<cc_config>
   <options>
       <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
   </options>
</cc_config>

// It is possible that computing (CPU or GPU) could be suspended indefinitely if the idle time required before continuing computing is longer than the time required to suspend computing when the computer is idle.  In this case an alert message will be sent.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Peer’s Certificate has expired.

HTTP Strict Transport Security: false
HTTP Public Key Pinning: false

I have Asteroids@home, Einstein@home, and Milkyway@home running. I have run Boinc for most of 20 years so it has few mysteries.

Tried setting prefferences again and it doesn't change the file.

Something we're all prone to as we get older!

Grumble... wonder if this is happening to anyone else on Gmail or other mail systems???

But I want to know what is happening with the other projects.

Confirmed. David Cameron is the new foreign secretary. Means he’s going to the Lords.

Go to options>computing preferences>disk

11/10/2023 8:17:50 AM | Asteroids@home | URL https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID 755748; resource share 100

11/10/2023 8:17:50 AM | | - max download rate: 51200 bytes/sec
11/10/2023 8:17:50 AM | | - max upload rate: 51200 bytes/sec
11/10/2023 8:17:50 AM | | - max disk usage: 0.00 GB

11/10/2023 8:58:45 AM | Asteroids@home | Message from server: Period Search Application needs 95.37MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 95.37 MB.

I received a notice that BOINC is not running.

All I can tell you is the message I see on my monitor is "No tasks running".

Can i expect the client autostart delay option to appear directly in the manager settings?

Apple has released a new version of their operating system, and once again it has broken the BOINC screensaver. There are at least two problems:

* The BOINC installer doesn't set BOINC as the screensaver.

* The most serious problem: After the screensaver runs, the entire screen stays black after you move the mouse, press a key, etc. If this happens, the best workaround I've found so far is to hold down the command and shift keys while pressing Q to log out of the system, then log back in.

BOINC users who have BOINC set as their screensaver should change to a different screensaver until I can release a new version that fixes these issues. To do this, they can select "System Settings" from the Apple menu, then select "Screen Savers" from the left side of the window that appears, then click on any other screensaver.

It turned out after experimentation that the script worked if I started my script in /hdd/boinc-client (my choice of BOINC data directory), but not in the location I'd used previously.

client_state.xml is replaced by a read-only version

Summary

* Nasa officials have been speaking about a newly-published, lengthy study into hundreds of reports of UFOs - or UAPs, as it calls them
* It says most UFO sightings have been explained, but there are a few that are not "known human-made or natural phenomena"
* Nasa says there is no reason to conclude that extra-terrestrial sources are behind the UAPs, but it also cannot rule out that possibility
* The organisation says it wants to create a "roadmap" for future study and wants to move from "sensationalism to science" - which has pledged to do transparently
* The report details how artificial intelligence could be used to investigate future sightings
* It says it's important for national security and air safety - 16 of the world's leading data and AI scientists have worked on the study

Can anyone tell me whether there is a way to put the "slots" folder only onto a different drive (e.g. Ramdisk)?

Your next action should have been to run the 'attach to project' wizard, and follow the steps with the email and password appropriate to the project - not your BOINC name/password. Unfortunately, those steps are not reported in the BOINC message log until the whole process is complete.

On my router I set up the ports that a quick search seemed to indicate boinc and boincmgr utilize to pass through to the specific computer I am trying to run on.

Modern Android version limit a lot applications background activity. There is not much we can do about this. Important to note, such limitations are different for different device manufacturers (I may assume this hardly depends on the hardware, but I'm not sure), and sometime even manually adding application to the exceptions in the Battery Optimizations list doesn't help a lot since OS kernel might kill the application when it's not used by the user (screen is off, no any user interactions with the device).
I observe this behavior on both of my Xiaomi devices and have no such issues on my Samsung Galaxy device.
Battery Optimization Mode will be handled in #4420.
Case no. 4 will be handled in #5305.

—

Transfer tasks on WiFi only (unchecked - there's no SIM anyway)

• improve implementation of CPU throttling
  
• the default value for the "suspend_if_no_recent_input" pref is 0, not 60
  
• if sched request fails, show the scheduler URL (that might be the problem)
  
• Show alert if idle time to resume computing is greater than idle time to suspend computing
  
• ignore old prefs sent by projects or AM
  
• avoid overscheduling CPUs in presence of MT jobs
  
• Manager: computing prefs dialog bug
  
• Manager: Add button in event log to display only alerts (errors)
  
• Manager: Improve consistency of control labels and accelerators
  
• Manager: Show native names for language options, and only those for which translations are available
  
• Android: if suspend because of battery heat or charge, don't resume for at least 5 minutes.
  
