I've been running Seti Classic on a Mac for several years, but i don't pay much attention to it. I just came back to the Seti site after at least several months and noticed that it's changed a lot, so I have a few newbie questions.

1. Is there any real value to upgrading to Boinc? From the looks of this message board, it will probably entail considerable effort on my part. I don't have time for that unless there is considerable benefit.

2. I have another machine running Mac OS 9 and Seti Classic. Don't bother suggesting that I upgrade, but will it stop working at some point? If so, how soon?

Thanks in advance.
John

1. Is there any real value to upgrading to Boinc? From the looks of this message board, it will probably entail considerable effort on my part. I don't have time for that unless there is considerable benefit.

SETI Classic will shut down in 1-3 months. If you want to keep helping SETI, you MUST switch to SETI BOINC. There are many other benefits too, but my favorite is that you can run several different distributed computing projects at once (check out the list of projects... more projects will follow).

2. I have another machine running Mac OS 9 and Seti Classic. Don't bother suggesting that I upgrade, but will it stop working at some point? If so, how soon?

I took a quick look at the precompiled binaries for BOINC and didn't see one for Mac OS 9. The source code is available, so if you know how to compile it you could give it a shot. If not, that computer will stop working when SETI classic shuts down (1-3 months).

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Here's an Installation Guide.
Try the Wiki for other questions.

Well, that is too bad. I guess SETI is going to lose the processing power of our two machines. I don't have the time to spend figuring out what is (based on the questions on this forum) clearly an incomplete product, especially if it will only end up supporting one of my machines. I certainly don't have the time to port the source code to an unsupported platform. I'm sure the loss will not be great, we were only processing one work unit every three hours or so.

1. Is there any real value to upgrading to Boinc? From the looks of this message board, it will probably entail considerable effort on my part. I don't have time for that unless there is considerable benefit.

SETI Classic will shut down in 1-3 months. If you want to keep helping SETI, you MUST switch to SETI BOINC. There are many other benefits too, but my favorite is that you can run several different distributed computing projects at once (check out the list of projects... more projects will follow).

2. I have another machine running Mac OS 9 and Seti Classic. Don't bother suggesting that I upgrade, but will it stop working at some point? If so, how soon?

I took a quick look at the precompiled binaries for BOINC and didn't see one for Mac OS 9. The source code is available, so if you know how to compile it you could give it a shot. If not, that computer will stop working when SETI classic shuts down (1-3 months).

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Add me to the list of folks who cannot upgrade to BOINC and thus will not be able to contribute to SETI.
keith

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