Grier wrote:

"> I'm running both s@h and CPDN on Boinc. Which project's preferences take

effect if you have different default prefs?

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yes Three are allowed at this point. Several may be at work and several may

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How can you have _per_ _machine_ prefs rather than just 'home' and 'work'??

I'm told that keeping the added info on a server is just too massive an undertaking on their part. Each machine???? That's alot of prefferences.

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I was surprised when I realised that they have the preferences stored server-side. They need to work something out for resolving general preferences inconsistencies between the servers of different projects (eg: I change settings on one project, but not on others). And then there's the server storage overhead.

I would have thought that they would want to take advantage of our local spare storage as far as reasonable.

The only reason I see for the server-side prefs is that they can easily maintain a consistent server-served web interface to everything.


Perhaps have an override local prefs config file for each machine? That could even be mediated by the server web interface with the config file still locally stored.

Meanwhile, I suspect they have other higher priorities for things to fix first (:-))


Regards,
Martin