Hi all!
My 2 cents...
> > few are hogging all those exponents for themselves, purely for the
> > satisfaction of watching their stats go up on a day by day basis.
> >
>
> Did you know that for about 6-8 hours _each_ days, it's only expired
> exponent that are distributed. So about 20 exponent re-released by PrimeNet
> will in there own time expire again (and the cycle begin anew).
The only disadvantage of a method introduced (I think) by diamonddave
and used by me and, probably, some other users is that some not so large
exponents (in my case near 3.5M) are kept assigned to me for two-four
days. Then - luckily - I obtain an exponents near 3M and those larger
are released to pull. I promise to run my shell script only time
to time. Now I have several small exponents and tomorrow will be the last
try to obtain smaller ones. Next I'll finish some of them and then
I'll start my shell script again for a week or two (it is started every
other day). I'll change DaysOfWork to 15.
> > So, my opinion comes down to this: People who reserve ONLY small
> exponents
> > are doing the project a disservice by not allowing the distributed nature
> of
> > the project to work. They use a fallacious argument about "keeping them
> out
> > of the hands of the infidels" as justification for it. Fallacious because
> > that's the job of Primenet's expiration policy.
>
> What is the difference between keeping only small exponent and keeping only
> big exponent (going for 100,000$), we will reach that plateau eventually?
>
> Why did this tread went from exposing a poacher to accusing a sensible
> PrimeNet user of poaching? Everyone seemed to have forgotten are mutual
> friend "Rick", why?
>
> David Campeau a.k.a. DiamondDave
Agree, agree, agree, ...
I'm an impatient person in a way. I like my exponents finished in a few
days. So I've devoted my Celeron 366 and Pentium II 400 (50-70% CPU in
both cases) to the DoubleChecking though they are not so bad in the
first test I think (I've got assigned one 8M for the LL test, it is
in a queue...).
Regards
Wojtek (WsF)
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www: http://spin.amu.edu.pl/~florek
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