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Welcome to all new users of Docking@Home. Hope you have a great experience with this project :-)

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Thanks for the welcome. Looking forward to crunching some WUs.

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Message 10 - Posted 13 Sep 2006 5:10:26 UTC
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Wellcome back Michela and Andre.

Greetings from Bremen/Germany
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Message 11 - Posted 13 Sep 2006 5:20:06 UTC
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Hello, I'll keep up working:)

1. I tried to subscribe RSS News, but I cannot do that due to "missing root element". Please make sure the xml.
2. Signatures aren't available to be added through "Message board preferences".

thanks for reading,
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Thanks Jens. Good to have you back too!

Wellcome back Michela and Andre.

Greetings from Bremen/Germany
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1. Correct. rss does not work yet. We're working on it.
2. Another user mentioned this as well. Don't know why this doesn't work, but we're checking it out.
Thanks for the comments!
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Hello, I'll keep up working:)

1. I tried to subscribe RSS News, but I cannot do that due to "missing root element". Please make sure the xml.
2. Signatures aren't available to be added through "Message board preferences".

thanks for reading,
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Message 19 - Posted 13 Sep 2006 7:02:11 UTC
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You might want to check with Tigher, the project head/admin at http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/
(which unfortunately just went down for 2 days for maintenance! -- I think Tigher is active on the SETI boards too, don't know about others)

Most of the bugs I've seen here are the same -- not surprising if it's an out-of-the-box BOINC distribution. Tigher's already been in communication with the Boinc devs about them. I don't know that they're FIXED, mind, but they're ahead of you in running into them...

Things I remember include the RSS feed not working, being unable to save a signature in message board preferences, several other php/html bugs. There were others but I can't get Project Neuron's site to remind myself, sorry!

This bizarre right-justification of text is unique to Docking@Home though :)

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Hello all

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Greetings from AMD Users. :)

EDIT: What's with the message board? 1/2 of the posts here are aligned on the right side and vice versa.

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Glad to be here and I extended my Welcome to Andre into the BOINC community.

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Glad to be here and see familiar faces :-)

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Hello, good old familiar crowd.

Aaah, the fresh smell of new types of work in the air :P Looking good for the moment.
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Thanks for your welcome,
Good luck !
Greetings from France

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Hello to all those familiar folks!
And as well to the other ones ;)
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For questions about Boinc look in the BOINC-Wiki

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Howdy everyone!
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I'm here!

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Thanks for your welcome. And greetings to all the others who are always the same early in a project ;-)

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Thanks for the Welcome also.
Good to see all the regulars once
again, And any new ones too.

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Hi guys!

New place with known faces... I like it! :-)

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Hi, BOINC's fellowship! ;-)

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hi there
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You might want to check with Tigher, the project head/admin at http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/
(which unfortunately just went down for 2 days for maintenance! -- I think Tigher is active on the SETI boards too, don't know about others)

Most of the bugs I've seen here are the same -- not surprising if it's an out-of-the-box BOINC distribution. Tigher's already been in communication with the Boinc devs about them. I don't know that they're FIXED, mind, but they're ahead of you in running into them...

Things I remember include the RSS feed not working, being unable to save a signature in message board preferences, several other php/html bugs. There were others but I can't get Project Neuron's site to remind myself, sorry!

This bizarre right-justification of text is unique to Docking@Home though :)

The too frequent disk writes was also an issue there. I'm sure they could give you some fixes for the majority of the BOINC problems inherited.

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Hello Cori!

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Hello Cori!

Now, that you mention it:
I think Docking still lacks a nice logo.
And Cori is well known for her logos.
So, wouldn't it be nice to ask her for something fitting?

Hello Cori ;)

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Hello Cori!

Now, that you mention it:
I think Docking still lacks a nice logo.

True

And Cori is well known for her logos.

TRUE

So, wouldn't it be nice to ask her for something fitting?

YEAH! :)

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Yes, she is very good at designing very unique logos.
We have Capt Avatar, perhaps we should name Cori Capt Logo... or Logo Woman... or ...

Hello Cori!

Now, that you mention it:
I think Docking still lacks a nice logo.
And Cori is well known for her logos.
So, wouldn't it be nice to ask her for something fitting?

