News from the Land of Nod

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Yup, it's a cooked BIOS. Shop took it back, under warranty, to send to the MFR for repair/replacement - the only downside is that it'll be gone a month. This, due to my ingrained geekitude addiction, ain't gonna fly.

Enter NewEgg Computers, my current source for most hardware stuffs, and the Epox 8RDA+. I'm hoping to have it by this weekend, along with the Koolance goodness.

What this means to you, my adoring public (*cough, cough*):

A) I'm gonna be relatively quiet for the, since home access is pretty limited (email only)
B) I'm gonna have hardware to sell (a freshly-fixed Epox 8K3A, and some other stuff)

I don't hate you. I will, however, be dedicating my CPU cycles, at home and work, to this. I'm the team lead, so if anyone wants to join up and become a peripheral crypto geek, shoot me an email or click the Join This Team link. (assuming, of course, I can remember what the password is. . . senility is the best form of encryption going. heh)

Comments

[ashengrace.livejournal.com]

Oh jesusgod. Fun! Nothing like a deep-fried BIOS to whet the cyber-appetite. That blows unholy goats, sorry to hear.

What hardware are you planning on dumping?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Definitely available:
*Epox 8K3A mainboard (Athlon/Socket A - KT333 chipset)
*Ricoh 7060S (SCSI CD-RW - 24/6/12x I believe)
*Handful of NICs (Netgear FA311/310's, a couple SMC's, a couple others)
*Chieftec full tower server chassis (charcoal, w/120mm blowhole exhaust - unless Trid claims it)

I may also have most of a P3 800 (slot 1) system, depending.

[ashengrace.livejournal.com]

I might be looking for some NIC's, possibly your cdrw as well.


I recently acquired a signifigant hardware upgrade at home, A Dell Poweredge 2500 server (no shit, don't ask how). Running Win2k server as I'm not interested in putting RedHat on the son of a bitch, but I'm looking for some goodies. Hub, few nics, that sort of thing.

What the story on the tower you have? And the mainboard?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

oh, there is one other mainboard, but it comes with an asterisk - a Soyo SY-7VCA (for P3 - socket 370), but the IDE headers on it are shot (i have both a single-channel ISA and dual-channel PCI ATA-100 controller to facilitate using this sucker)

mobo story: once it comes back from the mfr/shop, repaired, i'm not going to have much use for it.

case: trid has expressed interest in it (see previous thread), pending negotiations. the nics, however, are pretty much caveat-free. :-)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

you're aware that this is a SCSI CD-RW drive, right? just checkin.

i can bring it to C9 iff'n ya wants, along with that copy of S/D/H for ya.

[ashengrace.livejournal.com]

Right on. Sounds like me may be chatting in the near future bout the NIC's at least.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

booyah! just let me know (email works best)

Re: Oh, And..

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Cosmic GP is an in-joke the other guy and I have had since, god, 6th grade. "If we ever own a sports franchise, what are we going to call it?"

As for what it is, it's distributed encryption decypherment via brute force. RC5-64 took something like four years to break, with several million computers working on it. RC5-72 should, theoretically, be 2^8 = 256 times more difficult to break. . . even with more and faster machines working on it, it's probably going to take several years to crack. What good is contributing? If you find the key, you get a thousand bucks and some notoriety. it also is a good way to stress-test your cpu for 100% utilization, and also serves as a pretty uniform benchmark for cpu performance (CPU 1 does X keys per second @ Y MHz, whereas CPU 2 does Z keys @ Y MHz).

M-kay

[trid.livejournal.com]

I have a shibby new 2gig processor in need of a workout...how can I play?

Re: M-kay

[etcet.livejournal.com]

go to www.distributed.net
click on the cow (yes, really. the button says "moo.")
fire it up, put in your email address (read the help manual if need be)
go to the "join this team" link above.
presumably, there is a straightforward process to follow from there.
muahahahah.

Re: M-kay

[trid.livejournal.com]

Nifty...our LAN is down here at work, so I'll play with it when I get home.

Shibby...shared geekitude

[dcfeline.livejournal.com]

I'm going to miss our long chats :( Sure hope we keep talking via email ;)

No more online drinking games then, huh? ::sigh::

NOW how am I going to amuse myself at night? ::sigh::


::smirk::

[etcet.livejournal.com]

heh, you can live for a week without something that hasn't even happened anyways, i figure. ;-)

[dcfeline.livejournal.com]

Long meaningful drunken chats have on the weekends ;) As well as week night chats that were uhhhh drinking nights "in spirit"...heh..okay so it was soda.... ;op

[etcet.livejournal.com]

heh.

oh, you'll get yours. it might be next week, but. . . muahahahaha!

[dcfeline.livejournal.com]

Promises...promises.... ::sigh:: And you never put out... ::chortle::

::staples hand to forehead:: *How* am I gonna live without talking to Rafe for a *whole* week??? ::sigh:: Whoa is me... ::sigh::

[anditron.livejournal.com]

oh, i'll miss your loverly little banter and harassment