Re: [boinc_dev] MemSet and C++ Classes, or the tragedy of the BOINC client not being written in ADA 95 ...

2014-02-16 Thread Carl Christensen
Jesus H. Christ, are you guys serious?  If boinc was written in ADA it would be used by about 27 nerds on one or two projects total, rather than the millions of people and 50+ projects over the years ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley

[boinc_dev] android tasks bombing out not "respecting" daily_result_quota in config.xml ?

2014-02-04 Thread Carl Christensen
Has anyone noticed that Android tasks that crash seem to repeatedly contact the server and get work, even bypassing the in config.xml ? I was a bit stumped as to why 100K results were chewed up in a few days but apparently a few crashing android hosts were the culprit e.g. http://qcn.stanford.

Re: [boinc_dev] Android linking bombs out on -lpthreads error (solved)

2014-01-17 Thread Carl Christensen
ok, thanks, I'll have android phones as "quake catchers" soon!  :-) ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your ema

[boinc_dev] Android linking bombs out on -lpthreads error (solved)

2014-01-17 Thread Carl Christensen
OK, think I figured it out -- the problem is in the libboinc_api library -- in the Makefile.am there's a reference in LDFLAGS to use -lpthread which isn't necessary on Android, but it seems to force all of my build systems libtools etc to try and look for a (non-existing on Android) -lpthre

[boinc_dev] Android NDK build of boinc app: cannot find -lpthread

2014-01-17 Thread Carl Christensen
Has anybody else run into a problem where Android NDK (well the automake Makefile process) keeps trying to find a missing (and not needed) "-lpthread" library to link? My app is just about ported, and my autoconf/automake setup is just as the boinc process (ie I build the boinc client fine, whi

Re: [boinc_dev] Valve's SteamOS and SteamMachines

2013-11-06 Thread Carl Christensen
haha yeah, same as Jord, plus they aren't even saying if the hardware has a USB port to connect, so it seemed like a waste of my time.  we're having much better luck with the Raspberry Pi & Guru/Shiva plug computers & hopefully soon Android. From: Jord van der

Re: [boinc_dev] Valve's SteamOS and SteamMachines

2013-11-06 Thread Carl Christensen
I signed up as I figured if there's a USB port it could be cheap & easy to host a USB accelerometer for QCN; but their vetting process to become a member is a bit ridiculous.  I did the Raspberry Pi & GuruPlug computers and they were much more sensible to join. _

[boinc_dev] android: transfers in Projects tab / separate graphics app for Android

2013-10-01 Thread Carl Christensen
losing the transfers looks fine to me. I'd like to jump in with a new question - I'm working on an Android/BOINC app for the Quake-Catcher Network -- just monitors the built-in device accelerometer when the device is charging & "at rest".  Should be very low CPU. I'm thinking of porting my Open

Re: [boinc_dev] Git unavailable?

2013-08-28 Thread Carl Christensen
yeah the git:// seems to be down, you can get it via http: git clone http://boinc.berkeley.edu/git/boinc-v2.git boinc ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the

Re: [boinc_dev] android -- boinc not storing cpu features (/proc/cpuinfo features)

2013-08-22 Thread Carl Christensen
do this, but it would require adding a 1024-character field to the host DB table, which would increase the DB size somewhat (e.g. by 1 GB for projects w/ 1M hosts). Probably not worth it. On 22-Aug-2013 3:14 PM, Carl Christensen wrote: > it might be nice on the boinc project's web page for

Re: [boinc_dev] android -- boinc not storing cpu features (/proc/cpuinfo features)

2013-08-22 Thread Carl Christensen
it might be nice on the boinc project's web page for computer (as Bernd mentioned) to print the p_feature field (like we do for bencharks)?  plus the "coprocessor" line I was thinking "ARM Neon" & VFP counted as a coprocessor (FPU rather than GPU)!  ;-) __

Re: [boinc_dev] android -- boinc not storing cpu features (/proc/cpuinfo features)

2013-08-22 Thread Carl Christensen
ok that makes sense! ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.

