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Now, when I try to install Boinc 5.x.x, the Boinc installer displays a message box right at the start (before the installation starts), stating Boinc needs Windows version Win98SE, XP, 2000 .. and so on ... to work. Because Win95 is not listed I assume it is not supported anymore and I have to remove Boinc when version 5 becomes mandatory.
To me this looks like a policy change from the Boinc developers, or did I misunderstand something? :-)

My guess is it's just a side effect of the Microsoft tools Rom is using to build the package, and that 5.2.5 would run without problems on your Win95 system. I certainly expect to run 5.x on my Win95 system once the error in the libcurl.dll is fixed.

If the Network Install method won't work, Tetsuji Maverick Rai's mmx optimized 5.2.4 is a 1.4 MiB zip file containing the files you'd need to update your BOINC directory to that level, assuming the "GenuineIntel, GenuineIntel" CPU on your 95OSR2 system supports mmx instructions.

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Sorry, double post.

Thanks, I'll try that in the near future. It supports mmx. :-)

The optimized core client is not working for me.

I am running win2k and boinc 5.2.5.

When I unzip the sse2 version of the 5.2.4 core, and copy the files into the boinc directory, boinc will not run.

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When I unzip the sse2 version of the 5.2.4 core, and copy the files into the boinc directory, boinc will not run.

The 5.2.4 of TMR is broken, use the SSE Version or get the 5.3.1 SSE2 from Trux

Andy

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The biggest bug is sitting 10 inch in front of the screen.

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When I unzip the sse2 version of the 5.2.4 core, and copy the files into the boinc directory, boinc will not run.

The 5.2.4 of TMR is broken, use the SSE Version or get the 5.3.1 SSE2 from Trux

Andy

I see all these new updates but am getting a bit confuserated... which do we use for Windows XP?

They are coming out faster then I can up date!!

5.2.2, 5.2.4, 5.2.5 or 5.2.6?

Ricky

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Hi

The best is you install original 5.2.6 and than copy the optimized over.
The updates in 5.2.5 and 5.2.6 only affects the manager not the core client.

greetz Mike

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I just upgraded to 5.2.5 and so far I am not impressed. Not only was a password file created (complete with default password) it was recreated after I deleted it. Then I discovered that my remote_host.cfg file had been deleted. My network security is my concern not BOINCs. If Berkeley is going to adopt Microsoft's attitude of trying to force me to use MY computers THEIR way they will lose me. The science is their concern, not how I use my computers.

Also, I had to re-attach to all the projects to get BOINC manager to work. Too much effort for a simple upgrade.

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David Stites
Pullman, WA USA

I just upgraded to 5.2.5 and so far I am not impressed. Not only was a password file created (complete with default password) it was recreated after I deleted it. Then I discovered that my remote_host.cfg file had been deleted. My network security is my concern not BOINCs. ...

Read the ReadMe!

Those files are there to plug a security hole.

I'm damned thankful that they don't adopt the attitudes of Microsoft!!!

Please check a little further...

Good luck,
Martin

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I just upgraded to 5.2.5 and so far I am not impressed. Not only was a password file created (complete with default password) it was recreated after I deleted it. Then I discovered that my remote_host.cfg file had been deleted. My network security is my concern not BOINCs. ...

Read the ReadMe!

Those files are there to plug a security hole.

I'm damned thankful that they don't adopt the attitudes of Microsoft!!!

Please check a little further...

Good luck,
Martin

Before I had the option of using a password, that was taken away. Apparently Berkeley decided I didn't know what I am doing. And why delete a file just to make me create it again. You don't make sense. BTW, there is no readme file in my distro.

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David Stites
Pullman, WA USA

I just upgraded to 5.2.5 and so far I am not impressed. Not only was a password file created (complete with default password) it was recreated after I deleted it. Then I discovered that my remote_host.cfg file had been deleted. My network security is my concern not BOINCs. ...

Read the ReadMe!

Those files are there to plug a security hole.

I'm damned thankful that they don't adopt the attitudes of Microsoft!!!

Please check a little further...

Good luck,
Martin

Before I had the option of using a password, that was taken away. Apparently Berkeley decided I didn't know what I am doing. And why delete a file just to make me create it again. You don't make sense. BTW, there is no readme file in my distro.

Before, the default option was to let anyone connect to BOINC on the appropriate port and bang away at the machine without so much as a "how do you do."

While you may have enough clue to secure your systems, there is much evidence that the vast majority do not.

If people gave even the slightest thought about security, it'd be a lot harder to connect to a Wireless Access Point named "linksys" and access the net from just about anywhere for free.

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David,

If you don't want password protection, it is possible to effectively disable it, not by deleting the file, but by deleting the contents of the file. That is, replace the default password with an empty line. I'm not sure if it needs a carriage return in there, BTW.

Then the default (ie empty) password passed by boincmgr matches the empty one in the file.

Really, though, it's not advisable to do this if the machine isn't already behind a firewall of some sort, because the security risk is potentially severe.

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