1) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign BOINC-related petition (Message 13375)
Posted 15 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
Post:
It's nothing to do with <p>s. It's about the general style of the pages. When you program in c++, for example, you are forced to be strict with your code and errors are not allowed. In HTML errors are worked around by browsers and there happen to be differences between the handling. For example, in PG I had different bubble styles in lists when compared valid and invalid HTML, and also incorrect color coding in the standard boinc pages forced the color to be displayed as black (talking about result pages).

While most of you would not be affected by the changes, it would help to improve the quality of the pages and improve BOINC reputation at the same time. Believe me, there are people who care about it.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Please sign BOINC-related petition (Message 13373)
Posted 15 Apr 2006 by Profile Rytis
Post:
I am not impressed with the quality of BOINC web pages, so I started working on making the pages XHTML 1.0 strict compatible. I made a nice progress, and sent my changes to David Anderson, the main developer of BOINC system so that the changes would be checked into CVS and made public.

But sadly, David responded:
Thanks for the diff,
but XHTML conformance is not a goal - I like being able to use <p> as a separator.

I got no response to continued attempt to persuade him that XHTML was good. I even suggested using <p /> as a separator if he wanted - it would still be a valid code and work as intended. No response.

Seeing that there is no other option to persuade David (and make use of my work), I ask you to sign a petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/bncxhtml/. Once we have enough signatures, I will send the link to David with hopes to succeed.

Sign the petition
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Average turnaround time (Message 11179)
Posted 3 Nov 2005 by Profile Rytis
Post:
Nope. I had BOINC on my laptop, ran PrimeGrid, noticed I was claiming 13+ cobblestones and only receiving 8.00. PrimeGrid apparently has a max credit/result setting. I do this for the science, but I'm also a numbers freak. If I'm not going to get credit for 40-45% of my work, why should I do the work?

We have a up-limit for claimed credits at PG to prevent cheating, as we are only sending one result per workunit. The average claimed credit is approx 5.3, so the upper limit was chosen to allow some fluctuation from the average and not to offend anyone. Seems like that didn't work :)

As for LHC avg turnaround, it might be that recent host table corruption did something with that, like inserted incorrect values and we will be doomed to see incorrect values forever unless we re-attach our hosts (to create new id) or avg_turnaround value is reset to 0 globally.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC@Home is NOT a science project (Message 9929)
Posted 5 Sep 2005 by Profile Rytis
Post:
PrimeGrid: 318 activated, 665 total (347 waiting). Activation speed: 15/day. So i guess we have 3 week long queue :) Though it may clear out faster, I may activate more accounts per day.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Results page (Message 6136)
Posted 26 Feb 2005 by Profile Rytis
Post:
Now, just enable pending pages :) And of course, correct the colors...
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Invalid Result (Message 4904)
Posted 5 Nov 2004 by Profile Rytis
Post:
If you result does not match the others, than you will not be granted credit. This is what validator do, it checks for matching results and the ones that match (the majority) are granted credit, while the others, not.
7) Questions and Answers : Sixtrack : Changes in Sixtrack 4.47 (Message 4385)
Posted 26 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
Post:
And it seems to be slower than the previuos version :-|
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : How do you get Sixtrack 4.47 into your Windows BOINC client? (Message 4383)
Posted 26 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
Post:
As you download the next workunit, BOINC will also download the new sixtrack. It is fully automatic :)
9) Questions and Answers : Windows : No work - >170 000 WUs to crunch (Message 4193)
Posted 23 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
Post:
This occured on the host #3908, as it is really now the one and only crunching for LHC ;) After a retry BOINC downloaded work, crunched two workunits (downloaded one-by-one) and then again returned this message.

It seems that after retry the problems clears away.

It always was working correctly.

> As you have 4 PC's, on what PC do you have the problem?
> Did you checked your settings on that PC?
>
> Or do you have the problem on each PC?
10) Questions and Answers : Windows : No work - >170 000 WUs to crunch (Message 4142)
Posted 23 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
Post:
The mainpage sais there is over 170 000 WUs to process, and my client is getting messages like

LHC@home - 2004-10-23 12:59:40 - Sending request to scheduler: http://lhcathome-sched1.cern.ch/scheduler/cgi
LHC@home - 2004-10-23 12:59:43 - Scheduler RPC to http://lhcathome-sched1.cern.ch/scheduler/cgi succeeded
LHC@home - 2004-10-23 12:59:43 - Message from server: No work available
LHC@home - 2004-10-23 12:59:43 - No work from project

Why is it so?
11) Questions and Answers : Windows : The server is acting up. (Message 3656)
Posted 12 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
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Also general preferences cannot be saved. The server replies that it has been done, but entering preferences page again shows the old ones.
12) Questions and Answers : Sixtrack : General Preferences are not being saved (Message 3637)
Posted 12 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
Post:
I tried to adjust the settings, and got the message that General preferences has been saved, than tried to use the update command in BOINC, and was surprised that BOINC did not return that general preferences have been changed. So I looked again into website ant noticed that old values are left, and no matter how many times I try to change it.

Your database server is _very_ acting up.

P.S. Trying to post this I also got an SQL error :\
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /shift/lxfsrk429/data01/boinc/projects/lhcathome/html/inc/forum.inc on line 312

Edit: Sorry for multiple posts, newly created ones did not show, so I retried.
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC GUI Won't Initialize (Message 3315)
Posted 7 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
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I had this issue when trying to start BOINC under limited WindowsXP user account without having set the full control permissions for BOINC folder for all users. I Maybe this is your issue.
14) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Beta, or no-beta? (Message 3293)
Posted 6 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
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So, you have told us, users, that you are no longer beta. But why is account creation closed due to beta?
15) Questions and Answers : Windows : No work available - >19000 WU to crunch? (Message 3162)
Posted 3 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
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Just received a WU after 20 hour period without work for LHC and thw WU completed in 5 seconds... But it seems that everything is ok now, as I am downloading more now :)

[Edit] I was too fast to post this... Can no longer connect again...
16) Questions and Answers : Windows : No work available - >19000 WU to crunch? (Message 3147)
Posted 3 Oct 2004 by Profile Rytis
Post:
The mainpage shows that there is >19000 workunits to crunch, and the BOINC client gets messages that no work is available.

I think it is related to database problems, because earlier I could get work. Just wanted to make sure :)
17) Message boards : Cafe LHC : HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY (Message 2761)
Posted 29 Sep 2004 by Profile Rytis
Post:
Su gimimo diena! Tegul kiti 50 met&#371; b&#363;na tokie pat s&#279;kmingi!

Greetings from Lithuania



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