I have just installed Boinc onto my 2 windows XP machines, when I connect it just says that there is no work available. It still works fine on the old seti@home. Below is the info I get from Boinc.

--- - 2004-07-24 18:48:57 - Fewer active results than CPUs; requesting more work
SETI@home - 2004-07-24 18:48:57 - Requesting 505099 seconds of work
SETI@home - 2004-07-24 18:48:57 - Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
SETI@home - 2004-07-24 18:49:00 - Scheduler RPC to http://setiboincdata.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
SETI@home - 2004-07-24 18:49:00 - Message from server: No work available
SETI@home - 2004-07-24 18:49:00 - No work from project
SETI@home - 2004-07-24 18:49:00 - Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds

There is no problem on your side and you will need some patience.

The message you have means that there are no WU's that can be download for the moment. Apparently the WU's available has all been distributed.

People at Berkeley are working hard to make more WU's available.

Greetings from Belgium.
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> There is no problem on your side and you will need some patience.

Correction: "You will need MEGA patience, understanding, and gullibility!"

If you're interested in donating your computer time... this particular project is NOT the place.

If you're interested in LEARNING and HELPING to increase knowledge in the area of TESTING the LIMITS of HUMAN compasion, short-sightedness, and tolerance for ERROR... then this IS the place!

But be forewarned... this project is run by ALIENS!

(It's the ONLY explanation that makes any sense!)

> Correction: "You will need MEGA patience, understanding, and gullibility!"

> If you're interested in donating your computer time... this particular project
> is NOT the place.

If you BELIEVE in the project, it is worth to have the patience.

Greetings from Belgium.
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> > If you're interested in donating your computer time... this particular
> project
> > is NOT the place.
>
> If you BELIEVE in the project, it is worth to have the patience.

Of course! Personally, I BELIEVE the truth is 'out there'.

But I'm beginning to BELIEVE that this project was designed to test the limits of human patience.

> Greetings from Belgium.

Greetings from the bowels of Texas.

Everyone needs to calm down. SETI is a group of people who have a very limited budget, and resources. If they had a lot of money and resources they wouldn't need to utilitize distributed processing in the first place.

If you read the web site they have a very good explanation of what is going on, so chill out.

> Everyone needs to calm down. SETI is a group of people who have a very
> limited budget, and resources.

So where do I send a donation? If everyone sends a buck or two, then 'Budget' shouldn't be a problem.

Please post a 'donation'link.

We're very giving people... a buck or two won't hurt any of us.

> If they had a lot of money and resources they
> wouldn't need to utilitize distributed processing in the first place.

Non-sequiter... and an illuminating comment.

The computer power being offered is not available ANYWHERE on this planet.

Therefore, the idea that 'they' are ONLY doing this because they can't afford to purchase a computer with the same computational power of 50,000 P4 2.8Ghz computers is aburd...

> If you read the web site they have a very good explanation of what is going
> on,

True, the information is a little bit more available than before... but the information OFFERED still ain't equell to what is the HUGE amount of computational power being offered for FREE!

And just for Logics sake... and to reiterate my position... there is no mention of a BUDGETARY shortfall on the information page.

TELL us you need $100,000... and you'll GET a $100,000!

> so chill out.

So go to hell.

SETI@home donations


> > Everyone needs to calm down. SETI is a group of people who have a very
> > limited budget, and resources.
>
> So where do I send a donation? If everyone sends a buck or two, then 'Budget'
> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> Please post a 'donation'link.
>
> We're very giving people... a buck or two won't hurt any of us.
>
> > If they had a lot of money and resources they
> > wouldn't need to utilitize distributed processing in the first place.
>
> Non-sequiter... and an illuminating comment.
>
> The computer power being offered is not available ANYWHERE on this planet.
>
> Therefore, the idea that 'they' are ONLY doing this because they can't afford
> to purchase a computer with the same computational power of 50,000 P4 2.8Ghz
> computers is aburd...
>
> > If you read the web site they have a very good explanation of what is
> going
> > on,
>
> True, the information is a little bit more available than before... but the
> information OFFERED still ain't equell to what is the HUGE amount of
> computational power being offered for FREE!
>
> And just for Logics sake... and to reiterate my position... there is no
> mention of a BUDGETARY shortfall on the information page.
>
> TELL us you need $100,000... and you'll GET a $100,000!
>
> > so chill out.
>
> So go to hell.
>