Author Archive for: ‘admin’
M5.8 Earthquake in Virginia
Several QCN stations on the East Coast of the US recorded a M5.8 earthquake that occurred just outside of Mineral, Virgina at 17:51:04 UTC on 23 August 2011. Click here to view seismograms recorded by QCN stations at distances between 48 to 242 km (30 …
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New ONavi Sensor Windows Drivers Released
We are testing new drivers – if you are running a 32 or 64-bit Windows system, which is having trouble detecting or using the ONavi USB sensor, please refer to this message board thread for download links to the new drivers: http://qcn.stanford.edu/sensor/forum_thread.php?id=666
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Fix for Mac OS X Lion and JoyWarrior Sensors
I have built new Mac QCN clients and drivers to fix the problem with the new ‘Lion’ OS X upgrade and the JoyWarrior. Download and install the new driver from http://qcn.stanford.edu/download/qcnusb-mac.zip . Then click ‘Reset’ in BOINC Manager to get the new version. The problem …
Read More →Mac OS X ‘Lion’ Upgrade Problems (JoyWarrior Not Found)
If you are upgrading your Mac to use the new ‘Lion’ version of OS X – there are some issues with BOINC and QCN you may want to consider. It may be necessary to reinstall BOINC after the upgrade due to a permission problem detected. …
Read More →‘Citizen-seismologists’ sought to host tiny earthquake sensors on their computers
The construction is proprietary from the manufacturer “O-Navi.” You can buy QCN “construction kits” from another supported sensor (the JoyWarrior, from codemercs.com) ]]>
Read More →QCN Server Upgrades Starting Thursday June 16th
The servers are being upgraded today, and you may notice that they are down when you are trying to connect. This will hopefully be a temporarily problem. ]]>
Read More →Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin, Germany (June 28th-July 1st)
Carl from QCN will be presenting at the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin on June 29th (workshop on ‘open science’) and June 30th (panel discussion). ]]>
Read More →Asia@home Hackfest Videos Available
Thanks to BOINC & QCN participant ‘dudumomo’ – videos of the recent ‘Asia@home Hackfest’ are now available via torrent download. Each download is a few hundred MB and features talks by David Anderson of SETI@home and BOINC, and Carl Christensen and Elizabeth Cochran of QCN. …
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