SETI UNiT Manager 3.0b1 (graphical user interface!) is available from: http://www.cooc.de/applescript/

Parts of the Readme are included here, but you will miss some links.
You can find the complete Readme on the homepage.


Thanks & Greetings
cris :-)
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Historie SETI UNiT Manager 3.0b1

+ SUM has now a graphical interface. All functions are now easy accessible thru a menu. All program settings can be configured in a preference window. The configuration file is no longer needed.
+ SUM keep track of two new values that SETI@home 3.0 calculates. You will find now "Pulses" and "Triplets" in SUMs crunch-logfile.
+ Programm start when using a ram disk: SUM no longer show "SETI UNiT Manager has copied the data from hard disk to ram disk." to speed up SUMs start/quit. But please wait always until SUM has moved the SETI@home data folder to the ram disk before starting SETI@home, otherwise SUM will quit it automatically and this might confuse you.
+ SETI@home data folder backup: Added a new feature "Make always a backup when SETI@home quits".
+ Updated logfile write mechanism.
+ All logfiles contain now the SUM & SETI@home version.
+ Many other minor changes.

About SUM

SETI UNiT Manager (SUM) is an AppleScript which i've written to get the
maximum out of SETI@home. It offers fully automated down-/uploads,
offline crunching, RAM Disk handling, detailed statistics about your
productivity and more.


Features

+ Save online costs through up-/downloading of as many UNiTs you want in
one connect session:
+ automatic up-/downloads at user set times and...
+ automatic up-/downloads after an adjustable amount of finished
units or...
+ manually up-/downloads.

+ Independence of the SETI@home-Server:
+ avoids interrupts to data crunching during times of bad
connections to the SETI@home-Server
+ allows offline crunching during your 4-week vacation
+ assists use of computers without internet-connectivity as
SETI@home-workstations

+ If a RAM-Disk is active, it will be used by SUM for the SETI@home data
(good for your harddisk and for less noise). RAM Disk handling includes
optional scheduled backups of the SETI@home data.
+ Statistics includes CPU usage in percent, Total time, Crunch time, CPU
time, all average times, all best/worse times and how many UNiTs have
been crunched.
+ After sending results to the SETI@home-Server, SUM can take
screenshots of the current stats.
+ Fully automated offline crunching.
+ FameChecker: SUM checks Berkeley's Top 20 Gaussian webpage for matches
of all the UNiTs you've crunched with SUM.
+ Any service provider for UNiT up-/download is possible: After the
connection, some providers send an advertisement which ignores the
address you typed into your browser. Because of this signal, SETI@home
assumes that the SETI@home-Server isn't available and stops the
transfer. These providers are usable with SUM.
+ Peek-a-Boo support for fast up- and downloads (and crunching of
course).
+ Optional system- and application-wide auto dialog answering to make
sure that things will never stop.

Requirements

+ Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x. Using 8.5.x is possible, but please read the
Problems? section.
+ Akua Sweets 1.4.1 or higher (www.akua.com or download here).
+ Optional: Text-to-Speech to let SUM speak.


How much does SUM cost?

SUM costs in summary only 2.6 to 3% of all CPU cycles. To live, SUM
needs about 0.6%(!) of CPU power. The other 2% is donated to the Magic
Village Team which has, since march 2000, been a member of the Mac
Addict Team. If you join the Magic Village Team or the Mac Addict Team,
SUM therefore costs nothing to you (and you help the Macs to get a
better place in the stats!) :-).
To donate the 2% you have to do nothing; SUM will handle this
automatically, of course. :-) Every 50th UNiT goes to Magic Village /
Mac Addict, starting with the second UNiT to let you try SUM.

Contact

+ SUM homepage: www.cooc.de/applescript/
+ mail: sum@cooc.de (If you want to report bugs, please attach the
Error.Log. Compliments are ok too.
+ Magic Village Team: See the stats, join us, have a look at the forum
or the website. The forum is mainly a german-speaking newsgroup, but you
can drop a message with or without any sense, even in any language,
including Plattdeutsch and Schwäbisch. :-)
+ Team Mac Addict: See the stats, join here or have a look at the forum
or the website.

