Posts by oilyfishhead

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

Whiskey McWhiskeyface

Doom: The FPS that wowed players, gummed up servers, and enraged admins

Barney Doom

My favorite was the Barney the Purple Dinosaur patch. I loved blasting that thing.

Crooks use Synology NAS boxen to mine Dogecoin, yells Dell

oilyfishhead

I call bullshait!. Especially on the 500 million coins number. These NAS boxes run, mostly, dual core Atom processors. I've tested them. They might get a 5 KH/s rate mining Dogecoin. It would take 200 boxes to get to 1 MH/s. Back in January a 1 M hash rate might have gotten you 1500 Dogecoins per day. It would take 33,334 days to get 500 million coins at 1500 coins/day. Even if you hijacked the E3 Xeon Synology boxes, it would take a lot of boxes a long time to get to 500 Million coins.

Such questions. Bad smells. WOW!

Star Trek: The original computer game

High School

I played it on an HP3000F, time shared BASIC, circa 1973. Output device was a teletype. We didn't have any of them new fangled CRT screens. Quite an addicting game, though.

/Now get off my lawn