~misfit~ wrote (lots!):
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I know a lot of people are jumping to other projects because they're
dissapointed in SETI-BOINC.

Yes, some will be impatient or fickle and they will 'swap and change' depending on which way the wind blows in their minds. (Still good for whatever projects provided they complete the respective WUs.)

I'm sure most others will hang in 'for the long run'.

Myself, I'm letting other DC projects take advantage of my spare PC resources until seti-boinc settles. Then I'll be reassigning the priorities again according to my opinions and values.

<Puts conspiracy-theory hat on> Do you think that Berkeley could be
knobbling SETI-BOINC deliberately to serve up some users to other BOINC
projects? I know quite a few who have jumped ship, including a guy who

Phew!...

Note that extraordinary claims require following up with equally extraordinary justifications...

In my opinion, the scientists at Berkeley are likely very happy for their s@h followers to contribute to other DC projects, and especially so for other Boinc projects.


An important idea behind Boinc is that Science beyond just s@h can benefit from DC. True scientists will push all of science aswel as just their own specialist subject. I think Berkeley are being very good in the true (altruistic) scientific sense (for the good of ALL Mankind).


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Hmmm, it all makes sense. Berkeley want a strangle-hold on distributed
computing and, to get other projects on board told them that they would
serve up a whole bunch of (irate) ex-SETI cruchers. They would 'leak' the

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There is a world of difference between 'happen stance' and cold mean premeditated 'intent'.

Berkeley took a reasoned gamble on their early release of seti-boinc. The consequences have included disruption, and a little angst from a few noisy self-righteous users. During this ensuing extended 'shake-down', we have also seen some very rapid developments. We should have the project up and robust far more quickly than if the beta-tests had continued. We've also likely had Berkeley working through the night on this!

Another positive spin-off is that s@h's overwhelming user base has been pushed into looking at other DC science projects.

There has been a theory around for quite a while that Berkeley is using our
computers for God-knows-what while pretending to be searching for aliens.

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... Conspiracy, religion, pretence, all in one sentence... I'll let Lloyd answer that one, Alleluia! (;-))

Hopefully, we'll all be willing to let our spare CPU cycles get used by all manner of science projects beyond just s@h signal sniffing.

And hopefully the Open Source paradigm will ensure full openness in what the code is really doing.


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Ya know what? I'm gonna go back to classic until it's closed down and then
have a serious re-thing about this whole DC thing. After more than five

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Your electricity is more precious than most for more than just spare heating. (You're moving towards summer are you not? (:-))

Perhaps direct your CPU cycles to one or more of the other science projects until seti-boinc robustly returns, or go offline for a while and construct another crunch monster or few! (;-))



Good luck,
Martin