Computers can only be merged if they are exactly the same. I.e. Same CPU description, same OS, etc. Any slight variation and it won't work.

Computers can only be merged if they are exactly the same. I.e. Same CPU description, same OS, etc. Any slight variation and it won't work.

I am sorry to see that some people think they own the project because they volunteer to crunch WUs. It shouldn't be about just crunching WUs and getting credit but about the science of it.

No it's not, I delete the file "sched_request_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml" and restarted BOINC and now i have new ghost WU
You have to read the full original post. Eric was tracking down an earlier, simpler problem relating to "Incomplete request received".

Sorry that people have been bugging you lately Matt out of being ignorant.

Sorry I didn't mean to make it sound like anybody is ignorant. I'm really floored by the interest, and wish I had time to fill in all the blanks.

- Matt

If you have stalled downloads that have shown up in your results page but are stuck in the Transfers queue, and are familiar with BOINC and managing files at the OS level, you may like to try this.

  	
  	              votes 	percent
1. Helios (Greco-Roman)	91 	57.59%
2. Liza (Africa) 	3 	1.90%
3. Re (Ra) (Egypt) 	11 	6.96%
4. Surya (Hindu) 	4 	2.53%
5. Inti (Inca) 	        2 	1.27%
6. Tonatiuh (Aztec) 	2 	1.27%
7. Shamash (Sumerian) 	9 	5.70%
8. Freyr (Norse) 	7 	4.43%
9. Apollo (Greco-Roman)	19 	12.03%
10. Amaterasu (Japan) 	10 	6.33%
	   Total Votes: 158

A quick note (which I'm writing from home) to let everybody know that Jeff and Josh have just headed out to Menlo Park to pick up the new science database server at Sun. Nobody will be around to really work on it this weekend, but we'll get crackin' on it first thing Monday.

 	              votes/percent
[b]1. Helios (Greco-Roman)  71/59.66%[/b]
2. Liza (Africa)          1/0.84%
3. Re (Ra) (Egypt)       10/8.40%
4. Surya (Hindu)          2/1.68%
5. Inti (Inca) 	          2/1.68%
6. Tonatiuh (Aztec) 	  2/1.68%
7. Shamash (Sumerian)     6/5.04%
8. Freyr (Norse) 	  6/5.04%
9. Apollo (Greco-Roman)  13/10.92%
10. Amaterasu (Japan)     6/5.04%
	 Total Votes: 119

Way cool man!
I am so darnedly old that I actually have a hard time sending them to scrap. I would guess that I am right now the proud owner of the largest remaining collection of fully operational maxed out E5500. For many years those where in the cluster that drove the main optical link between Europe and US. And now I get teary eyed even contemplating throwing them. Yes, the rest of my workplace laughs at me. But the revenge is mine. I am slowly rebuilding them as known.

Carl

Just had a thought. As a way of thanks to Sun Microsystems for their generous donation may I humbly suggest naming the new server Helios.

... Holy crap! Really! Oh wait, I've heard all that before. And you're still ignoring this:

It is MUCH more complex and demanding to write an entire screensaver in THREE DIMENSIONS that takes advantage of different videocards, than it is to write a 2d screensaver that does not use the GPU.

End of story. Some idiot, whoever it may be, spent a whole lot of extra time making the thing 3d only, isntead of a far simpler, and faster running solution.

And then there would have been complaints that the original static screensaver was damaging users nice modern lcd screens - which were not widely owned back in 1999 and really don't like fixed pictures for long periods... There is a strong arguement for a more mobile screensaver in this respect - one that actually does its job properly - instead of insisting on living in the past.

Please consider that other projects don't offer a screensaver, so if you wanted 'some idiot' to write code that was a 'far simpler, and faster running solution', they could simply have left the thing out altogether.

I hope this is a joke response. Burn in was a much MUCH bigger problem on CRTs than it is with LCDs. LCDs can still sometimes suffer from burn in, but it's VERY, VERY rare compared to CRTs. Your argument does not make any sense, because of this fact.

As for it wobbling..fine... are you saying that it's impossible to make the old 2d screen saver move around a little? Are you telling me that the only way to get it ot move around is to make it fully 3d, requiring a graphics card? I have seen many images that move around or bounce around without using a graphics card at all, and they are NOT 3d. So again, your argument is weak and does not hold water.