Hi Robert,
[Robert van der Peijl:]
We might not need a special version of prime95.
How about if the _PrimeNet server_ itself only issue expired
exponents to "power"-users?
If that is a real possibility, perhaps Scott Kurowski could
look into that?
I would instead recommend a broader
On 9 Mar 2001, at 0:45, Henk Stokhorst wrote:
Maybe it would be a good idea to have a special version of prime95 that
has an option to request exponents that have expired after having been
reserved for a long time without any progress being on the work for that
exponent.
No need for
Robert van der Peijl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 7 Mar 2001
03:11:22 +0100:
We would have to uglify (is that good English?) the user interface
however, to make the whole thing believable.
In answer to your question, Alice didn't think so:
`I only took the regular course,' said the Mock
At 11:09 AM 3/9/01 +, you wrote:
That would help prevent exponents expiring multiple times.
Is that _really_ a problem? If anything it only points out a lack of
commitment to the project amongst some of the contributors.
*THAT* is precisely the reason that such people should not be
To those of you who are afraid of missing some postings on this list.
It's common knowledge that e-mail servers are down from time to time.
That and other reasons could cause you to miss out on some of the postings
from the list.
The mersenne list digests are numbered sequentially.
Suppose the
On 9 Mar 2001, at 2:24, Scott Kurowski wrote:
I would instead recommend a broader strategy that expires exponents based
upon the assignment age (days run) and current iteration at null (not
started), perhaps at 60 days age. Did someone already suggest that?
I think that's a _brilliant_
Scott Kurowski wrote:
P.S. if there are any GIMPS folks on this list nearby, I'll treat lunch or
beers... I left Ernst and Luke in Silicon Valley. :-(
___
Speaking of Silicon Valley, its past time we had another GIMPS
party up this way. I was planning
Hello fellow GIMP members.
I like Steve's idea about that one. I am from New Jersey.
~~Marky
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Robert van der Peijl wrote:
How useful/practical/difficult would it be to
have the messages numbered automagically?
If its not too much trouble, then automatic numbering would be pretty
helpful. But I'm not sure many people would pay attention to it.
Regards,
Joshua Zelinsky
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Spike Jones wrote:
Scott Kurowski wrote:
P.S. if there are any GIMPS folks on this list nearby, I'll treat lunch
or
beers... I left Ernst and Luke in Silicon Valley. :-(
___
Speaking of Silicon Valley, its past time we had another GIMPS
party up
Hey guys,
A lot of people who I've tried to persuade to join have been worried about
two issues.
1. How will Prime95 affect security? I don't think there would be any major
problems created, but the readme doesn't discuss this much and this isn't my
area of expertise. Any thoughts?
2.What the
Same here. Cali is a bit far to travel for a
broke colege student in Oklahoma :)
Perhaps there is a better, more centrally located
area.
- Jeramy
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At 10:00 PM 3/9/01 +, you wrote:
Isn't the "problem" just that the milestones are rather a long way
apart at the moment? Does it _really_ matter that there's an
outstanding exponent around 3.25 million which needs double-checking
when there are so many more to go before we complete
On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:12:43 -0500 Jeff Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 11:09 AM 3/9/01 +, you wrote:
That would help prevent exponents expiring multiple times.
Is that _really_ a problem? If anything it only points out a lack of
commitment to the project amongst some of the
On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 17:27:42 -0500 Jeff Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The point is that we could crank through these laggards if the Primenet
server would have simply ensured they were assigned to a "top 1000"
producer, or to a machine of sufficient calibre and reliability
(historically,
Hi all,
At 03:00 PM 3/9/2001 -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
I consider the attitude "GOTTA GET IT DONE" to be rat-race oriented
rather than thank-you-for-participating oriented. It implies to
those with less-than-state-of-the-art equipment: "__You__ are an
obstacle in the way of GOTTA GET IT
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:23:04PM -0500, Joshua Zelinsky wrote:
Robert van der Peijl wrote:
How useful/practical/difficult would it be to
have the messages numbered automagically?
If its not too much trouble, then automatic numbering would be pretty
helpful. But I'm not sure many
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