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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Please fix the deadlines!
Message 63246
Posted 2 Jan 2021 by Alex Plantema
And It's very stupid indeed. And the wrong way round - why protect root users instead of "normal" ones? It's the normal ones that will screw up.
Normal users don't need it because they cannot access other user's folders.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Please fix the deadlines!
Message 63227
Posted 31 Dec 2020 by Alex Plantema
I think the final straw was the command line not seeing a program in the current directory without me prefixing with ./ I class that as exceedingly unintuitive bad programming and won't be using it again.
./ is only needed when you're logged in as root. It isn't bad programming. It is a protection against users who put an executable with the same name as a system command into their folders. If there are no other users you can change the search path.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Please fix the deadlines!
Message 63214
Posted 29 Dec 2020 by Alex Plantema
Unless they have police and army on the streets stopping you exiting your home (like the Netherlands and China), it's not a lockdown. All we have is advice which I ignore entirely.
There's no one here stopping us from exiting our home. It's still entirely allowed.
4) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : R.I.P. Byron Leigh Hatch
Message 63105
Posted 7 Dec 2020 by Alex Plantema
On the Seti@home forum: Rest in Peace Byron Leigh Hatch, team Carl Sagan founder.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : UK Met Office HadAM4 at N216 resolution
Message 61677
Posted 12 Dec 2019 by Alex Plantema
It's a matter of statistics. There's simply more chance that you encounter a machine running many tasks concurrently, so it doesn't need to be the cause.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Trickle up files
Message 61217
Posted 11 Oct 2019 by Alex Plantema
You can see all trickles by replacing result.php by trickle.php in the link to the result page.
7) Questions and Answers : Getting started : forum sorting does'nt work
Message 60963
Posted 20 Sep 2019 by Alex Plantema
In the forum preferences you can choose not to display locked posts at the top.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Preferences - project options missing
Message 60954
Posted 19 Sep 2019 by Alex Plantema
That list isn't useful for the latest tasks. And Windows 10 isn't even mentioned.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : User Forum - missing options.
Message 60852
Posted 23 Aug 2019 by Alex Plantema
There's no visible difference anymore between visited and unvisited links because the colours are manipulated.

Same problem again.
10) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : BOINC CONFERENCE
Message 60671
Posted 15 Jul 2019 by Alex Plantema
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries.

Search for ct-xpm-1988-11-06-8802130818-story and use Google's cache.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Client Improvements
Message 60635
Posted 11 Jul 2019 by Alex Plantema
I would wish the client to show cpu time like version 5 and earlier instead of running time. Then we can see which task hangs.
12) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Benchmarks and other problems
Message 60396
Posted 21 Jun 2019 by Alex Plantema
Xeons are faster than other processors with the same clock frequency, and 16 GB should be more than enough. The project is supposed to run on home computers.
13) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Op Ed Piece in the NY Times Regarding Climate Model Computing
Message 60312
Posted 14 Jun 2019 by Alex Plantema
I see that some of the cheaper MB/CPU bundles have motherboards that only take up to 32GB ram. Seems a bit mad when the pairing includes an 8core cpu.

Each task uses at most 600 MB of ram currently.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : See which publications your crunching has contributed to.
Message 59966
Posted 11 Apr 2019 by Alex Plantema
The links under the batch numbers lead to pages with a link called Restricted access to batch CPU analysis, leading to a page asking to log in using an unsafe connection.
The links to the first and third publications on the CPDN Publications page are invalid.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Android/ARM processors
Message 59673
Posted 23 Feb 2019 by Alex Plantema
I signed up to Seti@home with a PS3 just to synchronize the cross-project ID.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Error while computing???
Message 59475
Posted 20 Jan 2019 by Alex Plantema
After aborting the 781's I received three more of them.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Upload server is out of disk space
Message 59336
Posted 7 Jan 2019 by Alex Plantema
you can read the ups & downs of my 13th year of living female here.
Hi Vicki, congrats on your new gender!
18) Message boards : Number crunching : New work Discussion
Message 58646
Posted 26 Aug 2018 by Alex Plantema
Now you posted it in this thread. That isn't where people are looking for it when they need it. That's why I suggested to use a central place for it like the batch list.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : New work Discussion
Message 58642
Posted 25 Aug 2018 by Alex Plantema
Some information in the batch list about problems with a batch would be useful, e.g. what to do with it or a link to a message about it.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Nearly there
Message 58320
Posted 2 Jul 2018 by Alex Plantema
I wouldn't recommend anything less than Raid 6, because by the time one drive fails, another drive may have errors too, and without redundancy you cannot rebuild the set.
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