And...

I really wonder if in the future, WCG will allow users merge accounts once was noticed that there are a lot of crunchers with more than one account (I included), due distinct problems and aspects faced during the past and present WCG scenarios, many at begining times.

Additinally, I wonder too see a special feature that will allow members share/exchange something, like results/credits/points/time crunched/badges/emails in privacy/and so on...

Obviously with some kind of disclaimers that could avoid bad usage or bad conducts, but with security and open enough to allow users enjoy and explore at full speed the real possibilities that could be thinked to be explored inside one global, diversified, robust and giant community like WCG...

It is another thought, that could allow users get badges in fault... exchanged something (please, no chance to have money involved !) just for fun !

Think in the possibilities and enjoy with the idea !

gb009761,

reading again your post, and just to mention:

This kind of OS/machine type problem was very very hard at begining times, and bring at least most damage for beginners than other crunchers.

I remember that when I tried Linux, Solaris, Mac OS, and OS2 Warp (the last was a robust good IBM OS from ancient times of PC history), but I give up after lost a lot of time, picked many bugs and suffer a lot with errors, mainly to be alone many times (I'm not a PC specialist neither a TI expert, and many things don't have support enough at that times in WCG). So, I jumped to "Wintel" world that ever was a smooth way to crunch in WCG.

And for at least 2 years after WCG started I had continuous issues with OS versions (until today we saw that not all kind of OS are available at full spectrum, for cost and many technical reasons - like provide support when users need or provide just simple updated releases, etc).

Probably I pay this bill just to try put something without the right parameters inside of something with right kind of parameters... but it is the price of pioneerism and temptatives and errors methodology from early bird adopters evertime, in everyplace...

So in my humble opinion this point was more hard at begining times and make more damages in the first year of WCG for beginners, than after when you join us, once WCG quickly put focus on spread more the OS universe and became more platforms available (it was a great strategy once captured a lot of powerful crunchers from many places and tribes, like servers world with RISC machines plenty of iddle time to be used in humanitarian efforts !).

Anyway, you are right on that !


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Hi GIBA, now that you've "rebranded" your club , hopefully I'll be able to join it in the not too distant future.

Basically, I'm approx, 9 hrs away from a DDDT2 Bronze, 60 hrs away from a Beta badge, and didn't qualify to receive any AC@H WU's - as (if I remember correctly), that project was run solely on BOINC whilst I was crunching the original HCMD on UD

So you have at end, an impressive colorful set of badges anyway...

And just to mention, I think that probably AC@H2 will delay a lot yet...no news about it for a long time now...


Edit: Title changes

Ok GIBA. With the new rebranding I have a chance to qualify to your club once I get the DDDT2 badge and the Beta badge. It becomes feasible over time.
See you in the future.