Posts by 5 and a half of 13

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : explanation of 'credit' (Message 1479)
Posted 2 Dec 2005 by Profile 5 and a half of 13
Post:
What are these credits I'm earning ?
I seem to have earned 198 in 4 days, but what I really want is a count of SETI WUs processed, and a history like I used to get from SETIGate.
I can't find anything in the Help.

I fail to see what benefit I get from using BOINC,
and the problems are almost overwhelming. I'm on the point of giving up after 5 years of happy crunching.


The BIONC Wiki has an exhaustive and interesting discussion of the BIONC credit system, and the reasons for its adoption.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Error running BOINC Manager Fedora Core 4 (Message 827)
Posted 5 Nov 2005 by Profile 5 and a half of 13
Post:
I get this error when trying to start Boinc Manager from Terminal window:

./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


This is a new install of Fedora Core 4 with the XWindows installed. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Dave

Open a terminal window (if in your window manager), change to your BOINC directory and run 'ldd' on boincmgr. If everything is ok the output should look _something_ like this:

:~$ cd BOINC
:~/BOINC$ ldd boinc
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f1e000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7e01000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7dde000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7dcc000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f3c000)
:~/BOINC$ ldd boincmgr
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7f41000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7e76000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e72000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7d56000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7d33000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7d21000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f69000)

Fedora may keep stuff in different places from Slackware, but libXext should still be somewhere in your path. I suspect that your installation of XWindows _may_ be incomplete.

Good Luck!

PS: The file could even have the wrong permissions. Also is this the only program you have this error with? A lot of programs use that library these days.

One of the Linux guru's could probably give you more complete advice than this.
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC Manager 5.2.6 (Message 826)
Posted 5 Nov 2005 by Profile 5 and a half of 13
Post:
The password can be found in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file in your BOINC directory.
You can change it, but remember to restart BOINC afterwards.

Someone more knowledgeable about 5.2x will be able to give futher info on this.
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Don't like the BIG-A** buttons in the BOINC Manager!! (Message 825)
Posted 5 Nov 2005 by Profile 5 and a half of 13
Post:
Why do they have to be so BIG? What about a toolbar that runs across the top -- like other Windows programs? That would free up more real estate for viewing columns without having to constantly scroll from side to side.


If you prefer a toolbar, then why not try a very nice program called BOINCView. It does everything BOINCManager does but only works under Windo$e. You can get it from http://boincview.amanheis.de/

PS: It works under Wine as well.
5) Message boards : Web interfaces : Wish: Pages for big threads (Message 739)
Posted 29 Oct 2005 by Profile 5 and a half of 13
Post:
Hi All,

Thought I'd just keep this thread alive.

Realise you have more urgent stuff to do, but I _really_ think dividing threads up into pages would neaten them up and speed up their loading.

And speed can be an issue, even with cable.
6) Message boards : Web interfaces : Wish: Pages for big threads (Message 578)
Posted 27 Sep 2005 by Profile 5 and a half of 13
Post:
I think this will be a very useful feature for us with dialup because a big threads are downloaded very slow. And of course for all others.

Possible features:

  • Forum preference: how many posts per page;
  • links from a list of threads to each thread's page (for example: New thread [Pages: 2, 3, 4, 5]);
  • link to last post in a thread;



I like this general idea, even though I am on cable - my service is a bit screwy atm. It will also make threads a lot neater IMHO :)

PS : You of course know that turning off avatars and signatures; and setting images to display as links speeds up things quite a bit.
7) Message boards : BOINC client : Do I specify target with -redirectio command-line switch? (Message 577)
Posted 27 Sep 2005 by Profile 5 and a half of 13
Post:
Looking at the source code ... no additional parameters seem to be needed.


Thanks very much :)
8) Message boards : BOINC client : Do I specify target with -redirectio command-line switch? (Message 502)
Posted 23 Sep 2005 by Profile 5 and a half of 13
Post:
Sorry for the noobish question, but I couldnt find details on how to use this command-line switch.

I'm using BOINC 4.43 (under Slackware Linux) which apparently allows it. I assume you do need to specify the target/s but thought I'd better check first as I'm a bit of a linux noob (esp. the command line).

Thanks in advance.



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