Mersenne: GIMPS on new iMac ??

2002-01-11 Thread Russel Brooks
How do you think GIMPS will run on the new iMac? (Or will it run at all?) Cheers... Russ _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ --

Re: Mersenne: Prime freezing when connecting by DSL to Primenet

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Harris
Interesting... I have had that happen to me as well a few times with PCs on a DSL (but without AOL). It doesn't happen on a regular basis but does lock up the program (v21.3) for hours or days at a time. Just caught one today that had been stuck like that for seven hours, even 'end task'

Re: Mersenne: Prime freezing when connecting by DSL to Primenet

2002-01-11 Thread Jud McCranie
At 11:31 PM 1/11/2002 -0600, Steve Harris wrote: Interesting... I have had that happen to me as well a few times with PCs on a DSL (but without AOL). It doesn't happen on a regular basis but does lock up the program (v21.3) for hours or days at a time. I've been using Prime95 with DSL for

Re: Mersenne: Prime freezing when connecting by DSL to Primenet

2002-01-11 Thread John R Pierce
I am running version 21.4 of Prime. I recently started using a DSL connection on AOL. ( I am using Version 7.0 of AOL). Since I started using this arrangement, Prime locks up whenever it connects with Primenet. After some delay, during which time everything stops, Primenet reports an ERROR

Re: Mersenne: Prime freezing when connecting by DSL to Primenet

2002-01-11 Thread Gareth Randall
I wonder whether this is caused by Firewalling software or automatic virus detection software. Has this avenue been investigated? Some of this software might have the power to block network connections or basically suspend the program trying to make them until such time as Wild guesses: 1.