Subject: Re: How many of you folks are running the BOINC beta test?
From: Gary Sinnott
Date: 26/01/2004, 23:58
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:32:51 -0700, "AZ Woody" <Reply@here.not.email>
wrote:

Seems the biggest problems are:
1) the Credit system (it really sucks and is no where close to "ready for
PrimeTime".  It took over a month of crunching for me to get even one
credit - and a WU is worth more than 1, BTW).  And no, we're not Beta
testers in it for the "credit", but instead beta testers saying "what you do
for credits sucks" (there is a BIG difference)

2) unstable SW..  They're not releasing "beta", as it's not fixes, but new
functionality.  Each release seems more buggy than the last.  The
development team even indicated a couple weeks back that they would do more
testing prior to releasing SW for beta, but I've yet to see it..

BONIC (and you can quote me) will not replace SETI for many months...


Surprisingly, the magic touch of Mike Bader has seen my replacement
BOINC install not only go sweet as a nut but run like a dream too.

We're not even on the same continent.  How did he do that ?!?  ;)

Gary

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