Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 11:21:58AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I guess I'm fighting a losing battle here. My thoughts: I don't consider myself fighting, BTW. - If George or Scott decide that for the GIMPS project to continue to be viable, anyone who participates MUST be able to reply

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Sturle Sunde
Am I just wrong in thinking this? I fully agree with your opinions above[1], but you are wrong when you make your own rules based on these opinions, and try to force other people to follow your rules and not the commonly accepted ones. I don't want to play with people who don't follow the

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 11:26:56PM -0600, Aaron Blosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But hey, this is just my opinion. After I test this little teeny tiny group of numbers, I won't poach anymore and you can all do whatever, but I still think it's a good idea to "clean house" every now and then.

RE: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Ashton Vaz
---Aaron Blosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about another option Aaron? You touch anyone's exponents...especially mine and I report you to the FBI for stealing? DAMNITI sure as hell hope the above message was in jest. You better not play around with my exponents (or anyone

RE: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Aaron Blosser
First of all, no, none of those exponents are mine. I have tons of machines running Prime95 and I'm pretty high up on the list of producers It's just that I think you're way off base on this...and I'm sure other people on this list think the same too. whine, complain, etc. George, (or

RE: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Blosser, Jeremy
ld probably just give that person the full credit and not want any credit at all really. So if its your "Place in history" you are worried about, I don't really care. -Original Message- From: Ashton Vaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Michael Gebis
"Aaron" == Aaron Blosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:16:28 -0600 Aaron Certain tools are better suited to certain jobs. Find the Aaron job that your slower computer is best suited for and go for Aaron it. I think this argument also applies to your

RE: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Yvan Dutil
At 07:40 AM 6/14/99 -0600, you wrote: Sheesh, well it has been a rough past week... :-) Call it "testing the waters". I'm good at that. To my knowledge, the issue of poaching numbers has never been discussed (on the list anyway), so at least we got to talk about it. We now know that some

RE: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Aaron Blosser
Aaron Certain tools are better suited to certain jobs. Find the Aaron job that your slower computer is best suited for and go for Aaron it. I think this argument also applies to your computers...why not put your faster computers on the bigger exponents where they are needed, instead

Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Paul Derbyshire
Yvan Dutil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One weird bahavior: 5292757. Which as appear to have been resetted recently by its 'owner' to an duration as long as the initial one! Obviously, someone got dinged with the v17-v18 upgrade. I pity them...

Re: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-14 Thread Anonymous
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: I thought that if no check-in was done in 60 days, the number was put back in the pool. No, if no check-in has been done in 60 days _after the exponent was expected to complete_, it is put back into the pool. Of course, once in a while, the

RE: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-13 Thread Aaron Blosser
We could wait around 2 years to finally get around to testing this obviously abandoned one, or I'll just do it now. How about another option Aaron? You touch anyone's exponents...especially mine and I report you to the FBI for stealing? DAMNITI sure as hell hope the above message

RE: Mersenne: Re: Mersenne Digest V1 #575

1999-06-13 Thread Aaron Blosser
This is supposed to be fun, and your behaviour makes it the oposite. I don't want to stand guard over my exponents, sending in false progress reports to make you stay away from them. Hey, whoa. I'm not asking anyone to send in false status reports. I *real* status report every now and then