Since update - boinc always suspended..
3 Oct 2007 13:59:14 UTC
Topic 193198
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I've had boinc running with no problems for almost
8 years. Last night I updated from 5.04 to 5.10, and
since then, whenever the screensaver comes up, all
it says is Boinc currently suspended. Is there
something wrong with this update??
w2k, plenty of ram, plenty of hd space - nothing
changed here except update to 5.10.20
I would hate to lose my participation after all these
years.
Vic Tannenberg
Since update - boinc always suspended..
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LOL! You invented BOINC? And did David Anderson then steal the idea? ;-)
Really now, BOINC has only been around since 2002 as an idea done by DA, then implemented into real life and been up and running since end of 2003 (BOINC Alpha), and started at the beginning of 2004 with Seti@Home and Predictor@Home.
Please check your preferences. There's this extra option there these days:
Does it have a number, or is it set to 0?
The other thing to do is to set a time differential between your option of "'In use' means mouse/keyboard activity in last 3 minutes" and the time that the screen saver is allowed to come on. Put the screen saver to be allowed to jump on at 4 minutes. You do this in Windows itself, not BOINC. (right click your desktop, properties, screen saver, Wait 4 minutes)
RE: RE: I've had boinc
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RE: RE: I've had boinc
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I HAVE HAD SET@HOME SINCE
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I HAVE HAD SET@HOME SINCE 2000! ITS IN YOUR RECORDS - NOT MINE.
Really now, BOINC has only been around since 2002 as an idea done by DA, then implemented into real life and been up and running since end of 2003 (BOINC Alpha), and started at the beginning of 2004 with Seti@Home and Predictor@Home.
RE: I HAVE HAD SET@HOME
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Maybe he refers to SETI@Home Classic, which was not BOINC.
Tullio
RE: I HAVE HAD SET@HOME
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Seti@Home Classic ran from 1999 to end of 2005.
From the Seti News:
You can read a brief history of Seti Classic, here.
Now, with that out of the way, BOINC is not Seti and Seti is not BOINC.
Us posting here on the Einstein forums is a clue. :-) Einstein is not Seti.
While the Seti Classic application, which ran stand-alone without the need for BOINC, was indeed Seti, you can't compare what that application did with BOINC. You see, BOINC is only a sophisticated management program, it allows you to use your computer's CPU cycles for a whole lot more projects than just Seti@Home. All these projects run independently of each other. The only thing between them is BOINC, while some developers help out other developers of other projects.
So saying you ran BOINC stable for 8 years is impossible, as it has only been around for about four years. Only three, if you count that the first year was an alpha test only and the first stable version came out in February of 2004.