Mersenne Digest Friday, August 18 2000 Volume 01 : Number 770 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 04:52:38 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mersenne: Miscellany << Yes. There are *many* blind people who rely on speech output of on-screen text.>> A good point, and the ALT tag is very useful. But although blind people and people with Lynx can't see images, that's no reason not to use images at all. Images + ALT tag is the way to go. Likewise, just because ancient browsers which make up 5% of all browsers out there can't see PNG, that's no reason not to use PNG at all. PNG + ALT tag is the way to go. Stephan Lavavej _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 05:03:40 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #769 <<Yes! And that thought is called an ALT= attribute. In the `new' HTML 4.0(1) DTDs, ALT= tags are in fact _mandatory_ on every IMG tag. Remember that the blind are to use the web, too... Similarily, people may choose to turn off images if they're on low bandwidth, or just want a cleaner page.>> Yes, I did forget this in my original post. I was _thinking_ it, though. :-P And indeed on my website which I make in pure WordPad, I do include ALT= tags on all of my images. <<I think comparing PNG with Flash is... well, not good>> Yes, it's like comparing a beautiful jewel to a bloated cow. Sorry.... <<My point is, make the page look _good_ for the top 95%, and make it _usable_ for the low 5%.>> I agree. Thank you for correcting me. <<But, on the other hand, is amazingly much simpler (you can quite easily write a GIF reader in a couple hundred lines of C -- just counting the .c files in libpng and zlib gives over 25000 lines of code) :-) But we've got computers that are powerful enough now, I think>> The point is that libpng and zlib are _already written_ for you. And anyways, have you ever read the PNG format specification? I'm just beginning to program C, and have no prior experience with any file formats at the bit level, but after I read the PNG spec I understood that it was beautiful. It's simple and it makes sense. GIF doesn't make sense to me. <<Yes! :-)>> Cool! :-D Stephan "unsigned long int" Lavavej _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:34:34 +0200 From: FOSSANO Patrick OCISI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mersenne: Miscellany > Subject: Re: Mersenne: Miscellany > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thought: If a website uses images, does it necessarily have to care that > text-based browsers won't see them? No. > What? Do your banners really not be WAP-compatible? :-D Well, will have a "WAP-phone" enought power to run a quick LL-test :-?? Patrick _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:13:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reto Keiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: running prime95 while a login screen is active Hi I have currently the opportunity to run prime95 during the summer holiays in the computer lab of a college. At the moment, all clients were started manually in a special account. When school rebegins in two weeks this would not be possible any more. So i have to install prime95 in a way, that starts automaitaccly at each login. These pentium computers are running win95 and a novell network (but the win95 login screen). Each pupil has an own login Is it possible to install prime95 in a way, that it runs always, even while the login screen is active? What about 'running as service'? - --- p-1 double chack: At the meoment a p-1 test will be performed before each firstLLtest and each Doublechack. As far as I know primenet does not save these results, so each p-1 test will be done twice. Is it possible to avoid that? At the moment, it is possible to look up the exponent in Eric Hahh's list, which is quite unwieldy if there are many exponents, and not everone is sending the bounds to Eric, either. Reto _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:48:55 +0200 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Re: running prime95 while a login screen is active On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:13:47PM +0200, Reto Keiser wrote: >These pentium computers are running win95 and a novell network >(but the win95 login screen). Each pupil has an own login >Is it possible to install prime95 in a way, that it runs >always, even while the login screen is active? What about 'running as >service'? The `running as service' is exactly what you're looking for (in the Options menu). Just be sure to remove Prime95 from the Startup menu (where, for some reason, the installer obviously puts it -- argh!) -- if your pupils don't really know what Prime95 is, consider LockUserInfo=1 (see undoc.txt) and possibly `No Icon' too. (Side note to George: Would it somehow be possible to include computer IP in the selection of what prime.ini file to use? I'm having the problem that the machines at school are quite often ghosted, and thus they lose their save-files etc. -- if I could give each their own share at a SMB server, that would probably solve a lot...) /* Steinar */ - -- Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/sneeze/ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:37:18 +0200 From: Henk Stokhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: