We have been struggling with database problems for the past few days, though we made some progress today. Various services may still be up and down throughout the weekend, but we may be beyond the worst of it.

在过去几天一直挣扎于数据库的问题，今天我们取得了一些进展。虽然在周末各项服务仍不稳定，但已经越过最坏的情况。

Apple/Mac computers have been unable to get new workunits since yesterday - we're working on this bug.

Apple/Mac 电脑从昨天开始不能获得新的任务包 - 项目方正在处理这个问题。


There is an article at Wikinews about the budget cuts that threaten the Arecibo telescope.

维基新闻上有一则关于预算削减威胁到阿雷西博天文台的文章。

We've started creating work for SETI@home's new Astropulse application.  At first we will just create a small amount, but we expect to enter full production next week.

项目方已经开始为 SETI@home 新的 Astropulse 计算程序制作任务包。初期将只有少量，预期在下周能全面生产。

The upload server has been fixed. Once the system clears the backlog of results waiting to be uploaded, validated, and assimilated, disk space will clear up and this will allow new work to be generated.

上传服务器已经修复。但系统消化了积压的等待上传的结果并验证及同化后，磁盘空间将得到整理并使新的任务包可以生产。

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大概在稍后大家就可以获得新任务包了～

Some of our volunteers have started a 3 Day Donation Challenge.

一些志愿者已发起了3日捐助挑战。

Thank you to all who gave for Blurf's 3 Day Seti Donation Challenge! The final amounts are: $5977.65 Donated and $6500 Pledged.

『3日捐助挑战』一共收到 $5977.65 的捐款，总共 $6500 的认捐（包括已经收到的捐款）

Apparently people weren't satisfied with a 3 day challenge, so Blurf started a new 5 Day SETI Donation Challenge.

似乎大家之前的『3日捐款挑战』有不满，Blurf 开始了新的5日SETI捐款挑战。

年年募捐，能活下来不容易啊

TheFoundation for Computational Learning and Science is performing asurvey of BOINC users. The survey asks BOINC client users about theirdemographic data, level of education, income, project participation,level of interest, suggestions for improvement, and technical datarelated to their computers running BOINC. If you would like toparticipate the survey is here.

一项关于 BOINC 用户的统计调查，会被问及你的受教育程度，收入，项目的参与，感兴趣程度，提出改善建议，和运行boinc的一些技术信息。如果你想参与请到 这里。

New article from The Planetary Society: "Astropulse: A Fresh Look at the Skies in Search of E.T."

不如找人翻了吧~~~我准备报名~~~

试试到 wiki 来翻译：http://www.equn.com/index.php/As ... s_in_Search_of_E.T.

不怕他人重复工作～