On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:23:25 GMT, Martin 53N 1W <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote:

Or are you just glum that times change?

Patience. There is always resistance to chance. I resisted.

SETI, and number crunching in general, has been a simple concept for many people; yet,
somewhat of a leap for others, and a real leap for some folks.

I crunch 24/7 (6 classic units per day). It took me a while to learn that I didn't have to
run the SETI screen saver and eliminating it caused me to crunch even faster. I eventually
got up the nerve to try the command line version; and I seemed to crunch even faster. SETI
Drive was my queuing program and all worked great.

Seeing the end of SETI Classic, I cranked up BOINC; they had an account waiting for me. I
still haven't figured everything out, but I seem to be crunching away.

My point is that the transition is not as simple, easy or welcome for some folks as it is
for you, or even for reluctant me. I don't know how to encourage reluctant folks, but I do
hope those faithful crunchers will get on the BOINC bandwagon.

I see you helping out all of the time. Would you care to address a few questions? 

1. The page with my Classic WU details has the correct count, 4010, units; but SETI is
showing about 2280 "as of May 15", or something like that. Do you think they will
eventually show the correct classic units somewhere? 

2. Are all BOINC WU the same size? The BOINC Manager shows 4:15 for each WU ahead, and
that's very close to the time it takes. Classic never seemed to know how long a WU would
take, ahead of time.

Thanks for you guidance.
Play with fire! Zildjan drum sticks