On Sunday 19 April 2020 09:39:43 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-04-19 at 09:23, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 19 April 2020 03:03:53 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > >> As for Covid-19 vaccine, we are getting there. I know that because > >> for past month I was running my systems in full power for BOINC > >> project Rosetta@Home. > >> Every research task is for Covid-19. > >> This is what any sane person should do, and not ruin lives of other > >> people for faux-currenccy. > > > > This might be true, but my singular experience with boinc when seti > > was turned off was enough to make me wipe it from the system as it > > insisted on the highest priority the system could muster, leaving me > > with a frozen, locked up system. Written by a bunch of windows > > people who considered a linux box was something to disable if they > > could. Unless boinc has been taught some manners, it will never > > again be installed on any machine I control. But I have doubts that > > manners will ever happen as long as winders nuts run it. > > Seriously? > > It's the *Berkeley* Open Infrastructure for Network Computing project. > That's the same Berkeley from the quote (found, among other places, in > > the fortunes database): > >>> There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and > >>> UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. > > The "Building BOINC" section of their Website [1] seems clearly > *nix-oriented. The building-the-client section does have Windows build > directions, but they're listed third, after the ones for "Linux" and > "other UNIX". > > The latest item in their front-page News listing as of this writing > (dated April 2nd) is about their having moved to a new server, which - > from the description - is clearly Linux-based. > > I don't recall having ever previously heard anything which even > suggested - never mind indicated - that BOINC was in any way or sense > Windows-specific or Windows-oriented, except in terms of supporting > and being able to run on Windows. > > Where the ^@#! do you get the idea that BOINC is run by "Winders > nuts", or was written by "Windows people" in the first place? > > [1] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SoftwareBuilding
I haven't even looked at it in a good 12 or 13 years now, And my opinion was formed when I sent emails complaining and was told to go pound sand in pretty plain language. Considering that I had time in seti from the beginning and ranked in the top 1000 at the time, I felt pretty seriously insulted. So I did the only thing I could do, and pulled the plug. The then new winders management had quite plainly stated their opinion of my problem. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>