[Tigerabbit]

On the 'official' SETI team stats page, there is 1 jbiga listed. On our SETI team stats page, there are 45 jbigas, all but 1 with a number beside them that corresponds to the 'personal user' number in the hyperlink. On the RC5 team members stats, there are 7 jbigas, all with numbers that correspond to the RC5 id numbers.

Who is this jbiga, and why can't she just stick to one account?

[reader50]

Unlisted members are allowed on SETI and RC5. On RC5 they show as "anonymous" or something similiarly unimaginative. On SETI they show as blank names, nothing really.

A long time ago (about 2 years), Team MacNN did just SETI, and there was only one unlisted member. The missing guy was called "jbiga", and the stats guru of the time thought the missing name was a code glitch on Berkeley's part. He added a hack to our code so missing members would get renamed "jbiga".

I joined MacNN later, and got used to all the jbigas. So, I continued the hack, presently extending it to the newer projects as well. It appears the "real" jbiga is still with us after all (I'd thought he had moved away). The ID numbers were eventually added on so people could distinguish one from another.

If the real jbiga ever complains, I'll have to convert things over. Make it show something dull like "Anonymous MacNN Member #22" or "Secret Person Here #86" or "It's none of your business #217".

I don't know, it seems like it's a silly team tradition that adds a little spice. And that might leave visitors from other teams feeling like they are missing one of our little secrets.

Oh btw, nice portrait.

[reader50]

http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ulti...5&t=000119

Sound familiar? I didn't always know the answer.

[Scotttheking]

I wish Danometer, and all those other old guys, would come back.
It's too bad they all disappeared.

Oh well.

[rambo47]

Well that answers a question that's been eating at me. I passed that guy "jbiga" about a dozen times. I was afraid it was like that Buggs Bunny cartoon where he's racing Cecil the Turtle and the turtle keeps appearing ahead of Buggs. I also considered that maybe somebody was hacking the boards.

[slipjack]

That is a great story. Wow, we already have 'team lore' here at MacNN. hehe.

[Tigerabbit]

Tangent Man� struck again

Probably the Illuminati have something to do with it.

I know Dan, I didn't know Dan had been a member of your team.

Dan swore off of computers back in June 2001, after a major bender (in excess of 3 days straight) playing an online game called SoulXChange. He's now got a 6-month old son (our godson Sam) and is quite happy without a computer in his home.

I had never owned a Mac before he gave me and my wife Bondi and two of the cows (the 7100 and the 6290); now I can't look at a Windoze machine without gagging. He gave me his SETI account too (along with some game accounts and three email addresses), that's a lot of why the average CPU time is so high.

I'll let him know that you guys are still thinking of him.

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: Tigerabbit ]

[Scotttheking]

Please do say hi to him for us.
He was doing some stats stuff back when reader50 and I were young ones on the team.

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: Scotttheking ]

[reader50]

I had long wondered what happened to Danometer. We had been splitting stats duties at the time (Nov 2000 - early Jan 2001), this meant making the Forum milestone posts each week.

I got drawn off to the real world in early January 2001, and did not come back for several months. It appears that Dan left somewhere in the Jan - March 2001 range, but I never found out why. Somewhere around that time, the team stats code broke (Berkeley made a page code change), and there was no one to fix it. The original author (hamm) had left MacNN. Not too long after, the team site got basically abandoned as well. Misha made a few updates, then he left MacNN too.

For various reasons, it was a long dry spell for team stats (9 months?) from when Danometer left until I took over the stats code around September 2001.

It's good to hear he is still around, and hopefully not pissed at us. Do please say "hi".

[gumby5647]

i wish Misha would come back