Sorry for the delayed reply...
I agree with both Wolverine's and gopher's experience: other than the occasional foolish move by me, or the bad disk drives I had, BOINC has run almost without ever crashing. Considering it has had by far the most CPU cycles, that is something.
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Originally Posted by gopher65
EDIT: Seperate issue here, but due to the nature of these boards it is impossible to pick up an old thread and read through it (well, impossible for me). Could we maybe get a message saying "join BAUT teams for Boinc...etc" sticked and LOCKED at the top of one of these forums? Or maybe the BA and the UT guy could put a permanant link to the teams and azazul's forum on their main pages.
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It is of course up to azazul to decide if he wants to ask for these, but I think this thread (especially thanks to Wolverine for its stickiness) works pretty well. The first post is still pretty current, and directs new people to the right places, and the thread is short enough to be skimmed to see if you want to post here.
There was an "above the fold" locked announcement for the BAUT forum's map for a while, is that what you are thinking of? Again, it's just my opinion, but these do take up extra space, and as with sections filled with a lot of stickies, they get very easy to ignore.
As far as the BA's and Fraser's support for the team, well how could we ask for more? They've given us privileged space here, on the best forum of its kind <suckingup>, several generous mentions in the UT newsletter, and now a sticky thread. To state the totally obvious, the team wouldn't exist without Fraser and Phil.
But the BA and UT websites, in addition to supplying top-class astro info, exist to support the whole BAUT enterprise. People need to buy those T-shirts and books they're hawking! For me, a blurb or link for a distributed computing team would probably distract from that. Just my opinion, like I say.