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Questions and problems :
HTTP error: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates (with workaround)
(Message 105577)
Posted 1 Oct 2021 by UBT - Timbo Post: Hiya Thanks for posting the "fixed" file. I replaced my ca-bundle.crt file with the file on Google Drive and it works. regards Tim Founder, UK BOINC Team |
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Acoustics@home "forgotten password" issue
(Message 86890)
Posted 4 Jul 2018 by UBT - Timbo Post: Hi Thanks for the explanation... However, having been on the net for more years than I care to remember, I've always regards "sub-domains" to be part of the third-level domain structure: So https://boinc.berkeley.edu is a subdomain of berkeley.edu Whereas: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/teams/ https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Main_Page Are all subfolders of boinc.berkeley.edu Hence why I was confused.... Maybe what could be considered is: https://boincteams.berkeley.edu/ https://boinctrac.berkeley.edu/ https://boincwiki.berkeley.edu/ So, my 2c of input is that as these are all subdomains (ie third level domains), it would be more obvious that these are totally different. Pedant mode = "OFF" ;-) regards Tim |
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Acoustics@home "forgotten password" issue
(Message 86887)
Posted 4 Jul 2018 by UBT - Timbo Post: PS: I have set my BOINC Teams preferences to receive notifications "Immediately, by email" - but I'm not getting any. Now this is interesting...I've just looked at my account again and it now shows the post number as 12 (which is correct now) And now, I don't see a CPID code? AHA !! It now looks like there are TWO accounts for me: One here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/teams/home.php (showing: BOINC Teams member since 26 Jul 2007 and info such as "Stats on your cell phone https://boinc.berkeley.edu/teams/userw.php?id=93" ) And this one here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/home.php (showing: BOINC member since 12 Oct 2006 and no CPID is shown !! ) Curious :-) regards Tim |
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Projects :
Acoustics@home "forgotten password" issue
(Message 86885)
Posted 4 Jul 2018 by UBT - Timbo Post: Hi Yup - all my info is correct... Only issue with my BOINC-WIDE account, (which I've had since 2007) is that the cross-project ID is wrong and doesn't match my CPID that every other project uses... I've now checked my email servers and everything is running fine and as it should be. So, emails (from this project) should be arriving in my Inbox without issue. But they are not. So, maybe Acoustics@home does still have an issue ? I'm tempted to set up a new account with a different email address and once the account is live and can be edited, I'll change the email address...but I suspect that as my "BOINC-WIDE" email address (that Acoustics@home imported) is still attached to that account (that I can't access) so I'll not be able to change email addys, until that original account is deleted (which I can't do, as I cannot access the account). This is really showing up this project as being very "amateurish" in it's ability to administer itself and the project, which is a shame. PS: I have set my BOINC Teams preferences to receive notifications "Immediately, by email" - but I'm not getting any. Plus it only shows I have only ever made ONE posting on this board, and I've made a few more than that. regards Tim |
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Projects :
Acoustics@home "forgotten password" issue
(Message 86881)
Posted 4 Jul 2018 by UBT - Timbo Post: Hiya Thanks for the kind and prompt reply. I will look more deeply into whether this is a fault on my email server...but I receive emails from other sources...hence why I was wondering if this was an issue at Acoustics@home. regards Tim |
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Projects :
Acoustics@home "forgotten password" issue
(Message 86871)
Posted 3 Jul 2018 by UBT - Timbo Post: Hi all Can anyone help me please? I am the founder of the UK BOINC Team and Acoustics@home have used the BOINC WIDE database to auto-create my Team, the UK BOINC Team, and to set up a founder account for the same. BUT: I cannot log in as Acoustics@home have set some other password for my account. I have been in some conversation with Oleg Zaikin about the non-working "forgotten password" function on their server as it still doesn't work and hence I cannot log in to my account. He claims their admin needs to setup an SSL certificate to enable the "forgotten password" link to work. Well, that was over three months ago and checking the Acoustics@home message board, someone else posted a topic about it in October 2017. http://www.acousticsathome.ru/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=29 It still isn't fixed and in the meantime, Acoustics@home has now found it's way into the "Add projects" list in BOINC Manager...which seems strange given that this might allow more people to create new accounts to help their research...and yet they cannot get their BOINC server working correctly? Perhaps someone here who knows someone at Acoustics@home can help them solve this issue? I've tried and I'm getting nowhere....and in the meantime, I've asked one of my team mates to assume the foundership of the Team so that at least we can administer the team profile etc. So, re-stating my first line: Can anyone help? regards Tim Founder, UK BOINC Team |
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BOINC Manager :
Suggestions For New Or Updated Features
(Message 59682)
Posted 15 Jan 2015 by UBT - Timbo Post: Otherwise I'll look forward to BM v7.4 coming out - and let's hope they get a new designer to code something a bit better for next year... :) Hi I did a typo - I meant 7.5 - and by the time I noticed, I couldn't edit the posting. I've been running 7.4.x for a while now. Thanks for spotting this. I know that 7.4.37 is now "available"...but the "official" release is still 7.4.36 (x86).....that's the one we are currently "advised" to upgrade to. regards Tim |
