> Perhaps Scott Kurowski is reading this...maybe he'd like to input
> some thoughts since we would probably rely on the Primenet server to find
> the winner...
In the next 4 to 10 weeks, Entropia.com is willing to put up $1500 for an ECM
largest-factor prize with a qualifier or two on our terms, using PrimeNet 4.0.
The only catch is George has not yet built Prime95's ECM feature to use
PrimeNet. If there's enough interest you can collectively rattle him about it.
:-)
> Of course the pool for the next Mersenne prime could always be
> increased. $10,000 for decrypting a message and only $1,500 for a new
> Mersenne prime just doesn't right to me :)
This should soon change at least a little.
> What is up with http://project.vobis.de/gimps/
>
> I just get
>
> faliled to open configuration file: "/usr/local/Counter/conf/count.cfg"
What did they say when you emailed them?
Regards,
scott
