Posts by Jack

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1) Message boards : News : New project seeks testers
Message 46895
Posted 22 Dec 2012 by ProfileJack
Anyway I could help build an OSX binary?
2) Message boards : News : New project seeks testers
Message 46894
Posted 22 Dec 2012 by ProfileJack
Oh well my macbook won't work for now. Got to wait until after xmass load it on my windows machine.
3) Message boards : News : New project seeks testers
Message 46884
Posted 22 Dec 2012 by ProfileJack
Sign me up!
4) Message boards : Projects : Hydrogen@home
Message 36575
Posted 25 Jan 2011 by ProfileJack
Hydrogen@Home is back up. I have not made any workunits. We hope to test some GPU apps but we are really having issues getting them to work, so no promise on reliability. There seem to be some memory issues that I don't understand.
5) Message boards : Promotion : BOINC Wristbands
Message 30249
Posted 18 Dec 2009 by ProfileJack
Maybe if my project gets some financing we can setup a way of giving wristbands after so many credits.
6) Message boards : Promotion : Mascot For BOINC
Message 30248
Posted 18 Dec 2009 by ProfileJack
Many open source projects have mascots

GNU


Tom Cat


How about a mascot for BOINC. I proposed an Ocatpus.
7) Message boards : Projects : Hydrogen@Home
Message 28006
Posted 14 Oct 2009 by ProfileJack
Its a bad idea for me to work on this anymore before I leave. I certainly appreciate any suggestions. I removed the mysql package on the wrong server and it looks like I corrupted the data as a result. I'm asking for help from several places.
8) Message boards : Server programs : Replacing the uppercase app with my own
Message 27285
Posted 11 Sep 2009 by ProfileJack
There should be an application administration page under
PROJECT/html/ops/manage_apps.php
See if you can open that to remove and add applications to the databases.
Last resort you can go into mysql, delete the uppercase from your apps table.
9) Message boards : Projects : DrugDiscovery@Home
Message 26463
Posted 4 Aug 2009 by ProfileJack
Still working on the restore. This will be a challenge. I am trying to use the innodb recovery tool.
http://code.google.com/p/innodb-tools/
10) Message boards : Promotion : Colbert Report
Message 24988
Posted 21 May 2009 by ProfileJack
Colbert had a guest from the SETI Institute last night. My question is how about we write to Colbert Nation and get David Anderson on the show!

May 20th
Guests: Seth Shostak
John Yoo gets a newspaper column, and Seth Shostak searches for intelligent life in space.
http://www.colbertnation.com/home
11) Message boards : Web interfaces : Drupal migration
Message 24843
Posted 13 May 2009 by ProfileJack
David, I appreciate the input. I only have a basic understanding of the internals on Drupal. From the description it does not seem I can be of assistance at the moment. I would like to learn more and if possible examine the code that is being worked on. Is there any code currently posted in the SVN?
12) Message boards : Web interfaces : Drupal migration
Message 24841
Posted 12 May 2009 by ProfileJack
I am also wondering if we want to create a boinc module for drupal for all BOINC project code?
13) Message boards : Web interfaces : Drupal migration
Message 24840
Posted 12 May 2009 by ProfileJack
If I get time, I would like to work on merging the profiles. For now I have drupal in a separate database. Do we want to have that separation?
14) Message boards : Web interfaces : Drupal migration
Message 24171
Posted 8 Apr 2009 by ProfileJack
I have not gotten any clear instructions regarding this yet. What we recently did was create different subdomains. Mothership is really a portal to 3 projects (both DC & DT). MedLinc, MedThinc and Bones. Bad Penguin is busying himself with configuring this main website now. you can visit the subdomains
medlinc.mothershipathome.org
medthinc.mothershipathome.org
15) Message boards : Web interfaces : Drupal migration
Message 23409
Posted 2 Mar 2009 by ProfileJack
On MotherShip@Home, we started putting it in Drupal. Not sure exactly how to handle the content relative to the server path and a little trouble referencing the file paths for includes. So we took the static html and coded a php script out of it. You can see the results. We are using the fourseasons theme.
http://www.mothershipathome.org/
16) Message boards : Web interfaces : Drupal migration
Message 23059
Posted 11 Feb 2009 by ProfileJack
In the mean time, I'm trying to integrate Drupal into three project websites. I'm looking for some guidance on how to implement this.
17) Message boards : Web interfaces : Drupal migration
Message 23028
Posted 10 Feb 2009 by ProfileJack
I am starting this thread to discuss the prospect of Drupal integration to BOINC websites. I have very limited understanding on how to use Drupal but quite familiar with the current PHP codebase for BOINC websites. So far I like the idea of integrating this CMS, though I don't know what the end result will be.

Maybe we can start with a wish list.

1) If we could have a way of updating the main index page, that may be useful.
2) If we could have drop down menu using CSS or a tab for the main page, it will look a bit more appealing.

I'm not yet sure how easy it is to integrate dynamic code like that into Drupal.

Just some initial thoughts
18) Message boards : Promotion : Seismologists Advance Earthquake Monitoring
Message 21479
Posted 24 Nov 2008 by ProfileJack
Check out the following article from the National Academies on Seismology advances. They mention QCN!
http://www.nas.edu/headlines/20081114.html
19) Message boards : Promotion : WNYC
Message 21247
Posted 14 Nov 2008 by ProfileJack
BOINC was metioned today on WNYC public broadcast when they spoke with John Abell, NY Bureau chief for Wired.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/11/14/segments/115627
20) Message boards : Promotion : Media Blitz New Administration
Message 21163
Posted 7 Nov 2008 by ProfileJack
It is important that BOINC remain apolitical just as science in general should not take political sides. But now that we are seeing a new US Administration transition in Washington, I am seeing opportunities that have never been available to BOINC previously. No one can deny that the US government has an influencial role in scientific research.

Fresh blood is coming into Washington that may be more sympathetic to research projects that take a grass roots approach to science which is the very escence of BOINC.

We have a short period of time to communicate public interest in BOINC to this new administration receptive to new ideas. So I ask us to consider, whether there are any public policy proposals related to BOINC that we should try communicating to this new administration?

Among my own interests

  • More Funding for grid based research
  • More Funding for grid based education projects
  • Some kind of public recognition for contributions made by crunchers

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