Hehe, guess what I found:
Logs from that night.
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<LD_UT> Hey Guys
<ccalvert> WOW!!!
<jator> holy $h!t
<jator> I mean $h!t
<LD_UT> what?
<ccalvert> Have you been submitting fake blocks or something?
<ccalvert> Look at what maggie found.
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<BurntKooshie> DAMN!
<ccalvert>
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/plist.php3?low=1&limit=100&source=y
<BurntKooshie> ViRGE?
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<BurntKooshie> have you been holding back on us?
<hutch> The joys of an NT network.
<jator> Damn
<jator> Nothing on Mika's though
<Lord_Demios> Um, ViRGE.... What client version are your REALLY running?
<ccalvert> How did you get so many blocks.
<ccalvert> Have you been saving for a few years?
<BurntKooshie> you get that from the ruskies?
<BurntKooshie> he's only been on fer a year...hymmmm.
<ccalvert> that must be like the greatest dump of all time.
<ccalvert> Yeah...
<ViRGE> I was using 451 until about 2pm PST today, when I switched to .455
<ViRGE> WTF
<ccalvert> Maybe there is a bug in the client?
<jator> Damn, let me switch right now!!!
<Lord_Demios> Damn downloading .455 now
<ccalvert> Something to do with the switch to rc5?
<BurntKooshie> i'm there!
<hutch> yeah, Lord D, that's the client to have
<ViRGE> Thoes arn't mine
<Lord_Demios> Must be. How long have you had that one?
<maggie> hahaha
<ccalvert> Maybe when it switched, it goofed or something?
<jator> huh?
<Lord_Demios> (Bphantom) Damn BP is speechless
<ViRGE> I don't know
<ccalvert> What the heck is going on?
<jator> Let me check my stats!
<Lord_Demios> Geez, ViRGE D.net's goin have you posted as a fake cracker!!!!
<jator> Uh oh
<hutch> I know Lord D. and Bphantom are actually 1 person
<ViRGE> I can't trace it either, as it didn't come through the pproxy
<hutch>
<jator> Dons't that count against the whole team?
<ViRGE> Ya, I think I might be fake
<ccalvert> Yeah, they could take down our team or something.
<ccalvert> NO!!!
<ViRGE> I'm speechless right now though, that's a lot of blocks
<BurntKooshie> ;(
<ccalvert> No kidding.
<jator> Hmm, I have about 2,000 more blocks than I'm supposed to.
<Lord_Demios> Just what we need ViRGE, you go ahead and hack the client!!!!!
<BurntKooshie> you beat the rabit even
<jator> I wonder if the Stats box is screwed up again?
<ccalvert> It could be.
* maggie and hutch are smiling big right now
<ViRGE> Mabey
<BurntKooshie> ViRGE, i didn't know 14 year olds could hack like that!
<ccalvert> There is going to be hell to pay if it is.
<ViRGE> Ok Maggie, what did you and Hutch do?!
* maggie is innocent
* BurntKooshie is innocent
<BurntKooshie> ViRGE, what did you do?
<jator> Really, did someone crack the client?
<BurntKooshie> seriously
<ccalvert> No kidding.
<Lord_Demios> Maybe the Union Of Cracking GOds are trying to frame you?
<ccalvert> It is a distint possibility.
<BurntKooshie> that's unfathomable for you to do that
<ccalvert> Or /. !
<jator> We can get in a lot of trouble if someone did on our team!
<BurntKooshie> i know!
<ccalvert> Yeah.
<ViRGE> I don't know, but I didn't have anything to do with that
<BurntKooshie> ViRGE, what'd you do!
<Lord_Demios> Or if they covered their tracks and made it look like ViRGE
<ViRGE> I wish I knew
<hutch> Yeah, probably /.
<ViRGE> I'll post on the BBS and ask what's up
<Lord_Demios> 271 THOUSAND blocks is not easy to hide!!!! /. want's our a$s
<ccalvert> They probably figure that it is the only way to beet us in the long run.
<jator> Virge, you probably should e-mail Dnet about this!
<ViRGE> Humm, those stats are from the 15th
<maggie> Virge, did it ever occur to you should just say "thank you"?
<BurntKooshie> so......? i don't get it....
<jator> Tell them you had nothing to do with it!
<hutch> those are the 16th stats, they just are not complete yet
<ccalvert> I wouldn't say thank you to something like this.
<ccalvert> This could bring down the whole team.
* BurntKooshie cries
<Lord_Demios> Maybe it was a bug in the box. We will know later tonight when it's done!!!1
<BurntKooshie> no team anandtech
<ViRGE> I want to know what's up, if it's a present, I'm very thanksful, but 271K, that could ring a bell or two at Dnet
<Lord_Demios> No team.anandtech.com
<ccalvert> No kidding.
<BurntKooshie>
<hutch> why, what's your daily output Virge?
<Lord_Demios> You tell us ViRGE? DO you really not know about this?
<ViRGE> I didn't know about it until Maggie told me
<Lord_Demios> (Have you been saving????????)
<ccalvert> Told you what?
<BurntKooshie> !!!!!! what'd you assimilate?
<hutch> She saw my screen when I pulled up the stats.
<jator> He couldn't of saved that many blocks
<BurntKooshie> thta buffer would be huge!
<ViRGE> No, I haven't been saving, and I don't have any new machines
<Lord_Demios> It took me 2 months to get TMR to save up 80K!!!!!!!
