Posts by Swordfish

41) Message boards : Number crunching : Aborted several Astropulse Tasks (Message 1280429)
Posted 5 Sep 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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The tasks were all aborted by me.

The latter ones, as soon as they appeared.

The problem has been resolved, as indicated in my last post.

Morena is a lenovo laptop, and just doesnt like Astopulse tasks.

She is now set not to request Astropulse WU's
42) Message boards : Number crunching : Aborted several Astropulse Tasks (Message 1280274)
Posted 5 Sep 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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My apologies to wingpeople.

I've determined that Morena doesn't like processing Astropulse WU's.


As my 3 computers are all on the same account, I've rehashed the profile of Morena, so that it doesnt process Astropulse units

It's set for school with Astropulse disabled.

My other 2 computers have no problems processing Astropulse and are set to default, as has always been.

At the last look 8 Astropulse units have been aborted over the last 10 days
43) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (76) Server Problems? (Message 1277433)
Posted 30 Aug 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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Everything OK again here.
ATI, Astropulse and CPU tasks all replenished
Arthur, Lancelot and Morena all happy again :)
44) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (76) Server Problems? (Message 1276968)
Posted 29 Aug 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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ATI tasks are running out on my network and no new work(CPU or GPU) is being sent out due to problems with the server.
The cricket graph shows a huge tail off since midnight (cricket graph time).
45) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 8 Release Preview now available (Message 1274607)
Posted 23 Aug 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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And if anyone wants a start button om windows 8 there is one that can be downloaded

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/23/classic_shell_gives_windows_8_a_start_button/

I tried it on my release preview, and it does what it says in the article above.

I'm not going to buy this OS . The only use I have for it at the moment is to play Microsoft Flight. lmao

Swordfish

46) Message boards : Number crunching : My Apologies to wingmen and wingwomen (Message 1273377)
Posted 20 Aug 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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I had major problems with the the windows 7 installation, and had to reinstall everthing from scratch.

I've been thinking of doing this for a while as my backups have deterioted as well. The system was an upgrade from Vista, all those moons ago.

Lancelot seems to be running ok now.

I apologies, for the 350 tasks that have errored out, but hopefully some of these will bounce back to my new installation.

Still got several hours of work to get my system back as I want it, but at least its working.

Arthur and Morena have been running throughout, them being the other 2 on the network.
47) Message boards : Number crunching : Win 7 and XP (Message 1270461)
Posted 11 Aug 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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i've used BCD in the past and it can do what you require
Swordfish
48) Message boards : Number crunching : Win 7 and XP (Message 1270337)
Posted 11 Aug 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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Create a seperate partition abd install XP to that.

On Lancelot, I have Windows 7 on main partition.

I am trialing Windows 8 along with the new Office on a separate 80GB partition.

I also run the latest Ubuntu in a shell in Windows 7.

When the system boots up it says something like

Windows 8
Windows 7
Ubuntu

Choose which.

If the boot sequence times out , it will automatically boot to windows 7.

Many moons ago I used to have a similar setup with Vista , XP , and Ubuntu

Swordfish
49) Message boards : Number crunching : Will my Laptop running a CORE i7 2670 QM 2.2 GHZ get to hot Crunching? (Message 1268713)
Posted 7 Aug 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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I've been running A laptop/notebook (Morena) wirelessly into my network for over a year now.

Its a Lenovo and contains a Pentium (R) Dual Core CPU.

Boinc runs fine with both cores and Throttle is showing the CPU cores at being about 47C.

Even during the UK's miniscule heatwave , it only reached 51C.

As with all my network, Boinc is set to run on my preferences, so if CPU my demands exceed a certain level, then BOIC is suspended, until demand levels are reduced.

Swordfish
50) Message boards : Number crunching : My apologies to wingman and wingwomen (Message 1266992)
Posted 3 Aug 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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Due to problems with Lancelot, I've had to reimage the computer to 1 month earlier, and also detatch and re-attatch BOINC.

I'm sorry but this has resulted in several hundred tasks being aborted.

Arthur and Morena, are ok, and have continued during the faffing around

Swordfish
51) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P Jon Lord (Message 1262220)
Posted 19 Jul 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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Child in Time is just one excellent track.

