Posts by Bill Freauff

21) Message boards : BOINC client : Multi core tasks alongside single core tasks. (Message 111988)
Posted 3 Jun 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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For Dave and Richard

Thank you for all that the two of you do. I am a reasonably non-technical cruncher that has never moved past Windows and Android but I really appreciate your time, effort and attention to detail.

As I don't have the skill set to contribute the way you gentlemen do I try to focus on longevity.

Thank you again

Crunching since 1999
Bill F
22) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 111692)
Posted 1 May 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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And Milkyway is showing up with all Server Page status's showing Running
23) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 111499)
Posted 4 Apr 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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The time stamps on the WCG stat's export page have not updated yet or the export point has changed.

Last update user XML 2023-03-01 01:21:01 UTC (32 days 01:08:48 old)
Last update host XML 2023-02-28 13:11:22 UTC (32 days 13:18:27 old)
Last update team XML 2023-03-01 01:21:01 UTC (32 days 01:08:48 old)
24) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 111498)
Posted 4 Apr 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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For me, the "Home Page" resolves to www.climateprediction.net and everything of interest is at www.cpdn,org. And www.cpdn.org is down. The link to the real home page seems to resolve to the www.climateprediction.net now, but that is not where my browser wants to go. It wants to go to www.cpdn.org. So perhaps this home page is a fall-back address in the DNS somewhere.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/cpdn.org?www=1

Is Cpdn.org down?
Checking if cpdn.org is down or it is just you...
It's not just you! cpdn.org is down.


You are correct the home page at https://www.climateprediction.net/ is accessible, but all of the sub pages are not accessible from the home page or from the BOINC client or directly from a browser.
25) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 111469)
Posted 1 Apr 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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And another FB/Twitter update 25 minutes ago:

"DB2 maintenance has finished, and both the website and forums are accessible again. Finally, we now run from
the new SSD storage system. The science DB transfer has been delayed in the process, now estimated to finish
by 6pm. Thank you for your support."


For what it is worth the Page loading times are quick at the moment
26) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 111468)
Posted 1 Apr 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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CPDN is back up now.


Well the home page is reachable, but the Server Status page and account login pages time out.
27) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 111096)
Posted 18 Feb 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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TN-Grid appears to be down. The website is down, and attempts to upload finished results files fail with transient HTTP errors.


And back up online with all Server processes showing Green
28) Message boards : The Lounge : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 111010)
Posted 7 Feb 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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And if you mentioned S&H Green Stamps in front of anyone in the last several generations... getting simply a Blank Look back would be getting off easy.

Bill F
29) Message boards : Projects : DENIS Medical research (Message 111009)
Posted 7 Feb 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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DENIS@home has launched some medical research on the Human ventricular cell model. The tasks are stable and work is continuously available.

OBTW ... badges are available.

Bill F
30) Message boards : Projects : SiDock@home (Message 110911)
Posted 12 Jan 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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Are you looking for a Science Project consider SiDock@home. It is medical and has moved past Covid research and is now doing other medical research.

Bill F
31) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 110837)
Posted 1 Jan 2023 by Profile Bill Freauff
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And a Happy and Blessed New Year to all.
32) Message boards : Projects : World Community Grid has announced an extended outage from Feb 14 to April 22, 2022 (Message 110817)
Posted 25 Dec 2022 by Profile Bill Freauff
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For the Mini-nuke's ... do they offer a contractor's discount for a half dozen ?

Bill F
33) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOIC Unexpected Exit (Message 110778)
Posted 20 Dec 2022 by Profile Bill Freauff
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I have a Win 10 system that had some pop up communication related errors and I thought that it appeared to more on the BOINC side than the Project App / Work Unit side. I reloaded BOINC and then my BOINC would not connect with the Client or would not stay connected. I then uninstalled BOINC and reinstalled ... no change. I can't see the error log as it won't connect to the Client.

The exit error states "The BOINC Client has exited unexpectedly 3 times in the last 5 minutes. Would you like to restart it again ? "

Is there a way to look at the the error log contents via the BOINC program folder ? Or does anyone have a suggestion for me ?

Thanks
Bill F
34) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 110642)
Posted 6 Dec 2022 by Profile Bill Freauff
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Grumble: "We are experiencing a higher than expected number of calls at the moment..."

Given that message never changes whatever time of day or whatever day of the week it is, why the $&*^^$£ have they not changed their expectations?

Don't get your hopes up that they will ever change their message.

Just about anywhere you call in the states that uses an automatic answer svc (technically called an 'IVR') ... have this disclaimer.

They would prefer you press a specific key to leave them a message so they can return your call at their convenience.

If I call somewhere, I don't want to talk to a machine. I want a living, breathing, blue blooded person that speaks, reads & writes English as their primary language, not some variation of pidgin engrish.



... Blue blooded ???
35) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 110634)
Posted 5 Dec 2022 by Profile Bill Freauff
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63825860
A Florida woman has sued the makers of Velveeta Shells and Cheese, claiming the dish takes too long to make.

The Kraft Company markets its microwaveable cups as "ready in 3.5 minutes" but Amanda Ramirez says it takes longer.

The $5m (£4.2m) lawsuit claims the time advertised does not include preparation time - opening the lid and sauce pouch, before adding water and stirring.

Kraft Heinz Foods Company described the lawsuit as "frivolous".
Funny Americans. 😂


And in this case the company is correct... frivolous. Personal opinion home made is better and if you are in that big of a hurry your life values are off.
36) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 110581)
Posted 29 Nov 2022 by Profile Bill Freauff
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And so now the utility wants to pay us for reducing usage and lowing demand... interesting !
37) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 110497)
Posted 20 Nov 2022 by Profile Bill Freauff
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Grumbles something is broken on SETI forums. Tied to post message and it timed out with error message
"Database Error
Unable to handle request
Can't create post"


An off setting Glory... Asteroids@home is up running and stable
38) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 110481)
Posted 17 Nov 2022 by Profile Bill Freauff
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What Asteroids did for the old tasks that finally uploaded was show them as complete pending verification and then they generated a Wingman task and distributed it as new work. When the Wingman task completed both users got credit for their task.

Bill F
39) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 110388)
Posted 9 Nov 2022 by Profile Bill Freauff
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Going on almost 3 days
Ramanujan project server STILL unreachable.
NO response from project management on DISCORD.

@Bill Freauff Can't find project on Twitter... link????
EDIT 15:21 UTC old tasks uploaded and received new tasks.
No OFFICIAL response on Discord someone emailed project.... got things kicks & working for now.


on Twitter look for ....
The Daily Ramanujan
40) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 110270)
Posted 29 Oct 2022 by Profile Bill Freauff
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They have a Twitter page that is more active if anyone has a Twitter account ??

Bill F


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