information on what the daemon is can be found in the wiki:
http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=BOINC_Daemon

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Since the LHC@home is temperarily not submitting workunits maybe you can get more help from the BOINC forums.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev

Another place to check might be the seti@home forums, since there is a large userbase there.

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