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it's been a busy night, but BLOG space is available to those whom inquirer

26 February, 2007 04:58 CST6CDT

Cross-posted from my personal blog (http://myside.myspew.com/):

It has been a busy night for me indeed.  My mission was to enable LifeType's BLOG sub-domains.

I thought this was going to be an easy step with GoDaddy's DNS utilities.  However, I quickly realized that I was unable to create a wildcard A name record nor an alias.  Frustrated, and sure as hell I could do it, I called customer support.

The representative had to call a different level support guru.  When he got back to me, he said he would make the changes while I was on the phone.  He failed, trying everything I already did.  He was back on the phone with the guru's and was then told that I would need a virtual or dedicated server package.  Obviously bumbed out at this, I said thank you, but by.   This after he told me if I were to purchase these services, tech support would not help with setup, but hinted that it is possible with the user's available tools.

Playing with the A records a bit, I realized that I could assign *.mypew.com and a private IP.  Before this I was using just (*) and the shared IP, hoping it would resolve correctly.

Let me mention before I go on..  I tried playing with the .htaccess files trying to change some Apache site variables, but they all failed miserably making my sight inaccessible.

Now all I needed was a dedicated IP.  This costs just a couple dollars a month, and worth it if you need some major DNS tweaks.  So far it has been fun.

So I created the record: *.myspew.com ip.ip.ip.ip  Look it up yourself, if you wish.

I then proceeded to my .htaccess file to insert some nasty redirections and alias information.  However, I found none of these changes were needed so I later removed the messy declarations.

I changed a few settings in LifeType, and WALA!  The 3rd level domains are now the BLOG owner's user name.  All is working great.

Why did I do this?  I figured if any friends, or friends of the friends of mine reading this wants a BLOG, it might be available to them.  Hint Hint, drop me an e-mail if you want a BLOG on this domain.  This goes for anyone on the EINSTEIN@HOME FreeBSD team also.


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Interesting and Important WU Data Information...

19 February, 2007 10:40 CST6CDT

January 19, 2006
A couple of days ago Einstein@Home issued the last workunits from our first search of LIGO S5 data. The post-processing of these results will begin in a few weeks when the last result from these workunits is returned. Meanwhile we are gearing up to begin a new type of more sensitive search (called a hierarchical search). Unfortunately this is not yet ready. In the meantime we are extending the first S5 search to a larger range of spin-down ages than previously. We apologize for some problems that occured in the last few days as we finished one search and started another. We are still coping with some hardware problems, which complicated the transition. For further details please see this message board thread.


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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:

Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite. Einstein@Home volunteers have already discovered more than a dozen new neutron stars, and we hope to find many more in the future. Our long-term goal is to make the first direct detections of gravitational-wave emission from spinning neutron stars. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but have never been directly detected. Such observations would open up a new window on the universe, and usher in a new era in astronomy.


My name is Andy Wright - the founder, but really the creator of Team FreeBSD. If you want me to add any links, or have any questions or inclinations for such things related to our group (or to just say hi) - send me an e-mail: einstein@extracted.org or Skype name: extracted


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02/01/2012 06:56 AM
Einstein@Home volunteers discover three new radio pulsars in Arecibo data
Einstein@Home volunteers have discovered three new radio pulsars in Arecibo PALFA data -- the eighth, ninth and tenth new radio pulsars found by Einstein@Home volunteers in this data set! Congratulations to:
  • Peter van der Spoel, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • Edvin Grabar, Pula, Croatia
  • Shadowfax, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Cauche Nathanael
  • John-Luke Peck, TerraPower & Intellectual Ventures, Seattle, Washington, USA
  • Mark Henderson, Morristown, Tennessee, USA

Further details about these newly-discovered pulsars can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course. Bruce Allen Director, Einstein@Home