BOINC Menubar 5.4.9 review

BOINC Menubar (formerly Deep Thought) is a front end for BOINC, a software platform developed at Berkeley which allows volunteers such as yourself to contribute unused processor cycles to help solve problems in physics, medicine, climatology, astronomy, and more.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 3515K Developer: GreenKeeper Software Price: $0.00 Updated: 16 May 2006

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BOINC Menubar (formerly Deep Thought) is a front end for BOINC, a software platform developed at Berkeley which allows volunteers such as yourself to contribute unused processor cycles to help solve problems in physics, medicine, climatology, astronomy, and more. Combining tens of thousands of computers, BOINC users form what is effectively the most powerful supercomputer on the planet.

BOINC Menubar provides a simple interface for BOINC, eliminating the need for any command-line typing. It does not have a main window, application menu, or dock icon. Instead, everything is controlled from a small icon which appears in the upper right hand corner of your screen. Clicking on this icon produces a menu which provides you access to all the features of BOINC Menubar.

What's New:
BOINC now lets you use 'Account managers' - special web sites that let you browse BOINC projects, attach/detach, change resource share and settings, all with point-and-click simplicity. Account managers are also great if you have several computers - you just have to make changes once. A couple of excellent account managers are nearly ready for use; stay tuned to the BOINC web site for details.
Fixes a bug where a personal firewall prevents the BOINC screensaver from running, causing your computer to lock up.
General preferences can be overridden by a local file details are here.
BOINC now alerts you whenever it needs you to create a network connection.
SOCKS5 proxies are now supported.
To support Intel-based Macs, the Mac BOINC Manager package, stand-alone BOINC client and command-line tool boinc_cmd are now universal binary, which contain executables for both Intel and PowerPC macs in the same files. This is indicated by the new download package names: boinc_5.4.0_macOSX_universal.zip and boinc_5.4.0_universal-apple-darwin.zip.
We have added a new platform for science project applications to run on Intel Macs: i686-apple-darwin. The new universal binary Mac clients automatically request applications from the old powerpc-apple-darwin platform when running on a PowerPC Mac, and from the new i686-apple-darwin platform when running on an Intel Mac.
As of 14 March 2006, only the upper_case alpha test project, the production SETI@home project and Einstein@home have applications for this platform.
Upgrade warning: You may lose unreported results if you are upgrading from a version of BOINC earlier than 5.4.0 on an Intel Mac, or if you are transferring BOINC Data from a PowerPC Mac to an Intel Mac, or from an Intel Mac to a PowerPC Mac. To prevent this, open BOINC Manager window, select the Projects tab, select each project and press the Update button. Then select the Tasks tab and make sure there are no tasks "Ready to report."
We are now building with newer tools and libraries: XCode 2.2, WxWidgets 2.6.2, libcurl 7.15.3.
Only administrators can attach to a new project (for improved security).
No longer crashes if there is a space character in the path to BOINCManager.