Originally posted by: Viztech
Originally posted by: Wolfie
OK, who remembers the Phantom Flusher? No wait, ViRGE? Care to explain your mass upload a few years back? hehe I am sure someone has the IRC logs somewhere...
Oh man, that was fun!
Various members would conspire to put a cow or two, or ten crunching someone's account, then flush all at once! I think I was the beneficiary once.
I ran a couple herds of 486s crunching RC5 and OGR.
One at the school where I volunteered and another at my workplace.
It was nice when we got them on a network so I didn't have to sneakernet. Shared the buffers until you would get a file lock when two machines hit at the same time. Then I setup a proxy server. I had to sneakernet the proxy until I got access to a phone line and could flush over a 14.4 modem.
Aww, those were the days!
How about CrackRacks? I used to heat my basement with one.
/viz waves at the other oldtimers