<jator> Would be too many duplicates
<hutch> Well, it looks like he hasn't been turning in that many lately, maybe he's been hoarding
<ccalvert> I don't know anyone who could crack that many blocks in one day.
<ccalvert> They would have to be fake.
<ViRGE> Mabey Dmcowen saved?
<Lord_Demios> Damn Fake ones mean some is mad at US!!!!!!
<jator> Didn't the russian team have some fake blocks at one time?
<ccalvert> I have heard of hording, but over 270,000?
<ViRGE> It's just crazy
<ccalvert> I think that it was another group seperate from the russian team.
<hutch> Can't they be traced?
<Lord_Demios> They could be Framming us!!!!!
<ccalvert> I don't know.
<BurntKooshie> i've heard of huge ones from smith@panix
<Lord_Demios> Not if the log files are nuked!!!!!
<BurntKooshie> but that's just cause he has soooooo many 'puters
<ccalvert> Yeah, but why would he be giving ViRGE blocks?
<BurntKooshie> true....
<ViRGE> We'll have to ask on the BBS first, mabey this was a presnt
<BurntKooshie> from who?
<BurntKooshie> who has that much power?
<Lord_Demios> Because ViRGE posts on Anandtech the most to tell us to Smash the SLASH
<ViRGE> If not, Dnet will need to do some tracking
<ccalvert> I doubt it. I dont know of anyone who could do this.
<BurntKooshie> no one person on the team, cept jonb could do that.....right?
<ccalvert> yeah, he is always giving ./ verbal abuse.
<ccalvert> This could be payback.
<jator> This is almost a days worth for /.org
<ViRGE> Ya, JonB and Dmcown have the only herds with that kind of power
<jator> They have been sliding the last few days
<ccalvert> I don't even know if they could do it.
<BurntKooshie> and jonb's been doing CSC, you can see his stats
<ViRGE> We'll have to see how the team total is
<BurntKooshie> he's been doing it right along.....
<BurntKooshie> hymmmmm
<ccalvert> This is beyond mander in it's scope.
<jator> No, I mean /.org
<ViRGE> If it's above 700K, then something is wrong
<jator> What's above 700k?
<ViRGE> Our team's total
<hutch> hey, you're right, maybe they're pissed at the "smash the /." slogan
<BurntKooshie>
<ccalvert> That would be one theory.
<BurntKooshie> that would not be cool
<ViRGE> It might be, it just might be
<ccalvert> We are nubmer one.
<ViRGE> Ya
<jator> How soon til tem stats show up?
<jator> team
<ccalvert> I get "Team not known" when I try to check the team page. Could they have deleted us for fake blocks already?
<hutch> I think the stats box will be done very soon
<ViRGE> Sometime after 9:30 probably
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<DStroth-HL> hi all
<ViRGE> Hey DStroth
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<BurntKooshie> hey DS
*** X sets mode: +o DStroth
<ViRGE> We have a major mystery on our hands, read
http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/plist.php3?low=1&limit=100&source=y
<ccalvert> DStroth, something is up with VIRGE's stats!
<maggie> hi dsroth
<BurntKooshie> it's insane!
<DStroth> uhoh!
<BurntKooshie> who'd do that DS
<ccalvert> We think that it might be /.
<BurntKooshie> we need to find out!
<ViRGE> And put an ephisis on the word up
<BurntKooshie> ;p
<BurntKooshie> emphasis?
<DStroth> hehe
<BurntKooshie> ;p
<ViRGE> Ok, i can't spell
<ccalvert> Something is very wrong here.
<jator> Might have something to do wih the writting block?
<maggie> Y2K?
<ViRGE> No, too late for Y2K
<DStroth> you never know...
<maggie> naw... the news said things could show up as late as March
<ccalvert> I am guessing it is some bug from the clients switching over.
<DStroth> yeah
<BurntKooshie> cause of the leap year
<ViRGE> It could be
<BurntKooshie> i learned 'bout taht when i learned how to program
<ViRGE> Oh well, I have the page saved on my computer, so I'll allways remember it
<jator> ok, I have the new client installed
<BurntKooshie> ;p
<BurntKooshie> how many have you done yet jator?
<BurntKooshie> 100k yet?
<jator> Virge, check out your logs to see if their is an erro!
<jator> 211,000
<ccalvert> I have been hearing about clients hanging durring the switch, this might be another side efect.
<ViRGE> Out of 100K people, why would I get the odd number though?
<ccalvert> I don't know.
<ccalvert> Maybe you had the lowest stats before
<BurntKooshie> hymmmm
<maggie> lol ccalvert
<ViRGE> I wasn't that low ccalvert, I was 2nd lowest
<jator> What does your client say for your keyrate?
<DStroth> hehe
<ccalvert> I have heard of moving on up, but this is crazy.
<BurntKooshie> who was lowest?
<DStroth> i think i'll get back to my game
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<BurntKooshie> lol
<ccalvert> Okay.
<hutch> well, it's good advertisement for the team while it lasts, even if you are disqualified
<DStroth-HL> but i'll pop in every few minutes
<ccalvert> Yeah.
<ViRGE> 321.15 kkeys/sec average right now jay
<BurntKooshie> uh huh
<ViRGE> But I can benchmark at 425kkey/sec
<jator> hmm, doesn't sound like the client then.
<ccalvert> are you sure that you shouldn't move that decimal place over a few notches?
<BurntKooshie> why is it that the benchmarks are faster?
