I give up.
This BONIC has been most annoying.
I started in 1999 and kept old PCs running as I got newer ones just to run SETI.
BOINC is user antagonistic.
It's not worth the effort to deal with it's poor responces, good by and good luck
shoskasan@aol.com

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Sorry to hear that. If you change your mind and want to get help, please let us know.

MJ

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I also ran SETI@home for quite a few years on multiple computers but since BOINC came into being I had nothing but problems with it and have since uninstalled it from all my PC's. For what it's worth I firmly believed the SETI project was a good one but it appears that there were those who felt upgrading/integrating it so that other "projects" could benefit have allowed it to become more difficult to use and wasteful for those of us who were just trying to help. Perhaps those of you who have changed it to this current form should try to remember why many of us signed up to begin with and have been faithful all these years. I'm sorry to have to go but until/if it goes back to a form that is easier to use/maintain and doesn't hog my CPU cycles unnecessarily I'll just have to beg off.
fwaid@rochester.rr.com

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For what it's worth I firmly believed the SETI project was a good one but it appears that there were those who felt upgrading/integrating it so that other "projects" could benefit have allowed it to become more difficult to use and wasteful for those of us who were just trying to help.

Nope. Seti as it was would've died a long time ago. It was a 3-4 year project only when it started. It's only due to BOINC that Seti got a restart. Without the grands given to BOINC, you wouldn't have crunched Seti for a long time.

More about that here, in the post about Seti facts.

Now Fred, since you only have one post, why not ask for help on a couple of things?

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I agree - but I'm not quitting - BOINC is a *BAD* idea because it has sucked away users interested on programs with a more immediate return or newsworthiness, i.e. more likely to get public funding (I'll donate machine time to SETI but no cash - And I'll vote only for members of Congress and the Senate who place research education, health and welfare over needless war, Big Brother and debt in November '06 (why do my candidates usually lose? oh yeh, you can't answer a question like why we need basic research "9/11" but it works if you ask why we're attacking a country that had no ties to the criminals who killed a friend of mine,(among countless others), smearing her over the Pentagon)....
Sorry for the political rant, but SETI *is* political. Prior to Sputnik and the Fear of Reds over our Heads (go back and RTFnewspapers for 1956-7-8 if you must) folks who thought about rockets were relegated to "those nuts who read Amazing Stories". Those who don't know history, eh?
Remember, the liquid rocket engine was invented by self-funded "nut" Robert Goddard, and first saw use - as a weapon - by von Braun's V-2 builders. Even while we were playing with rockets after the War, the public saw the early NASA as a joke until a little ball that went beep...beeep....beep for a few weeks flew overhead.
It CAN be argued that the deaths of two Shuttle crews can be laid directly at the feet of the late Sen. William Proxmire, R Wisc., who took the seat er, vacated by Joe McCarthy - fitting somehow. NASA asked for $10 billion to build a manned winged spaceplane (not glider) that would reach HIGH EARTH ORBIT boosted by a crewed 100% reusable lower stage.
Proxmire, who loved making any science he couldn't grasp, or better yet Joe American couldn't grasp look foolish, pathetic and as theft from good Americans who should be at war in Viet Nam, or Latin America, or on the front lines of the Iron Curtain, gave NASA $5G and an order to do the same thing.
NASA was forced by Congress and Nixon to work on the cheap and....
Keep your gear on-line if you can afford these artificially-high fuel/electric bills, and ask your candidates "guns or education, research and butter" before voting.

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