Posts by Dave

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1) Message boards : The Lounge : Let's talk politics Message 119133 Posted 1 day ago by Dave	It's about to happen? I do wish they would make their minds up one way or another! I suspect this is going to be dragged out for weeks!
2) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 119127 Posted 3 days ago by Dave	Michael Pennington Star Wars and Shakespeare actor dies aged 82.
3) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 119107 Posted 7 days ago by Dave	Once at least 10 Tasks have been processed and Validated, the Manager will then use those processing times to work out the Remaining (estimated) times each time it downloads new work And, if you have a project that keeps bringing out new versions of task types before you get to ten, then it never changes from the initial estimate!
4) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 119103 Posted 8 days ago by Dave	BOINC sometimes gets things very wrong in the time it estimates tasks will take to finish. In the past, micromanaging several projects has been particularly good/bad at messing up the predicted times. These days, I mostly only run one or less often two projects at once on my machine and they still overestimate a lot on one of them.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC says "Communication Deferred" for every project I attempt Message 119097 Posted 8 days ago by Dave	Not a Dev here but have dabbled with many projects over the years and every time I have had repeated backing off messages it has been one of these reasons. 1.Computer doesn't need work. 2.Project preferences don't allow the type of tasks the project has available. 3.Project has no tasks available. 4.My computer doesn't meet the specs or have the right operating system for the project. 5.Task failures mean the computer has reached its limit of tasks for the day. None of these scenarios are the fault of the BOINC program.
6) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 119096 Posted 8 days ago by Dave	Dame Shirley Porter Homes for votes scandal (among others.) Possibly the most corrupt politician of her day in UK politics. Since surpassed in so many ways!
7) Message boards : Promotion : Re-opening the efficiency debate: The 2026 hardware reality Message 119076 Posted 9 days ago by Dave	When 64GB of traditional DDR5 costs a fortune And what is an SoC with 64GB RAM in the chip going to cost? As Rob implies, some of us are going to rapidly run out of limbs!
8) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 119072 Posted 9 days ago by Dave	Genome pioneer Craig Venter 79.
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Suspend" too close to "Update" Message 119071 Posted 9 days ago by Dave	In reply to Jord's message of 4 May 2026: These are the prerequisites to build the client and manager under Linux: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/SoftwarePrereqsUnix I have used that link myself in the past. Just a shame that distributions don't all have the same selection of those libraries installed by default. Now, I always stick to the XFCE version of Ubuntu as one, it is slightly leaner than Gnome and secondly, having compiled the client several times using it, I know I just need to add the libraries I listed in my post in the documentation section of these boards.
10) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 119069 Posted 9 days ago by Dave	I didn't know that doing sudo do-release-upgrade would get rid of the library files I had previously installed in order to compile the client and manager. Next time I upgrade, I might go back to a clean install. I shall wait and see how things now progress.
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Suspend" too close to "Update" Message 119064 Posted 10 days ago by Dave	Okay, I'll bite, you need Libre Office to build BOINC (Manager)? 😂 I have no idea what libraries get installed for which programs with the desktop version that don't with the minimal installation. I just know that with the minimal one, the instructions in the post I created in the documentation section need a whole lot of extra libraries. (about six or eight is my vague memory.) You are right in identifying the manager though. Building just the client works with those instructions on a minimal install, indeed I think the instructions have some libs that are superfluous for a client only build.
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc won't start after reboot for any reason Message 119059 Posted 10 days ago by Dave	Boinc won't start after reboot. If I completely reinstall Mint Linux and then reinstall boinc it starts with no problem and runs einstein@home perfectly..until I reboot for any reason. I recently tried mint22.3 in a VM and didn't see this problem. It is possible I avoided this by compiling the latest master of 8.3.0 from source. Did you reboot with BOINC running? In your home directory is there a file BOINC MANAGER-steve There may be an underscore or hyphen between boinc and manager and hyphen after manager may be an underscore, I can't remember. If such a file exists, deleting it will let BOINC start normally. I won't check to see what the exact filename is at the moment because I don't want to risk losing the work that is running.
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Suspend" too close to "Update" Message 119057 Posted 10 days ago by Dave	change the buttons in code and compile it, then have your own BOINC Manager. I may have got compiling on XUbuntu down to the stage where I can close to guarantee it working first time but I have never messed about with the buttons or other parts of the code for that matter. I can't remember what they are but Ubuntu without the X is missing two or three more libraries that get installed as standard on XUbuntu. Also if you do a minimal install instead of the standard desktop which I tried for running a second instance in a VM, there are a lot more libraries I needed to chase down. I have taken to doing a full desktop install and then after compiling BOINC, removing Libre Office and a whole bunch of other stuff i don't need in the VM.
14) Message boards : Promotion : Re-opening the efficiency debate: The 2026 hardware reality Message 119050 Posted 10 days ago by Dave	it's disappointing to see you just take our comments and feed them into AI with a prompt to rebut with more AI slop and you just copy paste the answer. I haven't done any research to check the validity of your presumption. I assume you did what you allege and got the same result. If these ramblings, (I use that word because they don't come across to me as at all coherent) are the product of AI, then it seems counterintuitive give that AI is such a heavy user of computing resources and hence carbon etc.
15) Message boards : Promotion : Re-opening the efficiency debate: The 2026 hardware reality Message 119035 Posted 11 days ago by Dave	It isn't just about lack of money. The current CPDN tasks are dealing with greater amounts of data than many phones can cope with, a fast processor taking 50+hours of four cores and peaking at over 26GB of RAM usage.
16) Message boards : Promotion : Re-opening the efficiency debate: The 2026 hardware reality Message 119024 Posted 12 days ago by Dave	I can't see this happening for all projects. CPDN for example, uses code written for supercomputers either from the Met Office here in UK. (the older type of models that re used less and less these days) and newer code from ECMWF (European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecasting) that would require a somewhat cash strapped project to recruit a programmer with the knowledge and skills to program for this. I suspect this is a factor in many of the other projects that do not offer GPU work.
17) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 118987 Posted 15 days ago by Dave	Tony Wilson Hot Chocolate founder 89.
18) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 118985 Posted 16 days ago by Dave	AI here, AI there, AI everywhere. I have it turned off in my browser. I don't mind it being there when i want it but otherwise it is a pain in the proverbial.
19) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 118983 Posted 16 days ago by Dave	Decided to go with this section rather than, "Let's talk politics. The Netherlands launches self-hosted GitHub alternative Worth knowing if things go belly up with Microsoft now owning git-hub
20) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 118974 Posted 17 days ago by Dave	In reply to just1vet's message of 27 Apr 2026: I had to rebuild one of my crunchers the other day. It fails downloading the same 11 files needed. All the .tga, wcgrid_mcm1_gfx_7.61_windows_x86_64 and wcgrid_mcm1_map_7.61_windows_x86_64 You can copy the files from another machine of the same architecture.

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