Re: Mersenne: What computer is OK today?

1998-11-12 Thread George Woltman
Hi Yuri, At 10:48 PM 11/11/98 -0800, Yuri Sorkin wrote: I participated in GIMPS from the very beginning, Yuri was indeed one of the earliest members, LL testing exponents below 500,000 with a 486. How times have changed! And now I see that my P5-166 (SDRAM, MMX, Intel) doesn't get from

Re: Mersenne: What computer is OK today?

1998-11-12 Thread Paul Derbyshire
At 10:48 PM 11/11/98 -0800, you wrote: I participated in GIMPS from the very beginning, yet trying to join it with 386-SX. And now I see that my P5-166 (SDRAM, MMX, Intel) doesn't get from Primenet anything for LL-test quite awhile. Since I'm going to buy a new desktop soon and consider its

Mersenne: List of Contributors Companies or Schools?

1998-11-12 Thread Michael Clark
Hello, A group of students here at Virginia Tech have formed a group here to promote distributed computing. The Computer Science department is interested in participating, but are hesitant to join GIMPs (or distributed.net). One of their questions is "What other companies or schools are

Re: Mersenne: What computer is OK today?

1998-11-12 Thread Standard Deviation
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, George Woltman wrote: For those on a tight budget, consider building a machine around the Intel Celeron 300A. There have been many success stories overclocking this chip to 450MHz with a 100MHz front-side bus. This suggestion is only for the most knowledgable hardware

Re: Mersenne: Password safety

1998-11-12 Thread David L Nicol
Michael Clark wrote: What (if any) are the concerns with having an account's password and user ID posted on a web page? Would someone be able to change the "Your Name" and "Your email address" fields with them? So if my school set up a web page to encourage people to join our team, could

Mersenne: Net abuse

1998-11-12 Thread Yuri Sorkin
Will Edgington wrote: Paul Derbyshire writes: To Yuri Sorkin: your e-mail address bounces... that's not exactly a friendly gesture, signing on this list with a bogus address. Yuri has been on this list and part of GIMPS, including providing and testing programs, from very early

Re: Mersenne: status page

1998-11-12 Thread Brian Seth Pinto
kilfoyle wrote: DOes anyone know why the http://project.vobis.de/cgi-bin/mersenne.cgi?engine=primenet site is not connecting. This was a good status page lookup location. Michael I've noticed that the site has been unavailable since about Monday. This was a great site for status and

Mersenne: Re: Thoughts

1998-11-12 Thread Roger M. Levasseur
The fastest unclassified machine at the moment is ... used for modeling nuclear processes, "to maintain USA's nuclear stockpiles without the need of further nuclear tests". Am I the only one to whom this makes no sense? Here's a news story that may help. It's from

Mersenne: Re: Yuri's Address

1998-11-12 Thread Paul Derbyshire
At 12:40 PM 11/12/98 -0800, you wrote: To Yuri Sorkin: your e-mail address bounces... that's not exactly a friendly gesture, signing on this list with a bogus address. Yuri's address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], was valid 24 hours ago. Did you finger his account? No, I guess you didn't, did you? Who

Re: Mersenne: Net abuse

1998-11-12 Thread Paul Derbyshire
At 03:49 PM 11/12/98 -0800, you wrote: CRL actually bounces mail from rogue sites and well-known net-abusers. They also bounce mail from usa.net which is neither a rogue site nor a net-abuser, well-known or otherwise. My guess is that they are stupid and moronic and have been suckered into

Mersenne: Optimization

1998-11-12 Thread STL137
I have two computers - a 200Mhz Pentium MMX, and a 400Mhz Pentium II. Also, the PII is left on 24 hours a day, while the P5 is used during the day and is only left on sometimes during the night. Currently both run LL tests. I was wondering, if it would be possible and more efficient to have my P5

Re: Mersenne: Password safety

1998-11-12 Thread George Woltman
Hi, At 11:07 AM 11/12/98 -0500, Michael Clark wrote: What (if any) are the concerns with having an account's password and user ID posted on a web page? Would someone be able to change the "Your Name" and "Your email address" fields with them? So if my school set up a web page to encourage people