I agree with George, this discussion should go offline.
My original message on the V17 bug and preventive measures
was intended as a call for volunteers in two categories
(skilled code reviewers, and QA testers with cpu time to burn)
There have been a number of ok, good, and very good points m
Here's a website (http://www.directupdate.com) that has a free program that
allows you to auto-update any application.
Bassam
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On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:30:12PM -0500, Amy and Shane Sanford wrote:
> A easy way with any OS that has some sort of easy batch file support (such
> as the flavors of Windows & from what I remember Unix). Have the Prime
> program download the files to the current directory (maybe a self
> execut
A easy way with any OS that has some sort of easy batch file support (such
as the flavors of Windows & from what I remember Unix). Have the Prime
program download the files to the current directory (maybe a self
executable zip file). Then execute the download. The download will unzip
all the fi
Mersenne Digest Monday, April 12 1999 Volume 01 : Number 544
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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 12:45:37 -0600
From: "Aaron Blosser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Mersenne: preventive measures
> >I had done some t
How about this?:
If mprime finds that it needs to update itself, it downloads the new files,
renames the old ones, renames the new ones, and quits at five 'til. One minute
past the hour, a cron job notices that mprime isn't running and restarts it.
phma
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> > I still believe we should make a mersenne virus which will let all
> > infected computer calculate mersenne primes.
> > unfortunately this would give a real bad name to GIMPS.
> > but lets hear your thought on this
>
> Nice idea! Unfortunately it would probably get GIMPS shut down.
Personall
John Gilmore writes:
>Anyone have an executable that runs under SGI Irix 6.5 I can use for
>double-checking and acquire via FTP or e-mail attachment?
The most recent version of my LL code, V2.6, has (Fortran-90) source code
and binaries for Alpha Unix and SGI Irix (the latter optimized for MIPS
Did someone else notice that the top producers lists on mersenne.org and
entropia.com are inconsistent? Apparently, on mersenne.org the exponents
that were affected by the V17-bug are no longer taken into account.
Shouldn't this be dealt with consistently?
In case this has been explained in an ear
At 21:24 4/12/99 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>If we thought that we could cope with the workload on the server, I'd
seriously
>suggest that we get talking to either Microsoft or the major PC vendors
(Dell,
>Gateway, Packard Bell etc) about incorporating Prime95 into the default
software
>
At 21:19 04/12/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>> People then said most consoles are really bad at
>> accurate floating point calculations because they aren't
>> used much in games.
>
>Who said that? Floating point maths is used extensively in 3D calculation,
>which all modern consoles excell at.
Yes, b
With this setback, does it still make sense for machines slower than P-133
to default to double checking, or should some of them go back to initial LL
tests?
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| Jud McCranie [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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>> People then said most consoles are really bad at
>> accurate floating point calculations because they aren't
>> used much in games.
>
>Who said that? Floating point maths is used extensively in 3D calculation,
>which all modern consoles excell at.
.. but unfortunately only single-precision fl
> People then said most consoles are really bad at
> accurate floating point calculations because they aren't
> used much in games.
Who said that? Floating point maths is used extensively in 3D calculation,
which all modern consoles excell at.
> I still believe we should make a mersenne virus w
I have a question about porcessor upgrades for a laptop - at home
I run Prime95 on an Acer Extensa 600-series laptop, which came with
a 120MHz Pentium, and has been running overclocked (with extra cooling
fan) at 180MHz for the past year without problems.
My question is, what is the fastest proc
OK, I haven't been following this thread so this may have already been
mentioned and discarded, but how about some sort of "auto update" feature.
It could be turned on/off in the options and would enable people to run
almost unattended with updates coming either as and when required, or they
could
>We are always in search of more CPU power. Since toasters are not (yet)
>powerful enough to run LL tests, I thought we might turn to the second
>greatest mass of CPU power: consoles.
If i remember right this was mentioned earlier on the list
People then said most consoles are really bad at
acc
>Hi all,
>
>I''m searching a prove of a little problem.
>You take a four digit number where not all digits are equal such
>5957 and reorder the digits such that the biggest digit is at the
>first place, the second at the second place etc. Then subtract the
>smallest possible reoredering from th
> >No. I would not want it popping up on each of my computers, requiring
> >a mouse click on each; too tedious. Email is sufficient.
> >A popup for each instance on each multiple-cpu system is really
> a nuisance.
> >
> >Imagine if USWest had seen 2500 of those popups on the same day.
> >VIRUS!!
Message text written by "Brian J Beesley"
>Doesn't seem to make much difference to either of my P100
laptops. What *does* make a difference (a big one) is whether you
leave the screen and hard disk (especially the hard disk) running.
<
In my testing of battery life on my notebook, I was compari
> > We are always in search of more CPU power. Since toasters are not (yet)
> > powerful enough to run LL tests, I thought we might turn to the second
> > greatest mass of CPU power: consoles.
>
> // SNIP
>
> > As I said, this is pretty unrealistic for now, but certainly an
> interesting
> > oppor
> We are always in search of more CPU power. Since toasters are not (yet)
> powerful enough to run LL tests, I thought we might turn to the second
> greatest mass of CPU power: consoles.
// SNIP
> As I said, this is pretty unrealistic for now, but certainly an
interesting
> opportunity if we can
>>> I would find a popup box a terrible nuisance, so I'd like an option
>>> to turn it off or on, with default off.
>>
>>If it were an option, there should be a way for REALLY important alerts to
>>get through, so that anyone running v17 would have been alerted about the
>>bug even if normal alert
Just to add some life to this list... No, this is _not_ a joke. This is only
a really crazy idea.
We are always in search of more CPU power. Since toasters are not (yet)
powerful enough to run LL tests, I thought we might turn to the second
greatest mass of CPU power: consoles.
Those machines a
James Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To stop Prime95 Ver 18 from crashing while not connected to the Internet, I
> have to use rcpnet.dll from Ver 17. I never had any problem until Ver 18.
Interesting. rpcnet.dll from the v18 distribution is much smaller than
that in the v17 distributio
Hi Cyril,
The fact that there exists a period for your procedure (whatever the
number of digits might be) is rather easy.
Indeed, say you start with a n-digit number than after just a single
step you get another n-digit number and so on. As there are only
10^n n-digit numbers you always obtain a
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