Posts by Ananas

61) Message boards : Server programs : How do you solve error code 195 (No app version) (Message 18627)
Posted 19 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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195 is CHILD_FAILED, -195 is NO_APP_VERSION

Can you start the downloaded program standalone or does that give you an error too?


p.s.: Maybe a stupid idea ... but ... are executable flags set on the executable binary and does "file" recognize it as an ELF binary?
62) Message boards : Questions and problems : Stolen Team. (Message 18626)
Posted 19 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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8) Cancel the foundership request from a person, who leaves the team


This feature is already contained in the current user_quit team(), no need for a change in order to have it.
63) Message boards : Questions and problems : Stolen Team. (Message 18625)
Posted 19 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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6) Place a note on the team page that a founder change is pending, including the account of the person who requested it.


Snippet :

function display_team_page($team, $user) {
    page_head("$team->name");

    echo sanitize_html($team->name_html);
    echo "<p>";
    start_table();
    row1("Team info");

[b]    if ($team->ping_user >0) {
        row2("Founder request", user_links($team->ping_user)." ".tra("(foundership change request pending)"));
    }[/b]

    if (strlen($team->description)) {
        row2("Description", sanitize_html($team->description));
    }
64) Message boards : Questions and problems : Does any BOINC project exist that uses nVIDIA GPUs already? (Message 18600)
Posted 17 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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PS3Grid has http://www.gpugrid.org/ for quite some time already.
65) Message boards : Questions and problems : Stolen Team. (Message 18599)
Posted 17 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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It would be neat, if BOINC project admins had an option to connect their projects to a BOINC-wide feature, that allows to delete accounts by CPID - easiest way to get rid of a trouble maker like Barbar.

The email addy of BOINC-wide deleted users should end up in a blacklist too.

What he crunched does not pay for the damage he is doing.
66) Message boards : Questions and problems : Stolen Team. (Message 18451)
Posted 15 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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6) Place a note on the team page that a founder change is pending, including the account of the person who requested it.

7) Make it all this stuff a lot easier and faster, when the current founder is not in the team anymore _OR_ (for the founder) deny leaving a team without having choosen a new founder first


I'm not sure how this is handled at the moment ... but there might be the need for :

8) Cancel the foundership request from a person, who leaves the team

9) Allow only one foundership request per person per year

Those 8) and 9) will not allow people to jump from team to team and request founderships everywhere, hoping that at least one founder is sleepy


... plus this one maybe :

10) Allow team admins to deny a founder change too and include them (CC:) in the change request notification
67) Message boards : Teams : 2 Team or Not (Message 18450)
Posted 15 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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Your question is a bit like "what is the advantage/disadvantage of having friends".

Team members encourage eachother to crunch harder, exchange experiences and knowledge, help eachother with problems, fool around in fora, compete with other teams and sometimes meet eachother in real life.

Of course one can be a single cruncher, as well as some people can live without friends - but ...
68) Message boards : Server programs : some files can't download : http error (Message 18435)
Posted 14 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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Can you download all files with a web browser or does it give you a 403 there too?

Make sure to use the same connection type for that test, i.e. if your BOINC uses a proxy, put the same proxy for the web browser.

Try the same with all firewalls (zone alarm, windows XP firewall, virus scanner firewall ...) disabled.

Some malware program detection might recognize the executable program download as a pattern of all those downloader virii.
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Compare owner and linux access rights of your download directory files. If you added the binaries with FTP, the umask setting might lead to insufficient read permissions for the web user. If in doubt, just "chmod a+r *" in the download directory.
69) Message boards : Questions and problems : Resource Allocation (Message 18402)
Posted 13 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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100% is the sum of the ressource points of all active projects with workunits

So if 3 projects with equal ressource points are there, each gets 33.33% time shares. Paused projects and projects with no workunits are just ignored for the time distribution.


The projects that would be allowed to download and work, but do not receive workunits, collect long term debits during that time. So when one of those projects has work available, it will download work with higher priority.

It will not have collected short term credits while no work has been available though, so it will not work with a higher priority.

As the other projects collect negative debits while they are active, this sometimes leads to the situation, that a project is supposed to work (because of positive short term debits) but not downloading workunits (caused by negative long term debits).

You can influence the short term debits, they are set to 0.00 when you pause a project. The only ways to influence the long term debits are project reset and detach :-(


Paleantologist report, that this weird behaviour has already been found in very early versions of BOINC, evolution has failed to eliminate one of those two types of debits.
70) Message boards : Server programs : some files can't download : http error (Message 18391)
Posted 12 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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Maybe try again with a stable BOINC core client, 5.10.28 would be a good one.

Some people reported problems with later versions, the version that works for one person might fail for another one.


