Old timers chime in....

[Assimilator1]

Wow that's a name I haven't heard in years! :Q ,yea he was a SETI big gun in the very early days.
I expect you'll see his name in my saved stats thread

And yes you can also search for user names in the search function for the forum.
I've just done a search for 'Wintermute' but I don't think that's exactly the right name, I'm sure the one we knew was a bloke & he signed on long before 2002.

Search here ,bottom of page.

 

[Smoke]

Wintermute Last Visited On: 4/4/2005 5:14:10 PM

 

[RaySun2Be]

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...

How could I NOT remember the Phantom Flusher :disgust::|

I ended up giving up my original RC5 account due to that #*(&*$*&Y#Y$ :|

I don't think any of us will ever let ViRGE forget the big dump day. hehe.

 

[Neurodog]

Thanks for the info guy's!

It would be cool to know how many times someone has logged in to the forums.

 

[Smoke]

Originally posted by: Neurodog
Thanks for the info guy's!

It would be cool to know how many times someone has logged in to the forums.

That info is not available, only last login and the number of posts.

For me, 7 years, 5 months or approximately 2,710 days @ 20 times a Day = 54,200 logins. :laugh:

 

[Insidious]

Jeeze YOU guys are OLD

 

[Assimilator1]

Finally found Wintermute in one of the old stats thread in 4-11th March 2000
I've jost gone through all the 2000 stat threads (phew!) & that is the only time wintermute shows up, I guess he/she was a 1 hit wonder?
From SETI classic Team stats page:-

917) wintermute ... 1433 ... 1.111 years ... 6 hr 47 min 35.9 sec ... Tue Apr 4 07:56:12 2000 ... Sweden
The stats threads around that date are missing.

Originally posted by: Smoke
Wintermute Last Visited On: 4/4/2005 5:14:10 PM

Like I said above, I think that's the wrong Wintermute [edit]yep ..............though their doesn't seem to be any others listed even if you just search for 'Winter'

As a test I did a search for 'Coffee_Freak' who hasn't been around for about 7yrs IIRC, the search came up with this:-
No users were found matching the author your entered. Please re-construct your search, and try again.
So I think that maybe the original Wintermute has also been deleted from the database.

Smoke
Do you know if they purge inactive users after a certain time?

 

[Neurodog]

I also remember when he had access to some big crunchers back in 2000.

Then he dissapeared.

 

[Neurodog]

Date Posted: Mar/11/2000 3:40 PM

Team Output........................ 483.2 wu's/day

1 wintermute............................ 55.8
2 DanStp................................. 40.3
3 The_One.............................. 30.6
4 AVG..................................... 22
5 vprime.................................. 19.7
6 nexus9................................. 18.6
7 Darkone............................... 17.7
8 Hellburner............................ 14.5
9 ColinP.................................. 13.5
10 Robor................................. 12.6
11 slimm................................. 11.6
12 Rellik Remag...................... 11.4
13 Draco.................................. 11.3
14 bazilla................................. 10.9
15 Neurodog............................ 10
==================================

Thanks for the memories!

Edit: Next year will already be the 10 year anniversary!

 

[Smoke]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1


Smoke
Do you know if they purge inactive users after a certain time?

Mark,

As far as I know the user base is never "cleaned". There is a possibility that when the AT software went through one of its changeovers (in the early days) some of the users (maybe the inactive ones) may have been dropped. I'll ask one of the "Admins" and see what they have to say.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Smoke

Originally posted by: Assimilator1


Smoke
Do you know if they purge inactive users after a certain time?

Mark,

As far as I know the user base is never "cleaned". There is a possibility that when the AT software went through one of its changeovers (in the early days) some of the users (maybe the inactive ones) may have been dropped. I'll ask one of the "Admins" and see what they have to say.

At one point about 2 years ago, the database was purged during a FuseTalk upgrade/downgrade depending on how you look at it. This was done by our previous FuseTalk admin and I am not sure as to what criteria he used to purge accounts.

Besides that purge, I am not aware of any additional purges being planned. We do not delete accounts/purge accounts after a pre-determined amount of inactivity.

 

[Spacehead]

How old is "old"?

