George, would you consider adding
Mersenne Number Tests - Version 21.1.1
either after the
Waiting xx seconds for boot to complete (e.g., 13 or 22 or 30 or whatever)
or after
Resuming primality test of nnn...
so that the user knows what version of software is running upon boot up.
I'd guess that sales of UPS's are on the upswing.
At 05:20 PM 6/9/01 -0700, Spike wrote:
You may have heard that our so-called Governor, here in the
great state of Taxifornia has proposed replacing rolling
blackouts with universal brownouts: reducing line voltage
about 10-15% on hot days this
Someone on this list earlier warned about Juno using subscriber's
computers. Here is a portion of the current Juno Virtual Supercomputer
Project data.
"The idea behind the Juno Virtual Supercomputer Project is simple. Today,
researchers who have large, computationally demanding problems to
At 06:05 AM 3/4/01 -0800, Paul Leyland wrote:
Three weeks ago, I wrote:
The integer factoring people can always use more cycles, and
even antique machines make valuable contributions in a reasonable
time. For instance, I have small number of DECstations and a Sun
SS2 on my home network all
Clever and I like it. I will use it when it is delivered.
At 05:40 PM 2/11/01 -0800, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote:
With respect to the screensaver idea,
The difficult thing about visualizing the Lucas-Lehmer compuation is that
it's so... abstract. There isn't any immediately obvious way to see its
It's an old joke. That's why it is in The Onion.
At 05:58 PM 1/3/01 EST, Ernst wrote:
Check out
http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html
At $0.10 per binary digit, the royalty fee GIMPS would
owe Microsoft for the last Mersenne prime is nearly
$70. Should we divide this
