Posts by old_user244189

1) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Delete or rename my account please. (Message 26759) Posted 13 Feb 2007 by old_user244189 Post: It\'s interesting that 5.8.8 didn\'t look for the existing location of an earlier version of BOINC, as, according to the \'talk\' on the BOINC/dev board, it should have. I\'ve no personal knowledge of 5.8.8. The default location for BOINC is different to the \"BBC\" location. As for attaching to cpdn, did you do this as an \"existing account\", (which had already been created for you), or as a \"new user\"? This is my post about how to move from BBC to cpdn, which I forgot to include last time. When I left the BBC Experiment a couple of weeks ago the changeover was as you suggest seamless and impressed me with it\'s simplicity, just cut and paste in the URL and it transfered all my BBC stats and carried over my ID as shown previously. So far so good. I then decided to try the new version 5.8.8 that the message said was available so stripped out the old 5.3.19 version and went to the Berkeley site and downloaded 5.8.8. From what you have said it would have looked for the old folder and not found it so it would then progress as a new install. That however does not explain why when I put in my nickname Dick The Taxi it came up as Richard Hibberd. The only thing that now springs to mind is the advice in your earlier post to wait for maybe a day or two after update to see if it shows then. Maybe I will give it another go one day but I\'ve got 5.3.19 back using the system restore point set up prior to it\'s removal and all is working fine. I did like the new BOINC Manager layout and thought it a great improvement on earlier versions. However I was not too keen on being limited to how much memory I could allocate when idle, and the 50% I think it was that was allowed when doing other work. True it may stop computers with limited ram from slowing down too much, which is I imagine why it was done, but it does limit other users options. I\'ve got 6gigs on the one machine and 1% of that when idle is more than enough.
2) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Delete or rename my account please. (Message 26721) Posted 11 Feb 2007 by old_user244189 Post: The BBC project is separate to the cpdn project, and the credits and models will be listed separately. If you still want to see the BBC models in the same folder as the cpdn models, then you MUST make sure that you install the new version of BOINC in the same folder as the BBC models. This should be automatic with BOINC version 5.8.8 from what I\'ve heard, but is a manual choice with the installation of all other versions. This, (cpdn), site being separate to BBC, of course you\'ll have a new account. And the name used is taken by the software from the name that you used when you set up Windows on your computer. The only time that this doesn\'t happen, is when you use your web browser to create the account here, in which case the name that you specify is used. The user name along with a lot of other details can be changed by the user, by going into their Account page and using the change options near the top. Finally, if you read my post about moving to cpdn, which was linked to from all of the main topics on the BBC boards, you can see that an Account has already been created for all BBC people by one of the programmers. All that was/is necessary, is to use: Existing user, when asked, and fill in the user_name/email_address that was used on the BBC, and you\'re there. It was BOINC version 5.8.8 that I installed and it did NOT install in the manner you suggest should be automatic. Via my Netscape browser I went to the Berkeley site and downloaded the latest version. I accepted the download location suggested. I also entered my nickname and attached to climateprediction.net. The end result was a new account in a name I did not enter.
3) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Delete or rename my account please. (Message 26715) Posted 10 Feb 2007 by old_user244189 Post: Mods can neither delete nor rename an account. If you\'d used proper log-in procedure, you\'d have used a \"nickname\", as I have (though both my name and location are commonly known on the Boards) and would not have a problem. Tens of thousands have done that. I truly don\'t know or understand your problem. There is nothing publicly available, even to Mods, that compromises you. Besides, you COULD have hidden your computer ID, but you didn\'t... Please be more explicit in defining your issue(s). There is a problem with the latest version of BOINC. I downloaded the latest version today 10/02/2007 and went through the registration process on a computer that had been running the BBC Climate Change Experiment. I entered my account details as before with the nickname of Dick The Taxi but it created an new account in the name of Richard Hibberd with a joining date of today instead of 15/02/2006, my input data was ignored, my credits from the BBC experiment were also ignored. As well as ignoring the input data it did not recognise my other two computers. I have no problem with people knowing my name as you can see but prefer the nickname. I have now solved the problem temporarily by using Windows Restore. I removed the new version and used the restore point immediately prior to the update and hey presto I now have my identity and credits back, all three of my computers show and the old version started up where it left off meaning I only lost around an hour of computing time. When the problem is solved I may try again but the old version works fine plus it does not limit the ammount of memory etc that I can allocate.