I have 13 WUs in my Pending Credit list, which is normally empty. Sure enough, when I checked the Server Status page, I see that the rah_validator_beta program isn't running.

I have six WU's pending the beta validator's running again. Will run more WU's after these are credited.

one of the validators went down because of a random issue with one of the work units. I had to remove the bad work unit and result entries in the database. This has happened maybe 3 times during the whole lifetime of the project. It just had to happen again when I am at the hospital expecting our 2nd son! good thing my wife is being induced which may take hours to develop which means a lot of sitting around.

Squiddy, on the Vista issue: I bought a Vista laptop last fall and was going to install BOINC, but when I looked into it, the message boards indicated that the only way to avoid Vista's "nanny prompts" for BOINC at startup was to install BOINC to run as a service. This isn't my usual practice, and I decided that was too much of a pain. I'm waiting for the BOINC team to add Vista compatibility to BOINC, but you might think about it for your novice user.

Just remember, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king...

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--hedera

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

When the newest version of BOINC, 5.10.45, was announced on the boinc_dev list 2 days ago, it said, amongst other things...

This release also contains fixes for startup/shutdown issues when
running on Windows Vista.

... although I suspect this is more to do with the serious issues which required special shutdown hoops to jump through on Vista, rather then the Defender problem.

I spent some months last year converting one of my companies products to run on Vista. I won't be "upgrading" any of my machines any time soon.

With the validator issue, my "pending" list is dropping now.

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

One of my work units errored out. This doesn't tend to happen very often, so I'm guessing it is probably the application at fault. Plenty of stderr info though.

I have since updated to BOINC 5.10.45 and am running Rosetta 5.95.

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Squiddy, on the Vista issue: I bought a Vista laptop last fall and was going to install BOINC, but when I looked into it, the message boards indicated that the only way to avoid Vista's "nanny prompts" for BOINC at startup was to install BOINC to run as a service. This isn't my usual practice, and I decided that was too much of a pain. I'm waiting for the BOINC team to add Vista compatibility to BOINC, but you might think about it for your novice user.

Appreciate the reply, hedera. Unfortunately I'm not clever enough to follow it. How would I go about installing BOINC as a service? Is there a link to some advice? I'm keen to follow this up but don't know where to start.

Appreciate the reply, hedera. Unfortunately I'm not clever enough to follow it. How would I go about installing BOINC as a service? Is there a link to some advice? I'm keen to follow this up but don't know where to start.

Download the latest installer from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php. Stop BOINC (not necessary but safer). Double click the installer to start it. Choose service when given the choice. Click OK through the rest of the installer.

Note you'll have to have a password on the account for this to work.

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Kathryn :o)
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Task ID 147927265
Name t028_1_NMRREF_1_t028_1_id_model_14_idlIGNORE_THE_REST_core_2979_7573_0
Workunit 134873464
Created 13 Mar 2008 22:50:16 UTC
Sent 13 Mar 2008 22:50:33 UTC
Received 16 Mar 2008 12:43:37 UTC
Server state Over
Outcome Success
Client state Done
Exit status 0 (0x0)
Computer ID 735230
Report deadline 23 Mar 2008 22:50:33 UTC
CPU time 12113.984375
stderr out

<core_client_version>5.10.45</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
# cpu_run_time_pref: 14400
# random seed: 3952428
No heartbeat from core client for 31 sec - exiting
# cpu_run_time_pref: 14400
======================================================
DONE :: 1 starting structures 12113.3 cpu seconds
This process generated 4 decoys from 4 attempts
0 starting pdbs were skipped
======================================================


BOINC :: Watchdog shutting down...
BOINC :: BOINC support services shutting down...

</stderr_txt>
]]>

Validate state Valid
Claimed credit 50.0505518733559
Granted credit 43.4203813594983
application version 5.93