Brought me back in time

Aww well those were the days

:)
52) Message boards : Cafe SETI : R.I.P Jon Lord (Message 1261605)
Posted 17 Jul 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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I bought the vinyl album Made in Japan many years ago.

Deep Purple are still one of my all time favorite bands.

Another great musician gone to that great gig in the sky.

R.I.P. Jon
53) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 8 Release Preview now available (Message 1261600)
Posted 17 Jul 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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Paragrah 4 of my last post should end with ".....users can get around that"

Tired old eyes I think lmaoooooooo
54) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows 8 Release Preview now available (Message 1261598)
Posted 17 Jul 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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Yep, and office 13 preview is now available as well.

I got windows 8 release preview installed on a spare partition in June, with office 2013 linked in today displayed via metro.

Windows 8 is starting to grow on me, especially now I linked up the office preview today.

Although ( as has been said elsewhere), this is no start button on the desktop, users can get around and get that.

I spent a number of hours getting to know the set-up and layout, and it's all starting to come together.

This reminds me of the major interface change from windows 6.22 to windows 95, when major changes occured to the GUI.

I'm not promoting windows 8, just evaluating it, but now today, I have certainly not written it off.......time will tell !
55) Message boards : Number crunching : Microsofts Skydrive (Message 1258956)
Posted 11 Jul 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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"Just trying to be helpful..............."

OK fair enough, perhaps we should have a general computing board,

and yes those joing dates are very close.

All aspects of Science and Astronomy, have been of great interest to me, and joining here to crunch numbers is my way to help now I'm retired from the Lab in the UK :)
56) Message boards : Number crunching : Microsofts Skydrive (Message 1258690)
Posted 11 Jul 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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I have my own "sky drive"



Whats this post doing here

I've had such a cloud "drive" for several months now

This is old info and is posted in the wrong area

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

57) Message boards : Number crunching : Anonumous host throwing only errors, 3223 right now (Message 1254481)
Posted 2 Jul 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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[color=cyan]Message 1253887 - Posted: 30 Jun 2012 | 22:44:02 UTC - in response to Message 1252394.

Well here's the full list of those running a riot through my pendings blowing them right out of all proportions.



I did a prelimarly look at those 216 computers.

About 5% are Linux Based
About 5% use ATI Cards

90% use Nvidia Cards ( Majority of crunching is done I suspect using these type cards).

What is really interesting that within the Nvidia cards the majority of inconsistancies occur with the Nvidia GTX500 series of cards.

In particular Nvidia GTX560Ti using drivers 301.42, 296.10 and 295.73.

Driver 301.42 occurs more, but that may be due to users having upgraded their drivers.

I've even seen a Nvidia 600 series card in the list.

Just a quick look, but the Nvidia GTX560Ti does stick out like a sore thumb, when analysing the data listed within the list of 216 computers.

Swordfish

58) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (75) Server problems? (Message 1254179)
Posted 1 Jul 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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Mine have all uploaded

Awaiting new ATI tasks

Got plenty for CPU
59) Message boards : Number crunching : Notice of apology for wingmen to computer 6651757 (Message 1246950)
Posted 16 Jun 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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Sorry Guys

I had to detatch from the project due to issues beyond my control.

This resulted in 340 odd WU's erroring out and will need to be resent.

Those issues appear to have been resolved, and this computer is now re-attatched to the project and is processing new WU's.

Again, apologies for any inconvienced caused.
60) Message boards : Number crunching : I don't know if this is right place - Router issue/questions (Message 1243930)
Posted 9 Jun 2012 by Profile Swordfish
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I have a laptop in my network, and it is currently connected wirelessly via my dLink router.

You can download a free application called inSSIDer which can monitor your wireless connection and all the others in your vicinity.

For example my lap top is secured using WPA2, its using channels 6 + 10 and I'm getting a signal strengh ampltude of about 41 dB, which is fine.

I can see others in the vicinity using channel 9.

Quite often depending who is using wireless in my neighbourhood I can see, about 6 different people broadcasting.

I can also tell if their connections are secure, and in their cases they are.

AS I say its free, and its a small app, and your can find it from google search.

I think major geek has it listed.

It will a least give you an idea of what you and others are broadcasting channel and security wise.


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