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Message 13688 - Posted: 4 Aug 2004, 13:16:55 UTC

Yes this another .. WTF thread about the difficultie's that BOINC and seti are having ...

It is a joke .. the urge to find little green men is fading b/c of this shite. I might go exlore my own genome....

If you are going to luanch something do it right.
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Message 13711 - Posted: 4 Aug 2004, 14:52:16 UTC

Couldn't agree more. Does anybody else find it interesting that while the original SETI@home was a nice, reliable, unintrusive little screensaver, this "new and improved" BOINC is a piece of junk that Berkeley's "geniuses" can't keep up and running for more than 10 seconds at a time? The original SETI@home had (last time I checked) 4 million users (probably 1 mil or so were regular), and the outages are few and far between. BOINC has a fraction of that, and keeps crashing all the time. Maybe they should call Stanford's computer department for some help....
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Message 13726 - Posted: 4 Aug 2004, 16:18:29 UTC

If they'd turned Seti@Home-1 off I think it's fairly safe to say that there wounldn't be any of thse issues, seeing as they wouldn't be splitting the hardware between 2 projects. Also, I don't understnad why you don't just have Seti@Home and BOINC installed? I'm running Seti@Home, which, by the way is working perfectly, and as soon as BOINC picks up some data I'l quit Seti@Home and let BOINC take over. For me, at the moment, BOINC is more of a just-in-case program, whereas Seti@Home is doing the hard work, which is how it would be I didn't have BOINC installed, so I'm not sure you can complain that your omputer is sitting doing nothing. Also, its funny how everyone talks about how great Seti@Home-1 was, but were you there for the launch? I know I wasn't so I can't comment on how good it was, but it's early days fo BOINC. Frankly, if it's so bad that you can't put up with it, GO! Go and come back when the problems have been ironed out, or perhaps don't come back at all, but that's your choice. No one forces you do run the program.

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Message 13762 - Posted: 4 Aug 2004, 21:13:37 UTC

The way this is going they don't need Standford, DeVry could do better.....offence should be taken at this point as it is meant...

As far as complaining, the problem is people putting out software and systems that have been tested at less than 1% of load and granted release status. Forsight is one of the marks of a good scientist and a good engineer. It seems to have been lacking here. I had always assumed that Berkeley was a good school, but, like most things, appears to be all smoke and mirrors.

One good thing, they seem to make Microsoft look responsive and error free in comparison.

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Message 13863 - Posted: 5 Aug 2004, 3:10:55 UTC - in response to Message 13688.  

> Yes this another .. WTF thread about the difficultie's that BOINC and seti are
> having ...
>
> It is a joke .. the urge to find little green men is fading b/c of this shite.
> I might go exlore my own genome....

I think what truly burns me about this is the fact that I have SETI's RSS feed coming directly to my inbox, and the messages from the project have read more like pats on the back like they're doing a good job making sure the computers are up and running. How can this be a good job and considered a pat on the back when the project has no work in it scheduler and NO information as to the ETA when it will be corrected with it's userbase.

I may not be one of the serious number crunchers that I see on SETI@Home-1 and BOINC's sites -- but I'm still a cruncher. If a program isn't going to be reliable, and the BOINC team is going to pat themselves on the back for keeping a program up, without informing their userbase of the truth in how long it's going to take to re-establish the scheduler to produce and distribute work... While at the same time expecting us to watch their news and switch programs manually to keep working for them. Then I'm with Luke in this, and vote with my CPU and swap back to Kaleidoscope as my default screensaver.
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