RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

2000-03-27 Thread Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy
There is a point there, but I'm sure there are a few folks who just enjoy the thrill of finding a factor. There is, we must admit, a pleasure of discovery to seeing "Mxxx has a factor: yyy" several times a month that is utterly absent from seeing "Mxxx is

RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

2000-03-27 Thread Paul Leyland
From: Willmore, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] value of 90 days. For some reason, I'm not allowed to get more than about a month of factoring work. It's starting to cut into my efficiency. Is there a way around this? Try joining the people at the bleeding edge. I've been factoring an

RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

2000-03-27 Thread Willmore, David
Brian J. Beesley wrote: A more general more secure method of preventing the type of problem exposed by this incident would be to have the server enforce a quota for the maximum number of assignments issued to any user/computer id combo in a particular time interval e.g. 20 per

RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

2000-03-27 Thread Willmore, David
From: Willmore, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] value of 90 days. For some reason, I'm not allowed to get more than about a month of factoring work. It's starting to cut into my efficiency. Is there a way around this? Paul Leyland wrote: Try joining the people at the

Re: Mersenne: The Recent Popularity of Factoring

2000-03-27 Thread Nathan Russell
From: Marc Getty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mersenne: The Recent Popularity of Factoring Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:33:05 -0500 While I do no use the undocumented FactorOverride feature, I do have 300+ factoring assignments assigned to my TempleU-DI account. All of

Mersenne: Prime 95 Speeds

2000-03-27 Thread LozCS
Recently - someone posted an excel sheet comparing speeds of processors running Prime95 Is this spreadsheet still available? Lawrence.. _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ

Mersenne Digest V1 #711

2000-03-27 Thread Mersenne Digest
Mersenne Digest Monday, March 27 2000 Volume 01 : Number 711 -- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:40:45 -0800 From: "John R Pierce" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mersenne: L2 Cache size I do wonder what the

Mersenne: Exponent in limbo?

2000-03-27 Thread Jeff Woods
I have an exponent that was completed while a Linux box was misconfigured to NOT have permissions to write the temp files. It looks like it never checked in its results. It did have permissions to handle writing results.txt, but didn't have the ability, so it seems, to write NEW files,

RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring

2000-03-27 Thread Nathan Russell
From: "Brian J. Beesley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Factoring Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 07:39:15 - Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy wrote: Stuff that we've already gone over and dabated for a few

Mersenne: primenet proxy

2000-03-27 Thread Paul Victor Novarese
any plans to support mprime for linux as a client for the windows primenet proxy? I've been fooling with it and have been unable to make it work. Any reports of success would be helpful. -- Paul Victor Novarese "Bob Dole thinks he's a doofus" http://gammatron.weblogger.com