Cracking UNIX DES Passwords with a Dual GPU Dell 7875 Workstation: ShopTalk!

Dave turns a Dell 7875 workstation with dual RTX6000 GPUs loose on an old Unix password file to see how quickly he can break an old UNIX password file from a PDP-11/70. Just to be clear for YT, no actual password-cracking technology is demonstrated or revealed within the episode, only the results, and DES is an old 1970s UNIX technology of historical interest only, no longer used.

00:00 - Intro 00:32 - Crack a password on the beast ? 03:09 - Calculate Pi to a billion places. Run it on all your comps taking time hacks? 03:37 - What about generating those fractal images that used to be all the rage. 04:13 - I want a super duper high pixel count array Mandelbrot generation without using damned biblts and do single pixel at a time calculations. 05:31 - Would creating a processing client for Folding@Home be a good task for your dual GPU system? 05:43 - Would running a distributed computing project and drag racing other computers be a good test/demo for it? 07:13 - How about a procedurally generated video/game which uses your input to generate the environment live? 07:36 - Set up as many MAME instances each running a separate game as able, and then set loose some type of AI to play each one simultaneously 08:00 - Setup two local coder models and I’d rig them up in a continuous loop with each other attempting to build an AI to play Tempest. 09:15 - Why not try to plot the general trend of humanity from 1 to 5 years? 09:27 - Can your fancy dell find a profitable market for AI? 10:17 - What would a top machine do a Diffusion image, compared to my lowly RTX3060? 10:47 - Most power buttons are a simple pushbutton Why not just use a wifi spst relay wired parallel with power button? 11:34 - Glen’s Basement channel when? 12:37 - Are Glenn and Dave as AI as the intro? 13:45 - Isn’t Joseph describing a USB Device Server? 14:40 - Dave have you written any C# with Visual Studio 2022 or newer? 15:44 - I bought a JetKVM and have not had much luck with the video and it does not support a fixed IP 16:29 - Dave, you mentioned the N-Word (Netware). I was curious what your exposure and opinions are on it? 17:43 - I would be curious about you talking ( in depth really) about your opinions on building a windows machine in 2026. 19:49 - Tailscale masterclass please Dave? 21:48 - Do you ever actually have to use the giant backup generator you have? How much of its capacity would you use with all your retro computers running? 23:12 - What process do you use to generate the audio for the clip at the beginning? 24:00 - In Excel you are typing a formula, and you want to backspace one character… why the frack does Excel assume you want to reference a cell address at that particular moment instead of letting you finish editing the formula by hand? 24:54 - Are all techies the same? We just love anything that’s mechanized, electronic or both? 26:15 - Hopefully Glenn looked in his mom’s basement for those boards you are missing ? 27:28 - You guys are great, and apparently Glen’s presence increases female viewership? 28:01 - For some weird reason, my wife likes to hear Dave talk? 28:22 - Glen, are you in the basement making content again? You are not online with the Dave guy again? 29:23 - I was all set for a Corner Gas themed Dave’s Attic…complete with table hockey?