Posts by Alex Plantema

1) Message boards : Projects : ABC@home ? (Message 18514)
Posted 16 Jul 2008 by Alex Plantema
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There are DNS problems. Adding the lines:

132.229.228.47 abcathome.com
132.229.228.47 www.abcathome.com

to your hosts file solves the problems for the time being.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC 5.10.7 Preferences Dialog (Message 11302)
Posted 26 Jun 2007 by Alex Plantema
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The code wasn't changed last night. 5.10.8 wasn't re-released.

It did happen with boinc_5.10.4_windows_intelx86.exe. I downloaded it twice. The first one was dated June 9, 16:35, the second one June 10, 09:03. Also their sizes differ: 5060k and 5064k.
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Keeping Messages (Message 7883)
Posted 30 Jan 2007 by Alex Plantema
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When stdoutdae.txt reaches a certain size, it is renamed to stdoutdae.old and a previous stdoutdae.old is deleted. New output goes to a newly created stdoutdae.txt. With Boinc running continuously, it takes more than a month before stdoutdae.txt reaches its maximum size. Stderrdae.txt and stderrgui.txt behave the same, and grow even slower. So all your routine needs to do is check if an .old file exists, append its contents to a text file and delete it.
4) Message boards : BOINC client : Computer name. (Message 7805)
Posted 25 Jan 2007 by Alex Plantema
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The name shown for a computer tends to differ from the name used locally. This machine, for example, is shown as being named "Evesham.opasia.dk". Here, it is called Evesham.

Only you see the name, other people can't.
5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Windows Access Rights (Message 7804)
Posted 25 Jan 2007 by Alex Plantema
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I may not have made it clear enough that my worries are about the interactive Boinc Manager, which (of course) is not run under the service's account. If some script kiddies had the thought of turning BOINC into a spam network, it would sure be the end of BOINC and all its projects...

I think the only files that can be write-protected are boinc.exe, boinccmd.exe and boincmgr.exe, and the dll's in the same folder, though I don't think it's really necessary, because viruses don't need them to infect the system. Other executables are downloaded dynamically.
6) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Windows Access Rights (Message 7759)
Posted 24 Jan 2007 by Alex Plantema
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The point is that I want to keep viruses etc. from manipulating EXE files, just in case my anti virus software doesn't catch them. Besides, I believe Windows Vista will write-protect the "Program Files" folder tree by default.

If you run Boinc under a separate account, then even if exe files in the Boinc directory are manipulated by viruses, they cannot harm files unrelated to Boinc, so there's no danger. You can give Boinc full access to \\Program Files\\Boinc under Vista equally well: just install Boinc logged in to the account you wish to run Boinc with.
7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : xfer unfinished units from one user profile to another? (Message 5306)
Posted 13 Aug 2006 by Alex Plantema
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It's hard to transfer individual work units. That's why offline computers are not supported at the moment. But you can transfer the Boinc directory as a whole. But I shouldn't do it as a habit.
8) Message boards : BOINC Manager : RPC client password not enter automatically. (Message 5305)
Posted 13 Aug 2006 by Alex Plantema
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Give both computers the same password (it resides in gui_rpc_auth.cfg). Then in the dropdown box, selecting localhost first will retrieve the password, then select the other computer.
You also need to put the name or IP address of computer A in remote_hosts.cfg on computer B, if you use the Boinc manager on A to control B. If you use the name, B must be on line (with or without Boinc running) if Boinc is started on A.
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Using Boinc with Windows vista beta (Message 5046)
Posted 17 Jul 2006 by Alex Plantema
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Another problem: I cannot log in on the World Community Grid site with Vista + IE7.
10) Message boards : BOINC client : Controlling the core client via RPC (Message 5031)
Posted 16 Jul 2006 by Alex Plantema
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I have my computers in a home network running Boinc and manage them from one computer using the method described at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/gui_rpc.php, using the second alternative under Remote host restriction. As the IP addresses may vary I put the computer names in remote_hosts.cfg on each computer. But if computer A is turned off when I start Boinc on computer B, I cannot manage Boinc on B from A later on. It looks like the names are resolved when Boinc starts instead of when they're needed.
If I want to use the first alternative, there's a problem that Boinc is started by the Boinc manager, which doesn't accept -allow_remote_gui_rpc as a parameter. How can Boinc be called from the Boinc manager with this parameter?
11) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Using Boinc with Windows vista beta (Message 5029)
Posted 16 Jul 2006 by Alex Plantema
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I installed Vista Beta 2 on an empty disk, installed Boinc and then replaced the Boinc directory by the one from the original disk. The only difference I see is that upon starting Boinc, it takes much longer before the Boinc manager connects to the client.
12) Message boards : BOINC Manager : A few feature requests (Message 5027)
Posted 16 Jul 2006 by Alex Plantema
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Last I checked not all Macs had mice with more than one button.

Macs with a one button mouse do have context menus: keep it depressed for half a second and there you have it...
13) Message boards : BOINC Manager : A few feature requests (Message 5022)
Posted 16 Jul 2006 by Alex Plantema
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I'd like to see that Boinc reports the CPU time used and credit claimed on the messages tab when a work unit is finished. Yes, the CPU time is on the work tab too, but that isn't logged.
And please remove that panel on the left with those Big Ugly Buttons, and replace it by context menus (rightclicking) like in Boinc 4.19 and earlier, or add an extra menu item with the same function. These buttons take too much space, even with a 1280x1024 resolution. And if there are so many buttons that a scrollbar is needed, the effect is counterproductive. Or is rightclicking for nerds only?
14) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Manager freezes randomly on Linux (Message 5021)
Posted 16 Jul 2006 by Alex Plantema
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It looks like you need to kill more than one process. Use ps to see which Boinc related processes are running.
15) Message boards : Web interfaces : Why no search feature? (Message 4676)
Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Alex Plantema
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Click on your name and it will pull up your account data. Click the number to side of "Message board posts".

That's correct, but first I need to find at least one message for this to work.
16) Message boards : Web interfaces : Why no search feature? (Message 4648)
Posted 5 Jun 2006 by Alex Plantema
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But how do I find my own messages?
17) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Cannot attach to Project etc. (Message 4335)
Posted 14 May 2006 by Alex Plantema
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mmciastro wrote:
ICANN has registered that port to Boinc, but MS has used it in a program they made. Boinc used 1043 as a "loopback" address so that the manager could communicate with the daemon across networks. Boinc has switched to port 31416 in the newer developmental clients.

Unfortunately port 31416 is already in use as well: Port numbers
18) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc and Windows XP multi-user (Message 4037)
Posted 22 Apr 2006 by Alex Plantema
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Log in as administrator, open a command window and type
cacls "c:\\Program Files\\Boinc" /t /e /g myuser:f
Then you can run Boinc when logged in as myuser.



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