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What is the pixel height of the dialog on the problem system? What is the screen size?

AFAIK there are no compatibility issues. If the new client gets a set of prefs from a project that doesn't include the not-in-use prefs, it will use the corresponding in-use...

Running any BOINC app causes a noticeable increase in battery drain rate, because of the polling loops in client and API. So running NCI apps while on battery shouldn't be...

Is there a bug here, or is it just about compiler warnings?

It's C++ code that does the same thing as existing PHP code. If it's significantly faster maybe it's useful, but it's not clear that it is faster.

BTW, the client continues to process GUI RPCs - while waiting for scheduler and account manager RPC responses - while doing large file copies or unzip/verify In other words, it's...

There are two approaches. One is to make the Manager responsive even when GUI RPCs are taking a long time. This led to the blocking/non-blocking distinction. We spent a lot...

The parameter itself (max_ncpus_pct) is stored and parsed as a double. The rounding down happens when it's used to calculat the # of CPUs fo use: n = (int)((host_info.p_ncpus *...

NPUs fit into BOINC's 'coprocessor' framework. What are the APIs by which NPUs can be accessed?