Fantastic; thanks.Well, there is a reason I prefer BOINC on my son's PC; my wife and daughter also use it, as do I as a backup. Consequently, we all have our own 'User' profiles, so that whenever the computer is started, it stops at the login screen, and nothing runs until one of us logs on. A few times I've gone in after my son had apparently reset the computer, and found that it was just sitting there running without doing any crunching; that was with UD loaded. However, when I installed BOINC, it specifically allowed me to set it up to run without anyone needing to log on, which cured that problem.

As for my PC, I'll eventually try to switch to BOINC, but it's going to be a pain. BOINC won't install on my PC because of a .dll file that it thinks is malware; the file is 'safe' and is needed for my laser mouse. I'll need to uninstall the mouse, switch to another mouse (which will require me to do some gymnastics because of the way my computer is installed in a compartment in my desk which makes access to the back difficult), ... then install BOINC, and then try to reinstall my laser mouse. And if my laser mouse won't install, I'll have to reverse the process. The thoughts of it are enough to convince me to forgo any extra points from BOINC so long as my PC is doing maximum crunching.

Well, as I've indicated in my edited post, if I can combine three graphics into one, it will load quicker, be easier for other HomeBrewers to use, and will give me plenty of room in my sig file. I've tried combining the parts into one graphic, like this:

... but every time I past the picture of the hops, the colors change, and I want them to remain green. Same with the quote from Ben Franklin -- my yellow stands out better. I'm using the 'paint' program that comes with Windows, so I guess it has some limitations. Any suggestions? Your stat banner would then go immediately below it and look like one big banner.

Of course! Good stuff.



Great job CKizer!

png is a Portable Network Graphic file format.
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

Glad it works, I would have played with the text color, but my tools here at work are too limited for that. Enjoy, CKizer

Ok Bill - here we go (my answers in bold):

Processor Usage:
Project Weight: 100 <Does that means to use 100% of whatever CPU cyles are available??>Not exactly, it means give 100% boinc use to WCG as opposed to other boinc projects you may be running.
Do work while computer is in use? Yes <default>Fine
Do work while computer is running on batteries? No <default>Fine
Do work only after computer is idle for: 3.0 minutes <Is this similar to screen saver mode, and should it be set to zero if I want it to always use my excess CPU cycles? I don't know if the answer above (... while computer is in use?) overrides this.>Set to Zero
Switch between applications every: 60 minutes <I assume that means if I add other applications in addition to WCG, which I probably won't do.>Correct - leave it
On multiprocessors, at most use: 4 processors <default and probably N/A for me with my system>Correct - leave it
Disk and Memory Usage
Write to disk at most every: 60 seconds <default -- I'll leave that alone>No problem
Leave applications in memory while preempted? No <The default is no, but it seems to me that these devices (both UD and BOINC) should be preempted every time I move my mouse or hit a key, right? Doesn't that create an awful lot of unnecessary writing and reading from disk? Does it hurt to set it to 'Yes' with only 128meg of RAM? (my son's comp; I'm not running BOINC on mine) ... and what about if I increase that RAM to 512?>Set to YES, there is a bug in boinc that can cause errors when pausing/stopping/re-booting and you may loose work.
Leave at least: 5 Gigabytes of disk space free <changed from .1gdefault>Doesn't really matter if you left it at default
Use no more than: 75% of total disk space <default>Fine
Use no more than: 75% of total virtual memory <default>Fine
Network Usage -- <Are any of these setting necessary, since I'm connected constantly via DSL? I also assume that the max up/download rates being set to zero don't matter.>Correct in your case - leave as default, except for the Connect to network, see below
Confirm before connecting to Internet? No <default>
Disconnect when done? No <default>
Connect to network about every .1 days <default>Change to 0.005 days - will increase communication to server for uploading/downloading results
Maximum upload rate: 0.0 Kbytes/sec <default>Fine
Maximum download rate: 0.0 Kbytes/sec <default>Fine

I think thats it, Ady

lol - you are caught between multiple levels of updates Bill. The WCG does it's update, then all the other stats sites do their updates from the data they get from the WCG and other DC projects.

What's weird is to see an update on the stats box that happens between the posting of Boinc and UD data. You don't see your points for one platform for a while.