[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I mentioned that we lost about 9000 machines during the past 7 months. One > year ago I started collecting data about numbers of machines, accounts and > so on. Please find this information at the bottom of may mail. GIMPS has now > as many contributing machines as it had 13 months ago. In the meantime there > was a peak of 38950 machines (26 March 2001). After that date we lost about > 9000 machines which we had gained between September 2000 and March 2001. As
Since March 2001? Isn't that about when California's power crisis started warning about summer blackouts? Maybe a lot of the missing machines were CA users shutting down their pcs. I left mine on. Cheers... Russ (in San Jose) _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers