Subject: Re: Can you run classic via remote?
From: Odysseus
Date: 01/10/2004, 05:00
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

f/f george wrote:

[snip]

Yes there is.....just get a program that caches work units on your
imac and then copy some of those units to a medium, a floppy will work
since they are only 340k each. Copy them into directories at work
under Seti just like you got them from the imac. You MAY have to
renumber the directories to 1, 2, 3, etc.. Process them and then copy
them back to the medium and then back onto your imac at home when
completed. If you maintain the directory numbers at home on the imac
the imac will like it better.
There is some housekeeping to be done on each end though, the caching
program will have to not replace those units taken to work and then
each of the directories will have to be renumbered when the units are
placed into the work directories.
There are those in this group that have actually done this and should
be able to give you step by step directions, but you get the general
idea.

Can that be done cross-platform? I would have thought a 'foreign'
client might start recalculating the WU instead of sending in the
result. Or are the client version data &c. not checked when a WU is
complete, i.e. when there's a result.sah file?

I've certainly 'sneakernetted' plenty of WUs to unconnected machines,
but always with the same platform and client version at both ends. (I
don't use a caching program -- it just takes some careful backing up
and swapping of Seti@home Data folders.)

-- Odysseus 19# @ 41Y