I have used the old Seti for a long time. It always worked good. I just downloaded the new Boinc 5 point something or other, and no matter what I do, it won't do anything. I can't get into the Boinc site with it, it won't let me put in anything it says it needs. It just won't do anything. I am running Win 98se and the old stuff worked just fine. Even the older Boinc. So at this point, seeing as how you have already killed the good program and I can't get any more credit for the wu, and you can't seen to make another program that works, I am going to expunge all of it and forget about Seti. You guys just had to take a good thing and wreck it. I expect to get an e-mail about this with some answers in it. If not, then Goodbye...subaru86

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I miss the stomping on the ground. Shall I break it to you that no one can read your email address, but for you? There then, we can't email you about it. Not us who volunteer to help out here on the forums and not the admins who are far too busy trying to take the bugs out of the program.

So let's start at the front, shall we? What's your trouble?
BOINC over at http://boinc.berkeley.edu is just a page with a list of Projects on it. It's got no project of its own that you can crunch. You need a browser to get to the site to see everything, just as you need a browser to see these forums. It might be a future thing to build in: Forums in BOINC, but that's something for the wishlist, I think. Or BOINIRC ... hmmmm

If you want to attach to Seti, you use the same site name as that of Seti here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu .. Easy, nuh?
But for that at this moment Seti has server problems. They are more down than up, but they are working on them, so you can have trouble connecting to them, getting work or uploading work. Only patience can get you further there.

If you have any further questions, please ask them. We'll try to help. If you make no further demands that no one can follow up on, that is? :)

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I too had serious initial growing pains with BOINC/SETI.
The early problems (forcing a PROXY request when I have none) all went away when I downloaded BOINC 5.2.8
My next and last issue was the subtle change from seti@home.berkeley.edu to
setiathome.berkeley.edu.
The "@" and "at" are easy to overlook especially for us long time SETI'ers.
Perhaps the SETI instructions should highlight that the "@" has changed to "at" for BOINC connect.
All seems to be stable on my systems now.

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I too had serious initial growing pains with BOINC/SETI.
The early problems (forcing a PROXY request when I have none) all went away when I downloaded BOINC 5.2.8
My next and last issue was the subtle change from seti@home.berkeley.edu to
setiathome.berkeley.edu.
The "@" and "at" are easy to overlook especially for us long time SETI'ers.
Perhaps the SETI instructions should highlight that the "@" has changed to "at" for BOINC connect.
All seems to be stable on my systems now.

I meant BOINC 5.2.13 (5.2.8 still had the PROXY problem).

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