Hello Cori ;)

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Message 389 - Posted 18 Sep 2006 20:32:03 UTC
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Hi guys! Now that you mention it... I should think about a new name. How about "Logo Queen"? :-D

Hiya, Jim!! Nice to see you here! Missed you on the boards. :-)

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If anybody has any good ideas about a logo, please don't hesitate to contact us! We already have some that we are looking at, but they are not the greatest logos in the world :-)

Thanks
Andre

Hi guys! Now that you mention it... I should think about a new name. How about "Logo Queen"? :-D

Hiya, Jim!! Nice to see you here! Missed you on the boards. :-)

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I'm the last one to post here. I win! :P

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Glad to be here!

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If anybody has any good ideas about a logo, please don't hesitate to contact us! We already have some that we are looking at, but they are not the greatest logos in the world :-)

Thanks
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Speaking of graphics, where did you get that great Avatar, Andre ???

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Message 600 - Posted 24 Sep 2006 13:00:09 UTC
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Finally I got an idea about a new project logo. ;-)
I'm posting a link to the logo in original size as it would mess up the boards here (I think everyone dislikes horizontal scrolling...) and a resized image of how it could be implemented into the main page:

Logo 1695x138 pixel

Btw: Am I winning now? ;-P

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Speaking of graphics, where did you get that great Avatar, Andre ???

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Somewhere on the Net, but have no clue where anymore.
And now I'm really off for 4 days of vacation :-) speak to you in 4 days!
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Speaking of graphics, where did you get that great Avatar, Andre ???

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Hi there Cori,

I am working together with Andre and Michela on the Docking project and have been currently asked to look over the logo. I like your idea for the banner and was wondering if you'd be willing to help out with a smaller logo. We would be using this logo to link to docking@home from other sites so the logo would need to be smaller. Let me know if you are interested and if you have any ideas :)

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Cori's logo has my vote for now. Any other artistic people out there who have a logo suggestion?
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Nice job, Cori =)

Ok, I took a stab at it too, just for variety's sake.

Here is a link to the header:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v710/Atomic_Booty/dockingheader2.jpg

And here is a smaller version of the same graphic:

Bon appetit!

Hey atomic,

Thanks for the variety. I like the idea as well, I will present the various ideas to the group and see
which ones they like.
If anyone else is willing to take a stab at this as well, please feel free to do it.
Thanks for all the input.

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Hi Daniel,

If there is anything specific you would like to see included in the graphics (ideal size requirements, preferred file types, color schemes, text placement, blank space for announcements, etc.), please let me know. The smaller one (for linking) is the same height as all the other project logos on the BOINC Stats site. Other than that, I wasn't really sure what you were looking for, but I do a lot of this type of stuff for fun, so it's not a big deal for me to come up with others or adjust the ones I already made.

~Atomic

Hey atomic,

Thanks for the variety. I like the idea as well, I will present the various ideas to the group and see
which ones they like.
If anyone else is willing to take a stab at this as well, please feel free to do it.
Thanks for all the input.

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Hi there Cori,

I am working together with Andre and Michela on the Docking project and have been currently asked to look over the logo. I like your idea for the banner and was wondering if you'd be willing to help out with a smaller logo. We would be using this logo to link to docking@home from other sites so the logo would need to be smaller. Let me know if you are interested and if you have any ideas :)

Hi Daniel!

Didn't come in earlier so I just read your reply.

Of course I will help with a smaller logo. Which size should it have?
Maybe we can take just the left from the banner for the small logo?
You can also mail me (guess you can look into my account and get my email addy from there?)

Cheers, Cori :-)

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Well guys, you have come up with pretty cool logos for the project. I really like them!! I'm just having trouble trying to match the colors :( I wonder if Mr. Atomic Booty could change the colors of his logo... Is there any way you can change the background to be blue? :)

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Well guys, you have come up with pretty cool logos for the project. I really like them!! I'm just having trouble trying to match the colors :( I wonder if Mr. Atomic Booty could change the colors of his logo... Is there any way you can change the background to be blue? :)

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My suggested logo in small size:

Btw: I like the one from Atomic Booty very much, too. ;-)

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Message 657 - Posted 28 Sep 2006 21:34:49 UTC
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Wow! You guys did an excellent good job designing the logos. Now it is going to be really hard for the team to pick one :s
By the way I apologize Miss Atomic Booty for giving you the wrong title. My bad!

