Posts by Stephen Miller
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Just Loose BOINC
(Message 437566)
Posted 16 Oct 2006 by  Stephen Miller
Post: I wish that Microsoft would kill Windows and come out with a multi-tasking operating system built on DOS, just like they did with CP/M. DOS did everything we ever needed and required no more than 1MB of memory. Just try distributing computer on that platform! We sure wouldn't be wasting CPU cycles on stupid research. I hate all the graphics and ads now on the internet. The Internet committee should ban all of this eye-candy and just make it text based with links. Graphics are just so over-rated. If it wasn't for the little text box popping up next to the Icon, I'd never get any work done. Just display my BOINC statistics with rows of asterisks just like it was done in the past. Oh, right. We wouldn't be running DC projects. Flat screens are terrible. Their weird resolutions don't fit any of the standard resolution to which I have become accustomed. And they have a weird aspect ratio. What the heck is HDTV anyway and what would you ever use it for? I really liked my 100 pound, 21" monitor. It made the table sag is a very satisfying way. If you didn't find any of this funny, aaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. But I put these types of wishes into this type of context. Life moved on... care to join us? Oh yeah, I forgot. You've got a Luddite* meeting tonight. *Note: This is a satirical comment and requires some knowledge of history. Try this link: Wikipedia/Luddite |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
quick tracert ???
(Message 310211)
Posted 19 May 2006 by Stephen Miller
Post: When debugging my home network problem (trying to fix seti), I used that nifty tracert command I see posted all over the website. You can also route the output to a file like this: C:\\somepath\\>tracert realtime.net >filename.txt Where Filename.txt is the file you want to call it. Be sure to notice where somepath is since that is where your file will be placed. Also be aware that this process is silent. You will get the prompt back after it is finished. Stephen |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Classic Class Pages have been Recalculated
(Message 226855)
Posted 6 Jan 2006 by Stephen Miller
Post: The class pages have been recalculated today. My class page of August 4, 2001 is down to a whole 25 people. Guess this is the final snapshot. I hope they run the pages again without the filter for the last 4 weeks so we can see EVERYONE in the class and how they did. That would be neat. Stephen |
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Questions and Answers :
Windows :
BOINC 4.45 will not install
(Message 166186)
Posted 11 Sep 2005 by Stephen Miller
Post: I too could not install 4.45 and indicated it needed BOINC.MSI and left me with the only choice of cancelling the install. I then decided to Uninstall 4.25. That didn't work either with the exact same error message wanting Boinc.msi. I then realized that the boinc.msi file must be missing. A search didn't find it. I then reinstalled 4.25. I launched Boinc and it looked good. I then installed 4.45. It installed without a complaint. When I opened 4.45, everything was as it should be. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Upload/Download problems? Please see here
(Message 149970)
Posted 11 Aug 2005 by Stephen Miller
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How do you reboot your ISP? Break into their server room and push all the reset buttons? Throw the outside circuit breaker? I had a good laugh at that. I do agree that something happened. I too could not connect since August 3 and I come home and everything had drained to BOINC land. stephen M. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
BOINC 4.45...
(Message 122504)
Posted 12 Jun 2005 by Stephen Miller
Post: Is it possible to check the Internet Options for Internet Explorer to determine the connection type? |
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