2001

[ViRGE]

Tragedy strikes when the state of Georgia presses charges against TA member Dave McOwen for illegal use of computer resources. Dave, an IT employee at a local college, had been given permission to use the school's computers for RC5-64, only for his boss to disavow that when an audit showed the machines in use. The state of Georgia found him guilty in 2004.

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[petrusbroder]

Yeah, that was a very sad happening. This influenced - not living in the USA - my view of the judiciary system in the USA.

 

[Assimilator1]

3!

Yes that was a sad incident indeed, as a side note support for RC5-64 plumetted shortly after this began as they offered no real support as I recall.
Many X-RC5ers went to SETI, & I'm sure some went to other projetcs too .

On a better note due to the 1st front page article on AT about DC projects [edit] Nope, I got that wrong!, I've just spotted from one of my saved stats thread that the front page article was sometime in Dec 2000).[/edit] the various TA teams recieved a huge influx of new members at the end of 01! , in the space of just ~1mth (Jan 02) TA SETI gained 622 new members!!:shocked:.
At the peak of TA SETIs influx in 1 week 213 members joined!.
See the 2002 stats threads for more info .

(Can't find that front page article atm, maybe it was replaced?)
[edit] Maybe the member boost was from the cross forum recruiting we were occasionally allowed to do? It may of followed from the big race between TA & BBR(DSLR) which I think was restarted a little after 9/11.

AFAIK to this day we have never had that massive an influx of new members again!

 

[Rattledagger]

2001 is the year of the long SETI@home-outage, due to vandals cutting the fiber-connection while gathering nearby copper-wire...

A forced upgrade to SETI@home v3.03 gives many disappointed users, since v3.03 is slower than v3.00.

More new projects starts-up, among them Genome@Home and the UD/"think" cancer-project.

 

[Assimilator1]

Oh yea I remember that outage now, IIRC it lasted about a week!, at the end my SETIQ was down to just a few WUs which would of lasted another 1/2 day or so. I seem to recall that TA was fairly well 'equiped' with SETIQ & we suffered less losses than many other teams did .

 

[RaySun2Be]

The state of Georgia found him guilty in 2004.

Actually, it never went to trial. They settled on a plea-bargain agreement of a $2,100 fine, 80 hours of non tech community service, and probation. If he successfully completed probation, his record would be cleared.

So basically they strong-armed him into the plea bargain agreement with threats of continued prosecution and costly defense of same.

 

[Crazee]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Yes that was a sad incident indeed, as a side note support for RC5-64 plumetted shortly after this began as they offered no real support as I recall.
Many X-RC5ers went to SETI, & I'm sure some went to other projetcs too .

On a better note due to the 1st front page article on AT about DC projects [edit] Nope, I got that wrong!, I've just spotted from one of my saved stats thread that the front page article was sometime in Dec 2000).[/edit] the various TA teams recieved a huge influx of new members at the end of 01! , in the space of just ~1mth (Jan 02) TA SETI gained 622 new members!!:shocked:.
At the peak of TA SETIs influx in 1 week 213 members joined!.
See the 2002 stats threads for more info .

(Can't find that front page article atm, maybe it was replaced?)
[edit] Maybe the member boost was from the cross forum recruiting we were occasionally allowed to do? It may of followed from the big race between TA & BBR(DSLR) which I think was restarted a little after 9/11.

AFAIK to this day we have never had that massive an influx of new members again!

Wow Ass1 you are too young for Alzheimers. We got the 622 members from the cross forum recruiting during the race and that was the biggest addition we had over a two month period. The race lasted two months

The time you are thinking about with the front page article happened while I was doing the Seti welcome threads. It was around Thanksgiving 2003 and there were so many people joining per day that there were often 3-4 welcome threads a day for a stretch. Over a two month stretch we added 466 members. So not quite as much as the race period, but pretty damn good

As a side note December 9, 2001 was my join date link

Most Valuable Cracker for 2001 was Ohiodude :beer::beer:

 

[Assimilator1]

I take it you didn't read my edit?, I spotted my mistake & partially corrected it, btw we did have a front page article in Dec 2000, & yes we did have 2 front page articles some years apart .