Re: [boinc_dev] android -- boinc not storing cpu features (/proc/cpuinfo features)

2013-08-22 Thread Carl Christensen
ok, so you check the boinc scheduler request (or event log) rather than look at /proc/cpuinfo ?  I guess since I'd be doing it in the benchmarks I'll use cpuinfo as there may not have been a scheduler request by then ie I may be the first thing called after a new download etc. we probably need

[boinc_dev] android -- boinc not storing cpu features (/proc/cpuinfo features)

2013-08-22 Thread Carl Christensen
Hi, I may be late to this party, but am I right in thinking boinc isn't parsing out the cpu features on Android?  for example my phone supports vfp, vfpv3, and neon, but on my Einstein@home record it says "No coprocessor" should this be a trac item?  it seems easy to implement, in the boinc/cli

Re: [boinc_dev] Serious bug in BOINC android.

2013-08-18 Thread Carl Christensen
ok, I think on an android phone conference we decided MAC addresses would involve a privacy issue - maybe we could hash it or something just to have a quasi-unique identifier From: Eric J Korpela To: Carl Christensen Cc: "boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu&qu

Re: [boinc_dev] Serious bug in BOINC android.

2013-08-18 Thread Carl Christensen
is that a server-side thing where it tries to match up an unknown host with a known host id based on the user id & hostname & cpu etc?  I guess the generic ARM naming doesn't help -  I just got a Google Nexus 7 tablet and it reports the same CPU as my last-gen Samsung Galaxy S3 phone. __

Re: [boinc_dev] Error 11 in OS X OpenCL apps

2013-08-09 Thread Carl Christensen
maybe there's a missing dependency you can bundle in -- can you go on the 10.6 and run otool -L on the file and see if something is missing?   ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Boinc Client Platform String for ARM devices

2013-07-03 Thread Carl Christensen
I don't think there's any BOINC standard for this - for the ARM devices we use on the QCN project (Quake-Catcher Network) give different readings based on distro used, so I just use the GNU make strings given from the configure: armv6l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf    (Raspberry Pi ARM v6 Linux) armv5

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] BOINC 7.0.64/7.0.65 released for the public

2013-04-25 Thread Carl Christensen
yeah that makes more sense for NCI, thanks!   ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] BOINC 7.0.64/7.0.65 released for the public

2013-04-23 Thread Carl Christensen
That's cool.  One thing I should report, not particularly for this version but it's been in BOINC clients for quite awhile - is that it seems the workunit remaining calculation for non-CPU intensive apps is really off.  It used to be that it would report based on elapsed run-time and fraction do

Re: [boinc_dev] One problem

2013-04-22 Thread Carl Christensen
those are all libraries that shouldn't be downloaded with boinc, but you should get the latest versions separately.  zlib is included with most Linux distributions, via apt-get/yum etc, or you can find it here:  http://zlib.net ___ boinc_dev mailing lis

Re: [boinc_dev] Unix build issue

2013-04-02 Thread Carl Christensen
yeah basically if "make built it - 'make clean' should get rid of it"  (if "configure built it -- 'make distclean' should get rid of it") http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Clean.html From: David Anderson To: BOINC Developers Mailing List

Re: [boinc_dev] XML parser may not null-terminate buffers (was: MD5 checksums - parsing errors on mal-formed tags)

2013-03-29 Thread Carl Christensen
my guess is this is a server-side error or "artifact" of CPDN having old boinc server/scheduler code? ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and

Re: [boinc_dev] Report on use of Berkeley Android for BOINC.

