Help with mersenne.org
 

Does anybody know how to get to the old page the had all the timings for all the cpus and let you put in a number and told you how long it would take finish, and how many digits it is. I no longer see a link to it.

The link's dead now.

It's gone, and I don't think it's coming back. The closest thing I can see is the Benchmarks page: [url]http://v5www.mersenne.org/report_benchmarks/[/url]

In any case, the old benchmarks page tended to give very optimistic estimates because it used the fastest reported times. You can get a more accurate estimate by opening the client, going to Advanced, and clicking on Time.

yeh I liked the piece of software they had on that page

How about this? :grin:

[url]http://web.archive.org/web/20071202234648/mersenne.org/bench.htm[/url]

I think there were a lot of things lost from the old web-pages that would be good to bring back. The benchmarks page is at the top of the list of the pages that I miss, but I also think that the general pages such as "FAQ", "The math", "Status", "History", and "Links" had much in them that caught the attention of potential new users. The new pages are generally adequate in most ways for those of us who have been around awhile, but I don't think that they are all that appealing to novices. If George or anyone else would like some help creating new versions of some of these pages, I would be happy to help.

[QUOTE=philmoore;154735]pages such as "FAQ", "The Math", "Status", "History", and "Links" had much in them that caught the attention of potential new users.[/QUOTE]

You will find most of these in the Menu on the left of the main page near the bottom under "About GIMPS"

The other part about estimating time (along with points calculation) is potentially referred to here ... read up to Post #7

[url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10937[/url]

[QUOTE=petrw1;154741]You will find most of these in the Menu on the left of the main page near the bottom under "About GIMPS"[/QUOTE]Yes, it is easily missed because it is all hidden behind further clicks [size=1]and completely hidden for non-JS users[/size].

[QUOTE=retina;154754]Yes, it is easily missed because it is all hidden behind further clicks and completely hidden for non-JS users.[/QUOTE]

The non-JS remark explains why I can't see it on my mother's computer. I found the history info under the "found twelve" link, but I can't see any of the others.

[QUOTE=philmoore;154763]The non-JS remark explains why I can't see it on my mother's computer. I found the history info under the "found twelve" link, but I can't see any of the others.[/QUOTE]In Opera they are expanded already.

Ok, I am home, using Mozilla Firefox with Javascript enabled, I still do not see the links. I do see them in the source html, but not in the browser version. Any suggestions? What do I have to do to see the links in Internet Explorer?