Mersenne: Mailing list archive
By the end of next week I will remove the mailing list archive search function. The index for the archive occupies 1/3 of my disk quota. Considering how little it has been used, I can make better use of this disk space. I hope someone else would be willing to rebuild the index and host it. The mailing list messages up to Feb. 98 can be found below (about 4.2Mb). ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive1.zip ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive2.zip ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive3.zip ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive4.zip ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive5.zip I used swish http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/ for the search engine. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Mailing list archive
Is anyone maintaining a current archive of the list? I'd be glad to host such a beast, but hosting archives that only go up to Feb 1998 seems, well, silly. Do the .zip files below include the swish configuration, or just the messages? Bryan On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 12:42:14AM -0500, Conrad Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the end of next week I will remove the mailing list archive search function. The index for the archive occupies 1/3 of my disk quota. Considering how little it has been used, I can make better use of this disk space. I hope someone else would be willing to rebuild the index and host it. The mailing list messages up to Feb. 98 can be found below (about 4.2Mb). ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive1.zip ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive2.zip ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive3.zip ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive4.zip ftp://ftp.netdoor.com/users/acurry/archive5.zip I used swish http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/ for the search engine. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers -- Bryan Fullertonhttp://www.samurai.com/ Core Competency Samurai Consulting "No, we don't do seppuku." Can you feel the Ohmu call? _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Mailing list archive
By the end of next week I will remove the mailing list archive search function. The index for the archive occupies 1/3 of my disk quota. Considering how little it has been used, I can make better use of this disk space. I hope someone else would be willing to rebuild the index and host it. The mailing list messages up to Feb. 98 can be found below (about 4.2Mb). Why not host it on xoom.com or something? They offer free unlimited space. -Lucas _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Mailing list archive
By the end of next week I will remove the mailing list archive search function. The index for the archive occupies 1/3 of my disk quota. Considering how little it has been used, I can make better use of this disk space. I hope someone else would be willing to rebuild the index and host it. The mailing list messages up to Feb. 98 can be found below (about 4.2Mb). Why not host it on xoom.com or something? They offer free unlimited space. 'Free' webservers like xoom.com generally don't allow any custom scripting, further, don't they insert spam on every page? no thanks! actually, I have my own webserver here at home now, its a linux box on a 768k SDSL line and it has plenty of space. But I've got no experience in setting up a mail list archive w/ a useful search capability. if someone else wants to do this, I'd be glad to setup an account for them to work in, -jrp _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne Digest V1 #624
Mersenne Digest Saturday, September 11 1999 Volume 01 : Number 624 -- Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 19:57:49 -0400 From: George Woltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: Prime95 version 19 - better late than never Hi all, Sorry for the delay in releasing v19. It is now available for mersenne mailing list members to beta test. If all goes well, it will be officially released to all GIMPSers in a few weeks. You can get the new version at ftp://entropia.com/gimps/p95b.zip To upgrade prime95, stop and exit the current version. Optionally make a backup of the directory containing prime95. Unzip the new version on top of the old version. Start the new prime95. Next time you contact the server, it will broadcast a welcome message to you. Let me know if there are any problems with this new feature. The message will be deleted prior to the final release of v19. This feature gives us an effective way to inform you of new versions and important bugs or news. Save files are upward compatible from previous versions, but not backward compatible. Thus, do not try this beta if you are in a dual-boot environment. The Linux and NT service versions will be available soon. I'd like to thank the excellent work of the QA team. They located many bugs, bringing you a higher quality beta. The QA team included Ken Kriesel, Brian Beesley, Tom Cage, Jean-Yves Canart, Bryan Fullerton, Marc Getty, Steinar H. Gunderson, Eric Hahn, Alex Healy, Paul Landon, Greg McIntyre, Lawrence Murray, Paul Victor Novarese, Ethan M. O'Connor, Rick Pali, Shane Sanford, Brian Schroeder, Gordon Spence, Joth Tupper, Guillermo Ballester Valor, David Willmore, and Lucas Wiman. And, of course, thanks to Scott Kurowski for his v19 enhancements to the Primenet server. Here is the relevant excerpt from whatsnew.txt: 1) Faster - in some cases as much as 10% faster!. The FFTs were recoded for improved memory and TLB efficiency. Furthermore, optimizations specific to the Pentium Pro and later processors were added. 2) New FFT lengths. The program can now test exponents as large as 79.3 million. Also, smaller FFT lengths are supported for use in ECM and P-1 factoring. 3) More conservative FFT breakpoints. This could actually result in some exponents being slower to test in this version. However, the chance of a fatal rounding error has been reduced. 4) P-1 factoring has been added. Although it is not very practical for large exponents because of a slow GCD routine, it can be used to find new factors of exponents below a few million or so. 5) ECM can now run on large exponents. Once again, the slow GCD routine and high memory requirements might make this impractical for large exponents. 6) ECM and P-1 factoring now support save files. Very handy on lengthy runs. 7) ECM and P-1 factoring lets you specify the amount of memory to use. In some cases, more memory can improve execution speed slightly. 8) A bug in guessing the CPU speed on initial install has been fixed. 9) The preferences dialog now has an option to pause prime95 when a laptop is running on its battery. 10) Error checking has been improved slightly. 11) Factoring is now "layered". That is, prime95 now factors to 2^52, then 2^53, 2^54, and so forth up to the appropriate limit. The factoring output lines have been changed to show percent complete in the current "layer". 12) A bug in running two or more self or torture tests in the same directory has been fixed. 13) Trial factoring above 2^64 is now supported. 14) More trial factoring is now done to take into account the cost of double-checking. 15) Title now contains percent complete when LL testing. By default, the percent complete value is now displayed to 2 decimal places. You can change this by setting PercentPrecision in prime.ini to a value between 0 and 6. 16) Affinity and service name settings moved from prime.ini to local.ini file. Prime95 will automatically move these settings for you. 17) An option to get only 10,000,000 digit numbers to run primality tests on has been added to the Test/Primenet dialog box. See http://www.mersenne.org/prize.htm for rules on claiming the EFF award for finding a 10,000,000 digit prime. 18) The Advanced/Clear primes menu choice has been deleted. 19) The prime95 icon turns yellow when the program is idle. After an error such as ILLEGAL SUMOUT, the icon will blink for 10 seconds. 20) The User Information dialog box allows you to request newsletters and form a team user ID where the team members cannot alter the team name. 21) A bug in the reporting of error counts in the results.txt file has been fixed. 22) The server can now broadcast important messages to the prime95 client. Prime95 will blink the icon until prime95 is activated and then it will display the message. Finally,
Mersenne: Re: Crazy thought of the day...
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 04:01:03PM -0600, Blosser, Jeremy wrote: Anyway, since the Dreamcast runs WinCE Actually, it doesn't. The Dreamcast has no OS at all, due to delays from MS in getting a port done. It is true that some of the games will use WinCE as the OS (included on the game CD/cartridge/whatever they use), but far from all. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/sneeze/ _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Re: error in V19??!?
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 11:08:35AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Possible hardware failure, consult the readme file. Continuing from last save file. [Sat Sep 11 11:04:20 1999] Disregard last error. Result is reproducible and thus not a hardware problem. Do exactly as it says: disregard the error. Such errors usually pop up close to the end of the FFT breakpoints. (I don't have those in my head, though. You can always look them up somewhere.) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/sneeze/ _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Error PrimeNet
Hi, PrimeNet does not yet list celeron as a processor type in the full stats, yet I can select it in prime95 v19b. Otto. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
