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I recently found a project in the Active Projects list, called "SETI@CAMRAS" | |
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After a brief look around the "project" web site ... I AGREE things look suspicious. | |
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"SETI@CAMRAS" Well, first of all, look at the front page. While at a few days before it only stated that it's a TEST project, there's now a bit more of info a few lines below. -31752 Signups, same name format, all within the last 24 hours, and all with the same name format (MorganBundy, JamesLivings, "FirstName LastName Numbers" Nothing new, typical bot accounts probably, there's obviously no CAPTCHA or an invitation code activated to prevent that. -The hosts list doesn't have a single host with credit No wonder, there wasn't any work until now, this will soon change for sure. Since the app was activated now and appeared here (again), I looked at the server status page and saw a lot of wus. Since there's only a Linux app I connected my Linux-VB and finished the first tasks already. They are very short and sometimes there are download problems, but work is done, although pending so far ____________ Life is Science, and Science rules. To the universe and beyond Member of BOINC@Heidelberg My BOINC-Stats | |
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I had an account there but when I tried to login it said no such account exists, detached now it won't let me create another account ... | |
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now it won't let me create another account ... With the manager? If it doesn't work, try the create_account_form.php, still seems to work, I made my team leader account with it. For some reason all the teams were already imported but not the accounts with it... ____________ Life is Science, and Science rules. To the universe and beyond Member of BOINC@Heidelberg My BOINC-Stats | |
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I had a BOINC Mgr notice saying I had no account key and like others said I had no account when I attempted to log in. Now my team has no founder. | |
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I joined on the 8/3/19 as user number 16, I added two computers, and have waited (with everyone else) for the project to set itself up and have everything working before they they were going to send out work (this was stated by Marc the Admin). | |
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(As of 10:30 PM EST, 4 April 2019): I suspect every BOINC project in existence is plagued by those bogus accounts. Most projects allow you to sign up via your BOINC client, so there's no CAPTCHA or other type of BOT test. I'm not 100% sure why spammers create hundreds of accounts per day on each project, but they do. As an admin, it's an incredible nuisance as it causes the database to needlessly grow without bound. It bothers me that the spammers found a new project that quickly. Where are they getting their information? But it doesn't mean the project is bogus. (When I got around to writing a program to erase those accounts off of PrimeGrid, the first time it ran it erased three quarters of a million bogus accounts.) ____________ Want to find one of the largest known primes? Try PrimeGrid. Or help cure disease at WCG. | |
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now it won't let me create another account ... Not that big a deal for me right now since there's only a Linux App. I don't run Linux, have been trying to get Ubuntu latest version to install on 1 Box but it never installs. Act's like it's installing but when it's done nothing is there, doesn't give me a option to boot into Linux just goes into windows. When I check the partition it's supposed to be on there's nothing there ... weird EDIT I did get a account recreated | |
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now it won't let me create another account ... Steve, this might be of interest. Allows you to install linux natively inside windows. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 ____________ | |
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Not sure if it took or not, not asking me to reboot compter once I enter the command ... | |
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When I need to run linux for whatever reason (unless that reason is "run a GPU app"), I use the free VMWare player and run linux inside a VM. There's other free VMs one can use as well. This way, I don't have to give up the Windows box, which may be in use. Just start up the Linux VM whenever it's needed and let it run in the background. I find this a lot easier than a dual boot setup. | |
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Not sure if it took or not, not asking me to reboot compter once I enter the command ... Start-Windows Powershell, right-click, run as Administrator. Then run that command ____________ | |
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Worked that time as Administrator, will have to see if I can get the rest of it right ... Thanks Bok | |
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I have it installed again, didn't get the password in the 1'st time, how do I install boinc on it ? | |
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Well My recreated Hosts and I believe, me as well, are gone again, Can't find Host record, Missing or invalid account key, to fix remove and re-add project. | |
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