Posts by BBG Networks

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Can't connect to internet (Message 807365) Posted 12 Sep 2008 by BBG Networks Post: My BOINC no longer connects. Nothing seems to work. The suggestion to make sure BOINC uses the default Network Connection setting does not apply in my case. There are two choices, neither of which is "live" when I go to Network Connections under XP Pro. How do I add the missing cnonection that DOES work ?
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : how to recover e-mail and password (Message 576685) Posted 27 May 2007 by BBG Networks Post: Now that I found out which e-mail address was used, I tried a bunch of possible passwords, and hit on the correct one. Thanks. He is now up & running again.
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : how to recover e-mail and password (Message 575791) Posted 26 May 2007 by BBG Networks Post: I have a small team, one member of which is my son. Sometimes he deletes S@H and when I try to re-install it, I have to set him up as a new member. That means I now have two instances of his name on the team, one of which will never contribute another WU. Last night I found he had done something else to his copy, so that it never downloads any more WU. In trying to fix this, I detached from the project. (You should put a warning there that the email and password will be required to re-attach). I don't KNOW the email/password used to set him up originally, and thus it looks like I will have to set him up a third time. Any suggestions ?
4) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : ubuntu will not attach to project (Message 516161) Posted 11 Feb 2007 by BBG Networks Post: I too have this same problem, reported by a great many people on this forum. BOINC will not connect. I try entering "localhost", but without a password, it does not work. Any password I can think of does not help. IMHO this bit about a required password for a brand new user is dim beyond description. Why would a password be required in a case like this ? If they want to ask me to SET UP a password, that is fine, but requiring one the first time I try to connect is extraordinarily poor programming. Then to suggest I open the gui_rpcxxx.rpg file with a text editor (not immediately visible in Ubuntu) to somehow detect a supplied password (in binary form) defies belief. When I did try to open the CFG file I was told I did not have the required permission. Plus I have TWO copies of this file, probably due to repeated problems trying to install the BOINCxxx.sh file. This entire package of BOINC for Linux needs to be re-thought. There were none of these problems in the Windows version, as I recall. I just tried to delete ALL the BOINC files, and am told I do not have permission. EVen when I checked the permissions of this file in the Trash folder, it will not let me delete it. I will turn it off, restart, and try re-installing BOINC. I am close to dropping BOINC on this machine completely, deleting two members of my SETI team, and rethinking my entire project of installing Linux. It is simply not ready for prime time. I may have to downgrade to Windows.......ugh.
5) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : failure to install BOINC (Message 515629) Posted 10 Feb 2007 by BBG Networks Post: Yes. I found that Ubuntu had a listing for installing BOINC, which I used, and it is now loaded nicely, However, it will not connect and actually start, asking me to first Select my Computer (which BTW it says is under FILE, when in fact it is under ADVANCED). Using localhost as suggested does not help, it still refuses to connect. I also tried "budge" and the 7-digit computer ID, both of which instantly report they cannot connect. Firefox works just fine. I was hoping there would be some way to use the Computer ID listed in my team, for the Celeron box, and take over the identity.
6) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : failure to install BOINC (Message 515454) Posted 9 Feb 2007 by BBG Networks Post: [quote]T I can see your new computer in your list now. They don't allow the merging of accounts. The email addresses are considered unique and if you tried to change the second account to match it, it wouldn't allow you to do that, since that email address is in use by another account. Pardon ? You can see my new computer ? Where ? How ? What I WANT to do is assume the ID at the bottom of my team, again, as that is the same machine, just it has Linux on it now.
7) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : failure to install BOINC (Message 515409) Posted 9 Feb 2007 by BBG Networks Post: Turning it off seems to have helped. I was asked on restart to enter my email etc., and then it attached me to SETI, and has begun work. However, all I could think of was my desktop email id & password. I know this is off topic, but how do I change a PC from using one ID to a different one, which I also own ? I have a small team of PC's either in my home, or of friends, who all run SETI.
8) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : failure to install BOINC (Message 515327) Posted 9 Feb 2007 by BBG Networks Post: OK, I found how to change to the directory where the file is located, and "ran" it to unzip it or whatever it does. When I was prompted to run_client, I get the same long string of error messages I got before. It says using BOINC defaults, local control only allowed, then GUI RPC bind failed, scores of times. This is not intuitive. Trying run_manager produces send -1, bad file descriptor. Equally non-intuitive. Is there no self-unzipping/installation tool for Linux ? You certainly don't have to do this sort of thing in Windows.
9) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : failure to install BOINC (Message 515318) Posted 9 Feb 2007 by BBG Networks Post: This is so frustrating. I deleted the BOINC directory, so I can start all over again, and am trying to run the sh command. It says it cannot find the BOINCxxx.sh file,, which is sitting right there on my Desktop. I try to change directory to the Desktop, and it says no such file or directory. I used to run SETI on this when it had W2K, so perhaps there is no need to identify the processor/chipset. When I am asked to vote, I will have to say Linux is NOT ready for prime time, UNLESS pre-loaded by the manufacturer.
10) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : failure to install BOINC (Message 515239) Posted 9 Feb 2007 by BBG Networks Post: As for the processor chipset, whatever I have now (Celeron 500 I think) I will replace it with a Pentium motherboard I have sitting here, ready to go once I get the OS and SETI installed. That is, if I can get Unubntu to figure out I have a diskette drive. I am have seen the most bizarre behaviour imaginable trying to get files on/off a diskette under Ubuntu. I am not even sure I know HOW to tell what chipset I have, using Linux.
11) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : failure to install BOINC (Message 515237) Posted 9 Feb 2007 by BBG Networks Post: I may have tried both methods. I am sorry to say that I am quite disappointed with the entire process of just installing Ubuntu, as it seems to require a very detailed level of knowledge that by definition, a newbie simply does not have. All this obscure command line stuff was a real pain. Perhaps I should start over. Do I delete the BOINC directory. but leave the BOINCxxxxx.sh file I downloaded, and use the Synaptic tool to re-install ?
12) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : failure to install BOINC (Message 515096) Posted 8 Feb 2007 by BBG Networks Post: After considerable difficulty, I finally got Ubuntu 6.10 installed and connecting to the internet on my ThinkPad. When I downlodaed the BOINC tool, I get multiple errors trying to actually install it. I MUCH prefer the Windows experience. I changed to the BOINC directory, and ./ run_client produces a long list of "GUI RPC bind failed". Doing run_manager produces a "send -1, bad file descriptor", and later a message that it cannot connect to a BOINC client. Any suggestions to get this working ?
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuffing SETI so it will run for hours, disconnected (Message 437669) Posted 16 Oct 2006 by BBG Networks Post: For reasons that are not germane, my network connection drops every night for several hours. How can I get SETI to download enough data to keep it chugging during this hiatus, then catch up and report all that, plus download some fresh data, when the connection is re-established in the morning. Right now, it sits there idle for that gap, as it has completed all the units it had. I thought about increasing my "disk space", but I can't find a way to do that, and I am not sure that would fix the problem anyway
14) Questions and Answers : Windows : screen "shudder" when BOINC/SETI active - BIG problem (Message 431901) Posted 6 Oct 2006 by BBG Networks Post: This is now becoming a very serious problem. Not only is my screen image randomly scrolling up or down, but the very focus of the page semms to be changing. This results in my typing a character, and having it "appear" NOT on the line subsequent to the previous character, but in some "field", which as often as not, closes the entire page, and often "backs out" to the previous screen, thereby losing all my typing up to that point. I actually had this problem cause my "message board" note to close prematurely 6 times, before I gave up and typed this separately in a text editor, then paste it into here. I CAN stop this, by suspending BOINC/SETI. The problem immediately goes away. When I resume BOINC/SETI, the problem re-appears.
