Posts by Brent

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Collatz Conjecture issue for many users (Message 105780)
Posted 17 Oct 2021 by Brent
Post:
I got a suggestion to download Boinc 7.16.20 from Softpedia (I am currently running Boinc 7.16.11) to fix my issue. I don,t see this version on this Boinc sight. Is this safe to do?
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Collatz Conjecture issue for many users (Message 105774)
Posted 16 Oct 2021 by Brent
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Thanks for nothing people. I run a Dell PC with windows 10 and a Nvidia GPU. I have repeatably asked for help to resolve the credit certificate issue in a way that none computer geniuses can understand! I have yet to get a reply. I very much enjoy donating my personal, electricity, and computer time to Boinc, but I hate wasting it. I also get a kick out of scoring as many work units as I can. I am not looking to make money or anything else only but my enjoyment. Because of these issues, I have stopped processing Collatz Conjecture and will not come back until this issue is resolved one way or another. As a result of this, I now will make one final request for help in finding a good Boinc project that will generate decent credits with my Dell PC with windows 10 and Nvidia GPU. Or perhaps I should just stop processing Boinc projects all together!
3) Message boards : Projects : GoofyxGrid@home - a disaster (Message 89686)
Posted 18 Jan 2019 by Brent
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If it wasn't for bad luck, he would have no luck at all!
4) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 73657)
Posted 1 Nov 2016 by Brent
Post:
When I try to login to Collatz Conjecture I get the following:


There’s a problem with this website’s security certificate

This might mean that someone’s trying to fool you or steal any info you send to the server. You should close this site immediately.

What gives?
5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Boinc Application Manager Issues (Message 62165)
Posted 14 May 2015 by Brent
Post:
Turns out I had contacted a nasty virus when I attempted to download a repair manual for my Craftsman leaf blower! I finally got rid of it by booting into safe mode and running a system restore to a time period before I tried to download the manual. Hopefully my experience will show that you have to be very careful out there! It is not just porn that will infect your computer!
6) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Boinc Application Manager Issues (Message 62160)
Posted 14 May 2015 by Brent
Post:
These problems just started yesterday.

1. If I click on the Notices Tab, the application closes

2. If I click on any of the Project buttons (i.e. Home Page, Message Boards, Your Account, etc.) nothing happens.

3. The only Help menu selection that works is "About BOINC Manager..."

I am running Version 7.4.42 (x64)under Windows 7

Here is the activity log.

5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.4.42 for windows_x86_64
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Running under account Brent
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 5700/6750/6770 series (Juniper) (CAL version 1.4.1741, 1024MB, 991MB available, 2016 GFLOPS peak)
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 5700/6750/6770 series (Juniper) (driver version 1016.4 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1016.4), 1024MB, 991MB available, 2016 GFLOPS peak)
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | OpenCL CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1016.4 (sse2), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1016.4))
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Host name: Office-PC
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz [Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5]
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt syscall nx lm vmx smx tm2 pbe
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Memory: 7.99 GB physical, 15.98 GB virtual
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Disk: 1.36 TB total, 1.17 TB free
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Local time is UTC -7 hours
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | VirtualBox version: 4.3.12
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Version change (7.4.27 -> 7.4.42)
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID 46994; resource share 0
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | Collatz Conjecture | URL http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/; Computer ID 146850; resource share 100
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 2503670; resource share 0
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | Milkyway@Home | URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 160569; resource share 0
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | pogs | URL http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/; Computer ID 12551; resource share 0
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5465661; resource share 0
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | Cosmology@Home | URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 86370; resource share 0
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | primaboinca | URL http://www.primaboinca.com/; Computer ID 33165; resource share 100
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | PrimeGrid | URL http://www.primegrid.com/; Computer ID 400253; resource share 100
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | Collatz Conjecture | General prefs: from Collatz Conjecture (last modified 08-Aug-2014 07:22:30)
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | Collatz Conjecture | Computer location: home
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | Collatz Conjecture | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Reading preferences override file
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Preferences:
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | max memory usage when active: 4091.53MB
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 7364.75MB
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | max disk usage: 100.00GB
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | max CPUs used: 3
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Resetting file projects/pogs.theskynet.org_pogs/pogs_image01.png: permanent HTTP error
5/13/2015 4:20:34 PM | | Not using a proxy
5/13/2015 4:20:35 PM | | Running CPU benchmarks
5/13/2015 4:20:35 PM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
5/13/2015 4:21:07 PM | | Benchmark results:
5/13/2015 4:21:07 PM | | Number of CPUs: 3
5/13/2015 4:21:07 PM | | 3862 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
5/13/2015 4:21:07 PM | | 9868 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
5/13/2015 4:21:08 PM | pogs | Started download of pogs_image01.png
5/13/2015 4:21:09 PM | pogs | Giving up on download of pogs_image01.png: permanent HTTP error
5/13/2015 4:23:26 PM | | Re-reading cc_config.xml
5/13/2015 4:23:26 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
5/13/2015 4:23:26 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
5/13/2015 4:58:28 PM | | Not using a proxy
5/13/2015 5:07:07 PM | PrimeGrid | Resetting project
5/13/2015 5:07:28 PM | Collatz Conjecture | update requested by user
5/13/2015 5:07:29 PM | Collatz Conjecture | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
5/13/2015 5:07:29 PM | Collatz Conjecture | Requesting new tasks for CPU
5/13/2015 5:07:31 PM | Collatz Conjecture | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
5/13/2015 5:07:31 PM | Collatz Conjecture | No tasks are available for the applications you have selected
5/13/2015 5:07:31 PM | Collatz Conjecture | No tasks are available for Solo Collatz Conjecture
5/13/2015 5:07:31 PM | Collatz Conjecture | Your preferences allow tasks from applications other than those selected
5/13/2015 5:07:31 PM | Collatz Conjecture | Sending tasks from other applications
5/13/2015 5:07:33 PM | Collatz Conjecture | Started download of mini_collatz_2396225266743152223347_103079215104
5/13/2015 5:07:34 PM | Collatz Conjecture | Finished download of mini_collatz_2396225266743152223347_103079215104
7) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 62076)
Posted 7 May 2015 by Brent
Post:
What is up with the Collatz project? It has been like a Yo-Yo the last couple of weeks, up-down-up-down-up-down!!!
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC WU on LinuxMint with NVIDIA GPU (Message 61144)
Posted 23 Mar 2015 by Brent
Post:
Gandalf,

