Posts by old_user448266

1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Run only when my computer is idle (Message 29424) Posted 2 Jul 2007 by old_user448266 Post: I\'m sure you\'ll notice a difference. You appear to have a dual-core and it seems a shame to have this capability while being short on memory. With 2Gb you can run 2 models side-by-side if you want, and still have memory to spare. Why, yes, indeedy, it did make a difference. Everything is working better--including my 2 models. Thanks, best wishes, whatever.
2) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Run only when my computer is idle (Message 29361) Posted 29 Jun 2007 by old_user448266 Post: The easy thing about adding memory is that you just plug in the extra card, turn on the computer again and you\'re ready to go. No need to configure or reconfigure anything. There\'s an instruction video here, though I\'m afraid there\'s a bit of advertising first. http://www.pcworld.com/video/id,355-page,1-bid,4/video.html I have at last upgraded my memory from 512M to 2G. It may be too early to tell, but I think it has made a huge difference. Thanks.
3) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Run only when my computer is idle (Message 28824) Posted 20 May 2007 by old_user448266 Post: Can you add more memory to this computer? Not terribly expensive and it can be a do-it-yourself job for you or a friend. You know, that\'s just what I was thinking to do after reading the posts here. As it is, I have only 512M. I\'ll mull this over and probably take action in a few days (I\'m such a computer wimp that I hate opening the darn machine to put in new memory, so it\'ll take me a few days to work up my resolve). Thanks!
4) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Run only when my computer is idle (Message 28820) Posted 20 May 2007 by old_user448266 Post: Thanks again... I\'m coming to the conclusion that my supposed performance problems are illusory. My computer has always slowed down periodically if I\'ve had too many complex applications working at once--which happens frequently in my life. The only difference now is that I know I cannot tell CPDN to work only when my machine is idle. So, now, when things slow down, I have been blaming it on CPDN, when, in fact, CPDN has nothing to do with it. My computer is just doing what it\'s always done, I\'m just blaming it on CPDN. Thanks for helping me through this process of self-discovery. I feel like a fool.
5) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Run only when my computer is idle (Message 28816) Posted 20 May 2007 by old_user448266 Post: Thanks again for you kind help. Well, well, well. I\'ve completely read this thread now, and it appears that people who know a lot about BOINC and CPDN are saying that it is unlikely that running CPDN while I\'m working on my computer, in my case a MAC Pentium running an up-to-date system, should affect my computer\'s performance noticeably. Am I correct in that conclusion? Would anyone care to qualify that statement? Oh, and just too let you know where I\'m coming from, I\'m pretty bright, but my field is way outside the area of computers--and the knowledge I have of them is guided by a strict need-to-know standard.
6) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Run only when my computer is idle (Message 28812) Posted 20 May 2007 by old_user448266 Post: Thanks so much for your help. I\'ll try going to another project and changing preferences there.
7) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Run only when my computer is idle (Message 28810) Posted 19 May 2007 by old_user448266 Post: In the Boinc manager\'s main menu, Activity, is \'run always\' ticked, or is \'run according to preferences\'? If it\'s Run Always, then set it to \'according to preferences\' instead. My \"run according to preferences\" is ticked. (By the way, I\'m on Mac of pretty recent vintage). All seems in order--but I never really seem to be able to save the preference for starting up after inactivity. I go to the dialogue box. My preference is set to run CPDN after 0 minutes of inactivity. I select in the menu three minutes instead. I hit the save button. The window closes. When I open it again, it says that I\'m still set at 0 minutes, and nothing has changed. Hmmm. Thanks for your help. I may just have to manually close out of boinc when I\'m working. That\'s not a huge burden.
8) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Run only when my computer is idle (Message 28809) Posted 19 May 2007 by old_user448266 Post: B If you haven\'t already disabled the screensaver, I\'d advise doing so. Well, I\'ve turned that off. We\'ll see what happens. By the way, I\'m on a Mac.
9) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Run only when my computer is idle (Message 28803) Posted 19 May 2007 by old_user448266 Post: Hi, I am having trouble with getting Boinc to only run while my computer is idle. According to my prefences that I go to by following the BOINC CPDN link to the left and then going to my account, my computer is set to only turn on BOINC while idle after three minutes. That\'s not what it\'s doing. It\'s running BOINC all the time (this wasn\'t a problem a few weeks ago. This is something that has started only since I\'ve been running CPDN. (I was running SETI till their server crashed, and I switched to BOINC then; I did not have this problem with SETI). When I go to the simple view of BOINC and select preferences and then try to change the option on when to run BOINC and save my preferences, everything appears to go O.K., but the preferences appear not to work and, when I go back to the preferences, it still says that BOINC will run all the time. This really makes using CPDN unpleasant. My computer is so slow when it\'s running.