> 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.
Yes. PrimeNet credits double-checking work.
> Also, I notice that one can disable "Request whatever type of wo
Daren Scot Wilson writes:
I've switched from Linux to BeOS - entirely, not even dual-booting
both. Same hardware as before - PII 400 MHz. BeOS is POSIX
compatible, has TCP/IP, but the file system is offbeat, and from
what I hear most linux software needs a little bit of tweaking to
Don't bring me into this. I'll just reply to your attacks on me...
>
> JEREMY BLOSSER:
> >So basically, you are on some sort of drugs or something?
>I think so!
>
> >I hate to jump to my brother's defence here, but I think
> that the point
> >was
> >to prove 100% that M37 was really M37 an
I've switched from Linux to BeOS - entirely, not even dual-booting
both. Same hardware as before - PII 400 MHz. BeOS is POSIX
compatible, has TCP/IP, but the file system is offbeat, and from what I
hear most linux software needs a little bit of tweaking to compile for
Be.
Is there any
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 software will report `new expected completion dates' to the server, and
this date will be moved.
- ---snip---
>The owner is "dsh21". Mail him and ask why.
[...]
>The owner is "koma". Mail him and ask why.
[...]
>Why don't you mail "andres" and ask if it is abandoned first?
I have to agree on this policy. One mail, give them a week or so to reply,
and if they don't, take the exponent. (Didn't IPS have an automatic system
at one point? If you look in the readme file, it said it didn't work at
expected, so they took it out.)
- ---snip---
>This is an excellent point, I think we ought to take notice. It's
>certainly p*ss*d me off a bit with the Proth project to find that,
>out of 4 primes I've discovered, 2 are "rediscoveries" of numbers
>that other people have been working on without reserving ranges via
>the perfectly satisfactory facilities provided.
We should certainly prevent things like this from happening to GIMPS...
For now, we can rely on the users, I hope. Suggested policy: One mail,
one week.
- ---snip---
>Some people that are out of contact may be using the buggy version 17, and
>their work is wasted.
Probably not -- if they _have_ an Internet connection and have downloaded
v17 with it, they will probably also have received the v17 bug warning, and
they will probably at least make their computers report in now and then...
- ---snip---
>Also, I'm going to quit first time LL testing. Call me impatient, but I don't
>want to wait until early July for my exponent to finish, thus I'm going to
>switch to double-checking.
Now, isn't it great that v17/v18 actually _has_ something to do for impatient
users, namely double-checking? Remember, everybody: Nobody forces you to do
double-checking. It's _your_ option.
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