BOINC 6.12.26

[Maxwell]

We need a discussion spot that's not in the Aqua thread...

New release. Been out almost a week now. Messages tab is gone, and for that we weep. But what about some of the other features?

* New: Project notices. This feature is designed to help projects improve communication between themselves and the volunteers by automatically displaying project news within the BOINC Manager
* New: VirtualBox Detection for projects that want to process work within a Virtual Machine
* New: New BOINC Skin for the simple GUI
* Fix: Numerous CPU/GPU scheduling fixes
* Fix: Numerous work-fetch fixes
* Fix: Adjust permissions when installed as a service so that project GPU applications are not denied access to GPU DLLs (WinXP and Win2000 Only)

The "GPU works when installed as a service" and the VBox thing seem particularly interesting... anyone test these or other features out?

[bmwr606]

"messages" are not gone, look under the Advanced tab, the bottom choice, Event Log

the messges appear in a new window

there is also a keyboard shortcut, <control> <shift> <E>

[Mr. Hankey]

Well the new messages being a window and not a tab sucks... the new notices tab is friggin annoying and we (users) should be able to disable that if we choose.... but the huge thing I just noticed that will probably make me upgrade all of my boxes to 6.12.26 is the additional support you get from BAM when using the new client. I hadn't noticed it before today. But this is really cool

With bam you can now do this!

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[trigggl]

Well the new messages being a window and not a tab sucks...

It did really bother me at first, but it has come in handy a time or two, to be able to watch it while I was updating a project or doing some other thing and wanted to see what was going on without switching over.

[Fire$torm]

I'll wait until all you bleeding-edge techies figure out workarounds for the bugs.........

[YoDude9999]

I tried it, didn't like it, switched back.

[DrPop]

Only possible problem I noticed so far is that once when I shut it down, it was obvious it didn't really shut down the projects- cpu was still pegged at 100%. Other than that funky episode, it's worked OK so far for me.

[Maxwell]

I reformatted the lappy the other day and put this version on it. I dislike messages being hidden (duh). But even worse is that the Projects tab is no longer the first tab, and the Tasks tab is no longer the second. I form habits quickly, and breaking them is tough and irritating, especially when trying to do things quickly.

[joker]

especially when trying to do things quickly.

My Mom has mentioned that.................................

[trigggl]

I found something I REALLY love about 6.12.26!

It installs with Wine. The previous version I tried wouldn't.

I'm running Gerasim on one of my dual cores right now with Wine. Another 10k, here I come.