• Mac: Support Dark Mode in Advanced View
  
• Mac: Add standard command-comma shortcut for Preferences menu item
  

BOINC client 7.24.1 available for testing, can be downloaded from https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php.
Report your test results at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php

Thanks for your help testing BOINC, and thanks to Vitalii Koshura and Charlie Fenton for their hard work in making this release.

Problem: I don't think my BOINC Is working correctly.

I thought 7.18 was the version that only worked on Android?

Also worth mentioning and to confuse things. That working result looks to have been from when boinc was running on a windows machine I had for work..

/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service; disabled;

Thus Carbon Monoxide is very slightly less dense than air

so will slowly fill a room from the top.

Our CO detector is in the kitchen while our CO2 detector is in the hallway.
They are LOUD, so there is no way one can sleep through them.

Did in fact mention that to the technician but he shrugged his shoulders & said, eventually the landline system will be shutdown.

They say it's not an easy task. So obviously someone doesn't want to bother thinking about visually impaired people.

On Friday, to celebrate the 20th birthday of ESA’s Mars Express, you’ll have the chance to get as close as it’s currently possible get to a live view from Mars. Tune in to be amongst the first to see new pictures roughly every 50 seconds as they’re beamed down directly from the Visual Monitoring Camera on board ESA’s long-lived and still highly productive martian orbiter.

“This is an old camera, originally planned for engineering purposes, at a distance of almost three million kilometres from Earth – this hasn’t been tried before and to be honest, we’re not 100% certain it’ll work,” explains James Godfrey, Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

“But I’m pretty optimistic. Normally, we see images from Mars and know that they were taken days before. I’m excited to see Mars as it is now – as close to a martian ‘now’ as we can possibly get!’

They can't even deliver the mail properly.

Quake-Catcher Network: End of QCN
I am relaying this important message from QCN management at EarthScope. You may have already received this message as an email if you are registered in our database as a QCN station user.

The QCN program will end as of June 1, 2023. We are committed to do our best to keep the QCN software running through that time, and after that time the server will be decommissioned as the program sunsets.

We appreciate your engagement in this program through the years. We know you will be interested in continuing to include seismic data in your teaching. Thus, we encourage you to explore our educational software package jAmaSeis (https://www.iris.edu/hq/jamaseis/ ) which allows classroom access to real-time seismic data from research quality stations from around the world and other commercially available sensor options, a primary example: Raspberry Shake (https://raspberryshake.org/ ) if you would like to continue to record seismic data locally. There are other educational sensors on the market, and we put significant effort into being able to stream the data from available sensors through our products.

Please reach out if you have any questions.

Tammy Bravo
tammy.bravo{at}earthscope.org

A potential intermediate-mass black hole may be lurking in Messier 4, the nearest globular star cluster to Earth, new Hubble data reveals.

The Hubble Space Telescope may have just found a rare "missing link" black hole hiding in Earth's cosmic backyard.

Located roughly 6,000 light-years away at the core of the nearby star cluster Messier 4, the intermediate-mass black hole candidate is an ultradense region of space packed with the mass of 800 suns, causing nearby stars to orbit it like "bees swarming around a hive," according to the researchers who detected it.

"It's too tiny for us to be able to explain other than it being a single black hole," study lead-author Eduardo Vitral, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, said in a statement. "Alternatively, there might be a stellar mechanism we simply don't know about, at least within current physics."

Android

- Display disk usage on project tab
- Added an option to have task details always expanded

Dear alpha testers:

A new BOINC version is ready for testing on Windows and Mac OS.

You can download it from here:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

A summary of changes is here:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes

Please report test results here:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php

Thanks for your help.


-- David

"Use at most N % of the CPUs" still doesn't seem to have any effect. All CPUs are constantly at 100%, even when limiting to 0.01%

It would be better to do stuff you know you can get done in time first.

Hi All,

I am going to be taking the project offline shortly. This is to bring a new server into the project, and to shift the backend work to that new server. I will be needing to take a database dump and then upload this to the new server, so I anticipate that this will take a few days to complete during which time the project will be offline.

Best wishes,

Andy

Well, you didn't have to peek

However, it would be nice if BOINC updated ALL_PROJECTS_LIST.XML to have the correct attachment url.

