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1) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Account deleting (Message 53767)
Posted 23 Mar 2016 by NetMemes
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I see you have one task at the moment on one of the two computers listed. Not sure if they are actually the same machine or not - they both have identical OS AND CPU specs.

The server status page shows over 50K of tasks in the hopper at the moment which will take a few days to go down as most people by now will have tasks.


It's the same PC, just being named in 2 different ways - due to OS upgrading.
I have one task, 3d22:04 to complete, deadline: 05/03/2017.

Hope it will go fine.
2) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Account deleting (Message 53739)
Posted 22 Mar 2016 by NetMemes
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LN

Work on this project is not continuous. It comes in batches, with gaps between them, when the researchers are waiting for results to analyse.
The only way to get work is to be continually attached and waiting.
And DON'T keep clicking the Update button! Each time the server is contacted, it resets a count down timer back to one hour before any work can be asked for by your computer.

Then there are 2 settings in your Manager that can prevent you from getting work.
1)
In the Projects tab, the right hand column will either be blank, meaning that BOINC is allowed to ask for work, or it will say No new tasks.
This is controlled by a button to the left. It's a toggle, which will either say Allow new tasks, or No new tasks.

2)
In the menu under Activity, there's 3 options for network connection:
The bottom one stops BOINC from talking to the servers, and the 3rd from the bottom allows it to talk to the servers. This Network activity always is the one you need to have ticked to get work.

Finally, there's been somewhere around 20,000 tasks available over the past couple of weeks, all gone at the end of last week.
But there's a rumour that another big batch will show up soon.



Les Bayliss, thanks for your answer.
1) New tasks are allowed, as default
2) Network preferences are set by default as general preferences, and this always worked for other projects. I'll set in "always" anyway. I'll give a try. Thanks

3) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Account deleting (Message 53622)
Posted 9 Mar 2016 by NetMemes
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As I've never - N.E.V.E.R - get a task in years, even if my specifications should match the minimum requirements, I would like to know how to definitely delete my account.
It seems that it's not explained any where.

Thanks in advance!

LN




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