Posted by Klaus Eisentraut in howto
I have written before that I'm a DSL customer of the German ISP M-Net with a FritzBox 7430 as router. The router is managed by M-Net and they removed the possibility to update it by myself in the user interface. However, M-Net was lagging behind and used the outdated version …
Posted by Klaus Eisentraut in howto
Since around 2008 I have sporadically contributed to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search project. Recently, I wanted to extend my AWS skills, in particular for EC2 instances which I have never used before. Therefore I set myself the goal to check one Mersenne prime candidate for primality with AWS …
Posted by Klaus Eisentraut in howto
Since around 2008 I have sporadically contributed to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search project.
This project is hunting for Mersenne primes, i.e. primes which can be written as 2^n-1.
Those have an easy primality test and are usually the largest known primes which is kind of cool …