>>> I would find a popup box a terrible nuisance, so I'd like an option
>>> to turn it off or on, with default off.
>>
>>If it were an option, there should be a way for REALLY important alerts to
>>get through, so that anyone running v17 would have been alerted about the
>>bug even if normal alerting were turned off. Wouldn't you rather have some
>>exceptions get through, with the decision about what qualifies as
>>"exceptional" being made by George and/or Scott?
>
>No. I would not want it popping up on each of my computers, requiring
>a mouse click on each; too tedious. Email is sufficient.
>A popup for each instance on each multiple-cpu system is really a nuisance.
>
>Imagine if USWest had seen 2500 of those popups on the same day.
>VIRUS!!! Lynch whoever's responsible!!
I agree that a mouse click for every instance would create more problems
than it would solved but I think the idea of some additional warning
mechanism has some possible merit. There are a number of less intrusive
options availible other than a message box which would REQUIRE user
interaction. For example, have the Icon in the system tray change color
and/or blink based upon the urgency of the update (some sort of code that
George could set on the primenet server). And/or as reminder the next time
Prime95 is unmaximized add a text message (or even a hyper-link to jump to
the download page) in the window that displays the current iteration count .
Shane
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