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Dirk Broer
05-22-2011, 10:20 PM
Just received new FreeHall WUs! (after some months of silence due to the end exam of the volunteer at the other side of things)
NeoGen
05-23-2011, 01:10 PM
I saw that too last night. :)
But I think it's not fully operational yet.
Before going to bed I checked boinc again and it wasn't uploading the finished WU... tried opening the website but it timed out.
I am guessing the project received a surge of thousands of people the moment it came back online again and it crashed it... lol
Dirk Broer
05-24-2011, 10:25 AM
Oh yes they are up! And me too in the rankings, 20 places yesterday and already 40 today. And that at no effort, as it is nci (non CPU intensive).
vaughan
06-08-2012, 03:31 AM
FreeHal is back again.
NeoGen
06-08-2012, 05:26 AM
Cool! Let me get some WUs! :)
Dirk Broer
06-08-2012, 03:02 PM
Need to re-affirm your settings in case you want a WU per core
NeoGen
06-08-2012, 07:43 PM
I also had to remove the project and add it again. I was having constant download failures when trying to get work. Even after resetting the project it kept doing it, but after completely removing and adding again it downloaded ok.
vaughan
06-09-2012, 01:18 PM
Need to re-affirm your settings in case you want a WU per core
Thanks for the tip Dirk. I wonder why Tobias wiped the previous settings?
Dirk Broer
06-09-2012, 10:04 PM
I'm afraid Tobias had to re-start from scratch. His old servers are still at the German Police.
vaughan
08-01-2012, 11:54 PM
If anyone can read/write German could they visit one of the sites (fora) discussing the FreeHal project - either Seti Germany or Planet 3dNow to ask why the Freehal tasks have increased in length from 3 hours to more than 6 hours and in some cases 14 hours please?

I have tried joining these fora but the annoying anti-spam feature known as Captcha insists I get the two words incorrect every time I attempt to register. I have tried 30-40 times and have given up in frustration; why Capcha is so hard to read is beyond me. That and struggling with fora based in the german language. I tried Opera Translate but it doesn't translate the entire page so its all a bit much.

I'd also like to know what happened to the project Donations page as I contributed an entire months hosting fee to FreeHal 70 Euros and there appears to be no acknowledgement of this.
Dirk Broer
08-02-2012, 06:25 AM
What is the url of their forum? can't find it on www.freehal.net (https://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home/), only links to the fora of SetiGermany and Planet 3DNow! Oops, not fully awake yet, just woke up. Seems there are three different kinds of FreeHAL WUs nowadays: large, extra large und huge (as in condom sizes). You and me have gotten some of the hugies, only they are not supposed to run that long...

P.S.: NeoGen is user of the day today.
NeoGen
08-03-2012, 01:21 PM
P.S.: NeoGen is user of the day today.
Cool! :)
I rarely see it when I'm UoTD but yesterday I would not have seen it at all, my main computer is down for maintenance.
I'm doing some restructuring of my hard drives and sorting them in RAID arrays in software... I can't believe windows takes almost 24 hours to synchronize a completely empty set of 3 HDDs in RAID-5. If the hard drives are empty what is there to synchronize?? :icon_mad: