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Whoops! One last renegade RC5 machine

kranky

kranky

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Thought I had cleaned up all the PCs running RC5 when that ended but just found one more this morning!

This lowly 266mhz PC had been quietly running RC5 (installed as a service) for I don't know how long. It was a machine that was sitting in a spare cubicle for people to use when they needed to run something that took a long time so they didn't have to tie up their main PC.

Of course it had long since run out of blocks to crack so it was using random blocks. The size of the output file?...... 33.5 MB!
 
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG that is FUNNY!!!! Too bad you can't get credit for all that work, lol.

How ya been kranky? 🙂
 
George Powell, it was the RC5 that ended July 2002, so this PC spent three years of fruitless cracking. 🙂

I was pretty pleased with my results on RC5. In true geek fashion, I have a spreadsheet with daily entries of my work, along with graphs tracking my progress. (What the heck am I keeping it for? Who knows!) I didn't get in until May 2000, and in just over two years I made it to #59 on TeamAnandtech. And that was a powerhouse team. At the end I was averaging about 8000 blocks/day.

badthad, my first Heatware ref! I'm good. You bet I wish I could get credit for it! 🙂 I can't imagine how many blocks were in that file - probably a quarter-million or so. Three years, and I bet the machine was up 99% of that time.
 
Thanks to the speed calculator on the TeamAnandTech web site I figure you did about 261,705 blocks in three years. Wish I had machines that reliable!
 
Originally posted by: kranky
George Powell, it was the RC5 that ended July 2002, so this PC spent three years of fruitless cracking. 🙂

I was pretty pleased with my results on RC5. In true geek fashion, I have a spreadsheet with daily entries of my work, along with graphs tracking my progress. (What the heck am I keeping it for? Who knows!) I didn't get in until May 2000, and in just over two years I made it to #59 on TeamAnandtech. And that was a powerhouse team. At the end I was averaging about 8000 blocks/day.

badthad, my first Heatware ref! I'm good. You bet I wish I could get credit for it! 🙂 I can't imagine how many blocks were in that file - probably a quarter-million or so. Three years, and I bet the machine was up 99% of that time.
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What a waste of CPU cycles! LMFAO! 😛

 
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