Hmmmmf.

I just crashed a BBC sim AGAIN. I\'ve read the posts about backups and temperatures and so on, but I think that\'s all missing the point--

this software is very fragile.

That is not a compliment.

There are many applications that make my machine (AMD 3700+, 3GB ram) work much harder. It has never failed any app due to heat.

I\'ve had four or five sims get up to around 10% and die of something or other. I don\'t have time to babysit my screensaver. It\'s frustrating that this app, alone of all the BOINC apps I\'ve tried, is so prone to crashing.

Further, I really don\'t subscribe to the \"some programs crash, you know\" proposition. If I had paid for sw that behaved like this, I\'d be furious. Honestly, wouldn\'t you?

I would like to help CPDN and BBC et al. save the world from climate change. Seriously. However, if my sims all die, my machine might just as well be folding proteins or tracking mosquitoes or evesdropping on ET or something.

My preferred solution is robust code from CPDN. My interim solution will be to drop this project after the next crash.

Harrumph.
-Rick