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| Personal background |
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| DO NOT BUY A DELL! I finally switched from my Classic SETI to the BOINC software after I got my new Dell XPS Gen 4. What a disaster! I am still arguing with Dell over a replacement, as it failed 3 days after arrival - and after 9 weeks still isn't fixed! Should have done it myself, but decided that the "customer service" and the warranty were worth something still. WRONG!!! I have spent most of my free time on the phone trying to work with their Indian tech folks working from their formularic scripts. It's still a cooked motherboard and a cooked PC chip, boys. Replacing the motherboard still leaves a cooked processor chip, and replacing the heat sink STILL leaves a cooked processor chip.... Over, and over, and over again, we go through the same tired steps, we replace something, it works for a day or two then fails. Come on, guys. Just replace the ruddy Pentium chip, will yah? Outsourcing the tech support was a very bad idea, Mike Dell - you're losing customers like me FAST. At the end of week 9, Customer Disservice promised to ship a new Gen 5 computer. When it arrived, SURPRISE! Yes, it was a refurbished G4. They LIED to me! (Oh, really, again?) And (of course) it had NONE of the requested hardware I had originally ordered - so I spent a happy day transferring the expensive stuff from my old broken box to the refurb.... and - um - yes, it is working fine now... well, new chip and an extra fan does help, y'know... and the old box with the puckaroo board, chip and heatsink is on it's way back to Dell for (I hope) refurbishing for some other lucky customer. Caveat Emptor, gentle reader, do not believe anything Dell Customer/Tech support tells you, and DON'T BUY A DELL. EVER. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I started using the original Seti@home because my brother Sean the USAA Techno-nerd God of Computers (he can fix anything. Even better than me. Don't tell him I said that, his head will swell.) in Texas told me to - it worked great, especially on my old P3's, and then after further reading, I became interested in the project, and voila! I have four small (relatively speaking. Hey, they are NOT Crays, OK?) computers for home (mad keen gamer) use, and several at work configured for SETI; since none of them are switched off when not in use, why not use that idle time for something useful? I just wish that I could get the speed of the new BOINC projects up where my old Seti Classics were running, but hey, it seems to be as good if not better now that we're doing the BOINC thing. |
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