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Send message Joined: 20 Aug 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 4 RAC: 0 
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When will they be adding a screensaver? |
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Send message Joined: 6 Jul 08 Posts: 1 Credit: 17,429 RAC: 0 
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Just came to post the same. |
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Send message Joined: 16 Feb 08 Posts: 2 Credit: 11,492 RAC: 0 
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yep same here |
 banditwolf Send message Joined: 12 Nov 07 Posts: 2425 Credit: 524,164 RAC: 0 
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If the new app (unrealeased yet) takes 6+ months, I think a screensaver is going to be awhile. Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected? If it makes sense, DON'T do it. |
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Send message Joined: 16 Feb 08 Posts: 2 Credit: 11,492 RAC: 0
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I'll look back in a year then and if they have one i will start cruching again. |
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Send message Joined: 19 Feb 09 Posts: 33 Credit: 1,134,826 RAC: 0 
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I'll look back in a year then and if they have one i will start cruching again. To be honest, you're doing this for the wrong reason if you're just waiting for screensavers. |
Cori Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 647 Credit: 27,592,547 RAC: 0 
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I'll look back in a year then and if they have one i will start cruching again. Hehe, true. I almost never use screensavers, because it only eats CPU power and I need that for crunching!  Lovely greetings, Cori  
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GalaxyIce Send message Joined: 6 Apr 08 Posts: 2018 Credit: 100,142,856 RAC: 0 
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I'll look back in a year then and if they have one i will start cruching again. Same with me. I don't even use a desktop screensaver; don't want to waste PC resource for whatever I'm using my PC for. |
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Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 12 Apr 08 Posts: 621 Credit: 161,934,067 RAC: 0
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I'll look back in a year then and if they have one i will start cruching again. Actually, they are doing if for the original intended purpose of BOINC. That is, to use the idle computer. We hard core types have perverted the original intent in our quests for credit scores, or to do the most science (not mutually exclusive goals) ... and so we tune our systems, buy dedicated parts and obsess over the merits of one card/cpu/gpu over another ... But the original point was to do science on idle machines ... so, they have their priorities exactly right ... Besides, why do we care *WHY* some one does BOINC ... the end is the same ... |
Phil Send message Joined: 13 Feb 08 Posts: 1124 Credit: 46,740 RAC: 0
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I'll look back in a year then and if they have one i will start cruching again. I remember 75MHz Pentiums ran terribly slowly when running SETI - far better to have the thing come up as a screensaver only! |
 Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 915 Credit: 1,503,319 RAC: 0
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Besides, why do we care *WHY* some one does BOINC ... the end is the same ... There's a whole thread dedicated to this at Cosmo. ;) me@rescam.org |
speedimic Send message Joined: 22 Feb 08 Posts: 260 Credit: 57,387,048 RAC: 0 
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Besides, why do we care *WHY* some one does BOINC ... the end is the same ... Cosmo? ;) mic. 
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Phil Send message Joined: 13 Feb 08 Posts: 1124 Credit: 46,740 RAC: 0
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Besides, why do we care *WHY* some one does BOINC ... the end is the same ... cosmo AKA "if you think milky is screwed up you havent tried crunching for cosmo" |
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speedimic Send message Joined: 22 Feb 08 Posts: 260 Credit: 57,387,048 RAC: 0
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Besides, why do we care *WHY* some one does BOINC ... the end is the same ... yep, tried a comeback 2 weeks ago... half the wus didn't even dl and the forum looks like project staff has forgotten where it is... mic.
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Bruce Send message Joined: 28 Apr 08 Posts: 1415 Credit: 2,716,428 RAC: 0 
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Besides, why do we care *WHY* some one does BOINC ... the end is the same ... I've tried Cosmo, there was very little response from administration there so I hit the road. |
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Phil Send message Joined: 13 Feb 08 Posts: 1124 Credit: 46,740 RAC: 0
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Besides, why do we care *WHY* some one does BOINC ... the end is the same ... I just went over there to look at my stats, but Unable to handle request No such user found - please check the ID and try again. |
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Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 915 Credit: 1,503,319 RAC: 0
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Besides, why do we care *WHY* some one does BOINC ... the end is the same ... Last night they didn't even have a website. :O me@rescam.org |
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Phil Send message Joined: 13 Feb 08 Posts: 1124 Credit: 46,740 RAC: 0
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Besides, why do we care *WHY* some one does BOINC ... the end is the same ... Oh yes its gone again: Network Timeout The server at www.cosmologyathome.org is taking too long to respond. |
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Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 915 Credit: 1,503,319 RAC: 0
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A campus wide power outage due to storms in the area seems to have affected our server hardware, leading to intermittent unexpected shutdowns. We took c@h down for an extended maintenance period during which we will work with our hardware vendor to fix this problem. We expect to be back up on March 30 at the latest. We will make every attempt to avoid lost credit due to this downtime. Best regards, Ben Wandelt for the c@h team. me@rescam.org |
 Send message Joined: 11 May 09 Posts: 30 Credit: 81,093 RAC: 0  |
Hello MilkyWay@Home, As you may or may not know, I am a new scientist working with BOINC. I don't really have the knowledge or expertise to put together a fancy screensaver, the best I could do is a basic slideshow. However, I do have access to a large number of images that were used in Nate's Thesis. Things like circular cross sections of the sky (how we visualize each individual stripe of data), the same circular cross sections with just the stream stars or just the field stars, arrow-plots of the stream direction in space etc. Check out this paper by Nate for an example of some of the pictures I can make. ( pg 44 onward http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0805/0805.2121v2.pdf ) If anyone has experience making screen savers and would like some images to work with, feel free to PM me. I would be happy to talk it over with you and supply a package of images. Cheers, John Vickers |
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