On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:40:28 -0500, Michael A. Ball
<Guardian@wireco.net> wrote:

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:49:18 -0000, "Terry" <terry@tbean.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

...When it finished a work unit it
would then request a internet connection.

This has run fine like this for 5 years.

Could somebody please please please tell me how to set up boinc to do this.

The boinc software is very confusing and I have no idea how to do this.

I am a software engineer and certainly no novice when it comes to software.

Bring up your BOINC Manager; click on "Options" > option> connections. You can choose to
have BOINC connection via your regular Internet connection. I'm connected so often that I
just have BOINC detect the settings.  For some reason, I don't think BOINC ever connected
via my Internet connection, but it does a great job of transferring data, when I'm online.

It has to, unless you have some other means of getting to the
internet.

Right now BOINC is not accepting data, but I have a reasonable cache.

Reguardless of the cache size which is so many days worth of work,
BOINC has been keeping that many days worth downloaded up until
recently which was building some really large caches of files to
upload.

Seeing that you're a software engineer, why not tell the BOINC folks how to make things
better. I don't think BOINC is unfriendly: just new. To be honest, I have no idea of what
it is doing; only that it is running. Work units don't seem to be what they were in SETI
Classic, but I don't know what the difference might be. In BOINC, I see "Credit claimed"

Having been a soft ware engineer, or developmental analyst (fancy name
for programmer) myself, I figure they will eventually get it worked
out.  They have a small crew and small budgett.  They deserve a lot of
credit for having done as well as they have so far.

The difference is the verson of seti which does more science and they
now count credit differently.

which is sometimes far less that "Credit granted". So it seems like crunchers are not

The difference there is the credit granted has been verified.  There
is sometimes quite a gap between what you have done and the credit
givin.

getting as much credit as in SETI Classic. However, I've only been learning about BOINC
for one week, and I've already learned a lot.

Give 'em some time.

I just shut BOINC on my machines down temporarily as between the three
of them they should have been trying to connect evry few seconds. This
gives me time to do drive maintenance (check for errors and defrag)
and dust cleaning.  As each system has over a terabyte now, it takes a
good day to defrag all the drives and about a half a day for error
checking and correction.  No, my caches are not that large, very
little of that is used for seti.<:-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

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