2013-03-13 Thread Carl Christensen
You must have a "rooted" Android phone or device?  otherwise how does "NativeBOINC" run executables from the external SD card? ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe,

Re: [boinc_dev] Security Issue in BOINC reported on the German MDR website

2013-02-13 Thread Carl Christensen
I've often thought we have more to fear from self-important, attention-seeking "security experts" than from actual hackers. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe,

Re: [boinc_dev] Android Test Build

2013-01-27 Thread Carl Christensen
I'm interested in doing an Android version of my "Quake-Catcher Network" project (QCN) - but am I right in hearing that there will be no "live graphics" -- as I think participants would want to see (for example) their Android device accelerometer output timeseries a la the QCN screensaver etc.  

Re: [boinc_dev] Fwd: Re: [boinc_alpha] BOINC 7.0.44 released for all platforms

2013-01-12 Thread Carl Christensen
it's just warnings for a function which is never used, so I wouldn't worry about it.  In windows the boinc_zip gives me about 500 warnings. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To

Re: [boinc_dev] Regression in f72fef8

2013-01-11 Thread Carl Christensen
>>Please test your changes before pushing them to master. I think that's pretty damn rude publicly insinuating Rom isn't testing changes.  He's probably done more work on Boinc & probably on other software in his career than you ever will, and no I don't include moving us to stupid "git" as an

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC libs for Windows

2012-11-14 Thread Carl Christensen
you usually need to get "*_dev" installs of mesa opengl & glut etc, not just runtimes (i.e. apt-get install opengl-mesa-dev or whatever).  there's probably an error message that runs by at the "./configure" step very fast that says all this (but it's easy to miss) - and why it didn't build boinc

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC libs for Windows

2012-11-14 Thread Carl Christensen
those errors imply you aren't pointing to the OpenGL header files & probably the libraries as well.  I'm not sure where they are for MinGW as I use Visual Studio on Windows. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley

Re: [boinc_dev] password reset emails not being sent to some users

2012-10-16 Thread Carl Christensen
I'd look to the campus mail-server you're using - ie is the boinc server you're mailing from authorized, did they change authorization/authentication etc   (Stanford did that to me a year ago so that they can verify who is allowed to the use their smtp) ___

Re: [boinc_dev] ttfonts and uc2_graphics

2012-10-15 Thread Carl Christensen
it would probably needlessly overcomplicate the example screensaver graphics, so the text display (credit # etc) should be taken out of the example screensaver graphics (otherwise beginners then have to link against more libraries etc). ___ boinc_dev m

Re: [boinc_dev] Moving BOINC source and development to GitHub?

2012-09-24 Thread Carl Christensen
>I disagree. The amazingly collaborative infrastructure that github provides >is a compelling reason to use it. We recently launched a project on GitHub if potential development volunteers haven't heard of boinc (or seti etc) by now, I really doubt going on "github" will help as they are probab

Re: [boinc_dev] Recommended PHP version?

2012-09-24 Thread Carl Christensen
I always thought stuff like PHP & apache/httpd you should get the latest version possible since they are prone to hacks & attacks so getting something a little old can leave you vulnerable? ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://li

Re: [boinc_dev] laptop fan speed

2012-09-21 Thread Carl Christensen
I did something like that 15 years ago - it was all in some power/energy api in the system BIOS - hopefully Win & OS X let's you access that low level still? ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/list

Re: [boinc_dev] Slideshow screen saver

2012-09-13 Thread Carl Christensen
well it seems simple enough - just have a static timer variable in the render() loop and use the "TEXTURE_DESC" class in the boinc graphics/utils api to load/display the JPEG's etc. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC as part of a host re-imaging process

2012-09-13 Thread Carl Christensen
my guess would be that on a few machines the network is lagging so that the boinc config files that should be copied from the network aren't getting there before boinc is started, hence boinc on these machines reports "not attached to any projects" ___

Re: [boinc_dev] missing read_rgb_texture implementation (in gutil.h, never defined in gutil.cpp)

2012-09-05 Thread Carl Christensen
I had assumed RGB was a generic "open" image file format but I never actually saw it documented.  digging around it looks like it's the same as the Silicon Graphics image "SGI" format so it probably is proprietary.  So it's best to keep it out of BOINC then as I'm crap with licensing issues etc.