14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/viewNoticesRSSFeed.action?userIdHash=169974_edf17a5b8421cc294c6dace3cc57d81d

Can you please post all contents of both global_prefs.xml and global_prefs_override.xml, if the latter exists? You can open these with Notepad, and they're found in your BOINC data directory, default in a hidden directory at C:\Programdata\BOINC\, so fill in the address in Windows Explorer and hit Enter.

Edit: and can you please post the first 30 or so lines of a start up log after you started BOINC?

Much loved husband, father, brother, band mate and friend Mark Sheehan passed away today in hospital after a brief illness. The family and group ask fans to respect their privacy at this tragic time.

14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Connected to www.worldcommunitygrid.org (199.241.167.118) port 443 (#20)
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET /viewNoticesRSSFeed.action?userIdHash=169974_edf17a5b8421cc294c6dace3cc57d81d HTTP/1.1
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: www.worldcommunitygrid.org
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_x86_64 7.20.2)

4/14/2023 10:27:12 AM |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Connected to www.worldcommunitygrid.org (199.241.167.118) port 443 (#3)
4/14/2023 10:27:12 AM |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  schannel: disabled automatic use of client certificate
4/14/2023 10:27:12 AM |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  ALPN: offers http/1.1
4/14/2023 10:27:12 AM |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  schannel: next InitializeSecurityContext failed: Unknown error (0x80092013) - The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline.
4/14/2023 10:27:12 AM |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Closing connection 3

I noticed in the changelog that instead of using C:\Program Files\BOINC\ca-bundle.crt like earlier branches, the 7.20 branch uses Windows's built-in CA certificates.

The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline

and everything to do with why 7.20 (which uses Windows's CA certificate bundle instead of BOINC's ca-bundle.crt) doesn't work.

