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Martin Noone

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Message 53 - Posted: 31 Aug 2005, 12:29:49 UTC

I've been using seti@home for a number of years, is it just me or is the set up for BOINC about as complicated, un-intuative and downright badly designed as to make it a right pain in the *** to get running as could be designed.

Surely an organisation as acedemic as Berkeley can devise a system that is easier to install than this crap.

I can see the number of people transferring or becoming Seti users or any of the other projects dropping off the register.
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Message 55 - Posted: 31 Aug 2005, 13:09:33 UTC

Have patience. Changes are in the make. Read up about them here.
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Message 63 - Posted: 31 Aug 2005, 17:28:54 UTC

Martin,

I'm sorry that you feel this way about Boinc. I personally have to disagree with you, however. I find that BOINC is very easy to install and setup. The difficult thing about it is attaching multiple projects to a new install. This is multiplied if one is running a farm. However, even this has shortcuts and work arounds. Also, as Jord has mentioned, changes are coming down the pike to make this easier.

Jim
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