Seti@Home needs a face lift!

Reuben King wrote:

Is the source code for Seti@Home available?

I think it urgently needs a serious makeover, it could look SO much
cooler -- or even make it skinnable.. Something.

It's been ages since I used the screensaver, but wasn't there "skin" stored
in plain .bmp in the seti@home folder?

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:00:39 -0500 in sci.astro.seti, "Robi"
tapped out on the keyboard:

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But the future look of seti@home:
http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/setiathome.jpg

The picture is lop-sided and so difficult to read.

--
John Youles Norwich England UK
j dot y.o.u.l.e.s at n.t.l.w.o.r.l.d dot c.o.m
http://www.ukip.org/

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:00:39 -0500 in sci.astro.seti, "Robi"
tapped out on the keyboard:

[snipped]

But the future look of seti@home:
http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/setiathome.jpg

The picture is lop-sided and so difficult to read.

--
John Youles Norwich England UK
j dot y.o.u.l.e.s at n.t.l.w.o.r.l.d dot c.o.m
http://www.ukip.org/

John Youles wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:00:39 -0500 in sci.astro.seti, "Robi"
tapped out on the keyboard:

[snipped]

But the future look of seti@home:
http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/setiathome.jpg

The picture is lop-sided and so difficult to read.

From looking at the picture, it seems obvious to me that the new screen
saver will float around the screen, the way many screen savers do. As for it
being attractive or ugly, I guess that is in the eye of the beholder. It
looks reasonably nice to me. Although I don't see why the screen saver would
matter, since actually using the screen saver will always steal cpu cycles
from the real work.

--
Tony Sivori

John Youles wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:00:39 -0500 in sci.astro.seti, "Robi"
tapped out on the keyboard:

[snipped]

But the future look of seti@home:
http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/setiathome.jpg

The picture is lop-sided and so difficult to read.

From looking at the picture, it seems obvious to me that the new screen
saver will float around the screen, the way many screen savers do. As for it
being attractive or ugly, I guess that is in the eye of the beholder. It
looks reasonably nice to me. Although I don't see why the screen saver would
matter, since actually using the screen saver will always steal cpu cycles
from the real work.

--
Tony Sivori

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says...
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:32:50 -0400, Tony Sivori
wrote:

From looking at the picture, it seems obvious to me that the new screen
saver will float around the screen, the way many screen savers do. As for
it being attractive or ugly, I guess that is in the eye of the beholder.
It
looks reasonably nice to me. Although I don't see why the screen saver
would matter, since actually using the screen saver will always steal cpu
cycles from the real work.

Well, some ppl are just stuck on the need for a screen saver, myself
personally, they should completely eliminate the screen saver version and
concentrate solely on the command line... but then again, the neophite
crowd would probably stop using SETI... so guess its give/take...either
way..


You're missing the big pictu

Most people interested in really good looking screensavers are probably
going to own a very powerful computer. Having a very nicely designed
"Star Trek" or "Matrix" sort of GUI surrounding the concept of searching
for alien life -- this would help Seti grow even more popular in a
market where there is a lot of serious CPU cycles to gain.

So stop fretting over "wasted CPU cycles"! Your "wasted CPU cycles" are
those people who are running the Matrix 3D Screensaver instead of Seti
because IT LOOKS COOLER!

Get it?

In article ,
says...
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:32:50 -0400, Tony Sivori
wrote:

From looking at the picture, it seems obvious to me that the new screen
saver will float around the screen, the way many screen savers do. As for
it being attractive or ugly, I guess that is in the eye of the beholder.
It
looks reasonably nice to me. Although I don't see why the screen saver
would matter, since actually using the screen saver will always steal cpu
cycles from the real work.

Well, some ppl are just stuck on the need for a screen saver, myself
personally, they should completely eliminate the screen saver version and
concentrate solely on the command line... but then again, the neophite
crowd would probably stop using SETI... so guess its give/take...either
way..


You're missing the big pictu

Most people interested in really good looking screensavers are probably
going to own a very powerful computer. Having a very nicely designed
"Star Trek" or "Matrix" sort of GUI surrounding the concept of searching
for alien life -- this would help Seti grow even more popular in a
market where there is a lot of serious CPU cycles to gain.

So stop fretting over "wasted CPU cycles"! Your "wasted CPU cycles" are
those people who are running the Matrix 3D Screensaver instead of Seti
because IT LOOKS COOLER!

Get it?

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:56:59 -0700 in sci.astro.seti, Thomas Roy Garner
tapped out on the keyboard:


Well, some ppl are just stuck on the need for a screen saver, myself
personally, they should completely eliminate the screen saver version and
concentrate solely on the command line... but then again, the neophite
crowd would probably stop using SETI... so guess its give/take...either
way..

I use the screen saver version running continuously but I have disabled it as a
screensaver (my screen goes blank after n minutes) so I only see the graphics
when I click the icon.

--
John Youles Norwich England UK
j dot y.o.u.l.e.s at n.t.l.w.o.r.l.d dot c.o.m
http://www.ukip.org/

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:56:59 -0700 in sci.astro.seti, Thomas Roy Garner
tapped out on the keyboard:


Well, some ppl are just stuck on the need for a screen saver, myself
personally, they should completely eliminate the screen saver version and
concentrate solely on the command line... but then again, the neophite
crowd would probably stop using SETI... so guess its give/take...either
way..

I use the screen saver version running continuously but I have disabled it as a
screensaver (my screen goes blank after n minutes) so I only see the graphics
when I click the icon.

--
John Youles Norwich England UK
j dot y.o.u.l.e.s at n.t.l.w.o.r.l.d dot c.o.m
http://www.ukip.org/

Reuben King wrote:
[...]
You're missing the big pictu

Goodness gracious! Where did you escape from? ;o)

Most people interested in really good looking screensavers are probably
going to own a very powerful computer.

Most probably not. Most people decide what they need their computer for
and get the computer power needed for that task. Installing an additional
program like S@h shouldn't use more processor power than the intended
program(s)

Having a very nicely designed "Star Trek" or "Matrix" sort of GUI
surrounding the concept of searching for alien life -- this would
help Seti grow even more popular in a market where there is a lot
of serious CPU cycles to gain.

.... and it would lose a lot of CPU cycles just to keep the fancy
screensaver running... wasting them for nonsense!

So stop fretting over "wasted CPU cycles"! Your "wasted CPU cycles" are
those people who are running the Matrix 3D Screensaver instead of Seti
because IT LOOKS COOLER!

Wasted CPU cycles are those where running screensaver S@h returns 1 result
CLI returns 2 results in the same time. The GUI screensaver wasted CPU power
to crunch the second WU just to display something on the screen.

Get it?

I do. Do you?

You want to see cool graphics, some want to see data being analyzed, some
more want to see the location of the data being analyzed, and some just
want to analyze as many WUs as possible without any overhead of graphics
display.

Cool or not lies - as said before - in the eye of the beholder.


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Robi
(2.6#@ 2.55 yrs)