Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: Preference for graphics apps or fastapps.

2014-08-06 Thread Bernd Machenschalk
Out of curiosity: would it be possible with reasonable effort to configure the client to have exactly one graphical task running for the graphics and the faster version running on the other CPU cores? Bernd On 6. August 2014 01:08:37 MESZ, Bernd Machenschalk bernd.machensch...@aei.mpg.de

Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: Preference for graphics apps or fastapps.

2014-08-06 Thread Bernd Machenschalk
Hi David! Given that you look into the PSP (project-specific preferences) code anyway, probably with the result that projects that want or need to use the resulting web code need to rewrite their PSP code, may I (again) suggest to consider implementing PSP read from a (XML) config file? I

Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: Preference for graphics apps or fastapps.

2014-08-06 Thread Oliver Bock
Hi David, On 06/08/14 10:02 , Bernd Machenschalk wrote: Oliver has already mentioned that we use this approach in the BOINC-Drupal project and has pointed out the XML specification that was developed there. I think it would save time and effort for all of us to use this as a basis. That's

Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: Preference for graphics apps or fastapps.

2014-08-06 Thread Filip Rydlo
Hi, Bernd. Oh, but this is a really tempting idea! Extremely interesting, puzzling , intriquing! condition: 1/ If there was some mechanism on the server to force it to still send some units for the slower version *TOO*. 2/ And if we would have some kind of TRIGGER

Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: Preference for graphics apps or fastapps.

2014-08-06 Thread Bernd Machenschalk
Bernd Machenschalk wrote, On 06.08.14 22:08: - build an application version bundle that contains both application versions and a small wrapper program - the wrapper gets started by the BOINC Client - on start, the wrapper tries to create and lock a file in the project(!) directory + if

Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: Preference for graphics apps or fastapps.

2014-08-06 Thread Bernd Machenschalk
Bernd Machenschalk wrote, On 06.08.14 08:30: Out of curiosity: would it be possible with reasonable effort to configure the client to have exactly one graphical task running for the graphics and the faster version running on the other CPU cores? One more thought: Is there a way to tell the

[boinc_dev] Abandonned tasks

2014-08-06 Thread Luc A. Germain
Hi, I'm user Lag Home from Burundi (Central africa) and all my tasks since three (3) days are marked as abandonned . This is a real pitty. Is there anything I can do ? It's true that computing in the third wold (not to say the fourth wolrd ) is quite difficult. I'm a very old user (1999 as

[boinc_dev] Deleting your project account

2014-08-06 Thread Jord van der Elst
Hi developers, I've taken a longer look at deleting the account at BOINC projects. The option is there in the code, but it's at present disabled, as it isn't fool proof. Now, I'm not saying I can make it fool proof, but... What if when I wanted to delete my account, I press the key to do so, I

[boinc_dev] BOINC Manager addons add-in

2014-08-06 Thread Jord van der Elst
Hi Developers, This is something I've been toying with for a while now, ever since I started playing The Elder Scrolls Online (TESO). In the start-up screen of the game, you have the preferences settings, but also an addons add-in option, through which you can add addons specially written for the

Re: [boinc_dev] Deleting your project account

2014-08-06 Thread David Anderson
I'm not sure a delete account function is needed. A use can effectively remove his account by setting the name and email address to random strings. -- David On 06-Aug-2014 3:14 PM, Jord van der Elst wrote: Hi developers, I've taken a longer look at deleting the account at BOINC projects. The

Re: [boinc_dev] Deleting your project account

2014-08-06 Thread Bernd Machenschalk
Actually deleting a user account (row in user table) would harm the consistency of the database, these are referenced everywhere. As BOINC (web) code is not really good in handling unexpected results of DB queries this would cause visible problems all over the place. However a standard