I feel this is a prime example of why users should NOT be allowed to hide their computers; I cannot see ANY legitimate reason for doing so, and it's an open invitation for cheats.
It's high time this dubious feature was removed from BOINC!
I'm all for leaving it the way it is now. I test various software that is not generally available to the public. As long as I'm in testing mode I set my computers as hidden. When I'm not testing I undo it and let them be seen again.
If I really had a preference it would be to be able to hide/unhide individual computers so that I could selectively hide those that needed to be. As it is now, all are being hidden because 1 system is testing.
I'd also like BOINC to handle "computer hiding" more rigorously. Last time I checked, "hiding" your computers did essentially nothing but dropping some links that connect the pages of your profile to the computer's details page and vice versa. If you know someone's computer's numeric ID (e.g. because it was previously "unhidden"), you are still able to display the info page for this computer and all the associated results.
Hiding computers is waste of time, the computer is still visible, its just not possible to see who owns it, as BM said.
Team Intel Corporation as an example, members have been running lots of ES CPUs like Penryn and so on that were under NDA, they had Tigertons crunching E@H already in March this year. They have also had special stuff that wasnt planned for production, like FSB 1600 Clowertowns, and one member is even running an enemy rig, an MP Opteron, and STILL not hiding his computers =)
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I'd also like BOINC to handle "computer hiding" more rigorously. Last time I checked, "hiding" your computers did essentially nothing but dropping some links that connect the pages of your profile to the computer's details page and vice versa. If you know someone's computer's numeric ID (e.g. because it was previously "unhidden"), you are still able to display the info page for this computer and all the associated results.
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Hiding computers is waste of time, the computer is still visible, its just not possible to see who owns it, as BM said.
Team Intel Corporation as an example, members have been running lots of ES CPUs like Penryn and so on that were under NDA, they had Tigertons crunching E@H already in March this year. They have also had special stuff that wasnt planned for production, like FSB 1600 Clowertowns, and one member is even running an enemy rig, an MP Opteron, and STILL not hiding his computers =)
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