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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Righteous1 on November 06, 2002, 04:40:39 pm

Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Righteous1 on November 06, 2002, 04:40:39 pm: Better get back to the books! :D

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/nm/20021106/tc_nm/tech_certicom_contest_dc
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Stryke 9 on November 06, 2002, 04:49:51 pm: ... Unless that IS CP...
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Righteous1 on November 06, 2002, 05:54:05 pm: I was thinking he was going to have to rewrite his encryption program! Someone figured it out! :D
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Kamikaze on November 06, 2002, 06:13:55 pm: Now if someone could give that kind of processing power to the cause of gaming! :p
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Thorn on November 06, 2002, 06:15:53 pm: hello 3000x2500 resolution (or something insane like that) 32x AA... 1280x1024 textures.....
*drools*
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: CP5670 on November 06, 2002, 09:32:23 pm: Ah, this cryptography stuff is the main application of number theory; pretty neat stuff. But any discoveries I make will probably be in slightly stranger areas. :D ;7 (fractional "derivative chains," anyone? ;7)

You're right about this though: :D

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Better get back to the books!

*grabs special functions book and tries some more problems*

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hello 3000x2500 resolution (or something insane like that) 32x AA... 1280x1024 textures.....
*drools*

have you seen the leaked Doom 3 screenshots? not quite at that level, but close enough... :D
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Sandwich on November 07, 2002, 07:18:51 am: I have 2 things to say. Number one:

[q] It took the power of 10,000 computers running around the clock for 549 days....[/q]

[q]...the remaining $2,000 to two men whose computers helped solve the problem. [/q]

:wtf:

Number two: the advertisment in the middle of that article caught my eye a bit more than the article itself:

(http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_autos/autoStyLRec2Main.jpg)

;7
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Styxx on November 07, 2002, 07:24:06 am: Pfft. From the amount of computational power employed, it looks like it's nothing more refined than a brute force approach. If the guy was really good, he'd have done it without using a computer.

:p
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Styxx on November 07, 2002, 07:25:14 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
(http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/yahoo_autos/autoStyLRec2Main.jpg)

;7

And that's indeed a lot more interesting than the rest of the news. :D
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Sandwich on November 07, 2002, 08:20:07 am: :wtf: Styxx, edit, don't spam! :p ;)
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Styxx on November 07, 2002, 10:29:34 am: Bah, feel free to lower my post count if that's the problem. :p :D
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: ZylonBane on November 07, 2002, 11:11:27 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
Number two: the advertisment in the middle of that article caught my eye a bit more than the article itself
Not mine, as I properly added /us.a1.yimg.com/ to my HOSTS file long ago. Nice how much faster pages load when they don't have to bother with the ad images.
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Sandwich on November 07, 2002, 06:52:47 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
Not mine, as I properly added /us.a1.yimg.com/ to my HOSTS file long ago. Nice how much faster pages load when they don't have to bother with the ad images.

Watch out, Zylon - your nose is so high up in the air Osama might mistake it for a skyscraper and crash something into it... ;) :p :D

*ducks hail of retorts and runs*

Actually, I recently reinstalled Win2k, and haven't had the incentive to reinstall the ad filter proggie I used to use.
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Vertigo1 on November 08, 2002, 11:31:43 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

Watch out, Zylon - your nose is so high up in the air Osama might mistake it for a skyscraper and crash something into it... ;) :p :D

*ducks hail of retorts and runs*

Actually, I recently reinstalled Win2k, and haven't had the incentive to reinstall the ad filter proggie I used to use.

block ads with my hosts file! (http://vertigo1-2.freeyellow.com/hosts.zip) :)

Win9x users: Dump it in your windows dir.
WinNT/2k/XP users: Dump it in your /System32/drivers/etc dir
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: ZylonBane on November 08, 2002, 12:06:20 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
Watch out, Zylon - your nose is so high up in the air Osama might mistake it for a skyscraper and crash something into it... ;)
I think you're mistaking me for someone else, ya lowly Mundane. :D
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Top Gun on November 08, 2002, 01:12:09 pm: I feel sorry for the people of that City (http://www.kcn.ru/tat_en/kazan/) for the bad publicity.

Edit: Zylon: If you're online can you connect to Im.
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Sandwich on November 11, 2002, 11:29:42 am: Quote
Originally posted by Vertigo1

block ads with my hosts file! (http://vertigo1-2.freeyellow.com/hosts.zip) :)

Win9x users: Dump it in your windows dir.
WinNT/2k/XP users: Dump it in your /System32/drivers/etc dir

Ah-Hah! So THAT's where the little bugger is! I'd been wondering why there were so many "bad link" ads all over the place - apparently I already have a hosts file - I'll attach it (.txt added, of course). :D

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Originally posted by ZylonBane
I think you're mistaking me for someone else, ya lowly Mundane. :D

Oh, you mean you're not ZylonBane? Golly, I'm so sorry, sir! ;)
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Ashrak on November 11, 2002, 11:45:57 am: umm 163 bit :wtf: thats it?! :wtf: they suck:doubt:
Title: You're getting slow CP5670!!!
Post by: Vertigo1 on November 12, 2002, 11:54:52 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

Ah-Hah! So THAT's where the little bugger is! I'd been wondering why there were so many "bad link" ads all over the place - apparently I already have a hosts file - I'll attach it (.txt added, of course). :D

umm...EVERYONE that uses windows has a hosts file. Thats why 127.0.0.1 is recognized by your computer as localhost. MY particular hosts file has been modified so that it blocks most commonly used ads.