No, not me, my computer ;-)
But seriously - I did two things, took a plate out of an empty slot,
and bought a can of compressed air, which I'd never used before.
When I used the compressed air, besides giving me a headache for the
past hour (I have a *tiny* dorm room), it knocked a lot of dust
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:25:53 -0500, I wrote:
I'm now testing M132049, and the only error so far has been this
exponent is not assigned to us. If the system finishes all the
Mersennes (much) below 3Mbits without bluescreening, I'm going to run
the two 3M primes, and then bring it back to LL
Looks like things are resolved - I'm more than halfway through the 64K
FFT's self-test, and no errors so far. Probably, again, the tiny
exponents were sitting totally in the L2 cache (or being prefetched to
it) and thus were putting more load on the CPU than normal LL work
would do.
If
Anurag Garg writes (re. my GIMPS-related webpages)
- - I have been unable to reach his pages
Peter Montgomery replied:
How many times did you try, and over how long a period?
Last I heard, Ernst Mayer lived near San Jose, CA
Still true.
and kept the web pages on a home machine.
No longer
Hi,
It's probably worth saying this for the benefit of all readers who may be
experiencing heat issues with their systems:
The front air intake vents on almost every PC case I have ever seen have been
virtually *useless*. For some reason manufacturers continue to drill a few
pathetically
Gareth Randall wrote:
What you should do is to take a saw or a drill and cut the whole
circular
section out! You may end up with sharp edges, and you need to take
precautions
against metal shavings. You may also need to drill some neat holes (e.g.
10mm
diameter) in the plastic front bezel in
On Monday 11 November 2002 22:28, Gareth Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The front air intake vents on almost every PC case I have ever seen have
been virtually *useless*. For some reason manufacturers continue to drill a
few pathetically small holes in the steel sheet and call that an air