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BOINC Manager :
Suggestions For New Or Updated Features
(Message 59681)
Posted 15 Jan 2015 by UBT - Timbo Post: Thanks Jord for the reply. The Disk and Statistics tabs have just had overhauls. The Disk tab has had new colouring, it will get the alphabetizing of the project names. The Statistics tab will get the alphabetizing of the names, and it just had the addition of zooming and the crosshair (although this function is broken on Windows, possibly due to wxWidgets being broken in this). I am running the official current version 7.4.36 (x86) - the "overhauls" you talk of, might be something YOU know about, but for the majority of us, we don't know - as these are not present in the current version. Of course, I might feel like "experimenting" and using a newer version which might have more bells and whistles...but I really don't have the time nor want to use a version that hasn't been fully tested and checked. So, I'll be patient and wait for the overhauls to appear in whatever version someone deems them fit to release. If you do not like how it looks, there's nothing standing in your way to make changes to the source code and compile your own BOINC and BOINC Manager. You can also switch to using third party managers, such as BOINCView and BOINcTasks. 1) I have no problem using other software instead of BM - in fact I can recall using different "optimised" exe files, (such as Chicken Soup or various Crunch3r exe files) that used the newer capabilities within CPU's than the "original" project files did. So, I'm not adverse to this idea....but on the other hand, is it better to improve something that already exists, for the benefit of all, or slip away to a dark room and build something from scratch for just a few ? 2) As a long-term user of BOINC software, I have every right to expect better from the project - otherwise if no-one offers suggestions or criticisms, then things get bogged down. And the whole point of having a public forum is to allow people to express their views openly. I would argue that my view isn't "caustic" - no swearing, no foul language, no calling names....but let's be honest: BOINC Manager is over 10 years old and is looking dated, primitive and I'm sure it could be made better. A facelift and new capabilities to allow users to control the projects they are donating their resources to, would be very worthwhile. Remember: New idea's, new designs and new thought processes are what drives humankind on to better things...otherwise, we'd still be using square wheels, or arguing the earth was flat....or that the stars are just pin-pricks in the night sky. If you want to "caution" me about having such views, then I'll accept your opinion...with or without a smiley. best regards Tim |
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BOINC Manager :
Suggestions For New Or Updated Features
(Message 59664)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by UBT - Timbo Post: Thanks Jord - thanks for your kind reply and I appreciate the comments :) Part of the code is available in the source code but it isn't finished. David Anderson on this: We never finished that feature, in part because we realized that it would be a security risk: if hackers break into the BOINC server they could use auto-update to distribute malware. errr - so BM has been going 10+ years, the world has moved on enormously since the early days when any and every website could be hacked (although I know some websites are still being hacked, eg Sony, etc)....but even so, it doesn't take much to secure a website and have the right security in place to allow this. Any standard browser (Chrome/Firefox) can "auto-update" themselves, as can many other programs, so it's NOT rocket science...and the benefits would be better for all concerned, if this was implemented. From BOINC 7.4 the Activity menu contains the Event Log Diagnostic Flags option with which users can easier add debug flags. This window's use will possibly be increased in the future to allow for setting of options as well. The Tools->Computing preferences window has the exclusive applications option, this one may be adjusted in the future to allow for setting the exclusive GPU applications as well. Debug flags are all well and good, but I'm talking about BM needing specific XML files which are a pain to edit (due to their very "wordy" sets of options, which no-one fully understands, as the wiki is written in 30% goobledegook). Simple in app configuration options are what is needed built WITHIN BM so, with luck some better project specific options would be good. In fact, it would be better to have separate tabs for each project to manage this. The Projects in the Projects tab, the Statistics tab and the Disk tab, and in the <work_fetch> debug flag will be ordered according to the alphabet in a next BOINC version. See this commit added 4 weeks ago. OK, well "Projects" tab can already be "sorted" - and has been since year dot (IIRC). The only recent change to the Statistics and Disk views was the relatively recent addition of a right hand side scroll bar - but these two tabs still need a good overhaul, as they are stuck in the 1990's design wise. Otherwise I'll look forward to BM v7.4 coming out - and let's hope they get a new designer to code something a bit better for next year... :) regards Tim |
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BOINC Manager :
Suggestions For New Or Updated Features
(Message 59662)
