Oldtimers Sound Off

[Rendus]

I haven't been a member of TA for too long, but here are some things to age my participation in distributed computing:

Registered on: Mon Apr 12 04:14:49 1999 UTC
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SETI@home user for: 2.917 years

My first RC5-64 block was turned in Feburary 1st, 1998.

 

[Rendus]

<< Oh, and another question just to keep you guys thinking: When we hit 10% of the RC5 keyspace, the Dnet guys sent the guy who got the 10% key a prize. What was it?(Doesn't need to be too specific). >>


I believe it was a box of steaks. Forget the company that donated it.

 

[Assimilator1]

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Wow! ,you were one of the very early & rare Beta testers then! (so was Mgallik & a few others I believe)

 

[Postman]

Ray I know, I was just very amused of the long Oct 1999 posting chain coming from out of the blue

 

[System of a Down]

i remember all those things!!!

 

[0smo]

More nostalgia:

LeBlatt's RC5 Racer's Page
...sorry, couldn't find a link to one of Rocketsled's Rants

/me waves to Jay, BG&oslash;d, viztech, mechBgon, JonB, Wolfie, Polo, Networkman, dmcowen674, ViRGE, BurntKooshie, SpaceWalker, RaySun2Be, ...

...since this is my first post, I obviously have no idea what I'm talking about...you see, there was this guy....with pointed ears...he put his hands on my head and then.....***blackout***

....ow, my head hurts! Does anyone have an asprin, perhaps a good whack with a cane or a Mighty Rod Of Smiting would set things right? Oh well, nm....

/me jumps out the window

 

[PeterN]

Hey Junior O.,

How, on this fine earth, could you know about LeBlatt and his indeed excellent former racer's page?

Is it the Osmo I think it is?

It must be. Only oldtimers know about LeBlatt and his scripting skills.

 

[osmo]

...has anyone seen me looking for me? I swear I just saw me jump out of a window and run right past me!
...at any rate it is good to be the "old" me again.

/me waves to PeterN too!

 

[networkman]

Hey, it's osmo! The guy who lives in the same town as me.. just a few miles down the road..

And yet I've seen RaySun2Be more times and he lives around Columbus, Ohio! :Q Go figure.

 

[osmo]

HEY! Quiet you!

 

[barbary]

Good thread.

We used to have loads of joke threads we don't seem to have them anymore.

This reminds me of last week. All the old usernet postings have been put on the web and can be searched I was able to go back and see all the things I discussed with friends while at Uni.

Man I was drunk at Uni.

 

[Wolfie]

OSMO!!!,
You are alive. I was wondering what happened to you. Miss yah on here and on IRC. Good to see you are still around.


Man, some of the stuff that has been discussed in here is completley nutz. Some of the stuff I do remember. Playing Mech was impossable. With hours like that it's hard to beet someone that has more hours then the bots.

IRC was fun too back then. Back when they had PF, BK, SD, DS, Virge, LD, SS, Chris, NWM, Ray, OK, Fluffy, Mech, Jay, Mika, Assim, Bgod, wellcky, maggie, CC, BP, JonB, CCL-SR, and even kilowatt.

Man some of the best known names... I wish some of them where still around.

I remember when LD had his first Crack Rack. TMR... Had to shut it down do to power consumption/noise. And some of the first pics of the crack rack.

I am sure I will think of some more..

Wolfie

Oh and the Lan Party that Wellcky and I threw here in minnesota. That was some great times. Kilowatt setting up his computer and the first thing he made sure was running was RC5. And to think that Kilowatt had never played UT before coming to my lan party. And Watching the War Cow running around. With wellcky screaming "DANCE BOY DANCE!!!!!!!!!"

 

[Possessed Freak]

Actually, 'the garden' was a computer lab at ss59's and chrisx's high school and sported Macintosh G3's.

Ray: I still recall having a stand-off w/o moving in instagib and missing eachother repeatedly. Beware my almighty feigning and circling skillz and my all keyboard usage.

BK: MROS = Mighty? Rod of Smoting used by my partner in crime Syst3m, the NIC nunchakus I can not elaborate on at all, I have no idea what those are , did you know the cyrix chips are being used to line pipes in geothermal power facilities?

Jay: dcypher.net ran my all time favorite project, gamma flux. I still occasionally IM with Chris and I am currently running eccp on the same team as Steve.


my addition to the trivia: What was the original host in IRC, why did it switch, and what was the channel (channel guesses, no looking at the PTE log).

Freak out.


PS, I fully blame osmo for my posting in this forum again (if only for this one? time)

 

[Jay]

The channel was rc5, though I can't remember the irc server right now though.

