Posts by Bill Walker

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to suspend a project without starting BOINC Manager (Message 63436) Posted 8 Aug 2015 by Bill Walker Post: Thanks for the suggestions Richard. I did try leaving the machine in the locked up stage for about 45 minutes on one occasion. No change in behaviour. For now, I'm steering clear of Einstein GPU tasks. I'll let the Big Brains sort out the details.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to suspend a project without starting BOINC Manager (Message 63434) Posted 8 Aug 2015 by Bill Walker Post: Richard's method of editing the xml file worked. I'm now back running BOINC Manager, including S@H GPU tasks, with no issues. Full details at http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=11377 . I wonder if we need a more user friendly way to select out individual projects without fully running BOINC Manager. If issues with any BOINC project lead to people being locked out of their machines, BOINC could get a very bad name very quickly.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to suspend a project without starting BOINC Manager (Message 63428) Posted 8 Aug 2015 by Bill Walker Post: I am having an issue with my laptop locking up right after BOINC Manager completes the connection and starts computing. I have just re-attached to Einstein, and from a post on their Forums I'm not alone with this problem. My only solution so far is to use Windows Task Manager to stop BOINC Manager before it starts. If the BOINC Manager starts, my machine locks up before I can suspend Einstein from within the Manager. I am using TThrottle, and have had no problems since I bought this laptop about 2 years ago. Is there a way to suspend Einstein without allowing BOINC Manager to start crunching? This would allow me to narrow down the issue.
4) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 61212) Posted 25 Mar 2015 by Bill Walker Post: This was posted Monday on the Constellation Questions and Answers forum: "We had a server crash resulting in a DB crash. In the moment, the server is not hosted on a emergency hardware with a slower internet connection. We are working to get a new server and locate them back to the data center."
5) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 60624) Posted 3 Mar 2015 by Bill Walker Post: Constellation has been down for several hours Now several days. Anyone have a status on the constellation Project? Their website is down also. I get occasional connects to the site, but haven't completed a download in a couple of weeks. They all come up with various error messages, usually "2015-03-02 3:03:22 PM \| \| Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site" But it keeps trying to send me WUs.
6) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 57766) Posted 17 Nov 2014 by Bill Walker Post: ---------------------------------------------- Hunker down folks. They're coming to take me away Haha, they're coming to take me away Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha To the funny farm Where life is beautiful all the time And I'll be happy to see Those nice young men In their clean white coats And they're coming to take me AWAY HA HAAAA (Napoleon XIV) To the disbelief of friends, I bought this when it came out, still have it somewhere. The B side is even more weird ;-) On my copy the B side is the A side played backwards. No satanic messages however.
7) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 57675) Posted 16 Nov 2014 by Bill Walker Post: Morning all. Nice to see you are here. Oops. Haven't posted here since the IDs at BOINCstats were messed up. Must fix that.
8) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 48487) Posted 2 Apr 2013 by Bill Walker Post: Yo Steve!
9) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe (Message 48471) Posted 2 Apr 2013 by Bill Walker Post: So what Sten is saying is that the new S@H will be just like the old S@H. Added in edit: why did several posts just disappear? Why is there a funny name in my signature? What is the meaning of life?
10) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 39081) Posted 18 Jul 2011 by Bill Walker Post: ... and now they are back.
11) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 39072) Posted 18 Jul 2011 by Bill Walker Post: Constellation is not uploading or downloading, and I can't reach their web page.
12) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 36062) Posted 13 Dec 2010 by Bill Walker Post: MilkyWay appears to be down. Can't upload results, can't reach the web site.
13) Message boards : Projects : Einstein project (Message 22689) Posted 25 Jan 2009 by Bill Walker Post: I forwarded this thread to the EAH administrators. This may have helped, I'm up to 6 days in a row with steady access to all of Einstein@Home.
