BOINC 4.09 Released

BOINC 4.09 released. According to another ng its to fix windows and dial up
issues, may not grant as much credit. See alt.sci.seti, f/f george reply.

I have signed up for BOINC, and for einstein@home and for one or two
others of the BOINC projects, but I have not been able to bring up any of
these things. BOINC does not come up, einstein@home does not come up. I can
get nothing to work.
I have run seti at home for several years now, with no problems. I
receive work units, my computer processes them and displays the running
results, and sends the results to Berkeley. No problems with seti at home.
Can anyone help me? Can anyone suggest what I might ber dfoing wrong?
Regards,
Dan Smith

Austin, Texas

Dan Smith wrote:
I have signed up for BOINC, and for einstein@home and for one or two
others of the BOINC projects, but I have not been able to bring up any of
these things. BOINC does not come up, einstein@home does not come up. I can
get nothing to work.

Boinc works fine here.

We need a few more clues as to what system you're using and what you've
tried doing before anyone can make any guesses for you.

Regards,
Martin


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"Dan Smith" wrote in message
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I have signed up for BOINC, and for einstein@home and for one or two
others of the BOINC projects, but I have not been able to bring up any of
these things. BOINC does not come up, einstein@home does not come up. I
can
get nothing to work.
I have run seti at home for several years now, with no problems. I
receive work units, my computer processes them and displays the running
results, and sends the results to Berkeley. No problems with seti at home.
Can anyone help me? Can anyone suggest what I might ber dfoing wrong?
Regards,
Dan Smith

Austin, Texas

Hi,

I also ran the old classic SETI for years and just recently went Boinc.
Initially had some problems but got it working.
First problem was just that I happened to pick a time when the servers were
down to install Boinc. The next day, it was working fine.

Second problem was my firewall. I'm using Norton. Usually Norton just
throws up a dialogue box requesting a new network capable problem to be able
to talk on the net and everything works fine afterwards. With Boinc, by the
time that Norton requested permission, Boinc was already attempting to
download project files and was "stuck". Even after giving permission, it
still hanged at "zero percent". Closing Boinc and re-opening it made no
difference. Solution was to uninstall it and then disable Norton before
re-installing it. After it downloaded project files and started working
them, I closed Boinc down and then re-enabled Norton before running Boinc
again. Norton asked for permission for Boinc to talk and I gave it. Cycled
Boinc one more time just for good measure and haven't had a problem since.
Anyway, it may be your firewall.

My only "gripe" with Boinc now is that there seems to be some bugs/issues
when using one of the project's graphics (i.e., SETI) as a screensaver with
password ("Resume to Welcome Screen") enabled with WinXP.

Cheers,
-Eric