From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,516449b66176d371,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: ANN: SETI Service 1.0 Release Date: 2000/11/05 Message-ID: <3A04A013.EF46AF18@telepath.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 690080055 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 973467942 38.195.186.125 (Sun, 05 Nov 2000 18:45:42 EST) Organization: Telepath Systems (telepath.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 18:45:42 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I'm pleased to announce the initial public release of the SETI@Home Service. It is now available for download both in source and binary form. The sources might be of particular interest to users of this group, as they constitute an example of creating a NT service using Ada, along with examples of interfacing to the Win32 process and registry facilites. The bindings used are thick bindings which I plan to release on their own (possibly in the public domain) at some later date. Version 1.0 of the SETI@Home service is now available for download from http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/SETI/SETI_Service.html . The SETI@Home service is a Windows NT service that controls a SETI@Home command-line client. Since it is implemented as a service, it is only usable on systems running Windows NT or Windows 2000. The goal SETI@Home Service is to help maximize your system's SETI@Home work-unit output. It uses the command-line client, which elimiates processing cycles that would otherwise be lost to displaying graphics. As a further boost, even the client's text output is disabled. The client is run as a background process, so that it can continually work without impacting anything else you may want to do on your machine. But the main benifit to running the client as a service is that it runs the client as long as your machine is booted. You no longer need to leave yourself logged on to process work units. Likewise, if your machine is rebooted while you are away from it for any reason (eg: power outage), the SETI@Home Service will resume processing immediately after your machine reboots. A third way the SETI@Home Service helps you is with network outages. If your network connection happens to be down when the SETI@Home client completes a unit, it will quite likely termiate. This can leave you without any SETI processing for an extended period of time until you come back to the machine and notice the client's window is gone. The SETI@Home Service automaticly detects termination of the SETI@Home client and restarts it. The SETI@Home Service is a free software project. This means that you have the right to a source distribution if you would like to experiment with the service's source code, or just see how it was written. To ensure the most reliability and maintainablity possible, the SETI@Home Service was written in Ada. To build the SETI@Home service from sources, you will require an Ada compiler. There is one available at no cost at ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/winnt/. For more information, visit the SETI@Home Service website at http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/SETI/SETI_Service.html -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com WWW - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html ICQ - 10545591