Sorry to hear Mark or Travis, that u have a problem with the thing. If u do read this, go to the taskmanager and terminate the wcg_hpf2_rosetta.exe process (or something similar). That will cancel that project. Only than will the agent fetch the work according your revised project profile i.e. get an AIDS work unit.

It's not understood why u dont get a response, so to be sure here's the contact_us email account: support@worldcommunitygrid.org . Include the member name and the agent device number, right hand bottom of the 'V' screen.

cheers

Dexter, dont know who 'him' is, but we dont give out personal email addresses. The one to use for individual assistance is bolded in the post above.

Yep. Big problem. Took me ages to figure out that I wasn't using BOINC, and how to use it. I really think that the best thing this project can do is kill their dependency on UD (whatever) and use BOINC exclusively. Also, they need to provide clients for Linux and Mac OS X at the same time as the Windows Client. The people who respond to such projects as this are much more likely to be those using the latter OSs. Indeed, if you look at percentage response, you will find Linux and Mac responders out of all proportion to the actual numbers of active machines, expressed as a percent.

Finally, one will get nowhere knocking other projects (like SETI@home). SETI@home was responsible for the creation of BOINC, which has to be the best general-purpose grid sharing software available, and what is more, its free because developed at a university known for excellent (and free) software. Remember BSD Unix?

With BOINC, I can and do run a number of projects: I control how my machine resources are shared out. And with BOINC, their impact on my own work is minimised. That isn't the case with many other sharing systems (particularly on Windows, which is a beast to program for sharing).

George
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Sorry, with this attitude you did not find any friends at SETI which look into this project. This is a common argumentation here, which sounds arogant and scares away a lot of SETI peoples. Including me.
Everybody should crunch what they want and everybody has is own preferences and priorities.

More SETI user bashing ?

As i that before, you should respect, that other has other preferences like you. But the SETI bashing here is to offending for me. Why should I crunch a project with a community whith no respect for other projects or peoples or inteterests ? - I see no sense any more here for me !

Also, SETI@home was the project which has distributed computing made popular. Everybody knows SETI@home.
BOINC was developed from the SETI peoples at Berkeley. They have picked up the problems from the SETI Classic and has developed the system which could easly used for a lot of dc projects.


Found an interesting zitate (from the movie Contact) :

Executive: We must confess that your proposal seems less like science and more like science fiction.
Ellie Arroway: Science fiction. Well you're right, it's crazy. In fact, it's even worse than that, nuts.
[angrily slams down her briefcase and marches up to the desk]
Ellie Arroway: You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an "airplane," you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon, or atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? Look, all I'm asking, is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture. To take a chance on something that just might end up being the most profoundly impactful moment for humanity, for the history... of history.


Bye !