f/fgeorge <ffgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote:

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.

Actually, although I do have to use Windows (occasionally) in my work,
I prefer DOS; in fact, I always open a DOS window to copy files, or
create directories, or find files, or delete files; I virtually never
use Windows Explorer if there's any possible way to avoid it.  Most of
the time I use Linux; but that's because when I installed it Linux was
free, and "real" Unix was expensive.

And I *am* staying with the old one "because it works" for *me*.
Presumably it must work at least a little for Berkeley, too, or they
wouldn't still be running it until BOINC is ready.  I'd have thought
that even a little is better than nothing, which is what they'll be
getting from those of us who don't switch; but that's their decision.
They have the right to drop Classic whenever they want, just as I have
the right to ignore BOINC.

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!!!

Do you *really* believe that they chose that name without realizing what
the acronym would suggest?  I'm certain that they not only realized it,
but that they probably chose the acronym first and then figured out words
that would fit the letters.  I can just picture them snickering over it
like a bunch of high-school boys who found a "naughty word" in their
literature textbooks.  Anyway, regardless of their intentions, I know
what *most* people will think about when they hear that name, and I don't
wish to be involved with a project that conjures up such associations.

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fwbrown@bellsouth.net      |  if you're good enough.  Otherwise you give
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