That’s Arguable

So I took the plunge and updated Ubuntu to 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Everything seems to have gone alright except for the fact that it took longer to download and install than I thought and I ended up getting to bed waaay too late. The only real problem I had was with BOINC. The BOINC client and manager were updated as part of the update package and it didn’t work when I restarted. The BOINC client started without any problem but it did not appear to be running any tasks and when I started the manager it was unable to connect to the client. I tried reinstalling the BOINC client and manager but that did not help. I had to completely uninstall them first and reinstall to get things working again. The only problem with this was that when I rejoined the projects I am working on it created a new computer account for each project. When I then merged with the old account with the new it took the computer ID from the new one losing my computer ID number of 480 I had with Cosmology. Now I have a 5 digit computer ID. You have to get in early to get the low numbered computer IDs so I’ve lost some status there, oh well.