New Boinc Client 3.2

New Boinc Client 3.2
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.php

New Boinc Seti homepage
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:38:39 GMT, Klaatu
wrote:

New Boinc Client 3.2

That's actually version 3.20. NOT "3.2".

No, that's not a decimal point. It's a period used
as a separator between the major version "3" and
the minor version "20".

Version 3.2 would have been a LONG time ago;
Eighteen versions ago, unless they didn't release
some of those versions.

Mike

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:38:39 GMT, Klaatu
wrote:

New Boinc Client 3.2

That's actually version 3.20. NOT "3.2".

No, that's not a decimal point. It's a period used
as a separator between the major version "3" and
the minor version "20".

Version 3.2 would have been a LONG time ago;
Eighteen versions ago, unless they didn't release
some of those versions.

Mike

MPB wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:38:39 GMT, Klaatu
wrote:

New Boinc Client 3.2

That's actually version 3.20. NOT "3.2".

No, that's not a decimal point. It's a period used
as a separator between the major version "3" and
the minor version "20".

Version 3.2 would have been a LONG time ago;
Eighteen versions ago, unless they didn't release
some of those versions.

Mike

If you didn't understand here is the relevant info.

Select your computer type:

Computer type
click to download Version Release Date
Linux/x86 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
Mac OS/X 10.3+ 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
SPARC/Solaris 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
Windows/x86 3.20 2004-07-13 New!

Instructions for installing and running BOINC are here.

If your computer is not one of the above types, you can

* download and compile the BOINC software yourself or
* download from a third-party site.

BOINC can be customized for languages other than English

BOINC is distributed computing software developed at the University of
California by the SETI@home project.

MPB wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:38:39 GMT, Klaatu
wrote:

New Boinc Client 3.2

That's actually version 3.20. NOT "3.2".

No, that's not a decimal point. It's a period used
as a separator between the major version "3" and
the minor version "20".

Version 3.2 would have been a LONG time ago;
Eighteen versions ago, unless they didn't release
some of those versions.

Mike

If you didn't understand here is the relevant info.

Select your computer type:

Computer type
click to download Version Release Date
Linux/x86 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
Mac OS/X 10.3+ 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
SPARC/Solaris 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
Windows/x86 3.20 2004-07-13 New!

Instructions for installing and running BOINC are here.

If your computer is not one of the above types, you can

* download and compile the BOINC software yourself or
* download from a third-party site.

BOINC can be customized for languages other than English

BOINC is distributed computing software developed at the University of
California by the SETI@home project.

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:41:15 GMT, Klaatu
wrote:

MPB wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:38:39 GMT, Klaatu
wrote:

New Boinc Client 3.2

That's actually version 3.20. NOT "3.2".

No, that's not a decimal point. It's a period used
as a separator between the major version "3" and
the minor version "20".

Version 3.2 would have been a LONG time ago;
Eighteen versions ago, unless they didn't release
some of those versions.


If you didn't understand here is the relevant info.

I understood perfectly. And, as you can see from
the text you included, the new version is NOT "3.2".
It is clearly "3.20".

Select your computer type:

Computer type
click to download Version Release Date
Linux/x86 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
Mac OS/X 10.3+ 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
SPARC/Solaris 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
Windows/x86 3.20 2004-07-13 New!

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:41:15 GMT, Klaatu
wrote:

MPB wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:38:39 GMT, Klaatu
wrote:

New Boinc Client 3.2

That's actually version 3.20. NOT "3.2".

No, that's not a decimal point. It's a period used
as a separator between the major version "3" and
the minor version "20".

Version 3.2 would have been a LONG time ago;
Eighteen versions ago, unless they didn't release
some of those versions.


If you didn't understand here is the relevant info.

I understood perfectly. And, as you can see from
the text you included, the new version is NOT "3.2".
It is clearly "3.20".

Select your computer type:

Computer type
click to download Version Release Date
Linux/x86 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
Mac OS/X 10.3+ 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
SPARC/Solaris 3.20 2004-07-13 New!
Windows/x86 3.20 2004-07-13 New!

f/f george wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:21:57 GMT, MPB wrote:


New Boinc Client 3.2

That's actually version 3.20. NOT "3.2".

No, that's not a decimal point. It's a period used
as a separator between the major version "3" and
the minor version "20".

Version 3.2 would have been a LONG time ago;
Eighteen versions ago, unless they didn't release
some of those versions.


If you didn't understand here is the relevant info.

I understood perfectly. And, as you can see from
the text you included, the new version is NOT "3.2".
It is clearly "3.20".

I will jump in here and beg to differ....verion 3.12 would have been 8
versions ago, again assuming they released or even actually used every
number. We are now on version 3.20 or version 3 subsection 2 series.
Version 3.2 is the same as version 3.20 because the immediately
previous version would have been version 3.19 and the next could be
3.21. I do understand about the zero not being there, but Version 3.2
cannot be "Eighteen versions ago" if they are just starting the
subsection 2 series now. "Eighteen versions ago" would have been 3.02.
The zero is extraneous until you actually have a number to put in its
place. If Boinc's next version is 3.2?, it would indicate a
sub-subsection of the 2 subsection of version 3 of the Boinc
software.

Thanks, I was going to point that out. Version 3.2 is appropriate, if
abbreviated, since it cannot be confused with another version.

f/f george wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:21:57 GMT, MPB wrote:


New Boinc Client 3.2

That's actually version 3.20. NOT "3.2".

No, that's not a decimal point. It's a period used
as a separator between the major version "3" and
the minor version "20".

Version 3.2 would have been a LONG time ago;
Eighteen versions ago, unless they didn't release
some of those versions.


If you didn't understand here is the relevant info.

I understood perfectly. And, as you can see from
the text you included, the new version is NOT "3.2".
It is clearly "3.20".

I will jump in here and beg to differ....verion 3.12 would have been 8
versions ago, again assuming they released or even actually used every
number. We are now on version 3.20 or version 3 subsection 2 series.
Version 3.2 is the same as version 3.20 because the immediately
previous version would have been version 3.19 and the next could be
3.21. I do understand about the zero not being there, but Version 3.2
cannot be "Eighteen versions ago" if they are just starting the
subsection 2 series now. "Eighteen versions ago" would have been 3.02.
The zero is extraneous until you actually have a number to put in its
place. If Boinc's next version is 3.2?, it would indicate a
sub-subsection of the 2 subsection of version 3 of the Boinc
software.

Thanks, I was going to point that out. Version 3.2 is appropriate, if
abbreviated, since it cannot be confused with another version.

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:54:25 GMT, f/f george wrote:

I do understand about the zero not being there, but Version 3.2
cannot be "Eighteen versions ago" if they are just starting the
subsection 2 series now. "Eighteen versions ago" would have been 3.02.

Since when is there a "subsection 2 series"? It's just
two numbers separated by a period. Version 3, 2nd release
would be 3.2. Version 3, 20th release would be 3.20. And
the 105th release of Version 3 would be 3.105, assuming they
didn't move on to Version 4 before then.

Versions for a lot of software go exactly like this:
(assuming they are only using two fields)
1.1
1.2
etc
1.9
1.10
1.11
etc
SOME software does it differently, but MOST of what I've seen
over the last 19 years does it this way.

My main point was that it's NOT a decimal number: "3 and 2 tenths"
or "3 and 20 hundredths".

However, since S@H uses "3.08" for their SETI client, you have
a good point in that what I'm calling "3.2" would have been
labelled "3.02" if they were following the same scheme at that
time.

So I'll shut up and let you guys be the winners. grin
Sorry, no trophies.

Mike