Yes you two are right. FreeHAL has been very unpredictable with some tasks doing nothing, some score 1 point and others are worth heaps of points. The downloads are approx 7 or 8 MB each.

Virtual Prairie has work but the points value is low. Not as low as some projects eg Rectlinear Crossing Number, but it takes time to accumulate a decent score on this one. Nothing happening at Second Computing.