i work at a college where im currently running about 80 installations until recently i was 192 in the world. now im 193 and falling, why? because i work with an arsehole Admin whos blocking Boinc in the college firewall. so now i need to proxy 80 odd machines around the firewall. is there a quick way to change boinc's proxy settings on multiple machines? i can role out registry tweaks or possibly file copies via our login script, we also have all our machines login into a windows domain server. just out of interest if you want to know his reasoning behind blocking Boinc, he said "i dont like any software i dont know running on the college network"[#-o].

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I guess you never read the rules and policies:

Run BOINC only on authorized computers

Run BOINC only on computers that you own, or for which you have obtained the owner's permission. Some companies and schools have policies that prohibit using their computers for BOINC-based projects.

Your best bet may be to talk to the science departmental head and get them interested in the idea. Tailor which project you talk about according to their interests (i.e., LHC, Einstein if they're interested in the physics, Rosetta or Folding if they're a chemist, CPDN or SAP if they're an envionmentalist, ...etc).

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