<maggie> yeah, it was nice knowing you, Virge
<BurntKooshie> even with a higher priority thread.....
<ccalvert> I think that they are run at normal priority.
<maggie> you took one for the team anyway, we will remember that
<BurntKooshie> CC
<ccalvert> Yeah.
<BurntKooshie> it doesn't work that way
<ViRGE> My average is somewhat low becuase I have an MP3 running in the background
<BurntKooshie> even when i leave it doing nothing for hours, it never gets taht high
<hutch> Virge, my MP3 player doesn't even peg 1% usage on my computers???!
<ViRGE> Ya, but I have a PMMX200
<BurntKooshie> geeze!
<maggie> so what are you going to do with all this newly acquired free time?
<BurntKooshie> it takes up 18 % on average on mine
<ViRGE> I get 30% CPU usage on average
<ccalvert> Sometimes, when I have the computer doing something, a screen saver will seem to run faster for some reason. Could this be the same thing?
<BurntKooshie> a year ago i was doing a review....but that fell through.....but that was one of the things i was testing
<ccalvert> Did you ask on the forum yet?
<ViRGE> No, I doubt this is related to screen saves calvert
<ViRGE> I'masking right now
<jator> masking?
<ccalvert> This is just too crazy.
<jator> oh...asking.
<jator> sorry
<hutch> I just did a WinAmp test with an MP3, it didn't even register on NT's task manager....
<maggie> I watched him, too
<BurntKooshie> damn you
<BurntKooshie> that's not fair!
<hutch> yeah, well she can't tell what she's looking at
<maggie> WHATEVER
<BurntKooshie> LOL!
<maggie> I know exactly what I am looking at thank you very much
* BurntKooshie ducks away from any possible fued
* maggie slaps hutch around a bit with a large trout
<hutch> hmmm, trout
* ccalvert screems at the sight of flying fish.
* BurntKooshie hides
<BurntKooshie> ViRGE, so when're you goign to post this?
<jator> Yeah, how do you post something like this?!?
<ViRGE> Posted
<ccalvert> Carefuly..
<ccalvert> Major stats problem is right!
<DStroth-HL> hehe
<DStroth-HL> this is definently strange...
<maggie> has anything happened like this before?
<jator> Whatr's the HL stand for?
<DStroth-HL> Half-Life
<jator> ah
<ViRGE> Never, maggie
<BurntKooshie> ViRGE, edit your post
<BurntKooshie> make it a real lin
<BurntKooshie> link
<maggie> wow... imagine... out of ALL the people cracking... this happened to YOU!
<ViRGE> Ahh, I keep forgetting that
<DStroth-HL>
<BurntKooshie> i bet it was /.
<BurntKooshie> you our out for blood with them on the BBS
<ccalvert> Yeah. You are always bashing them ViRGE
<jator> Hey...who was that guy from SysOpt who was squating?!?
<jator> He doesn't like us!!
<BurntKooshie> and what was teh final verdict on it?
<ViRGE> Naa, it couldn't have been Brendan
<BurntKooshie> Good.
<jator> I wonder if he is able to crack the client?
<BurntKooshie> i hate to see peoople doing that
<BurntKooshie> but then who was it?
<ViRGE> No, he doesn't hodl anything against me
<Lord_Demios> Yeah, but he said he didn't sit on the web page name either!!!!!!
<BurntKooshie> did he?
<Lord_Demios> So who set him up might have planned this for you ViRGE!!!!!
<jator> Good point
<BurntKooshie> arg! I don't want the team banned!
<ccalvert> Maybe it is some sort of large conspericy like you would see on the X-Files
<ViRGE> All I know is this, someone set Brendan up, and I'm being set up too
<BurntKooshie> ;p
<jator> X-files sucked tonight
<BurntKooshie> i didn't see it
<Lord_Demios> I think it's a fluke in the stats box. They will find it.. Look at the logs and fix it!!!
<BurntKooshie> i was doing HW.....
<maggie> lol jator... was to play the tangent ;P
<jator> Yeah, nothing showed up on Mikas
<ViRGE> Mabey I won some sort of prize?
<Lord_Demios> Awmygwad.... That is an Xfiles..... BK doing HW!!!!
<BurntKooshie> hymmmmmm
<jator>
<BurntKooshie> LOL!
<BurntKooshie> i do plenty of HW thank you
<ccalvert> I don't know.
<BurntKooshie> AP classes are fun, but require actual thought
<BurntKooshie> so who would set you up VIRGE? we have /.
<BurntKooshie> who else?
<hutch> hey, Maggie got disconnected!!!
<ccalvert> Bkehoe, but I doubt it was him.
<hutch> and she's on the server I am being fed from, HAHA!
<ViRGE> I have no real enemies, so I don't know who set me up
<BurntKooshie> what about dcypher?
<BurntKooshie> you don't often sound to happy 'bout them.........
<BurntKooshie> that would be bad publicity if it got out, but you speak so much
<ccalvert> There is Mycroft, but I don't think that he has anything against us.
<ViRGE> No, I haven't said anything bad about them in their face
<BurntKooshie> yes, i know that
<BurntKooshie> but you haven't supported them either
<ViRGE> Very true
<ViRGE> But still, they gain nothing from this
<jator> Why would Mycroft give Virge blocks if he's mad at him
<ccalvert> There has been some mud slinging, but I doubt it is them.
<ViRGE> Mycroft doesn't even know me
<ccalvert> Yeah, he just knows JonB I supose.
