Posts by old_user43521

1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : How do I restart? (Message 10530) Posted 7 Mar 2005 by old_user43521 Post: This past January I installed BOINC in the Application folder of my wife's G-4 Titanium Powerbook, after which it was running nicely. But between frequently being put into sleep mode, running on the battery, and/or shut down, it is no longer running. Not having manually restarted it yet, I don't recall how. Please advise. Grace & peace, Kenneth Brewster
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : im a computer moron (Message 8010) Posted 29 Jan 2005 by old_user43521 Post: Next step; Found as an answer to the "Can't get it to install" question of 2004 Aug 6: Place the boinc application in a folder (The folder is a directory). In the terminal window type cd (small letters) a space, and then drag the "folder", not the application to the terminal window. That will automatically complete the path to the folder. Hit return. Now type the chmod ug+rx boinc_* and hit return. It should give you no message, just a return to the prompt. If it gives you an error then instead of Boinc_* type the full name of boinc_4.1.13.13.13_powerpc-apple-darwin If it just returns you to the prompt, then you are ready to go. Type ./boinc_4.1.13.13.13_powerpc-apple-darwin (or ./boinc_* if that works); hit return. Then go relax while it runs for some time, finishing the installation. Also, to make it easier, you can change the name of the application to just boinc_4.1 the same way you would for any file or program on the mac. That will make typing easier. And go through exchanges below about "visuals" if you want to see some depiction of what is happening. Grace & peace, Kenneth Brewster (husband of Toni, who has no patience for such rigamarole)
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : im a computer moron (Message 8003) Posted 29 Jan 2005 by old_user43521 Post: First, using the mouse, click with the pointer on the screen background, which is the Finder (or the Desktop). The word "Finder" will be at the top left of the screen, between the apple icon and the File menu. Click once on the word "File" and, holding down the mouse button, drag the pointer down the menu which will drop down, to the word "Find". Release the mouse button. In the Find window which opens up, click once in the field to the right of the words "file name" (and to the right of the optional pop-up menu which probably says "contains"). Type in the word "terminal", and push the Enter or Return key on the keyboard. A window will open up with Search results. Click once on the dark square icon next to the word "Terminal". In the bottom part of the Search window the file hierarchy will appear showing you where the Terminal application resides. Double-click on this Terminal icon, and the Terminal window will open up, with a cursor after your name. That's one way to do it. On a Macintosh, there are normally at least three ways to do anything you want to do. Now, type in the command lines per climateprediction.net instructions. That's about as far as I can help for now. After I got the BOINC package downloaded and I went to install it, I got a window asking which application to use for opening it, and that's where I'm stuck. No one has yet responded to the question I posted on Jan. 27 about this. Grace & peace, Kenneth Brewster
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Open BOINC with which application? (Message 7867) Posted 28 Jan 2005 by old_user43521 Post: We have a Mac G4 Powerbook running OSX 10.3.6 at 400 MHz, with 512 MB RAM and 50 GB available disc space. I've downloaded BOINC to the desktop. When I started to install it, I got a box asking me to specify application I wanted to open it. StuffIt Expander didn't work, presumably because the BOINC material is not compressed. So, how do I open it to begin installation? Kenneth Brewster, husband of Toni