14/04/2023 15:38:57 | World Community Grid | update requested by user
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/viewNoticesRSSFeed.action?userIdHash=169974_edf17a5b8421cc294c6dace3cc57d81d
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | Not requesting tasks: "no new tasks" requested via Manager
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] HTTP_OP::init_post(): https://scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Found bundle for host: 0x21446c3b6f0 [serially]
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Re-using existing connection #20 with host www.worldcommunitygrid.org
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Connected to www.worldcommunitygrid.org (199.241.167.118) port 443 (#20)
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET /viewNoticesRSSFeed.action?userIdHash=169974_edf17a5b8421cc294c6dace3cc57d81d HTTP/1.1
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: www.worldcommunitygrid.org
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_x86_64 7.20.2)
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_GB
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: p_vendor>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <p_model>AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 113 Stepping 0]</p_model>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <p_features>fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topx page1gb rdtscp fsgsbase bmi1 smep bmi2</p_features>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <p_fpops>5338311270.927796</p_fpops>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <p_iops>16277292994.575529</p_iops>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <p_membw>90909090.909091</p_membw>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <p_calculated>1681479301.529600</p_calculated>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <p_vm_extensions_disabled>0</p_vm_extensions_disabled>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <m_nbytes>34281639936.000000</m_nbytes>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <m_cache>524288.000000</m_cache>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <m_swap>39381913600.000000</m_swap>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <d_total>4000776716288.000000</d_total>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <d_free>2968820645888.000000</d_free>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <os_name>Microsoft Windows 10</os_name>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <os_version>Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.19045.00)</os_version>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <n_usable_coprocs>1</n_usable_coprocs>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <wsl_available>0</wsl_available>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:     <coprocs>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: <coproc_ati>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <count>1</count>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <name>AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT</name>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <available_ram>8573157376.000000</available_ram>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <have_cal>0</have_cal>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <have_opencl>1</have_opencl>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <peak_flops>9292800000000.000000</peak_flops>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <CALVersion></CALVersion>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <target>0</target>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <localRAM>8176</localRAM>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <uncachedRemoteRAM>0</uncachedRemoteRAM>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <cachedRemoteRAM>0</cachedRemoteRAM>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <engineClock>1815</engineClock>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <memoryClock>0</memoryClock>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <wavefrontSize>0</wavefrontSize>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <numberOfSIMD>0</numberOfSIMD>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <doublePrecision>0</doublePrecision>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <pitch_alignment>0</pitch_alignment>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <surface_alignment>0</surface_alignment>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <maxResource1DWidth>0</maxResource1DWidth>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <maxResource2DWidth>0</maxResource2DWidth>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server:    <maxRes
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Info:  Found bundle for host: 0x2144918b2c0 [serially]
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Info:  Re-using existing connection #21 with host scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Info:  Connected to scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org (199.241.167.118) port 443 (#21)
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: POST /boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi HTTP/1.1
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Host: scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_x86_64 7.20.2)
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept: */*
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_GB
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Length: 11428
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: l>AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor [Family 23 Model 113 Stepping 0]</p_model>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <p_features>fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topx page1gb rdtscp fsgsbase bmi1 smep bmi2</p_features>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <p_fpops>5338311270.927796</p_fpops>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <p_iops>16277292994.575529</p_iops>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <p_membw>90909090.909091</p_membw>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <p_calculated>1681479301.529600</p_calculated>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <p_vm_extensions_disabled>0</p_vm_extensions_disabled>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <m_nbytes>34281639936.000000</m_nbytes>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <m_cache>524288.000000</m_cache>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <m_swap>39381913600.000000</m_swap>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <d_total>4000776716288.000000</d_total>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <d_free>2968820645888.000000</d_free>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <os_name>Microsoft Windows 10</os_name>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <os_version>Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.19045.00)</os_version>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <n_usable_coprocs>1</n_usable_coprocs>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <wsl_available>0</wsl_available>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:     <coprocs>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server: <coproc_ati>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <count>1</count>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <name>AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT</name>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <available_ram>8573157376.000000</available_ram>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <have_cal>0</have_cal>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <have_opencl>1</have_opencl>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <peak_flops>9292800000000.000000</peak_flops>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <CALVersion></CALVersion>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <target>0</target>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <localRAM>8176</localRAM>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <uncachedRemoteRAM>0</uncachedRemoteRAM>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <cachedRemoteRAM>0</cachedRemoteRAM>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <engineClock>1815</engineClock>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <memoryClock>0</memoryClock>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <wavefrontSize>0</wavefrontSize>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <numberOfSIMD>0</numberOfSIMD>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <doublePrecision>0</doublePrecision>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <pitch_alignment>0</pitch_alignment>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <surface_alignment>0</surface_alignment>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <maxResource1DWidth>0</maxResource1DWidth>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <maxResource2DWidth>0</maxResource2DWidth>
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Sent header to server:    <maxRes
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Info:  We are completely uploaded and fine
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:38:59 GMT
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Server: Apache
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-Powered-By: Servlet/3.1
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: ETag: 1749239462
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Pragma: no-cache
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Expires: 0
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Vary: Accept-Encoding
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Encoding: gzip
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https://www.googletagmanager.com https://tagmanager.google.com https://d2bnxibecyz4h5.cloudfront.net https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js https://static.cdn.prismic.io/prismic.js; connect-src 'self' https://www.google-analytics.com https://surveygizmobeacon.s3.amazonaws.com https://world-community-grid.cdn.prismic.io https://world-community-grid.prismic.io/api/v2; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https://www.googletagmanager.com  https://tagmanager.google.com https://fonts.googleapis.com; font-src 'self' data: https://fonts.googleapis.com https://fonts.gstatic.com; img-src * data:; frame-src 'self' https://player.vimeo.com https://www.youtube.com https://www.youtube-nocookie.com https://www.surveygizmo.com https://world-community-grid.prismic.io/;
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Language: en-US
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: WCG-SESSION=0000p4XIi_FEjRLM1A7r3rFHEJ2:-1; Expires=Fri, 14-Apr-23 14:08:58 GMT; Path=/; Domain=.worldcommunitygrid.org; Secure; HttpOnly
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server:
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: 4ae
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | 
14/04/2023 15:38:58 |  | [http] [ID#0] Info:  Connection #20 to host www.worldcommunitygrid.org left intact
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Info:  schannel: failed to decrypt data, need more data
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Info:  schannel: failed to decrypt data, need more data
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Info:  Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:38:59 GMT
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Server: Apache
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Vary: Accept-Encoding
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Encoding: gzip
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Length: 3099
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/xml
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Received header from server:
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | 
14/04/2023 15:38:58 | World Community Grid | [http] [ID#1] Info:  Connection #21 to host scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org left intact
14/04/2023 15:38:59 | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed
14/04/2023 15:38:59 | World Community Grid | Project requested delay of 121 seconds

Where is cc_config.xml? Everytime Boinc starts, in the log it says it cannot find it.

Grumble:I have now used up all the credit on my plan for making calls.

GPU Caps Viewer 1.58.01 reports no OpenCL device except for the CPU.