<jator> Somebody had to have cracked the client
<BurntKooshie> but....
<ccalvert> Are you sure that you downloaded the client from the D-NET servers ViRGE?
<ViRGE> Ya, I did
<BurntKooshie> any trojans of it?
<BurntKooshie> i've heard of a few of those....
<ccalvert> Probably, that is why I asked.
<jator> Tojans on the Dnet clients?
<BurntKooshie> yeah
<BurntKooshie> yep
<Lord_Demios> Where did you download this "Update" to the client... And are you sure it really is a proper update?
<ViRGE> Nope, I haven't picked up any programs in the last few days next to the client
<jator> Hmm, didn't know about that
<ViRGE>
http://www.distributed.net/download/updates.html
<BurntKooshie> that's where you got it?
<Lord_Demios> Is your ISP's DNS server ok?
<ViRGE> Ya, @home's DNS is fine
<ccalvert> Yeah, I never thought of a DNS hack.
<ViRGE> Besides, my cow goes through Mika
<ccalvert> Hmm...
<ccalvert> Then I guess it couldn't have came from your client.
<ccalvert> It would have to be something else.
<jator> I wonder if somehow all of Mika's proxy was somehow put under your name?
<ccalvert> No, I doubt that could be it.
<ccalvert> I dobut that Mika's entire proxy could pump out that many blocks.
<ccalvert> Then again, I could be wrong.
<jator> What's our total coming from Mika today?
<ViRGE> 225653
<jator> Maybe we should e-mail Mika
<jator> Close..
<ccalvert> Hi could atleat check his logs.
<jator> ...still 50,000 blocks off
<ccalvert> Even if it was Mika's it still wouldn't be enough.
<Lord_Demios> I dumped 57 thousand today and Had and error durring it!!!!
<Lord_Demios> My pproxy died with a blue screen.!!!!
<BurntKooshie> so the only possible suspect so far is some anonymous person from /.?
<ccalvert> I don't believe in coincidence allowing mika's and 50,000 other blocks to screw up, so I think that we can eliminate that possibility.
<jator> What kind of error?
<Lord_Demios> Killed my PROXY and my BOX
<jator> ah
<Lord_Demios> (Um your welcome ViRGE if I broke it)
<ViRGE> Ya, /. is/are the only people capible of this, and have a motive
<ViRGE> Heh
<BurntKooshie>
<ccalvert> Yeah, I doubt that it was a brake in the pproxy software causing ld's and mika's to all dump to you.
<ccalvert> it must be /.
<ccalvert> I think that their only motive could be framing.
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<ViRGE> Should we head over to #distributed and talk to a admin?
<BurntKooshie> do tehy even have a BBS for distributed stuff?
<BurntKooshie> nah
<BurntKooshie> we should wait, and see what others on the BBS might have to say
<ViRGE> No, they don't have a BBS that I'm aware of
<ccalvert> I don't think so, but they have a bbs for each post I think.
<BurntKooshie> that's what i thought
<ViRGE> Ya, I think you're right BK
<BurntKooshie> so how would they organize this?
<ccalvert> If they did it in one post, we might not notice it.
<ccalvert> I think that they posted about CSC being cracked. It could have been done in there.
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<BurntKooshie> hymmmmmm
<ccalvert> You should check the article and its comments ViRGE.
<BurntKooshie> search it for anandtech
<BurntKooshie> and ViRGE
<ccalvert> Yeah.
<BurntKooshie> or anything else suspicous
<ViRGE> I can't find the article
<ViRGE> NEver mind, found it
<ccalvert> Okay.
<jator> Wish I could help to find the cause of this...
<BurntKooshie> and?
<jator> but I have to work tommorow
<jator> Let me know what you guys find out.
<Lord_Demios> Bye Jator
<BurntKooshie> bye jator!
<ccalvert> Bye Jay
<BurntKooshie> so ViRGE, what's in the discussion of the article?
<ViRGE>
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/16/0033225&mode=thread
<BurntKooshie> arg
<BurntKooshie> i read all those AP lit books
<BurntKooshie> and you want me to read more!
<BurntKooshie> ;p
* BurntKooshie is heading out to read it
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<ViRGE> I couldn't find anything mentioning Anandtech
<ViRGE> Hey maggie
<maggie> whew!! disconnected
<ccalvert> If I know the way that their replies are orginized, it could take for ever
<ccalvert> Welcome back Maggie.
<maggie> one of the ISP's phone numbers just dropped out
<BurntKooshie>
<BurntKooshie> i've had that happen 'roudn here too
<BurntKooshie> i've been lucky tonight though!
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<maggie> so what did I miss?
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<ccalvert> We are sure it is /.
<ccalvert> We are looking for something in a reply in the CSC announcement. They would have had to orginize for this much power.
<ccalvert>
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/16/0033225&mode=thread
<Lord_Demios> No one else could be mad and have the power to do it. It has to be /.!!!!
<ccalvert> Yeah.
<BurntKooshie> does this mean you'll go back a little ViRGE?
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<BurntKooshie> meaning, not being so "thrashing" about em?
<hutch> whoops, just X'd maggies MIRC
<ViRGE> No, I'll thrash them until the end of time!
<BurntKooshie> Good!
<maggie> grrrrrrrrr
<BurntKooshie> that's teh spirit ViRGE!
<ccalvert> Yeah... this could me ment as a message to you.
<ccalvert> wb maggie
<maggie> Hutch, keep your hands on your own computer!
