Planet Geek!: Dear Jboss. QA yer damned site.

Why is it so hard for any organization, from opensource on up, to understand it's a good idea to give the users information they want, in a form that's useable?

I zipped over to JBoss.org to see if there was an update to the 4.2 server I've been using for the last year. Sure enough, there's a 4.2.2 release that came out in October. Great, I wonder what changed?

Well, the downloads page has the new release on it, and a link to the release notes. Which, you'll note, is completely illegible because the lines are not wrapping. (I tested this in Firefox under Linux and Windows, Konqueror, and under IE6 in Windows. None of them make that page useable.)

Was it so hard for the JBoss release engineer to click on links and check if they worked? Apparently that capacity is beyond them. Sad.

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Planet Geek!: Join our BOINC team! Again!

I suppose it's okay to mention every two years or so that I have a BOINC team that is collectively pooling all idle computing power and using those idle cycles for scientific research and analysis. Since 2 years ago, the number of projects that use the BOINC software has increased and diversified widely, though the core projects (SETI@Home, Folding@home, etc) are still extremely active.

If you have a machine that's frequently idle, why not consider installing the BOINC client on it, and signing up to join our team? I've recently re-started many of my idle clients in an effort to shore up some of the sliding numbers (many of our long time computing partners have stopped submitting updates, due to job changes or just disinterest.)

At our best, we were ranked # 662 about a year ago. Currently we ranked #935 in the world (out of 71,588 teams), according to our page on Boincstats.com.

If you'd like to join, our SETI@Home project page has signup information, though we also have teams at Rosetta and Predictor, both great projects.

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