I have, in my SETI preferences, setted no Astropulse WU, just to finish the one is running on my computer, and then try an optimized version.
But I received another one Astropulse WU !!!
What's wrong ???

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You have to set "If no work for selected applications available, accept work from other applications" to "No" as well. Otherwise, you are telling BOINC that you only want SETI unless no SETI is available, then download AstroPulse. This option is there as a backup for people who want to ensure their CPUs stay busy and want to do AP as a last resort.

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This parameter was already setted as No (as default value).
May be this is a bug of the BOINC version 6.6.10 I'm testing ???
If you have nothing else to tell me, I can post this "bug" to the proper forum of beta testing.

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Ok you installed the Developmental Boinc Client which states "MAY BE UNSTABLE - USE ONLY FOR TESTING"and you are complaining here. Perhaps it would help the developers and yourself if you complained/mentioned this problem on the Boinc developers forum. It's always good to know that the beta Client is unstable but we already knew that by the warning given

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I have, in my SETI preferences, setted no Astropulse WU ...

Is is possible to set that locally for a specific computer? That is, can I disallow downloading Astropulse application WUs for a specific computer only, but leave the web site-set, global Astropulse option checked in the Run only the selected applications section on my Edit SETI@home preferences web page?

Most of my PCs are able to run Astropulse WUs, but a few are old & slow, and sometimes get assigned an Astropulse WU whose estimated (and, as it turns out, actual) run time extends well beyond the report deadline assigned to that WU. I have a couple Astropulse WUs running on one PC right now whose To completion estimates are 682+ hours. 682 hours from now (even if they were to get 100.0% of the CPU each) will be well past their Report deadlines. It makes no sense to download and run WUs that have no possibility of finishing before their deadline. I want to run Astropulse only on that subset of my computers that are typically able to finish one in 40 hours (not 28 days).

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You can set up groups of computers with different preferences by putting them in either Home, work or school. You set this on your account page under seti at home preferences.

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I have, in my SETI preferences, setted no Astropulse WU ...

Is is possible to set that locally for a specific computer? That is, can I disallow downloading Astropulse application WUs for a specific computer only, but leave the web site-set, global Astropulse option checked in the Run only the selected applications section on my Edit SETI@home preferences web page?

Most of my PCs are able to run Astropulse WUs, but a few are old & slow, and sometimes get assigned an Astropulse WU whose estimated (and, as it turns out, actual) run time extends well beyond the report deadline assigned to that WU. I have a couple Astropulse WUs running on one PC right now whose To completion estimates are 682+ hours. 682 hours from now (even if they were to get 100.0% of the CPU each) will be well past their Report deadlines. It makes no sense to download and run WUs that have no possibility of finishing before their deadline. I want to run Astropulse only on that subset of my computers that are typically able to finish one in 40 hours (not 28 days).

I'm not sure that can be done with a local override file on a specific computer, but one thing you might want to look into for that, is that we have four venues that can be configured here on the website: Home, Work, School, and Default. If you just pick one of the venues (I can't remember if Default mirrors to Home) and change the application preferences for Work or School, then go to your list of computers, go to details, and at the bottom of the page, change the venue.

The settings will go into effect the next time that computer successfully connects to the servers. If you don't want Astropulse at all, be sure to uncheck "if no work available, allow for other applications". That should make that computer be MB-only, no matter what.

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record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

I have, in my SETI preferences, setted no Astropulse WU ...

Is is possible to set that locally for a specific computer? That is, can I disallow downloading Astropulse application WUs for a specific computer only, but leave the web site-set, global Astropulse option checked in the Run only the selected applications section on my Edit SETI@home preferences web page?

Most of my PCs are able to run Astropulse WUs, but a few are old & slow, and sometimes get assigned an Astropulse WU whose estimated (and, as it turns out, actual) run time extends well beyond the report deadline assigned to that WU. I have a couple Astropulse WUs running on one PC right now whose To completion estimates are 682+ hours. 682 hours from now (even if they were to get 100.0% of the CPU each) will be well past their Report deadlines. It makes no sense to download and run WUs that have no possibility of finishing before their deadline. I want to run Astropulse only on that subset of my computers that are typically able to finish one in 40 hours (not 28 days).

I'm not sure that can be done with a local override file on a specific computer, but one thing you might want to look into for that, is that we have four venues that can be configured here on the website: Home, Work, School, and Default. If you just pick one of the venues (I can't remember if Default mirrors to Home) and change the application preferences for Work or School, then go to your list of computers, go to details, and at the bottom of the page, change the venue.

The settings will go into effect the next time that computer successfully connects to the servers. If you don't want Astropulse at all, be sure to uncheck "if no work available, allow for other applications". That should make that computer be MB-only, no matter what.

If you have an APP_INFO.XML, it specifies what programs you have on your computer.

The common use is optimized applications, but if you don't have Astropulse in your APP_INFO.XML, you won't get Astropulse.

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I kind of have the reverse problem. I was always getting AP (v. 5.00), and all of a sudden they stopped coming. Bith SETI and AP are listed in my preferences, and the Accept work from other apps is "yes".

I do have one unit (natch on my slowest machine) that won't be ready for weeks. Is it possible that with the new 5.03 that it is waiting for me to flush the 5.00 before sending me the new AP?

Also, I did a search for the APP_INFO.XML file, and I don't have one. No changes have been made to my system, so if I need it back, what can I do? Could McAfee or Spybot have removed it?

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I kind of have the reverse problem. I was always getting AP (v. 5.00), and all of a sudden they stopped coming. Bith SETI and AP are listed in my preferences, and the Accept work from other apps is "yes".

I do have one unit (natch on my slowest machine) that won't be ready for weeks. Is it possible that with the new 5.03 that it is waiting for me to flush the 5.00 before sending me the new AP?

Also, I did a search for the APP_INFO.XML file, and I don't have one. No changes have been made to my system, so if I need it back, what can I do? Could McAfee or Spybot have removed it?

If you have an APP_INFO.XML file, you're overriding the normal operation.

You don't need one.

If you want to run faster versions of the science applications you'd have one, but you are also responsible for keeping up-to-date.

Sounds like you have enough work right now, so BOINC isn't adding to an already busy system.

... or something isn't working well over the weekend and the crew will fix it Monday morning.

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