On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:01:04AM -0700, Mersenne Digest wrote:
>Others, including myself, have already done parts of this. The data
>that I have collected from them all is significantly larger than the
>web-accessible disk space I have.
Side note: Xoom (http://www.xoom.com/) now offers unlimited web space
for free. All it takes is a little annoying banner frame.
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>See the mers package code that I maintain. It is ANSI C source code
>plus a shell script. There are also pointers to other programs,
>notably Ernst Mayer's Fortran90 LL tester, on my mersenne.html page.
More side notes: As both Linux and BeOS aim for POSIX compliance, I
don't think porting mprime would be too hard.
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>Today while I was mindlessly working my body on a treadmill to attempt
>to maintain some kind of decent physical condition, I had a thought (it
>wasn't intentional... it just happened, honest!).
I was thinking a lot while I ran with my dog in the woods today.
>Has anybody tracked the value of "S" in the LL test?
Yes, there was a discussion on this. (See previous traffic.) The end
result: No, there are no interesting patterns. (This is a FAQ, somebody
should really write about it...)
>> This is good advice, but personally I have never seen the
>> point of giving every machine in a rack of computers its own
>> power supply rather than having one big one and just running
>> DC all the way up the rack. The fact that it is not done
>> that way seems to be about politics of having AC wall current
>> rather than engineering efficiency.
MORE side notes: The only problems I've seen with power supplies are
users. (`Hey, let me show you how to fix this machine.' (Slides switch
from 220V setting to 110V setting. Turns on computer. Poof.) `Oops...'
Oh, those were IBM 486s; it didn't cost anything to fix it, because
the warranty was still valid! On a 486, in 1998! Whee...)
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>SWAG?
Can you SWAG the dog... :-)
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>Just entered the discussion/mail-list two weeks ago, though checking my
>third number already for some time.
>I guess I missed several thousand interesting mails.
>My prime95 version is 1.6. Should I upgrade to 1.8 or not ?
It is not 1.6. If it is, please upgrade :-) New (major) features from v16
to v18 are: Doublechecking of your own results, ECM factoring and fine-
tuning of program control (whatever that means).
(sorry if there were any questions for me below these -- fetchmail crashed...)
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