Re: Mersenne: Average Machines

1999-08-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 02:36:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >(more likely because their copy of Duke >Quakem 64 won't run on old computers, hee hee) Side note: When Pentium was new, Quake was coming out. Quake II didn't come out much after Pentium II (am I right here?), and it didn't take

Re: Mersenne: STOP BASHING PEOPLE WITH SLOWER MACHINES!

1999-08-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 01:31:13PM -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote: >Egads...I'm not telling *anyone* to NOT use slow computers...I'm >"suggesting" they use < p166 for double-checks or factoring. And do you have a good reason to suggest that? Honestly, what does a few months' (or even years') latency

RE: Mersenne: massive GIMPS cabinet

1999-08-01 Thread Lucas Wiman
>> They will have only a floppy attached, which will run once (at boot up). >Are these basically just "NC's", with a boot floppy and a network Windows 95 >location? You lousy Microsoft freaks! They will be linux boot disks that will run either Mprime v19, or Brian's factor95.c. We haven't deci

RE: Mersenne: massive GIMPS cabinet

1999-08-01 Thread Aaron Blosser
> Motherboard connectors are plentiful as people often bring in bad PS's, > and I have been cutting off the connectors as of late. Though of course > this involves bulk soldering :(, but that was the "fair amount of work" I > mentioned. Why not just use the "lo-tech" wire nut? :-) > They will h

RE: Mersenne: massive GIMPS cabinet

1999-08-01 Thread Lucas Wiman
> Having one power supply per computer, besides the convenience of having it > self contained, is the fact that the fan in a power supply is used not only > to cool the supply itself, but to circulate air throughout the entire case. > This is especially true for ATX spec cases and supplies, but is