Posts by Rytis

1) Message boards : Number crunching : The Science Cloud - donate CPU time on the cloud (Message 2025685)
Posted 31 Dec 2019 by Profile Rytis
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During the 2019 BOINC workshop there was quite a lot of talk about people wanting to buy compute resources for their chosen projects, but not wanting to invest into hardware and take up the maintenance of it, for various reasons (difficulty setting up, high electricity costs, etc). Instead people would like to pay for cloud resources and adjust the donated amount as their income or engagement changes.

I went ahead and built the system for this: https://thescience.cloud/

It is very simple to start: just add money into your account, pick your projects and run as many computers as you wish. The computers are automatically started on a cloud provider and run for as long as you have money in your account. The computers get attached to your account (you have to add your weak account key), so all the BOINC credits also go to you and your team.

Supported payments methods are PayPal, ACH transfer in the United States, or SEPA transfer in European Union Eurozone. I add a small 7% markup which will hopefully cover PayPal fees, accounting costs and my hosting needs. 21% Lithuanian VAT is included, this is run through a legal company I operate.

Special thanks to the initial testers from PrimeGrid's Discord!
2) Questions and Answers : Web site : are HTML tags are Broken in team Description ? (Message 595336)
Posted 29 Jun 2007 by Profile Rytis
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I just fixed the problem in the SVN. It's now just a matter of time until projects update their code.
3) Questions and Answers : Web site : RE: New Private Message Feature. (Message 565363)
Posted 11 May 2007 by Profile Rytis
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The error was happening while web code was being updated. There are still some issues with PM system, like mysql error when sending to non-unique username. It's fixed in the SVN, so it's just a metter of time until it's uploaded here.

Anyway, consider this as some kind of a preview release. I'll be working on usability (links in the user pages to quickly send PMs, outbox for the messages, maybe something else). Who knows, maybe some time these forums will see other long awaited functions, like smily faces and a method to mark forum as read... ;)
4) Questions and Answers : Getting started : SETI@home team founder transfer mail... (Message 471248)
Posted 3 Dec 2006 by Profile Rytis
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Yes, I was the only user at the moment, and yes, I haven't any credits, only from the old client and the team has been just around and waiting for me to switch over to the new client.

This explains everything. Current team founder is not listed in the transfer page, and if he is the only one, then the list is blank. We probably need to check the number of members and let the founder know if there is noone to transfer to. I'll put this on my todo list.

So, I think this is what happened:

  • A user joined your team
  • He noticed a new button, offering to ask you to let him be a new founder and pressed it
  • Then he left the team before you were able to take action
  • You got to the transfer page and noticed that there was nothing to do because of what I posted above.
  • You got puzzled and reported this, and helping us to improve the system by doing this.



So I think it's OK for everyone.

5) Questions and Answers : Getting started : SETI@home team founder transfer mail... (Message 470738)
Posted 2 Dec 2006 by Profile Rytis
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If a user submits a request and then leaves the team, the request is cleared and no option to decline is displayed, as there is nothing to decline.

I am however interested in the transfer area being blank. Did the team consist of only one member (you) at the time you looked at that page? Now I see that it consists of 2 members (without credit). If you access team founder change page now, is there a user listed there?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign petition to accept BOINC XHTML changes (Message 284248)
Posted 18 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
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Pappa, does it help you if I say I helped to buy the new BOINCstats server? Willy can say what percentage I paid, and it wasn't a small part. Oh, BTW, I'm one of the persons that run BOINC-Wiki. Does that count?

I know SETI needs money. I know that without it there wouldn't be BOINC. But I simply can't spare a cent for them, since my project needs more money than I can spare. You know that you can't run a project on air. If money needed seems not much to you, multiply it four times - average salaries in Lithuania are about 4 times lower than in USA or most EU countries.

I can't answer the "sight impaired software" issue. All I can say I make sure all coloured text is visible (just to let you know, I can't distinguish between some colours. It just look the same to me), so that it has enough contrast with the background. But, can you assure me that current BOINC works with screen readers nicely?


