Re: [Fwd: Re: Mersenne: Distributed Computing Mandatory For Juno's Free Users]

2001-04-19 Thread David L. Nicol
Its true, I read mersenne list archive about as often as there are lunar eclipses. "Halliday, Ian" wrote: As another point, I know many who are in SETI solely for the nice graphical display. I don't know whether GIMPS, given the abstract nature of the work we do, could ever really

Mersenne: [Fwd: Plug into peer-to-peer philanthropy with Intel]

2001-04-17 Thread David L. Nicol
"A linux version is under development" they claim. Why don't they just recompile it with entropia hooks? -- edited --- Intel Home Computing Newsletter Delivering Intel technology to your inbox April 2001 Revolutionary technology, a new Web resource, and a great deal from

Re: Mersenne: First illegal prime?

2001-03-20 Thread David L. Nicol
Nathan Russell wrote: I might note that it's impossible to encrypt something so it cannot be copied exactly; even now, it is very common for pirate DVD manufacturers to simply copy the original disc byte for byte, without even needing to crack the encryption. I guess "grey bits" never

Re: Mersenne: Re: GIMPS in the News

2001-01-08 Thread David L. Nicol
Jeramy Ross wrote: On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Russel Brooks wrote: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?UID=35947505SectionID=30SubSectio nID=90ArticleID=23815 While I am the geek brother mentioned in the article I make no claim as to the accuracy of the article. Then on Sun, 07

Mersenne: From elsewhere, on network protocols being readable

1999-10-05 Thread David L. Nicol
Harrumph. ___ David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ./configure make make test Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sure most people on this list already realize it, but whoever first decided to

Re: Mersenne: Evil, evil prize thread

1999-07-26 Thread David L. Nicol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone. Wow, there was a lot in the last digest that I thought needed commenting on. This prize thread is _almost_ getting as bad, in my opinion, as the other, recent, evil thread which I shall not name. I am, of course, replying to many different people in

Re: Mersenne: Mersenne 3/2 conjecture

1999-06-29 Thread David L. Nicol
Aaron Blosser wrote: ~ expressions just look much cooler if you throw in a pi Hmm... pi pi pi pi pi pi  ( + + ) ** ( + ) + pi pi pi pi pi pi

Re: Mersenne: new frost free computers

1999-06-14 Thread David L. Nicol
Aaron Blosser wrote: One nut is working on total immersion of his system in oil, with an air-conditioner coil submersed as well. This would solve the problem of condensate, but there is concern that the mineral oil will break some of the components on the board. I like the idea, but

Re: Mersenne: Poaching (was Mersenne Digest V1 #573)

1999-06-14 Thread David L. Nicol
lrwiman wrote: *never ever* cheap out on power supplies. This is good advice, but personally I have never seen the point of giving every machine in a rack of computers its own power supply rather than having one big one and just running DC all the way up the rack. The fact that it is not

Re: Inane Stuff (Was: Mersenne: M38, SETI, and other random stuff )

1999-06-14 Thread David L. Nicol
Chris Nash wrote: maybe every electronic device in my house will be squaring and subtracting 2 in its idle time. voice character="futurist" aspect="tut-tut" make that every stitch in your clothing voice David Nicol

Re: Mersenne: EFF and 10,000,000 digits

1999-06-09 Thread David L. Nicol
Aaron Blosser wrote: I have heard some insider news that Intel *could* hit the 1 GigaHertz mark by years end if they had a reason to Did DEC not demonstrate a gigahertz Alpha chip shortly before Compaq purchased them?

Re: Mersenne: Re: Self-test (was: Prime 95 Error Messages/ Misc)

1999-06-09 Thread David L. Nicol
Pierre Abbat wrote: Most modern motherboards contain case and/or CPU temperature sensors which can be read by software. Is there a file in /proc that will tell me this? phma This is the first I've heard of such sensors being a standard item. How long have they been a standard item?

Re: Mersenne: Learning FFT

1999-05-18 Thread David L. Nicol
Steve Johnson wrote: Some time ago someone on the list mentioned that would like to know about FFT. I recently picked up a book that presented Fourier Transforms (including FFT) in a very easy to understand format. It is called "Who is Fourier? A Mathematical Adventure". Although the

Re: Mersenne: preventive measures

1999-04-16 Thread David L. Nicol
Aaron Blosser wrote: [the prime95 icon is ] mostly RED which would have been a good "alert" color. Maybe slowly flashing YELLOW or something, or make is usually GREEN then YELLOW for messages and RED for big problems. Is there an "official international math color?"