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Or you make a little user poll about the new logo.
You may include those you were discussing inhouse in your team and add the new ones. ;-)

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Wow! You guys did an excellent good job designing the logos. Now it is going to be really hard for the team to pick one :s
By the way I apologize Miss Atomic Booty for giving you the wrong title. My bad!

It would be nice if you could address both gals as such, not as guys ;)

Cori and Atomic Bootie: Good job, nice pics, i havn't decideed wich to like more yet ;)

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Although I am ambivalent about which one I like better. After some thought, I have to vote for Cori's since I like hazy blueness of the logo. Still a quite good job by Miss Atomic. You two have some mad skillz! :-D
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That's just an american thing: everybody, guys and gals are called guys here ;-) (or at least that's my observation as a european living in the States)

It would be nice if you could address both gals as such, not as guys ;)

Cori and Atomic Bootie: Good job, nice pics, i havn't decideed wich to like more yet ;)

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That's just an american thing: everybody, guys and gals are called guys here ;-) (or at least that's my observation as a european living in the States)

Yes, noticed that on other message boards. Even gals call other gals 'guys' on these threads! *LOL* (At least when not one special person is adressed.)

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Message 692 - Posted 29 Sep 2006 17:56:53 UTC
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Maybe I'm biased as a team member, but I prefer the more intricate design of Miss Booty's. Shift the color a little more towards the blue spectrum, overall it evokes the main webpage very nicely.

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Yeah, it is a little on the purple side now that I look at it again. I am on my way out the door, but I will post a "bluer" blue one when I return tomorrow.

Maybe I'm biased as a team member, but I prefer the more intricate design of Miss Booty's. Shift the color a little more towards the blue spectrum, overall it evokes the main webpage very nicely.

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I prefer the below one :)
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Message 719 - Posted 1 Oct 2006 6:08:38 UTC
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Oops, I uploaded the wrong file for one of those!

Here is the jpeg file for the centered header layout. I also removed the Boinc logo from it. It seemed too unbalanced, and this way the webmaster can put it (the Boinc logo) wherever they want and make it clickable. For the record, this set is my favorite of all the versions I have done, and I like Cori's submission very much too. I guess it will come down to whether you prefer simplicity or detail; but I think either choice would suit the project nicely.

The finally final header in bluer blue

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hhmmm both are great.

on miss atomic's logo I like where the protein is shifted all the way to the left, just my personal opinion.

Also I was thinking of instead of deciding over one or the other, to combine them:
for example I really liked the protein and ligand kind of things in the back groun from Atomic Booty and the blurness kind of effect on the logo from Cori.

well these are my two cents and take this from a guy that is color blind and the colors that I can distinguish I cannot combine them, and my desing skills are at about -3.75

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I think both are very good, And also like the idea of having a pole/vote to see which one is liked the most like what was done at HashClash.
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Message 959 - Posted 11 Oct 2006 22:52:51 UTC
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@Atomic Booty: for testing my text on your logo, grab it here... :-)

My text with blue 'glow':

Text without 'glow':

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Message 1000 - Posted 17 Oct 2006 21:39:34 UTC
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Apologies for the long wait, folks. My very pregnant sister went into labor last Thursday and we have been out of state ever since (and me without my computer!). Here are the final designs for the header and logo, incorporating my graphic background with Cori's arial style font. I hope you are pleased with them ;)

Here is the header

And here is the logo:

If you'd like an even smaller logo (or a longer header) I can do that pretty easily. Also, I left the BOINC logo off the header so you would have the freedom to place it wherever you wish; but if you would like it added or need a resized BOINC .gif, just ask. (I'm staying put for awhile I promise!)

Cheers!

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Hi Atomic,

Congrats with your sister's baby! Is it a boy or girl?

