On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:42:39 GMT, Johan Plane <johan.plane@telia.com>
wrote:

It seems as if there is more downtyime for maintenance that uptime for
us users at the moment. The redundancy seems to be somewhat lacking in
my opinion.

My guess would be that you came late to Seti then, Classic had MANY
MANY downtimes in the beginning. Do you remember when the people stole
the piece of copper cable that was the ONLY connection to Berkeley?
They were down for almost a week, trying to figure out what was wrong
and then trying to fix it. The computers were pushed WAAAAY beyond
their limits and until the last year or so had numerous fixes to keep
them running. People tend to remember only the good things and forget
the tough times, human nature I guess. Classic certaintly had some
tough times! Do you remember when we had to connect to Berkeley for
every workunit, before the units were available by some remote users?
When Berkeley was down during those pre-remote cache times we users
would just be out of work for DAYS at a time. Then some users came up
with some add-on programs like Seti Cache, Seti Driver, Seti Queue and
many many others. These programs made Classic the program we all came
to know and love. Boinc will have these programs too, in time.
Boinc HAS some remote programs already, Boinc View, Boinc Spy and
others. Their are a ton of "stat" sites www.Boincsynergy.com
http://boincprojectstatus.ath.cx/show_graphs.php
http://boinc.mundayweb.com/ www.teamocuk.com/ there are MANY others!
Boinc is NOT where it will be next month, but it IS getting better and
better every day/week/month/year, and will continue to do so.