Joined Team Anandtech RC5!

[AppleTalking]

Well, the guys over in the motherboard forum were so nice in helping me get my new Duron 750 built that I figured I'd repay the favor and join Team Anandtech. I've actually been cracking RC5 for almost two years, but I've never joined a team before. As you can see from my stats, that means I'm bringing over 360,000 blocks with me. I typically crunch about 3,000-4,000 blocks a day, but that is about to go through the roof (read on). My "herd" is as follows:

1 G3/266 (my nickname isn't AppleTalking for nothing ) on 24/7 at home
8 G3/233 iMacs on weekends at school
1 Celeron 400@450 on 24/7 at school
1 Duron 750@800 on 24/7 at school
7 P5/100 machines on 24/7 at school

This last group though, will change to 7 Duron 750@800 in a couple of weeks, as I finally convinced them to give me the $4500 to build the machines! So by February, I should be turning in about 10,000 blocks a day. I'll be updating my school machines to use the teamanandtech.com pproxy on Monday. In any case, I just wanted to drop a friendly "hello." I hope my (relatively) meager contribution will be helpful. Go TeAm!

Nick Klingaman
appletalking@home.com

edit: fixed some spelling/grammar mistakes

 

[Adul]

Way to go apple talking Welcome to TA~!!!

 

[Train]

wow, impressive, very nice!

welcome to the team!!!

 

[TwoFace]

Welcome to the TeAm AppleTalking

Love to have ya on board... let us know if you need any help at all, and I guarantee you'll get more info in 2 hours than you'll know what to do with

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[Engineer]

Welcome aboard the best team going! Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[JWMiddleton]

Hi AppleTalking and welcome to the TeAm!!

BTW Nice herd!

 

[dkappos]

Welcome to the TeAm Apple Talking

 

[Polo]

A contribution to the TeAm is never a meager contribution...
And yours seems to be a big one !

Welcome to the TeAm AppleTalking !

 

[JHutch]

Meager!?! What have you guys been telling people is "average"?

3-4k a day is impressive, 10k is downright awe-inspiring for a single person!

Welcome to the team, AppleTalking!

JHutch

 

[Hawkeye_(BEL)]

Welcome to the team AppleTalking. We always appreciate this kind of contributions

 

[Russ]

AppleTalking,

We love you, man!

Russ, NCNE

 

[nickdakick]

Yummie apples !
Damn..... Apple pooters.
Welcome to the TeAm man.

 

[kranky]

Welcome to the TeAm, AppleTalking! Great herd you have there, man.

 

[IsOs]

Good to hear you're now part of Team AnandTech. WELCOME!

 

[AppleTalking]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys! My school gets a lot of donated machines from a local company and I am in charge of finding them homes in the various classrooms. I wish I had access to all of the school's computers since there are about 50 iMacs and a whole lab full of P3 500s, but the "security" software prevents it. It's ridiculous if you ask me; the machines are just sitting there at a login prompt for most of the day. But anyway, I heard rumors that we may be getting half a dozen P2 350s (or was it K6-2 350s? need more sleep) in the next week. I love my job! Thanks again for the welcome, I look forward to making a contribution!

Nick Klingaman
appletalking@home.com

 

[DanC]

What "Security" software are we talking about????

 

[AppleTalking]

DanC: I know they run Novell on the P3 500s as well as another lab of Pentium 233MMXs that I forgot to mention. On the iMacs they're running Apple's Network Assistant or some such. I wish I was in a position to ask for permission to run RC5 on them, but I don't think that it would go over too well. The school system has policies on these things; they're strictly to be used for the Pascal and C++ programming classes. Like I said, they mainly sit there and display a login prompt all day. Heck, these guys get mad if you check your email on the machines! <imitates computer science teacher> Oooh . . . e-mail . . .baaaad. </imitates CS teacher> The people that are in charge of these machines don't know Windows 98 from Windows NT (I'm serious, they asked me once). They'd probably think RC5 was some kind of conspiracy to coordinate gang activities or something. This is just typical school policy: put a computer in every classroom, but don't let anybody use it for anything productive. The &quot;media center specialists&quot; (read: librarians) actually have been known to stand over the printers and watch how much people are printing out. Sorry to get off on a tangent like this, but the whole thing's just ridiculous. I'm in charge of the science department's machines though, and all of them are currently cracking away!

Nick Klingaman
appletalking@home.com

 

[lane42]

Nick, if you have any machines to throw at seti let us know.

 

[RaySun2Be]

Welcome to Team Anandtech, AppleTalking!

Nice herd too!

 

[GSmith]

Appletalk,
Network assistant isn't actually a security program. It is a monitoring and remote control program. It's been helpful for me to catch hackers in the system in the school district where I work though. We use a program called FoolProof to protect the systems, but more than once when I've been doing a software install to remote machines or using it to remove some kid's failed attemt to install AOL on one of the systems (FoolProof can lock certain programs or lock everything but what you specify) I've noticed kids trying to randomly enter passwords in foolproof and been able to lock their terminal and go right to where they are to &quot;talk&quot; to them with their teacher. Scares the crap out of them And I switched to the computer field from law enforcement, so I'm no stranger to interview and interrogation techniques I have lots of fun tricking them into admitting they were trying to hack my network.

Anyway, welcome to the team!

 

[RC5Bri]

Great to have you on the team! That will be an awesome herd once it is up and running.

Welcome to the TeAm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Viztech]

Welcome to the TeAm!

I am the volunteer admin at a school as well. Luckily, I have complete control over all but the office machines, so I run the Dnet client on everything. My biggest complaint is that most fast machines get turned off, keeping production down.

On Winblows machines, installing the client as a service gets around the 'not logged in' problem, but getting the proper permissions is the main item. Seti may be an alternative because of the science angle.

Great to see those Durons in the works!

viz

 

[dennilfloss]

Welcome to the TeAm! Enjoy the ride!