It looks like the BoincView website has gone 'toes-up'.

A whois lookup for boincview.amanheis.de returns an error. Bill not paid?

A crying shame.

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ARRRGGGHHHHH....

And I had been procrastinating on DL that latest Beta version!

Insert certain 'colorful' Tony Montana quote here. ;-)

Alinator

Well, this is a crying shame. BoincView is the primary monitoring tool on my little shrubbery, and has been for the last three years. Not perfect, but I would recommend it to anyone with a few computers and an interest in what they're doing.

The source and development work is probably lost, but we ought to keep the working versions available for as long as possible. I have the downloaded binary for the last full release (v1.4.2, March 2007): I have checked the license file, and re-distribution is fully authorised.

So who can we ask to host a download repository, and does anyone have the later betas to contribute?

does anyone have the later betas to contribute?

I have(and run) and can contribute 1.5 Beta 8, which I think was the last beta (seemed to be as of July 2008, when I downloaded it).

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does anyone have the later betas to contribute?

I have(and run) and can contribute 1.5 Beta 8, which I think was the last beta (seemed to be as of July 2008, when I downloaded it).

I also use that version. In the 'about' box July 2006 is mentioned. I don't think new versions of that program have been released for quite some time. The only new things the website contained were some recent messages, nothing else. So it's no big surprise that it has finally gone offline (if the messages here are correct, I haven't checked myself).

Regards,
John.

The owner has been missing for a long time (over 2 years since his last post on the forums). Someone mention they thought they heard he passed on. As for asking for money, he did ask for donations (and I donated).

Is there someone good enough to uncompile the program and start making a new type program? I am not a programmer, and sometimes wish I knew some good programmers.

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Unless It's open source It may not be something that's redistributable possibly or would It?

It's not like the guy wanted money for His work of course. At least I don't think so that is.

Below is the 'license.txt' from the distro I downloaded from his site (I added some hard returns, but apart from that it's the complete file unchanged):

/start quote/

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2005 Sebastian Masch

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

/end quote/

Its a shame the site is gone. I too use BOINCview - Great tool for monitoring a farm.

I did a google search for "Sebastian Masch" and found a fair few hits. There is this one that mentions something in Nov 2008. Unfortunately its in German so if someone can translate it. It sounds like a family tree type of thing.

Unless It's open source It may not be something that's redistributable possibly or would It?

It's not like the guy wanted money for His work of course. At least I don't think so that is.

Below is the 'license.txt' from the distro I downloaded from his site (I added some hard returns, but apart from that it's the complete file unchanged):

/start quote/

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2005 Sebastian Masch

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

/end quote/

Hmmm...

First off, thanks Joker for the kind offer you PM'ed, but I see that it is now unnecessary.

@ John:

Hmmm...

That's interesting about the license. The last time I was rooting around on the BV site and read the FAQs, Mr. Masch was not making his source code available to the general public.

However, the MIT license would seem to give the right to decompile the binary and modify it. So I guess someone could resurrect BV and manintain and/or develop it further as long as the original source was credited in any new versions.

It sure has proven to be a really useful tool in my experience.

Alinator

When looking at the domain at http://www.amanheis.de/ it looks like the site is going through a reconstruction of sorts.

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Ahhh, yes.

That's better, or at least grounds for hope! I was getting a timeout error when I tried it after I saw the OP earlier. :-)

Alinator

Anyone tried BV with BOINC 6.4.5? Are they compatible?

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Anyone tried BV with BOINC 6.4.5? Are they compatible?

V1.5.8 Beta works with Win XP X64 & Boinc 6.4.5/6.5 with minor quirks.
"Accelerators" does not show GPUs correctly, etc.

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Anyone tried BV with BOINC 6.4.5? Are they compatible?

V1.5.8 Beta works with Win XP X64 & Boinc 6.4.5/6.5 with minor quirks.
"Accelerators" does not show GPUs correctly, etc.

I tried to monitor a machine that had 6.5 running, with cuda enabled. Both 'monitoring machines' I have BoinView installed on didn't like it at all: bv crashed the instant it tried to get information from that 6.5 machine.

I haven't looked into details as to why and how. Removing that machine from the list of computers in bv was enough to make it happy again.

Regards,
John.

Anyone tried BV with BOINC 6.4.5? Are they compatible?

V1.5.8 Beta works with Win XP X64 & Boinc 6.4.5/6.5 with minor quirks.
"Accelerators" does not show GPUs correctly, etc.

I tried to monitor a machine that had 6.5 running, with cuda enabled. Both 'monitoring machines' I have BoinView installed on didn't like it at all: bv crashed the instant it tried to get information from that 6.5 machine.

I haven't looked into details as to why and how. Removing that machine from the list of computers in bv was enough to make it happy again.

Regards,
John.

I have BV 1.4.2 on Vista (32 bit) monitoring five XP (32 bit) machines. In there are BOINC 6.5.0, 6.4.5 and the rest are 6.2.19. The 6.5.0 machine is running cuda (gpugrid), but before it was also showing Seti cuda tasks. It highlights them in yellow. All seem to work okay, except sometimes it reports that "command 'retry' failed" when they do in fact work.

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BOINC blog

just tryed to Dl 1.42 says that file not on server can you look at this and see whats up thanks

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OK got it thanks for the quick fix

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