1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Long time worker says "Bye Bye" because of BOINC (Message 10343) Posted 20 Jul 2004 by carlg Post: Yes, as a worker since June 1999, "5 YEARS", and "8086" work units completed, I have to say goodby to Seti. The change to BOINC has done me in. I use a combination of Windoz and Linux systems, and have various internet connections ranging from full T-1 down to dialup. The T-1's are full-time connections and therefore they can tolerate the pathetic disfunctionality of BOINC. However, the dialups are another matter entirely. On the dialups, BOINk flashes that it needs more work, but as soon as the dialup connection comes up, BOINk says, "hey baby, be kool and wait at least another hour or so". I'm sure that most of the people with SETI are hard working, but, personally, I believe that someone really dropped the ball on this BOINK transition, or "attempted transition". Anyway, after 5 YEARS and 8086 work units completed, I've just stopped BOINk from running on any of my machines. Good Luck and God speed, because BOINk sure isn't going to help. Carlg

2) Questions and Answers : Preferences : dialup for BOINC - force connection (Message 9847) Posted 19 Jul 2004 by carlg Post: When using dialup to transfer work units, I am having the problem of finishing a work unit, but when I get a dialup connection up, BOINC comes back with 'deferred connection for 2 hours, or words to that effect. Since I don't have the 2 hours to wait, it may be another 12 hours or so before the next connection. Seems like a huge waste of CPU cycles to me. Is there a way to force the BOINC Connection ????

 
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