My, how time flies... :) *EDIT: now with TA DC trivia! :)*

[DanStp]

Just wanted to pop in and say CONGRATS🙂 Nice to see many old faces still working together for various causes in this forum🙂

 

[GeoffS]

Congrats mechBgon! By my estimate I came on at about the same time as you on the same project! 🙂

 

[RaySun2Be]

Originally posted by: mechBgonWhat was the name of Lord Demios's crack rack?

The Rifter?

😕

And I have a trivia question as well.

Who built the first TA DC crackrack, and who coined the term crackrack?

😀

 

[Ken g6]

Ray, you're getting slightly senile. 😛😉 It was The Mad Rifter, as in Lord Demios/TMR.

However, I'll defer to my elder for the next question. 🙂

 

[Spacehead]

Congrats on your anniversary mechBgon :beer: 🙂

Now i'll leave so you old timers can reminisce 😉 😀

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: RaySun2Be

Originally posted by: mechBgonWhat was the name of Lord Demios's crack rack?

The Rifter?

😕

And I have a trivia question as well.

Who built the first TA DC crackrack, and who coined the term crackrack?

😀

The first crack rack? I'm tempted to say Cautry with the Warp Core, but that's probably not right. Damn, I'm getting forgetful in my old age.😱

 

[JonB]

Russ and the Warp Core (Celeron 300a and Tyan dualies). Throw in the first incarnation of Arctic Silver, and you have history.
That's about the same time I started using the term "asslaminate" when I snagged a new CPU for the RC5 cause.

Who was known for their hobby of building potato cannons?

 

[ViRGE]

Finally one I can answer. Brad M. 😛

The Warpcore project was originally intended to be a Beowulf cluster, but when checked against the definition, didn't quality. What was it classified as instead?

 

[RaySun2Be]

Well, you guys are partially correct. The first crackrack was The Warp Core, but the person who built it and also coined the term was Thomas Drechsler, aka The MagicMan. 😀

What DC project did the Warp Core run?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: RaySun2Be
Well, you guys are partially correct. The first crackrack was The Warp Core, but the person who built it and also coined the term was Thomas Drechsler, aka The MagicMan. 😀

What DC project did the Warp Core run?

It better be RC5-64, or I'm going to feel like the villiage idiot.😛

 

[RaySun2Be]

Yep. RC5-64. 🙂

And I can't remember what we called the crackracks once it was determined that beowolf didn't quite fit.

(*sigh*, along with so many other things forgotten....:roll: )

😉

😀

 

[ViRGE]

I'll give you a hint Ray: Mooo 😛

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: DanC
Hmmm....

I'm guessing that he knew that the clock would roll back an hour at 2:00 a.m., and thus did his mysterious change at 1:27, which was actually 2:27 - after the changeover?

Either that - or he's psyco ... er, I mean - psychic. 😉

lol ,very clever😉

 

[Allio]

ARGH! Too many 1999ers in this thread 🙂

Congrats the lot of you for sticking with it for so long. You are the backbones of our teams.

 

[networkman]

Well, cool, "WarpCore" for RC5-64 was my guess too as I was reading through the thread. At least I don't have to worry about the "village idiot" description taking hold.. there's too many other descriptions that would fit.. most stemming from my encounter with eBay and SETI simultaneously. 😛

 

[Wolfie]

I know it's been a while since I posted here, but I also just realized that I have been here a long time as well.

5 years already. 6 years on Anandtech. Perty cool...

Oh, and who will post the ViRGE vs. Team Anandtech members IRC thread. 😛

 

[Ken g6]

Right, ViRGE, we had "herds". 🙂

Okay, I need to admit that my earlier answer didn't just come to me. I had happened upon a saved copy of the "Phantom Flusher" thread the other day. Did we ever figure out where those blocks came from?

And since no one else has posted a trivia question, here's one:

Who got irritated (naturally) when we started referring to the Phantom Flusher as "PF"?

 

[networkman]

Originally posted by: Ken_g6
Right, ViRGE, we had "herds". 🙂

Okay, I need to admit that my earlier answer didn't just come to me. I had happened upon a saved copy of the "Phantom Flusher" thread the other day. Did we ever figure out where those blocks came from?

And since no one else has posted a trivia question, here's one:

Who got irritated (naturally) when we started referring to the Phantom Flusher as "PF"?

That would be Possessed Freak if memory serves correctly. 🙂

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Wolfie
I know it's been a while since I posted here, but I also just realized that I have been here a long time as well.

5 years already. 6 years on Anandtech. Perty cool...

Oh, and who will post the ViRGE vs. Team Anandtech members IRC thread. 😛

Oh come on, be nice please and not post it this year?😛

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Wolfie
I know it's been a while since I posted here, but I also just realized that I have been here a long time as well.

5 years already. 6 years on Anandtech. Perty cool...

Oh, and who will post the ViRGE vs. Team Anandtech members IRC thread. 😛

Oh come on, be nice please and not post it this year?😛

Yeah, we're letting you have a sabbatical 😛 😉

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Wolfie
I know it's been a while since I posted here, but I also just realized that I have been here a long time as well.

5 years already. 6 years on Anandtech. Perty cool...

Oh, and who will post the ViRGE vs. Team Anandtech members IRC thread. 😛

Oh come on, be nice please and not post it this year?😛

Yeah, we're letting you have a sabbatical 😛 😉

That's not like you. You can't find it, can you? 😉

 

[JonB]

I had forgotten about the Phantom Flusher. I certainly never found out. We suspected various things, like it was someone submitting falsified RC5 blocks to discredit us or someone who was using computers without proper authority. Hasn't the statute of limitations run out now? Whoever you are, if you are still around, let us know.

 

[RaySun2Be]

I hadn't forgotten about the Phantom Flusher :|

I ended up abandoning my original DNET account and starting over because of the #*#$*&$#. :|


If you look at the TA DNET RC5-64 stats, the Phanton Flusher :| account was my original one. I looked it up the other day to figure out when I started crunching RC5-64.

And no, we never found out, and IIRC DNET never said much about whether the blocks submitted were legit or not. 🙁

 

[Wellcky]

I know this is an old thread, but seeing that all these familiar faces are posted here, I thought I'd just drop in to say, howdy!

 

[networkman]

It's been too long Bryan - we should do another LAN in Minnesota - I promise to make the trek once more. 🙂