Posts by Dogbytes

1) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Personal Milestones (Message 30888) Posted 10 Nov 2006 by Dogbytes Post: Hit the 200K mark a little while back...
2) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Retaining Users - Bringing back former ones (Message 21782) Posted 3 Aug 2006 by Dogbytes Post: Ain't it the truth; ain't it the truth. On a positive note, at least he's doing some meaningful crunching, unlike some other rabble on other project's boards. There's always the bright side to consider.
3) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Retaining Users - Bringing back former ones (Message 21464) Posted 31 Jul 2006 by Dogbytes Post: Nano-Hive@Home Beta Forum
4) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Last one to post here wins! (Message 20855) Posted 22 Jul 2006 by Dogbytes Post:
5) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Dr. Baker's plea... (Message 20489) Posted 18 Jul 2006 by Dogbytes Post: OK, I've switched back over to this project. I was doing some heavy Malaria Control crunching while doing some Rosetta. Now all my nine hosts will be doing Rosetta once I run out the Malaria WU's...good luck to all and Dr. Baker.
6) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Joke Thread... (Message 19868) Posted 7 Jul 2006 by Dogbytes Post: On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple are involved in a fatal car accident. The couple find themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven. While waiting, they begin to wonder: Could they possibly get married in Heaven? When St. Peter showed up, they asked him. St. Peter says, "I don't know. This is the first time anyone has asked. Let me go find out", and he leaves. The couple sat and waited, and waited. Two months passed and the couple are still waiting. As they waited, they discussed that IF they were allowed to get married in Heaven, what was the eternal aspect of it all. "What if it doesn't work?" they wondered, "Are we stuck together FOREVER?" After yet another month, St. Peter finally returns, looking somewhat bedraggled. "Yes," he informs the couple, "you CAN get married in Heaven." "Great!" said the couple, "But we were just wondering, what if things don't work out? Could we also get a divorce in Heaven?" St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slams his clipboard onto the ground. "What's wrong?" asked the frightened couple. "OH, COME ON!" St. Peter shouts, "It took me three months to find a priest up here! Do you have ANY idea how long it'll take me to find a LAWYER!
7) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Personal Milestones (Message 19110) Posted 22 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: 2,000,000+ Boinc Total Credits
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Just want to say: "Hello, i'm back" (Message 18620) Posted 14 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: Welcome back Uli, I too am a returnee to Rosetta. The flagship project appears to be going into auto-destruct.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Report Problems with Rosetta Version 5.22 (Message 18485) Posted 12 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: The below linked WU has severe memory leakage...using >275Megs of CPU memory bringing the hosts commit charge to nearly 600Megs. WU was aborted by user. Aborted WU
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Report Problems with Rosetta Version 5.22 (Message 18483) Posted 12 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: The below linked WU crunched for over 2 hours, and yet was stuck at 0.00%. I aborted the unit because it appeared to be completely hung up, and stopped crunching. I would be interested to know what the problem was... Aborted 5.22 WU link
11) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Personal Milestones (Message 18353) Posted 10 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: Just hit the100,000 mark for Rosetta...I hope to make it to 200,000 shortly since I've got all my machines crunching over here.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Merge Computers (Message 18352) Posted 10 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: That's alot better now...thanks to ever fixed the function.
13) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : RAM Request (Message 18220) Posted 9 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: http://www.newegg.com Reasonable prices, large selection, fast service.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Attempted Hacking??? (Message 18202) Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: No pets. And my mouse is trackball optical.(I hate having to move around regular mice.) As far as my start page, Yahoo news is my own preferred setting(Even thought Yahoo sucks and helped China track down a few people for voicing their opinions).And since they get their new mostly from the Associated Press anyway, I should make the AP my start page. The only problem I ever have with start pages it the stupid IE keeps wanting to open up to microsoft update even though Yahoo news is my default start page. Finding the browser open didn't really bother me, but having the BOINC client locked out and give me an "incorrect password" message made me think that somthing was fishy. I would just as soon let the Boinc run and the internet connection shut off, it is a low speed,256k, connection, but the Boinc doesn't seem to like to work without an internet connection. Oh well. And thank you to everyone for responding. Ohh, and this free version of Bit defender is finding infected stuff. So thanks for the heads up on better virus software. But I do like some of the features of of Norton Internet Security. Like the Parental Controls for internet site viewing. Their are things that I like to keep my kids, away from online. Linksys routers (Cisco Systems) have a parental control next to none...but it takes some configuring, also you get the benefit of a real hard firewall as well.