Christian Beer

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Needs to be tested if this is still happening in current 7.6.33

I updated the comments here so they are better readable. The request in the comment above still seems to be valid.

This does not exclusively apply to Android and is also relevant for Linux on ARM where you usually have a battery. Relates to general preference changes as suggested in #41

This is intentional and the user is redirected to the project website (at least when adding an account via Manager) to change the name. This does not happen when using...

How could this information be exploited by a hacker? The vital information about IP-Adress and hostname are hidden from the public. All the attacker sees is meta information about a...

That was my point. If someone knows an IP address how does he know which host on a certain BOINC project does it belong to?

I did a bit experimenting with the sd-bus API to determine the idle state. I have a small test program but it always reports the system as not idle. I...

We should definitely keep the fallback for systems that don't have X. What @Germano0 wants is a way to disable the access to `/dev` for certain Linux distributions that use...

Summary of discussion above: Some Linux distributions don't want the BOINC Client to access anything in `/dev` or there is no XServer available at runtime. Thus the conclusion was to...

Is there a science application that utilizes Mali type GPUs? According to the [Mali T-600 Developer Guide](http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.dui0538f/DUI0538F_mali_t600_opencl_dg.pdf) one needs to retune existing OpenCL application when using Mali GPUs. There is...