Yo yo yo!

I got to (and died on) the 11th level of Descent 1. This in itself is not that astounding, but I did beat the shareware boss (FINALLY!) on level 8.

I currently have a little cluster running, my Athlon, my 166Mhz pentium and my 90Mhz pentium. All crackin' away at RC5-72. I set up my 90Mhz box running the personal proxy, with an automatic dial-and-fetch/flush script that runs at 2:30 AM my time. I also flush my PowerBook G4 thru the personal proxy.

I've added KC ("kc" actually) to my foes list, because I'm assuming this is the KC I'm thinking of. If it's not, tough.

A friend recently (today, actually) asked me why I run distributed.net. Personally I think he's just ticked that both my "new" systems, specs over there in my bio, beat the 2.53 Ghz P4 system he had (until recently) in RC5-72. I get 4.5 million keys/sec on my athlon, 6.8 million keys/sec on my powerbook. He got 3.4 million keys/sec.

However, it is an interesting question: why run distributed.net? Well here's what I've come up with:

It thought you might like this sig I came up with:

The inability to take criticism is the surest sign of immaturity. That said, you're an idiot.

(There are two parts to this JE; if you don't care about the first one, scroll down.)

PART 1:
I hate totalitarian forums because if you dare to disagree with a moderator or admin, they ban you, remove your posts, and make themselves look good.

Hey, look! A new way of getting the male vote in elections: By being a babe!

Too bad she's on a liberal platform. People are figuring out that liberals are about as useful as a toaster designed for use at the bottom of the ocean.

Of course, she could get the stoner vote for her support of legalized narcotics. (Weed, but it won't stop there.)

Wow, 30 fans! Amazing.

Q: What kind of medicine makes your hair grow real big, and stay up longer?
A: An afro-desiac.

Did you hear the one about the member of a jazz band who violated his instrument? He was convicted of sax abuse.

By now, you've probably heard about the change to the Slashdot moderation system that removes the karma benefit from the "Funny" moderation.

I already have excellent karma, thanks (mostly) to comments that were moderated "Funny". That's mostly what I post, funny comments. Or at least weak attempts at being funny. (At least I stopped with the soviet russian beowulf clusters are belong to natalie portman type stuff)

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE HUMILIATION

Barney the purple dinosaur has announced he will run for president as a democrat. While he has not yet decided on a running mate, it's being speculated that he may choose Fred Rogers. Although Mr. Rogers recently passed away, that should be no problem considering that several dead candidates have run for office recently. And he'd only be vice president.

I just posted this as a comment and thought it was pretty good.

The Windows Rap

Maybe somebody will put it to music!

-JDWTopGuy

• "Perl actually stands for the Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister) but don't tell anyone I said that" -Perl manpages
• At one time, we joked about selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science progress back 20 or more years.......We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax:

  for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2 ))P("| "+(*u/4)%2
  -Dennis Ritchie joking about the creation of C as a sick April fools joke

OK, I'm finished with the .sigs. Now I need something else to do. Well for now, here are the final .sigs for the wit-challenged.

Sorry for the long wait. Here's even more sigs. BTW, 15 fans, 3 freaks.

Wow, 14 fans! Thanks everybody! BTW, still more of these to come.

• Every village idiot has the chance of becoming a national idiot.
• Give a man a fish and he owes you one fish.
• Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
• Everybody's normal in their own way.
• Never ask a geek, "why?". Just nod your head and back away slowly.