On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:14:43 GMT, Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

nafc@snet.net wrote:

Martin 53N 1W wrote:

So why the reluctance to change?

For some of us it's not a reluctance to change but that there's no
version of the BOINC client for the OS we're using.  In my case I'm
using Tru64 UNIX.  So, when SETI Classic goes down I too quit after
56K+ WUs.

In my case, it's a reluctance to do unnecessary work or to solve the same
problem twice.  SETI Classic has been running fine on my machines for
several years.  I took the time to set up scripts and procedures that
keep it going with very minimal intervention from me.  Since I always
keep a fair number of WUs in the cache, I don't usually notice outages or
need to care about them.  In fact, I often go for weeks without thinking
about SETI at all, or remembering that it's running.  Now I'm expected
to throw away something that works well for my purposes and replace it
with something new that I'll have to learn how to set up and manage, just
so I can keep doing what I've already been doing anyway.  If I have to
install and learn new software and procedures, then I'm going to do it for
a project that hasn't already annoyed me by inconveniencing me.  So I've
installed GIMPS and that's all I'll run after SETI Classic goes away.

You could always go back to DOS and tell Windows or if you use Linux
go back to Unix! We upgrade because we can more things with the same
hardware. Along the way some people are just left behind, either from
their own choices or their unwillingness to change or, or, or, or....!
Seti under boinc is Seti II, either upgrade or don't but don't say you
want to stay with the old one "because it works" because Seti I no
longer works as designed and can no longer fulfill the Scientists
desires.

Besides, I really hate the "BOINC" name.

Name shmame! Is your name REALLY "fwbrown"? I doubt it, and if those
are your intials, that is what BOINC is, initials!!!! It stands for 
"Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing".
If you think more than that, GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!!!