hello everyone,

Whats up with this BOINC (and how do you pronounce that?) ? Ive still got dial up here and it keeps dialing up to the net without asking me, even though on my account settings it says ask me to dial up... and the screensaver doesnt work either, it says "GRAPHICS CANT BE DISPLAYED" although it does compute behind....

who wants to start the BRING BACK SETI CLASSIC.. hehe

BOINC looks good in theory, but seti people, could you not have road tested it before setting it free???

nice1 peeps

Dan

"Whats up with this BOINC (and how do you pronounce that?)"
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I pronounce it like Boeing, with a "C" instead of "G". :)
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"Ive still got dial up here and it keeps dialing up to the net without asking me, even though on my account settings it says ask me to dial up..."
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Yes, this is a known issue.
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"and the screensaver doesnt work either, it says "GRAPHICS CANT BE DISPLAYED" although it does compute behind...."
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Works for me. What OS and graphics card are you using?
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"who wants to start the BRING BACK SETI CLASSIC.. hehe"
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Not me. I like BOINC. The fact that I can run many DC projects from one GUI is fairly appealing.
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"BOINC looks good in theory, but seti people, could you not have road tested it before setting it free???"
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It was road tested for quite a while, and had some problems. I don't know of any beta testers who felt it was quite ready for public release. But since they didn't ask us...

That said, the big problems we've been seeing since the public release have been server side, not client side.

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> It was road tested for quite a while, and had some problems. I don't know of
> any beta testers who felt it was quite ready for public release. But since
> they didn't ask us...
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> That said, the big problems we've been seeing since the public release have
> been server side, not client side.
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Maybe there is something that could be done to throttle down the number of workunits a single user can download untill they get a handle on it. Its really frustrating to see "No work available" and "No work from project". I suspect that those user that download mega-workunits are grabbing all the server capacity. (Although I have nothing to base this suspicion on.)

You can prevent BOINC from dialing the network by going to the file menu, and selecting disable network access. Unfortunately, you have to set this every time that you start BOINC. When you are connected, simply uncheck disable network access, and BOINC should do whatever it needs to with the network. This is a work around, the developers know of the problem, and have promissed an eventual fix.

> You can prevent BOINC from dialing the network by going to the file menu, and
> selecting disable network access. Unfortunately, you have to set this every
> time that you start BOINC. When you are connected, simply uncheck disable
> network access, and BOINC should do whatever it needs to with the network.
> This is a work around, the developers know of the problem, and have promissed
> an eventual fix.


And tell me again John, how would I do that in Linux or using the windows cli?

(Big grin - there's no way - I know!)