Heck, i'm a newb compared to most of you

I didn't start my DC career until Jan. 2001 & it looks like i joined the TeAm on June 5, 2002.

I don't remember 486's or RC Phantom Flushers but i do remember this(& i know some of you do to):
TeAm TABOO's Past Recipients:
1) Sukhoi to 10K
2) Nexus9 to 10K
3) Coolkid to 5K
4) Curt Oien to 10K
5) Tetsuo316 to 10K
6) Slahr Dzhe to 10K
7) Dazmite to 10K
8) yswonder to 10K
9) Jalapeno(aka Chrisinelpaso) to 10K
10) helpme to 10K
11) Orange Kid to 10K
12) ravana to 10K
13) Robor to 200K:shocked:
14) CoolKid to 10K
15) TeamGundogs-Force to 10K
16) minendo to 20K
17) Michael and the Cuppies to 20K
18) Pyixs to 10K
19) cthulhu to 10K
20) shimmishim to 10K
21) Doc Brown to 5K
22) Furie27 to 5K
23) Assimilator1 to 40k (preferably before D1)
24) Team TaBoo to 1K
25) RigorousT(aka corky) to 10K
26) Doc Brown to 10K
27) Silverpig to 10K <-- under stealth mode :evil:
28) Migroo - Team Anandtech to 10K
29) Neurodog to 10K
30) BobTheWizard to 5K
31) cavdraco to 10K
32) Scorch to 10K
33) esko to 10K - RIP esko

34) kamper to 10K
35) Eltano to 10K
36) Hurricane Andrew to 10K
37) BespinReactorShaft to 10K

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks Smoke & minendo for the help .

minendo
Longtime no speak! ,hows things? still crunching?
Good to see you here anyway

SH
Yea I remember TaBoo ,I have the entire thread saved too!
Some day we'll bring it out of retirement .

I wonder where Mgallik is?, MIA about 2 1/2yrs?

 

[MoFunk]

WOW, look at all these old timers...... Been a long time since I have posted anything here. How are ya'll?

 

[RaySun2Be]

/me waves at MoFunk!

Long time no see, how are YOU doing?

New job, new city, new state, same wife and kids.

 

[Wolfie]

What up MoFunk? Great to see all these "old timers" back around.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Thanks Smoke & minendo for the help .

minendo
Longtime no speak! ,hows things? still crunching?
Good to see you here anyway

Of course, currently running Seti and Folding@Home. I haven't been as active crunching as I have been in the past as I have sold off most of my extra computers.

 

[Assimilator1]

Good to hear .

MoFunk
Good to see you too .

 

[MoFunk]

Originally posted by: RaySun2Be
/me waves at MoFunk!

Long time no see, how are YOU doing?

New job, new city, new state, same wife and kids.

/me waves back, and then around at everybody else.

I am doing well, how bout you?

Same job (just tons more responsibility), same city and state, same wife and kids (so far).

Kids are getting older and into sports, keeping me running around everywhere. The job is just exploding, and that keeps me about 99% busy during the day now.

 

[Spacehead]

Nice to see ya pop in MoFunk

Glad to hear things are going well.

 

[Captain_Rob]

Who are you calling an old timer? (actually I was suprised my account was still active)

I haven't posted here in several years, but this used to be my home away from home. I haven't done much crunching myself since shortly after the RC5-64 challenge ended.

I still lurk around here once in awhile, so maybe well chat later.

 

[Assimilator1]

Well theirs plenty of projects to choose from these days , I'm sure you'd find one that would interest you .

 

[billandopus]

Hell, I login to AT just to look up "oldtimer'

Kids, mortgage, work and life in general takes up most of my time. Hope all the "oldtimers" here are doing great.

I thought of AT just a few mins ago while persusing another forum and found "Jokersmoker" posting a deal, not sure if it was the original one from the old AT Hot Deals days ... but it brought back memories of Value America and all that craziness.

Anyways, i'll post again ... maybe in 4-5 months. Hahaha.

 

[Markfw]

I was posting on AT in 2000 under a different name (I can't remember, hence the new login). In ~2002 I joined and did DC, but not as heavy as lately. I have been really addicted as of late:

Click me

 

[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