Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-25 Thread Vincent J. Mooney Jr.
Cheers to you Mikus. I second you wholeheartedly. At 11:51 AM 5/24/00 -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: ... some snipping > >Since when has this project become a competitive event ? > >This mailing list has gotten several messages like the one above, >which I interpret as comparing

Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-24 Thread Nathan Russell
>Since when has this project become a competitive event ? > >This mailing list has gotten several messages like the one above, >which I interpret as comparing ANOTHER USER to standards set by >the writer, rather than acknowledging that *all* users are >contributors to the project. Will it mean th

Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-24 Thread Chris Jefferson
> Nathan Russell wrote: > >There is a user, "sd70045", who has almost 100 single-checking > >assignments out on a single machine ID > > In any case, these exponents will expire in 16 days. As a > result, I'm not concerned about it. Within 3 weeks > they'll be re-circulated among othe

Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-24 Thread Eric Hahn
Nathan Russell wrote: >There is a user, "sd70045", who has almost 100 single-checking >assignments out on a single machine ID. These would take a >state-of-the-art box well over two years to finish. Additionally, >these assignments have almost identical figures for time to >complete etc. The fi

Re: Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-24 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
> There is a user, "___", who has almost 100 single-checkingassignments > out on a single machine ID. These would take a state-of-the-art box well > over two years to finish. Additionally, these assignments have almost > identical figures for time to complete etc. The first exponent in this

Mersenne: The recent popularity of Single-Checking

2000-05-24 Thread Nathan Russell
Hi all, There is a user, "sd70045", who has almost 100 single-checkingassignments out on a single machine ID. These would take a state-of-the-art box well over two years to finish. Additionally, these assignments have almost identical figures for time to complete etc. The first exponent in