1) Questions and Answers : Web site : New BOINC client (Message 1717460) Posted 23 Aug 2015 by Wisesooth Post: A new BOINC release is in beta that fixes false negatives of valid tasks. When will this go into production mode?

2) Questions and Answers : Web site : So how many credits does it take to screw in a light bulb? (Message 1717458) Posted 23 Aug 2015 by Wisesooth Post: Zero. It is a hardware problem.

3) Message boards : News : Eric Korpela on UFOs and Conspiracy Theories (Message 1706885) Posted 31 Jul 2015 by Wisesooth Post: After 50 years, some of the secrets of area 51 were declassified. Several people involved in that "venture" were interviewed by the author of a book titled, The Red Eagles. The atomic energy scientists used area 51 to develop the detonation trigger for the atomic bomb. The Skunk Works also worked there to pioneer stealth technology used by the B2 bomber and the F-22 fighter. The weird test planes gave observers with a rich imagination a lot of "evidence" about aliens. However, the red eagles were Russian MIGs used to train pilots in "Top Gun." Area 51's nickname was "Moon Lake." Given your interest, you might enjoy the book.

4) Questions and Answers : Windows : CPU Usage 100% (Message 1628485) Posted 16 Jan 2015 by Wisesooth Post: If you wish to optimize performance, protect your machine from the bad guys. Spyware and rootkits are terrible resource hogs. Upgrade the software you use to the current version. Your ISP, Comcast offers antivirus protection as a part of their subscription service. You do not need Netscape if you use Comcast's cloud e-mail service. Comcast support can help you through this learning curve. Your i5 central processing unit works like a four-processor computer all sharing a single piece of silicon chip space the size of a fingernail. It can do four things at the same time. However, it needs chip memory nicknamed "RAM" to help the operating system manage everything that is going on within its innards. For an i5 processor running Windows 7 64 bit OS, the sweet spot is 8GB of chip memory. If you use the 32 bit OS, you cannot use more than 4 GB of chip memory. This stuff is not on hard drives. They are memory sticks secured in the motherboard. Any hardware tech can do this for you quickly.

5) Questions and Answers : Windows : Two (2) SETI programs programs running and alternating on my computer. Why? (Message 1628106) Posted 15 Jan 2015 by Wisesooth Post: I have an i7 Intel processor. I have 9 threads running at the same time, loosely shared with two projects. One of them even uses the graphics processing unit mothered by a wee bit of one of the cores. A highland Scot might say, "Dinna fash."

6) Questions and Answers : Windows : First invalid tasks, but wingmen results match (Message 1628095) Posted 15 Jan 2015 by Wisesooth Post: I strongly suspect that Microsoft may be (at least part of all) the cause of the problem. If its auto-update service creates a restart at the end of an OS update, it does not seem to play very nicely with BOINC. If BOINC projects leave cache in RAM while suspended, or do not have checkpointing to recover from open-file restarts, a Microsoft restart may corrupt the project file. Automatic Java updates may also cause this to happen. Not sure this is going on, but I smell a rat in the woodpile.

 
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