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> After Carl Christensen retired/ran away/quit/was fired/whatever,

I remember an e-mail exchange I had with Carl a couple of months before he left. We'd been diagnosing a Fortran problem within the file handling in the project. He'd told me he was leaving, and almost as a joke, I asked if he needed a new Fortran programmer. He replied...

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actually we do need a Fortran person (I'm leaving in two months) -- are
you interested in moving to Oxford, UK?
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... I was, but at the time, my wife wasn't!

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Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.

> The only place I have had consistent troubles with CPDN is the PowerMac. So, I
> just run three projects on there. My other computers seem to run all the 5
> production projects well, so, that is cool ...

I had a lot of problems with CPDN on my PIII 700 Mhz Laptop. I consistantly got client errors. I finally detached my laptop from that project.

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> I am also slowly moving to 4.43 or later on the BOINC Client Software. To be
> honest I am still trying to figure out what other people are having troubles
> with on these later versions... ah well, I guess I can be thankful that I
> don't have problems my own self...
>

I don't know how others are having so many problems either. I do seem to have the problems they are having. I have my clients set to connect 0.5 days. Although I usually don't download very many WU's at a time, I have always had at least one WU from my project set as a whole.

The only problem I have seen is that the back off timer doesn't seem to work properly. But, I don't pay enough attention to my clients to know for sure. I set and forget. LOL

Jim