David Anderson
David Anderson
Have we decided what constitutes private information? For example: user name. When we ask for it, we call it 'screen name', which implies that it's public. It's shown on the...
Let's focus on the question of what to include in the XML stats export. The web code currently shows, for each user, - user name - URL - avg and...
Text shown to users shouldn't include variable names like 'suspend_cpu_usage'. It should use names from the prefs UI. These names are pretty much consistent between the web prefs interface and...
It should say "Request tasks to checkpoint every N seconds". Apps can checkpoint only at particular points in their execution. The semantics of the pref: N seconds after the last...
This would be a major change, and I haven't seen any multi-GPU apps.
Is this on Win? The client detects vbox by looking in the registry. I couldn't repro this with vbox 7.0.8 and boinc master. Maybe it's related to the installer.
Currently the client tries ports 6000..6006. In theory X is allocated 6000..6063: https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=x11 Since there's already a reported non-X11 use of 6003, I propose changing the client to check only...
It's a bad design decision to use a port that's officially allocated to X11.
Please try to reproduce this on the client emulator: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/sim_web.php
Unfortunately the simulation doesn't show the problem. If it happens again, try it again with the state files at that point.