Posts by robsmith

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1) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 116081 Posted 7 days ago by robsmith	Ah, that source of great truth, and exaggeration. While the temperature may reach 25C, that's not that hot compared to other parts of the world where temperatures in excess of 40C are common
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Intel 630 graphics card not used by BOINC/Einstein in Ubuntu 24.04 Message 116080 Posted 7 days ago by robsmith	Fairly simple, but confusing.... You've installed openGL, which is a graphics library, and that doesn't really do any computing. openCL is a library designed to do computing. And the applications you are trying to run are built using openCL You aren't the first to be caught by these two very different sets of drivers, and you won't be the last. Others (I hope) will be able to point you in the right direction.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Suspend when computer is in use not working Message 115969 Posted 25 days ago by robsmith	Can someone please teach me how to add a photo in this message board. Quite simple - enclose the picture's URL by [ img] and {/ img] (no spaces inside the square brackets. doing so your image should appear thus: (edit to add - some image sharing websites don't allow the sort of linking that BOINC uses)
4) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 115807 Posted 4 Apr 2025 by robsmith	Don't panic S@H is back
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc conflicts with Microsoft update KB5053656 Message 115771 Posted 2 Apr 2025 by robsmith	One quick check.... I recently had the cpu clock speed drop from ~4GHz to ~1GHz for no apparent reason. The symptoms were similar to those you describe, resetting the Windows power schedule back to "maximum performance" instead of "optimum performance" cured the problem.
6) Message boards : Documentation : BOINC, privacy and security Message 115766 Posted 2 Apr 2025 by robsmith	The GitHub repository is only applicable to projects and distros using the stock BOINC server and client applications. BOINC is open source, and as such can be modified by "!anyone". Each project can modify the server application to suit their needs and environment; likewise each "third party" distro can modify its application to suit its needs. So, you need to check with all projects to find out what they've done to the security parts of the server application, and each distro to find out what modifications they have made. Two projects I know have made modifications to the server code are "World Community Grid" and "Einstein"; there are probably a few more. Good luck in getting responses from many of the smaller or "more remote" projects.
7) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115751 Posted 1 Apr 2025 by robsmith	After a few hours of happiness Asteroids has decided to have a sulk, and is once again crawling, if not stalled....
8) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 115750 Posted 1 Apr 2025 by robsmith	The servers are dreaming about the glory days when we had loads of work, and the little green men were teasing us.
9) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 115738 Posted 31 Mar 2025 by robsmith	There's a lot of snoring coming from that corner over there....
10) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115604 Posted 13 Mar 2025 by robsmith	Thanks Andy & Richard I'll continue to allow CPDN to snooze gently in the corner until more work emerges.
11) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115597 Posted 13 Mar 2025 by robsmith	CPDN??? Certificates have expired, or have they changed URL again?
12) Message boards : Server programs : Request for BOINC Dataset Access for PhD Research on Resource Allocation Message 115561 Posted 6 Mar 2025 by robsmith	You need to ask individual projects for this sort of data - these are the groups "doing the work". The BOINC project only collects the very top most data like number of users, not the sort of detail you are looking for.
13) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115552 Posted 5 Mar 2025 by robsmith	As of a few minutes ago the CPDN website was back, and appeared to be "healthy", but there's no work in the job queue - so "hurry up and wait" is the order of the day. Most, if not all, the servers are now showing "not running", which they weren't a couple of minutes ago. Things are happening.
14) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 115419 Posted 12 Feb 2025 by robsmith	Hope it goes well (and they put the correct lens in the correct eye). (I'll ask you how many fingers I'm pointing up in a few days time - nearest guess wins...)
15) Message boards : Projects : New Project dodo@home Message 115413 Posted 11 Feb 2025 by robsmith	Is that a "you and me few days", or a "WCG few days"?
16) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115409 Posted 10 Feb 2025 by robsmith	A bit late in posting, CPDN went down about 45mins ago - almost to the minute of the "guessed" shutdown time.
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : Disk usage problem - Rosetta Message 115332 Posted 1 Feb 2025 by robsmith	2/1/2025 1:24:31 PM \| Rosetta@home \| Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; AMD/ATI GPU: ) Are you running other projects? What are your cache settings? Are you using a manager like Science United?
18) Message boards : BOINC Manager : I have this "problem " the limite time had past Message 115320 Posted 31 Jan 2025 by robsmith	What project(s) are you trying to run?
19) Message boards : Projects : New project ODLK2025 Message 115262 Posted 23 Jan 2025 by robsmith	Second reply - you have reported a similar problem when trying to sign up to minecraft@home. These two "problems" could well be the same one - your email address is being blocked by a bit of third-party software.
20) Message boards : Projects : New project ODLK2025 Message 115261 Posted 23 Jan 2025 by robsmith	To quote from the stopforumspam's website: Your favorite and most trusted "one stop shop" for the prevention of forum & blog spam, trusted by over 200,000 forums... This suggests your email address, or a block of addresses on the same server, have been put on their black list. This can be the result of an over-zealous algorithm being used, or another user of the same email server having created a large amount of spam emails. There's little BOINC can do about this, but the next thing to do is to contact your email provider and register a complaint.

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