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hiamps Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4292 Credit: 72,971,319 RAC: 0 |
Where's Misfit???... ;-) Hmmm, Bet he is getting a real kick out of this thread.... Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons... And no good credit hound! |
rq2000 Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 662 Credit: 1,041,579 RAC: 0 |
Well I personally have left this thread without my opinions for FAR too long... I have read what EVERYONE has guessed and a lot of THEORIES so I figured it only RIGHT for me to post mine... A while back I read some INTERESTING things granted this was some OLD documents by a year or more but still was relevant to the conversation at hand. It had to do with the TOP supercomputers in the WORLD which NEZ was Pretty high on the list (within the top 150) I can't remember the exact number I believe it was actully below the 100 mark. Anyway, I seem to recall this specific forum attributing NEZ to a SERVICE PROVIDER and I think theat was ALL of the details that were available...I looked for more with NO luck... I do not think it has ANYTHING to do with the NEZ Pierce Indians which I Kinda wishj it did as a young boy I lived n their reservation and have quite FOND memories of it(what little of it I remember). I also don't think it has ANYTHING to do with the North European ZONE A sports group consisting of SEVERAL countries...Again a possibility but I ruled it out as well... There was an ARTIST that has some interesting pictures Eric Nesmith that aparently goes by Nez some times...again RULED out... I did however stumble across what I think is the most probable solution of all though...A computer PROGRAMMER... That had and probably still HAS access to a series of SUPERCOMPUTERS that is a MAJOR BACKBONE for tons of users all over the US. This programmer has been doing freelance work and might have just been TOO BUSY to have made it BACK to the location to do anything...being that it is on the OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY some 2500 miles away... Again my personal speculation but after looking at a few FACTS I know (which in this cases is VERY LITTLE but still MORE than most) and making an EDUCATED guess I am pretty sure this Hypothesis as to the Identity is correct. But if the person WANTS to remain anonymous I will RESPECT those WISHES and NOT post the name of the PERSON/PERSONS I believe is behind it all... Again all my SPECULATION but the more I think about it the more CERTAIN I become... I hope if nothing else my story has entertained at least SOME of you, I know I have been entertained watching this thread oer the past month. I did like the whole ALIEN obfuscation and then to Abscond with imperical evidence...FUNNY stuff...I think THAT belongs in another thread though, Conspiracy theories! Have a good day all |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
Well I personally have left this thread without my opinions for FAR too long... I have read what EVERYONE has guessed and a lot of THEORIES so I figured it only RIGHT for me to post mine... A while back I read some INTERESTING things granted this was some OLD documents by a year or more but still was relevant to the conversation at hand. It had to do with the TOP supercomputers in the WORLD which NEZ was Pretty high on the list (within the top 150) I can't remember the exact number I believe it was actully below the 100 mark. Anyway, I seem to recall this specific forum attributing NEZ to a SERVICE PROVIDER and I think theat was ALL of the details that were available...I looked for more with NO luck... I do not think it has ANYTHING to do with the NEZ Pierce Indians which I Kinda wishj it did as a young boy I lived n their reservation and have quite FOND memories of it(what little of it I remember). I also don't think it has ANYTHING to do with the North European ZONE A sports group consisting of SEVERAL countries...Again a possibility but I ruled it out as well... There was an ARTIST that has some interesting pictures Eric Nesmith that aparently goes by Nez some times...again RULED out... I did however stumble across what I think is the most probable solution of all though...A computer PROGRAMMER... That had and probably still HAS access to a series of SUPERCOMPUTERS that is a MAJOR BACKBONE for tons of users all over the US. This programmer has been doing freelance work and might have just been TOO BUSY to have made it BACK to the location to do anything...being that it is on the OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY some 2500 miles away... Again my personal speculation but after looking at a few FACTS I know (which in this cases is VERY LITTLE but still MORE than most) and making an EDUCATED guess I am pretty sure this Hypothesis as to the Identity is correct. But if the person WANTS to remain anonymous I will RESPECT those WISHES and NOT post the name of the PERSON/PERSONS I believe is behind it all... Again all my SPECULATION but the more I think about it the more CERTAIN I become... Which would make sense if "NEZ" stands for "Not Equal (to) Zero" |
