Archive for March, 2006

Finally made the guild

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Well I've been playing RF Online for about 3 weeks and finally we managed yesterday to have enough people that met the requirements to make the guild. So yesterday RRF RFO chapter was born. Some requirements too, 8 level 30 players and 24 mil of your faction currency.

My nose is cold

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Well this weekend our gas was turned off because of a leak in the building. Saturday the flat was ok heat wise, so was yesterday. Today, it is bloody cold. No hot water either too.. They where supposed to fix it today, but it seems there is a problem and ...

XGrid Update

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Well with four nodes we have the following benchmark for John. Total Equiv CPU speed of 5.33Ghz. leitrim:~ skapp$ /usr/local/bin/mpirun -np 4 /usr/local/john-1.6.36-mpi/run/john --test Benchmarking: Traditional DES [32/32 BS]... DONE Many salts: 703404.00 c/s real, 721532.00 c/s virtual Only one salt: 670149.00 c/s real, 673392.00 c/s virtual Benchmarking: BSDI DES ...

XGrid and John the Ripper

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Well something I've been toying about with for a long time was getting John the Ripper running in a cluster. So as a little project I've been playing around with XGrid and my Mac Mini stack and getting John running. I found an old version of John the Ripper that had ...

End of an Era

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

This week was the end of my involvement with the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies. All my accounts are canceled and the toons deleted. After a the game went down hill with the New Game Enhancements (NGE) or as it is more rightly called No Game Enjoyment the guild I was ...

OMG The Noise

Friday, March 10th, 2006

So we have a new box at work for the lab, it is a Sun SunFire X2100 machine, quite sweet box, Dual Core 175 Opteron, 4Gb of RAM and dual 250Gb disks all in a 1U rack box. There is one problem with it, turn the thing on and the ...