21) Message boards : Web interfaces : Separate control of separate projects (Message 2899) Posted 31 Jan 2006 by mikus Post: I updated the 'General Preferences' for a project I participate in. I was displeased to see the following advisory: "These apply to all BOINC projects in which you participate." I hope that this advisory does NOT apply to me, since I have different Cross-Project IDs assigned within the different BOINC projects I participate in. To clarify to the reader, let me suggest that sentence should instead say: "These apply to all BOINC projects in which you participate which use the same Cross-Project ID." -------- I myself see absolutely NO REASON why I should run multiple BOINC projects on the same computer. (If the BOINC project runs out of work, I'll start up a non-BOINC project instead!) But I *do* have more than one computer running BOINC projects. And these computers do __not__ all have the same capabilities (an example would be the amount of disk space available). Also, I run off-line, and connect to the servers only infrequently. On one of my (single-project) computers, the client downloaded new WUs which pre-empted the still-queued previous WUs. To be able to work off the previous WUs, I changed my 'General Preferences' for the project to: "give me only enough new work for one day". But, I did __NOT__ want this 'General Preferences' change to apply to any other BOINC project. -------- My point is that the computers I use have differences, and the projects I run have differences. WHY then should BOINC attempt to fit a "one size must fit all" set of 'General Preferences' to __ALL__ the BOINC projects in which I participate ? .

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