New BOINC Project - Anyone In?

[markafcb]

TEAM CLOSED

 

[markafcb]

It would have been nice if you had asked first before jumping in with both feet and creating a team without even asking, but you've gone and done it anyway now, so what's done is done.

Sorry I did not mean to cause offence to anyone, but clearly I have in a big way, I will close the team now, and if somebody want to run it who will not cause other members offence, they can, I am very sorry for my mistake. Just thought it would be helpful, but clearly not.

I was not my intention to do something that was not wanted or would cause some offence and for this I apologise.

Mark

 

[markafcb]

I agree completely, you're welcome to stick around here and post (in fact, I encourage it). It's just that, as BillyTheImpaler correctly pointed out, having teams founded the way you did almost inevitably will cause problems for us down the road. I spent about a month trying to gain access to our Folding@home, and nearly succeeded, only for it to slip away again.

Last time I checked, distributed.net was assessing the computing horsepower needed to brute force crack a single message, which is absolutely fine with me. HashClash on the other hand is attempting to smash MD5 into tiny little pieces. The only portion of humanity that's useful for is those who want to crack computer systems, and there's no way in hell I'm going to deliberately aid them in their goals. Yes, I really do feel that strongly about it.

I closed the thread, but then changed my mind. I'll leave the thread open for a day or two in case anyone else wants to discuss.

You may feel strongly about it, and you clearly know more about it than I do.

However, I did not know that is what it was used for and would not have expected Berkley to allow such a thing. For the record I have stopped crunching for them now.

Be that as it may, I must state that you need to understand that clearly your knowledge of things is more superior than some of us (ok, me) and therefore a more polite reaction to a new poster on the forums who only had good intentions would have been a lot better placed. This may not have been your intention, but it sure came across that way.

To sum up, a) I did not know that it was a problem to open another team and I did not want to step on your toes, if it was a project that we were going to contribute to, I would have signed it over to you. b) I did not know of the problems you had with trying to get control of the teams other groups and c) I did not know this project could be used for bad purposes.

Mark

 

[markafcb]

Am sm still planning to stick around, I am hoping to get more than just my one rig up and running to do some serious crunching, just need to find a few bits.

I am currently crunching Predictor, but can only average about 220 per day with my slow 2600+.

Mark