15) Message boards : Politics : Religious Thread [8] - CLOSED (Message 430951) Posted 4 Oct 2006 by BBG Networks Post: Fascinating reading. I always wondered about the 72 virgins for a martyr, myself. Where do they come from ? Do people volunteer for this program ? Who gets to choose them ? For terrorists, I suggest they include their wives (if any), mothers, sisters, aunts, daughters, nieces, granddaughters, etc. That might help them reconsider. I suppose the appeal of a virgin is that the terrorist gets to be "their first". I dunno about most men, but fooling around is more fun with someone who isn't a "new recruit", so to speak. Or is it simply a male dominance thing. What about those few female suicide bombers ? Do they get virgins too ? Young men ? Or are they forced to become one of the virgins for the men ? Hmm. Not much incentive to be a female suicide bomber, which may explain their rarety. Interesting that no other religion I am aware of has such an incentive plan for martyrs. I always like the tactic sometimes practised in debating class. You show up prepared to argue FOR, only to find the judge saying "We made a mistake. You are supposed to argue AGAINST. If you really know your topic, you should be just as prepared to argue either side." Then ask Muslim men (since they often claim women are treated equally under Islam) if they will agree to switching sides, so to speak. The will all start wearing the veil/burka, only appearing in public in the company of their female superior family member, be prevented from owning cars, property, or voting, etc. And by the way, YOUR wife, etc. will be conscripted as one of the 72 virgins. And this debating tactic works with ANY religion, with interesting results. Like ONLY female priests for Catholics. I never really understood the bit about a womens hair being sooo tempting to men that they would be driven to become beasts by the site of it, unbundled. Most depictions I can think of, for historical Muslims show them as long-haired. Maybe there is something about the hair of a woman that is different from that of a man. There is a faint implication here that Muslim men are by nature, lacking self-control. And what happens if a westerner in a Muslim country happens to mention to a local that he/she is an atheist ? Are they immediately knifed ? Or are they given a chance to convert ? Jeffrey ? Ask God if he had his back turned during the shootings at the Amish school in Pennsylvania this week.... I bet that made people think.
16) Questions and Answers : Wish list : listing teams - how about starting with those who have members (Message 428242) Posted 29 Sep 2006 by BBG Networks Post: Another suggestion...list the teams (after a wildcard search) in descending order of either number of members, or in units completed. Seems to be a lot of teams with only one member, and no work units. Since there is no way for outsiders to contact the team owner, maybe it is the responsibility of "senior BOINC management" to fire a note off to the owners of apparently dormant/extinct teams, asking if they want to remain "live" or could they close down.
17) Questions and Answers : Windows : screen "shudder" when BOINC/SETI active - BIG problem (Message 427911) Posted 28 Sep 2006 by BBG Networks Post: Well, my problem has not gone away. I get bizarre auto-scrolling of my browser (Firefox) and certain other applications. They jump up or down about an inch, several times while reading a single article (or document page). But as soon as I suspend SETI, the problem goes away. Annoying, and I have to remember to re-activate it once I am finished web work.
18) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Trees are changing already (Message 426668) Posted 26 Sep 2006 by BBG Networks Post: I could try to get a good pic of the dozen plus wild turkeys on our farm. They wre out this morning. And later I will send a photo of the sumacs when they change. Very nice. The deer are usually too far from the house to get a good photo (I need a better zoom on my digital camera, but then the dog ate this one, so I should be happy it works at all). How do I add a photo anyway ?
19) Questions and Answers : Windows : Contacting members of my team ? How ? (Message 424721) Posted 22 Sep 2006 by BBG Networks Post: I read somewhere that the only e-mail possible is from team "manager" to team member, not the other way around, and certainly not from team A member to team B member. But I checked the Q&A and cannot find any memntion of how this is done.
20) Questions and Answers : Windows : screen "shudder" when BOINC/SETI active - BIG problem (Message 422653) Posted 18 Sep 2006 by BBG Networks Post: I am not clear on how the graphics card, old tho' it is, is causing my browser and other applications to suddenly scroll up/down even when I am NOT running the SETI screen saver. If I were, I could maybe see that SETI was too much for it to handle at the same time. But I have not used since that first attempt, when I found the graphics of the SETI stuff way to poor quality to read. But thanks for thinking about it.

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