Re: [boinc_dev] missing read_rgb_texture implementation (in gutil.h, never defined in gutil.cpp)

2012-09-05 Thread Carl Christensen
ok I was using "rgb" format (not sure who owns that) as I can set a transparent layer for opengl textures (used on qcn & the Intel/GR screensaver).  I just cut and pasted it into my local utils so it doesn't need to be in boinc then   (except for Rom I guess if they do new Intel screensaver build

Re: [boinc_dev] missing read_rgb_texture implementation (in gutil.h, never defined in gutil.cpp)

2012-09-04 Thread Carl Christensen
never mind - I found the old texture.cpp and will just copy out the bits I need.  This may affect CPDN too, as well as the Intel PtP screensaver. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_d

Re: [boinc_dev] missing read_rgb_texture implementation (in gutil.h, never defined in gutil.cpp)

2012-09-04 Thread Carl Christensen
oh I guess it's from the recent true-type font shake-up -- we lost "texture.cpp" -- but I don't think that's a font-related thing, ie it seems to be handy texture/image stuff which I've been using for years.  was there a licensing problem (it seems pretty generic utility code). _

[boinc_dev] missing read_rgb_texture implementation (in gutil.h, never defined in gutil.cpp)

2012-09-04 Thread Carl Christensen
did we lose a graphics function recently?  I can't seem to find the implementation of read_rgb_texture() any more.  I was rebuilding my libs and checked out trunk.  also I guess we officially dropped the old Mac PowerPC "ppc" from the Mac xcode?  I actually need it to I have an xcode that will w

Re: [boinc_dev] non-CPU-intensive/nci + CPU-intensive (In one project)

2012-08-31 Thread Carl Christensen
also if you need just one instance of the non-CPU intensive at a time - just put the different programs in one executable and the workunit can be the deciding factor of which code/program to call etc. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.ed

Re: [boinc_dev] non-CPU-intensive/nci + CPU-intensive (In one project)

2012-08-31 Thread Carl Christensen
you'd probably want to make one non-CPU intensive per project URL, not keep them all together under one project.  For example Quake-Catcher Network I have the project http://qcn.stanford.edu/sensor for our non-CPU intensive accelerometer monitoring program.  If we ever do a CPU-intensive program

Re: [boinc_dev] resent WUs added to the end of the WU queue

2012-08-29 Thread Carl Christensen
I can just think of manually changing the value of the "result.priority" field, or perhaps setting the priority in the scheduler code for a resend to a different value, maybe this can be put in for a config.xml value (i.e. resend priorities can be higher or lower etc) ___

Re: [boinc_dev] Changes to client scheduler from 6.12.33 to 7.0.25?

2012-08-10 Thread Carl Christensen
how about the case where you do want an RPC but with no work request, i.e. a trickle which is basically an RPC call, and for say a trickle used as an earthquake trigger on QCN, I may want RPC's (trickles) seconds apart?  it seems to working OK for me now - I just don't want to "lose" that!  (nex

Re: [boinc_dev] boinc designation for platform Linux on ARM processor?

2012-08-08 Thread Carl Christensen
yeah I think I'll just make my own localized armv6-raspi name for our servers as it's not ready to settle on a "public" boinc platform name yet.  It seems like I will have more versions of ARMs with the various "plug computers" I'm testing out too.   _

[boinc_dev] boinc designation for platform Linux on ARM processor?