I'm actually amazed with everyone's ignorance. I'm going to talk with David about going for 4.01 Strict (oh, if you could know, how I hate to do that. XHTML is the way to go, but you won't accept it :( ). If it does not go so well, we shall see. I'm a DC fan, but maybe I should drop everything and go.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign petition to accept BOINC XHTML changes (Message 283716)
Posted 17 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
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You know what is funny? By the time I got through this thread I had the idea to create a petition to have PrimeGrid release a Linux app. already. ;P

Well, it may seem the same to you, but it's different. I'm supplying the changes, and just want them to be accepted. If you supplied the app, I would be glad to add it ;)

Back to topic.
I don't know how the webpage would sound. I'm not blind and don't have a software they use. My best guess is that it would be easier for the software to correctly parse the webpage, but I'm not competent enough to answer this 100% correctly.

For those of you advocating that XHTML is not supported by current day browsers (please, don't tell me IE 1.0 does not understand it. Noone uses it anymore. You get the point), go ahead and visit PrimeGrid's frontpage. It's pure XHTML. If you find it does not work, let me know. I will shut up about making BOINC XHTML compatible then. For now, I'm still for it.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign petition to accept BOINC XHTML changes (Message 283039)
Posted 16 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
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Since it looks like the work is the design property of Effect Web Media any changes should probably be done by them.

It seems that the only design from them is the front page and (possibly) the header of the pages. The HTML in the content part, and the whole websites of most BOINC projects is BOINC developers code.

In any case, they (Effect Web Media) did such a bad job on the code part that I would not hire them :) On the other hand, maybe they created just the graphical look and UCB coded the page themselves.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign petition to accept BOINC XHTML changes (Message 283001)
Posted 16 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
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Sure I know xhtml is the new standare, but why fix something that isn't broken,m and work well?

The point is, current BOINC webpage code does not follow any standard. Be it 4.01, at least it should be followed, and because XHTML 1.0 Strict can be easily followed when ensuring HTML 4.01 compatibility, we should go for it.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign petition to accept BOINC XHTML changes (Message 282938)
Posted 16 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
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which standard is the most appropriate for the BOINC web code

I've made doctype defineable, with different header handling according to doctype to make it valid on any.
[edit] with header i have in mind part above <body> tag.

why is that? why use standards?

Because standards ensures that the pages are displayed the same on any browser. For those incompatible, it would be handled the same as now, but for those that support, standards-compatible website would be helpful. Besides, valid code is easier to maintain.

right, with very few changes, but the fact remains that it doesn't validate without those changes being made, and lets face it, they won't be made (nobody wants to maintain 2 versions of the same document)

As stated above, the only change was in the header in the <link> tag - 4.01 needs it unclosed, XHTML 1.0 Strict needs it closed.

and because the XHTML in it's unchanged state can potentially put the browser into quirks mode it's a bad idea to use it

And current throws any browser into quirks mode. What's better - to have some in quirks, or all?

shouldn't use internal style sheets when following best practices

Oops, my bad. It actually was <link>, that was handling stylesheet. Detailed the problem above.

by doing things properly (rather than relying on the browsers interpretation (including when to use which parser) then all these problems are avoided

I agree; this is why we should use the doctype and the code compatible with it. With definable doctypes administrators can use the doctype they want (4.01 Strict or XHTML 1.0 Strict) and the website would use valid code for it.

i really don't see what you propose to do to avoid having to rewrite all your XHTML when you change from serving it as HTML to correctly serving it as XHTML because your scripts and CSS will break

No they will not; higher XHTML versions are backwards compatible with older versions (even XHTML 2.0, which is currently being worked on); the only change we would make would be changing the doctype and (possibly; if transitioning to XHTML 1.1, which I don't see possible because IE does not work with it) HTTP response headers.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign petition to accept BOINC XHTML changes (Message 282879)
Posted 16 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
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I don't really see what we're arguing about. Seems like we all understand the need to use standards compliant code. XHTML 1.0 Strict can be validated as 4.01 Strict without almost any changes (the only one is <style> tag, just tested), so the only thing that is different would be the doctype declaration. We can nicely set it up to be configurable by project administrators.

Sadly, I can't edit the petition text anymore, so I can't state that the code is compatible with HTML 4.01.

And thanks for the title editing hint :)
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign petition to accept BOINC XHTML changes (Message 282873)
Posted 16 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
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Sorry for not replying earlier, my network connection went down just after I posted the messages.

