"Raj Rijhwani" <raj@rijhwani.org> wrote in message
news:20040607.2348.4311snz@rijhwani.org...

On Sunday, in article <zwLwc.294$%a5.112@newsfe5-win>
     ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd "Martin" wrote:

Raj Rijhwani wrote:

     ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd "Martin" wrote:

Roll on boinc soon!

The longer it remains as bog-standard S@h the longer I'm with the

project.

Why?

Bluntly - I don't trust a system designed with automatic delivery of the
software and multiple projects in mind.  S@h was S@h, and I was prepared
to trust that.  BOINC was designed with commercial exploitation in mind,
after Anderson went out into the big wide world and came back again.  I
don't trust it, or what it might be applied to.

As long as my current configurations work I stick around.  When S@h stops
accepting my units, I leave the project.  It's that simple.
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I Understand your concerns Raj, and feel the same way.  However, given the
security issues Auto-updateing may cause, I would like to believe the SETI
designers would include an option that would allow the user to manually
disable the autoupdate if they choose.

Auto Update works well for Windows XP and in a certain sense the current
SETI@Home project kinda does the same when you allow it to auto send in
results and retrieve fresh WU's, but at least we have the option of
disabling these features and manually handling the process.

I hope the final BOINC build will allow for the same option, or SETI may
lose a number of its crunchers.

SC