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Posts by Mr P Hucker

1) Message boards : News : Separation Project Coming To An End (Message 76737)
Posted 27 Dec 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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I see that trolls grow everywhere, even in beautiful projects.
It was a fair comment. Why deliberately use an incompatible computer, then moan the program isn't available for it?
2) Message boards : News : Separation Project Coming To An End (Message 76734)
Posted 27 Dec 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Can I help you in any way to port the application to macOS?
Maybe you ought to use a computer for grown ups.
3) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Children’s Respite Home closed by Network Rail’s Heartless Action (Message 76605)
Posted 9 Nov 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Sorry for the off topic post, but I stayed at this campsite/B&B/kid's charity and would hate to see it closed down. Network Rail never paid them the £250K damage they caused by making a flood by blocking a stream. Now they're doing this. It seems Network Rail operate above the law.

https://chng.it/HFyDCQzLvm

Please sign and share.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Thread to report issues after server migration (Message 76550)
Posted 4 Nov 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Windows, being windows, uses the same cert store for the OS and the browser, which is why those clients aren't having problems as they already have the certs in their cert store.
Sounds like Windows is very sensible, why have two copies of the same thing?
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Thread to report issues after server migration (Message 76549)
Posted 4 Nov 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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P.S. I note that the new master URL has -new added, but the web site doesn't -- is that the long-term plan or will the master URL end up changing back to not having -new in it?
milkyway-new.cs.rpi.edu is the master address but using just milkyway.cs.rpi.edu will also reach milkyway-new. This is the way the security team here at RPI set it up.
Seems to be working fine on my 10 Windows machines which I left connected to the old address. Can I just leave them there forever? This thread seems to be full of people creating a problem by reattaching when not necessary.
6) Message boards : News : Migrating MilkyWay@home to a New Server (Message 76548)
Posted 4 Nov 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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How do we add the project back in?

I seem to be getting an error message that says try again later
I didn't know there was a URL change, and the old one still works, I just left it as it is.
7) Message boards : News : Migrating MilkyWay@home to a New Server (Message 76547)
Posted 4 Nov 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Yes Win11 is much better than Win10 but just so you know Win11 does do some 'urgent' updates that under Win10 were classified as 'normal', so you might want to be aware of them too and no you can't just not do them unlesss you have the Pro version or are willing to go thru the Management Console or what we used to call Services.
Registry:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU

Add NoAutoUpdate and set to 1.
8) Message boards : News : Migrating MilkyWay@home to a New Server (Message 76546)
Posted 4 Nov 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Great job guys!.:D If you're updating to Windows 11
I doubt it, Boinc server only runs on geeky Linux. Unless you're that Russian project who managed to convert it.
9) Message boards : News : Separation Application Shutting Down on Tuesday, Jun 20th (Message 76474)
Posted 2 Nov 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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well it was dead for two weeks before you just bumped it...
+1
sorry - need at the least new specs
have been away for a while and just wanted to post something "useless"
cheers S-F-V
Discombobulate!
10) Message boards : News : News General (Message 76380)
Posted 13 Sep 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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I believe that others have had the same problem.
Yes, most if not all of them because of not allowing BOINC to use 100% of CPU time.
Why would someone deliberately put "1%" in that option?
11) Message boards : News : News General (Message 76379)
Posted 13 Sep 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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BUT the software isn't optimized to handle any of that except by accident and for most people they would never take the time to figure out which is best, it's alot like at Prime Grid where they advise people to not use hyperthreading to crunch their tasks and to limit AMD cpu cores to stay on a single 'chiclet' yet people still say 'I've got 24 cpu's cores and I'm putting them all on one task and it's working so I'm okay'. Little do they realize that with a bit of tweaking they could easily get 2 or even 3 times the output that they are getting now.
Primegrid folk aren't right in the head. If it works better with less threads, the server should hand them out that way.
12) Message boards : News : News General (Message 76378)
Posted 13 Sep 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Even without improvements, any parallel code that does not use 100% of a critical resource may benefit from running more threads, so as one thread is busy elsewhere, the other thread can use the resource. I used to use double the CPU core count to ensure close to max throughput. If Intel hyperthreaded processors, one might even double that.
If? Here's the latest one, the performance cores have HT:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/232167/intel-core-i913900ks-processor-36m-cache-up-to-6-00-ghz/specifications.html
13) Message boards : News : Separation Application Shutting Down on Tuesday, Jun 20th (Message 76313)
Posted 27 Jul 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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And you're still subscribed to it, you must be interested in what you say you aren't.
14) Message boards : News : Separation Application Shutting Down on Tuesday, Jun 20th (Message 76262)
Posted 13 Jul 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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But you think it's possible to program a benchmark that can test everything? LMAO
Everything is not huge. There are a limited number of types of program. And what's with the acronyms I expect from a kid on a mobile phone?
15) Message boards : News : Separation Application Shutting Down on Tuesday, Jun 20th (Message 76261)
Posted 13 Jul 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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bronze medal in the Strawman and Deflection event!
Anyone using the term strawman doesn't have an argument of his own.
16) Message boards : News : Separation Application Shutting Down on Tuesday, Jun 20th (Message 76257)
Posted 13 Jul 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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sounds like a skill issue. if you can't code just say that.
Nobody can code or there wouldn't be bugs.
only silver medal in the Mental Gymnastics and Logical Fallacy Biathlon this time.

gotta try harder next time.
Are you incapable of an adult discussion? We all know every program ever written is full of bugs, therefore programmers are morons. Even the design of the programs are all wrong, take a look at the mess they've made of Windows.
17) Message boards : News : Separation Application Shutting Down on Tuesday, Jun 20th (Message 76256)
Posted 13 Jul 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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Oh yeah. Sure, it's so easy. Wonder why no one, including the people who make money off benchmarks hasn't thought of that. Hmmm.

You must be brilliant.
Because they're fools.
18) Message boards : News : Separation Application Shutting Down on Tuesday, Jun 20th (Message 76252)
Posted 13 Jul 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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sounds like a skill issue. if you can't code just say that.
Nobody can code or there wouldn't be bugs.
19) Message boards : News : Separation Application Shutting Down on Tuesday, Jun 20th (Message 76250)
Posted 13 Jul 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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And I'm tired of you not understanding it's very easy to write a benchmark which tests everything, then you could have a gaming score, a video editing score, a Boinc type score, etc, etc. All you need is a bunch of instructions of the type used in these projects.
Since it’s so easy. I very much look forward to your all encompassing benchmark. It’s sure to take over the world. How much time do you need? A couple hours should do it, no? It’s really an easy thing after all.
I'm not a programmer, I lack the stupidity.
20) Message boards : News : Separation Application Shutting Down on Tuesday, Jun 20th (Message 76246)
Posted 13 Jul 2023 by Mr P Hucker
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But who would pay you to do the testing
You offer the program free to test home machines. Millions run it to check if their machine is running ok, the result is uploaded to the database, and they make a big list.

companies don't care about Boinc scores, or this score or that score especially if it isn't similar to someplace elses scores,
Well Epycs seem to have been designed for Boinc or something similar.


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