What is the little orangle target thing that is moving around?
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> What is the little orangle target thing that is moving around?
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Search Marker
The orange marker shaped somewhat like a gun-sight represents the current position in the sky which is being searched. The location is also noted in the lower right corner in celestial coordinates (Right Ascension and Declination). You will see this marker move from point to point as the search progresses. Details on how we search for gravity waves coming from a particular source will be linked from here sometime in the future.
> What is the little orangle target thing that is moving around?
>
Search Marker
The orange marker shaped somewhat like a gun-sight represents the current position in the sky which is being searched. The location is also noted in the lower right corner in celestial coordinates (Right Ascension and Declination). You will see this marker move from point to point as the search progresses. Details on how we search for gravity waves coming from a particular source will be linked from here sometime in the future.
See screensaver description on homepage of E@H.
The instructions in this thread don't seem to work for latest Boinc release...telnet works and it reports success but no graphics. Any other suggestion?
Anyone know what's going on? Can I get the graphics back (not that I want it, since it wastes cpu cycles better left for crunching, but it would be interesting.)
Open BOINC Manager -> "Work" tab, select an E@H WU and press the "show graphics" button.
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Anyone got a pointer to what the graphics represent (if anything)?
The instructions in this thread don't seem to work for latest Boinc release...telnet works and it reports success but no graphics. Any other suggestion?
I am running BOINC 5.4.9 on SuSE Linux 9.3. CPU is an old 400 MHz Pentium II. I can see graphics on SETI@home, Einstein@home, BBC.climate.change.experiment if I wish but not always on QMC@home. But I rarely use this feature because it slows an already slow CPU.
Tullio
OK, here's how it's done. Fire up a terminal window - xterm, konsole, whatever.
What port you use depends on the versions of the core client. 4.19 and earlier use port 31416. The 4.5x, 4.6x (and maybe the recent 4.20?) use a different port 1043. Since I have 4.19, I use port 31416. This is what it looks like:
telnet localhost 31416 --I entered this
Trying 127.0.0.1... --
Connected to localhost. -- System responded with this (3 lines)
Escape character is '^]'. --
--I entered this.
--System responded. Graphics appeared
^] --control right bracket to get telnet prompt
telnet> quit --enter quit to end telnet session
Connection closed.
I would love to see the graphics on my Mac. I'm not a command-line geek but I got brave, opened Terminal and typed in :
telnet localhost 1043
I got the reply:
Unable to connect to host
I thought maybe I was supposed to type:
telnet localhost:1043
but same reply.
My OS firewall is off. I turned off "stealth mode" in the firewall "advanced" options. Still no luck.
Has the port changed?
Is there any chance this project will just make the screensaver ready for Mac? I'm not the "my credits are bigger than your credits type" ... I'm happy to help out and not looking for any glory, but it would be really nice to have the same cool eye-candy as Windows-based participants get ...
Is there any chance this project will just make the screensaver ready for Mac?
It is working on Macs (both PowerPC and Intel).
It looks like you're using the standard BOINC client. If it's correctly installed (don't know what you can do wrong there...), open the BOINC Manager, click the "Tasks" tab, select the task that is currently "running" and click the "show graphics" button (this will send the right message to the client without you typing on the command line). A window should pop up showing the starsphere.
To run it as a screensaver, select BOINCSaver in the screensaver system preferences. Define a "hot corner" to see the effect immidiately, the "test" mode doesn't work with the BOINC saver.
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What is the little orangle target thing that is moving around?
such things just should not be writ so please destroy this if you wish to live 'tis better in ignorance to dwell than to go screaming into the abyss worse than hell
> What is the little orangle
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> What is the little orangle target thing that is moving around?
>
Search Marker
The orange marker shaped somewhat like a gun-sight represents the current position in the sky which is being searched. The location is also noted in the lower right corner in celestial coordinates (Right Ascension and Declination). You will see this marker move from point to point as the search progresses. Details on how we search for gravity waves coming from a particular source will be linked from here sometime in the future.
See screensaver description on homepage of E@H.
John,
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The instructions in this thread don't seem to work for latest Boinc release...telnet works and it reports success but no graphics. Any other suggestion?
RE: Anyone know what's
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Open BOINC Manager -> "Work" tab, select an E@H WU and press the "show graphics" button.
Screensaver description
Michael
edit: D'oh. Who reversed the post order to least recent here.....
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: The instructions in
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Just try the BOINC manager.
Team Linux Users Everywhere
I am running BOINC 5.4.9 on
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I am running BOINC 5.4.9 on SuSE Linux 9.3. CPU is an old 400 MHz Pentium II. I can see graphics on SETI@home, Einstein@home, BBC.climate.change.experiment if I wish but not always on QMC@home. But I rarely use this feature because it slows an already slow CPU.
Tullio
RE: OK, here's how it's
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I would love to see the graphics on my Mac. I'm not a command-line geek but I got brave, opened Terminal and typed in :
telnet localhost 1043
I got the reply:
Unable to connect to host
I thought maybe I was supposed to type:
telnet localhost:1043
but same reply.
My OS firewall is off. I turned off "stealth mode" in the firewall "advanced" options. Still no luck.
Has the port changed?
Is there any chance this project will just make the screensaver ready for Mac? I'm not the "my credits are bigger than your credits type" ... I'm happy to help out and not looking for any glory, but it would be really nice to have the same cool eye-candy as Windows-based participants get ...
kazar
RE: Is there any chance
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It is working on Macs (both PowerPC and Intel).
It looks like you're using the standard BOINC client. If it's correctly installed (don't know what you can do wrong there...), open the BOINC Manager, click the "Tasks" tab, select the task that is currently "running" and click the "show graphics" button (this will send the right message to the client without you typing on the command line). A window should pop up showing the starsphere.
To run it as a screensaver, select BOINCSaver in the screensaver system preferences. Define a "hot corner" to see the effect immidiately, the "test" mode doesn't work with the BOINC saver.
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