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Hi all

The project for Sprint #20 has now been randomly selected.

Edit: Project admin has now confirmed that the selected project will be online and have tasks available for this Sprint

The project is NFS@home

regards

Tim

Hi all

The project for Sprint #19 has been randomly selected.

Edit: Project admin has now confirmed that the selected project will be online and have tasks available for this Sprint

The project is SRBase

regards

Tim

Microsoft are threatening to close the door on the TPM workaround and equally annoyingly close the door on a Windows install without logging into a Microsoft account. Hiya Yes, I've seen on other tech websites that Micro$oft are doing their best to ensure they can monetise their software as much as...

Hi Tim and everyone, I don't know why are so many people concerned with the 'latest hardware' issue for running Windows 11. I am installing win11 right from the very first UEFI-systems, literally from Intel 2nd-gen. It shouldn't be an obstacle. Although from this year I am also trying to use more L...

Boinc policy appears to be go going the other way, using virtual machines on Windows running Linux through WSL. At least one project has been issuing tasks for that setup - I can't remember which project but I had a few tasks shortly after I configured Windows, I don't appear to have any now. Hiya ...

And it's too bad Ramanujan still has some work, because windows only projects are a PINA :D (probably - one of - the last one ?) Hi I guess that this is dependent on whether the project has the resources to create a Linux client and this might be beyond some projects abilities. And secondly, there ...

Hi all Once this Sprint finishes, there are just 6 more left for you and your team to earn more FB points (other than in the Marathon). You should note that the number of possible projects to be selected for a Sprint is reducing all the time, as some projects have few (or even zero) tasks available....

Hi all, the Gerasim project has known a massive failure recently. Seems to be ok now except for the database with no backup. So the rankings for the Marathon are now a complete mess for this project. Any idea how to manage this issue? Should the rankings be cleared or unvalidated for this year? Tha...

Hi all

The project for Sprint #18 has now been selected.

regards

Tim

Hello Timbo, given the recent server crash at Gerasim and the negative credits for everyone on this project, how will you handle that? I remember that the former FB-rules stated that a project was only counted in the final stats when it had given out at least 2M credits over the year. Thanks for th...