Posts by Grumpy Swede

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1) Message boards : Projects : New Project dodo@home
Message 114822
Posted 1 day ago by Grumpy Swede
In reply to Bill Freauff's message of 8 Nov 2024:
Well here is s a BOINC project. dodo@home

We're embarking on one heck of a journey, one with a thousand steps... our ultimate aim is to bring the Dodo back from extinction. Using our unique software and your help, we will decode the genome AND many, many others along the way. Join us and let’s make history! Together, we will make the saying 'as dead as a dodo' a thing of the past.

https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/
Looks very interesting, but until the project shows up on the official BOINC Science projects page, as well as the different stats pages, I'm not going to join the project.
2) Message boards : The Lounge : Let's talk politics
Message 114812
Posted 2 days ago by Grumpy Swede
In reply to Richard Haselgrove's message of 6 Nov 2024:
Three things frighten me about this:

  1. The mainstream media completely failed to see this coming. There were hundreds of polls, but any of them that even hinted at this were sidelined and ignored.
  2. The number of American voters that simply lap up tRump's assertions that he, personally, put everything back to rights with the powers at his disposal. As Britain (well, the Conservative party) discovered during Brexit, you can't change the behaviour of other countries by simply passing laws on your own side of the frontier: you have to negotiate and persuade as well.
  3. tRump ignores the reasoning behind some of the policies he wants to reverse - notably Net Zero. If the USA goes back to polluting beyond the carrying capacity of the planet, that will rebound on the USA. I wonder if he's even noticed the increasing number and strength of hurricanes recently? If he has, he sure hasn't joined the dots.

Yeah, I forgot about the climate crisis. Of course, Trump will for the second time immediately take the U.S out of the Paris Agreement. Remember, Trump, his followers, and large parts of the Republican party, do not believe in climate change. No matter how many large hurricanes, or other climate events, that hits the U.S, and the world, they will continue to say it's all a part of the natural climate cycle. After all, they do believe that climate change is a hoax, and the scientists are all part of a huge conspiracy.

It's bad, really, really bad....
3) Message boards : The Lounge : Let's talk politics
Message 114810
Posted 2 days ago by Grumpy Swede
In reply to Dave's message of 6 Nov 2024:
Oh dear.
Oh dear, indeed.
4 years of chaos again, sigh. This time, G7, and WTO, as well as the membership in NATO for the U.S. is on the table,
I wouldn't be surprised, if Trump wants to leave G7, WTO, and NATO, and bring the U.S into the Russia ruled BRICS instead.

And when it comes to Ukraine, Trump will try to force Ukraine into a very bad deal with Russia. It's going to be up to a more and
more divided EU, to increase the military help to the Ukraine. I have my doubts that EU will be able and willing to do that.

And with the Supreme Court, and now the Senate in his hands (don't know about the House yet), it's even more likely that Trump
will be able to rule as the Dictator he always wanted to be.

So, bad news all over, as a result of this election.
4) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114791
Posted 4 days ago by Grumpy Swede
You don't need to babysit and manually click the retry button. Instead use a script. or batch file running this command, at your chosen interval, in the folder where boinccmd.exe is located:

boinccmd.exe --network_available

That will make BOINC automatically try stalled downloads.

Edit: But by the looks of how the WCG website behaves now, that may now help, because I would not be surprised if we're heading for another "SYSTEM ERROR", and a total breakdown of WCG, pretty soon.
5) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114785
Posted 4 days ago by Grumpy Swede
In reply to Dave's message of 4 Nov 2024:
Over 2 hours since tasks allocated to my box. I am not sure any will download before my CPDN tasks are all finished in a few days time. Have they actually moved to the new infrastructure for the storage for these tasks yet or are they still sending them out from Kembril?
AFAIK, the new ARP infrastructure have nothing to do with the crunching of ARP. The WU's and preparations of WU's, are still going to be handled by Krembil. Downloads, uploads, and reporting.

There's some info on these locations about it all:

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=811
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=814

There's more links on those two links, to older updates when it comes to the ARP restart, and what it will take.
6) Message boards : The Lounge : Let's talk politics
Message 114784
Posted 4 days ago by Grumpy Swede
If Trump wins, there's going to be hell for the next 4-years, for the entire democratic Western world.
If Harris wins, Trump and his followers will start hell immediately in the U.S. of A.