14) Message boards : Projects : Einstein project (Message 22452) Posted 15 Jan 2009 by Bill Walker Post: I'm still getting no access to Einstein for about 3 days out of 4. No access right now, and here is the results of tracert right now: >tracert einstein.phys.uwm.edu Unable to resolve target system name einstein.phys.uwm.edu. I'm using a small local ISP called Odynet. Just tried tracert on web sites that are working, and got the same message. Am I doing something wrong here?
15) Message boards : Projects : Einstein project (Message 22350) Posted 9 Jan 2009 by Bill Walker Post: I got through to the web site briefly yesterday, but again today I can't connect. Is it me, or is it them?
16) Message boards : Projects : Einstein project (Message 22328) Posted 7 Jan 2009 by Bill Walker Post: Thanks Dagorath and Gundolf. I still can't reach any of their web sites, from 2 different PCs. Can I ask what URL you have for their main page?
17) Message boards : Projects : Einstein project (Message 22325) Posted 7 Jan 2009 by Bill Walker Post: Just noticed that this project had a big gap in sending and receiving work, and now the web pages all appear to be non-functioning. Does anybody know what's up?
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : Work units lost when installing 6.2.19 (Message 21632) Posted 4 Dec 2008 by Bill Walker Post: Thanks guys. All the old stuff is being cleared out. This is a new machine (long sad story about the old one..). I remember when I installed BOINC on the new machine in late August that the first attempt appeared to not work, and a second download and install had to be done. I guess there was something hanging around from the first install attempt.
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : Work units lost when installing 6.2.19 (Message 21618) Posted 3 Dec 2008 by Bill Walker Post: Here are the first messagtes I got with the new Manager: 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Starting BOINC client version 6.2.19 for windows_x86_64 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Running as a daemon 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Running under account boinc_master 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.00GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13] 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Premium x64 Editon, Service Pack 1, (06.00.6001.00) 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Memory: 3.00 GB physical, 6.19 GB virtual 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Disk: 217.26 GB total, 149.72 GB free 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Local time is UTC -5 hours 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|SETI@home\|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4630841; location: home; project prefs: default 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 20-Oct-2008 18:55:15) 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Computer location: home 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when active to 3069.15MB 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3069.15MB 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|\|Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|SETI@home\|Task 19se08ad.9478.24612.3.8.228_1 is 20.04 days overdue. 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|SETI@home\|You may not get credit for it. Consider aborting it. 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|SETI@home\|Task 19se08ac.17161.18068.5.8.202_1 is 19.78 days overdue. 02/12/2008 6:36:06 PM\|SETI@home\|You may not get credit for it. Consider aborting it. 02/12/2008 6:36:07 PM\|\|Running CPU benchmarks 02/12/2008 6:36:39 PM\|\|Benchmark results: 02/12/2008 6:36:39 PM\|\| Number of CPUs: 2 02/12/2008 6:36:39 PM\|\| 1853 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 02/12/2008 6:36:39 PM\|\| 5758 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 02/12/2008 6:36:40 PM\|SETI@home\|Starting 24se08aa.28552.8662.13.8.179_1 02/12/2008 6:36:40 PM\|SETI@home\|Starting task 24se08aa.28552.8662.13.8.179_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 603 02/12/2008 6:36:40 PM\|SETI@home\|Starting 24se08aa.28552.8662.13.8.181_0 02/12/2008 6:36:40 PM\|SETI@home\|Starting task 24se08aa.28552.8662.13.8.181_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 603 The SEI WUs referred to were not on my machine before the install. All my old WUs had completion dates in mid to late to December, the new WUs are all September to November completion dates. The Install Shield made a new BOINC data directory. I don't remember being asked, it just did it.
20) Message boards : Questions and problems : Work units lost when installing 6.2.19 (Message 21607) Posted 3 Dec 2008 by Bill Walker Post: I just installed BOINC Manager 6.2.19, after getting a message in my old V.5 recommending this. I was running SETI and WCG. After installing 6.2.19, all my old WUs are gone, including some in progress and some not started. The Manager now shows about a dozen SETI WUs with expiry dates in last month. WCG was completely gone, I had to re-attach the project and got new WUs. Did I do something wrong? Should we be warning others about to install 6.2.19?

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