Version .99 Review

[SkzDaLimit]

For those of you who do not browse the Collective homepage, I have my review of the .99 client up on the front news.

Thank Ye!

http://www.thegenomecollective.com

[MechCD]

nice. Is it actually faster?

[Dustin]

Hi Skz, Read your news flash. I'm running W2K on most of my boxes. Ver .98. I'll be switching most over tonight to .99. :)

[Dustin]

Switched 5 boxes over, Grrr, I had another crashed client! Lets hope .99 will save it.:mad: I'll let ya know if I see any differences in ~24hrs.

[Daniel, Laura, and Nora]

Nicely written, Michael. I always visit your portal page en route to the message board. Your updates are great and I like to look at that hard-earned 5.

Daniel

[Alfred Das]

Managed to resurrect a crashed 57aa unit. It was 21/30 complete and finished for full credit. So, I second that the crash recovery is working as mentioned in the review.

Only... in salvaging it from the trashcan, the old user settings were restored too and that unit went onto the account of the SkzDaLimit Genome Team! Oops, sorry!

A:\

[dnar]

Just like to add, the Linux client has problems...... Those Linux users running 0.99 are advised to revent back to 0.98.

If you do not have a copy of the 0.98 client, I have one here (http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~dnar/downloads/).

[wbierman]

Geeze... no one ever said to keep the crashed clients around. I would have nearly 12 that were over 75% completed!!!

[Bruce]

Originally posted by wbierman
Geeze... no one ever said to keep the crashed clients around. I would have nearly 12 that were over 75% completed!!!

Me too. But at some point I kept a few and I'm glad I did. As a former programmer, I knew it was important to document reproducable problems so you could test future fixes. (I didn't think of the possiblity of completing them at the time.)

I mailed one to Stefan -- and I like to think (though I don't KNOW) -- that I'm the one that gave him enough information to fix the crash. His approach of calling the gene corrupt and of adding a clear option (to get around the problem) was a sign of trouble -- or, more likely, a lack of time to fix the problem. MAYBE he had never seen the crash himself. Of course, this might be just idle egotism on my part. I don't really care, as long as the bug got fixed.

[siggy]

I have a 99aa on my machine I will time it and switch to the v.99 and let you know the results.

[MechCD]

Not gonna do it!

.99 and linux = badness

And then i don't feel like switchin me Win98 boxes until something significant changes. I hardly ever get bad WUs, so that bad WU fix isn't somethign i need from .99