1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Advanced View for MacOS (Message 71660) Posted 18 Aug 2016 by John Hom Post: Thank you everyone for helping me figure this out! I'm used to a menu bar at the top of an entire screen being associated with systemwide options and menu bars within a window being associated with a particular process. I failed to notice that selecting the BOINC Manager changed the menu associated with the entire screen. John

2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Advanced View for MacOS (Message 71319) Posted 9 Aug 2016 by John Hom Post: I'm running OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6, and BOINC Manager version 7.6.22. On my Mac, BOINC starts with the Simple View, and I cannot seem to get to the Advanced View. Is there an Advanced View on the Mac edition? On Windows, I have the top menu bar where I can toggle between Simple View and Advanced View.

3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC Manager Wish List (Message 63159) Posted 21 Jul 2015 by John Hom Post: What would be great is to be able to enter several time blocks for which BOINC could crunch work units. As things are now, you could only specify one. For example, I would like to crunch during 2 time blocks daily: 12:00 am to 8:00 am and 4:00 pm to 11:59 pm. Right now I can only specify one of these. How hard would this be to implement? If parsing the time is problematic, perhaps you can use 24 check boxes representing one hour of the day (e.g., 12:00 am - 1:00 am, 1:00 am - 2:00 am, 2:00 am - 3:00 am, etc.) I can then check the boxes when I want BOINC to crunch. At the start of each hour, the code can do a simple comparison between the current time, and the appropriate check box value and suspend or start processing if called for.

4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Setting Processor Usage Times (Message 53850) Posted 30 Apr 2014 by John Hom Post: I'm running BOINC Manager 7.2.42 (x64) on Windows 7, and have a question about setting processor usage times. A typical work day for me is: 00:00 - 07:59 = off duty 08:00 - 16:00 = on duty 16:01 - 23:59 = off duty How would I instruct BOINC to run during the times intervals when I am off duty? You can get to the preferences screen via "Tools | Computing preferences ..." and selecting the "processor usage" tab. Would the following work: Every day between the hours of 00:00 and 07:59 (no restrictions if equal) Day-of-week override: Mon 16:01 - 23:59 Day-of-week override: Tue 16:01 - 23:59 Day-of-week override: Wed 16:01 - 23:59 Day-of-week override: Thu 16:01 - 23:59 Day-of-week override: Fri 16:01 - 23:59 Day-of-week override: Sat 00:00 - 23:59 Day-of-week override: Sun 00:00 - 23:59 There does not seem to be a way of entering several time blocks. If I run BOINC during the AM hours then I cannot run during the PM hours, and vice versa. My machine has to be on anyway, and however you cut it, that's 8 hours of running the null process. By the way, I know there is the "While computer is in use" check box, but I work in a very cramped space, and the crews from the other shifts bump into my keyboard and mouse all night long. I just want to have BOINC run regardless of their clumsiness. Thanks, John

5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Wishlist: Flexible Processing Times (Message 49608) Posted 14 Jun 2013 by John Hom Post: I'm running BOINC Manager 7.0.64 (x64) for Windows and would really appreciate a more flexible way of entering the times processing is allowed on the machine. When I'm working (08:00-16:00) I don't want BOINC to run at all; when I'm not working (00:00-08:00 and 16:00-23:59) I want to give BOINC all resources. As it is right now, I can only choose one continuous block (either 00:00-08:00 or 16:00-23:59). It would be beneficial if I can enter several time blocks: before work (00:00-08:00), lunch (13:00-14:00), after work (16:00-23:59), etc.

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