Re: Mersenne: Re: Changing Prime95's name
- Original Message - From: "Jeff Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 11:13 PM Subject: Re: Mersenne: Re: Changing Prime95's name > At 02:34 PM 8/25/02 -0700, you wrote: > > >PPS - I sure hope to talk about this again in 93 years. > > By then, "95" will stand for exaflops in your quantum computer, and we'll > be working with FFT's in the gigabyte size range. ;-) When we get a GigaQbit QC, we won't be bothering with FFTs. We'll just test every exponent simultaneously by trial division. Regards Daran _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
RE: Mersenne: Re: Changing Prime95's name
A "rose" by any other name smells the same. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Barry Hansen Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 2:35 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Mersenne: Re: Changing Prime95's name Briefly Brian Beesley began: >Therefore the logical new name would be either WinPrime or Prime32. > >I'm definitely strongly _against_ change for the sake of change, > particularly if the object is simply to track the latest fashion > emanting from Redmond WA. In another 7 years, chances are Joe Public > won't find XP any more relevant than 95. I think people are on the right track here... avoid names using the fad of the day, and pick something brief with just enough meaning to make it easy to remember. I don't really care what it's called as long as it generally follows this guideline. In fact my "PrimeXP" suggestion was tongue-in-cheek, since the "eXtreme Programming" moniker is just a clever marketing scheme for consultants to sell more books and make money. Our team has been doing XP for a year and there are some good things in it, but I'm still not sure why collecting several existing programming techniques together and emphasizing certain attributes has caused it to deserve a catchy new name. Oh well, at least it's recognizable. :-) Cheers, Barry PS - I don't seem to recall that someone *asked* for a vote on a new program name. Just think how much activity we'd see if George really wanted some opinions! :-) PPS - I sure hope to talk about this again in 93 years. _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Re: Changing Prime95's name
At 02:34 PM 8/25/02 -0700, you wrote: >PPS - I sure hope to talk about this again in 93 years. By then, "95" will stand for exaflops in your quantum computer, and we'll be working with FFT's in the gigabyte size range. ;-) _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Re: Changing Prime95's name
Briefly Brian Beesley began: >Therefore the logical new name would be either WinPrime or Prime32. > >I'm definitely strongly _against_ change for the sake of change, > particularly if the object is simply to track the latest fashion > emanting from Redmond WA. In another 7 years, chances are Joe Public > won't find XP any more relevant than 95. I think people are on the right track here... avoid names using the fad of the day, and pick something brief with just enough meaning to make it easy to remember. I don't really care what it's called as long as it generally follows this guideline. In fact my "PrimeXP" suggestion was tongue-in-cheek, since the "eXtreme Programming" moniker is just a clever marketing scheme for consultants to sell more books and make money. Our team has been doing XP for a year and there are some good things in it, but I'm still not sure why collecting several existing programming techniques together and emphasizing certain attributes has caused it to deserve a catchy new name. Oh well, at least it's recognizable. :-) Cheers, Barry PS - I don't seem to recall that someone *asked* for a vote on a new program name. Just think how much activity we'd see if George really wanted some opinions! :-) PPS - I sure hope to talk about this again in 93 years. _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: access to primenet server
Hi, At 10:37 AM 8/24/2002 +0100, Gareth Randall wrote: >Any chance of implementing some sort of status output to say "I got to >here..."? Something like this: > >[time] PID etc DNS resolved server #think this is actually just an IP >[time] PID etc Open connection to proxy >[time] PID etc Connection to proxy made >[time] PID etc Asked to connect to primenet server >[time] PID etc Got connected to primenet server >[time] PID etc Sent the data or request # you know what I mean >[time] PID etc Got the expected response >[time] PID etc Saved the updated state to disk # catch filesys errors >[time] PID etc Closed connection to proxy > >Whichever is the last entry in the log is the next stage at which you >should be looking at. Ideally a competent user can see immediately where >it got stuck. The closest thing to this is setting Debug=1 in primenet.ini (version 22 only). It is a bit more verbose than this and the output is a little more cryptic. >This sort of error tracking is particularly relevant to me at the moment, >because I have recently been involved in supporting Windows apps, and >no-one has designed anything to narrow down problems. I can sympathize with your plight. Administration is often a thankless job. > Error messages are useless and say nothing more than "er, it didn't > work", and no clue is given as to which part of the procedure failed. Guilty as charged. >On the subject, all programmers should try to avoid giving their error >messages in little pop-ups that can't be cut and pasted. Don't just follow >the crowd. Make your error messages appear in text boxes which don't >require people to manually retype them. :-) But this is the Microsoft standard! The right answer is for MS to change the way windows works - to allow copying text from message boxes. Best regards, George _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Question about PrimeNet Individual Account Reports
At 08:37 AM 8/25/2002 -0700, Gary Edstrom wrote: >In looking at my PrimeNet individual account report, I read the >following sections: > >Unspecified type : 1 > >my desktop is a 2.2GHz Pentium IV and is >checked as such in Options / CPU. > >Am I doing something wrong, or is this normal? This is a known bug in the individual account reports. P4s are reported as unspecified type. _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Mersenne: Question about PrimeNet Individual Account Reports
In looking at my PrimeNet individual account report, I read the following sections: --- Machines Assigned to PrimeNet --- Intel Pentium III : 2 Unspecified type : 1 -- --- TOTAL, uniquely named : 3 Now I understand the Pentium III computers, those are my laptop and my computer at work. However, my desktop is a 2.2GHz Pentium IV and is checked as such in Options / CPU. Am I doing something wrong, or is this normal? Thanks, Gary _ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