I was wondering: to satisfy my personal curiosity, could you make the header without the black outline around the font? I have the feeling that might be nice (although I'm not a graphics designer :-)

Thanks!
Andre

Apologies for the long wait, folks. My very pregnant sister went into labor last Thursday and we have been out of state ever since (and me without my computer!). Here are the final designs for the header and logo, incorporating my graphic background with Cori's arial style font. I hope you are pleased with them ;)

Here is the header

And here is the logo:

If you'd like an even smaller logo (or a longer header) I can do that pretty easily. Also, I left the BOINC logo off the header so you would have the freedom to place it wherever you wish; but if you would like it added or need a resized BOINC .gif, just ask. (I'm staying put for awhile I promise!)

Cheers!

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Message 1005 - Posted 17 Oct 2006 22:56:59 UTC
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Hi Andre,

It's a girl! (8 lbs. 6oz.)

Yes, it is possible to remove the outline from the text, but it gets quite washed out by the background:

Like this

If you are really dead set against the black outline, I can play with it some more and see if it looks any better beveled or something. The trouble is that there are both light and dark objects behind the text, so changing the text color doesn't really help. This was actually why I originally decided to use an outline in the first place, the separation keeps the text looking crisp regardless of what is behind it.

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I actually like it :-) It gives the whole thing a 3-D feeling (hmmm, what about a 3-D font with some depth? Maybe that shows up better?)

But you're right, the text does get too washed out against the background. Anyway, thanks for showing me; I let Karina handle this since she's our student web guru!

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Hi Andre,

It's a girl! (8 lbs. 6oz.)

Yes, it is possible to remove the outline from the text, but it gets quite washed out by the background:

Like this

If you are really dead set against the black outline, I can play with it some more and see if it looks any better beveled or something. The trouble is that there are both light and dark objects behind the text, so changing the text color doesn't really help. This was actually why I originally decided to use an outline in the first place, the separation keeps the text looking crisp regardless of what is behind it.

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Hi Everybody,

Cori, Karina and I have been hard at work behind the scenes, collaborating to get a graphic that everyone (or most everyone ) can be happy with. I have made one more adjustment myself to the text based on your feedback, substituting a subtle "drop shadow" effect for the black outline.

Header here

And logo:

As you can see, this gives the text the sort of 3D effect that Andre liked, while retaining a visual separation from the colorful background. I have also sent blank (textless) versions of my graphics to Cori to work her magic on. I think she is going to be busy for a couple days, so we ought to see something from her this weekend. I'm sure it will be worth the wait! Just wanted to keep you posted on where we were at on this. We are all anxious to get this little project complete and see it up on the D@H website.

Cheers!

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Hi Atomic

I like it! Hope that other people do to :-)

BTW you're avatar is cool too; it reminds me of a movie, but I can remember which one anymore...

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Hi Everybody,

Cori, Karina and I have been hard at work behind the scenes, collaborating to get a graphic that everyone (or most everyone ) can be happy with. I have made one more adjustment myself to the text based on your feedback, substituting a subtle "drop shadow" effect for the black outline.

Header here

And logo:

As you can see, this gives the text the sort of 3D effect that Andre liked, while retaining a visual separation from the colorful background. I have also sent blank (textless) versions of my graphics to Cori to work her magic on. I think she is going to be busy for a couple days, so we ought to see something from her this weekend. I'm sure it will be worth the wait! Just wanted to keep you posted on where we were at on this. We are all anxious to get this little project complete and see it up on the D@H website.

Cheers!

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BTW you're avatar is cool too; it reminds me of a movie, but I can remember which one anymore...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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That was her previous one, but I don't think the girl with the cigarette is in that movie :-)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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That was her previous one, but I don't think the girl with the cigarette is in that movie :-)

That's the problem with a browser cache ;)
I still had the knight who says NI!

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Hi Andre, thanks for the feedback. I think we are on the right track too. Oh, and my new avatar is from the movie Bladerunner. =)

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Hello everybody!

After a busy work week I finally had time for the really important things to do... ;-D (And besides that night times are great for creativity...)

I've put the text style with the "blue glow" from my logo on Atomic Booty's background. Also I changed the alignment of the text for the banner, so that you can see more of the beautiful proteins in the background.
For the logo the text remained centered though as it has a smaller width. But look for yourself:

link to header

logo:

Now, nice weekend to everybody and greetings to Atomic Booty and Katrina! :-)

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Yeah! I knew I'd seen her somewhere and Bladerunner is where it was :-) I haven't seen that flick in a long time; maybe it's time to blow the dust of the dvd cover and watch it once more...

