I always default mine to 300 min. If it happens to complete while
I'm not home I don't want it wasting time trying to contact Primenet
when there is no chance. I usually start checking it manually
everyday when it starts to get close to completion. With these
5 mil+ numbers that is a lot less often. Takes over 30 days for my
P200. When I get home I log on, open up prim95, change
preference to 1 minute between tries. I exchanges information,
change it back to 300 and minimize it. Not that much effort in it
and I don't have to worry that I wasting CPU cycles trying to
contact Primenet.
On another subjct I received a sub 3mil number. 2987021. Its fun to
get a number that takes about a week todo and not over a month.
Ever since I upgraded to a P200 from a P90 I've had 4mil plus. Well
I guess I'll get a new PII 400 when Intel drops their prices again.
This last drop knocked a $100 off the price. Another hit like that
and I'll buy one.
> On Sat, 19 Sep 1998 13:25:20 +0200, Henk Stokhorst wrote:
>
> >The next version (16.x or whatever) should default to 240 minutes instead
> >of 2. As long as the server is down less than the days of work to get
> >(mine is at 7) it will work fine. Also I would like to be able to set it
> >to a maximum of 720 minutes.
>
> Which would of course be fine for computers which are always on the Internet,
> but for modem users it probably isn't the best idea.. I'm never on the 'net
> for 240 minutes, so unless I'm lucky enough to be logged on just when Prime95
> checks for the dial-up connection, I would get a chance to talk to the server
> (unless I manually force it, which kind of blows the whole concept of running
> Prime95 unattended).
>
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