1.24 October 2011
New: Toolbar allow: Allow network, Allow CPU/GPU.
Changed: Computer bar now aligns vertically and shows a vertical scroll bar if needed.
Changed: Computer bar can be in-place, re-sized horizontally.
Fixed: Serious: If the long term history, starts deleting items, the long term history can get corrupted.

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1.25 October 2011
New: Extra intervals in the Temperature graph. (3, 6 hour).
New: Menu->Extra item "Show active tasks", a duplicate from the tasks context menu.
New: Graph toolbar: Data transfer (BOINC V7) and long term history.
New: Update: Build in download and execute the setup.exe. Optional "old" browser method.
Changed: Notices: Update now uses the update dialog and build in downloader as the first option.
Changed: The temperature readings and graph are now TThrottle V 5.40 compatible. (3, 6 hour).
Changed: The temperature graph, now stores it settings.
Changed: Icon text: Show the connected computers, even if the computer(s) have no tasks.
Changed: Don't show a message box if another copy of BT is already running.
Changed: Use or to select a range in the views and graphics.
Changed: Notices: Notice from BOINC/BoincTasks/TThrottle give an icon alert. Previously: Every time at startup, now: A week after the message is gone.
Fixed: History color tab: no translation for button Missed Gpu.
Fixed: Dialog BoincTasks colors and fonts: Graphic tab wasn't stored using File->Write color settings.

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Just to say that BT on Ubuntu 11.10 (Ocelot) shows to work awesomely and can now (I could not before on previous Ubuntu's) be expanded to the full width of the screen.

What I did after installing this clean implementation with OpenGL and full bells GUI 3.2 Gnome:

1. Installed Wine 1.3+Winetricks from the Software centre which is better than Synaptic since the USC will include any pieces it needs in addition.
2. Downloaded v1.24 of BT
3. Opened Nautilus (with sudo to be sure all admin rights applied)
4. looked up the installer, right clicked for pop up menu and picked the winetricks option.
5. Let the installer run and when it asked at the end if a Windows, said no, if Linux said yes and when asked to create a desktop Icon it did (enabled in Gnome/Unity).

Launched and instantly got a running BT without to oldies known Windows 3.0 experience of a window in a window, basically now showing as a native app. It even shows an systray icon on the panel bar and BT being allowed for the window to be closed, continuing to run. The systray icon giving some controls including snooze and open and when mouse hovering presenting the gadget pop-up with all running tasks.

What I had to do for the remote devices was to explicitly enter port 31416 in the computers tab for each. UFW was set open for that port, but somehow that was not enough.

In short, with Linux have a fine fine running BT, no different in the way it shows on Windows, and this version of Wine (1.3) it runs in using very little CPU time. This screenshot with both the BT expanded and gadget view on Gnome 3.2 for an impression of the slick appearance.

2 thumbs up.

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P.S. of course, after all this praise [Ratelband 'chacka' motivational], a feature enhancement request :D. Could the network toolbar buttons be made working in all views, at least the tasks and messages view and also a button add to let network run always, overriding the scheduler. Those toolbar buttons (run per schedule and suspend network) have been great additions to fast upload/fetch work.

Just found that the network per schedule and network suspend work also work in the tasks view, long as the host is selected in the left margin. Sorry for missing that bit (don't know how :-)

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Just found that the network per schedule and network suspend work also work in the tasks view, long as the host is selected in the left margin. Sorry for missing that bit (don't know how :-)
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Even though it seems to work, it will properly function in V 1.26.

You know that your can drag the toolbars to another location.
E.g. you can place them all next to each other.
It is now possible to adjust the width of the computer bar by just adjusting the right border.

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1.26 November 2011
New: Warning message in Settings->General Option, if the BOINC Manager and BoincTasks are both set to start the BOINC client.
New: Transfer graph for BOINC V 7 (and 6.13.xx).
New: cc_config.xml editor for BOINC V 7 (and 6.13.xx).
New: Settings->History: A check "Time left not very accurate". In this mode the polling interval will be more frequent.
Changed: Starting and stopping the BOINC client, doesn't lock up the entire program. Moved to separate thread.
Changed: When stopping the BOINC client, BT uses a timeout of 1 minute, before showing the failed to stop the BOINC client message.
Changed: Allow toolbar now functions is all views except Notices.
Changed: Freehal was exclude from the smart History, it is included now.
Changed: If a task running state has changed (running -> upload), the next history fetch will be without any delay. Now it is after the minimum cycle.
Changed: Check if is more than one localhosts in the IP Address column. Rename the second one to localhost2.
Fixed: Temperature graph, cosmetic, adjusted the color indicators.
Fixed: Adding a new computer, use a blank group name instead of 0.