Gavin Shaw Send message Joined: 8 Aug 00 Posts: 1116 Credit: 1,304,337 RAC: 0 |
I thought that I read somewhere on this forum a long time ago (and now probably lost) that it was mentioned/guessed/speculated that NEZ worked for a large company which had a heap of computers and he was running Seti on them. I think it was said to be some kind of data warehouse thing? (My memory is not too good). If this is true then his drop in RAC could be because he is no longer able to run it on some or all the machines, or the company may be cutting back on electricity usage due to increasing costs (oil, global warming etc) and they have requested that Seti no longer be run or no longer have computers left on over night when they are not being used by the staff. Just a guess. Never surrender and never give up. In the darkest hour there is always hope. |
Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
Who is NEZ? ;) It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . . |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
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bounty.hunter Send message Joined: 22 Mar 04 Posts: 442 Credit: 459,063 RAC: 0 |
I believe, like others, he was investigated in the early days and in the switchover to BOINC to see the genuineness of his setup....when a lot of crunchers had their scores taken down for cheating... Matt and Eric know for sure who Nez is.... But I'm sure their lips are sealed........;-) |
JLDun Send message Joined: 21 Apr 06 Posts: 573 Credit: 196,101 RAC: 0 |
Matt and Eric know for sure who Nez is.... Aww, man; that kinda blows up the whole idea that NEZ is a "mystery" cruncher... ;-p NEZ for prez! |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20289 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Which would make sense if "NEZ" stands for "Not Equal (to) Zero" Very much so (machine assembly language). Or Zen reversed? Or simply just Human initials? And 1001 (9 ;-) ) other guesses! Cheers, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
HA HA HA oh those are some great theories. All wrong though. ;) Although I did see a single word that was a really big clue. Oh the irony. L8R! me@rescam.org |
JLDun Send message Joined: 21 Apr 06 Posts: 573 Credit: 196,101 RAC: 0 |
Although I did see a single word that was a really big clue. If I were to g-u-e-s-s-s-s-s-s.... Nez for prez Nez is a president (of some corporation) and was recently voted out at an annual Stockholder Meeting? |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
HA HA HA oh those are some great theories. All wrong though. ;) A single word that is a big clue? Was it "conspiracy?" <ducking> |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Beware of squirrels. me@rescam.org |
Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0 |
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Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
NEZ seems to be leveling out now... There seems to be a jump every 7 days. I wonder if that has to do with the weekly (Tuesday) outage? me@rescam.org |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29834 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
Who is NEZ? ;) No, Who is who, Nez is unknown. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Dismissed/Retired? Well.......guard your nuts well........... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Allie in Vancouver Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 |
NEZ is holding steady in the 130 to 150 K range. No large bumps in his other projects so, for whatever reason, he has 80% of his processors doing something non BOINC related. I wonder what all those cycles are doing right about now. . . In a completely unrelated note, the CERN LHC is now operational and preparing for it’s first “all up†test on September 10. ;) Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein |
Mumps [MM] Send message Joined: 11 Feb 08 Posts: 4454 Credit: 100,893,853 RAC: 30 |
NEZ is holding steady in the 130 to 150 K range. Which is when the world will end as it get's sucked into a Micro-Miniature Black Hole that just refuses to cooperate and dissolve. :-) That's one project I wish had regular work to hand out when Seti got so sick on us here. I think that'd be a neat project to be crunching... |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Which is when the world will end as it get's sucked into a Micro-Miniature Black Hole that just refuses to cooperate and dissolve. :-) I thought that's what everybody said happened when Vista was released. ;) |
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