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Message 1721434 - Posted: 2 Sep 2015, 19:51:01 UTC

This might be the wrong place to ask this. If so, I apologize in advance. But I se some members can hide there computer specs from the public.

How do I do that?
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Message 1721438 - Posted: 2 Sep 2015, 20:03:10 UTC - in response to Message 1721434.  

Why would you want to hide that information? It can be particularly helpful if you ask questions about your results or if something isn't working.

To hide your computers, though, all you need to do is browse to your Project Preferences and change the option for "Should SETI@home show your computers on its website?"
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Message 1721439 - Posted: 2 Sep 2015, 20:03:26 UTC - in response to Message 1721434.  

This might be the wrong place to ask this. If so, I apologize in advance. But I se some members can hide there computer specs from the public.

How do I do that?

It's a setting somewhere on your account page.

Personally, I don't see any reason to. Even when they're not hidden, nobody can see anything important like your IP address. Only you can see that.
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Message 1721513 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 0:31:01 UTC

Remember Nez? That is one reason to hide your computers.
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Message 1721525 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 2:03:30 UTC - in response to Message 1721513.  
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Or maybe don't do what he did? Just a thought.
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Message 1721535 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 2:43:40 UTC - in response to Message 1721513.  

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Message 1721537 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 2:50:08 UTC - in response to Message 1721535.  
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You must be new here. ;^)

Edit: Even after so long he is still #6. Story gets it wrong and calls them "hours" rather than "credits" though.
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Message 1721544 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 3:38:29 UTC

If you have a company farm and you want to check the heat handing and power load, SETI is a good way to handle it but you may not want others to know how much hardware is in the farm. I have seen post from people who were doing exactly that. SETI was run for a short time while testing and then the systems were returned to normal operation without SETI.
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Message 1721552 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 3:56:56 UTC

Being reminded of NEZ always gives me a good laugh. He was such a mystery until he got busted.
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Message 1721554 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 3:59:59 UTC

I wish, we could just let the Kenzie and Nez gate issue rest.
Sadly, my team voted Seti the worst support team of all projects.
Personally, I think it is the best.

Why I am not leaving this team? I am the number three suppporter. So loyalty.
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Message 1721555 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 4:00:38 UTC - in response to Message 1721552.  

Being reminded of NEZ always gives me a good laugh. He was such a mystery until he got busted.


Do you remember who it was that called him a god?
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Message 1721557 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 4:03:22 UTC - in response to Message 1721544.  

I guess the temptation was just too strong.
Thank you for the link.


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That's what you for being an approval junky....
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Message 1721560 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 4:07:11 UTC

No, but I think the former 30 had a hand in it.
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Message 1721610 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 7:50:07 UTC

Personally I believe it is important to remind people of Kenzie now and again.

Because of a little thing called the internet he fooled a lot of pepole for a long time and upset those same people in a way I will not soon forget


Remember people, be careful out there.
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Message 1721619 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 8:45:30 UTC - in response to Message 1721555.  

Being reminded of NEZ always gives me a good laugh. He was such a mystery until he got busted.


Do you remember who it was that called him a god?

I think it was SETI's biggest troll Misfit, the only person to get NES to post his only post on the boards.
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Message 1721620 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 8:50:37 UTC - in response to Message 1721610.  

Personally I believe it is important to remind people of Kenzie now and again.

Because of a little thing called the internet he fooled a lot of pepole for a long time and upset those same people in a way I will not soon forget


Remember people, be careful out there.


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Message 1721621 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 8:50:43 UTC - in response to Message 1721560.  

No, but I think the former 30 had a hand in it.

Thats just wrong Uli, the 30 had absolutely nothing to do with Nes and his image as a diety and I personally find it offencive that you should imply that we were.
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Message 1721632 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 9:39:23 UTC

Do not confuse NEZ with Kenzie.
NEZ was using his position as the "computer geek" at a school to run SETI, without the express permission of his employer. His employer noticed the power bill was markedly higher than expected and found "all" the computers were running 24/7/365, did some digging and sacked/prosecuted him.
Kenzie was a person who was pretending to be someone else in a big way and things got a bit nasty when they were uncovered.
That's the short form of both stories, there is more....

There are certainly lessons to be learned from both stories, and they are different lessons - one is that SETI has some rules about making sure you have permission to use the computers you are running SETI one; and another is not everyone is who they appear to be.
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Message 1721640 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 10:16:18 UTC - in response to Message 1721632.  

... lessons - one is that SETI has some rules about making sure you have permission to use the computers you are running SETI on;

BOINC supplies a standard boilerplate which is applied to every project using the platform (unless they choose to deliberately change or delete it). SETI's is here (and one click from the front page):

Run SETI@home only on authorized computers

Run SETI@home only on computers that you own, or for which you have obtained the owner's permission. Some companies and schools have policies that prohibit using their computers for projects such as SETI@home.

I can't be sure, but I think that would have been in place long before NEZ started his activities: there's no way that SETI can, or should attempt to, police every volunteer to be sure we're complying with the policy. Should we each be required to submit an original sworn affidavit before we're allowed to join? No way.

There was also some suggestion that NEZ had obtained verbal permission from a previous school administration, and the shutters were pulled down when the administration changed. These things are rarely clear-cut.
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Message 1721683 - Posted: 3 Sep 2015, 13:39:31 UTC - in response to Message 1721663.  

Treading on dangerous ground here. This has been brought up before & all I'm seeing is jealousy. This project exists to crunch data for a specific reason as do other Boinc projects. As long as the means to do so does not bring the project into disrepute & are legal, the project cannot dictate to those who crunch its data

What is a team

Lets take the average home today.

An individual has a desktop & laptop & is sufficient for their needs but wants to crunch a boinc project - does so, therefore a Home User

Others in the same home see that & wants to compete with that individual so they add their desktops & laptops. nice for the project concerned but that becomes a Home Team.

Solo cruncher.

Now we come across one who is technically minded, has the space & funds & builds his/herself a nice little farm of 10/20/50 rigs in their home. No one else has access to those systems but them, therefore a Home User.

WHY should that user be forced to register as a team, There are NO other individuals involved.

Permission, external systems & fraud.

Really? As long as the legal permission has been obtained, why should that concern others?

That's like saying that every chairman of every company should be prosecuted for fraud as they have countless others all working together to make that company a success. Chairman gets the credit, poor old staff gets a pittance.

Should your suggestion ever get off the ground, then the parameter has to be 2 not 6.
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