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1.27 November 2011
New: Additional logging options in log.xml.
New: If the garbage collector finds a files that is read only (serious problem) a popup box will appear.
Changed: Replace any spaces in the computer IP name with an underscore.
Changed: Moved the garbage collector to a separate low priority thread.
Changed: Start the garbage collector only once a day.
Changed: Reduce the wait time, if a history file read fails. This can cause excessive long start up times.
Changed: For any computer name containing localhost, like localhost2, localhost is used. So all of them point to the same localhost.
Changed: On exit, with "Stop BOINC client on exit" enabled, BT sends the client a quit message and closes down, without waiting for the client to respond.
Fixed: Transfer graph crashed, if not all computers where selected in the computer tab.

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1.28 November 2011
New: BoincTasks settings: Messages tab: Keep user definable number of lines.
New: Settings->Extra: Thread/process run time graph.
Changed: "Start BoincTasks at login" now removes the complete run key when the check is removed.
Changed: Rules, application name can use wild cards. (t?s? = test, test* = test1whatever, test* = test2).
Fixed: The position of the Credit graphic wasn't stored.
Fixed: The position of the TThrottle dialog wasn't restored.
Fixed: Using the update link in Notices didn't show the complete update dialog.
Fixed: Notices: sometimes notices weren't collapsible.
Fixed: Hotkey: Don't register hot keys that are set to none.
Fixed: (BOINC V7) Incompatible upload/download status.
Fixed: (BOINC V7) client adds zero entries to the cc_config file.

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Here's a bug I've been able to replicate with BT 1.27 in combination with 6.13.12 BC development:

In BT go to a project tab and select one that is suspended and work fetch stopped as well [double safety]. I forgot to select the correct project first and in the example the ABC project was the one at top! There's no work in progress/cache for said. Then resume work fetch and hit update, the project is still suspended! The client sends an update call and fetched 40 tasks. Abort these, hit update again, and these get reported combined with a fetch of 40 more.

Open the BOINC Manager and verify that project is still suspended [it was]. Abort the tasks there and hit update. No work fetch follows. [no work requested is logged]

Where the bug is, in BT or the core client, I did not try to ascertain, but if a project is suspended and update is hit, work is fetched when done through BT.

Maybe, if switching to projects tab, all projects could be auto-deselected first, so an accidental execution of an update is avoided. I should have selected another project that had only it's work fetch stopped but was not suspended. (For whatever reason the previously selected project is not remembered when returning to the project tab and switches back to the one at top of the alphabet?)

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Here's a bug I've been able to replicate with BT 1.27 in combination with 6.13.12 BC development:

In BT go to a project tab and select one that is suspended and work fetch stopped as well [double safety]. I forgot to select the correct project first and in the example the ABC project was the one at top! There's no work in progress/cache for said. Then resume work fetch and hit update, the project is still suspended! The client sends an update call and fetched 40 tasks. Abort these, hit update again, and these get reported combined with a fetch of 40 more.

Open the BOINC Manager and verify that project is still suspended [it was]. Abort the tasks there and hit update. No work fetch follows. [no work requested is logged]

Where the bug is, in BT or the core client, I did not try to ascertain, but if a project is suspended and update is hit, work is fetched when done through BT.

Maybe, if switching to projects tab, all projects could be auto-deselected first, so an accidental execution of an update is avoided. I should have selected another project that had only it's work fetch stopped but was not suspended. (For whatever reason the previously selected project is not remembered when returning to the project tab and switches back to the one at top of the alphabet?)

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I'm pretty sure this is a feature of the Core Client itself, nothing to do with BoincTasks.

I've just replicated the first part of this report (request - and receive - new tasks for a suspended project) on a simple, stand-alone v7.0.2 installation, using the native BOINC Manager alone.

Reported to boinc_alpha.

V 1.29

-Add: Help button to BoincTasks Settings.
-Add: Projects: Columns: Project rank and Team rank.
-Changed: Adjusted the height of the Computer sidebar.
-Changed: History, the backup is now optional and set to off in the BoincTasks Settings->History tab.
-Changed: Logging: Connection error text for timeout, and socket error.
-Changed: Find computers, removed the end address.
-Changed: Find computers, resolve computer name, if a password is set and a connection to the BOINC client can be made.
-Changed: Messages: If the max limit of messages is reached, only delete 100 messages at a time (/sec).
-Fixed: A connection could not be made. Now wait for the socket to say it's ready, before trying to authorize.
-Fixed: Add <exclusive_gpu_app> cc_config edit (config_editor.xml).
-Fixed: Show download error in properties.

