http://space-exploration.suite101.com/article.cfm/setihome_needs_more_help

More data = more crunchers

"A New Deluge of Data from Arecibo

The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which is the largest radio
telescope in the world and was seen by many movie-goers in the 1997
film Contact, has recently received an upgrade that allows it 40 times
more frequency coverage and seven regions of the sky simultaneously
rather than one. This upgrade has generated 500 times more SETI data
than before. Chief Project Scientist Dan Werthimer explains that "That
means we are 500 times more likely to find ET than with the original
SETI@home.""

houndnews@gmail.com wrote <299b0944-b201-47cf-9860-7c8cc13fe83b@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> in sci.astro.seti:
http://space-exploration.suite101.com/article.cfm/setihome_needs_more_help

More data = more crunchers

"A New Deluge of Data from Arecibo

The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which is the largest radio
telescope in the world and was seen by many movie-goers in the 1997
film Contact, has recently received an upgrade that allows it 40 times
more frequency coverage and seven regions of the sky simultaneously
rather than one. This upgrade has generated 500 times more SETI data
than before. Chief Project Scientist Dan Werthimer explains that "That
means we are 500 times more likely to find ET than with the original
SETI@home.""

I'll be glad to help, as soon as they release a client that installs
and runs just like the old SETI@home client. But as long as BOINC is
required, there's no way I'll resume my participation.

Wayne,

houndnews@gmail.com wrote <299b0944-b201-47cf-9860-7c8cc13fe83b@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> in sci.astro.seti:
http://space-exploration.suite101.com/article.cfm/setihome_needs_more_help

More data = more crunchers

"A New Deluge of Data from Arecibo

The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which is the largest radio
telescope in the world and was seen by many movie-goers in the 1997
film Contact, has recently received an upgrade that allows it 40 times
more frequency coverage and seven regions of the sky simultaneously
rather than one. This upgrade has generated 500 times more SETI data
than before. Chief Project Scientist Dan Werthimer explains that "That
means we are 500 times more likely to find ET than with the original
SETI@home.""

I'll be glad to help, as soon as they release a client that installs
and runs just like the old SETI@home client. But as long as BOINC is
required, there's no way I'll resume my participation.

Wayne Brown wrote:

I'll be glad to help, as soon as they release a client that installs
and runs just like the old SETI@home client. But as long as BOINC is
required, there's no way I'll resume my participation.

What's wrong with BOINC? I've been running SETI and another project
using BOINC (with current updates) and have no complaints at all. Was
the "old SETI@home faster?

Wayne Brown wrote:
houndnews@gmail.com wrote <299b0944-b201-47cf-9860-7c8cc13fe83b@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> in sci.astro.seti:
http://space-exploration.suite101.com/article.cfm/setihome_needs_more_help

More data = more crunchers

"A New Deluge of Data from Arecibo

The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which is the largest radio
telescope in the world and was seen by many movie-goers in the 1997
film Contact, has recently received an upgrade that allows it 40 times
more frequency coverage and seven regions of the sky simultaneously
rather than one. This upgrade has generated 500 times more SETI data
than before. Chief Project Scientist Dan Werthimer explains that "That
means we are 500 times more likely to find ET than with the original
SETI@home.""

I'll be glad to help, as soon as they release a client that installs
and runs just like the old SETI@home client. But as long as BOINC is
required, there's no way I'll resume my participation.

Wayne,

What's wrong with BOINC? I've been running SETI and another project
using BOINC (with current updates) and have no complaints at all. Was
the "old SETI@home faster?

Wayne Brown wrote:
houndnews@gmail.com wrote <299b0944-b201-47cf-9860-7c8cc13fe83b@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> in sci.astro.seti:
http://space-exploration.suite101.com/article.cfm/setihome_needs_more_help

More data = more crunchers

"A New Deluge of Data from Arecibo

The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which is the largest radio
telescope in the world and was seen by many movie-goers in the 1997
film Contact, has recently received an upgrade that allows it 40 times
more frequency coverage and seven regions of the sky simultaneously
rather than one. This upgrade has generated 500 times more SETI data
than before. Chief Project Scientist Dan Werthimer explains that "That
means we are 500 times more likely to find ET than with the original
SETI@home.""