<ccalvert> lol
<Lord_Demios> heheheh
<hutch> that's IS my computer
<Lord_Demios> Hey ViRGE keep doing it. Maybe we will pass /. faster!!!!!
<BurntKooshie> as winston Churchil said: "Never give up. Never give up. Never give up."
<maggie> hahahahahaha TYPO!!!
<BurntKooshie> ;p
<ViRGE>
<ViRGE> Oh well, at least this keeps me from working
<BurntKooshie> ;p
<ccalvert> Yeah.
<BurntKooshie> distractions are nice
<ccalvert> Especialy 270,000 block distractions
<BurntKooshie> any ideas when the stats will finish?
<ViRGE> Hey maggie, read
http://anandforums.gisystech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=107209
<ViRGE> No clue BK
<BurntKooshie> changes nightly, doesn't it?
<maggie> ok
<ViRGE> Ya, it does, but I don't know what time the run will be done
<ccalvert> Some people sure are opioninated.
<BurntKooshie> ?
<hutch> well, the team ranks are finally running, because it finally says they don't exist when you go to top 100 teams yesterday
<maggie> Hutch overclocks himself... if anything he is overclocking me... I don't normally stay up this late ;P
<BurntKooshie> ;p
<BurntKooshie> what time zone?
<ViRGE> Late?! It's only 9:21
<BurntKooshie> heh
<maggie> 11:23pm here
<BurntKooshie> 12:19
<BurntKooshie> so you are central
<maggie> and it's Hutch's clock so we ALL know it is the CORRECT time
<ccalvert> It is 11:21 here, but I want to stay around and see what comes of this. Grades be damned!
<BurntKooshie> exactly!
<ViRGE> Hehe
<BurntKooshie> i have to read a book, and write a paper on it by tuesday, and i've not started!
<ccalvert> I see that you posted that you are not bragging... sure ViRGE, we believe you
<BurntKooshie> hehe
<BurntKooshie> riiiiiiiight.
<maggie> school doesn't start here until Tuesday, burtkooshie
<BurntKooshie> same here
<BurntKooshie> but still
<BurntKooshie> i haven't started, and I have bball practice tomorrow
<BurntKooshie> ah well, that's what coffee is for
<ViRGE> Coffee!
* BurntKooshie raises a cup in memory of mechBgon
<BurntKooshie> he's doing well BTW
* ViRGE raise a cup in memeory of MechBgon too
<BurntKooshie> he switched a 'puter over to my email though
<ccalvert> If this doesn't resolve its self soon, I might have to start drinking mechBgon's favorite drink as well.
<ccalvert> Too mechBgon!
* BurntKooshie turns into coffee crystals
* BurntKooshie raises his mug
* ccalvert makes a toast
<ccalvert> He may have had his IRC life cut short, be we will always miss him.
<ccalvert> be=but
<BurntKooshie> indeed
<ViRGE> Definately
<BurntKooshie> he keeps in touch with me via email though, so at least he's not COMPLETELY cut off
<DStroth-HL> cool
<Lord_Demios> What happened?
<DStroth-HL> i hope he gets his internet back..
<DStroth-HL> we need some more mechbgon here
*** hutch is now known as maggie1
<maggie1> hahaha
*** ViRGE is now known as Hutch
*** BurntKooshie is now known as mech_wannabe
<Lord_Demios> Um hutch, having another identity crisis?
<maggie1> I took over
<ccalvert> I have heard of joined at the hip, but joined at the nick?
<Hutch> Hehe
<Lord_Demios> (---- believes speeling is for the week
*** mech_wannabe is now known as BurntKooshie
<BurntKooshie> LOL LD!
<ccalvert> lol
*** maggie is now known as hutch1
*** maggie1 is now known as maggie
<Lord_Demios> (Really is wondering about Hutch and Maggie)
<maggie> God that was an AWFUL experience teaching hutch to switch his name ;P
Next Day. Stuff shows up on Mika's
*** Now talking in #anandtechrc5
*** X sets mode: +o ViRGE
<ViRGE> Hey ugys
* DStroth hint hint X sets mode: +o Lord_Demios
*** DStroth is now known as Lord_Demios
<Lord_Demios> sorry must have stayed when we were fighting eachother
<ViRGE> Hey LD, have you been giving me the blocks?
<Lord_Demios> Um, no, but if I did can I have them back
<ViRGE> Mika's reports about 273K from xmission, TMR's ISP
<Lord_Demios> ?
<ViRGE> The blocks showed up on Mika's, and they came from xmission
<Lord_Demios> WHAT!@@$#%#$% I wish I could do that many blocks... But I just don't have the power
<ViRGE> Ya, and what's really weird is that Mika's says the blocks came in yesterday, and we all know the pproxy didn't show it yesterday
<Lord_Demios> ? Maybe Mika's box is broken again?
(Connection failure.....)