Posted 14 Jan 2015 by UBT - Timbo Post: Hi, Can I add to this thread? I'd like to see a number of new features added to BOINC Manager, plus a few things need fixing, so here goes: New feature requests: ============= 1) Isn't it about time that BOINC Manager can "auto-update" itself, whenever a new version is available? How difficult can it be to download a new version, suspend the WU's, update itself and then restart the WU's? 2) Isn't it about time that BOINC Manager supported "in-app" editing of config and app XML files? It's a pain to have to stop any WU's, close down BM, find the right XML file, edit it, save it, then restart BM. 3) I'd like to see some way of showing up CPU tasks, from GPU tasks - I know you can look at the name of the app, but some are very long and unless you've got a 30" wide monitor, or you have to change the screen resolution, it's difficult to see....so, how about adding separate tabs for CPU and for GPU, while keeping the existing "all tasks" tab? Maybe colour them differently? 4) I note that another member has posted it's difficult to calculate the total completion times of WU's....but it would be nice to show how many tasks (in total) are ongoing (running, ready to start, suspended, etc) for each project. 5) I'm sure some would like to crunch WU's until we reach a certain "target" credit total....so is it possible for users to set a project to continue requesting new work, UNTIL the project "credit total" hits a user-defined number....for instance, keep crunching (say) Einstein until total credits (on Einstein) = (say) 100,000, then set project to "no new tasks". 6) Allied to the above it would be nice if the user could switch between tasks based on certain parameters, such as "crunch Einstein from 6am-6pm"...as some projects are more CPU intensive (and hence cooling fans can be quite noisy, so this would make it possible to run in "quiet mode" when required. 7) It would also be useful to be able to allocate specific CPU cores (on multi-processor systems) for specific tasks - so allocate one core for SETI@home, one core for WCG and then maybe further cores to any "remaining" projects. Fixes: ====== 1) In the "Statistics" tab view, how are the project names sorted, as they seem arranged haphazardly to me...so, a nice "sort" function would be useful here. 2) In the "Disk" tab view, the left hand "cake" is far too big, taking up a huge amount of screen space and yet only showing 4 basic quantities. ANd yet on the right side, the "cake" is the same size, and yet all the projects are listed (unsorted :-( ) and the "cake" is over-lapping the project names, making it difficult to read....so, it would be useful to make both "cake" sizeable - you even put them in the same window and have the left hand "stats" shown at the top. There, I think I've covered a few things. Now to sit back and see what happens ;) best regards Tim PS All the above is offered in the spirit of goodwill and hope that the BM app can be improved and continues to allow us to dedicate any CPU cycles we choose to donate. |
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BOINC client :
Problems after 5.10.20 upgrade
(Message 12583)
Posted 18 Sep 2007 by UBT - Timbo Post: .......I have pointed this out to the developers, but so far no answer yet. Hi Jord, Trac ticket created.... http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/411 I've already heard from one other member of the UK BOINC Team, who has this exact same problem, caused by VTU.... It might well become a bigger issue across the board... Hope something can be done within the BOINC Manager to prevent this sort of stuff - like an optional "start-up switch" to stop URL scanning, if there's a problem... regards and thanks for saving my bacon !! Tim |
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BOINC client :
Problems after 5.10.20 upgrade
(Message 12580)
Posted 18 Sep 2007 by UBT - Timbo Post: Tim, in your case, check that boinc.exe is still running in Task Manager. Hi Jord, OK, just checked the client_state.xml and indeed it refers to the old URL. Visited the old URL in a browser and sure enough there's a re-direct to the new URL. So, for completeness, the OLD URL is: boinc.vtu.lt/vtuathome and the NEW URL is: boinc.vgtu.lt/vgtuathome If anyone else has this issues just open the "client_state.xml" file in Wordpad and do a search and replace on the above URL's and BOINC then works !! This will then give you the chance to detach from vtu and to re-attach, once they sort themselves out... Thanks for the help and "pointer" to the problem...! regards, Tim |
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BOINC client :
Problems after 5.10.20 upgrade
(Message 12579)
Posted 18 Sep 2007 by UBT - Timbo Post: Tim, in your case, check that boinc.exe is still running in Task Manager. Hi Jord, If you mean me (as the other poster is a Tim !!), then indeed I was running VTU !!! Is there a fix? Maybe a tweak to the XML file?? (I'll take a look at the client_state file anyways :-) ) regards and thankx for a timely reply. Tim |
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BOINC client :
Problems after 5.10.20 upgrade
(Message 12577)
Posted 18 Sep 2007 by UBT - Timbo Post: I've installed the upgrade to 5.10.20 and now I'm getting "Message from server: Incomplete request received." for all projects (seti@home, einstein & climateprediction) I've got a similar problem....running Windows XP Pro. Upgraded BOINC Manager from 5.10.18 to 5.10.20 and now what happens is: 1) Loading BOINC Manager is "slower" than it has been. 2) There's a brief "flash" of all the project information (that I'm attached to) in the advanced display, and then they all vanish. 3) There's no messages in the message tab 4) Local preferences don't work at all :-( 5) This all happens so fast, that I don't get the chance to suspend anything or prevent network access, so I can't "see" what might be causing this. 6) BOINC Manager refuses to connect to "localhost" - it says it is trying to connect, but doesn't. I have a hardware firewall, so I doubt it's a Windows problem (but I don't know for sure !), as the WIndows Firewall is "OFF". Have uninstalled, re-installed 5.10.18, tweaked registry, all to no avail. Someone in the UK BOINC Forum suggested it might be a uFluids.net project issue... Anyone have any idea? PS The BOINC "Skype chat" help pages seem to be "stuck", and not showing anyone "online"... PPS: Why are all these \\ appearing in this msg? regards Tim |
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