Originally posted by: mechBgon
w00t, we've got
ViRGE's reputation at our mercy now!! :evil:
Ok, about
Project Total Eclipse: in 1999, I was working on the RC5-64 project, and so were a lot of the other TA DC'ers. It was the Team's #1 project at the time.
We were on IRC on December 25th 1999, and
Jay suggested that we should crack a bunch of RC5-64 blocks in secret, using
ViRGE's email address, and then make a huge surprise dump :Q I forget precisely why we decided to victimize
ViRGE in particular
On Dec. 26th, we began crunching for this project, which I eventually dubbed
Project Total Eclipse once we decided that our goal was to make the dump SO big that
ViRGE would end up being the #1 RC5-64 producer for the day... bigger than whole universities, bigger than anyone!
If I recall correctly, we dumped our secret stash of 283000 blocks on Jan. 16th, and succeeded in making
ViRGE #1 for the day. But the fun part is that
ViRGE had no idea where it came from. If you need a laugh, you owe it to yourself to read the mIRC conversation that followed... and you can find it right
here It's a riot, because the perpetrators don't tell
ViRGE where all the blocks came from for quite a while, so he's cruelly strung along and ends up sincerely thinking a rival RC5-64 team has conspired to frame him as a cheater, with disqualification as a likely consequence
I was Internet-challenged at the time when the dump occurred, but was cracking at home and flushing my blocks from work
DStroth emailed me the logs afterwards, bless his heart...
We ran six P.T.E.'s if I recall correctly, with the victims being
ViRGE,
DMcOwen (although I don't know if he ever noticed),
JonB,
Slahr_Dzhe, and I seem to recall we did one for
Netopia, and the last one was aimed at me, which is why I mentioned it here
ViRGE's was the granddaddy, the only one that literally eclipsed all other participants and hit #1 for the dump-day.