... this is not the only project that has moved on from the older pc's and I don't blame them I'm just commenting

Older PCs, like this one?

Also those of us with Win7 pc's are out of luck due to an SSL error

What kind of SSL ERROR?

I have 2 Windows 7 PC'S currently attached and receiving and sending completed / valid work back.
As for the Project list, I believe you will have to manually download it (maybe from the boinc.berkeley.edu site???) then copy/paste into the BOINCData folder.

BOINC is supposed to check and automatically download a new list periodically but I have never had it work in the 20+ years on BOINC.

It just says can't connect due to SSL error, it happens on all of my Win7 pc's and I'm just going to wind them down from crunching what they can and will install Linux Mint on them, I already have Mint running on several other pc's so it's not really a problem and they will probably crunch faster anyway and best of all they can crunch any project

... this is not the only project that has moved on from the older pc's and I don't blame them I'm just commenting

Older PCs, like this one?

No I meant 'older' as in older OS but yes the pc's have seen far better days, I have a couple of I7-47?? cpu's and I have have a dozen dual Xeon quad core cpu's that are off-lease business HP's and Dell's with the long rectangular psu's at the bottom of the pc and limited abilities for gpu's due to the low wattage psu's. I could put a standard psu next to the case and let it run everything and one day I may do that but not today

The problem has fixed itself. Asteroids@home has reappeared in the list of projects in the “Tools” and “add projects” list.

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Might be worth to try the most recent ca-bundle.crt.

Download it from here:
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/tree/master/curl

Replace the one in your main BOINC folder with the downloaded one.


If you already run a recent BOINC client you may check whether your OS's CA cert store contains outdated certs.
Those need to be replaced.

... this is not the only project that has moved on from the older pc's and I don't blame them I'm just commenting

Older PCs, like this one?

No I meant 'older' as in older OS but yes the pc's have seen far better days, I have a couple of I7-47?? cpu's and I have have a dozen dual Xeon quad core cpu's that are off-lease business HP's and Dell's with the long rectangular psu's at the bottom of the pc and limited abilities for gpu's due to the low wattage psu's. I could put a standard psu next to the case and let it run everything and one day I may do that but not today

Don’t laugh, my first computer, the one I started running Climate models on back at the time of the BBC experiment, had only single core 1.2 Ghz processer and 256 MB of RAM. It took 8 months to finish one of those models.

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... this is not the only project that has moved on from the older pc's and I don't blame them I'm just commenting

Older PCs, like this one?

No I meant 'older' as in older OS but yes the pc's have seen far better days, I have a couple of I7-47?? cpu's and I have have a dozen dual Xeon quad core cpu's that are off-lease business HP's and Dell's with the long rectangular psu's at the bottom of the pc and limited abilities for gpu's due to the low wattage psu's. I could put a standard psu next to the case and let it run everything and one day I may do that but not today

Don’t laugh, my first computer, the one I started running Climate models on back at the time of the BBC experiment, had only single core 1.2 Ghz processer and 256 MB of RAM. It took 8 months to finish one of those models.

It was older, it was running Windows XP

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... this is not the only project that has moved on from the older pc's and I don't blame them I'm just commenting

Older PCs, like this one?

No I meant 'older' as in older OS but yes the pc's have seen far better days, I have a couple of I7-47?? cpu's and I have have a dozen dual Xeon quad core cpu's that are off-lease business HP's and Dell's with the long rectangular psu's at the bottom of the pc and limited abilities for gpu's due to the low wattage psu's. I could put a standard psu next to the case and let it run everything and one day I may do that but not today

Don’t laugh, my first computer, the one I started running Climate models on back at the time of the BBC experiment, had only single core 1.2 Ghz processer and 256 MB of RAM. It took 8 months to finish one of those models.

It was older, it was running Windows XP

ROFL!!!
I never ran those tasks as they just took too long for me, I now run RNA World and Climate Prediction tasks that can both take a LONG time even on faster cpu's.

No I meant 'older' as in older OS but yes the pc's have seen far better days, I have a couple of I7-47?? cpu's and I have have a dozen dual Xeon quad core cpu's that are off-lease business HP's and Dell's with the long rectangular psu's at the bottom of the pc and limited abilities for gpu's due to the low wattage psu's. I could put a standard psu next to the case and let it run everything and one day I may do that but not today

Can't you stick Windows 10 on them? It should run on anything 7 runs on. It's only RAM that limits the OS, and I've got 10 on 8GB ok just as 7 was ok on 8GB. Both are rubbish on 4GB.

[Removed by moderator content]I do have other options but Linux has a much smaller footprint and overhead as well meaning most tasks run a little bit faster. That also means that memory limited pc's, I still have a couple that can't go past 16GB of ram and Linux will let me use them much better than Windows is doing now. I have been using Linux Mint for awhile now and can mostly make it do what I want it to do so that all current Boinc Projects work on it. The one problem is I haven't tried running an AMD gpu on it yet, there are lots of how tos in the various forums but right now I have plenty of Windows machines for my AMd gpu's without having to actually do it.

And no don't even think of asking me to send you my AMD gpu's, I will figure things out here eventually but right now I can still crunch something with them so it's okay.

BTW PrimeGrid has no problems with the Win7 pc's so it's a setting someplace on the Server side, probably a security thing the 'developers' wanted and stuck it in there.

Now you went too far.

Any further discussions about illegal software and any kind of illegal subjects will not be tolerated under this project, threads and posts will be deleted and from now on their authors and participants will be banished without notice!

Good luck,
Georgi

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