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 -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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