One thing I find odd in the "clinfo" output: "max compute units" is half what it should be, i.e 48 vs. 96 CU on the GPU, and 1 vs. 2 on the CPU:

ROCm/ROCr isn't for usual users, it seems developped for specific industrial usages, it does not support graphical applications (AMD said it's temporary but that can last for a long time) and only supports a very small amount of hardware : a tiny selection of PCIe graphics cards and no one integrated graphics solution from AMD APUs. Currently only three chips are said to be supported by ROCm.

<core_client_version>7.20.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 69 (0x45, -187)</message>
<stderr_txt>
16:58:06 (2027): [normal]: This Einstein@home App was built at: Jan 16 2017 08:09:16

16:58:06 (2027): [normal]: Start of BOINC application '../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati'.
16:58:06 (2027): [debug]: 1e+16 fp, 1e+09 fp/s, 10500000 s, 2916h40m00s00
command line: ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/hsgamma_FGRPB1G_1.18_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__FGRPopencl1K-ati --inputfile ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/LATeah4021L00.dat --alpha 0.943218186562 --delta 1.30995332125 --skyRadius 8.726650e-08 --ldiBins 30 --f0start 1172.0 --f0Band 8.0 --firstSkyPoint 0 --numSkyPoints 1 --f1dot -1e-13 --f1dotBand 1e-13 --df1dot 1.413729381e-15 --ephemdir ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/JPLEPH --Tcoh 2097152.0 --toplist 10 --cohFollow 10 --numCells 1 --useWeights 1 --Srefinement 1 --CohSkyRef 1 --cohfullskybox 1 --mmfu 0.1 --reftime 56100 --model 0 --f0orbit 0.005 --mismatch 0.1 --demodbinary 1 --BinaryPointFile ../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/templates_LATeah4021L00_1180_18125856.dat --debug 0 --device 0 -o LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out
output files: 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out' '../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0' 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out.cohfu' '../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_1'
16:58:06 (2027): [debug]: Flags: X64 SSE SSE2 GNUC X86 GNUX86
16:58:06 (2027): [debug]: glibc version/release: 2.35/stable
16:58:06 (2027): [debug]: Set up communication with graphics process.
boinc_get_opencl_ids returned [0x1f7fa40 , 0x7fd53655aeb0]
Using OpenCL platform provided by: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Using OpenCL device "gfx1100" by: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Max allocation limit: 21890072576
Global mem size: 25753026560
Couldn't create OpenCL command queue (error: -6)!
OpenCL shutdown complete!
initialize_ocl returned error [2013]
OCL context null
OCL queue null
Error generating generic FFT context object [5]
16:58:06 (2027): [CRITICAL]: ERROR: MAIN() returned with error '5'
FPU status flags:
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out.cohfu': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out.cohfu': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out.cohfu': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out.cohfu': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out.cohfu': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out.cohfu': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'LATeah4021L00_1180.0_0_0.0_18125856_0_0.out.cohfu': No such file or directory
16:58:17 (2027): [normal]: done. calling boinc_finish(69).
16:58:17 (2027): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>

Hey there,

Happy Valentine's Day from the Zooniverse! While most everyone can relate to the search for love, the researchers behind today's project launch ask you to help them search for something a bit more... other-worldly. Check out more from the researchers below, or head straight to Are we alone in the universe? to begin searching for extraterrestrial civilisations.

Are we alone in the universe?
Join us to help answer one of science’s most important questions: "Are we alone in the universe?"

We are thrilled to launch a new project to search for evidence of other civilizations in the universe by analyzing images of radio signals. The images are provided by UCLA SETI, which uses the largest fully steerable telescope on Earth to detect extraterrestrial radio beacons. So far, we have observed 42,000 stars and detected 64 million radio signals. Automated algorithms eliminate over 99.5% of these signals as anthropogenic radio frequency interference, but that still leaves thousands of signals to be examined.

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Join the search at http://arewealone.earth from your laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Humanity's most important telegram could be just a few clicks away.

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Catalytic converter cut of car

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
</log_flags>
<options>
<alt_platform>arm-android-linux-gnu</alt_platform>
</options>
</cc_config>

There SHOULD be information about this on the individual project pages but it can be hard work tracking it down on some.

We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.

We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.

Because Boinc is the only thing running on that computer.

Oh, and then there's the energy needed to get the empty package delivered (why the "£$%^&*() didn't he get on his bike or walk to the store?

“Killing two birds with one stone” was deemed to be an expression that normalises violence against animals, as was “beating a dead horse”.

...a winter snow storm...

My Christmas spirit is sitting downstairs in it's unopened bottle :-)

The question people in such areas should be asking, and probably will not, is "Why is my property so badly designed and/or built that a small quake, under 5, causes damage?"

