Posts by ChertseyAl

1) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113486)
Posted 28 Jan 2024 by Profile ChertseyAl
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And gone again ...
2) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113257)
Posted 11 Dec 2023 by Profile ChertseyAl
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The project isn't finished, it just goes down every day for a while :)

I think it's moved to a new hosting service, and it's still having teething troubles.

Anyway, it's up now.
3) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113197)
Posted 29 Nov 2023 by Profile ChertseyAl
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AAANND ... IT'S BACK!

Move along, nothing to see here. For now :)
4) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113196)
Posted 29 Nov 2023 by Profile ChertseyAl
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Seems to be parked at tucows, though not expired

Domain Name: radioactiveathome.org
Registry Domain ID: b61385a8a0bd45c3b10de58a8d4e8f69-LROR
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.tucows.com
Registrar URL: http://www.tucows.com
Updated Date: 2023-05-22T10:34:18Z
Creation Date: 2011-04-07T10:33:51Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2024-04-07T10:33:51Z
Registrar: Tucows Domains Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 69
5) Message boards : The Lounge : z (Message 65040)
Posted 22 Oct 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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Enigmatic.

Cicada 3301 perhaps? ;)
6) Message boards : BOINC client : how to avoid data corruption on windows shutdown if you forgot to suspend projects (Message 63904)
Posted 29 Aug 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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Cool story bro.

But I have to say I've never had data corruption when shutting down, BOINCing for 10 years a dozen machines at a time. But then I only use XP and Ubuntu, so maybe they are safer. Though I doubt it.
7) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 63871)
Posted 27 Aug 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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Apparently the radioactive@home virtual server keeps crashing for unknown reasons and it's hoped to be back in a couple of days according to Krzysztof.
8) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and Covid-19 (Message 63480)
Posted 11 Aug 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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I hate people that bump unanswered posts by replying to themselves with:

Nobody?

Here's a couple of clues - Either nobody knows the answer, or nobody can decipher your gibberish, or perhaps everyone just hates you. Especially if you bump the thread after less than 24 hours.

Just sayin'
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : more work units (Message 62052)
Posted 5 May 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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You can use the <ncpus>N</ncpus> option in your cc_config.xml file to simulate more CPUs than you actually have:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/client_configuration

But you won't gain anything in terms of work throughput, you'll just be sharing cores between multiple work units :)
10) Message boards : Projects : PUCBi Desktop Grid (Message 61499)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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Looks like an old backup from 18th January or thereabouts has been loaded and wiped everything out. Apart from the inevitable spammers of course :)
11) Message boards : Projects : new project: DENIS@home (Message 61498)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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When trying to set up an account, it says to do so by "attaching to project" via boinc manager - but the project isn't in the list. Advice would be appreciated. Thank you. Good luck with the project too.

edit: don't worry. This isn't the right place to ask as it's for news. Sorry for troubling you.


I'll answer anyway ;)

Just go through the add project option, and rather than select one from the list just paste the project link into the URL text box and continue as if you'd selected it from the list. The URL to paste is this:

http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/

(Not clickable to make it easy to copy'n'paste!).
12) Message boards : Projects : Primaboinca status (Message 61356)
Posted 2 Apr 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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And it's back up - I dare say the backlog of uploads/updates/downloads will slow it down for a while though ;)
13) Message boards : Projects : Primaboinca status (Message 61350)
Posted 2 Apr 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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I emailed Fabio - There had been a DDOS attack - He expects the project to be up today (2nd Apr).
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : Always end up on Google Home Page (Message 60888)
Posted 12 Mar 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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FWIW I've found FF 36.0.1 very buggy - It randomly loses some settings, and when I click on one of the buttons in BOINC I do go to the right page (sort of) but it doesn't render properly and I get half of the BOINC Manager window apparently as part of the web page. V36 also seems to have the old plugin container bug back again, as well as the really old memory leak that was fixed ages ago. They messed this version up :(
15) Message boards : Projects : PUCBi Desktop Grid (Message 59968)
Posted 26 Jan 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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The server status is in the usual place ...

http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/pucbi/server_status.php

There was work on the 22nd Jan that apparently worked, then everything after that until the 24th seems to be computation errors. Nothing since then.
16) Message boards : Projects : Primaboinca status (Message 59834)
Posted 19 Jan 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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The only way to get any answers is to email Fabio (the admin) or possibly tweet him. I usually just email him if there's a problem and he fixes it pretty quickly. It's not ideal, but it's a reliable project so no big deal.

I don't think the project is ending yet as no counterexplamples to AKS have been found yet. Presumably as soon as just one is found the project could end immediately.
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : A small big detail (Message 59448)
Posted 9 Jan 2015 by Profile ChertseyAl
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As BOINC doesn't actually do any work it wouldn't be down to them. The projects could give some small award/reward for achievement (and some do, Einstein for instance), other than that it's down to badges and rank in the individual project leaderboards. Combining WUs/points/badges across projects is pointless as they all do different types of work for different amounts of credit.
18) Message boards : BOINC Manager : RFE: Enable messages tab option (Message 58391)
Posted 2 Dec 2014 by Profile ChertseyAl
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Why not make it configurable? Have an option to enable the messages tab, defaulted to not displaying it.

Oh, and make it configurable to turn off the notices tab, and especially make it not hijack BOINC manager and switch away from the last selected tab :)
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : You've been hacked and I've been hacked and I'm in a lot of trouble can you help? (Message 58321)
Posted 30 Nov 2014 by Profile ChertseyAl
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I'm assuming the UotD is picked at random?

Once selected, you won't be selected again unless you make some type of change to your profile.


That must be a new feature, as I still get regular UOTDs at various projects that I've never changed my profile on. Also, newly created profiles used to get picked automatically. But deleting a profile and creating a new one doesn't seem to trigger it.

I have noticed that if I start crunching a project I haven't worked for for years that I get a UOTD. Perhaps I just don't notice unless I'm actively involved. I also get UOTD email notifications from apparently dead projects where there is some daemon still ferreting away in the background completely by accident :)
20) Message boards : Projects : iGEM@home launched (Message 55990)
Posted 11 Sep 2014 by Profile ChertseyAl
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For some reason I have to use a 7.x.x client to attach, even though account creation works with older clients. Attached one machine, awaiting message boards :)


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