# How do you like to BOINC? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478 "2007-05-17T17:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478/21 "2007-05-23T19:29:43Z")
I’ve got SETI and Rosetta Stone going as we speak! Yay for science! ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478/22 "2007-05-24T01:12:38Z")
[QUOTE=Tripler] Holy Cow! I’m in there, I’m gonna go join _right now!_. FTR, I am using my SDMB screen name. I’m **Tripler** just about everywhere I go. Oh man, this is cool! Tripler I am such a geek. And yet, I feel welcome in the Geek Club. [/QUOTE] _Ex_-cellent! Soon the Universe will be ours! No power in the 'Verse can stop us! Just watch out for those messages claiming to be from some guy who’s stolen a million bars of gold-pressed latinum from the Ferengi Commerce Authority and all he needs is the transporter coordinates of your private bank vault to make the transfer. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478/23 "2007-05-24T02:56:11Z")
[QUOTE=Demo] There are a couple things that have me disillusioned about SETI right now though and that is the clients and the fact that they’re not actively developing a GPU client like Folding has. [/QUOTE] They aren’t? [I beg to differ](http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=36242). BOINC is necessarily generic because it supports [a dozen different projects](http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=Catalog_of_BOINC_Powered_Projects) including SETI@home. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478/24 "2007-05-24T03:28:25Z")
I used to run seti@home all the time. Once they switched to BOINC I kind of got the feeling seti really didn’t care whether I donated processor time or not and this new BOINC program ran like crap and switching my username over to it was also a real drag. I uninstalled the whole thing and basically walked away from it. They want my free processor time, they should make it easy. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478/25 "2007-05-24T03:37:28Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] I used to run seti@home all the time. Once they switched to BOINC I kind of got the feeling seti really didn’t care whether I donated processor time or not and this new BOINC program ran like crap and switching my username over to it was also a real drag. I uninstalled the whole thing and basically walked away from it. They want my free processor time, they should make it easy. [/QUOTE] Huh. I don’t know about converting an existing account, but starting one up and using it was dead easy. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478/26 "2007-05-24T04:49:13Z")
[QUOTE=1010011010] They aren’t? [I beg to differ](http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=36242). BOINC is necessarily generic because it supports [a dozen different projects](http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=Catalog_of_BOINC_Powered_Projects) including SETI@home. [/QUOTE] Oh nice, I stopped reading the SETI message boards after CRUNCHR or whatever his name is repealed his client. It got way too dramatic at that point. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478/27 "2007-06-05T16:20:01Z")
So, I got an e-mail message from the SETI@home people indicating that member 1010011010 has requested that I hand over the privileges and responsibilities of team founder to him. So, 1010011010 (or may I call you 29A instead?), what would you do differently if you were Supreme Leader? For that matter, what exactly is a SETI@home team founder, having founded the team, supposed to do anyway? ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478/28 "2007-06-08T22:09:05Z")
I was under the impression that “Initiate transfer” thing was something that showed up after some period of inactivity on the part of the on-record team founder. I was think in two months (or whatever the time-out was) it would transfer to me. BUT, you’re still active and doing a just fabulous job of administering The Straight Dopers SETI@home team. I was pretty much just poking you to see if you were dead. Which is slightly inexplicable given that you have multiple posts in this thread, but I think I was tired at the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-to-boinc/404478.md?page=1)