Back after looking at Captian_Rob's new posting
Formatting will be messed up on this cut and paste, but here is the full list for "Hostname *.xmission.com":
Participants working for this Hostname
Totals Days: 5 days - Average Blocks: 57770 blocks - Average Rate: 179.41 Mkeys/sec
Participant Blocks Submited Percent Keys Checked Keyspace
virgedx*at*home.com 273156 94.57% 73.32 Trillion 0.000397%
bphantom*at*xmission.com 11878 4.11% 3.19 Trillion 0.000017%
edurant*at*engin.umich.edu 1928 0.67% 517.54 Billion 0.000003%
jator*at*netzero.net 1690 0.59% 453.66 Billion 0.000002%
dstroth*at*crosswinds.net 132 0.05% 35.43 Billion 0.000000%
bgodfrey*at*epicinc.net 32 0.01% 8.59 Billion 0.000000%
jonback*at*itexas.net 16 0.01% 4.29 Billion 0.000000%
tom_the_bicycle_mechanic*at*yahoo.com 8 0.00% 2.15 Billion 0.000000%
paulmazzucco*at*yahoo.com 5 0.00% 1.34 Billion 0.000000%
ss59*at*hotmail.com 4 0.00% 1.07 Billion 0.000000%
aoliver*at*techplus.com 1 0.00% 268.44 Million 0.000000%
(I replaced the @'s with *at*'s so an email bot won't pick them up)
Back at the IRC channel
*** Now talking in #anandtechrc5
*** Topic is 'Welcome To Team AnandTech's IRC Home! (
http://www.anandtech.com/html/rc5.cfm)'
*** Set by X on Mon Jan 17 08:15:00
<Lord_Demios> Sorry about that
*** chris[rt9] has joined #anandtechrc5
* Lord_Demios *X set mode +v Lord_Demios
<Lord_Demios> hey Chris
<chris[rt9]> hey
<ViRGE> Hey LD, RT9
*** X sets mode: +v Lord_Demios
* Lord_Demios dances around the room happy with his +
<Lord_Demios> Thanks X
<X> No problem
<Lord_Demios> Any new news on the problem?
<ViRGE> Nope, all I know is that 273K blocks seem to have been sent through mika's, and 271 showed up on Dnet
<Lord_Demios> This is no good at all
<ViRGE> Ya
<Lord_Demios> Hmmm any news of the forum?
<ViRGE> Well, captain rob posted the emails working under xmission.com
<ViRGE>
http://anandforums.gisystech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=107717
<Lord_Demios> Um, those aren't xmission.com addresses
<ViRGE> Ya, but they seem to be sent through xmission.com
<Lord_Demios> So how long have you been a member of Xmission ViRGE?
<Lord_Demios> virgedx*at*home.com 273156 94.57% 73.32 Trillion 0.000397%
<ViRGE> I never used it
<ViRGE> I'm using @home
<Lord_Demios> This is really weird..... the listing shows edurant? Who is that?
<ViRGE> I don't have a clue
<ViRGE> I better not have 270K more blocks in about 8 hours too
<Lord_Demios> Have you gotten an email from D.net about this?
<Lord_Demios> BK just posted on the forum
<ViRGE> Someone had my password sent, but that's it
<Lord_Demios> Yeah, but that would have been sent to you right?
*** chris[rt9] has quit IRC (Ping timeout for chris[rt9][lc0630.zianet.com])
<ViRGE> Ya
<ViRGE> That's how I know about it
<ViRGE> Somebody is paying dearly for this
<Lord_Demios> Yeah., I wonder if they bought the blocks on Ebay?
<ViRGE> No, because the blocks have my email address coded into them
<ViRGE> Somebody cracked 273K blocks under my name, or hacked them, no question about that
<Lord_Demios> Hey BP just posted an Idea on the IP spoofing for Xmission.com
<ViRGE> And the plot thickens
<Lord_Demios> .....
<ViRGE> If someone is IP spoofing, this is a much bigger deal than we thought
<Lord_Demios> First a Domain name, next the IP spoofing.. This is not GOOD!!!
<ViRGE> If I get any more blocks like yesterday, I'm going out and hiring a bounty hunter
<Lord_Demios>
<Lord_Demios> You need a cyber slycer
<ViRGE> Ya
<ViRGE> But who could we hire?
* Lord_Demios ghost busters music starts up
<Lord_Demios> GHost Busters
* Lord_Demios takes out all of the GB's with his Impact Hammer
<ViRGE> Hehe
<ViRGE> How about the Spoof Busters?
<ViRGE> Why me, why oh why me?
*** Lord_Demios is now known as Spoof_Buster
* Spoof_Buster starts up the Spoof Buster theme song
<Spoof_Buster> Well, with no word from D.net I guess they didn't think much of it
<ViRGE> Ya, I guess that's good
*** Spoof_Buster is now known as Lord_Demios
<Lord_Demios> hmmmm.... Simpson's MP3
<Lord_Demios> s are great
<ViRGE> Why do you say that?
<Lord_Demios> I have Winamp playing them... I have about 4000 of them saying great things.
<ViRGE> Hehe
*** DStroth has joined #anandtechrc5
<DStroth> hi all!
<DStroth> geez.. LD still has that +
<Lord_Demios> Hey DStroth.....
<Lord_Demios> hey
*** X sets mode: +o DStroth
* Lord_Demios tells DS not to touch the +v
<DStroth> don't worry, i won't
<DStroth>
<Lord_Demios>
http://anandforums.gisystech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=107717
<DStroth> ok
*** bphantom has joined #anandtechrc5
<DStroth> whoa!
<bphantom> Hey...
<DStroth> hi bphantom!
<ViRGE> Hey guys
<DStroth> it gets wierder every second!
<bphantom>
<DStroth> (not in reference to bphantom, of course)
<ViRGE> I'm telling ya, someone is trying to frame me, big time
<Lord_Demios> Hye BP
<Lord_Demios> doah
* Lord_Demios breaks his Y key again
<DStroth> i don't think that is good for your keyboard..
