Hey guys,

In a nutshell: I'm back! (Some of you may not know who I am. That's okay. I'm David Norris, the "other" guy behind SB. I usually like to hide behind Louie and let him take the blame for my screwups.) I'm getting settled in at a new job, we've got a new prime under our belt, and life is good.

Firstly I want to congratulate everybody. While I've been hiding, it looks like a very large number of people here have been doing some very great things with the project -- improving sieving and factoring, to name a few -- not to mention finding primes! I'm really impressed and I'm glad people (most of them, anyway) are having fun with the project.

Now to the point. I'd love to hear about "unusual client installations." What's the strangest environment in which you guys have gotten the client to run? Clusters, on shared filesystems, on embedded devices, whatever. The stranger and less "well-supported" the better. What kind of trouble did you run into? What hurdles did you have to jump to get the thing to work for you?

An obvious question is, "why do you ask?" For the most part I'm gonna dodge that question -- for now. I'd like very much, though, to stick around for a while and see where I can help out around here.

Thanks to Mike, our excellent sysadmin, I've got a new email address to use for SB-related issues: danorris@seventeenorbust.com. But post your "unusual installations" here on the forums, unless there's something you think you need to talk to me or Louie about privately.

Cheers!
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David Norris
danorris@seventeenorbust.com