WMSETI WMUFO INFO

The classic SETI@home process that wmseti and wmufo are used to monitor is now dead and have been replaced by a SETI@home BOINC client. Until such time as I am able to update the dock apps to monitor BOINC, only wmufo is useful as eye candy.

wmseti For monitoring and the control of upto 10 SETI@home processes. wmseti-1.0.3.tar.gz old files

For monitoring and the control of upto 10 SETI@home processes. It can display various statistics and can pause/continue or kill/run the program. It can be compiled with or without graphics showing alien faces coming out of the shadows as the workunit progresses, with a progress bar that is green for running, yellow for paused, and red when not running.

Statistics for display are;

• [WMSETI..X] Title and current SETI directory where X=AB...
• [12.34%..X] Progress as percentage where X is program status
• [01:23:45.] Time spent on workunit
• [01:23:45.] Time left before completion of workunit
• [TX:...123] Number of workunits sent
• [RX:...123] Number of workunits received (no longer updated, defunct)
• [PID:.1234] PID of SETI@Home client
• [=====----] Progess as a graphic bar
• [PT:.12/34] Total CPU time contributed to SETI@home as years/days or days/hours

Controls available;

• A left click changes between SETI@home directories
• A middle click runs or kills the SETI@home client
• A right click pauses or continues the SETI@home client
• A left click on the top-left quarter changes to/from info text and alien (if compiled)
• A left click on the bottom-left quarter of alien sets the progress bar on or off (if compiled)
• A mouse wheel up or down changes to the next or previous directory.

wmufo Extra eye candy included. wmufo-1.2.3.tar.gz old files

This is wmseti on steroids! This application contains the same statistic display as wmseti but with animation instead of alien faces. Imagine the above snapshots with a flowing starfield, a spinning saucer UFO and various alpha blended glowing ball UFOs travelling back and forth across the window.

The sprite routine is developed from wmfishtime which is a dock app with swimming fish, an anti-aliased analog clock, and alpha blended bubbles. While providing fluid animation the routine does not use up cpu time - less than other dock apps using the wmgeneral library. More is less!

information Project information. project page cvs repository

The author who originally created wmseti was Paul Lemmons. It is currently maintained by Alan Swanson and Dan Scott.

For another SETI@Home dock app monitor see wmsetimon, and check Freshmeat for other programs.

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