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Attempted Hacking??? (Message 18154) Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: Also be aware there is a VNC vulnerability that will allow anyone to take over your desktop if you have VNC server running (it's something you have to install, so if you don't know what VNC is, you probably don't have it). I was sitting at my work computer and suddenly the mouse started jumping around the screen. Fun stuff :) Good point, LOL. @ Tony...I remember that...the Seti Zombie. Try to find that at Symantec.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Attempted Hacking??? (Message 18153) Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: Also be aware there is a VNC vulnerability that will allow anyone to take over your desktop if you have VNC server running (it's something you have to install, so if you don't know what VNC is, you probably don't have it). I was sitting at my work computer and suddenly the mouse started jumping around the screen. Fun stuff :) Good point, LOL.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Attempted Hacking??? (Message 18146) Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: Has anyone noticed anything that resembles attempted hacking or unauthorized access to their personal computers since installing and running BOINC for Rosetta? I installed BOINC for the Rosetta project after reading about it a few days ago on Yahoo news and thought it a noble cause to dedicated my spare processing power to. When I get home from work at about 1 or 2 a.m. I turn on my pc, read then news, and go to bed, leaving my computer on for the time I am home to run the BOINC for Rosetta. I do not use the screen saver graphic, I just shut my monitor off to conserve power. The first morning I woke up, my web browser was open. I began to suspect unathorized entry then. I notices nothing amiss for the next two nights, but this morning when I woke up, I found I could not see any results on my BOINC manager and it gave me a message saying "Password not Accepted" and the Boinc manager was effectively locked out for me, I had to restart my pc to reset everything. Now...I am no security slouch. I have Norton Antivirus, Zonealarm Firewall, and two active spyware scanners all on at one time. Nothing gets through Zonealarm without my permission. The BOINC subsequently has permission, and I am wondering if someone is using it to try to access my computer. Has anyone else experienced problems like this??? Any suggestions outside of shutting off my internet connection while I am not online??? I have seen peeps using the same AVP/Firewall setup as you've got and their computers were riddled with malware. BTW, Norton uses up CPU cycle like a pig at the county fair and many anti-spyware programms don't react to the latest invaders and/or detect them once they're entrenched. For starters you should be using some sort of router with a hardware firewall as a gateway. It is better to stop a thief down the street than at your front door. The only really effective AVP's run in rootkit like Kaspersky and BitDefender. Norton, McAfee, AVG, Avast, (and they only update Dat files once a week or once a day instead of hourly) are all junk and give their users a false sense of security. If you feel that your computer has been compromised, you should consider backing up your critical personal files, doing a destructive F&R, then installing a decent AVP and washing your backup disc first before reloading it. There is nothing known in Boinc that causes any specific security issues at this moment. Of all the AVP's on the market I recommend Kaspersky. It currently has 199,284 Dat files that cover all known bugs including mal/spyware up to 1 hour ago. It is better at detecting spyware than any anti-sypware program out there. Remember another thing, when it's free, you get what you paid for, i.e. nothing. Ad-aware is one of the biggest pieces of junk out there, BTW.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't merge computers (Message 18074) Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: I would like to merge two computers which are in fact the same computer (it happened when I reattached to the project). In other projects, I was able to merge by selecting a computer from the list of computers and click the "merge.." link at the bottom of the page. In this project, there is no link. Thanks for the input but I don't see a merge computer at the bottom of the page on my comptuers. I'm not trying to be funny but do you have any more suggestions ?? John John, host merging is currently disabled. We need to update the MySQL software before we can allow merging once again. We're trying this on RALPH and if all goes well we'll implement the same upgrade here. -KEL Does anyone have an estimated time frame when the merge computer function will be enabled. My computers really need some spring cleaning.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Very slow computer boot up since adding Rosetta (Message 18073) Posted 8 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: Hi all; On my fairly new laptop I added Boinc and Seti about 2 months ago. A few weeks later I added Rosetta and ever since then my poor computer takes forever to boot up. I ran anti-virus and spyware checks, did the ctl-alt-delete thing to see if anything else was running but other than boinc being active they were all normal. Before Rosetta this particular laptop took about 2 minutes to boot, not its more than 5 minutes. The only thing I can think of is that Boinc is up and running before the boot up is completed which is taking up resources. Is there any way to delay boinc actually doing any work until the boot process is completed? Any other ideas? Thanks, John I had a similar problem before and found out that while I had Boinc in the start up, the AVP was also starting up at the same time...the two clients were at logger heads with each other. This is just a possiblity worth checking out.
20) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : 2800 new hosts!! R@H gains more hosts than SETI! (Message 17836) Posted 6 Jun 2006 by Dogbytes Post: That's because alot of peeps are bailing out of Seti in droves. Einstein and Rosetta are obviously the main beneficiaries of Berkeley's "let them eat cake" mentality.

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