"BrianW" <brian@nospam.net> wrote in message news:rJZbh.1443$r95.961@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...

SciFi wrote:

"Jason H." <exosearch@juno.com> wrote in message news:1164811252.168749.318730@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Straining Earthlings' Terrestrial Intelligence (24 Nov.'06)

http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2006/11/straining_earth.html

Points out issues with BOINC, its makers and its forums.

Well it looks like I'm not the only one who dropped out because of that BOINC piece of crap! I was proud to have participated in this project for

I'm sorry to hear that you - and apparently some others - have had problems with BOINC so severe that you felt obliged to ditch it.

While I don't think BOINC is crap, it does have issues and they're not being resolved in a timely manner. I'm using Vista and I still have an issue where BOINC does not release memory when it's idle like it should.

Since BOINC is not releasing memory, I can't run it on two machines that I'm using with Vista. I've talked to a few others and they have the same problem. At least two other people have dumped BOINC until it's updated and fixed. That was nearly 3 months ago and we're still waiting for a fix to a 6 month old program that still doesn't work right, and very little news from the BOINC people about updates.

I'd like to run it again, but in its current state, there's just no way I can do that, and I can't recommend it to others until it's fixed. That's no big deal to me really, but it's a loss for BOINC projects.