--
English is my second language. www.cooc.de

[brock76]

How much does SUM cost?
SUM costs in summary only 2.6 to 3% of all CPU cycles. To live, SUM
needs about 0.6%(!) of CPU power. The other 2% is donated to the Magic
Village Team which has, since march 2000, been a member of the Mac
Addict Team. If you join the Magic Village Team or the Mac Addict Team,
SUM therefore costs nothing to you (and you help the Macs to get a
better place in the stats!) :-).
To donate the 2% you have to do nothing; SUM will handle this
automatically, of course. :-) Every 50th UNiT goes to Magic Village /
Mac Addict, starting with the second UNiT to let you try SUM.


GEEZ...thanks!!

[wlonh]

i never have used SUM and don't plan to... and of course there's only one truly GREAT team, Team MacNN for SETI@home is the only way to go... we are a burgeoning team and we need no commercial endeavors or magazine print ads to garner our strength!!

all the Mac SETI teams/clubs are grouped together in the final result, regardless of what team you belong to... as this page will demonstrate: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats.html

therefore, all Macs contribute to an overall Mac platform SETI statistic



TEAM MacNN RULES... we are like no other!

"The single most amazing collection of Mac users ever assembled for anything. Ever!"

From the moment I read the word "cost" and didn't see "free" right after it, I was disgusted. Charging for a seti@home add-on, even if the charge is not monetary in nature, violates the spirit of the project.

We are donating our spare CPU time to the seti@home project. Why should you benefit from that? Don't give me that "scripting the s@h client isn't exactly easy" crap. Do you think Seti Queue, Setidriver, Setispy, or any of the others just wrote themselves? No. Did Ken Reneris, Mike Ober, Roelof, or the others feel the need to charge for their work? No. I'm willing to bet most of these programs are at least as complex as SUM, if not more so.

Saying that there's no cost because the work units go to Team Macaddict doesn't fly either. What about those Mac users who aren't on Macaddict? What about the competition in other categories...in countries and domains? By stealing these wu, you are making Mac users less competitive.

Now, I know I'm probably not going to change your mind on this, but if you switched to a one time cost, rather than an on going fee, I would have a lot less problem with it, and I know several others who feel the same. Ideally, you'd make it *completely* free, in the spirit of both the Seti@Home project, and all of the other add-ons that have been so generously donated by their authors.

In the meantime, I urge all Mac users to find alternative means of caching workunits. If you're on a network, and have at least one windows machine, put setiq on that machine. Setiq can serve any type of client.

[brock76]

Why does SetiQ work fine with out any charge and SUM gobbles up WU's??

is SUM that much better?

[djohnson]

Well, SETI logger keeps track of your workunits and it is free :-). If you haven't seen some of my many posts yet, here is the url:
http://www.tfworld.com/seti

Part of above is why I switched to Team MacNN. Team Macaddict doesnt care about its members...

GO TEAM MACNN!!!!

[wlonh]

thanks again, djohnson, for joining us and for SETI Logger... nice work

[djohnson]

heh heh heh, anytime!

[brock76]

Ok djohnson, so i take it that SetiLogger is a "cacheing" utility made for the Macintosh OS?? Since the topic of this thread is about SUM, a cacheing utility.

wlonh, gotta love those Mets!!

brock

[wlonh]

no, SETI Logger is not a caching util... djohnson was just doing a bit of promotion for his nifty freeware which logs your WUs and displays their derivative location on a celestial map...

he was just making an 'offhand' remark

love those Mets not so fond of the Yanks

[djohnson]

Hey man, I was just referring to the fact that setilogger keeps track of the your stats... I never implied that it was a cacheing tool...just a free statistic utility.

[wlonh]

and a lovely thing it is, SETI Logger...

download it now: http://www.tfworld.com/seti

[This message has been edited by wlonh (edited 10-09-2000).]