NJ?  where?  I'm in Jersey City.. (work in NYC, live in J'City..)  ok, I think I'd rather use command line, if it's faster..  I do know basic DOS, so why not, and I like text-based...  (besides which I'm in the process of learning java now, so I do a lot of DOS right now..)

so: go to site and download command line version?  they walk u thru it?  self-explanatory?  thanks..  Frances




David H. Lipman wrote:

Frances:

I have been running SETI software for ~5.5 years now and I'm approaching 20K units.

There are two versions of the software.  A command line utility and the screen saver.  The
command line utility is faster and needs less computing resources.  The command line utility
can be executed from a command prompt or made to run as a NT Service. I run the command line
utility as a NT Service on Win2K and WinXP platforms and in the past on NT4.  As a NT
Service you don't even know that it is running, albeit, it consumes a 16MB block of RAM.
That RAM consumption is true for the screen saver and the command line version.

Please -- Join us !
Dave { from NJ }



"Frances Del Rio" <fdr58@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:2vkccbF2m5s57U1@uni-berlin.de...
| Hello all, I'm thinking of joining the SETI@Home project, but before
| downoading the software I would like to know how everyone's experience
| w/it has been, above all would like to know if this is something that
| might slow down the performance of yr computer..  I'm running Windows
| 2000 on a machine that is not the fastest machine in the world but is
| not too slow either..  I assume their software doesn't come w/unnecesary
| bells and wistles, no spy-ware, etc..  ok, thanks for any
| opinions/impressions..
|
| Frances Del Rio
| NYC
|