On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:35:43 -0500, "Bill" <bill@c.a> wrote:

"BrianW" <brian@nospam.net> wrote in message 
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SciFi wrote:

"Jason H." <exosearch@juno.com> wrote in message 
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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.

And you will continue to wait until Vista is released to the public
and Berkeley can work with the final version. Seti is a small project
with almost no paid people. Those that are paid are doing so under a
research proposal and as such are pretty much tied up meeting its
requirements. After Vista is released to the public and the developers
have a chance to work with it, Boinc will be made to work with Vista.
As you said though it does work now, just not like you would like it
to. I personally have had Boinc running under Vista RC2 for several
months and it works fine. I do not do anything else with the pc so
have experienced your problems though.