How to make hosts "hidden"?
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suguruhirahara
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During checking the list of top participants I found several persons' computers "hidden" and noticed there are some "anonymous" hosts.
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Hi suguruhirahara,
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suguruhirahara
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Hi Bill:)
Under "Docking@Home preferences", setting the following to "No" will hide your hosts: Ah, Thanks! I should have been more careful...! Then another question naturally comes up... what kind of information "uncomfortable" is:-p |
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I think 'anonymous' is that persons user name, in the beginning of boinc people didn't realize that the Your 'host' page is different when You look at it (signed in) and hid their hosts because they didn't want their ip address shown, but that info and Your eMail addy doesn't show to anyone else, imho the only reason to hide Your hosts is if You are cheating and want to hide Your inflated benchmarks or are using machines which You don't have permission.
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suguruhirahara
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I think 'anonymous' is that persons user name, in the beginning of boinc people didn't realize that the Your 'host' page is different when You look at it (signed in) and hid their hosts because they didn't want their ip address shown, but that info and Your eMail addy doesn't show to anyone else, imho the only reason to hide Your hosts is if You are cheating and want to hide Your inflated benchmarks or are using machines which You don't have permission. I cannot help agreeing with your opinion. In fact I cannot find out which information is related to the privacy of each participants. (IP isn't shown to anyone except the owner of hosts, is it?) Also I know several hosts which are anonymous and definately use the modified client. To be honest I think that option is no necessary for this project at least. suguruhirahara |
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I think 'anonymous' is that persons user name, in the beginning of boinc people didn't realize that the Your 'host' page is different when You look at it (signed in) and hid their hosts because they didn't want their ip address shown, but that info and Your eMail addy doesn't show to anyone else, imho the only reason to hide Your hosts is if You are cheating and want to hide Your inflated benchmarks or are using machines which You don't have permission. Yes 'anonymous' is substituted for the participants name when hosts are hidden. In a alpha/beta project it is generally considered improper to hide your hosts since the information provided may help in debugging the project. ____________ BOINC WIKI 
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o Learn something new everyday. I thought 'an' was just 1 user because everytime I'm paired with them I'v noticed them claiming 5x or more ____________ 
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David Ball
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I have encountered at least one interesting case where there was a good reason for keeping a host hidden. Apparently Intel (or someone who gets very early engineering samples) lets the engineers run unannounced CPUs on BOINC, probably to exercise them and check if they return good results. They have to keep them anonymous until Intel officially announces that they exist.
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I have encountered at least one interesting case where there was a good reason for keeping a host hidden. Apparently Intel (or someone who gets very early engineering samples) lets the engineers run unannounced CPUs on BOINC, probably to exercise them and check if they return good results. They have to keep them anonymous until Intel officially announces that they exist. Yep. I wonder _who_ that could be? =;^) ____________ Dublin, CA Team SETI.USA |
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Andre Kerstens
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The Docking@Home team would definitely appreciate if you keep your hosts not hidden for now; it will make our problemshooting much easier on when somebody reports a problem on the forum; it will take us 5 steps more to have to go into the database and do sql queries to find things out all the time. This is an alpha project after all so no reason to hide hosts :-)
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