I think looking at that file would at least provide interesting to the curious among us. I say "go for it" :)
Aaron PS - Regarding the running Prime95 as an NT service... I concur that if you run it on your own machine, it's obviously not a security risk since I'd hope that you're already a local admin on your own NT/win2k/winxp box. For more protected machines, any vulnerability would still require the ability to logon locally, and that's something that any good server should already address. The major flaw only seems to be workstations where maybe you don't allow the normal user to have local admin access, and I know some companies set it up that way. And in that case, WITH PROPER PERMISSION (had to say that), it would make more sense to run it without the icon visible anyway so the user isn't distracted or can change things. All in all, what I'm saying is, it seems to be a moot point in 99.9999% of the cases I can imagine. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mersenne-invalid- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of George Woltman > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 11:25 AM > To: Gary Edstrom; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mersenne: Double Checking Errors > > At 07:28 PM 8/9/2002 -0700, Gary Edstrom wrote: > >That brings to mind another question. I was wondering what you > >do when you detect an error during double checking. Do you notify the > >person that sent in the erroneous result so that he can check out his > >computer further? > > No, for several reasons. 1) We don't know your double-check is wrong > until a triple (or even quadruple) check is run. Thus, it could be a few > months > before we'd email you. 2) If a first time check is bad, it will be two > or > three > years before the double check and triple check come in to confirm this. > 3) It would be a fair amount of work for me. Right now the server does > not > verify double-checks. That is done by me, with the aid of a program, at > home. > Matching bad results with email addresses, sending the email, and wading > through bounced emails is not something I would relish! > > Is there interest in adding a new file to ones you can download at the > bottom of http://www.mersenne.org/status.htm? It could contain all the > confirmed bad results (I have kept this data). This would make it easier > for you folks to check and see if you have any problem computers. > > ________________________________________________________________________ _ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm > Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