2012-08-08 Thread Carl Christensen
Hi, I built boinc for Linux (Debian) on the new Raspberry Pi device, which is a very cheap (US $35) low-power computer with an ARM processor, that runs Linux.   We are looking to use these on the Quake-Catcher Network as cheap "self contained" earthquake sensors. I don't know if it's worth maybe

Re: [boinc_dev] software freedom

2012-07-25 Thread Carl Christensen
Hi, I sent you the true-type version long ago, it's in boinc/api/ttfont.h/.cpp and the boinc/api/ttf subdir has two fonts I got from a public domain true-type font site.  The ttf_render_string function should mimic the old texfont call so it should be pretty easy to make the switch.  you just ne

Re: [boinc_dev] Cookies?

2012-06-28 Thread Carl Christensen
basically boinc keeps the hashed authenticator as a cookie, so if that is set then you are logged in.  I have a modification I use with WordPress so that you can login on the WordPress side and when you get to the BOINC side of the website you'll be logged in  (i.e. it creates the WordPress acco

Re: [boinc_dev] Moved to git?

2012-05-30 Thread Carl Christensen
just curious - what's the advantages/reasons to go to git over svn? ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your ema

Re: [boinc_dev] Server down?

2012-05-18 Thread Carl Christensen
http://ucbsystems.org/category/active/unscheduled-outage/ wow that's a bad power outage, I wouldn't except they'd be up until around 5PM GMT today or so ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/list

Re: [boinc_dev] did an upgrade and transitioner is crashing

2012-03-25 Thread Carl Christensen
that's odd, maybe it missed it, I'd do a "desc workunit" from mysql, the last field should be the one it says is missing, you may have to do it by hand i.e. "alter table workunit add app_version_num int(11)" or something ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc

Re: [boinc_dev] did an upgrade and transitioner is crashing

2012-03-25 Thread Carl Christensen
It sounds like you didn't do a database upgrade and the field 'app_version_id' is missing from the workunit table ? ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the a

Re: [boinc_dev] Gsoc 2012

2012-03-21 Thread Carl Christensen
there's a google boinc-droid group: http://groups.google.com/group/boinc-droid also some new work / news here -- I know this is an important direction for BOINC to get on Android: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AndroidBoinc the efforts so far seem to be split into two "camps" -- make a n

Re: [boinc_dev] runtime_outlier field missing from result

2012-03-13 Thread Carl Christensen
you probably want to use the boinc/tools/upgrade script which will check for database upgrades (i.e. calls an html/ops/upgrade_db.php script) ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev T

Re: [boinc_dev] errors compiling assimilator/validator has conflict with mysql

2012-01-04 Thread Carl Christensen
it looks a conflict with the mysql config file (my_config.h) -- also check that boinc isn't using another mysql configuration, i.e. there could be the system mysql install at /usr/include/mysql but possible a "homegrown" mysql at /usr/local/mysql/include etc _

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC manager bug in Size column of Transfer tab?

2011-12-16 Thread Carl Christensen
hmm, I wonder if (since it's a bad connection) it's doing retries but showing a cumulative byte count (i.e 4 downloads failed after 200K apiece, but the actual file is 326k)? From: Bruce Allen To: boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 5:

Re: [boinc_dev] Client SSL support

2011-11-12 Thread Carl Christensen
it should be fine as long as the client has been compiled with a libcurl that is configured & linked to openssl  (which I believe the public release all do); check in your boinc event log ie: Sat Nov 12 08:28:17 2011 |  | Starting BOINC client version 6.13.6 for x86_64-apple-darwin Sat Nov 12 0

Re: [boinc_dev] More BOINC security

2011-10-25 Thread Carl Christensen
boinc pages set an "auth cookie"on the client/browser side - so people don't have to login every time they visit.  it is just a string (authenticator) in a local file on their client web browser, i.e. cached in Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.  So it is safe, i.e. a hacker would have to be on the

[boinc_dev] boinc 6.13.6 not getting work (non-cpu-intensive QCN)

2011-10-20 Thread Carl Christensen
I thought I'd report this here - a Mac OS X Lion participant on QCN is using BOINC 6.13.6  (beta version I guess), and it seems to get work (i.e. an app_version & a result) and then abandon it immediately after download.  I can't replicate this with the production 6.12.35 BOINC on my Macbook so

