Mersenne: Just curious

2000-04-18 Thread Tony Gott
I'm just curious really, but how durable are Intel processors to continuous number crunching, in other words has anyone been able to keep the same processor running for 2, 3 or even more years, on a 24/7 basis. I do realise that Windows itself needs to be rebooted from time to time, but what

Re: Mersenne: GIMPS and other distributed projects

2000-04-18 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 18 Apr 00, at 0:34, Siegmar Szlavik wrote: I don't say that prime95/ntprime has a problem, just that it can make (serious) problems on some systems and they don't go away until it gets uninstalled. I don't think it has to do with a memory leak, because if it comes to the point where the

Re: Mersenne: Just curious

2000-04-18 Thread Louis Towles
I've got four computers that have passed the 3 year mark and they run 24/7 (at 100% cpu) By the way - none of the computers I've retired over the years ,that have been running like this, have failed due to cpu or memory issues. Louis Towles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 404-589-1228 Photobooks Inc Suite

Re: Mersenne: Just curious

2000-04-18 Thread Jeff Woods
Very durable. I have Original P-II/233's two years old still going, have been 24x7 since day one. I have P-166's that have been going for 3 or 4 years nonstop on either crunching primes or crunching DES. I even have a handful of P-100's, among the first original Pentiums, still going on

Mersenne: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread George Woltman
Hi again, Summarizing the feedback from the first round: 5 votes for liking the new look, 2 votes against. 2 votes for frames, 7 votes against. 4 votes for too slow. Here's what's new this round. 1) I dumped the mouse rollover and replaced the 44 different menu gifs with one navbar gif.

Re: Mersenne: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread Alan Vidmar
George, I think you are on the right track. Take a look at this web site for an example of what can be done without frames but still have a nice looking side menu on all pages. Tables, Tables, Tables. http://www.counter-strike.net PS: Ingore the content. Alan On 18 Apr 2000, at 10:55,

Mersenne: New mersenne.html MMPstats.txt, DB.nf bug fix

2000-04-18 Thread Will Edgington
I've just updated my mersenne.html page, mostly by adding a new section of "quick links" near the top that point to other people's sites, including a new one for the factoring status of Fermat numbers maintained by Jocelyn Larouche. I also updated the data on M(M(p)) factoring progress and

Re: Mersenne: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread George Woltman
Hi Chip, At 02:17 PM 4/18/00 -0400, Chip Lynch wrote: I'm a bit late, but helpful. Keen. But this makes navigation tough for people who turn off images (or use lynx)... with separate images, each image's alt tag becomes a link. With an imagemap, it's customary I think to put a navigation list

Re: Mersenne: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread John R Pierce
I'm sure there's a way to force them beneath the NAV bar, but I can't think of it... used to have this sort of problem all the time. Have you tried an HR or a solid BREAK tag? I read this somewhere br clear="all" or some such. thats exactly it. that forces the next line to start below

Mersenne: Re: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 09:54:08AM -0600, Alan Vidmar wrote: I think you are on the right track. Take a look at this web site for an example of what can be done without frames but still have a nice looking side menu on all pages. Tables, Tables, Tables. What about CSS? Take a look at

Re: Mersenne: Re: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread John R Pierce
What about CSS? Take a look at http://zicon.cjb.net/ -- no frames, no FONT tags, no tables, but it still looks great. unluckily, only MSIE seems to implement CSS properly. Netscape is way behind. Personally, I like to design my webpages so they work just fine on NS 3.0 or IE4. I avoid as

Mersenne: Re: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:17:54PM -0400, Chip Lynch wrote: I'm sure there's a way to force them beneath the NAV bar, but I can't think of it... used to have this sort of problem all the time. Have you tried an HR or a solid BREAK tag? I'm rnning out of time to experiment myself. What about br

Mersenne: Re: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:50:10PM +0200, Hoogendoorn, Sander wrote: If you use a seperate frame for the menu you only need to download the gifs once This should have been done by the browser cache anyway. A browser without a cache today is, well, quite useless. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage:

Mersenne: Re: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 03:24:40PM -0400, George Woltman wrote: How about www.microsoft.com which has dropdown menus from the banner at the top of the page. Isn't that some weird kind of ActiveX or other Microsoft proprietary tech? I read this somewhere br clear="all" or some such. Not `all',

Mersenne Digest V1 #720

2000-04-18 Thread Mersenne Digest
Mersenne DigestTuesday, April 18 2000Volume 01 : Number 720 -- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:01:17 -0400 From: Pierre Abbat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mersenne: V20 beta #3 A question to all you linux users

Mersenne: Re: Zicon

2000-04-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 01:30:25PM -0700, Luke Welsh wrote: Looks like shit in Netscape 4.7 :-( I know -- she's fixing it ATM. My own page (take a look at the `secret' URL http://members.xoom.com/sneeze/redesign/) should work in 4.7, but not in IE. However, I've got a version that works in

Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #720

2000-04-18 Thread elleron
From: Pierre Abbat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To tell when you're on line, look for a gateway in the "Flags" column, which says 4003 for the gateway and 1 for an Ethernet connection. (I don't know whic h bit means gateway.) This will work only if the dialup machine is the one running mprime. If mprime is

Re: Mersenne: Just curious

2000-04-18 Thread Ken Kriesel
When pentium pro 200's were the hot new processor (in speed, more so than in wattage), I began running some dual-ppro-200 systems with two prime95 instances each. Those processors are still running it. I've never had to replace a cpu or motherboard (though occasionally a motherboard power

Mersenne: Re: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:32:01PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: actually, I believe its done with client side JavaScript. Anyways, it doesn't work in NS, and NS _invented_ JS ;-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/sneeze/

Re: Mersenne: Re: Facelift (round 2)

2000-04-18 Thread Eric Hahn
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:32:01PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: actually, I believe its done with client side JavaScript. Anyways, it doesn't work in NS, and NS _invented_ JS ;-) That's because the way MS wrote the JS... MS has a variable for the drop-down toolbar

Re: Mersenne: Just curious

2000-04-18 Thread John R Pierce
When pentium pro 200's were the hot new processor (in speed, more so than in wattage), I began running some dual-ppro-200 systems with two prime95 instances each. Those processors are still running it. I've never had to replace a cpu or motherboard (though occasionally a motherboard power