Posts by muddocktor

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Restore older gui to newer client? (Message 45245)
Posted 12 Aug 2012 by muddocktor
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I absolutely hate the fact that the BOINC developers arbitrarily decided to make me...

Not arbitrarily, but due to the outcome of a poll held over the course of 6 months under resident users and newcomers alike.

Why do people always feel that changes made to BOINC are done at a whim and always to frustrate the old constituency, never to better the use of BOINC for newcomers, who might be seeing all those messages as errors and therefore abandoning the use of BOINC before they had a real chance to get acquainted with the program? Never thought of that one, huh? ;-)



Before the change to the GUI, I didn't even know about the message boards here on the client itself. And I'm probably not the only one either who wasn't aware of the message boards for the BOINC client. But it still doesn't change the fact that the developers of the BOINC software could have left us long time users a way to tab the messages instead of having to open a new window to read them. These are my opinions only and don't represent any particular team opinions or any other person's opinion, BTW. I am here now to voice my discontent over the GUI change.

Fred, I might check out BoincTasks, but I don't particularly like having to run a third party app to monitor when IMO BOINC broke the easier way to monitor within the BOINC client. :( I had read about the replacing a few files thing some time ago but couldn't find which files with a quick search, so I am glad that you let me know that the version 6.10.60 BOINC Manager isn't completely compatible with version 7.

And if the people in charge of the BOINC client don't plan to give us a way to revert back to tabbing the messages within the main program, at least give an easy to find a link to 6.10.60 or 6.10.58. All the 64 bit clients linked on the downloads page for Windows are to versions with the new interface. I'm about to revert some newer clients back to one of those if I can find them in the downloads sections of some of my computers. And if I trash some work, then so be it. I heartily detest the new interface, so much so that right now I don't care if reverting trashes hundreds of wus.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Restore older gui to newer client? (Message 45218)
Posted 10 Aug 2012 by muddocktor
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Is there any way to restore the older gui (6.10.60 or older) to the newer versions of the client, such as the 7 series? I absolutely hate the fact that the BOINC developers arbitrarily decided to make me open a new window to look at messages instead of just tabbing over to them and they put a "notices" tab in it's place. To me, that notices tab is relatively useless whereas the the message tab is something I use quite a lot.

Can I pull a file out of an older version of the client and drop it in place in the newer clients? If not, can the BOINC developers give us an option to change those 2 around and let us run the messages in a tab and the notices in a new window?

BTW, I am running the Windows X64 versions of the BOINC client on my machines except for my laptop, which is running the x86 version. The majority are Win 7 but I do have Vista SP2 on the laptop. Any help on this issue would be much appreciated. :)

mudd
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : HELP PLEASE Project NOT obeying preferences! (Message 38784)
Posted 5 Jul 2011 by muddocktor
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Download and install smcFanControl on your Mini. I have been running that on my old Mac Mini since shortly after getting it and it let's me control my fan speed. I have the fan speed jacked up to 100% and my Rosetta crunching temps run around 50-55 C. Apple didn't make fan rampup profile very aggressive on my Mini and before I installed smcFanControl, my temps averaged in the 80's. BTW, I recently upgraded to a T7600 from my old T5600 and I haven't seen any increase in average temps either.

BTW, the original install was done on Leopard and I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and had no problems with the program running correctly.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : issues with boinc 6.12.26 (Message 38783)
Posted 5 Jul 2011 by muddocktor
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Thank you man, I'll give it a try when I get a chance.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : issues with boinc 6.12.26 (Message 38779)
Posted 4 Jul 2011 by muddocktor
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I ran into the problem of the BOINC download page trying to have me download the wrong client for my upgrade to 6.12.56. I have multiple machines running, most with the X64 client on them (except my mac mini and laptop). So I go to update the client on one of my X64 client installs and the download page shows the x86 client for me to download. Luckily I looked at the exe filename and saw that "x86" designator in it or I would have had another mess on my hands (did this about a year ago and had mucho problems figuring it out). How about having the main BOINC client download page either look at the client version that is running on the computer and offer the correct version up (x86 or x64), or at least giving direct links to both the x86 and x64 versions of the client as direct links for the download.

Also, since someone decided to lock out the other threads I found on this new version of the client, I would like to register my displeasure at the totally useless changes to the GUI. The notices tab is as useless as tits on a boar hog for the projects I run and a total waste of a good tab. That tab spot would be much better utilized for displaying the messages and put the notices in place of the event log. I do like the fact that it seems that they have fixed the issue of the scheduler trying to download GPU tasks when the project you are running doesn't use GPU power at all and I also assume that you have fixed it where if the user (me) doesn't want to use their GPU on a project that does utilize the GPU for crunching, the client won't keep trying to contact the servers for work. That was annoying me to no end, since I presently only participate in Rosetta and having the client contact the servers for GPU work has been pissing me off for quite a while.

As for the other changes in the GUI, I can live with (even though I'm not too fond of some of them), but making me open up a separate window to look at messages is just stupid, IMO. At least give us the choice to put swap the messages (event log) and that stupid notices tab around into each other's place.

One other thing about this "supposedly stable" version, which was brought up in this thread. Like the tasks staying in memory problem to be specific. I don't allow the screensaver to run on any of my installs, so that isn't a problem for me. But would it be advisable to upgrade to 6.12.33 on the machine I just upgraded and on my Mac Mini(OSX Snow Leopard) to make sure this doesn't become a problem?



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