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When trying to get a remote computer to talk to my main one, I have to wait to see if BoincTasks gets the connection or not, and I'm never sure how long to wait!  Some way of telling it to retry immediately would be helpful.

Thanks!  That works perfectly, I just set long term history to 0 days and 0 hours.

I have a ridiculous number of computers running boinc, so I'd like sometimes to see the history of ONE computer to check on problems with a particular project for example - is this possible?

BUG!!!

It works ok until I try to sort ^2 on the computer column.  The computer column always takes precedence, no matter if you select ^ or ^2.

See here:

Milkyway has a priority 3 times higher than Moo, yet I noticed Moo was doing way more work than Milkyway.  These are both set to ATI only, and I'm looking at the ATI debts).  So I looked at the debts for each project to try and work out what was going on.  Can anyone explain what these numbers mean?  To me a debt means it has to do more work.  So a negative debt means it does NOT have to do more work.  Is this the right way round?  Milkyway has a long term debt of 0 and a short term debt of 13.334052.  Moo has a long term debt of -783246.958682 and a short term debt of -60914.118392.

Indeed. There are a lot of BOINC users, who (simplified said) do it just for the competition.

Doesn't apply to me, I just want to know how well I'm doing, for the project's sake.  I do this to advance science etc, and cause I like to see how much I can get my poor overworked beast of a computer to do!

It's a rather expensive to run heater at the moment - it actually blew a 3 amp plug fuse.

So can you get that on anyone or does the user have to have an account with whoever that is?

I think BT should display ranking data just for the users and projects it is able to see managed clients. But that's fred's decision
Let's see in which form it will be presented

I didn't mean I wanted to see other people in there, I just wondered if it was possible to get the rankings for me if I didn't have an account manager.  From the other part of your post, I see it is.

It can, but it may take some time.
I will add it in so that it will NOT cause any overhead for those who don't use it.
Shouldn't be too complicated.

Thanks!!

Don't you find it nice to know how well you are doing compared to others?

Yes, brilliant.  So can you get that on anyone or does the user have to have an account with whoever that is?

Can that be integrated into the Boinc Tasks code?

BAM account manager keeps stats.  If you could get this from their server.....

http://boincstats.com/search/all_projects.php?cpid=53ed9d9b7d568cb7eb1ccc25a7dc4492

Oops, yes "account manager".

So is the only option a stats file from every project or a stats file from a project manager?  If a project manager could be contacted that would be good, as presumably the stats for all your projects could be grabbed in one file, say once a day or less.  Or even the project manager might give just the rankings list?

Oops, yes I forgot BT is seperated from BOINC somewhat.  So there would have to be a separate contact made with the project server.  But nevertheless, it's just a "what position is Peter in", "324".  Not really an overhead.

Surely the question could be asked of the project server at the same time as the project is updating.  It already receives the number of points you have, all it needs is one more number.

Not sure why you think there would be "added overhead".  It's just a check for a number.  It's not downloading much data.  Compared to the projects downloading and uploading tasks, it would be nothing.