Unfortunately, increasing the work buffer to 10 days does NOT help! I have mine set there and still run out of work after 2 days, so I have to babysit Collatz and the other Boinc projects.
9) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 59312)
Posted 5 Jan 2015 by Brent
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At his point, (Monday after Christmas, New Years break) one can only hope that the project has NOT been abandoned forever!
10) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 54948)
Posted 19 Jul 2014 by Brent
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collatz has been down since July 16 actually!

zero volunteer user notice of upcoming maintenance

multiplied by

zero maintenance updates to volunteers

equals

zero respect for the volunteers!
11) Message boards : News : BOINC 7.2.42 released to the public (Message 53114)
Posted 11 Mar 2014 by Brent
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For the next person who thinks 7.2.42 has a fix for the screen saver problem, or that any next version will do so and it's not mentioned in the release thread, please always read the release notes.

In the case of 7.2.42, they're strictly:
Changes in 7.2.42

• Fix problem that was causing scheduler RPCs to fail on Yoyo@home (HTTP status code 400)


If I don't use Yoyo@home, why should I update to 7.2.42? If I don't update, how do I get rid of the nag to run the 7.2.42 update?
12) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Request: SETI@home Updating Needs Fixing - Stop Updating When Servers Known To Be Offline (Message 33927)
Posted 24 Jul 2010 by Brent
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I have been a contributor to SETI for 11 years now. I too am tired of seeing this waste of clock cycles and bandwidth during their three day outages. As a result until I have a means of avoiding this waste without impacting the other Boinc projects, I am signing out of SETI.

13) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC No longer getting work (Message 31855)
Posted 30 Mar 2010 by Brent
Post:
Gundof,

I don't see anything significant in project properties except SETI does show some values for GPU. However, in my SETI account preferences I have use CPU as YES and use GPU as NO.

14) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC No longer getting work (Message 31853)
Posted 30 Mar 2010 by Brent
Post:
I have used BOINC for several years without a problem. However now I can get no work from several projects which include SETI, Einstien, Milkyway and Cosomology. I can't believe all of these projects have no work. Below is my message listing:

3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.18 for windows_x86_64
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Running under account Brent
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5]
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Processor: 256.00 KB cache
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Memory: 7.99 GB physical, 15.98 GB virtual
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Disk: 1.36 TB total, 1.15 TB free
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Local time is UTC -7 hours
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD5700 series (Juniper) (CAL version 1.4.553, 1024MB, 1008 GFLOPS peak)
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Not using a proxy
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Einstein@Home URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 2503670; resource share 100
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Milkyway@home URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 160569; resource share 100
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5268240; resource share 100
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Cosmology@Home URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 86370; resource share 100
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 23-Mar-2010 19:19:24)
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home Computer location: home
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Reading preferences override file
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 4091.53MB
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 7364.75MB
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Preferences limit disk usage to 100.00GB
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Cosmology@Home Restarting task wu_032310_051858_2_0_0 using camb version 216
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Milkyway@home Restarting task ps_13_3s_const_v3_8371350_1269904435_0 using milkyway version 19
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Einstein@Home Restarting task p2030_54147_57194_0154_G66.83-02.64.C_5.dm_112_0 using einsteinbinary_ABP2 version 308
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home Starting 21mr07ag.5108.18068.15.10.146_1
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home Starting task 21mr07ag.5108.18068.15.10.146_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 603
3/30/2010 7:25:37 AM Einstein@Home update requested by user
3/30/2010 7:25:39 AM Milkyway@home update requested by user
3/30/2010 7:25:39 AM Einstein@Home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
3/30/2010 7:25:39 AM Einstein@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
3/30/2010 7:25:41 AM SETI@home update requested by user
3/30/2010 7:25:43 AM Cosmology@Home update requested by user
3/30/2010 7:25:45 AM Einstein@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
3/30/2010 7:25:45 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work sent
3/30/2010 7:25:45 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: Your computer has no NVIDIA GPU
3/30/2010 7:25:50 AM Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
3/30/2010 7:25:50 AM Milkyway@home Not reporting or requesting tasks
3/30/2010 7:25:55 AM Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed
3/30/2010 7:26:00 AM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
3/30/2010 7:26:00 AM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
3/30/2010 7:26:05 AM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
3/30/2010 7:26:05 AM SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
3/30/2010 7:26:10 AM Cosmology@Home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
3/30/2010 7:26:10 AM Cosmology@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
3/30/2010 7:26:15 AM Cosmology@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Brent



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