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Message 20373 - Posted: 31 Aug 2004, 13:25:06 UTC - in response to Message 20369.  

> What about the other projects? Climateprediction works, and predictor are
> upgrading soon. The purpose of BOINC is to allow you to participate in
> multiple projects, so if Seti doesn't have work, crunch something else.
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But what if it is the client that is at fault and not the project? There are issues on the back and front ends. If BOINC is broken, then it won't work no matter the project.
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Message 20406 - Posted: 31 Aug 2004, 14:36:54 UTC - in response to Message 20373.  
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> > What about the other projects? Climateprediction works, and predictor
> are
> > upgrading soon. The purpose of BOINC is to allow you to participate in
> > multiple projects, so if Seti doesn't have work, crunch something else.
> >
> >
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> But what if it is the client that is at fault and not the project? There are
> issues on the back and front ends. If BOINC is broken, then it won't work no
> matter the project.

Have been running BOINC all summer and I can't remember one single time that the core client has failed. It has allways been the crunching application or the servers that has failed. On Seti mostly the server, and on predictor a bit of both but it seems they worked it out.

Don't blame the core client when it's the servers that ain't working.
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Message 20414 - Posted: 31 Aug 2004, 15:25:49 UTC - in response to Message 20406.  

> Have been running BOINC all summer and I can't remember one single time that
> the core client has failed. It has allways been the crunching application or
> the servers that has failed. On Seti mostly the server, and on predictor a bit
> of both but it seems they worked it out.
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> Don't blame the core client when it's the servers that ain't working.

And I'm glad that many can crunch, but the truth is that a fair number of core clients are NOT working properly and never have. Even the boards at the other projects bear this truth out. I don't think we'll ever know the extent, the number of non-techie home users who tried, shrugged, and left without comment and the number who tried, posted, and then gave up.
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Message 20703 - Posted: 1 Sep 2004, 1:45:59 UTC

I've been running Seti since Classic first was publicly released, never had any problems with it. I upgraded to Boinc as soon as it came out of beta. Most of the time my machine has had nothing to crunch, occasionally it got some WU's. It appears that I have received credit for less than a tenth of the units turned in to Boinc. Now I have upgraded to 4.02 after trying for days to get the server without success (where was 4.0?, 4.1?, why are people talking about 4.5? & what happened to .3 & .4?) because the Seti Homepage said I had to. Now Boinc will not open at all. Tried redownloading over prior install, same problem. Uninstalled & downloaded, same result. No useful feedback from team or power users. I must have gotten 30-40 people started on Seti but now I'm walking away because the 45 or so hours I have put into it since Boinc came out were a complete waste.
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Message 20731 - Posted: 1 Sep 2004, 2:53:36 UTC - in response to Message 20703.  

> Now I have upgraded to 4.02 after trying for days to
> get the server without success (where was 4.0?, 4.1?, why are people talking
> about 4.5? & what happened to .3 & .4?) because the Seti Homepage said
> I had to.

You should be running 4.05.

As for the other releases you mention, versions we don't see are released to the alpha test group.

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Message 20759 - Posted: 1 Sep 2004, 3:37:26 UTC - in response to Message 20731.  

> > Now I have upgraded to 4.02 after trying for days to
> > get the server without success (where was 4.0?, 4.1?, why are people
> talking
> > about 4.5? & what happened to .3 & .4?) because the Seti Homepage
> said
> > I had to.
>
> You should be running 4.05.
>
> As for the other releases you mention, versions we don't see are released to
> the alpha test group.
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> <a> href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=sah&userid=91863">
>
Ok I went through explorer & deleted all Seti files & folders for a clean start. Seti link for download is broken, server not found. Located another post which gave address (http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/download.php)
Went there & downloaded. Now will not unzip. when I try to open file get message (occasionally, usually just disapears) saying decompresion canceled. Now what?
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Message 20777 - Posted: 1 Sep 2004, 4:19:05 UTC - in response to Message 20759.  

> Ok I went through explorer & deleted all Seti files & folders for a
> clean start. Seti link for download is broken, server not found. Located
> another post which gave address
> (http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/download.php)
> Went there & downloaded. Now will not unzip. when I try to open file get
> message (occasionally, usually just disapears) saying decompresion canceled.
> Now what?
> Len

Well, don't think that is anyone's fault this time :) Sounds like a corrupted zip file. Did you try to download it again?
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