On 31 May 2001, at 13:40, Aaron Blosser wrote:
> Here's what I do. I just copy the prime.spl file from my
> non-connected machine to my connected machine, and it'll send the
> result from that one. No muss, no fuss. Your credit screen shows that
> the machine you connected from is actually the one that did the work,
> but oh well.
Yes, that makes more sense than my suggestion - if only because
prime.spl isn't big enough to cause complications due to
fragmentation when using conventional 1.44 MByte sneakernet
packets ;-)
However, if (as in my case) the client is something other than mprime
or Prime95, the savefile isn't transferrable anyway. The systems do
have network connection, so the sensible thing is to use that to
submit results through the manual assignments forms.
As for my suggestion being dangerous - well, I don't see how it's any
more dangerous than stopping & restarting on the same system at the
same point - and, if you follow my suggestion of allowing the
assignment to complete on the "remote" system, you will have an entry
in results.txt there as well.
>
> I only know this because my home network is currently lacking it's DSL
> connection (darn Telocity!) so I dialup from another machine and copy
> results from each of my 6 other boxes. Of course when my DSL works,
> it all goes through a router.
(OT) What's up with DSL in the US at the moment? There seems to be a
sudden spate of problems with several DSL service providers!
Regards
Brian Beesley
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