Posts by old_user28658

1) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Website navigation requires Javascript (Message 24048) Posted 19 Aug 2006 by old_user28658 Post: Strange thing about this is that the menu on the front page works without javascript, so why can\'t menus on the rest of the site do it?
2) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Competition (with prize): date of 10 million model years (Message 16393) Posted 2 Oct 2005 by old_user28658 Post: 30 November 2005 14h00 UTC EDIT: Added time
3) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Solution for service installation of BOINC and show graphics feature (Message 16279) Posted 26 Sep 2005 by old_user28658 Post: Well, I\'ve tried that on Windows XP and although BOINC runs, the graphics button is grayed out. Try ticking the \'interact with desktop\' box instead or as well. Also, remember to stop and restart the BOINC service afterwards for the changes to take effect. Ps: I often forget to highlight the workunit before clicking \'Show Graphics\', that will also leave the button greyed out :) Edit: spelling and added PS
4) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Security (Message 16116) Posted 18 Sep 2005 by old_user28658 Post: Edit: Unneccessary, didnt read your post properly, Carl :)
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Error adding an Avatar (Message 16064) Posted 16 Sep 2005 by old_user28658 Post: Hi, in this reply in the \'Getting Started\' Q&A forum, Ananas said that some of the functions in the BOINC PHP got moved to different include files, and CPDN hadn\'t updated the source yet. That was on the 20th of August though. PS: I like the option for off-line avatars as well, like on the CPDN Commmunity Space.
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Only Einstein@Home Runs, have CP also setup but does not switch (Message 15483) Posted 28 Aug 2005 by old_user28658 Post: As Samuel said, Einstein has a nasty habit of sending BOINC into panic mode. If you want to run CPDN for a few days, manually suspend Einstein using BOINC Manager, or set Einstein not to download more work. It also might make more sense to run just 1 project on your computer, as Crandles suggests. Need help? Check out Paul's excellent <a href="http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php"><b>BOINC-Wiki!</b></a><br /> 'We are the BOINC. Prepare to be assimilated.'
7) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Setting an Avatar for forum profile fails (Message 15237) Posted 19 Aug 2005 by old_user28658 Post: The maximum allowed size is 100x100 pixels and 4k in jpg or png format. I think it actually <b>prefers</b> the size to be 100x100 pixels. Hope that helped :) PS: That error message seems to indicate that there is code to scale the avatar, but it doesn't work. Also don't forget you can't use an off-line avatar, you have to upload it to the site. Need help? Check out Paul's excellent <a href="http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php"><b>BOINC-Wiki!</b></a><br /> 'We are the BOINC. Prepare to be assimilated.'
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Henry Armstrong (Message 15236) Posted 19 Aug 2005 by old_user28658 Post: Unfortunately setispy is no longr being developed as apparently the programmer died:( There is a program called <a href="http://www.bjoernhenke.de/">BOINCLogX</a> that does a similar job, I believe. There are several others that escape my mind :( Good luck finding your program :) PS: It has a handy companion program called SETI@home-MapView that plots Seti workunits on a skymap. Need help? Check out Paul's excellent <a href="http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php"><b>BOINC-Wiki!</b></a><br /> 'We are the BOINC. Prepare to be assimilated.'
9) Questions and Answers : Windows : Henry Armstrong (Message 15235) Posted 19 Aug 2005 by old_user28658 Post: A trickle is a good thing :) It means that your model is still running smoothly. Every time the model trickles it is reporting that it has progressed to that particular point. I <b>think</b> it also includes a very brief summary of results since the last trickle. Here is a quote from the FAQ: "A timestep represents a 1/2 hour of model time (not realtime). Every 10,802 timesteps your model will trickle (report), and there are 24 trickles in a phase. When you know that a model year is 12 months of 30 days (not 365 days), you can work out that a phase is 15 years 1 day of model time (not realtime). Each model is comprised of 3 phases." "Here's some rough performance numbers for a reasonably quick P4, using 1 logical cpu: Timestep = 2.2 Seconds Trickle = 6.6 Hours Phase = 6.6 Days Model = 19.8 Days" Note - all the above is quoted from the FAQ Need help? Check out Paul's excellent <a href="http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php"><b>BOINC-Wiki!</b></a><br /> 'We are the BOINC. Prepare to be assimilated.'
10) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : bigsky (Message 13480) Posted 16 Jun 2005 by old_user28658 Post: In theory it does, but apparently it is notoriously bad at it. It probably is better to monitor Bionc using one of several scripts and programs and dial up yourself when it needs to return a trickle or result, telling it to update the project when you do (sorry - cant remember the 'update' command - buried somewhere on the boinc website) <a href="http://www.boincstats.com/"><img src="http://www.boincstats.com/stats/banner.php?cpid=7cbf470a82da52fef2efcb6e2d35844c" border="0"></a> PS: remember with CPDN at least you can wait for several trickles before returning them :) PPS: You have to change your server-side settings to reflect that you are using dail-up
11) Questions and Answers : Windows : How to prevent BIONIC from downloading new tasks? (Message 12870) Posted 25 May 2005 by old_user28658 Post: > From my understanding , its better to use a value larger than your hard disk, > eg 100 Gb if you have an 80 Gb hard drive. Remember to change this value after > you have detached CPDN, as your other projects won't download any workunits > either. > Forgot to mention that it is the 'Leave at least x Gbytes free' felid you have to change.
12) Questions and Answers : Windows : How to prevent BIONIC from downloading new tasks? (Message 12869) Posted 25 May 2005 by old_user28658 Post: From my understanding , its better to use a value larger than your hard disk, eg 100 Gb if you have an 80 Gb hard drive. Remember to change this value after you have detached CPDN, as your other projects won't download any workunits either.
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : Client errors. ( I did search too....:)) (Message 11280) Posted 22 Mar 2005 by old_user28658 Post: Unfortunately, as you've realised, CPDN is the most punishing and demanding of the BOINC projects. It will find errors that most diagnostic software doesn't even look for :( good luck and keep BIONCing away :)
14) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Program sending (Message 9530) Posted 18 Feb 2005 by old_user28658 Post: do you mean timesteps? here's a quote from the FAQ: "A timestep represents a 1/2 hour of model time (not realtime). Every 10,802 timesteps your model will trickle (report), and there are 24 trickles in a phase. When you know that a model year is 12 months of 30 days (not 365 days), you can work out that a phase is 15 years 1 day of model time (not realtime). Each model is comprised of 3 phases." "Here's some rough performance numbers for a reasonably quick P4, using 1 logical cpu: Timestep = 2.2 Seconds Trickle = 6.6 Hours Phase = 6.6 Days Model = 19.8 Days" Note - all the above is quoted from the FAQ
15) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Four times as much energy is used to produce a PC as it uses during its whole lifetime (Message 9242) Posted 13 Feb 2005 by old_user28658 Post: > "5 and 1/2 of 13" - Borg, yes..? ;-) > > Bored, actually ;)
16) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Four times as much energy is used to produce a PC as it uses during its whole lifetime (Message 8611) Posted 4 Feb 2005 by old_user28658 Post: On the subject of plastic bags, regulating them can have unintented side-effects. South Africa had a massive problem with supermarket plastic bags. The Government introduced legislation to make the supermarkets charge for them. The thrown-away bags disappeared. But so did the supermarket bag packers - a massive blow in a country with 45% umemployment. On top of that, many unemployed woman used to weave colourful mats from the bags to earn some money. This source of income was lost overnight.
17) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : The environmental impact of running ClimatePrediction.net (Message 7122) Posted 31 Dec 2004 by old_user28658 Post: > I live in California's Central Valley where it gets quite hot in the summer, > and air conditioners already stress the power system. And of course we had the > energy crisis a few years ago. > From my understanding of the matter, the California energy crisis was caused by politics. Reagan when Governer of California allowed the energy companies to overinvest in nuclear power stations, which never came online and later as President deregulated the energy companies. Greedy deregulated energy companies withholding reserves, to keep energy prices up to repay their overexposure in nuclear power caused that Energy Crisis, _not_ incompetent Democrats. And now California is stuck with another brain-dead Republican as Governer. Of course I may be wrong and welcome correction.