Let's not forget the goals of the Seti, and now the Bionic projects. We are all here to help solve some of life serious mysteries.

I have been a member of the Seti project for over 6 years now and I had accumulated somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 work units. Although it would be nice to see a record of that, it is not important, and I am not upset about loosing those work units. All that is important is that I, we, continue to help achieve the goals of the project.

Please remember, you are volunteering your computer's resources to help answer big questions. This is not a race, or a competition to see who can get the most WU's or credits, but a global effort to solve real world problems.

I am sure that the administrators of the project would appreciate if there were less complaining about personal losses and more input on how the system might be improved.

My 2 Cents

As you seem to be refurbishing old machines, do you have a reliable old small HDD available that you could install BOINC/Seti on, and move that from computer to computer. That would save the cost of USB Pendrive and the problems of max read/write cycles. I know that moving an HDD works with no problems.