> Aaron> Certain tools are better suited to certain jobs. Find the
> Aaron> job that your slower computer is best suited for and go for
> Aaron> it.
>
> I think this argument also applies to your computers...why not put
> your faster computers on the bigger exponents where they are needed,
> instead of poaching smaller exponents?
Indeed, I usually do this...I just set every machine to automatically get
whatever type of job from Primenet. I'm not kidding myself...these PPro
200's I have will only take longer and longer to do LL tests and at some
point Scott will set the limit for first time LL tests to maybe a 233MHz
machine, and at that point I'll be happy to let my PPro 200's get
double-check assignments.
As for these numbers, it just so happens that I have some test machines for
a limited time, and whaddya know, these 4-5M exponents are small enough that
I can finish them up in time before these machines go bye-bye. Otherwise,
they'd be doing first time LL tests also.
> Aaron> Am I just wrong in thinking this?
>
> I think that most people's concern is that they will have their
> exponent "stolen" from under them. It's not clear exactly how you
> will go about determining which exponents need to be reclaimed, since
> you're sort of doing it unofficially. I know that you have the best
> of intentions in mind, and it's clear that the exponents you picked
> are indeed dropped, but that's just because I happen to recognize your
> name.
For the official record: I got the assignments report from Primenet, popped
it into a spreadsheet, sorted by when the exponent was assigned, picked the
very oldest assignments then checked for when they had last checked in. If
they hadn't checked in for over a year, then I further looked at how long
before Primenet would expire that number.
What I ended up with was a handful of maybe a dozen or so exponents that
were checked out over a year ago, had not checked in for nearly a year
(about half had NEVER checked in) and still had over 300 days before
Primenet would have expired them (one would not have expired for nearly 2
more years!!).
Again, I must stress that Primenet will currently expire numbers on a much
more rapid schedule, so this problem has been addressed and will go away,
but these are the worst numbers I could find that even the most vocal
opponents of poaching would probably admit are abandoned numbers.
I can only say that I won't be poaching any more numbers *because* after
these are done, there really won't be any more "bad" ones.
Aaron
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