Andre

Hi Andre, thanks for the feedback. I think we are on the right track too. Oh, and my new avatar is from the movie Bladerunner. =)

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Hi guys!

Slightly changed the header to the centered version of the logo as agreed with Katrina and Miss Atomic Booty.

To view the full scaled version, just click on the thumbnail:

Hope you like it! ;-)

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Hi gal!

Just spoke to the leader of the gang at D@H and she thinks the 'h' in home should be an 'H': Docking@Home

Thanks
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Hi guys!

Slightly changed the header to the centered version of the logo as agreed with Katrina and Miss Atomic Booty.

To view the full scaled version, just click on the thumbnail:

Hope you like it! ;-)

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Hi gal!

Just spoke to the leader of the gang at D@H and she thinks the 'h' in home should be an 'H': Docking@Home

Thanks
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Ok, will change it tomorrow after work. ;-)

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Great! Looking forward to the result.
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PS Katrina is Karina in real life ;-)

Hi gal!

Just spoke to the leader of the gang at D@H and she thinks the 'h' in home should be an 'H': Docking@Home

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Ok, will change it tomorrow after work. ;-)

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I really like the outcome of your hard work. Wonderful logo!! Thanks to Miss Atomic Booty and Cori!

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Hiya Karina!

Sorry I misspelled your name below... I should know better as my name is quite similar (Corinna). *LOL*

Now, I proudly present (in behalf of our team including Miss Atomic Booty, Karina and me)... TA-DAAAAA:

the new logo

and the new header

(To view the full scaled version, just click on the thumbnail.)

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You're terrific, gals!

A warm thank you for your work (and hopefully fun).

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Looks great!

Awesome work ladies!

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Thanks, guys!! :-)

Btw: What about adding a favicon, too?
I created one (just as an idea):

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Thanks, guys!! :-)

Btw: What about adding a favicon, too?
I created one (just as an idea):

Good idea!
I second that!

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Good idea. Doesn't this have to be in .ico format? If yes, any chance that you can convert png's into ico's?

Thanks!
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Thanks, guys!! :-)

Btw: What about adding a favicon, too?
I created one (just as an idea):

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Good idea. Doesn't this have to be in .ico format? If yes, any chance that you can convert png's into ico's?

Thanks!
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Glad, you like it! :-)

AFAIK you can simply rename that .png into .ico and it should work without complaint. ;-)

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Works great. We now have a favicon in our url :-)
Thanks Cori!
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Glad, you like it! :-)

AFAIK you can simply rename that .png into .ico and it should work without complaint. ;-)

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@Cori: You can download a free photoshop plugin (save as .ico) here:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/ICOFormat-1.6f9-win.zip

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AFAIK you can simply rename that .png into .ico and it should work without complaint. ;-)

Is that true only for .png or will renaming a .jpg or .gif work as well?

BTW, well done on the Logo and favicon, ladies. I wish I had some of your talent, but I'm really bad at making graphics.

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AFAIK you can simply rename that .png into .ico and it should work without complaint. ;-)

Is that true only for .png or will renaming a .jpg or .gif work as well?

BTW, well done on the Logo and favicon, ladies. I wish I had some of your talent, but I'm really bad at making graphics.

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Woo-hoo, the favicon already works! :-D

Btw: I think renaming works for .png and .jpg, but I've never tested .gif's so far. ;-)

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ICO format is Windows only! Won't work on other OS as far as I know

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Darn, doublepost

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and the favicon seems not working on IE7 on vista.
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Apache on Linux wants an .ico favicon; it won't show it otherwise!

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ICO format is Windows only! Won't work on other OS as far as I know

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I don't think every and all browsers support favicons. IE6, safari, firefox seem to show them though. You might have found the first (of numerous to come) bugs in IE7 :-)

and the favicon seems not working on IE7 on vista.

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IE7 does show them, it just does not show the one for this project
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Apache on Linux wants an .ico favicon; it won't show it otherwise!

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ICO format is Windows only! Won't work on other OS as far as I know

I said format, not extension. And the favicon is requested by the browser, it's independent of webserver.