Are any of those earthquakes over 3 on the Richter scale?

Grumble: "We are experiencing a higher than expected number of calls at the moment..."

Thanks for the suggestiion, Jord
Unfortunately, it didn't solve the issue.

A Florida woman has sued the makers of Velveeta Shells and Cheese, claiming the dish takes too long to make.

The Kraft Company markets its microwaveable cups as "ready in 3.5 minutes" but Amanda Ramirez says it takes longer.

The $5m (£4.2m) lawsuit claims the time advertised does not include preparation time - opening the lid and sauce pouch, before adding water and stirring.

Kraft Heinz Foods Company described the lawsuit as "frivolous".

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Normal link
What's this do then?

The repair installaion, downloaded the latest client, opened upp the installer, selected repair.

Repair mostly needs to be done from the same version you are trying to repair, after that you can then upgrade to a newer version.

Dear Mac alpha testers,

I have built a new hot fix release for the Macintosh only, BOINC 7.20.4.

The only changes from the previous 7.20.2 release should be to fix the "Show Graphics" functionality in BOINC Manager and to the screensaver under MacOS 13 Ventura. Please download and try https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.20.4_macOSX_universal.zip and let us know if you find any problems.

If you have access to run older versions of MacOS, please test that "Show Graphics" and the screensaver still work properly there.

Note: I have noticed that some World Community Grid graphics apps appear to be buggy. They sometime work and sometimes don't, both with this new version 7.20.4 and the previous version 7.20.2, so that problem is not due to these changes in BOINC.

Thank you,
Charlie

Please note that there is a known problem under MacOS 11 and later: the close button no longer works on some graphics apps, though it continues to work on others. It is unclear why.

Since the graphics apps are provided by the projects, we have no way to fix this at our end. Our solution (really a workaround) was to modify the BOINC Manager so the "Show Graphics" button changes to "Stop Graphics" when the graphics app is displayed.

Fixes BOINC screensaver and Manager "Show Graphics" button functionality to work with MacOS 13 Ventura. This also required a different implementation of security to prevent access to user's files in the unlikely case of malevolent or buggy project graphics apps.

As of MacOS 13.0 Ventura IOSurface cannot be used to share graphics between apps unless they are running as the same user, so the screensaver can no longer run the graphics apps as user boinc_master or user boinc_project. Similarly, project graphics no longer work if run as user boinc_master or user boinc_project when run from the Manager's Show Graphics button, though I don't fully understand why.

As a result, they now must be run as the logged in user, creating a potential security risk. I have implemented a technique to block access to the user's files and other sensitive directories based on an API that Apple uses extensively but has marked deprecated because it is an Apple private API. Apple warns it has deprecated the API because the syntax used to specify the access restrictions one passes to this API is subject to change without notice. But the syntax has remained unchanged for many years, this API is used widely in Apple's software, and the security profile elements we use are quite basic and so are very unlikely to change. I can find no other way to provide this security.

Nov 5, 2022 10:05:45 PM||Resuming computation

Nov 5, 2022 10:05:25 PM||(battery temperature 41.0 > limit 40.0 Celsius)

Nov 5, 2022 10:05:25 PM||Suspending computation - battery thermal protection

Nov 5, 2022 10:05:05 PM||Resuming computation

Nov 5, 2022 10:04:44 PM||(battery temperature 41.0 > limit 40.0 Celsius)

Nov 5, 2022 10:04:44 PM||Suspending computation - battery thermal protection

Nov 5, 2022 9:38:40 PM||(battery charge level 0.0% < threshold 10.0%

I'm not sure where 'Preferences for this project' is.

Also, just so we're clear, I was already having problems getting credit for a week before I tried using SU. On top of that, only two of the ~8 projects were on SU.

Reattach each project using the email and password you set up above. Rinse, repeat until all projects and computers are on your account.

I installed boinc version 5.10.4 and after that I was able to install the latest version. Rosetta runs on an old 3930k.

The Arecibo radio telescope, damaged by falling cables then polished off by a platform collapse, will not be rebuilt. Though it was officially decommissioned and demolished after the incidents, which followed years of underinvestment, astronomers held out hope for a new installation built from scratch.

It's not enough to rebuild it, it must be funded and maintained for decades and it must be useful, and there are many other sites in operation now. Here's the detailed proposal for rebuilding submitted by scientists.

The new plan, to build a $5m museum on the site instead, sounds like a great reason to visit Puerto Rico.

Oct 15, 2022 9:10:35 AM||Using account manager Science United

You've made your contest with a such terrible way to feedback....

