, but I hope you can understand our predicament with regard to data protection. We're still working on ways to get the old forum back up again, and we'll keep you posted as to any progress. Many thanks, Hannah
9) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : User of the Week! (Message 9294) Posted 14 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi, And this week's User of the Week is Les Bayliss! <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/user_week/user_of_week.php"> http://www.climateprediction.net/user_week/user_of_week.php</a> Thanks go to Les and to all the other participants who have been so helpful on the forums, Cheers, Hannah
10) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : French-Canadian Radio Programme about Climate Change (Message 9292) Posted 14 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi, One of our project students, Nick Faull, has been interviewed (in French) about the project for a programme on climate change for Radio Canada. You can listen to the programme from their website: <a href="http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/lumiere/"> http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/lumiere/</a> Cheers, Hannah
11) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Exeter conference- Guardian article (Message 9074) Posted 10 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi, For those of you who are interested, I've put the talk that Dave Stainforth did at the Stabilisation 2005 meeting in Exeter up on the website: It's the last item on the Publications page: <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/science/publications.php"> http://www.climateprediction.net/science/publications.php</a> Cheers, Hannah
12) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : User of the Week! (Message 8787) Posted 7 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi Guys and Gals! We have a new User of the Week! It's .... JBL! <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/user_week/user_of_week.php"> http://www.climateprediction.net/user_week/user_of_week.php</a> Congratulations! Cheers, Hannah
13) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Four times as much energy is used to produce a PC as it uses during its whole lifetime (Message 8434) Posted 2 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Actually, the wastefulness of disposable carrier bags is only one reason to resuse instead. The other is that it's a huge waste of resouces, namely the oil used to make plastics. Recycling is good, but reusing is even better because it doesn't use up anything to do, except perhaps, a little time and effort! Hannah
14) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Four times as much energy is used to produce a PC as it uses during its whole lifetime (Message 8428) Posted 2 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: I think the EU are trying to make manufacturers be responsible for collecting the waste and disused equipment from their products: http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/waste/weee_index.htm Of course, the EU website is so unclear, that I'm not sure if this is already law, or if it's going to be or what. Still, I think giving companies an incentive like that might push them to make longer-lasting equipment, and wrap them up in less packaging. Otherwise, the economics of it encourages them to make stuff that needs replacing or upgrading as often as possible. Incidentally, our local recycling plant accepts old computer bits which, I believe, they pass on to prisons, if they're usable, else pull apart and recycle if they're not. We finally got rid of a huge, broken, monitor recently, which has cleared loads of space from our spare room! On a related note, one of my pet gripes is the number of plastic carrier bags we use in supermarkets. It seems so wasteful to use a bag once, then put it in a landfill, where it won't bio-degrade. At least the Co-op (being the Co-op) is using bio-degradable carrier bags now. Maybe we in the UK should try charging for carrier bags, like they do in Ireland, just a few pence, but enough that people decide it's worth reusing bags. Hannah
15) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Article in Wired Magazine (Message 8423) Posted 2 Feb 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi, I've put the link to the aritcle in Wired, and a whole bunch of other articles about the project and the Nature publication, on the "In the News" page on the website: <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/project/inthenews.php"> http://www.climateprediction.net/project/inthenews.php</a> However, there were so many articles that I couldn't put them all up there! Hannah
16) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : User of the Week! (Message 8230) Posted 31 Jan 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi All, This week's User of the Week is DJezz, otherwise known as Yves Laviolle, who has been one of the many French participants to help with the translated version of the website. <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/user_week/user_of_week.php">User of the Week</a> and <a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/versions/FR/index.php">The French translated pages</a> Many thanks to DJezz, and the French participants for the translations, Cheers, Hannah
17) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : New member..but what...? (Message 7718) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by old_user5306 Post: Hi, There's a bit about interaction with the globe graphic on the "Getting Started" page on the website: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/download_main.php#vis I hope that helps, Thanks, Hannah
18) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : CPDN makes BBC Website top news story. (Message 7709) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by old_user5306 Post: > Hi, > > You can now read the full paper from our website, by downloading it from: > http://www.climateprediction.net/science/pubs/nature_first_results.pdf > > This is linked to from the News page, and from Climate Science/Publications. > > Hannah > If you see any other stories about the project in the media, please do let us know. Either post to this forum about it, or email Sylvia (sknight[at]atm[dot]ox[dot]ac[dot]uk. Cheers, Hannah
19) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : CPDN makes BBC Website top news story. (Message 7708) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by old_user5306 Post: > Nature article <a> href="http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7024/abs/nature03301_fs.html&dynoptions=doi1106810484">here</a> > > But you need a subscription to read more than the abstract :-( > Hi, You can now read the full paper from our website, by downloading it from: http://www.climateprediction.net/science/pubs/nature_first_results.pdf This is linked to from the News page, and from Climate Science/Publications. Hannah
20) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Bets on for 20,000 active BOINC hosts?? (Message 7707) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by old_user5306 Post: > > ... does anyone have a link to the actual abstract??? I can't find it > anywhere > > on the Nature website... > > > > You can get to the summary paragraph <a> href="http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7024/abs/nature03301_fs.html&dynoptions=doi1106816686">here</a>. > But if you click on the links in the menu on the left you just get to a > subscriber log-in page. There is no free access. > Hi, You can now read the full paper from our website, by downloading it from: http://www.climateprediction.net/science/pubs/nature_first_results.pdf This is linked to from the News page, and from Climate Science/Publications. Hannah