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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