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uh..i might join rc5 with TA...but is there anything in it for me??

chiwawa626

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uh..i might join rc5 with TA...but is there anything in it for me??
I Heard theres some private UT servers and stuff?
 

8008S

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<< but is there anything in it for me?? >>



you get to become part of the world's greatest team!!!! Plus, sure, will have an occasional UT scrimmage :)
 

JimMc

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Oct 9, 1999
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UT servers? Small potatoes... Check out the fringe benefits of joing the Federation Hot Tub Babe (Federation Fleet Link):p. I think TA Cube has something similar, but they have metal things sticking out all over.

You can do a search on Gamebox, if that is what you are asking about. But most people are here to have some fun and compete for number 1 in the world. Though others are here to dominate, decimate, defeat and something else that starts with a d, can't recall what it was. Oh, and take your women. I remember that.

 

mechBgon

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Absolutely right, and not only UT but also Quake3, Descent3, Solitaire (ok, not really), HalfLife... You also become part of a very dedicated team that does a variety of projects and does them all pretty well. Besides just RC5, Team Anandtech also does Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence at Home (SETI@home), the OGR project that is the sister project to RC5-64, and DCypher's Gamma-Flux project. If I am leaving out anyone, no offense meant.

Different processers have different strong and weak areas, so some people are doing OGR on AMD K6-family processors and RC5 on others, perhaps with SETI running on the Katmai-family Pentium3's, since they do so well at it. All for the success of our team in all the areas, so don't feel like RC5 is the only show in town here, although it is certainly a focus right now... we are overtaking Team Slashdot, who is currently #1, but the Dutch Power Cows are hot on our tail and will overtake both Slashdot AND ourselves by sometime February, at the current projections.

Personally, I have a lot of fun being on the team with such a bunch of friendly teammates. Maybe that sounds tacky, but they are great people who will help you with any problem, and with great patience at that. Just read the friendly replies to any newbie's questions in this Distributed-Computing forum, and you will see that Team Anandtech has class.

Pop into our IRC channel, which is #teamanandtech channel on www.worldirc.org, and say hi, and watch us trip all over eachother to answer any questions you might have! : ) Hope you'll jump on board, and bring some friends with you!

EDIT: Haha, my teammates have proven my point by posting three replies in the time it took me to type this!
 

JimMc

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Actually, I'm not a member either, but when the Federation boys are out tinkering with their trans warp drives, she doesn't mind a little company from a rogue cracker! ;)
 

Ken g6

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Dec 11, 1999
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Nobody mentioned stats yet? :Q Mika's stats are updated every 15 minutes, so there's no waiting to find out if you flushed. :) Plus if you flush directly to him or one of the other pproxies with stats, like Jator's, you can find the IPs of the computers working for you.
 

jinsonxu

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Aug 19, 2000
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Ken_g6, how do we find out the IPs at Mika's?

I checked the hostnames but it doesn't seem accurate.
 

jinsonxu

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Aug 19, 2000
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Sigh, pity, if it could report the domain of the submitters like what my web counter doesn, i would be happy.
 

TeKKa0417

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Oct 19, 2000
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i am also thinking of joining team anandtech and the $1000 dollar prize is very tempting... although you do get that thousand big ones, you get more if you arent on a team... at least thats according to the website http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/money.html
well i dont know what i should do... but i do recall reading somewhere that anandtech will supply a prize if you find the key. correct me if im wrong about that... i dont recall where i read it from :(

choices, choices... :confused:
 

ViRGE

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Oct 9, 1999
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If you find they key while on TA, you get you $1000, and TA puts their $1000 in to an NPO, probably Anands.
 

TwoFace

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I just want to stress the point that mechbgon made...

You GET the best support available on the planet... for any kind of computer related problem... and sometimes with other things as well :cool:

The guys in here are so many and has so much knowledge in so many different areas that if there's anything you don't get to work, or something that isn't working properly someone will always know ;)

People pay good cash for support like that... and here it's FREE :cool:

Hope you join guys!

Two-Face
 

toph99

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Aug 25, 2000
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i was assimilated by the TA Cube 3 days ago, and it's addictive ;) it's alot of fun too(funny as it sounds) finding people who will crack, gettin old parts and making shelves of cracking machines(crack-racks) it's just fun :)
 

DanC

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Jun 2, 2000
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It isn't about money.

Everyone knows the key will be found by a pimply-faced 12 year old with a 486 DX-2 that has been cracking for 24 hours.

What we do is far beyond mere money. We'd give it away anyway.
If you read between the lines, it will be obvious what's in it for you. :)