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Lloyd M.
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 Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:35 pm Post subject: Pulling the plug |
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Greetings fellow Knights!
Sad to say, just shy of 1.5 Million Shrubs as I write this; due to various and sundry (and unfortunately, not silly) reasons, I am going to have to pull the plug on most of my farm. I can keep the Opty going (at least for now), my son's machine can still shrub, and likewise my new (Athlon X2) laptop. The rest is going dark, and I don't know when (or even if) I will be able to bring them back up.
The small bit of good news is my laptop is fairly productive, and can run WFO 24/7 without any sort of throttling. I usually keep it plugged in and shrubbing, and on a profile I created that doesn't turn anything off, even when the lid is closed.
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Sorry to hear that. Promise us you will stop by and visit
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| mohrorless wrote: | | Sorry to hear that. Promise us you will stop by and visit |
Thank you Sir. I guess I can still do that (do better at that), and maybe get better at supporting POTM, though my resources are much more limited.
What is the POTM, anyway?
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:30 pm Post subject: Oh, Great! |
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WCG broke my BOINC client!    
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A Shrubbery
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Sorry, but that's not much to go on. Did you add it just like any other project?
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| A Shrubbery wrote: | | Sorry, but that's not much to go on. Did you add it just like any other project? |
No, it wouldn't LET me add it like other projects. I tried that, and it said that new users have to do it via the WCG home page. So I downloaded their software and installed it. It now comes up with a WCG client (advertising their project) that won't connect. I suspect it can't connect, because it looks like BOINC.exe is no longer starting up.
I tried manually adding BOINC.exe and BOINCMGR.exe as firewall exceptions.
[edit] I just tried running it manually, and it said that zlib1.dll was missing. I'm going to try installing a regular BOINC client, and WCG can kiss my ass [/edit]
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John Galt 007
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Lloyd M.
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Just doing a reinstall to my previous (non-WCG) version did it, though it STILL says "World Community Grid - BOINC Manager (localhost)" at the top (GRRRRR!   ) My guess is that something's jiggered in one of the XML files, and I can't find it.
Anyway, I didn't even need the backup of my data folder, and it "knew" that I hadn't attached to WCG yet.
Yes, I'm being a good team player, and running WCG, despite their many and manifold sins and affronts.
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That is sad to here your farm is shutting down. Hopefully this is not permanent and you will be able to restart it one day.
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Lloyd M.
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| John Galt 007 wrote: | | Before you do that, go to the WCG website and make an account. Then use whatever BOINC manager you are currently using and attach thru the manager. Since you will already have an account at WCG, you will have no problems. This is how I did it... |
Thanks, and it was a little late to unring that bell, though I kind of did, anyway.
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Lloyd M.
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| Killerrabbit wrote: | That is sad to hear your farm is shutting down. Hopefully this is not permanent and you will be able to restart it one day.
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Thanks. It might be more accurate to say that I've had to cut my farm back to a garden. I pulled the plug on two dual-Xeon servers, a P4 box, and my dedicated linux box with my old AMD San Diego single core CPU.
What's left is my Opty, my son's 3400+ Venice, and my new X2 laptop, which can run WFO 24/7 with no cooling problems.
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Sorry to hear you need to cut back. Hope things turn around soon.
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Lloyd M.
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| stooper101 wrote: | | Sorry to hear you need to cut back. Hope things turn around soon. |
Thanks. Pretty much my whole life is in a state of flux and change right now. 
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I believe you might need a capacitor for your flux then..
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Lloyd M.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| mohrorless wrote: | | I believe you might need a capacitor for your flux then.. |
Exactly! 
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What are you waiting for? Get to work and build one!
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Fredericx51
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Hi, sorry to hear, you're (partially) leaving?!
Just recovering from the 2nd surgery, this year . 
It appears, some men (me) aren't "build", the way it supposed to be . . . . ''
This Vicodin does work, but I'll become addicted, if I don't back-off, in time . . . ''
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Fredericx51
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:45 am Post subject: |
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 I'm back and partially rebuild .
Only need some brain parts.
Maybe someone has a hypothalamus ?
Secondhand will do for now !?
And I upped my shrubbery , isn't it nice
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ohiomike
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| Fredericx51 wrote: |
Maybe someone has a hypothalamus ?
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"The hypothalamus controls body temperature, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and circadian cycles."
Isn't that an optional part for Knight?
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