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Back up

In case you have not noticed, we are back online. Things got a little more tricky than my ISP anticipated, resulting in no connectivity until early today (local time). Of course this coinsided with other things I had to attend to, which is why I could not write this 10 hours ago when things started getting back up.

Blog

I have setup a blog at http://blog.esea2.dk which already contain something of interest for BOS users.

Homepage updates

On the homepage you will now be able to find 3rd party tools for BOS. Some of these are created by fans of BOS, some are made by BOS developers themselves (currently just me). First two have already been added: The BOINC Server Status by Gandalf, which is a Yahoo Widgets widget that enables you to have the BOS image on your desktop - and the BOS Google gadget that enables you to have the image on your Google personalized homepage. The homepage has also been updated with info on the XML version and the Account Creation Status XML. A further note, this RSS feed has been added to Google.

Reminder of down time

Remember: This weekend I will change the hard drive with the database. Just had some trouble getting it running yet again. So expect some down time.

Updated static images

Static images have not been enhanced since Chess960@home, so now I have added Leiden Classical, VTU@home, TANPAKU, Nano-Hive@home, Rectilinear Crossing Numbers, Riesel Sieve, Proteins@home, Spinhenge@home, Docking@home, Project Neuron, RenderFarm@home, BOINC Alpha, DepSpid, ABC@home Beta, BelgianBeer@home, climateprediction.net beta, WEP-M+2 Project, ABC@home and TheMinouche Research Laboratories Distributed Rainbow Table Generator to the full image and seperate images for each of these projects. Sorry for the wait.

Projects added to URL generator

The following projects was never added to the URL generator, but are now: Proteins@home, Docking@home, Project Neuron, RenderFarm@home, BOINC Alpha, DepSpid, ABC@home beta, BelgianBeer@home, climateprediction.net beta, WEP-M+2 Project, ABC@home and TheMinouche Research Laboratories Distributed Rainbow Table Generator. Sorry for the wait.

Ampersand corrected

Ampersand was not always output correctly. This has been corrected.

BBcode URL fully working

BBcode part of the URL generator did not work with the following projects: Leiden Classical, VTU@home, TANPAKU, Nano-Hive@home, Rectilinear Crossing Numbers, Riesel Sieve and Spinhenge@home. This has been corrected. Sorry for the inconvenience.

DepSpid display not accurate

Due to the IP for DepSpid changing once a day, BOS may display the project as Unreachable although it is online. The only way to correct this at my end would be to reboot the server every day. I am not going to do that, and I do not even know when to do this. They are working on a solution, as this also affects the BOINC core client, so until then, please bare with me. Once the scheduler is up three days in a row and BOS also displays that, you will know that re-starting/re-booting to fetch work/return work will no longer be needed.

Bug with Docking@home

Docking@home implementation had a bug that would influence the hight of the image, and thereby hight of text, for all projects when choosing either which projects not to show or choosing which projects to show. This has been corrected.

Three added projects

Added BelgianBeer@home, climateprediction.net beta and WEP-M+2 to the image and XML export today.

XML export available

XML export of BOS is available. I will add a page about this to the web site later, until then find more in the message boards.

Message boards support

I have promissed to add better support for message boards, but it seems I will have to delay this. My initial trials have failed with a big bang, and as far as I have researched this is due to my non-apache web server. I have already planned to change to apache, but this is a bit of a complex process, as I want to disturb people least possible and I do have lots of asp that would need to be re-written in php. So please bare with me on that delay. In the meantime I am contemplating a temporary alternative, that consists of registrering to the site, designing your image, which will then be created as a static image. This solution will include the possibility of designing multiple images if needed.

Site down today

The website was down today for unknown reasons. When I left for work this morning everything was ok. But as I got to work things was already off, and there was nothing I could do remotely (although a few thing were attempted, not knowing the cause). As I got home it was clear that my suspicions were wrong. It was not due to too many connections. Lots of error messages from boincview covered the screen, as well as error messages saying div. php modules could not be found. I suspect things just got overloaded due to repeated error messages from boincview filling up the memory - I have seen this before, but not nearly to this degree, and it has always been when I was home. Anyway, things should be up and running again.

Outage notice

This weekend there will be one or more down periods. I finaly got the cords and cables I ordered, so I will work on the RAID setup and drive imaging. Hopefully it will work as planned. I do see a possible problem, though: the Y-cords may be too short. But I will see if I can make things fit anyway.

Riesel Sieve unreachable

It displays unreachable, but it is up. Only they've changed some DNS making it impossible to reach them for a brief period, unless you make some changes. I will keep things as they are at my end on purpose - not many would make the changes needed, and those changes would only be needed for a brief period - this way you will be able to see when things are back to normal.

Server down tomorrow

Server will be down tomorrow while I install the new network adapter.

Downtime

While the site hasn't been up consistently the past few weeks, I'm getting closer to get there.This weekend I can promise some downtime, as I'll install the new IDE/RAID controller, and some new harddrives - hopefully the new network adapter will have arrived as well, so I can install that one too.During installation of new harddrives I'll try to do some back-up and restore to set up some RAID 1 for the system/boot drive and/or the database drive - or at least make the replacement of the old drives with the new ones.I don't expect this to be hassle free, so longer downtime periods are to be expected.

Added projects

Some projects have been added to the BOS image for a while, but have not been added to the URL generator. Those have now been added to the URL generator. Those projects are: Leiden Classical, VTU@home and TANPAKU. Recently added projects are: Rectilinear Crossing Numbers (called RCN on the image), Riesel Sieve and Spinhenge@home. A special thanks to bryan of Riesel Sieve and Thomas Hilbig of Spinhenge@home for providing me with the needed URLs for those projects as I do not yet participate in those projects myself.

Boards online

Message boards are now online at http://www.esea.dk/bos/forum/index.php - link is available from the site (opens in new window).

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