Re: Mersenne: GUI for Linux

1999-04-16 Thread David L. Nicol
think there are enough Linux users out there to justify it. here's mine: xterm -display localhost:0.0 -name mprime -e tail -f results.txt Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm

Re: Mersenne: Re: Alien stuff

1999-03-09 Thread David L Nicol
David J. Fred wrote: One called Lincos was created by Dr. Hans Freudenthal of the Another system, proposed by Lancelot Hogben, was called Astraglossa And then of course there's Klingon, which apparently has an increasing speakership worldwide at the moment, with some parents speaking it

Re: Mersenne: *P*M3021377 in base 62

1999-03-08 Thread David L Nicol
Spike Jones wrote: spike wrote: ... if some clever GIMPSer were to generate the perfect number that is (M37*(M37+1))/2 then express *that* number in hex, I would clear off a space on my office wall for it. {8-] Clayton Smith wrote: The binary expansion of this number will be p

Re: Mersenne: Meganet Corp.

1999-01-02 Thread David L. Nicol
Once a number is transformed to the T-Sequence, its quadratic residue has definitive characteristics if it?s a prime Ok, if it is a prime then a^p==a mod p, what's your point? They don't even give a correct statment for their claims, they should say

Mersenne: Paul Derbyshire

1998-11-17 Thread David L Nicol
Paul Derbyshire wrote: I shall try not to post off topic. In a message to the mersenne list; following another in which he CC'd the list a reply to a suggestion re: choice of MUA; My MUA has a killfile; Paul Derbyshire is now the designatee of an entry in it.

Re: Mersenne: Password safety

1998-11-12 Thread David L Nicol
Michael Clark wrote: What (if any) are the concerns with having an account's password and user ID posted on a web page? Would someone be able to change the "Your Name" and "Your email address" fields with them? So if my school set up a web page to encourage people to join our team, could

Re: Celestial bodies (was RE: Mersenne: Re: Is 128 bit instruction code needed ?)

1998-11-05 Thread David L Nicol
Brian J Beesley wrote: dust particles tend to accumulate positive charges. This makes it hard for gravity to stick particles together, if they're sufficiently small. The Solar System is indeed chaotic, on a scale which is important for small bodies. But the major planets are in orbits

Re: Celestial bodies (was RE: Mersenne: Re: Is 128 bit instruction code needed ?)

1998-11-04 Thread David L Nicol
Aaron Blosser wrote: Over billions of years, wouldn't most free-floating dust have been attracted to some heavy object by now? I know there are still a lot of large bodies such as comets, meteorites, asteroids (though I doubt the existence of the hypothetical "Oort Cloud"). I don't know,

Mersenne: FTP urls

1998-10-26 Thread David L Nicol
Brian J Beesley wrote: Can we please have the URLs fixed? There's no disagreement on how ftp urls work for anonymous access, at least there's less. Who else reading this is in a position to host the ftp archive? I may be moving my data off of 209.45.246.79 because of a dispute with the

Re: Mersenne: The EDGE CONJECTURE

1998-10-26 Thread David L Nicol
I can even prove... Now *WHERE* is this going?? Several years ago I spent an afternoon reading alt.cascade. There was a thread of bragging about what an excellent engineer the poster was (not unlike this one.) The form was, I have serious CS feat running on minimal hardware. You know,

Re: Mersenne: The sort of thing that NTPrime is not

1998-10-06 Thread David L Nicol
Chuck W. wrote: BTW: I assume the relevance of this thread has to do with our ongoing discussion of the way WinTel machines run service processes and networking protocols? I'm glad you see that justification -- I shared it due to its relevance to the Blosser deal -- we are getting pretty

Mersenne: The sort of thing that NTPrime is not

1998-10-05 Thread David L Nicol
This came through the BugTraq list over the weekend: Subject: Another Windows Trojan... From: L S D [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The source code to the Windows trojan called 'Acid Shiver' that covered most