Re: [boinc_dev] Trickle-Message segmentation fault

2011-10-08 Thread Carl Christensen
yeah I just have that in my apps to bypass the boinc trickle call, and just write out the trickle message for debugging purposes when standalone. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_d

Re: [boinc_dev] Multiple file application update

2011-09-23 Thread Carl Christensen
if they can be "delay loaded" you can zip them up as part of the app version's files, and test for existence & unzip them before using on the client side. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listin

Re: [boinc_dev] Curl Call does not urlescape characters

2011-09-13 Thread Carl Christensen
yeah I think curl_easy_escape (formerly curl_escape) would do the trick -- I guess when I did the libcurl years ago I never planned on filenames with spaces! ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/list

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC on iPad

2011-08-22 Thread Carl Christensen
ok thanks, I just joined the google group.  like I said, I'm taking a different approach i.e. compiling the boinc libs & curl etc via the Android NDK (C/C++) - then hope to have an Android native Javi GUI to call things via JNI. ___ boinc_dev mailing li

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC on iPad

2011-08-22 Thread Carl Christensen
I haven't heard of any "BOINC on iPad" work - the "boinc manager on iPad" to view remote connections looks interesting & feasible.  I have begun work on hopefully porting BOINC to Android via the NDK  (i.e. I am hoping to compile the BOINC C++ via the Android "Native Development Kit" and then ha

Re: [boinc_dev] configure problem

2011-05-26 Thread Carl Christensen
make sure you have the apt-get install openssl-dev and not just openssl also if you use apt-get it probably puts it somewhere weird ie not just /usr/local/ssl so you have to find out where the hell they put it and use the --with-ssl=/apt/get/path/to/openssl _

Re: [boinc_dev] boinc_zip

2011-05-19 Thread Carl Christensen
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/FileCompression there's also boinc_zip if you want to create a lot of files and subdirectories etc without having to specify them all (ie just distribute the zip file with your app version and unzip it on the client side in your app). I put it into boinc 6-7

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC and environment variables

2011-03-31 Thread Carl Christensen
this functionality is in the wrapper if you use that; or you can lift that code and make your own "launcher" that can set environment variables etc ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc

Re: [boinc_dev] Wrapper, legacy application and multi-threads apps

2011-03-15 Thread Carl Christensen
yes, use the "mt" plan class and it will run one job and the max available procs - that's what I do for the MPI stuff ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe,

Re: [boinc_dev] Wrapper, legacy application and multi-threads apps

2011-03-11 Thread Carl Christensen
you also will want to look into & use the "mt" plan class so the server tells the boinc clients that it's a multithreaded app (or define your own as appropriate) http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AppMultiThread ___ boinc_dev mailing list boi

Re: [boinc_dev] Environment variables : suggestions

2011-02-21 Thread Carl Christensen
I don't know if this helps anybody on this thread - but Dave just checked in some changes to the wrapper.cpp in trunk that allows for environment variables in the job.xml file. you can easily yank out the code for your own app if you don't use the wrapper, of course you'd need a "master program

Re: [boinc_dev] Environment variables : suggestions

2011-02-19 Thread Carl Christensen
that's a good idea, I'm currently working on the wrapper for having an optional start directory to cd before running an app (some of the legacy seismic programs I'm using have hardcoded paths and have to be run from something/bin/ etc). I'll see if I can add an directive so that we can keep a

Re: [boinc_dev] Uploaded files corruption - probably caused by file upload handler

2011-02-15 Thread Carl Christensen
I've never seen that before, could it be the web server used is not returning the proper headers i.e. file length/offset of an existing file so it is appending the whole file again? I would look into the apache version & configuration, also any other libraries or modules used that could interru

