Posts by Garrulus glandarius

1) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 11875)
Posted 25 days ago by Garrulus glandarius
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Spacious seems to be working now. Testing a few tasks on some of my rigs.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 11788)
Posted 24 Sep 2025 by Garrulus glandarius
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The first batch of WUs was released for XTrack 0.41 beta test on LHC@home
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Badge upgrades thread (Message 11719)
Posted 13 Aug 2025 by Garrulus glandarius
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There is also TN-Grid and SiDock but they are still getting there next lot of work organized and have no work at the moment.



I joined them both and also RNAworld a few months ago, waiting for something to pup up. Thanks!
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Badge upgrades thread (Message 11716)
Posted 12 Aug 2025 by Garrulus glandarius
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Finally got my first badge! Pretty difficult to get since I'm only doing medical and astrophysics related projects + LHC. I can't imagine how long it will take to get my second star, if ever!
5) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Adding WUProp on old Android devices (Message 11626)
Posted 15 Jun 2025 by Garrulus glandarius
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Step 1: Use a recent BOINC version (partially due to bundled Internet certificates; older BOINC will have older certificates, and some may have expired by now). As of this post, the most recent version is 8.2.1. (Note: The oldest device I have running 8.2.1 is an Android 9 Phone; it's the oldest device overall that I have. For tablets, I have one, running Android 15.)
Step 2: Use the 3-dot drop-down menu next to the '+' option; you should see an "Add by URL" option. (The "+", 'obviously', pulls from the preset list.)
Step 3: In the 'main' settings (you MIGHT need to select "Show Advanced Settings" to make this appear), select the RPC option; this way tasks will validate. (Otherwise they'll run and return, but won't validate - it won't recognize any hours from the other projects you are running at the same time.)


Man, I would never have figured out that to add projects by URL you have to open the "Projects" menu, and not the (otherwise logical) "Add project" submenu...
I was running 8.0.2 on all mentioned devices, ugraded to 8.2.1 on my current phone (Android 13) but I managed to add WUProp on an old phone (Android 9) and 2 tablets (Android 4.4.4) still running 8.0.2 without issues. Already got 4 validated tasks on the new phone and 2 tasks each on the old devices. Got one more tablet (Android 6) that needs fixing tomorrow, but I don't expect any issues.

Thanks a lot for your detailed help!

p.s.: Yeah, I did the version upgrade straight from the official BOINC site.
6) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Adding WUProp on old Android devices (Message 11622)
Posted 14 Jun 2025 by Garrulus glandarius
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Sorry for the dumb question, but no matter how I searched, I couldn't find any usable information about adding WUProp on Android. It doesn't show up among available projects (not even on my new-ish phone) and I didn't find a place where I could manually add the project based on its URL. Is there some elaborate workaround to make WUProp run on Android, especially old tablets?
7) Message boards : Number crunching : New app on Denis@home (Message 11620)
Posted 13 Jun 2025 by Garrulus glandarius
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It has appeared :)
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Problems with SSD & USB Drives over 500 MB ? (Message 11617)
Posted 12 Jun 2025 by Garrulus glandarius
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I talked to the people who sold them & they agreed to give me a 50% refund
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they were shipped from China


Seems like you got bamboozled. If the product were legit they would either:
a) ask for serious proof that they are duds and either give a full refund or weasel out of it
b) be good guys and give a full refund, no questions asked

50% refund is just enough to make you give up without feeling too bad about it and they still made a hefty profit.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : New app on Denis@home (Message 11615)
Posted 12 Jun 2025 by Garrulus glandarius
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How long does it usually take for new apps to be tracked? I just added WUProp to all my rigs right when a batch of DENIS fiber 1.00 tasks got released. The first WUProp tasks have finished and they only counted the hours for the beta version of the app.




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