I think this has been brought up before but I can't find the thread ... Anyway, does anybody know how to clear the text from the BOINC GUI window without shutting down BOINC ... There is a problem with doing that if you run the Predictor Project as it will make you start the WU over if you shut off BOINC & then Restart it again ... I've tried everything I can think of to clear the text file but nothing seems to work ... any ideas out there ???

i could be off the track here but have you had alook at theses files yet

stdout.txt & stderr.txt they are in the BOINC dir


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Yes, I have Renamed them & Deleted the text out of them all to no avail ... :(

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Ich höre immer gerne zu,wenn ich auch nicht immer belehrt werden möchte ;-)

:-( well it was just an idea. I keep thinking about it over a couple more bourbons


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ok there is a couple of other files to have a look
stdout.old & stderr.old they are in the BOINC dir
try deleting the contians of these and stdout.txt & stderr.txt

and see how you go.


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I already deleted those files Quail with no luck....Thanks for the ideas anyway :)


Guido, please keep your freaking pictures out of my Thread ... If I had the power you would no longer be a member of the Forum, you have done nothing but spam the entire forum endlessly with your stupid pictures thus forcing everybody to take longer to open up the threads you have inseminated with your meaningless and pointless pictures ...

I doubt you can, PB. It won't be by deleting the contents of the stdout.txt in the root directory of your BOINC directory, as that is only the log file.

What if you restart BOINC when that PAH unit is finished & uploaded?
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I just wanted to respond about Guido's pictures. I would have started a new thread for this but I am going to be referencing all of the the other posts in this thread so I thought it would be best right here.

1. Let's get over this idea that the pictures force everyone to take longer to open a thread. They don't in the least. In case you haven't noticed the entire text of all posts in a thread are loaded first. Then at the last the pictures are loaded. So even if it takes forever to load all the pictures you can still read the posts while they are downloading and then move on before their done if you're not interested in the pics or wait for them to finish if you are.

2. The pics aren't that big anyway. In this thread guido's picture is 8,763 bytes. Poorboy, YOUR alienware pic is 20,577 bytes (2.35 times the size). Jorden's stats picture is 12,635 and quail's stats pic is 51,117. Guido's is the smallest of all of them. Since the majority of the posters in these forums are using the stats pictures, they are, more than anything, slowing up the loading of the threads.

3. I reassert they aren't really slowing anything up anyway. I use myself as proof of that. I am forced (due to my geographical backwoods location) to use a 26Kbps dial-up account for internet access (yes I have 56K modem but the phone lines don't accept that fast: I did say BACKWOODS). I have never noticed a problem with loading these pages compared with the average time it takes to load other web pages. So if I am not experiencing extra-ordinary slow down I seriously doubt others are; especially if they have DSL.

>quail's stats pic is 51,117

Jodeum how do you come up with that file size when the actual file size of my stats counter pic on my server is 12,288 bytes


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He's probably using Mozilla of sorts. ;)
I can check the properties of your picture as well, it's correct what he said.
Size of file: 49.92KB (51117 bytes)

yes i concur, but it is out of my control as the pic on my server is the size as i said b4 the increase in size is due to the fact it is being converted from *.jpg to *.png by Seti Boinc Stats Counter by Neil Munday

By the way i not trying to pass the buck, but just stating facts as i see it


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I'm not sure about other browsers or OS's but in WinXP MS internet explorer version 6 I just right click on any graphic then left click on properties. That tells me the type of file, the size, dimensions, originating url and date created/modified.

Don't get me wrong Quail. I am not saying the size of your pic is bad or anything. I was just using every pics size in the entire thread to put it into perspective. Personally I don't care about the size of the pics.

> Don't get me wrong Quail. I am not saying the size of your pic is bad or
> anything. I was just using every pics size in the entire thread to put it into
> perspective. Personally I don't care about the size of the pics.
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np :-)))


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> yes i concur, but it is out of my control as the pic on my server is the size
> as i said b4 the increase in size is due to the fact it is being converted
> from *.jpg to *.png by Seti Boinc Stats Counter by Neil Munday

I just saw your original in Guido's thread. Not only is a JPEG, it's bigger than the signature as well, so Neil's site has to resize it.

Why don't you make it a 280x81 pixel PNG file yourself? That way you won't lose any quality, while the compression of PNG files makes the actual starting file a lot smaller.

The background picture I use is around 4KB (4163 bytes) while it's sized to fit (280x81px). It's PNG.

(/me wonders if we have hijacked Poorboy's thread enough by now ;))
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i just resized it and converted it to *.png and it is 50,634 bytes in size now wtf


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What if you restart BOINC when that PAH unit is finished & uploaded?
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Yes, thats what Ive been doing, right after a new WU starts for Predictor that way I only lose a min or 2 of work ... :/

> What if you restart BOINC when that PAH unit is finished & uploaded?
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> way I only lose a min or 2 of work ... :/
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Ok John, at least if thats true I know now that the byte size for the .txt file won't just keep getting bigger and bigger.