<Lord_Demios> hehehehe. My 9 key is also having problems. I think i need to blow out/up my keyboard
<DStroth> my keyboard is too nice and hard to find a replacement for me to get mad at it.. so i usually just ctrl-alt-del "systray" and "explorer" when i'm mad
<Lord_Demios> what happens if you want to go into linux
<DStroth> of course when i'm mad windows has usually already gone crazy
<ViRGE> Hehe
<DStroth> in that case.. umm.. uh... i take my anger out on my brother
<Lord_Demios> hehehehee
<bphantom>
* Lord_Demios smacks BP
<Lord_Demios> heheheheh
<bphantom> You would too if you could.
* Lord_Demios is thinking that that was a great idea
* ViRGE smacks BP and LD
* Lord_Demios Impact Hammer's ViRGE
* DStroth jumps out a window hopeing to avoid the war
* Lord_Demios says. "you don't know the power of the +v
<DStroth> !devoice Lord_Demios
*** X sets mode: -v Lord_Demios
<DStroth>
<DStroth> !voice Lord_Demios
*** X sets mode: +v Lord_Demios
* Lord_Demios says "NOOOooooooooooooo"
* Lord_Demios says "bwahahhahahah, evil is better because good is dumb"
<DStroth> and just to be nice...
<DStroth> !voice bphantom
*** X sets mode: +v bphantom
<DStroth>
<Lord_Demios> Grrrrr...
* Lord_Demios kicks BP's +v
* Lord_Demios smacks BP around to get a reaction from him
* Lord_Demios Impact Hammers everyone
<Lord_Demios> Come on people!!!!
* bphantom kickers LD square in the nuts!
* DStroth pulls out a porta-barnicle
<Lord_Demios> Noooooooo
<DStroth> hahaha!
<Lord_Demios> not a Porta-Barnicle
* Lord_Demios pulls out the google flopper
<DStroth> nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
* DStroth jumps into his google flopper proof suit
* Lord_Demios Pulls out is Imac, with all the extras
<Lord_Demios> um is = his
<DStroth> agh! *cough* *splutter*
<Lord_Demios> hehehehe
* DStroth uploads dnetc and puts it to work cracking for him!
<DStroth> haha!
* Lord_Demios grabs the Imac and adds it to TMR's collection
<DStroth> @#$@
<DStroth> hmm...
* Lord_Demios then grabs DStroth and adds him to the collection
* DStroth trys to think of an even more evil plan
<Lord_Demios> Aw My GAWD
<DStroth> noo!
<Lord_Demios> check the forums!!!!!!!
<ViRGE> Well, I'm going to vent some of my anger in Tribes
<ViRGE> What now LD?
<Lord_Demios> LOOK
<Lord_Demios>
http://anandforums.gisystech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=107717
<DStroth> something very interesting has appeared...
<ViRGE> What, the Rabbit?
<Lord_Demios>
http://www.xmission.com/~bphantom/ptestats/
<Lord_Demios> reload the forum page.....
<Lord_Demios> BP found the info on this dump
<DStroth> whoa!
<ViRGE> Gezze, the plot is thicker than tar now
<bphantom>
<ViRGE> Well, I'll be back in a bit
<DStroth> ok
*** Lord_Demios is now known as Disapears
*** ViRGE has quit IRC (Leaving)
<DStroth> hmm......
<Disapears> What the Fu^&
<DStroth> hmm?
<bphantom> I think he is getting plane tickets to kill BPhantom and I.
<bphantom> err LD..
<Disapears> as the name says
<bphantom> Should we go serious on the forum?
<DStroth> maybe.. we don't want this to get too out of control
<DStroth> but...
<DStroth> i'm sure someone else will figure it out
<bphantom> as in, ViRGE. Put all the hints together and you will see your Teammates need a good ass kicking.
<DStroth> hehe
<DStroth> he should know that is your website...
* Disapears thumps ViRGE'S head with the facts until they are one
<bphantom> He hasn't checked the hostnames for participants on my site... Check it, ViRGE!!
<DStroth> maybe we need to give him a link to another part of your website, like the aircannons mpegs.. and see how long it takes for him to figure it out then
* Disapears using telepathetic power forces ViRGE to check it
*** Disapears is now known as LD_NOmore
<bphantom> If you read my last reply, I covered my myself.
<DStroth> shall we tell him once he comes back?
<bphantom> Yes.
<DStroth> ok
<LD_NOmore> smack him with the stats
<DStroth> yeah, i noticed that...
<bphantom> Maybe he went out to take a smoke.
<DStroth> hehe
<DStroth> its so obvious!!!
<LD_NOmore> Maybe his head popped
*** LD_NOmore is now known as ViRGE
<DStroth> he should realize it is someone here.. especially from our past behaviours
<bphantom> I think we warped his mind to much...
<bphantom> last night..
<DStroth> i've dumped CSC blocks to him before
* ViRGE 's head pops thinking of this
<DStroth> change your nick incase he comes back...
*** ViRGE is now known as LD
<bphantom> If he reads the the "What the ....." and its participants, he should realize everyone listed uses IRC.
<DStroth> hmm, if he just looked at our stats for the last month he would realize it
<DStroth> if i had switched my pproxy sooner my email wouldn't be there... doh
<bphantom> I think he would beat me up if he could..
<DStroth>
<LD> I wonder if he will link *.utah.edu to me?
