Posts by ChertseyAl
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| 21) Message boards : BOINC Manager : RFE: Enable messages tab option
Message 58391 Posted 2 Dec 2014 by  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 :) |
| 22) 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 ChertseyAl
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I'm assuming the UotD is picked at random? 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 :) |
| 23) Message boards : Projects : iGEM@home launched
Message 55990 Posted 11 Sep 2014 by 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 :) |
| 24) Message boards : Projects : iGEM@home launched
Message 55988 Posted 11 Sep 2014 by ChertseyAl
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I can't even attach to the project properly. The account gets created, I can log in etc, but the client just fails at: 11/09/14 17:04:39||Fetching configuration file from http://igemathome.org/get_project_config.php No message boards either, which is a bit naughty. |
| 25) Message boards : Projects : Bitcoin Utopia not science project
Message 55823 Posted 6 Sep 2014 by ChertseyAl
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One word ---> LOL! (I even DID IT IN CAPITAL LETTERS for you) ;) |
| 26) Message boards : Projects : Bitcoin Utopia not science project
Message 55821 Posted 6 Sep 2014 by ChertseyAl
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I personally feel that my equipment is no longer wanted or needed in the Boinc projects I agree completely. GPUs have made my CPU-based contribution virtually worthless for a lot of projects. They are too old to accept decent GPUs, so now when they die I don't bother to repair them, I just throw them away. My single bottom-of-the-range GPU does as much work as most of the rest of my CPU-only machines put together. Depressing, isn't it? I'm just not interested enough to invest any money in a 'decent' machine (most of my stuff is $20 junk, my last couple of machines were free). On the bright side though if more work is being done by GPUs (even if not by me) that's got to be a Good Thing. The whole credit thing is a red herring when in comes to cross-project comparisons. The best thing to do is just stop exporting stats. Just kill that function in the next BOINC server version, the stats sites will all be frozen in time, and everybody will be happy. Seriously, trust me on this. |
| 27) Message boards : The Lounge : Absentee project admins
Message 55244 Posted 6 Aug 2014 by ChertseyAl
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The Drug Discovery Boards have been completely purged of spam. That didn't last long - The spam is back :( Cheers, Al. |
| 28) Message boards : Projects : Bitcoin Utopia not science project
Message 54928 Posted 17 Jul 2014 by ChertseyAl
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but no way is Bitcoin Utopia the second-most powerful supercomputer in the world It might not be the second-most powerful general purpose, programmable supercomputer in the world, but those little single-purpose ASICs are orders of magnitude better than any CPU or GPU for the intended task ;) Much like Colossus - Would have been a terrible performer for general tasks, but it was pretty good at cracking enigma codes :) Cheers, Al. |
| 29) Message boards : Questions and problems : Bad things happen on loss of network connectivity
Message 54644 Posted 29 Jun 2014 by ChertseyAl
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It's a very old problem - I have it on an Ubuntu 8.04 machine running BOINC 5.10.45 - As soon as I power down the router it shreds all of the WUs in the cache. Bit of a nuisnace really as that machine loses it's network connection nearly every day :( Cheers, Al. |
| 30) Message boards : Questions and problems : HELLO?????!!!!!!!!
Message 54591 Posted 25 Jun 2014 by ChertseyAl
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I think everyone is waiting for you to supply the requested information in your original post: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=9364 Cheers, Al. |
| 31) Message boards : Projects : Anyone know what's going on with 'ibercivis'?
Message 54527 Posted 21 Jun 2014 by ChertseyAl
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The server status page shows the upload/download server disabled (which might just be the usual server bug), but more relevant, the feeder is not running. Cheers, Al. |
| 32) Message boards : Projects : boinc@fiit
Message 54517 Posted 20 Jun 2014 by ChertseyAl
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My long running task ended after 2,717,795 seconds. That's 755 hours, or 31 of your Earth days. The outcome? Yeah, you guessed it ... "Completed, too late to validate" Thanks. A. Bunch. No message boards still, no sign of any admin anywhere. Brilliant. Cheers, Al. |
| 33) Message boards : Projects : boinc@fiit
Message 54309 Posted 30 May 2014 by ChertseyAl
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Message boards have disappeared again :( I thought the admin might be showing a little more interest in his project, so I started another WU. 10 days ago. 251 hours, 53%, no checkpointing, task one day overdue. Oh what fun! Cheers, Al. |
| 34) Message boards : Projects : NRG@Home
Message 53956 Posted 4 May 2014 by ChertseyAl
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You might want to raise the limit on the number of tasks in progress and lengthen the reporting deadline to make the project a bit more like nearly every other BOINC project out there :) Cheers, Al. |
| 35) Message boards : Projects : boinc@fiit
Message 53940 Posted 3 May 2014 by ChertseyAl
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Gave up with my one WU - 180 hours, stuck at same percentage for days. Had to reboot, no checkpointing, you know the rest ;) Still no message boards either, which is a bit naughty. I don't think I'll revisit this one as I don't feel a burning need to help mankind by solving reversi puzzles ;) cheers, Al. |
| 36) Message boards : Projects : Need volunteers for Spatialtemporal QoS project
Message 53564 Posted 9 Apr 2014 by ChertseyAl
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Yes, it's Non-CPU-Intensive. Haven't noticed any impact on my bandwidth at all; I'm a very light internet user so any extra traffic would be obvious. The WUs are short, and there's a 6 hour holdoff between getting new WUs so I can't see it stressing anyones connection. Which is nice. Cheers, Al. |
| 37) Message boards : Questions and problems : Slowest/Oldest BOINC Machine?
Message 53429 Posted 30 Mar 2014 by ChertseyAl
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My slowest/oldest desktop is a non-HT 1.8GHz P4 running Ubuntu 8.04. Built and rebuilt many times from bits. Only really there for trying out linux-only projects rather than serious number crunching. If there's no new projects to try I just leave it running Asteroids or Primaboinca as at least it scrapes a modest amount of credit on those :) Oh, got a fairly recent dual-core (or is it HT?) netbook thingy running XP that's too small and slow too use for anything useful so that gets used to try out new projects but otherwise just crunches Primaboinca and still gets a dismal amount of work done. Cheers, Al. |
| 38) Message boards : The Lounge : Windows XP dedicated machines
Message 53411 Posted 29 Mar 2014 by ChertseyAl
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I run all of my machines (mostly XP) without any sort of protection at all, other than being behind the SPI firewall in the router. Never had any sort of virus on any of them. The only machine that gets infected around here is the one operated by an idiot user (the wife, bless her!). I just image that regularly and restore it if needs be. Never, ever, had any infection on any of my headless BOINC farm (more of a flowerpot than a farm to be fair). Cheers, Al. |
| 39) Message boards : The Lounge : Absentee project admins
Message 53206 Posted 17 Mar 2014 by ChertseyAl
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What is it with project admins? Why do they never check their message boards? The recent torrent of spam has rendered a couple of projects boards unusable. Some project's 'report post' facility doesn't work, other projects it's clearly being ignored. Perhaps these are just zombie projects - The admins are slumped, lifeless, over flickering CRT monitors, festooned in cobwebs, while rats chew at their decaying flesh. Meanwhile the work generators churn out tasks for hungry crunchers who blissfully believe that their work is useful and valued ... Admins: Sort. it. Out. Cheers, Al. |
| 40) Message boards : Projects : Chess@Home
Message 53205 Posted 17 Mar 2014 by ChertseyAl
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It finished. There might be work in the future, but even the admin doesn't know. Just ignore it :) Cheers, Al. |
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