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I'm sure all browsers understand this by now. Works fine for me on Linux (Firefox, Konqueror), Mac (Safari does, Firefox doesn't seem to understand) and Windows (IE, Firefox, haven't tried Opera).

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Apache on Linux wants an .ico favicon; it won't show it otherwise!

Andre

ICO format is Windows only! Won't work on other OS as far as I know

I said format, not extension. And the favicon is requested by the browser, it's independent of webserver.

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Just popping in to wish everybody a Happy Halloween! :-)

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Just popping in to wish everybody a Happy Halloween! :-)

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Happy Halloween to you too!

If you want to be really scary read this:

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/10/31/

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Now I AM scared... *LOL*
Calvin & Hobbes is just great! :-)

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Happy belated Halloween!!!

By the way, our wonderful logo will be here soon. Thank you to our volunteers Cori and Miss Atomic Booty!

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Greetings Crunchers !
The BOINC@AUSTRALIA Team have arrived.
Currently in 29th position combined BOINC world ranking, we are also in the top ten at 10 of the BOINC projects. In a matter of days from now, we will reach a huge 50 million credits milestone !

The team has a great forum where we can help each other - the team has a great mix of guys ( hey! they let me in and I'm a Brit! )

Click my sig and it will take you to the BOINC@AUSTRALIA team page - then click on forums and you'll see what we get up to!

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Hiya John! Congrats on those big achievements of your team! :-)

And I'm a bit proud of myself today... and of the great effort of Atomic Booty and Karina, too! **waves to the girls**
Because the logo header is finally put online! Woo-hoo! :-))

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Well done to you girls for the new header. The old one did look a bit ............strange!
So how many headers are you responsible for now?
I know you did HashClash and RCN and now this one......are there any more I don't know about?

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... So how many headers are you responsible for now?
I know you did HashClash and RCN and now this one......are there any more I don't know about?

Hmm, let me see... my first logo was PG. :-)
I also created the Chess headers and I had a nice teamwork with Honza on the new BAM! logo. :-)

I hope I did not forget one... **grin**

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... So how many headers are you responsible for now?
I know you did HashClash and RCN and now this one......are there any more I don't know about?

Hmm, let me see... my first logo was PG. :-)
I also created the Chess headers and I had a nice teamwork with Honza on the new BAM! logo. :-)

I hope I did not forget one... **grin**

Only me, "hehe"

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I hope I did not forget one... **grin**

Only me, "hehe"

But I didn't create your avatar... ;-)

Congrats btw for being UotD here! **waves to Rebirther**

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And I'm a bit proud of myself today... and of the great effort of Atomic Booty and Karina, too! **waves to the girls**
Because the logo header is finally put online! Woo-hoo! :-))

Yes, great job all around, gals! It was a lot of work (at times painstaking!), but it was well worth it. Every time I visit D@H now, I am greeted by the familiar sight of the fruits of our labor, and it makes me smile.

Thanks to all who gave their input on making this graphic the best that it could be, and extra thanks to Cori and Karina for a rewarding collaborative experience.

**waves back**

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I just want to say "Good job, girls!" on the Logo.
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I would like to thank Cori and Mrs. Atomic Booty because of the great job they did with the logo. I really like it and just so that everybody knows it was shown in our Web page at the Supercomputing Conference 2006 and it made the project look very professional. Yay for our logo!!

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Long time no see here...
We need to live up this place with some chit-chat I guess.

And it's Friday, so weekend is coming soooooon! :-)))

EDIT:
Here comes cute Knut... the nicest polar bear baby from Berlin Zoo is greeting the visitors! :-D

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Long time no see here...
We need to live up this place with some chit-chat I guess.

And it's Friday, so weekend is coming soooooon! :-)))

Welcom back Cori..!!!

Yep... weekend has arrived... drinks for everyone

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Hello Rene!

THX for the drink! Ahhhh... great. ;-)
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So, What kind of graphics are you working on these days, Cori?

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So, What kind of graphics are you working on these days, Cori?

-- David (The graphically challenged)

*Grin* How did you know? ;-)

Just finished a badge to celebrate our team UotD's.