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V 1.29

-Add: Help button to BoincTasks Settings.
-Add: Projects: Columns: Project rank and Team rank.
-Changed: Adjusted the height of the Computer sidebar.
-Changed: History, the backup is now optional and set to off in the BoincTasks Settings->History tab.
-Changed: Logging: Connection error text for timeout, and socket error.
-Changed: Find computers, removed the end address.
-Changed: Find computers, resolve computer name, if a password is set and a connection to the BOINC client can be made.
-Changed: Messages: If the max limit of messages is reached, only delete 100 messages at a time (/sec).
-Fixed: A connection could not be made. Now wait for the socket to say it's ready, before trying to authorize.
-Fixed: Add <exclusive_gpu_app> cc_config edit (config_editor.xml).
-Fixed: Show download error in properties.

Say Fred, I have 16GB of ram in My PC and yet BoincTasks still only shows 8GB physical and 15.99GB virtual, is there a reason this won't go up? I'm just curious. Yes I'm using v1.29 of BT.

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Say Fred, I have 16GB of ram in My PC and yet BoincTasks still only shows 8GB physical and 15.99GB virtual, is there a reason this won't go up? I'm just curious. Yes I'm using v1.29 of BT.

You mean the Messages tab?
That's the BOINC client output, seems to check out om my machines.

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Say Fred, I have 16GB of ram in My PC and yet BoincTasks still only shows 8GB physical and 15.99GB virtual, is there a reason this won't go up? I'm just curious. Yes I'm using v1.29 of BT.

You mean the Messages tab?
That's the BOINC client output, seems to check out om my machines.

Yeah It's the messages tab, can't get above 8GB of ram in Boinc, Yet I have 16GB of ram in Win 7 Pro x64 with an i5 750 cpu.

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1.30 December 2011
New: Logging.xml to log the closing process.
New: Rule, deadline.
New: Rule, no new work.
Changed: On a crash, restart BT, the next time to get a clean start.
Fixed: Long closing times.
Fixed: Right align the rank columns.
Fixed: Tasks Graph, behave strangely when days > 60. Days are limited to 60 days.
Fixed: History, rare crash on a pointer. (internal) removed a pointer redirection on the history.
Fixed: Sometimes BoincTasks keeps running at 100%, after a stalled BOINC computer thread. At closing (internal restart) BoincTasks tries to suspend or else kill the runaway thread.
Fixed: Messages, sometimes showed the _init_ text for a long time.
Fixed: Messages, slow with a large number of messages.

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TThrottle The way to control your CPU and GPU temperature.
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My other activities

Say Fred, I have 16GB of ram in My PC and yet BoincTasks still only shows 8GB physical and 15.99GB virtual, is there a reason this won't go up? I'm just curious. Yes I'm using v1.29 of BT.

You mean the Messages tab?
That's the BOINC client output, seems to check out om my machines.

Yeah It's the messages tab, can't get above 8GB of ram in Boinc, Yet I have 16GB of ram in Win 7 Pro x64 with an i5 750 cpu.

With some help, I fixed the problem, I had to rearrange two dimms, 1 and 3, then that problem went away.

Now to the next, I renamed My PC and yet the tab for computer in BT still says pc1.

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Now to the next, I renamed My PC and yet the tab for computer in BT still says pc1.

You have to manually rename the computer in the computer tab. (Click and edit)

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Now to the next, I renamed My PC and yet the tab for computer in BT still says pc1.

You have to manually rename the computer in the computer tab. (Click and edit)

Thanks, been a while, forgot about that. I'm using 1.30 so far.

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Hey Fred, since You made TThrottle and I'm using 5.50, two of My gpus are reading 0.0C and this isn't limited to TThrottle, the MSI Afterburner program also says somethings amiss, It can see the gpu usage across all 6 gpus, just not the gpu temp of 3 & 4(TThrottle 2 & 3, MSI starts at 1, You start at 0), I'm running Win7 Pro x64, Nvidia WHQL driver 285.62 x64 for the 3 GTX295 cards, multi-gpu is enabled on the 1st card, but not on the 2nd as I don't have a sli cable yet, If I could I'd raise the IOH & ICH pci-e voltage from wherever it is to 1.6v, as when I go to multi-gpu on the 1st two cards & only the the two cards(this does not apply to the 1st card when It's in multi-gpu by itself), I get a video driver crash(with a monitor on the 2nd card or a dummy plug, doesn't matter), but of course on the Asus P7P55D Pro has no such voltage adjustment available in the Bios & I have the latest too, It'd be nice If I could raise It from Windows and see what It is in real time.

Note: This would also happen in Vista Business x64 too, the driver there was 290.53 Beta, although the temp problem didn't occur.

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