| Your personal background. |
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I'm a 58 year-old Financial Adviser in the UK who has enough problems with the FSA without the complicaion of BOINC to exasperate and amplify my blood pressure.
I have been a member of the SETI project since it started.
Every time my computer had a rebuild or major overhaul and I had to reload, SETI forgot me. That is to say, it refused to acknowledge my existance or previous registration. Despite this, it refused my Email address as "an account in that name already exists". Of course it exists - ITS ME!!
However, I always found a way around it. Not interested in personal targets or unit credits or whatever, not too fussed when all previous units discounted and I always restarted from zero.
Tried BOINC once. It screwed up my computer and didn't work. Dumped it and reloaded the "old" programme, which worked just fine. |
| Your opinions about BOINC message boards |
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Why do I run message boards? Well, there was just this half hope that I may just be able to contact a living person to resolve a problem.
No such luck!
You really have got it all screwed up, haven't you?
Old sysytem closing down - load BOINC. So far, so good. Follow one of the worst "Help" files I have ever seen to set it up.
(By the way guys, should I mention that half the buttons that you describe either do not exist or are, in fact, called something else?)
Register.
Guess what.I don't exist. Try putting in details - "an account in that name already exists." Am I surprised?
Find the original key. It fits, Dandidni, it fits! Set up preferences. OK.
Six hours later, and all I have is a little bouncing logo saying that BOINC is idle. Idle is not quite the word that I would use.
Try to log in to message board. Guess what - I STILL DON'T EXIST!!
Persevere, reregister (AGAIN!) and access this panel, which I will simply use to say: GOODBYE, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH. |
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