Posts by IanC

1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : UK Met Office HadAM3P-HadRM3P Australia New Zealand v6.10 (Message 53360) Posted 29 Jan 2016 by IanC Post: Nice work Les. 4 new tasks cooking away.
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : UK Met Office HadAM3P-HadRM3P Australia New Zealand v6.10 (Message 53334) Posted 26 Jan 2016 by IanC Post: Am also seen attempted downloads throwing error (other just "Error" or "Error attempting download". Short of disconnecting/ reconnecting can't see what else to try.
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : BOINC on El Capitan OS? (Message 53277) Posted 17 Jan 2016 by IanC Post: I have some tasks listed on the server as "In progress" when they aren't (I reset the project). Any way to flush them?
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : BOINC on El Capitan OS? (Message 53162) Posted 21 Dec 2015 by IanC Post: Thx v much. It is using up about 17gb of space in about 2 or 3 hours. I usually have 5gb allocated, and it has run for days at a time trouble free (including with multiple tasks running). The disk filling thing is new.
5) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : BOINC on El Capitan OS? (Message 53160) Posted 21 Dec 2015 by IanC Post: Could someone with access to my account if something has broken. I had 4 tasks chugging along quite happily, but they have now stopped progressing (3 at 44.5%, one as 67.6%) and if I leave Boinc open it fills my startup disk in a couple of hours. Ta. MacBookPro, El Capitan 10.11.2, Boinc 7.6.12 TIA.
6) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : No Tasks Available for Mac? (Message 52743) Posted 27 Oct 2015 by IanC Post: Really have to point out the chicken/egg situation here. It is really hard to stay enthusiastic about, and recommend, a project that apparently doesn't want the support of Mac users.
7) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : No Tasks Available for Mac? (Message 52664) Posted 3 Oct 2015 by IanC Post: Could do with some more Mac models, please (got 4 at once the last time!)
8) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : No Tasks Available for Mac? (Message 52095) Posted 25 Jun 2015 by IanC Post: Yep - got one of them about a minute after I posted!
9) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : No Tasks Available for Mac? (Message 52091) Posted 24 Jun 2015 by IanC Post: Aaand then there were none...
10) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : No Tasks Available for Mac? (Message 51994) Posted 27 May 2015 by IanC Post: Thanks Les -a new task has duly popped up!
11) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : No Tasks Available for Mac? (Message 51990) Posted 26 May 2015 by IanC Post: No Mac apps for a couple of days now. Is there usually rule of thumb for how long it will be like this?
12) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Feeling betrayed.... (Message 23421) Posted 29 Jun 2006 by IanC Post: IAdditionally, I think Apple users are a very specific group, which (as I believe) mainly consists of two major parts: The one are professionals working in the advertisment and media industry, with their machines located in agencies and companies; they won\'t care a lot for distributed computing, unless they can instrumentalize it for customer relationships. A large share of the second, non-professional group seem to me to be sumthing like \"lifestyle junkies\", who probably are not at all interested in projects like CPDN. I assume those donating their CPU time here to probably be more or less rare exceptions among the already small absolute number of Mac users. Good grief. Apple users are just computer users like anyone else.
13) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Feeling betrayed.... (Message 22473) Posted 29 Apr 2006 by IanC Post: IanC If you check the figures at BOINCstats, for ANY of the many projects, you can see that Mac users are \'thin on the ground\' everywhere. And? This just emphasises the need for a little outreach, given the likely relative installed base of Mac and Linux. I\'ve never read about distributed computing in the Mac press. Do any of the projects even have a press officer?
14) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Feeling betrayed.... (Message 22200) Posted 19 Apr 2006 by IanC Post: But in the grand scheme of things, Windows is still like 85-88% of the users of volunteer computing projects, Linux 10-13%, and Mac\'s 2-3%. Perhaps a little outreach might have been called for, since I very much doubt the installed base of Linux is 10x that of OSX. A few phonecalls to MacUser, say, or dare I say it, the Advanced Computation Group at Apple, who created xGrid . Right now rosetta is getting the beneifit of my CPU and a sulphur model got dumped 20% of the way through.
15) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : get_local_network_info():hostbyname failed - wassit mean? (Message 22007) Posted 13 Apr 2006 by IanC Post: Any idea what the message means? Never seen it before. Appeared after a restarted the app, having previously quit (properly, under control). I must admit I am a little bit beyond caring these days, but hey.
16) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Exactly what (and where) does libcpdn.pkg install? (Message 21074) Posted 5 Mar 2006 by IanC Post: You\'ll need a Mac person for this, and there aren\'t many who run this project, and even less reading the boards. You could try Team MacNN here, or the BOINC/dev boards here. Many thanks for the links. The solution turned out to be the one thing I hadn\'t done (indeed, one thing I have only done at all when installing new software). Yup. I\'d removed and reinstalled everything. I\'d logged out and in, I\'d fiddled and twiddled. I hadn\'t rebooted.
17) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Exactly what (and where) does libcpdn.pkg install? (Message 21042) Posted 4 Mar 2006 by IanC Post: OK, now I would just like to remove any trace of climateprediction.net from my system. So where, again, does this installer put files? It doesn\'t appear to put then in application support, or anywhere else visible.
18) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Exactly what (and where) does libcpdn.pkg install? (Message 20899) Posted 1 Mar 2006 by IanC Post: I have in mind removing them all and reinstalling everything from scratch to see if this will get my programme responding again.
19) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Application not responding (Message 20766) Posted 26 Feb 2006 by IanC Post: When you say: I just quit out of Boinc, I hope you mean that you clicked Exit in the menu, rather than the X at the top right. It\'s a bit like unbolting the engine from a car without first turning off the ignition; NOT a good idea. Your two models seem to be still running, but perhaps the server software just hasn\'t updated yet. The only way to recover a crashed model, is from a backup of the BOINC folder made before the crash. And if I had even 1 cent for each time I\'ve told people this, I\'d be quite well off by now. Correct, except being a Mac it says Quit, not Exit. I also made sure nothing was running. Is everything of importance kept in the Application Support folder? Anyone?
20) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Application not responding (Message 20739) Posted 25 Feb 2006 by IanC Post: When you say: I just quit out of Boinc, I hope you mean that you clicked Exit in the menu, rather than the X at the top right. It\'s a bit like unbolting the engine from a car without first turning off the ignition; NOT a good idea. Your two models seem to be still running, but perhaps the server software just hasn\'t updated yet. The only way to recover a crashed model, is from a backup of the BOINC folder made before the crash. And if I had even 1 cent for each time I\'ve told people this, I\'d be quite well off by now. Correct, except being a Mac it says Quit, not Exit. I also made sure nothing was running. Is everything of importance kept in the Application Support folder?

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