[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, you've dropped the annoying Mandelbrot quote, but you're still
trying to stir up trouble on my favorite mailing list.
I'm not trying to stir up trouble. However, between your insulting of my sig
file (absent temporarily, due to my ISP's mail trouble and my
From: Paul Derbyshire
and your accusing me of flame-baiting, I begin
to suspect that you, who I formerly had not even
noticed, are in fact trying to flame-bait the list.
I don't think that anyone's trying to flame anyone at all, but I can't
Evidently you haven't been monitoring the list.
Paul Derbyshire wrote:
Sounds like a lot to me. This CPU I have can finish LL tests in that kind of
time, except that I have a habit of using it for other things a lot of the
time.
It may seem like a long time to you, but I've been interested in Mersenne
Primes as an observer since around
All,
alright, everybody break it up!
Well, you've dropped the annoying Mandelbrot quote, but you're still
trying to stir up trouble on my favorite mailing list.
I'm not trying to stir up trouble. However, between your insulting of my sig
file (absent temporarily, due to my ISP's mail
"Rick Pali" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think that anyone's trying to flame anyone at all, but I can't
[the rest is missing]
???
... might it not be a good idea to ask to be apprised of the situation
before accusing the very people who make all this possible of
being "completely
Paul Derbyshire wrote:
Sounds like a lot to me. This CPU I have can finish LL tests in
that kind of
time, except that I have a habit of using it for other things a
lot of the
time.
It may seem like a long time to you, but I've been interested in Mersenne
Primes as an observer since
Here are my ideas on bugs:
Bugs happen! They're a fact of life, omnipresent in all software.
Showstopper bugs should not slip through testing and into release software.
Bugs should allways be caught in the testing, but so often they aren't.
Minor bugs yes, massive showstoppers no.
In the
My motivation is to help. This spectacular bug caused some of my help to have
been wasted.
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On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 11:07:04PM -0600, Paul Derbyshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erm? Regardless of when I found out, it remains a fact that to release
non-beta software to the general public without a thorough testing *is* a rash
act.
The software *was* tested - the testing missed this
