You wrote:
We are not responsible for lost prize money, fame, credit, etc. should
someone accidentally or maliciously test the number you are working on
and find it to be prime.
Note that the preceding statement's adverbs describing someone else's
testing of a number that is assigned are (1)
Our policy now is nobody owns the content... I guess that makes it public
domain...
Not exactly. Unless the posters specifically state that their posts are
public domain, they still retain ownership. Even a note stating that a
condition of posting is that what's posted is automatically
At 11:06 AM 2002-08-18, you wrote:
3. Also, although less significantly, does the hosting site
automatically gain ownership of all the material posted?
Some sites seem to think they do, although
I haven't checked this one.
All content is owned by GIMPS, not TPR... George calls the
George Woltman wrote:
What should you do if you are running version 21 on a P4? You can do one
of the following:
3) Upgrade to version 22
If I choose to go ahead and upgrade, where can I get it? The latest version
on http://mersenne.org/ips/ is 21.4.
Rick.
-+---
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aaron Blosser wrote:
Good old sysinternals... they have the neatest tools.
Damn straight! I've been using (and loving) PageDefrag since I stumbled on
that site. A few other gems have since made their way onto my system...
Rick.
-+---
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.alienshore.com/seeking/
From: Steinar H. Gunderson
Both WWW and FTP down from here. :-(
Prime95 has no trouble, so that's cool!
Rick.
-+---
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.alienshore.com/seeking/
_
Unsubscribe list info --
From: George Woltman
I've added these hints to prime95 and
am getting about a 20% performance boost.
My turn to report! :-)
v20v21
--
p3/850 0.301 0.215
p3/515 0.398 0.309
The 515 is a slightly overclocked 500Mhz processor. Both machines are
running
Pierre About wrote:
M(17) is the number of people that could fit into a /very/
large open arena or stadium.
What stadium is that big? The one at Urbana seats only about 2.
I think the one at U. of Texas Austin holds 60,000
Even one of the shorter tracks on the NASCAR circuit
From: Alex Phillips
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to have both
the NT Prime service (under NT) and Prime95 (Under
Win98), both installed in the same directory, and
sharing files on a dual boot machine (NT for work
and 98 for games).
That's a definite 'yes' Alex. Just make sure that
From: Scott Kurowski
Following the database synchro we performed on
PrimeNet yesterday...
I noticed the addition of the machine speeds and software version to my
individual account report. Now that's what I call being responsive to user
requests!
Rick.
-+---
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are there any other zip codes that are Mersenne primes?
Our postal codes have some letters so that's not going to work. The sixteen
digit number on my bank-machine code is prime, however.
Rick.
-+---
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.alienshore.com/
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about an option when you hit "QUIT GIMPS" to
upload your P and Q files to Primenet, so someone
can at least finish the job?
I'm running an exponent in the 33 million area and the save-files are over
seven megabytes in size! That would require no small amount of
From: Aaron Blosser
I noticed that prime.spl was in the directory
but that it wasn't being deleted after actually
sending the completion dates.
The same thing happened to me. I deleted the file and all is working fine
now. The only thing I'm concerned about is that the spl may not be deleted
From: Darxus
Iteration: 164000 / 8410531 [1%]. Clocks: 115665753 = 0.496 sec.
Might be nice to display the percentage out to an accuracy that
changes every hundred iterations.
If you're using version 19, add "PercentPrecision=3" to the prime.ini file.
If you want more than three decimal
From: Eric Hahn
P.S. At the 79.3M range, you'll probably not want to set it
at 100 iterations... Per iteration time on 266MHz PII with
64MB RAM is 58.781 seconds!!!
The only question that comes to mind is if you had to plough through
factoring before you got to the LL test...but then I
From: Steinar H . Gunderson
The August 16th GIMPS update shows me with 13.39
years and 125 exponents tested and I was surprised
to see that Tuesday's update shows 12.58 years and
127 exponents!
All estimates are now based on v19, which is about 10% faster.
Thanks to all who responded
I understand that the differences between the GIMPS and the Primenet
standings are an artefact of how GIMPS was up and running before Primenet.
Consequently, anyone that joined and finished numbers before Primenet was
running will have different totals on each list.
My question is whether this
From: Yvan Dutil
I my own opinion we are finishing the number slower than the
progression of the computer power. Therefore we should never
reach this cross-over.
Of course everyone's personal point of view on this will depend on their own
hardware, but I started in pre-Primenet days with a
From: H
Why cant i get my peronell statistik?
i use
http://entropia.com/cgi-bin/primenet_user.pl?UserID=youraccountID
an i changed my ID?
It worked a couple of days ago!
I think you need a password in there somewhere. I can't imagine it working
without it.
Rick.
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Pierre Abbat
What do you call someone who searches for primes only
because of the prize money?
A mersennary.
I'd also suggest that they be called 'not too bright.' If someone wants
money, there are lots of far more certain ways...
Rick.
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Lucas Wiman
However, I agree with your sentiment, except - _what_ "victory"?
It might be interpreted as a deception, I suppose...
"victory" would of course be finding another prime...
To me [read: disclaimer], 'victory' implies a successful end. Perhaps
'success' would get the idea
From: Mikus Grinbergs
What RIGHT do the people on this list have to
keep asking questions of those who do not meet
the expectations of the questioners?
I don't think there's *anything* at all wrong with asking questions. I
like the project and have been devoting CPU time to it since before
I just started my second machine on double-checking and am curious on
whether I would expect to see my LL P90 year total increase when a
double-checking assignment is turned in.
Also, I notice that one can disable "Request whatever type of work makes
the most sense" and then proceed to select
From: Ashton Vaz
How about another option Aaron? You touch anyone's
exponents...especially mine and I report you to the FBI
for stealing?
If you do take that action, I'd very much enjoy hearing their reaction.
:-)
Rick.
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.alienshore.com/
From: Gustav Schaffter
The guy is trolling. We are all going into his troll. (This
is proven by the fact that he just *wont* stop.)
Amen to that. No one can possibly thing that *everything* works from their
point of view and everyone else's view is wrong or unimportant. I would
think that
From: Paul Derbyshire
and your accusing me of flame-baiting, I begin
to suspect that you, who I formerly had not even
noticed, are in fact trying to flame-bait the list.
I don't think that anyone's trying to flame anyone at all, but I can't
Evidently you haven't been monitoring the list.
From: Henk Stokhorst.
Sorry, I wrote the text from the point of view of
someone in an office using his computer on which
someone else installed prime95. I don't need the
version for myself, but it's great to distribute
among people who have no clue about primes.
Don't be sorry! I think
From: Tim Esau
I am compelled to redirect the majority of my computing
team to another target--SETI.
When this was announced, I looked into it and had to decide whether to jump
ship as well.
The single largest reason that I'm staying 100% with GIMPS/PrimeNet is the
efficiency and thought
From: Jud McCranie
Why not form one big team out of all of GIMPS and split
the money, Honey?
While I can't speak for others, I'm not in GIMPS for the money. While the
awards are reasonably new, I've got over ten years accumulated on my two
home machines and I *like* to be able to look at that
From: "Vincent J. Mooney Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Should the GIMPS effort discard Alan Blosser's results
on the grounds that they were improperly obtained?
In my opinion, that would be silly.
Firstly, the results themselves are good. There's no technical or
mathematical reason to toss them.
30 matches
Mail list logo