And I also made a desktop picture for the QMC birthday competition (sorry, German language only) today. (For all those heavy crunchers who avoid using a screensaver. *LOL*)
A design for a big coffee mug from me is already put on the page as well as several designs for BOINC skins and various other things from many participants.
Now we wait when the voting will start. The winner will get 6 months computing time from one of the hosts at the university for his/her account. *grin*
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I like that idea about the skin design competition. Anybody interested in making something for D@H? We'll have to think about an appropriate price though :-)

So, What kind of graphics are you working on these days, Cori?

-- David (The graphically challenged)

*Grin* How did you know? ;-)

Just finished a badge to celebrate our team UotD's.

And I also made a desktop picture for the QMC birthday competition (sorry, German language only) today. (For all those heavy crunchers who avoid using a screensaver. *LOL*)
A design for a big coffee mug from me is already put on the page as well as several designs for BOINC skins and various other things from many participants.
Now we wait when the voting will start. The winner will get 6 months computing time from one of the hosts at the university for his/her account. *grin*

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I like that idea about the skin design competition. Anybody interested in making something for D@H? We'll have to think about an appropriate price though :-)

AK

I think I'm gonna give Cori a headstart on this one... ;-)

But if someone could provide me with some nice Docking graphics, I will do my best to make it a nice competition.

Price... hmmmmm... if all goes well, I'm of this afternoon to buy myself an Alfa Romeo.. so cash is wellcome... LOL

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I think I'm gonna give Cori a headstart on this one... ;-)

But if someone could provide me with some nice Docking graphics, I will do my best to make it a nice competition.

Price... hmmmmm... if all goes well, I'm of this afternoon to buy myself an Alfa Romeo.. so cash is wellcome... LOL

*LOL* Rene, you should have said "I'm buying a new D@H cruncher!" *grin*

I must admit I'd like to give it a try as well, but I'm confused with what is actually needed for a skin.
I know there's a basic layout for skins to download at the Berkeley site, but: how do I have to implement buttons, tabs, highlighting of buttons when entering and such?
I'm no programmer and I don't know if these details have to be separate graphics. So when I started once to try a very simple skin I gave up because I was too confused. ;-(

The best would be if someone gave me instructions like: "The buttons needs to be a .png with 50x50 pixels and make a 2nd one for the "highlighted" version!"
*LOL*

As for the price: read my sig, hehe. Ok, some extra cobblestones would be appreciated as well. :-D
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I'll ask Karina if she can contact you next week to work this out. She has looked a little bit at the skin website already.

Thanks
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I think I'm gonna give Cori a headstart on this one... ;-)

But if someone could provide me with some nice Docking graphics, I will do my best to make it a nice competition.

Price... hmmmmm... if all goes well, I'm of this afternoon to buy myself an Alfa Romeo.. so cash is wellcome... LOL

*LOL* Rene, you should have said "I'm buying a new D@H cruncher!" *grin*

I must admit I'd like to give it a try as well, but I'm confused with what is actually needed for a skin.
I know there's a basic layout for skins to download at the Berkeley site, but: how do I have to implement buttons, tabs, highlighting of buttons when entering and such?
I'm no programmer and I don't know if these details have to be separate graphics. So when I started once to try a very simple skin I gave up because I was too confused. ;-(

The best would be if someone gave me instructions like: "The buttons needs to be a .png with 50x50 pixels and make a 2nd one for the "highlighted" version!"
*LOL*

As for the price: read my sig, hehe. Ok, some extra cobblestones would be appreciated as well. :-D

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I must admit I'd like to give it a try as well, but I'm confused with what is actually needed for a skin.
I know there's a basic layout for skins to download at the Berkeley site, but: how do I have to implement buttons, tabs, highlighting of buttons when entering and such?
I'm no programmer and I don't know if these details have to be separate graphics. So when I started once to try a very simple skin I gave up because I was too confused. ;-(

The best would be if someone gave me instructions like: "The buttons needs to be a .png with 50x50 pixels and make a 2nd one for the "highlighted" version!"

To be honest it's not that difficult... ;-)

What you can do is download a skin that's ready... that way you end up with a correct skin.xml and you also have the correct graphics (buttons and so on...) and sizes.
How the skin works and placement of pictures is handled by the xml... rest is kinda like Lego... background comes first and on top of those the "graphic puzzel pieces".

Just take a look at this one ...

