just got a iBook G4 with OSx 10.3.5.i downloaded BOINC software for Mac now what! All i get is a file on the desktop that I cant open.Last Mac i used was an Apple IIe.Any help would be great.canèt seem to make heads or tails out of the questions board.

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si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes

You've come to the right place, my friend! 

First things first - I'm going to assume that you've already got admin privileges. Let me know if I'm wrong.

① Go to the  menu and choose Software Update… - That will bring you up to X.3.7 with all the security patches. You'll have to restart once, maybe twice. Just keep using Software Update… until you're told that you're up to date.

② While in the Finder, press ⌘⌥U. That will open up your Utilities folder. Locate Terminal, and run it.

③ Now that you're in the Terminal, type in chmod 755 followed by a space. You're going to change the permissions so that you can read, write, and execute the file, while other users can only read and execute.

④ The secret weapon: Drag boinc_4.13… onto the Terminal window. You'll see that the file's name and path are added to the chmod line. Press return, and your file will become "runnable"

⑤ Again in Terminal, type in open /usr/bin and press return. The Finder will open up the (IMO) appropriate place to put boinc.

⑥ Finally, you're ready to run boinc. I found out (the hard way) that boinc will execute from the current working directory. So if you're OK with having boinc store your files in your home directory, all you'll have to do from now on is open up a Terminal session and type boinc_4.13… (or be lazy and type boin, hit tab, and hit return.)

You may want to automate the whole thing down to a Terminal shell alias, like so

alias boinc="cd /usr/share/boinc ; (boinc_4.13_powerpc-apple-darwin >> boinc.out &) ; tail boinc.out ; cd $OLDPWD"

This will let you run boinc in the background, store your files in /usr/share/boinc, create a log at /usr/share/boinc/boinc.out, and return you back to where you started in Terminal.

I'm going to be out for a while, so if anything goes wrong, post and I'll get back to you.

Last Mac i used was an Apple IIe
HERESY! The Apple IIe wasn't a Mac. I forgive you.

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> You've come to the right place, my friend! ?
>
> First things first - I'm going to assume that you've already got admin
> privileges. Let me know if I'm wrong.
assuming you mean do I need a password to access computer then yes
> > ? Go to the ? menu and choose Software Update… -
> That will bring you up to X.3.7 with all the security patches. You'll have to
> restart once, maybe twice. Just keep using Software Update…
> until you're told that you're up to date.
Holy smokes Im on dial up thats ok the most relavent update for now is probably Mac OSx update combined and the security update

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I Refuse to hold myself responsible for any of my actions.

si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes

> You've come to the right place, my friend! ð
>
> First things first - I'm going to assume that you've already got admin
> privileges. Let me know if I'm wrong.
>
> ? Go to the ð menu and choose Software UpdateÉ -
> That will bring you up to X.3.7 with all the security patches. You'll have to
> restart once, maybe twice. Just keep using Software UpdateÉ
> until you're told that you're up to date.
>
> ? While in the Finder, press ??U. That
> will open up your Utilities folder. Locate Terminal, and run
> it.
>
> ? Now that you're in the Terminal, type in chmod 755
> followed by a space. You're going to change the permissions so that you can
> read, write, and execute the file, while other users can only read and
> execute.
>
> ? The secret weapon: Drag boinc_4.13É onto the
> Terminal window. You'll see that the file's name and path are added to
> the chmod line. Press return, and your file will become "runnable"
>
> ? Again in Terminal, type in open /usr/bin and press
> return. The Finder will open up the (IMO) appropriate place to put
> boinc.
>
> ? Finally, you're ready to run boinc. I found out (the hard
> way) that boinc will execute from the current working directory. So if
> you're OK with having boinc store your files in your home directory,
> all you'll have to do from now on is open up a Terminal session and type
> boinc_4.13É (or be lazy and type boin, hit tab, and hit
> return.)
>
> You may want to automate the whole thing down to a Terminal shell
> alias, like so

alias boinc="cd /usr/share/boinc ;
> (boinc_4.13_powerpc-apple-darwin >> boinc.out &) ; tail boinc.out ;
> cd $OLDPWD"

> This will let you run boinc in the background, store your files in
> /usr/share/boinc, create a log at /usr/share/boinc/boinc.out,
> and return you back to where you started in Terminal.
>
> I'm going to be out for a while, so if anything goes wrong, post and I'll get
> back to you.
>
> Last Mac i used was an Apple IIe
> HERESY! The Apple IIe wasn't a Mac. I forgive you.
>
[b]The last and most important thing you forgot to mention is the last command, HIT ENTER.

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dogbytes
I will have to come back to this in a few weeks .Shipping north to work and theirs no internet where I m going.Thanks for all your help so far talk to you when i get back

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I Refuse to hold myself responsible for any of my actions.

si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes

> dogbytes
> I will have to come back to this in a few weeks .Shipping north to work and
> theirs no internet where I m going.Thanks for all your help so far talk to you
> when i get back
>
And no T1 satellite link, how primative. (That's an Airport Express with an attitude)

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Sorry it took so long to get back to you - It turns out my friend's car decided that now was a good time to have a tranny conniption. So I had to get the "crew" together (gaggle of geeks?), head down to Lido Beach, push the car out of the roadway, scout out where to park the damn thing since every road was "no parking", nudge the dead car a mile and change to the nearest known parking spot, get food (cuz at that point we were all looking forward to a warm meal), and go home from there.

It's this kind of scenario that makes me really happy I don't have a car.

Anyway, back to what Dogbytes said about pressing enter: the alias would have to be put into ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile. I don't know how familiar you are with Linux/UNIX/BSD, so this is what you'd have to type in (verbatim)

echo 'alias boinc="cd /usr/share/boinc ; (boinc_4.13_powerpc-apple-darwin >> boinc.out &) ; tail boinc.out ; cd $OLDPWD"' >> ~/.bash_profile

and press return (or enter).

If you need someone to mail you CDs of the X.3.7 update (and you're in reasonable reach), I could send it to you (as well as any other new-user tidbits you might find useful).

If you manage to get a connection in [insert destination here], let us know how it's going!

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God damn, I was just kidding, as in pulling you leg, yanking your crank or whatever. On the lighter side there is an SOS from Dr Anderson which is as follows:

If anyone has experience using the "installer builder"
that's part of the Mac OS X development environment,
and has some time to help us, please send me email ASAP.
We need to make a Mac installer that does something
similar to the Win installer, i.e. puts the core client
and the BOINC manager in the right place and arranges
for them to run on login.

Thanks -- David
davea@ssl.berkeley.edu

Seeing that you are a master uber-geek with Mac OS X (10.3.7) you may be of some assistance to them.
Cheers!

I've got PowerMac G5 2.5 merrily crunching the hell out of CPDN WU's.

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Here's what I'd have said...
Dear David,

Had you bothered to look at Apple's Developers' Library, you would have found what you were looking for.

Smugly yours,
- NeoAmsterdam

...but I'm not the kind of guy who'll help out people who can't do their own research. If he's a good programmer (and I'm sure he is), he'll write a shell script like everyone else.

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