I'll be glad to help, as soon as they release a client that installs
and runs just like the old SETI@home client. But as long as BOINC is
required, there's no way I'll resume my participation.

While I like the Purity of Our Essence as much as the next guy, BOINC is a
generalization of the concept proven by SETI@HOME. If you run it and only
subscribe to S@H it is no different from the original S@H. I don't see your
problem.

All that interests me is an executable file that I can drop into the
same directory where the Classic client was installed and have it work
with my old scripts with no changes needed. That's not how BOINC works,
and so I'm not interested.

Matt Giwer <jull43@tampabay.remover.rr.com> wrote <47835788$0$7220$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> in sci.astro.seti:
Wayne Brown wrote:
houndnews@gmail.com wrote <299b0944-b201-47cf-9860-7c8cc13fe83b@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> in sci.astro.seti:
http://space-exploration.suite101.com/article.cfm/setihome_needs_more_help
More data = more crunchers
"A New Deluge of Data from Arecibo
The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which is the largest radio
telescope in the world and was seen by many movie-goers in the 1997
film Contact, has recently received an upgrade that allows it 40 times
more frequency coverage and seven regions of the sky simultaneously
rather than one. This upgrade has generated 500 times more SETI data
than before. Chief Project Scientist Dan Werthimer explains that "That
means we are 500 times more likely to find ET than with the original
SETI@home.""
I'll be glad to help, as soon as they release a client that installs
and runs just like the old SETI@home client. But as long as BOINC is
required, there's no way I'll resume my participation.
While I like the Purity of Our Essence as much as the next guy, BOINC is a
generalization of the concept proven by SETI@HOME. If you run it and only
subscribe to S@H it is no different from the original S@H. I don't see your
problem.

Can you spend 30 seconds unpacking it into the same directory as the old
client, and then ignore it until the next update comes along, like I used
to do with the Classic client? No, because BOINC doesn't work that way,
so I don't want it on my systems.

What you do not want you will not have. However your reasons are nonsense.

Matt Giwer wrote:
What you do not want you will not have. However your reasons are nonsense.

The guy has a point. The classic client was quick to setup, requiring zero
thought. If it takes too many clicks and too many questions need to be
answered by the user, then the amount of users who give up or quit halfway
through will increase. The devoted fancrowd will always go through all the
extra steps and do whatever it takes, but the big masses wont. It's an
important point to consider if one wants more people to analyze workunits.

Matt Giwer <jull43@tampabay.remover.rr.com> wrote <47835788$0$7220$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> in sci.astro.seti:
Wayne Brown wrote:
houndnews@gmail.com wrote <299b0944-b201-47cf-9860-7c8cc13fe83b@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> in sci.astro.seti:
http://space-exploration.suite101.com/article.cfm/setihome_needs_more_help

More data = more crunchers

"A New Deluge of Data from Arecibo

The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which is the largest radio
telescope in the world and was seen by many movie-goers in the 1997
film Contact, has recently received an upgrade that allows it 40 times
more frequency coverage and seven regions of the sky simultaneously
rather than one. This upgrade has generated 500 times more SETI data
than before. Chief Project Scientist Dan Werthimer explains that "That
means we are 500 times more likely to find ET than with the original
SETI@home.""
I'll be glad to help, as soon as they release a client that installs
and runs just like the old SETI@home client. But as long as BOINC is
required, there's no way I'll resume my participation.
While I like the Purity of Our Essence as much as the next guy, BOINC is a
generalization of the concept proven by SETI@HOME. If you run it and only
subscribe to S@H it is no different from the original S@H. I don't see your
problem.

Can you spend 30 seconds unpacking it into the same directory as the old
client, and then ignore it until the next update comes along, like I used
to do with the Classic client? No, because BOINC doesn't work that way,
so I don't want it on my systems.

Perhaps my memory is failing. However I put switching almost to the end for the
problems I was reading about here and as I had four machines to keep working at
the time. But when I got around to do it I recall no problems doing so. Boinc is
a separate product. Once installed do not see any difference between the old and
new S@H steps to set up. Boinc was trivial on linux.

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:12:22 GMT, Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net
wrote:

All that interests me is an executable file that I can drop into the
same directory where the Classic client was installed and have it work
with my old scripts with no changes needed. That's not how BOINC works,
and so I'm not interested.

Scripts? With the BOINC manager, you don't need scripts.