If there are actual notices, they get printed over the top of this.

Try disabling Enable Graphics API visual Indicator checkbox under OPENGL SETTINGS of the Nvidia Settings menu

...and blocked from sending PMs.

Download page.

Arrived at my local station

Glory (I think).
Enough gas for the next 415 days.
Electric covered to 16/11 @ current rate.
The following 6 months covered by the energy discount.

8/31/2022 9:06:06 AM | | General prefs: from http://dhep.ga/boinc/ (last modified 22-Sep-2018 11:18:24)

BOINC is under development. The basic features are working on UNIX platforms. We plan to release the first public application of BOINC later this year.
24 Aug 2002, 0:00:00 UTC

8/31/2022 9:06:06 AM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 5%

Design contest for BOINC promotional materials

We all know BOINC needs some promo help, do you think you have the design chops to do it? The Science Commons Initiative is launching a bug bounty/design contest for some business cards to promote BOINC projects. We have currently placed $50 as a starting bounty, but the greater the bounty the cooler the designs we will get, so please consider contributing.

There are prizes for second and third place as well!

Contest info: https://github.com/TheSCInitiative/BOINC-Community/issues/1

Einstein@Home is down due to a (Uni Hanover) campus-wide power outage. The machines keep running on UPS, but the UPS that powers the network failed. It is unclear when power and operation can be restored, but it should be a matter of hours rather than days.

$ cd ~/BOINC  
$ ./run_client --daemon
$ ./run_manager

Windows Feature Experience Pack

I was not able to reproduce this on clean WIn11 21H2 (Build 22000.739) installation.
I need some additional information:

- is this an issue with regular installer or installer with VBox?
- does this happen when installing BOINC by default or as a service?

I remember I saw similar issue when some other installations stucks and there was some processes like 'msiexec.exe' running that were not related to BOINC installer.

So please before running BOINC installation check that no other 'msiexec.exe' instances are running in Task Manager:

All you need to do is open the Settings app, which will launch into the System section by default. Scroll down to find the About option and click it. You'll see all the information about Windows 11 under Windows specifications, including the edition, version, and build number.

%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe /unregister
%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe /regserver
%windir%\syswow64\msiexec.exe /unregister
%windir%\syswow64\msiexec.exe /regserver

Also due to GDPR regulations some projects have deleted accounts that have been inactive for longer than a certain period of time.

How does one create an icon in the task bar?

Second, does the VM need to have access to the internet or is just being available all that's required?

running through a proxy

Does anyone actually use simple view? Is there a need for it?

Despite the post in the news thread, 7.20.2 for Mac does not appear on the download all page

Welcome to the new world and its associated dictionary:

{snip}

I'm getting too old for this.

No, I mentioned how much power I was using in my house, that includes AC, lighting, computers, TV, everything. I never suggested that power consumption was AC.

I don't have a thermometer outside, but the garage is 37C, that's with the side door and two windows open, and two powerful fans blowing into it. Ok, there are 6 computers running in there...[1]

[1] Is 28.7A at 246V quite a lot for continuous power draw?

If you were to be seriously thinking about a system (see previous post) then you would have to make sure that the specifier understood that you had five or six kilo watts of heat being added by your computers, that is unless they are in a separate building to the house (detached garage or shed) so they size everything correctly.

sin taxes: misspelling of something computer programmers and grammar fiends observe.

I want us all to be treated like adults and make our own decisions. Rules and regulations are for schoolkids.

Way too much control given to website admins. Why do browsers even have to tell them we're hotlinking? What's the difference between the request from your browser when you click the link, and the request when your browser tries to display it inline?

Error 1011 - Access denied

The owner of this website (homescopes.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/average-home-size-graph.jpg).

Until about 2010 just about every European country including the UK had its own set of dates "to keep things (not) simple".

Here's the catch - Milton Keynes to Brandon has to go past Peterborough on its way. :-(

The IPD is excited to announce it's first designed protein medicine with full approval abroad.

Congrats and thank you to all Rosetta@home contributors! The computing you have provided has greatly aided in de novo protein design challenges such as vaccine development leading to breakthroughs like this.

From the IPD news site:
• Clinical testing found the vaccine outperforms Oxford/AstraZeneca’s
• The protein-based vaccine, now called SKYCovione, does not require deep freezing
• University of Washington to waive royalty fees for the duration of the pandemic
• South Korea to purchase 10 million doses for domestic use

A vaccine for COVID-19 developed at the University of Washington School of Medicine has been approved by the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for use in individuals 18 years of age and older. The vaccine, now known as SKYCovione, was found to be more effective than the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine sold under the brand names Covishield and Vaxzevria.