PF, BurntK, Osmo and others, glad you came out of the wood work. Now if we could just hunto down BoberFett and get him to chime in, now wouldn' t that be fun.

 

[bphantom]

Although a bit late to the party, here I am:

CSC and DES project, did both. That first CSC client sucked on P-II hardware, and we ended up re-searching the keyspace up to 198% or something like that.

Dcypher.net, started CSC first if I remember, and then D.Net walloped them. Wasn't pretty.

ViRGE fiasco, bwahaha! That was great! I remember I was sitting in IRC (the night before), small talk with ViRGE, and all the while my pproxy was dumping thousands of blocks to D.Net.

Project Total Eclipse, I think I ended up deleting the logs. Should have kept them for old times sake.

Email, warpcore@montac.com. Spent way to may hours reading all of Clay's journal logs. Ended up assembling a similiar five machine network using Jacek's scripts (Same one's WarpCore used to do the bootdisk NFS). After the project ended, I was fortunate enough to be the new owner of the Warpcore rack. Like WarpCore, I also dissolved most of my machines into other locations. Those power bills weren't pretty.

.... Oooo, new questions to answer. Will do in another reply. Great memories everyone!

Brad..

 

[Wolfie]

PF
Wasn't the old IRC server on Mika's box?

Wolfie

 

[bphantom]

My first machine was either a Cyrix-166 or Pentium 133. I assimilated three machines that very first night (March 6, 1998!). Then later that year, Team AnandTech was formed, which I joined two or three days later. I was first waiting to make sure there was large support, since I was going to drop about 115,000 blocks in to the team. It was impressive to see myself as number #1 for about a week. When there was talk about merging with SysOpt (a day or two later), I was a bit disgruntled to say the least...

The very first mistake I made when installing those clients, was setting the buff-in to 1000 packets. It took those three machines (sharing the buffer across the LAN), nearly a month to process them. And here I thought those machines would be fast and mow right threw them!

Brad..

 

[Jay]

Now I remember, it was Othernet, wasn't it?!?

 

[System of a Down]

heh, it was on othernet when i first started hanging out in irc. heh, i had almost forgotten about the MROS until PF brought that to my attention. and it's Smiting, not Smoting =)

 

[Wolfie]

I guess it's been a long time for some of this stuff for me to remember correctly.. Oh well. I will blame it on the lack of sleep from the last few years from spending so much time in here.

Wolfie

 

[BoberFett]

Hello all. I got a message from Jay and decided to pop my head in. I haven't been here in a long time, life got incredibly stressful about a year and a half ago, and only now are the stormy skies starting to clear up. I just couldn't keep up with life and D.net and the pproxy I was running in the round robin and such was one of the first things to go. Maybe someday I'll get back on a project.

I'll browse around a bit here and see what's new in DC.

 

[mechBgon]

<--- mouth clangs open... osmo, PF and SYST3M! :Q :Q :Q Welcome back! Do stay a while, I've missed you!

/me wanders away mumbling "picoFarad!" every so often...

 

[Slahr Dzhe]

Hey guys

I joined AnandTech back in '98 on the 'wonderful' UBB boards.

I joined Team Anandtech 884 days ago(or thereabouts) with a friend of mines P166MMX running RC5.

CSC did that.. think I did fairly well (for only having one machine anyway)

DES was over before it started.

Dcypher had me for a little while.. but with only one machine I was having difficulty 'abandoning' Dnet.

I didn't make it on to IRC during that time (think I was working or something), but I do remember it.

PTE.. participated in a couple, and was even the brunt of one.

Remember WarpCore, and even got Clay to re-activate the page on his site so I could look at it again about a year ago.

Yup, but Mika changed it right after I joined up and learned what it was.


Got one for some of you old IRC'ers..

Has anyone been 'defenestrated' lately or know what it means(without looking it up)?
Anyone remember the men with those funny white coats or who they were looking for?
Anyone remember where the 'safest' place to hide from them was?

Yeah, Mech beat my all time highest frag with the double magnums, though I held the record for most telefrags on morpheous until I stopped playing(think nobody even wanted to try to beat it )

Thanks for the thread Jay.

SD

 

[osmo]

I shall attempt to goad PF into posting again by pointing out that not only did I get MROS first but I got it correct too!
(look back 18 posts)

/me waves to bphantom, SYST3M, BoberFett, and SD!

 

[Wolfie]

Boberfett is alive. I had talked to him the other night. Found out that he moved closer to me.

Man it's great to see you all again. Too bad we can't always do this...

Wolfie