weird behaviour Prime 95 Hi, My Windows95 system ran Prime 95 v20.3.1 for five weeks without any troubles of any kind. I am back for about a week, and have noticed that whenever I restart Windows95 Prime 95 runs fine for a couple of hours and than slows down enormously. The machine is usually unattended. Weird enough the system monitor reports processor activity to have gone to a very low level, the machine still functions seemingly normal. If the same program is started up using Windows2000 installed on the same machine, Prime 95 keeps functioning normal. Any ideas where to start looking for the troublecause? There are no energysaving programs installed other than switching of the monitor. Restarting Prime 95 gets the system monitor reporting 100% processor usage, however taking an iteration 40 times as much time as normal, quitting Prime95 then gets processor activity back to zero! YotN, Henk Stokhorst. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:13:30 +0200 From: Yann Forget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Work for RS6000 ? Hi, I have a few RS6000 B50 for a few weeks at least, runing Linux (375 Mhz, 500 Mo RAM). Is there any work which could be given to them ? Thanks, Yann _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:09:13 -0700 From: "xqrpa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: Final Fix For Prime95 On The Compaq Presario 7998 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C00854.B8CEA780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For The Compaq Ath(lon)ete: In a couple of previous emails, I mentioned the slowdown of the (Athlon) Compaq Presario 7998 in factoring and other Prime95 computations. The parasitic process, if that is what it was, never showed up on my PV 2000 list of contendahs, but did go away briefly when the modem began dialing out.=20 By accident I set Prime95 priority to "real," and the timing=20 dropped to what it should be. At 1GHz, a factor run from 2^53 through 2^65 takes just 26 hours. The mouse pointer still moves, too. Best Wishes, Stefanovic - ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C00854.B8CEA780 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>For The Compaq Ath(lon)ete:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a couple of previous emails, I mentioned the slowdown of</DIV> <DIV>the (Athlon) Compaq Presario 7998 in factoring and other = Prime95</DIV> <DIV>computations. The parasitic process, if that is what it = was,</DIV> <DIV>never showed up on my PV 2000 list of contendahs, but did</DIV> <DIV>go away briefly when the modem began dialing out. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>By accident I set Prime95 priority to "real," and the timing </DIV> <DIV>dropped to what it should be. At 1GHz, a factor run = from</DIV> <DIV>2^53 through 2^65 takes just 26 hours. The mouse = pointer</DIV> <DIV>still moves, too.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best Wishes,</DIV> <DIV>Stefanovic</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C00854.B8CEA780-- _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 01:13:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Russel Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mersenne: weird behaviour Prime 95 Henk Stokhorst wrote: > whenever I restart Windows95 Prime 95 runs fine for a couple of hours > and than slows down enormously. The machine is usually My friend's Win98 machine does the same thing. She went on vacation for a week and when she returned a factoring iteration that use to take about 13 seconds now took over 170. After restarting the fast performance returned (for a while). The machine is an IBM Aptiva with 450MHz PII. Cheers... Russ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:53:20 -0700 From: "xqrpa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: AMD vs. Intel: GiggleHurts Goliaths Duke It Out This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C00934.D0266360 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Weekend Thrilla: Both chips OC nicely to 1.1 GHz, and the in-depth lowdown can be enjoyed at: http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=3D1ghzshootout2&= page=3D1 Although not mentioned, Prime95 is the torture-tester used when the gamers take a break. Bon Weekend, Stefanovic - ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C00934.D0266360 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>Weekend Thrilla:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Both chips OC nicely to 1.1 GHz, and the in-depth lowdown</DIV> <DIV>can be enjoyed at:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A=20 href=3D"http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=3D1ghzsh= ootout2&page=3D1">http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?r= eview=3D1ghzshootout2&page=3D1</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Although not mentioned, Prime95 is the torture-tester used = when</DIV> <DIV>the gamers take a break.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bon Weekend,</DIV> <DIV>Stefanovic</DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C00934.D0266360-- _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.exu.ilstu.edu/mersenne/faq-mers.txt ------------------------------ End of Mersenne Digest V1 #770 ******************************
