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| 1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Wishlist for Mac
Message 43888 Posted 30 Apr 2012 by Stellar Night |
This would be nice for BOINC Manager under any OS, but my house is Mac heavy. I am a student who comes and goes at irregular times. Scheduling my computers to do work at certain times and not others is useful but not suitably efficient. I am either interrupting my piping hot MacBook Pro or it is sitting there idling while I'm away. What I would like is bluetooth integration so that, when my phone is in range, BOINC stops and I have a nice, cool, quite computer to work at while, when my phone is out of range, BOINC kicks in and gets to work curing cancer and finding aliens. This feature might also work based on network MAC addresses, so that when my hone connects to my wireless network its MAC address prompts BOINC to stop all running projects. I'll leave it to the BOINC team to figure out the details. It would be nice to schedule the times that proximity detection is taken into consideration as well. My phone will be in range between 12AM and 5AM every night, but BOINC can ignore my presence since I will be asleep. Finally, since I have four computers running BOINC, having them all stop when I arrive home would be ideal. They are all noisy and in my living room. Manually stopping four computers every hour so I can hear the TV during an unexpected weekday off is tedious. The other thing that has crossed my mind is the ability to choose whether or not projects run while my laptop is charging. It can take a few hours for it to charge, even without any running. With projects running, I've had my laptop take 7 hours to charge fully. |
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