A few points to note:

  • XHTML 1.0 Strict (which I am proposing) is backwards compatible with HTML 4.01. If the browser can't understand XHTML, it will parse it as if it was plain old HTML. So the point about only 20% browsers being capable to render XHTML is true, but others would fall back and render it anyway.
  • XHTML is much better for screen readers.
  • Content and design goes separately using CSS (ok, this is not exactly XHTML feature, but it is enforced by removing tags like <font>).
  • XHTML makes (ok, it's supposed) pages look the same in all browsers since there is left no place for interpretation of the errors.
  • I know <p /> is bad for separation. The best solution would be using css margin, but if David can't use anything else, this would at least not throw the browser into quirks mode since the code would be valid.
  • IE fails miserably at XHTML 1.1 if it server with correct headers (not text/html). This is why I'm proposing XHTML 1.0 Strict.
  • And the last but not the least - XHTML is current W3C recommendation.



You can view changes at PrimeGrid. I have not (yet) made every page compatible. For example, see http://www.primegrid.com/home.php (when you are logged in; if you'd like to validate, use direct input in the validator, because it will not parse the "logged in" page).

[edit] Oh, and I cannot edit the title anymore.
[edit] Changed the title. Thanks, Lee.

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign petition to accept BOINC XHTML changes (Message 282350)
Posted 15 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
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I am not impressed with the quality of BOINC web pages, so I started working on making the pages XHTML 1.0 strict compatible. I made a nice progress, and sent my changes to David Anderson, the main developer of BOINC system so that the changes would be checked into CVS and made public.

But sadly, David responded:
Thanks for the diff,
but XHTML conformance is not a goal - I like being able to use <p> as a separator.

I got no response to continued attempt to persuade him that XHTML was good. I even suggested using <p /> as a separator if he wanted - it would still be a valid code and work as intended. No response.

Seeing that there is no other option to persuade David (and make use of my work), I ask you to sign a petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/bncxhtml/. Once we have enough signatures, I will send the link to David with hopes to succeed.

Sign the petition
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Message@Home Down ... ??? (Message 158995)
Posted 29 Aug 2005 by Profile Rytis
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Thanks Jim, you were a real help and no need to suffer because of thinking otherwise :)

I have been watching this thread, and I'd like to say thanks to all who tried to help Jim trying to recover the server while I was away.

Also, before considering plans to move to the "real" server, or whatever we call it, I was thinking of distributed server structure, something like distributed.net proxys. If this ever comes true, your computer will have a chance to return :)

And we can hope to see m@h in the new server quite soon - I am buying it today, if the company will not take the money for the left 3 days of this month as for a whole month, and otherwise, on the first of September.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : New Project Message@home (Message 135567)
Posted 11 Jul 2005 by Profile Rytis
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@ poorboy (Rytis), ShuR

i'll be more than happy to help you out, especially since you are taking over Pirates vacated "space."

so, do us scuttelbutts from Rusty and th' cap'tn ship get preference tomorrow on account creation day? ;)

good luck with this project!

happy crunching
Micah


Actually, I am Rytis ;) That's just the non-existing possiblity to change the user names... Rytis is my real name, and ShuR is a nickname, but I feel real name would look better as the project admin. And poorboy just posted my message from my messageboards. I am alone there, yet :)

As for sign up bonus... I see no way how I could influence the account creation process to limit "outsiders", or to give priority to ex-Pirates - first come, first served. Actually, I am thinking about pre-register list like Einstein had at the start. Then we will see :)

For the good part, I have just recompiled the application, it seems running ok with WU that take less than second to complete :) The file uploader (seems) to be running well, so I think we will have work at the early start.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : New Project Message@home (Message 135524)
Posted 11 Jul 2005 by Profile Rytis
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That Laptop should be able to handle 50,000 user's easily ... :/


I'm not sure about 50,000, but I'm sure that I will not open it to more users now until it has been confirmed that application follows at least the basic BOINC guidelines and does not crash now and then. I do not want to crash BOINC clients on the PCs whose users do not know about the possibility of non bug-free code under pre-alpha.

But really, I hope everything will go ok, and we will step out of pre-alpha in a week, and increase the number of users.
17) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Unable to change email (Message 47811)
Posted 19 Nov 2004 by Profile Rytis
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_valid_email_addr() in /disks/koloth/raid5_b/users/boincadm/projects/sah/html/user/edit_email_form.php on line 11

when trying to change my email in the account page (clicking on the "edit" link). I'd like to synchronize my emails over all projects.





 
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