I received an e-mail today from please-do-not-reply@boinc.bakerlab.org . The subject line was "A letter to Rosetta@home crunchers".
The body of the e-mail was blank. There was absolutely no content. I suspect that a lot of people received the same thing. Was this important information? Can you send it again?

As Mod9 promised, we've posted the letter for your perusal here. -KEL

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Hi again Mod :)

How about creating a thread with info on CASP so new and

returning cruchers can se the info easy.

Anders n

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can you unsticky some of those old threads in number crunching.

there's a threads refering to rosetta 5.01. Since we're on 5.13, I don't think it's really necessary anymore.

I received an e-mail today from please-do-not-reply@boinc.bakerlab.org . The subject line was "A letter to Rosetta@home crunchers".
The body of the e-mail was blank. There was absolutely no content. I suspect that a lot of people received the same thing. Was this important information? Can you send it again?

It was a newsletter with updates about the project and the upcoming CASP competition.

It was in HTML format so to view it you would have to have HTML display turned on in your email system or save the document and open it with a browser. In some cases your e-mail provide may filter HTML attachments. We are planning to post the same message on the website. I can see if it can be resent to you if you wish.

I receive and view HTML formatted mail all of the time with no problems. I'm nearly certain that it was blank. I'll read it when it's posted on the website.

I received an e-mail today from please-do-not-reply@boinc.bakerlab.org . The subject line was "A letter to Rosetta@home crunchers".
The body of the e-mail was blank. There was absolutely no content. I suspect that a lot of people received the same thing. Was this important information? Can you send it again?

It was a newsletter with updates about the project and the upcoming CASP competition.

It was in HTML format so to view it you would have to have HTML display turned on in your email system or save the document and open it with a browser. In some cases your e-mail provide may filter HTML attachments. We are planning to post the same message on the website. I can see if it can be resent to you if you wish.

I receive and view HTML formatted mail all of the time with no problems. I'm nearly certain that it was blank. I'll read it when it's posted on the website.

Here it is.

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_newsletter_060509.php

enjoy the reading :)

Anders n

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I think I have found a place to send a bit of info without wastin to much of your time. I have two computers both Macintosh. The desktop is currently happily crunching away using boinc manager 5.4.9. The laptop (with intell processors) also with 5.4.9 always fails to download projects with the message from server:platform 'i686-apple-darwom' not found. This is with the default boinc prefs.

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I think I have found a place to send a bit of info without wastin to much of your time. I have two computers both Macintosh. The desktop is currently happily crunching away using boinc manager 5.4.9. The laptop (with intell processors) also with 5.4.9 always fails to download projects with the message from server:platform 'i686-apple-darwom' not found. This is with the default boinc prefs.

I have got to learn to spell check my posts. that should be darwin not darwom

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Hi Mod

on this page https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_status.php

this part of the text don´t seem right for Rosetta as we don´t have more

than 1 to cruch a result.

Validator: Validates Rosetta@home results by comparing them with similar results returned by other users. If enough results for the same workunit have been returned, the validator compares the data and issues credit to all responsible users accordingly

Anders n

fixed. -KEL (thanks)

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fixed. -KEL (thanks)

:)

Anders n

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I received an e-mail telling me that a post of mine has been moved from it's original thread to another as it was off topic.

The original thread is this one where the OP is asking for reasons not to support Rosetta/BOINC etc.

I believe my post, which I quote below, was entirely on topic.

A recurrent theme I've come across in a number of places is the somewhat cynical belief that someone, somewhere is "making money/gaining patents/supporting the US military" out of the freely given resource.

This was true of course in the United Devices type setup.

It has now been moved to this thread which discusses UNIX and Linux porting issues, and where it is totally off topic.

I request an explanation.

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Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.

your post was part of the discussion related to porting of software.

I can see no way my post could have been construed to be part of the UNIX/Linux porting debate and request further explanation as to how it could be so. My post was a simple and legitimate reply to the OP's question.

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Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.

Adrian, please accept my apologies. There were 20 other posts around yours that were off topic and we just didn't notice yours in their midst. Please see my last post.

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I require some assistance as my graphics screen seems to have gone on holiday. All I have is my BOINC manager which shows I'm still crunching for Rosetta. That's great, but I miss the graphics screen. Does anyone know how to fix this? I tryed re-downloading the program with no joy.

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I'm pretty new here, but if you are interested in getting more people to run BOINC, why not make it into a kind of online game such as kingsofchaos.com? Those games have hundreds of thousands of users and I'm sure you could get some serious computing from them. I'd even be willing to donate some time to programming if needed.

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I require some assistance as my graphics screen seems to have gone on holiday. All I have is my BOINC manager which shows I'm still crunching for Rosetta. That's great, but I miss the graphics screen. Does anyone know how to fix this? I tryed re-downloading the program with no joy.

Forgive my asking, but have you tried rebooting? In some cases that has restored graphic functions.

I did as well and it didn't help. What apparently did help is leaving it alone for past two days, because I came home from work to find the screen running. So, hooray to the mysterious genie living in my pc, or whatever! Thanks...I appreciate your kind effort.

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Q. Which ports does Rosetta@Home need open?


A. Port 80 (http) is used for most communications with the project servers. Port 443 (https) is used if the password is being exchanged . Ports 1043 and 31416 are used for local control as well as for remote control of a BOINC client. 1043 is preferred and 31416 is a fall back. Unless you are RPC'ing over the Internet don't open 1043 and 31416 in your non-local firewall specifically for BOINC.

https isn't used to exchange the password, the password isn't even sent, only a hash of the password (use Ethereal to see for yourself), rosetta using http by default, will have the hash sent on port 80

the newer boinc clients use port 31416 by default now

to communicate with project servers ports shouldn't need to be opened, unless a firewall/router is really dumb, any connection from the client-side should be allowed to pass (and it's returning data), a software firewall might prompt the user to allow boinc to access the internet/manager, but this is a software-level thing, not a port-level thing



i'll update this in the wiki as well :)

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On a separate note. I'd like to suggest a new addition to the FAQs. One which addresses the question "What is the process to suggest revisions to these FAQs?"

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