... if you take your laptop with wireless LAN with you to the toilet when you are reading these threads.:blush:

If you go through your logs with a fine tooth comb trying to figure out if you reported a prime on 17 November 2003....

(Dang it, I reported on on the 16'th - but it had a factor).

9-)

You do an LL test on M(5) in your head when you can't fall asleep, or as a distraction when giving blood.

If residence rules say you have to unplug your computer over Christmas break (it's a fire hazard), so you start figuring out how to make it look like your computer isn't plugged in when it isn't.

(Corollary: If you get annoyed when your roommate turns your computer off when you go home over Thanksgiving.)

Both of these have happened to me.

...if you were on a trip and you mailed the results of your 13M Exponent to yourself :help: .

(My Notebook completed an LL test on the trip. I wanted to make double sure i didn't lose it.)

...if everytime you go to the UK you insist on driving at least a couple of miles along the M40, even it if means getting out of your way, just for the feeling of "having found M40":alien: ...
(No, I´m not guilty... I´m not such a hopeless case, although...:whistle: )

Actually the whole Ars Technica OpenForum has moved server. The new link for that particular thread is : [url]http://episteme.arstechnica.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=122097561&m=1650910435[/url]

It is also available as a random quote on the Ars Technica Food Court site : [url]http://www.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php[/url]

PM

... you build yourself a system with 1.5GB of RAM to do all the P-1 work for your farm.

... you do your own concurrent double checks of your 79M numbers on a seperate machine.

... you go to work on Saturday morning just to be sure that your work machine will stay turned on during the weekend, running Prime95 of course.


-- just did that -- :whistle:

You've managed to discover so many Mersenne primes that when someone says "M13466917", people don't know if he's talking about the 13466917th Mersenne prime, or just 2[sup]13466917[/sup] - 1.

Yeah, I know it was dumb...

... even though you know that the line you just thought up for the "You just might be addicted to GIMPS if... " thread is dumb, you post it anyway because you trust that your fellow GIMPSters will understand and forgive you. :)