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Howdy, I am James. I have been using Boinc since before there was a Boinc, back in 2001 when it was just the old-fashioned SETI programme.

I discontinued working with distributed computing in 2003 when a tornado destroyed my computer. and SETI became Boinc.

The original Boinc programme was User-Antagonistic, and when I asked for help as a non-computer programmer or geek (one who tells computer how to operate in my parlance) all I got was hate mail in my E-box and flamed for my lack of knowledge on the forum saying I shouldn\'t be operating computers. I have enough knowledge to puzzle out E-mail and play games. Fine, they obviiously didn\'t need my distributed computer or its twenty free hours a day,

But I thought I would try once more, five years later. My choice is to work with climate change, as I have had a a long-running interest in weather going back to age ten or so. But I am still not a programmer, and no doubt I will be frequently here to ask for assistance. If you can put up with that, my computer is at your disposal about 20 hours a day.

And SETI? I was on it recently, but they changed over to this thing called Astropulse with 400 hour data blocks, and about at 300 my computer would cough up a \"computation error\" with no explaination, and over 500 hours of computing time has gone uncredited because of it. It was a waste of my time, and electricity to keep going with SETI.

James. Don\'t leave home without him.

Hi James. Welcome to the project.

The message about BBCodes is actually a link to a page that explains BBCodes. Which may not help much at first. (<- That\'s done using BBCodes.)

If you look at my sig at the bottom, you\'ll see some more of them in action; colour (spelt the American way), and links to other pages. If you click on them and go to those pages, you\'ll find help, hints, and tips.

This project, too, started before BOINC. As such it had it\'s own web pages, which are the ones linked to below. That site (totally separate, and needs a separate registration to post), has better posting facilities, and was upgraded a short while ago to both version 3 of the PHP boards, and to Drupal.

The models here can be worse than the SETI Astropule; some of them will take a year or so to complete on a slow computer. And regular backups (only available manually), are a good way to ensure that you can complete them.

If you have problems, just ask; we don\'t mind. Although asking for help in either the Windows or Number crunching areas is better. Or even on the other board that I mentioned above.

One tip right at the start: ALWAYS shut down BOINC in the Manager\'s menu BEFORE either turning off your computer or hibernating it. Otherwise the model won\'t get enough time to close all of it\'s files, and you\'re likely to lose the model.

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Hi James and welcome to CPDN and the forum.

We hope you will find CPDN and BOINC more user-friendly than what happened during your previous experience. There are lots of non-geeks crunching here. Unfortunately some of them still don\'t dare to post, but it\'s often the people who do dare post and ask questions who learn fastest.

BBCode are special tags rather like the HTML tags used to format web pages. But they\'re simplified and are supposed to be easy to use. When you are posting a forum message you can click on the \'Use BBCode tags\' link to the left of the posting box to see how to use the tags.

For example, if you want to post something in bold letters, you type the opening [b ] tag first, then the closing [/b ] tag. If you do it for real and leave no spaces inside the tags, when you post the reply the tags are hidden and it appears like this.

The CPDN models are long. We expect a much shorter type of model to be released for CPDN members soon. You can read about it in the forum News thread which is at the top of the forum Number Crunching section.

We\'ve tried to collect as much advice as possible to help CPDN members run their models to completion, ie without crashing. It would probably be a good idea to have a look at the CPDN README collections; there\'s a link in my signature.

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