Re: [boinc_dev] Updated Mac build instructions for project applications

2010-10-11 Thread Carl Christensen
that's cool, the last time I tried upgrading to Snow Leopard and using xcode 3.2 or whatever, it seemed I could never go back to building PPC 10.3.9 apps (on Quake-Catcher). I'll have to try this now. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl

Re: [boinc_dev] CPU SSE levels and plan classes

2010-09-22 Thread Carl Christensen
I think the "preferred" (well easier?) way would be your science app would handle the branching off of, say, SSE2 specific routines etc, i.e. one executable that would handle the different optimizations/scenarios. ___ boinc_dev mailing list bo

Re: [boinc_dev] non-free code in boinc client

2010-07-07 Thread Carl Christensen
oglft seemed like a "dead" project (i.e. version 0.9, and last updated in 2003) vs ftgl is pretty recent (within a year old updates). So that scared me away. I used ftgl for the Intel PTP screensaver and it worked out OK esp with all the rotating circular fonts etc. but I don't think it's ne

Re: [boinc_dev] Current status of CreditNew?

2010-06-24 Thread Carl Christensen
I would guess it makes more sense for CPDN to abandon the old "credits per trickle", i.e. compute all the user, host, team credits, then switch to the "CreditNew" BOINC system when it's ready. The "credits per trickle" was good when there were a few apps that took 4-6 months to do, but now that

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Python 3 support?

2010-06-21 Thread Carl Christensen
I imagine there must be a lot of projects out there < Python 2.5 so I don't think it's safe to make any non-backwardly-compatible changes for anything that will go in trunk soon. Just picking the QCN server: Python 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 3 2009, 15:37:37) If Python 2.4.3 is what is going out on Debi

Re: [boinc_dev] Run 1 task and then exit

2010-06-07 Thread Carl Christensen
just get the latest from curl.haxx.se and build it statically (--disable-shared) -- it's pretty easy to do ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the a

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC Manager - Tasks - attribute column order

2010-05-21 Thread Carl Christensen
yeah wxwidgets is one of those things I've found you're safer staying with an older version (i.e. not "trunk"). sort of like Windows! ;-) ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boi

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC Manager - Tasks - attribute column order

2010-05-21 Thread Carl Christensen
probably column order as well as widths too, saved in a local prefs file? may not be trivial! :-) ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above UR

Re: [boinc_dev] IPV4 exhaustion

2010-05-10 Thread Carl Christensen
since we're based on curl (libcurl) which has been cool with IPV6 for awhile then we should be alright.   http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/features.html     Supports IPv6! If compiled with IPv6 support enabled, FTP, FTPS, HTTP and HTTPS all work splendidly on IPv6 stacks (kerberos4 does not work over

Re: [boinc_dev] boinc news into facebook group?

2010-04-24 Thread Carl Christensen
thanks, that'll do it! >uses this app: >http://www.facebook.com/RSS.Graffiti ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of

[boinc_dev] boinc news into facebook group?

2010-04-24 Thread Carl Christensen
I'm pretty new at facebook programming; and I was curious if anyone had php or other code to yank in BOINC project news into a corresponding facebook group's news tab, wall posts etc (before I try to "reinvent the wheel")? ___ boinc_dev mailin

[boinc_dev] boinc_zip usage updates

2010-04-02 Thread Carl Christensen
can't find the email, but for anyone interested in using the old 'boinc_zip' library, you'll have to check it out from a different svn than the main boinc trunk, and also update the boinc/configure.ac & Makefile.am so the zip stuff is built (of course in Windows just use the solution files in b

Re: [boinc_dev] Compress and uncopress

2010-04-01 Thread Carl Christensen
its just been moved out of the main trunk, i.e. svn co http://boinc.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/depends_projects/zip although you'd have to edit the configure.ac & Makefile.am in boinc so it finds the zip subdirectory (and the zip & unzip subdirs) so that it will build properly. I've also been usin

Re: [boinc_dev] Subteams?