<DStroth> hmm, mechBgon is dumping to your pproxy it seems still...
<bphantom> Some one want to post a reply stating ViRGE should read the "What the ....." from bottom to top and put together all the facts.
<DStroth> lets hope he comes back.. or else this could really get out of control
<bphantom> I agree..
<DStroth> all the guilty people have posted things like "how strange..", etc. so he should notice a coralation...
<LD> Hmmmm. Anyone live near ViRGE?
<DStroth> i live in WA, he lives in OR.. uhoh
*** ViRGE has joined #anandtechrc5
*** X sets mode: +o ViRGE
<DStroth> hey virge!
<Lord_Demios> WB ViRGE
<ViRGE> Ok, what's up?
<Lord_Demios> Well Go here.
<Lord_Demios>
http://www.xmission.com/~bphantom/ptestats/byhost.html
<ViRGE> Wow, where did you get that?
<Lord_Demios> (that's the list of people who you need to get even with)
<Lord_Demios> So what do you think?
<ViRGE> I don't know what to think
<ViRGE> That's 20 differnt ISPs that blocks were submitted with under my name, that wasn't me
<Lord_Demios> Then who could it have been?
<Lord_Demios> Is their something about those names that makes them somewhat familier
<ViRGE> I don't know, but there were a lot of blocks submitted under a lot of ISPs
<Lord_Demios> *.utah.edu
<Lord_Demios> *.xmission.com
<Lord_Demios> .....
<Lord_Demios> *.itexas.net
<ViRGE> *.freei.net
<ViRGE> Road Runner
<Lord_Demios> Formatting will be messed up on this cut and paste, but here is the full list for "Hostname *.xmission.com":
<Lord_Demios> Participants working for this Hostname
<Lord_Demios> Totals Days: 5 days - Average Blocks: 57770 blocks - Average Rate: 179.41 Mkeys/sec
<Lord_Demios> Participant Blocks Submited Percent Keys Checked Keyspace
<Lord_Demios> virgedx*at*home.com 273156 94.57% 73.32 Trillion 0.000397%
<Lord_Demios> bphantom*at*xmission.com 11878 4.11% 3.19 Trillion 0.000017%
<Lord_Demios>
<Lord_Demios> quote from the forums
<ViRGE> Who ever did this was coordinated, very coordinated
<DStroth> yes, they were...
<Lord_Demios> Of course they are
<Lord_Demios> They're members of Team Anandtech
<ViRGE> How did BP get this data?
<Lord_Demios> The best team around...
<Lord_Demios> Well, as we slowly dumped blocks into his proxy it created these log files
<Lord_Demios> Enjoy the blocks ViRGE. From everyone on the IRC channel
<DStroth>
<ViRGE> What, this was planned!?
<DStroth> Of Course!!!
<Lord_Demios> Yeah...
<ViRGE> You guys scared the snot out of me
<Lord_Demios> This was Project Total Eclipse
<ViRGE> Thank you so much!
<DStroth> who else but us could pull of such an intricate and astounding dump!?
<DStroth> your welcome!
<Lord_Demios> And we have it recorded so that we can post it on the forum
<DStroth> our objective has been met.. you've been put in 1st for a day.. and gained a much higher ranking
<ViRGE> How did you pull it off though, it must have been hard to keep it from me?
<Lord_Demios> Thanks for all of the work you have done for the team ViRGE.... This is a small token in comparison
<DStroth> yeah
<Lord_Demios> yeah... But we did
<DStroth> i've got logs of all our irc chats!
<Lord_Demios> and if you look at the postings of the forum chats. You will find that most of us were in on it
<DStroth> not to mention if you looked closely you'll notice most of us haven't submitted very many blocks over the last few weeks
<ViRGE> So who all was part of this?
<Lord_Demios> or some of us hid our donations well. (the dumping of 37K from
Grahn@eng.utah.edu was a nice save in another proxy)
<Lord_Demios> well. I can't answer that all the way.
<DStroth> we aren't quite sure..
<Lord_Demios> but almost everyone that uses the IRC and some who didn't
<DStroth> but to name a few:
<DStroth> mechBgon
<DStroth> Jay
<Lord_Demios> Hutch
<DStroth> DStroth
<DStroth> LD
<Lord_Demios> Bphantom
<DStroth> BP
<DStroth> TMR
<DStroth> JonB
<Lord_Demios> DStroth
<Lord_Demios> Maggie
<Lord_Demios> ss59
<DStroth> i believe Jay was the originator of this whole sceme...
<ViRGE> You guys are great!
<DStroth>
<Lord_Demios> thanks, but you earned these
<ViRGE> So who's posting on the BBS about this?
<DStroth> we started cracking back in decemember
<Lord_Demios> I will post the log files of the IRC chat
<DStroth> erm, December
<ViRGE> Wow, you guys really planned this
<DStroth> yeah
<DStroth> BP's pproxy helped quite a lot...
<DStroth> our original target was only about 150k blocks
<DStroth> as you can see we easily reached it!
<ViRGE> Except, what was up with the blocks not showing up on Mika's?
<DStroth> mika merged BP's logs with his later on
<ViRGE> Ya, you totaly surpassed it
<ViRGE> Ahh
<DStroth> mika was involved in this too
<Lord_Demios> yup
<DStroth> BP dumped to dnet and had mika merge his pproxy's logs with mika's
* ViRGE get teary eyed
<ViRGE> I don't know what to say guys, thank you so very very much
<DStroth>