At last, I join the team

[Train]

Well, ive been meaning to for a while, but now i am finnally jumping on, I dont want to miss it when we move into #2, and on the #1

I just overclocked my PIII 450 to 600, and will be getting that one up first, then the only other thing i have to throw at it is a Pentium 75 (super slow), but it will help out i guess.

we have a few massive dell servers here at work, some of them arent doing anything yet, waiting to be assinged web sites or workgroups, i think i can persuade my boss to let me put them to work crunching numbers until they are needed. There are about 6 unused Dell quad servers in our freezing cold server room, im not sure what the processors are, but they are on dual T3's, with more ram than you can shake a stick at.

 

[Wolfie]

Welcome to the team Train.

I hope you can convince your boss into letting you use those machines. I only have two machines and I can't seem to persuade my friends into doing this. Maybe I am useing the wrong words or something. Anyways.....

Welcome to the team.... and hope you have as much FUN as we do....

Wolf

 

[Beefcake]

Welcome to the team

 

[Train]

oh yeah, i had some questions too, (ya im an RC5 newbie)

whats all the MOoooing for??

and theres some other terminology floating around im really not catching, anybody feel like making a team anandtech "code words"? FAQ?

 

[CurtOien]

MOoooOOooo!!!


The logo is a cow.

 

[Gatsby]

Train--

Moooing is to symbolize the sound the cow makes in real life. Rc5 has hte fun cow icon.

thats normal peoploe.. since i have a dyslexic cow. mine goes WOooMOooo instead of MooooWooo..

Gatsby

 

[Wolfie]

Woooo MOOOoo sounds cooler anyways. hahaha


Wolf

 

[RaySun2Be]

Welcome to the team, [Train[/b]!

Good luck with those server assimilations.

 

[xrayman]

Welcome aboard Train
**pun intended**

...oh, I caught your (unintended?) pun about shaking a stick at all that ram
Cool.

 

[Poon]

Welcome to the team!! Good luck on the server assimilations!

 

[ZapZilla]

Aside from the cow as the DNet mascot, the early clients had a setting that one could activate to have 1 of 5 moo sounds play at the completion of each block.

It was a lot of fun to have a room full of computers cracking RC5 and mooing at random!

Moo MOO MooOOO Moo MoOOo Mooo Ah the good 'ol days!

 

[Xede]

Yeah, what's with all the loss of functionality from the clients, anyway? No more mooing, no more GUI, etc. Guess dnet's trying to whittle the client down to the bare minimum necessary...

 

[ViRGE]

Welcome to the team Train! And good luck on coaxing your boss into letting a cow roam on your servers.

PS Xede, ya, that's pretty much the general idea

 

[Impact55]

Question: This sounds kind of newbish, but doesn't RC5 cracking eat away at your processors life?

 

[Tripleshot]

Impact55

Question: This sounds kind of newbish, but doesn't RC5 cracking eat away at your processors life?

IMHO I think it may.Instead of 10 years of effective life,it may cut to 8 years.I doubt the contest will last that long and I'm sure I will have upgraded every cow in my herd by next year.I wouldn't worry.

 

[Jimbo]

Welcome!