Hi there

I just bought a iBook instead of a MS Windows Notebook for work related reasons. My decision was eased knowing that I will be also able to crunch for climateprediction as I do on my MS Windows PC for months.

My first excitement cooled, as I learned, that the instalation would not be that easy as it was with the Windows Version. Nevermind I hired my local Apple supplier here in Peru to make the instalation, and was happely crunching for two days. When I was adviced to download the new version of mac OS X, I clicked on download (without thinking) and more important without exiting the climatprediction process and Terminal. During downloading I was asked to restart my computer and since then i am sitting behind a black screen with the message: "panic: We are hanging here..." and I will be without mac over the weekend, my local apple store will not have time to try to fix it until monday:(
Might be a good idea to put more emphasis to make a more fool proved version of BOINC for Mac.
Roland

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Sorry to hear about your problems, klepel. Everything waits until the weekend to go wrong. :(

BOINC is a Berkley, California, program.
However, maybe one of <a href="http://members.dslextreme.com/~readerforum/forum_team/boinc.html"> these</a> programs will help.

Or you could ask on the BOINC site.

Les

Les

Thanks for yours cheers up! As I learned in the meanwhile. My memory on the mainboard went down. Didn't have anything to do with climateprediction.net. Except it might have overheated, crunching 48 hours.

Roland

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Heat is one of the two main problems with this project; the other is overclocking.

Ibook ... Is this a laptop? If so, try raising it a bit above the desk, with the back higher than the front.
This will allow greater air flow when it's run continuously. There are also laptop cooling units, which sit
underneath it. Basicly a fan, I think.
For a cheap, portable solution, use 4 erasers.

Les

A more probable answer is that the new version of the Mac OS you downloaded and installed just prior to the "panic" had more stringent memory requirements and didn't like some of your installed memory. This has occurred for a number people with many of the OS upgrades...

For advice on installing Mac OS upgrades, and other Mac help, check out MacFixIt.com - a truly superb resource. General rules:

fix permissions in Disk Utility BEFORE installing the upgrade
install upgrade with nothing else running
fix permissions again after install is complete and machine has been restarted


&gt; Les
&gt;
&gt; Thanks for yours cheers up! As I learned in the meanwhile. My memory on the
&gt; mainboard went down. Didn't have anything to do with climateprediction.net.
&gt; Except it might have overheated, crunching 48 hours.
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&gt; Roland
&gt;

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