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LanParty #14 - Playing Games. What A Novelty...
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From:
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Monday September 25 2000
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To:
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Tuesday September 26 2000
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Where:
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Frenchie's Residence
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Attendance:
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Frenchie
Byte
Oscar
Rock
Cosmo
Simon
Mik
Hunter
Raprex
Tim
Fuzz
Dragonball
Snuffy
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Highest:
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Hunter's Duron 700 @ 900 or so with a GeForce2 GTS. Altough there were a few other duron
650 and 700's runing around about the 850 mark.
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Lowest:
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Simon's AMD K6-2 450 with Frenchie's old Voodoo2.
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Games Played:
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Unlike the previous LAN at Byte's there were a fair few games of Action Quake 2, Quake 3,
Starcraft, Unreal Tournament, Rollcage 2, and even Starlancer played between the people
actually present. This can be attributed to the absence of a decent internet connection.
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Network:
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The network this time actually comprised of three 10/100 8 port switches but only two were
really used. Frenchie's switch was placed place at one end of the room and connected to
Frenchie, Rail, Raprex, Simon and Gromit while Hunter's switch was placed at the other end
of the room and connected to Oscar, Cosmo, Hunter, Mik, Rock, and Titan. The third switch,
Byte's, was used for the short time Tim and Fuzz, and the even shorter time that Dragonball
and Snuffalupagus were there to connect them to the network.
Gromit, Frenchie's trusty Linux box which is a regular feature, was present at this LAN and
did it's traditional duties of playing MP3's, connecting to the internet, running the DHCP
server, and sharing files. Titan however made it's first appearence at a LAN and is Hunter's
Linux box which is currently using his previous motherboard and cpu, a Pentium III 600 or so,
and was content with simply being a file server for Hunter's 13gb or so ftp...
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Comments:
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This was a far better LAN than the previous one at Frenchie's as almost all the furniture
was moved out of his 8.5m by 4.5m lounge room and five tables from Byte's church arranged
to seat 11 people and another table for the short time while Dragonball and Snuffalupagus
were present. It was worked out that if absolutely all the furiture was moved out except
for the wall unit, which can't really be moved anyway, four tables would fit along one
wall to seat approximately 10 in comfort and one table on each of the other walls to seat
another 6 people with heaps of room to move around.
On the food front a BBQ was held which again was very good...
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Photos:
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Sometime during the Lan we have Simon on the left and Mik, Fuzz, and Oscar watching The Rock do something...
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Gromit nestled in the corner on the shelf next to the stereo.
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Now at some other time we have Fuzz clutching his head, Byte looking around, and Simon pondering the universe while having a beer.
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Packing up are (clockwise from left) Cosmo, Hunter, Mik, The Rock, and possibly Raprex.
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Taken before the Lan we have the empty tables...
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The same tables from a different angle.
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Previous:
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LanParty #13 - More of a leech session...
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Next:
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LanParty #15 - Worms Rule!
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