Make sure to disable virus scans for the BOINC directory. As you have the problem especially with the .exe file, the scanner might snoop into the file while it is still beeing transferred.
71) Message boards : Web interfaces : de.po (bug in translation) (Message 18390)
Posted 12 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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There you go, "die Rechnern" is seemingly legal.


would be "auf [den] Rechnern" / "auf [den] Computern" in this case

They tried to make "Computer" look more like a German word - but nor too many wanted to write "Komputer" ;-)

"de:Rechner" is "en:calculator", basically a "de:Computer" is a "de:Rechner" as well, but Abacus (or Abakus) and pocket calculator are Rechner as well, so the word "Computer" is more specific.
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Finns have quite an interesting way to mix their grammar into foreign words btw., they separate the ending, that is required by their language, from the original word with a colon (or join ending to foreign words with a colon, depending on your point of view)
72) Message boards : The Lounge : The Speling and Grammaticle Advise thread (Message 18371)
Posted 12 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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If you know my language fairly well and want to have some fun, check the German EBay sometimes, some people trying to sell stuff there beat even garblefish translations :-/

For improving your knowledge in English language, this would be my tool of choice :-)

I'm not using spell checkers, translation programs only in rare cases - so all misspelled, funny worded or otherwise wrong stuff is copyrighted by myself.
If you're copying and using it to make money, consider donating some of it to a DC project of your choice.
73) Message boards : Web interfaces : de.po (bug in translation) (Message 18370)
Posted 12 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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msgid "Run %1 only on computers that you own, or for which you have obtained the owner's permission. Some companies and schools have policies that prohibit using their computers for projects such as %1."
msgstr "Installieren Sie $1 ausschliesslich auf Computern, die Sie besitzen, oder von denen Ihnen die Zugriffserlaubnis des Besitzers vorliegt. Die Regeln mancher Firmen und Schulen verbieten die Nutzung ihrer Computer für Projekte wie $1."

The two occurances of "$1" should be "%1"
74) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't Get, "ABC@home" Project to Appear in my detail list of projects (Message 18261)
Posted 6 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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That ABC account has a different CPID (3e0c8736ce41ec75db75ae897cd55dd1) than the other projects (10597f2e65884fe266378ac0deb5b7e6), which means, you either have used a different EMail there OR you just need to contact the project scheduler with one of your computers once more (use the "update" button for that).

Both CPIDs appear in the stats and both are listed unter Boinc Synergy, so no credits are lost for you or for the team. They just need to be synced.


p.s.: Here's another thread with the same topic.
75) Message boards : Promotion : How can we address BOINC's retention problem? (Message 18257)
Posted 6 Jul 2008 by Profile Ananas
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One thing might be helpful to know :

Is there a connection between the time people stay with a project and their membership to a team?

Do people in teams stay longer than single crunchers or is there no difference?

If team people stay longer (in average), projects could focus more on presenting teams and encouraging people to join teams.
76) Message boards : Questions and problems : Minimal service installation (Message 17987)
Posted 21 Jun 2008 by Profile Ananas
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Not needed either : Most or even all of the stuff in "locale" (quite a lot of stuff there), the icon, copying / copyright - read before delete ;-)
77) Message boards : BOINC client : boinc_client failed ----- gstate.init() failed:181 (Message 17980)
Posted 21 Jun 2008 by Profile Ananas
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I made a directory 'boinc_test'
...
2008-06-12 16:17:35 [---] [error] GUI RPC bind failed: 98
gstate.init() failed: -180
...


It is a socket error, hardly a directory problem.

Error 98 is something like "socket already used" - did you try to run two concurrent BOINCs ?

Check your process list for stuck BOINC related tasks from earlier sessions.
78) Message boards : Web interfaces : [wish] cache date on cached lists (Message 17946)
Posted 18 Jun 2008 by Profile Ananas
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All lists that are taken from the cache should have the timestamp of those cache contents printed somewhere.
79) Message boards : BOINC client : Heartbeat replacement (Message 17763)
Posted 10 Jun 2008 by Profile Ananas
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Another possible bugfix would probably be :

void boinc_sleep(double seconds) {
seconds = min(seconds, 25.0); // never sleep longer than the heartbeat interval
#ifdef _WIN32
::Sleep(min((DWORD)(1000*seconds), 1);
#else
...

Note :

The Sleep function suspends the execution of the current thread for a specified interval. ... A value of zero causes the thread to relinquish the remainder of its time slice to any other thread of equal priority that is ready to run.
80) Message boards : Web interfaces : [wish] Forum list, time display (Message 17595)
Posted 1 Jun 2008 by Profile Ananas
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A minor change to make the fora with the latest changes stick out :

minutes ago
hours ago
days ago

Would work better (here) if the BBCode "size" tag would accept relative size, (i.e. "size=+2") in addition to fixed sizes though (plays no role for the forum template of course).

The relative size support is a feature I would like to see anyway.


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