Posts by Ensor

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Trojan boinc installation by rogue member (Message 37095) Posted 22 Feb 2007 by Ensor Post: ....trying to get them kicked off the ISP.. just get the machines cleaned up. All I was doing was asking the ISP concerned to enforce their own anti-spam policy, which they flatly refused to do.... :-( TTFN - Pete.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Trojan boinc installation by rogue member (Message 37088) Posted 21 Feb 2007 by Ensor Post: ....Frankly, I have never found an ISP prepared to take action against one of their customers, unless of course, they stop paying their bills.... Never a truer word said.... A few years ago I was on the receiving end of a torrent of spam from a US based spammer, 300+ spam emails PER DAY!!!! His ISP point blank refused to do anything to stop him from doing this - they were/are well known for harbouring spammers and offered accounts which they guaranteed would never be suspended, for any reason.... His spam stopped abruptly when his email address database, ahem, "somehow" got poisoned with the email addresses of the CEO and other high-ups at his ISP <EVIL CACKLE>. TTFN - Pete.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Report Rosetta screensaver problems here (Message 36457) Posted 10 Feb 2007 by Ensor Post: Hi, Coincidence? ...yes. I believe it is. The screensaver problem is pretty clear now.... So it was....after making that post I increased the time before my monitor went into standby to 45mins and, within a few hours, discovered it was actually freezing at random intervals. Like I said, it didn't cause me any great problem, and the new app seems to have fixed this problem! :-) TTFN - Pete.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Report Rosetta screensaver problems here (Message 35094) Posted 19 Jan 2007 by Ensor Post: Yes, based on the message, it certainly seems related to the screensaver. I suspect that the other window popping up causes.... Unfortunately, it appears the emule window popping up was a red herring. I've had the screensaver lock up again today, while eMule was shut down.... :-( It looks like eMule wasn't redrawing the screen quite correctly while scrolling the window off screen, and the screen saver had already frozen (otherwise the screen saver would've redrawn the corrupted parts itself (if that makes sense?) as happens with "Enstein"). As before, I was able to restore normal operation by putting BOINC in and out of "sleep" mode (accompanied by the same error message in the BOINC log). It's not really a big deal, as far as I can tell this probably happens with every WU, even when I'm away from the machine. In every case the WU has completed succesfully and the screensaver terminated normally though. Actually, I've just thought of something....I think the screen saver is freezing when my monitor goes into (or comes out of) standby! As far as I can remember, the only times the Rosetta screen saver has frozen have been when I've had to bring the monitor out of standby; as long as the monitor is on, there is no problem exiting the screen saver. Coincidence? TTFN - Pete.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Report Rosetta screensaver problems here (Message 34851) Posted 15 Jan 2007 by Ensor Post: Not sure whether this belongs here or in the "Problems with Rosetta version 5.43" thread, but I've just had a repeat of a problem I reported over in that thread recently. Again, what happened was that the Rosetta screen saver was in operation when eMule finished downloading a file. When this happens eMule displays a little notification window in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, which scrolls on and off the screen. For some reason, when the Rosetta screen saver is running, fragments of the notification window remain on screen as the window scrolls down off the screen, after which the screen saver freezes - crunching continues as normal however. Also, while it is possible to switch to other applications, you cannot actually use them since the Rosetta screen saver overlays them - the only exception being windows' "Task Manager". I am only able to restore normal operation by putting BOINC in and out of "Snooze" mode by way of the BOINC manager icon in the system tray. The following appeared in my BOINC logs when I did this: 15/01/2007 22:12:11\|\|Suspending computation - user request 15/01/2007 22:12:24\|\|Resuming computation 15/01/2007 22:12:24\|rosetta@home\|rosetta not responding to screensaver, requesting exit 15/01/2007 22:12:27\|rosetta@home\|Task 1lis__BOINC_NOFILTERS_ABRELAX_SAVE_ALL_OUT_frags83__1492_51018_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file 15/01/2007 22:12:27\|rosetta@home\|If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project. Operating system: Windows XP Professional, x64 Edition Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX420 (latest drivers installed) Percentage of CPU time used for graphics: Default Number of frames per second for graphics: Default DirectX: 9.0c Hope this is of some help. TTFN - Pete.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems with Rosetta version 5.43 (Message 34390) Posted 8 Jan 2007 by Ensor Post: Had a problem earlier today on this v5.43 WU. I was away from the machine when it happened, but it looks like it may have been a graphics related problem - when I brought the monitor out of standby I was greeted with the Rosetta screen saver and was unable to get back to the desktop (or enter the BOINC manager, or any other program) until I manually cancelled the Rosetta process using the Windows task manager. Other than this the machine was running completely normally. Unfortunately, the BOINC logs show nothing useful....other than the Rosetta process starting at 13:08 and hogging the machine until I manually cancelled it at 17:40. I also run eMule on this machine and it finished downloading a file at 14:40. The remains of the info window which eMule displays when it finishes a download were still visible in the lower right hand corner of the screen.... In common with other people in this thread, I got an "Application Hang" message in the windows error log when I cancelled the process. My graphics card is an "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420" with latest drivers installed. TTFN - Pete.