2010-03-29 Thread Carl Christensen
I think people should just have the courage of their convictions and make their subteam a team; rather than just try to "game the system" by making these "super-teams" & "super-users" to get on the top 10 list or whatever. ___ boinc_dev mailin

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC for Mobile Phones - please test on your Java phone

2009-10-27 Thread Carl Christensen
I don't quite understand the bashing of this guy's mobile project; there was that "boincoid" a year or two ago which was in vogue, and IMHO the same ones bashing the "usefulness" of mobiles are the ones crowing about how great GPU's & CUDA & Sony Playstations etc are (completely ignoring the fac

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC for Mobile Phones - please test on your Java phone

2009-10-27 Thread Carl Christensen
I think there may be interesting "non-cpu intensive" applications too, such as Quake-Catcher Network. we're looking at using the iphone when docked/charging to be a QCN sensor; and using a google phone in a box with a usb sensor and a solar panel for charing for "rapid deployment" to hot spots

Re: [boinc_dev] I/O affects the performance ?

2009-10-23 Thread Carl Christensen
there are various ways to use libcurl, I guess you are using the "simple" interface; there's also an asynchronous method which may be faster, and you can write the replies to memory and not files so you don't have a lot of file I/O etc. you really need to go to the curl.haxx.se website and read

Re: [boinc_dev] _autosetup & configure messed up still?

2009-09-23 Thread Carl Christensen
thanks, turns out libtool somehow disappeared on my old distro so that was the problem (it just coincidentally happened with all these _autosetup changes so I thought it was that)! ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://l

[boinc_dev] _autosetup & configure messed up still?

2009-09-22 Thread Carl Christensen
Is this still in a state of flux; I remember discussions and thought it was all done? I was trying to build on my old Debian Linux distro I use for production and _autosetup bombs out, although I supposedly have all the prereqs: ca...@cmc-macbook-debian:~/projects/boinc$ ./_autosetup Bootstrapp

Re: [boinc_dev] Workunit limits are messed up

2009-09-21 Thread Carl Christensen
in the server config.xml on qcn I have: 1 that enforces just one job for multiprocessor machines ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visi

Re: [boinc_dev] About Posting my BOINC project to the public

2009-09-01 Thread Carl Christensen
I would think more than stats, shouldn't you at least put in a project name, and describe what your project does etc? It just seems a bit untrustworthy for "public consumption" as it is now, i.e. "Welcome to REPLACE WITH PROJECT NAME" ___ boin

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Progress Thru Processors Launched

2009-08-15 Thread Carl Christensen
yeah that's just how facebook is with this "we'll pull information from your profile etc" -- even dumb games people send me to try do this. it does sound ominous though! ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.be

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Progress Thru Processors Launched

2009-08-06 Thread Carl Christensen
Hi Mo -- I'm running PtP and you can indeed change the language via the "Advanced View / Options", and then restart the client ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To uns

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] boinc/zip

2009-07-29 Thread Carl Christensen
Hi Bernd -- yeah Rom moved boinc_zip out of the main svn trunk for boinc -- it's in trunk/depends_projects/zip so this should get it to the "old place" svn co http://boinc.berkeley.edu/svn/trunk/depends_projects/zip boinc/zip ___ boinc_dev mai

[boinc_dev] boinc_zip replacement

2009-07-20 Thread Carl Christensen
Hi, I'm looking at replacing boinc_zip for various reasons, mainly it's been a kludge of two libraries which are old & complicated to update, and thinking of moving to something like the bzip2 lib (which also compresses better). as far as I know it's just CPDN, QCN, Rosetta, and Einstein that

Re: [boinc_dev] Unzipping, client side

2009-07-14 Thread Carl Christensen
well since presumably you can't use boinc_zip I guess either distribute zip/unzip executables for each platform, or use the zipfile module for python (does that get back to the problem of using various python libs within boinc though?) ___ bo

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