Site News Archive
In this archive you'll find all of the Site News published on the Home page of this website since its launch. Everything archived here relates either to all of the Lyndenlea websites, or just to this site in particular. For Site News specific to another Lyndenlea website please see the Site News Archive on that site. Note that the archive is arranged in chronological order, so the most recent news in a particular year can be found at the end of the page.
Site News 2013
Thursday, 10th January 2013
- I've added to the solution counts on the Home page the date and time accompanying each cube's current totals. I fully intend to continue the daily updates to these figures, but every so often technology fails me and an update is either delayed or missed altogether, so at least now you'll all know when that happens. Very soon I'll also be virtualising the computer that's currently chewing on the 35³ cube, so that cube's processing will be paused until I decide whether my one remaining computer – which will become an occasional host for the virtual machine – can comfortably support both cubes.
Saturday, 16th February 2013
- After continuing to suffer an unending stream of spam email through my website, in spite of the blacklist I set up in November 2009 and maintained until two years ago (hands up all those who guessed I'd soon get bored with that approach!), I've finally succumbed to the inevitability of the Turing Test. All the feedback and error reporting forms on the Lyndenlea websites now include one that I hope remains as accessible as possible while still foxing those pesky spam-bots, and to test it properly I've temporarily disabled my entire blacklist, so it had better work!
- And just to update you all on my computer reorganisation that I mentioned on 10th January – in the end I didn't need to virtualise my second computer (which has been retired as planned), and my remaining computer seems more than happy to chew both the 35³ and 37³ cubes, so for the time being all will continue as before, albeit somewhat faster in the case of the 35³ cube. The daily updates of the solution counts, however, are now triggered manually rather than automatically, so the update times will most likely vary from day to day.
Wednesday, 30th October 2013
- A couple of seconds after 23:15 yesterday the 37³ cube generated its 1,000th solution! This is particularly incredible considering it only found the 104th solution on 11th October this year, and until that point (apart from a few short flurries) spent nearly two years trundling along at an average of a few solutions per month. I honestly have no idea how many solutions we might find in this cube – the first layer still only contains Board No.14 out of 1,258 so there's still a long way to go – but needless to say we look forward to finding out.
- Meanwhile, we're still yet to see any solutions for the 35³ cube. This is only the second cube we've searched whose size is neither a prime number nor divisible by three, and the first of these – the 25³ cube – contained no solutions at all, so there's a fair chance we won't find any here either...