Interesting days ahead, starting tomorrow.
7) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114765
Posted 8 days ago by Grumpy Swede
ARP have restarted (test run now it seems, before the "real" restart on Monday November 4.)
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,46861_offset,0#699364

And as ususal, there's tons of "transient HTTP errors" in the BOINC log. I don't do ARP, only MCM1, and OPNG when OPNG is available..
It's clear that the WCG infrastructure still isn't good enough for the ARP project.
8) Message boards : The Lounge : Let's talk politics
Message 114761
Posted 9 days ago by Grumpy Swede
I wonder if we dare to talk about the U.S election, without the thread exploding?
9) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114746
Posted 12 days ago by Grumpy Swede
In reply to rilian's message of 27 Oct 2024:
In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 27 Oct 2024:
WCG is totally down. Both the website and the BOINC part of the project.

At this moment both work fine to me...
Yeah, it came back again pretty quick. It was gone for a short time only, it seems.
10) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114743
Posted 12 days ago by Grumpy Swede
WCG is totally down. Both the website and the BOINC part of the project.
11) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe
Message 114702
Posted 19 days ago by Grumpy Swede
(Sleepy Joe Herman's Hermits)

Rise and shine, sleepy Joe
Now's the time, don't you know
To get into a new kind of dream
You've been living alone
With no Bell telephone
And you don't have a shirt that is clean
You can rest your head on the corner of your bed
You can watch the world go by
But you never gonna see
What the other people see
If you're always gonna be a sleepy Joe

Rise and shine, sleepy Joe
There are places to go
There are windows to clean on the way
You've got nothing to loose
But the shine on your shoes
Do the best things you can every day
You can get upset, at the way the people get
You can turn your back on the crowd
But you never gonna see
What is absolutely real
If you're always gonna be a sleepy Joe

Rise and shine, sleepy Joe
Now's the time, donґt you know
To get into a new kind of dream
You've been living alone
With no Bell telephone
And you don't have a shirt that is clean

Rise and shine, sleepy Joe
There are places to go
There are windows to clean on the way
You've got nothing to loose,
But the shine on your shoes
Do the best things you can every day
12) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114674
Posted 29 days ago by Grumpy Swede
Very good flow of new work now. Sad though that there's only one project running (MCM1)
13) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114672
Posted 29 days ago by Grumpy Swede
New work (_0 and _1) is starting to come in now. I was getting enough resends (_2 and _3) after the outage ended, to keep my computers well fed though.
14) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114669
Posted 9 Oct 2024 by Grumpy Swede
WCG is back. Both the website, and the BOINC part.
15) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe
Message 114663
Posted 9 Oct 2024 by Grumpy Swede
Autumn is truly here now. It's raining cats and dogs, and that will continue for another day or two.
16) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 114662
Posted 9 Oct 2024 by Grumpy Swede
The WCG website comes back from time to time, and it's possible to log in, but the next minute, it's down again, with the dreaded "System Error" message.
The BOINC part of WCG is partially back. It's possible to upload tasks, but not reporting and asking for new work. The reason for that, is that the feeder is not running
17) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114661
Posted 9 Oct 2024 by Grumpy Swede
The website comes back from time to time, and it's possible to log in, but the next minute, it's down again, with the dreaded "System Error" message.
The BOINC part of WCG is partially back. It's possible to upload tasks, but not reporting and asking for new work. The reason for that, is that the feeder is not running
18) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 114658
Posted 8 Oct 2024 by Grumpy Swede
In reply to Warped's message of 8 Oct 2024:
Does anyone know what has happened to WCG and how long the outage is likely to last?
No info whatsoever (as ususal) from the WCG team, on their FB account.
19) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
Message 114657
Posted 8 Oct 2024 by Grumpy Swede
Yup, both the website and BOINC is dead. Nothing (as usual) on FB, from the team.
20) Message boards : The Lounge : Let's talk politics
Message 114540
Posted 18 Sep 2024 by Grumpy Swede
Lots of days......
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