I simply feel that having two distinctly different web pages; Computing Preferences and SETI@home Preferences is a waste of storage, Why would these preferences not be fully loaded with the application installed on my computer?

As I mentioned previously, some people have more than one system. Setting up or changing preferences on each one would be rather time consuming. Having the web based preferences makes things a lot easier.
If you don't like using them, then you can use the system based preferences.

As for waste of storage- using a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of 1% of the available storage isn't really an issue.

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Grant
Darwin NT

In hindsight, I must agree with you. I'm sure that some individuals or groups have many PCs or systems. Therefore, web based preferences would certainly be more sensible. I have only two PCs and I play with them regularly anyway. Changing some simple settings on only two PCs is a snap compared to a large group. (of course). Thank you for the insight!

Peace and keep crunching.

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I have units waiting for validation for nearly two months. Is this normal? It doesn't appear to be normal for other projects.

Joke of the day:
Hydrogen atoms are model optimists. They can lose an electron - really everything they have, and are always positive.

It is not exactly "normal", but it is predictable. S@H sets longer deadlines than many projects, and, due to the nature of the processing and data always validates results - needing two results sets to be sufficiently similar for the result to be accepted. If a host fails to return in time, or the first two hosts don't agree then the WU is sent out again, and this may occur a number of times. My current oldest "only" dates back to mid-April, but I have had them going back four or five months. Don't worry, you will get credit for them if you results validate properly.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I have units waiting for validation for nearly two months. Is this normal? It doesn't appear to be normal for other projects.

This one will time out July 7th and be reissued. If/when the new wing-man returns the unit you will get credit IF both units agree; if they don't a third unit will be sent to a third wing-man for a tie breaker. As you can see it could take some time for all units to clear.

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Kudos, for the fact that my backup projects havn't been touched in ages.

Gripes, those who can't use this thread in the way that it was intended. :-(

Cheers.

My gripe is about job deadlines being so far out that they have about 2 months to run and yet for some reason BOINC seems to think that SETI needs to have priority and gives them higher priority to run than other jobs on my task list which are due in the next day or two.

Don't get me wrong, I love doing tasks for SETI both at home & Beta@home, but it seems totally ridiculous to me that when its June 1 for instance and tasks for SETI have a completion date of July 28 BOINC runs them first and completely ignores tasks that have a due date for other projects that are supposed to be completed in the next day or two in favor of tasks that aren't due until say July 28.

I don't get it.

I tend to put these tasks on suspend until about 3 weeks before the deadline which still gives them plenty of time to run before their deadline but I know that I have heard people grumbling about tasks not getting run and waiting for them to come in...but if the actual deadlines were realistic and were not so far out in the future, I would not suspend them like I do.

I had a batch of tasks due Jul 28 that I just took off hold yesterday due Jul 28 that haven't even started running yet and just tonight I got new tasks for Seti that have a due date of 8/17, 8/19, & 8/20 so I have suspended these tasks.

Ok, thats my gripe and grumble...Maybe you can explain to me why you use such long completion dates when the tasks seem to get such high priorities for completion anyway so I can at least understand that. Thanks.

I don't get it.

You set the manager to do certain percentages of work between projects, it tries to meet those requirements, and project deadlines.

I tend to put these tasks on suspend

And that is the sort of thing that results in the manager doing the things you're describing.

Maybe you can explain to me why you use such long completion dates when the tasks seem to get such high priorities for completion anyway so I can at least understand that. Thanks.

For more information, start a thread about the issue- this one is for Gripes & Kudos.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I wonder when the validators will get around to these three work units.

1420109659
1417943769
1382652323

Seems I have been looking at them a long, long time.

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Gripe: Jim, it looks like you might as well have this thread closed seeing as people are posting their problems here instead of using it as it was meant to be used.

No cheers to those who can't read this thread's rules. :-(

Ok.............add this to my previous posting as a prefix.

GRIPE:

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