I have just rejoined SETI, but I find it very confuseing, and I am haveing trouble understanding your manual on how to set it up, and I am not sure if it is working or not. It can run all the time, just not when I'm on the computer.
I'm ready to delete it again, since I do not know how to set up the SETI progaram, and I dont have the time to learn it.
I do not find your program user frindly, so there is a very good chance that I will stop running Bonic all together. This is the same reason I stoped last time, and am now finding it too confuseing once more. Please work on makeing your program, less time consumeing, and easier to install and use.
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noslenfl
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From: SETI@home
To: noslenfl
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:55 PM
Subject: Please rejoin SETI@home


Dear noslenfl:

We'd like to invite you to reconnect with SETI@home. Our records show that you've been with SETI@home since 01 November 2004, but it's been 372 days since you last returned a work unit. We want you back, and here's why:

These are exciting times for SETI@home. Last year we implemented a new SETI@home data recorder at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. This recorder is attached to a state-of-the-art multibeam receiver, so we can now measure signals from 7 positions on the sky at once, with greater sensitivity to weak signals compared to the data from the flat feed antenna we've used since 1999. We've greatly increased the sensitivity of our data analysis, and the likelihood that we'll find the first signs of extraterrestrial life. We're also close to releasing a second application, Astropulse, which will look for extremely short pulses of astronomical (and possibly intelligent) origin.

With these new developments comes an increase in required computing power, for which we depend on people like you. We hope you will consider signing back on with SETI@home, and help in this wonderful scientific venture.

If you experienced problems running SETI@home, please try any of the resources listed at: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_help.php including the new BOINC Online Help System which lets you talk live, over the Internet, with a help volunteer: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php

We thank you for your involvement in SETI@home, and hope that you rejoin us in our search for signals from other worlds.

-- The SETI@home team

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Unfortunately, there is a limit to how simple it can get.

BOINC is not just SETI. You can also join other projects and do work for them. This is the cause of most of the complications you see.

However, there are several volunteers that can probably help you figure out whether you have anything working at all.

Could you copy some of the contents of the messages tab or dialog into this thread. That would help us to help you.

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BOINC WIKI

Unfortunately, there is a limit to how simple it can get.

BOINC is not just SETI. You can also join other projects and do work for them. This is the cause of most of the complications you see.

However, there are several volunteers that can probably help you figure out whether you have anything working at all.

Could you copy some of the contents of the messages tab or dialog into this thread. That would help us to help you.

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Unfortunately, there is a limit to how simple it can get.

BOINC is not just SETI. You can also join other projects and do work for them. This is the cause of most of the complications you see.

However, there are several volunteers that can probably help you figure out whether you have anything working at all.

Could you copy some of the contents of the messages tab or dialog into this thread. That would help us to help you.

I tried to copy from the message Tab but it would not let me copy anything ...I Know the there is more then SETI I have also done other project I started in 2004
but when BOINC took over they made it things hard understand that when i stoped the first time .they want me to get Skype I don't want to download Skype. This is more then I want to deal with I will give it a day our two and if dose not work out I will just delete it as I did last time. If you want the help as you say you would make it easir to use and under standing the terms
noslenfl

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Unfortunately, there is a limit to how simple it can get.

BOINC is not just SETI. You can also join other projects and do work for them. This is the cause of most of the complications you see.

However, there are several volunteers that can probably help you figure out whether you have anything working at all.

Could you copy some of the contents of the messages tab or dialog into this thread. That would help us to help you.

I tried to copy from the message Tab but it would not let me copy anything ...I Know the there is more then SETI I have also done other project I started in 2004
but when BOINC took over they made it things hard understand that when i stoped the first time .they want me to get Skype I don't want to download Skype. This is more then I want to deal with I will give it a day our two and if dose not work out I will just delete it as I did last time. If you want the help as you say you would make it easir to use and under standing the terms
noslenfl

Select a few messages (Click on the one at one end of the range you want to copy, scroll and SHIFT Click on the post at the other end of the range).

You should now have a copy selected messages button available.

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BOINC WIKI

they want me to get Skype I don't want to download Skype.

Skype is not a required component to download. Skype is only required if you want person-to-person live help (still manned by volunteers). If you do not want to download Skype, you can always get help here.

This is more then I want to deal with I will give it a day our two and if dose not work out I will just delete it as I did last time. If you want the help as you say you would make it easir to use and under standing the terms
noslenfl

"Easy to use" is relative to the person using the software. For the most part, BOINC has been a set-it-and-forget-it type of software with many people still using older BOINC clients. There really isn't much to it and I'm sure we can help you get up and running, you just need to have patience and give us a chance.

I actually looked in your account and saw two systems processing work successfully. It appears that everything is set up correctly and running fine. I even noticed you have credit in your account, probably from before, so you probably had it running fine before as well but didn't know it.

If you have any questions that you are uncertain of, just ask and we'll help as best as we can. Otherwise, you seem to be doing just fine.

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