A PM that looses so many ministers in one go really should get out of the door in a controlled manner before someone chucks them out without opening it first.

Now searching for a way to send Amazon a complaint. Not easy on its website. Their "chat" bot is useless.

There is no way that it took 5 days to get to a main distribution centre & then to a courier depot near the buyer (which in my case is approx 15m drive away).

I do what's correct, not just follow fashion. I have a brain you see.

I prefer the proper biological definitions.

The noun “race” came into English in the mid-1500s from French, which got it from the Italian word razza (meaning species or kind).

The source of razza has never been determined, but it could possibly be derived from the Latin words ratio (i.e., ratio) or generatio (generation), or from the Old French haraz (which referred to horses and mares kept for breeding, and which may in turn be connected to the Arabic faras, or horse).

Whatever its origins, this sense of “race” is unrelated to the identical English word for a rushing forward (as in a footrace), which comes from early Scandinavian sources.

Over the centuries, “race” has been interpreted extremely narrowly (the descendants of a single house; a single line of descent; one’s children or family); very broadly (the animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdom; a single species); and everything in between (nations, tribes, ethnic groups).

In the phrase “human race,” the word essentially means “species.” Soon after “race” entered the language, one of its meanings (sometimes poetic and sometimes literal) was mankind, and it often was preceded by the adjective “human.”

Sir Philip Sidney wrote of “the humane race” (circa 1590) and Shakespeare of “the whole race of mankinde” (c. 1616). Sometimes people spoke of the sexes as different races – as in the “race of woman kind” (Spenser, 1590), and “the unscrupulous race of men” (Henry James, 1897).

The word was formerly used in the same way to refer to species of plants and animals, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. In Macbeth, for example, Shakespeare called Duncan’s horses “Beauteous, and swift, the Minions of their Race” (c. 1616).

John Dryden wrote of “the wolfish race … with belly Gaunt, and famish’d face” (1687); Joseph Addison, writing in The Spectator, mentioned “the several Races of Plants” (1712); Oliver Goldsmith called serpents “this formidable race” (1774); and Shelley said, “I wished the race of cows were perished” (c. 1822).

Under its definition of “race” as “any of the major groupings of mankind, having in common distinct physical features or having a similar ethnic background,” the OED adds this note:

“In recent years, the associations of race with the ideologies and theories that grew out of the work of 19th-cent. anthropologists and physiologists has led to the word often being avoided with reference to specific ethnic groups. Although it is still used in general contexts, it is now often replaced by terms such as people(s), community, etc.”

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs in 7.20.0.
We fixed some of these, and version 7.20.1 of the client
is now available to test, for Win and Mac.
Release notes: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes

Report results here:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php

Thanks -- David

• [Manager] wxWidgets debug alert when switching between advanced and simple view.
  
• BOINC does not gracefully handle capitalization discrepancies
  
• client: fix #2837 removed a special use case where idle was desired before work fetch
  
• [Manager] Memory access error on closedown
  
• [Manager][linux] Search for skins to display on Simple View
  

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/releases

@ Jord, interesting link & read, thanks.

my Boinc's death knell? thread

But I don't know what to do with that information, or who to direct it at, now Kevin's departed the scene.

You got this morning's email, then? I'm still trying to process that, and decide how to handle it.

As you say, I wasn't involved in the early stages: I joined SETI early on, but I only volunteered my computers, not my mind and energy.

Where did all that energy go?

Anyone know of projects that run on Intel GPUs?

If you live with family, fit PIR's for lights in hallway, stair and any space where people walk through.

Get a boiling water dispenser instead of a kettle, so that only the water needed is boiled or heated to the correct temp for coffee.

(And if someone suggests insulating the pipe, I suggest they plan on three days of swearing and cursing when they come here to fit it, at their expense. Not to mention all the knuckle rash.)

I always delete excessive quoting

But some context is necessary when there are a few conversations going on at once, if I hadn't quoted you it would look like I was replying to Dave as that's the post above this one.

Or use a computer, a mobile device is not really suitable for a forum.

Are they mains powered or battery operated?

Prodigit wrote:

You can't remove a project that's been added via account manager.
You either log off from account manager, and then remove the project, or go to the project website, and remove it there from the account manager page..

A project added via an account manager can only be removed via the account manager. Not via BOINC Manager - also not after logging off from the account manager, AFAIK.