Some readers of the Sector may have noticed the lack of contributions by certain members of the community. For the last month I have been suffering the worst of nerd horrors. I have been without internet since August 12th. That’s right, over 30 days of phone calls, missed appointments and bureaucratic red tape and I still have not secured an internet connection. Furthermore, my neighbors finally passworded their home network (their ssid is a lovingly unique ‘linksys’) a week and a half into my ordeal. I’m currently writing this post from the not quite comfort of my friendly neighborhood library after a cross town hike and having spent several hours attempting to wade through rss feeds reaching back several weeks. On the bright side, I’ve finally made some headway and Its looking like my journey should be resolved this week.
On a side note, has anyone noticed that the mathematics world is all a twitter about the discovery of the 45th and 46th mersenne primes. Verifications of the 45th has finished and the 46th has been verified by 2 of the 3 outside sources. The discovery should be officially announced coming within the next week. Its been close to 2 years since the 44th (sept 2006) was discovered and it appears that at least one of the newly discovered primes might break the 10 million digit mark (and earn the founder a cool $100K . So this weekend, I’m raising a Guinness to large primes and the powers of distributed computing.
Cox Cable? What’s the issue? Why has it taken so long? I guess you can wait until you get internet to respond to this.