Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 16 years ago

#663 closed Defect (invalid)

I do not find your program user frindly

Reported by: noslenil Owned by:
Priority: Undetermined Milestone: Undetermined
Component: Undetermined Version:
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Description

I have just rejoined SETI, but I find it very confuseing, and I am haveing trouble understanding your manual on how to set it up, and I am not sure if it is working or not. It can run all the time, just not when I'm on the computer.

I'm ready to delete it again, since I do not know how to set up the SETI progaram, and I dont have the time to learn it. I do not find your program user frindly, so there is a very good chance that I will stop running Bonic all together. This is the same reason I stoped last time, and am now finding it too confuseing once more. Please work on makeing your program, less time consumeing, and easier to install and use.

From,

Gary Nelson noslenil


From: SETI@home To: noslenfl Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:55 PM Subject: Please rejoin SETI@home

Dear noslenfl:

We'd like to invite you to reconnect with SETI@home. Our records show that you've been with SETI@home since 01 November 2004, but it's been 372 days since you last returned a work unit. We want you back, and here's why:

These are exciting times for SETI@home. Last year we implemented a new SETI@home data recorder at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. This recorder is attached to a state-of-the-art multibeam receiver, so we can now measure signals from 7 positions on the sky at once, with greater sensitivity to weak signals compared to the data from the flat feed antenna we've used since 1999. We've greatly increased the sensitivity of our data analysis, and the likelihood that we'll find the first signs of extraterrestrial life. We're also close to releasing a second application, Astropulse, which will look for extremely short pulses of astronomical (and possibly intelligent) origin.

With these new developments comes an increase in required computing power, for which we depend on people like you. We hope you will consider signing back on with SETI@home, and help in this wonderful scientific venture.

If you experienced problems running SETI@home, please try any of the resources listed at: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_help.php including the new BOINC Online Help System which lets you talk live, over the Internet, with a help volunteer: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php

We thank you for your involvement in SETI@home, and hope that you rejoin us in our search for signals from other worlds.

-- The SETI@home team

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SETI@home - http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Space Sciences Laboratory / 7 Gauss Way University of California, Berkeley, CA 92740-7450

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by Nicolas

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by Nicolas

We can't make it less confusing if you don't say exactly what is confusing to you.

comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by Ageless

He's getting help already at the Seti Q&A forums. Whether it will help in the end, is uncertain.

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