What would make sense to me is to have a single (X-based?) frontend that is
able to monitor/control the action of multiple Prime95-style "services".
Today, I look at my personal Primenet report to see if any of my machines
are "misbehaving" - but finding a turned-off computer using this takes
Pierre Abbat wrote:
I suggest a couple of named pipes for control (the front end writes to one and
reads from the other, and mprime vice versa). Since writing to a pipe whose
reader is stuck can get you blocked when the pipe is full, and writing to a
pipe with nothing at the other end
Robert van der Peijl wrote:
Now, everybody, _PLEASE_:
If you're thinking How about a nifty gadget such-and-such?.
Let's NOT send all THAT to the mailing list!
The list would get swamped in tons of traffic. So please, okay?
Though you ask this, I find the topic rather appropriate for the
On 23 Sep 99, at 16:18, Robin Stevens wrote:
There are some Linux folks that like the present program because it
doesn't use X-windows.
I certainly do! A program like mprime that is supposed to run in
background at all times should not depend on a X server running.
Quite. For
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 01:53:33PM +0200, Alexander Kruppa wrote:
Robert van der Peijl wrote:
He further writes:
There are some Linux folks that like the present program because it
doesn't use X-windows.
I certainly do! A program like mprime that is supposed to run in
background at
Sorry, I've deleted the mail. QWhere can I get the most recent Prime95
source code from, and what should I compile it with? I'd like to at least
try to make a front-end, and I'm sure at least the base of a screen saver
would take all of 30 minutes. I know that we'd perfer people to use
prime95
I wrote to George Woltman:
I wonder if there are any volunteers out there willing to design
and write an attractive front-end for the v19 GIMPS client.
There is, I believe, considerable interest in having a
smart-looking user-interface on the Win/Linux/? desktop.
Running, it would only
