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[Thekwango]

havne't done any of this type of thing before, but thought as my pc sits diong nothing most of the day while i'm at work, i might as well put it to some use.

so, 1st things 1st, do i just download the client from the http://setiathome.berkeley.edu website?

2nd, do i need to play with any specific settings before letting it do it's work or just run it, restart and let it have at it!?

3rd, any other advice?

cheers

 

[Thekwango]

hi derv,

cheers for the reply, 1 question/problem though....

i had the BOINC client installed and running from the berkeley main website and that was - seemingly - running ok, but after reading your post about possible problems, i uninstalled it and installed the one from your link, but it wont connect to the local host, should i just revert back to the original client i was using?

cheers

EDIT: please ignore, made a whoopsie when installing!! sorted now i think

 

[Thekwango]

woah there folks...remember total noooob to this!! 0% share, 5% share = me no understandy!! where do i set this, as i have both seti & milky way on the go and it seems that milky way seems to be doing more than seti.

cheers for all the help, and sorry for my ignorance

 

[Thekwango]

derv, i know i am being a total numpty, but when i do as you say seti is the only one that shows me a 'your preferences' option. when i go to it then i am simple brought to my seti account home page.

maybe i should just delete the milkyway thingy and leave seti on it's own?

might be the easy fix for a noob until i figure out how to work this properly??

 

[Thekwango]

Under your account on a project's website there are three types of preferences:

• Computing preferences
• Community preferences
• <project@home> preferences

Of those, it's the last set of preferences you need to change as each one of those is project-specific. Once in there, click the Edit <project@Home> preferences link and change the resource share to the appropriate amount, then click Update preferences. So to change the resource share for milkyway@home, go to the milkyway@home site, go into your account, click on Milkyway@home preferences and change the resource share to 0, then click Update preferences.

Once that's done, you'll need to go into BOINC manager and manually update milkyway@home so that it fetches and uses the new preferences.

ahhhh. damn how did i not see that before...thought i'd been through every option......grrrrrrrrrr, speed reading is clearly not a skill i am good at!!

cheers mate

 

[Thekwango]

glad to be a part of something worthwhile.

1 more question though. now that i have changed milkyway sharing, it seem that seti status is continually 'communication deferred' a timer counts to zero then restarts.??