I would not suggest using the xml file of the skins I've maid, when you want to start building one, this xml is set for 2 languages...

Just give it a try... i'm sure you will succeed... ;-)

Edit: the Alfa Romeo did not work out... the photo on the net looked promising, but "in real life" it looked like it was parked in the jungle for a couple of months... and then monkeys decided to make it theire home.
So today I've saved a lot of money... LOL
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Here another link that can be used....

This one is from the berkeley cvsweb and is a good one if you want to stay updated on the latest files.

;-)
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Woah, looks as complicated as I have feared! *LOL* I hope after a 2nd or 3rd view it will reveal its secrets to me. :-)

And thank you guys for your first helping steps!
I will sure come back to ask several newbie questions, Rene. And if Karina has time it would be also great! ;-)))

Already downloaded the files and I will see what happens if I begin puzzling. :-D

EDIT: Downloaded the files from the second link, but cannot open them with my graphics program. :-(
The Bam skin is better, I can open them all.
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And to add a little present I've finished my very first skin for D@H now!!
I'm so happy that I finally got it!!!

Here's the first screensaver:

I've just send a mail to Karina with the whole folder for the skin and the skin.XML for testing it. Hope you like it. And don't hesitate to tell me what I can improve. :-)
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Wow! This looks great! Can't wait to put it online!
I guess that means we have to make a looooot of lasagna for Garfield :-)

Thanks!
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And to add a little present I've finished my very first skin for D@H now!!
I'm so happy that I finally got it!!!

Here's the first screensaver:

I've just send a mail to Karina with the whole folder for the skin and the skin.XML for testing it. Hope you like it. And don't hesitate to tell me what I can improve. :-)

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Wow! This looks great! Can't wait to put it online!
I guess that means we have to make a looooot of lasagna for Garfield :-)

Thanks!
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Hiya, Andre. Glad you like it! ;-)

And yes, it won't be cheap, all that lasagna. *grin*

EDIT:
I forgot something. In the folder I sent to Karina there's a file called "dah_stat_icon.png". This one must be send by the D@H server to the attached clients.
It will appear in the projects' box ("My Projects") in the simple gui. If there's none on the server the default BOINC icon will appear instead as you can see in the screenshot.
Maybe the file has to be renamed to "stat_icon.png" and it looks like this:

This will also work for other skins. But it will make D@H look different and you can easily find it between all those default icons as not every project has a special "stat_icon" yet. ;-)
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WOW!!! Very well done Cori !!!!!

Here's some Lasagna for Garfield and I've even included a pan of Grits for him :-)

Do you work as a commercial artist or just do graphics for fun?

Happy Easter,

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WOW!!! Very well done Cori !!!!!

Here's some Lasagna for Garfield and I've even included a pan of Grits for him :-)

Do you work as a commercial artist or just do graphics for fun?

Happy Easter,

-- David

Now Garfield is a very happy cat... *grin*

Btw: I'm working as a video editor. But my graphic skills I've gained from "learning by doing". Sometimes I need it for my editing as well, but it's mostly a hobby. ;-)

And Happy Easter as well! :-)))
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A VERY BIG CHEER FOR CORI..!!!!

A very nice skin... I've couldn't done it better... ;-)

Enjoy... :-)
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Awwwwwwwww.... Lasagna!! :-)))

*burp* :-D
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I forgot something. In the folder I sent to Karina there's a file called "dah_stat_icon.png". This one must be send by the D@H server to the attached clients.
It will appear in the projects' box ("My Projects") in the simple gui. If there's none on the server the default BOINC icon will appear instead as you can see in the screenshot.
Maybe the file has to be renamed to "stat_icon.png" and it looks like this:

This will also work for other skins. But it will make D@H look different and you can easily find it between all those default icons as not every project has a special "stat_icon" yet. ;-)

Andre / Karina / whoever_is_in_charge_of_it: Here is how to set the server to send the stat_icon. I'm not currently attached to the project, so maybe you already did it and I didn't notice :)

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Here comes cute Knut... the nicest polar bear baby from Berlin Zoo is greeting the visitors! :-D

It's just a bad joke from "the other side"

...some zoos just show young anilals to get more visitors.
If this animals are growen up they kill and replace them with younger ones!!!
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