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  Other Ryan, 17 Jul 2001 @ 10:36am

  
  

  Send him up

  We had a contractor here who took it upon himself to install the SETI client on all our servers. It took me a week to figure out that that was what was causing the cd burning software to crash.

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  Brian, 5 Jul 2006 @ 9:25am

  
  

  same thing happened to me

  I was a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio and ran distributed.net's client on around 300 P-150 clients in all the computer labs. I had to go from computer to computer to load the stealth program. after about a month of some hard core computing I got greedy and started loading the mac client on some PPC200Mhz which cracked about 5x faster than the PCs thats when I got caught by one of my professors that wanted to expell me from school. However I calmed him down and confessed what I did, they went aware to the extent of how many computers I had comendered. My team went from the bottom to top 10 in a month or 2 in 1997. Those were the good ole days. I went to the IT admin of the computer labs to confess to him and he said he thought it was cool what i did but that it wouldnt matter cause every semester they wipe all the harddrives and reinstall all software durring the break, but that I could get permission from a professor if I could get it approved as an official school project. Anyway after talked to a friendly professor in the CS dept that I had known for years, he convinced me that the project ultimately wasnt very useful, and he asked about other distro projects. I mentioned several that he considered trite (prime #s, fractals, chess), but as I was about to leave I said well in abour 2 yrear there will be a SETI project and he said yes! that would be great and would support that when it came about. I didnt stay around that University much longer due to my Iconoclast ways but I always thought it interesting that the professor who said he would of kiced me about of school too was willing to support SETI@home but not key cracking. Now I help the Hack-a-day team on Folding@home but I learned my lesson the hard way about B0rging :) Still makes a good story those were good times very cloak and dagger back then!

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