This may not appear to be ALUG-related, but it is...
We've got a major LAN party planned for 21/22 Jan 2000, which is a Friday and Saturday. The main games will be Half-Life (inc TFC) and Quake3, servers for which run on Linux. We're expecting over a hundred people, and expect to need a minimum of 8 servers, possibly 9 or 10. There may be an NT box required for Tiberian Sun and so forth (no Linux servers).
The purpose of this mail is:
a) do any of you lot fancy coming? b) do you know anyone prepared to lend a server(s)/100mb network hubs? c) are any of you prepared to help technically?
Cheers, Laurie.
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1) Maybe - if I've not got exams that week.. 2) I've a spare K6-233 which would make a okay linux quake/quake2/HL server (I mean completely spare - can be wiped/done with as needed).
100Mb network hubs - not a chance... I'd love one for home - but I only have mainly 10 cards. Thought about using linux to switch multiple 10base2 segments?
3) yes.. if 1) isn't the case (ie exams).. If it was early jan (ie 3-4th.. maybe I could be sure).
Dan
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Laurie Brown wrote:
This may not appear to be ALUG-related, but it is...
We've got a major LAN party planned for 21/22 Jan 2000, which is a Friday and Saturday. The main games will be Half-Life (inc TFC) and Quake3, servers for which run on Linux. We're expecting over a hundred people, and expect to need a minimum of 8 servers, possibly 9 or 10. There may be an NT box required for Tiberian Sun and so forth (no Linux servers).
The purpose of this mail is:
a) do any of you lot fancy coming? b) do you know anyone prepared to lend a server(s)/100mb network hubs? c) are any of you prepared to help technically?
Cheers, Laurie.
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Laurie Brown wrote:
We've got a major LAN party planned for 21/22 Jan 2000, which is a
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There may be an NT box required for Tiberian Sun and so forth (no Linux servers).
This of course assumes that NT will run next year... I hear Excel 2000 still stores dates as two digit integers, hence my pesimism.
This of course assumes that NT will run next year... I hear Excel 2000 still stores dates as two digit integers, hence my pesimism.
I suspect thats roumer, and not fact since excel has, iirc used a proper internal representation for quite some time...
paul
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Paul Russell wrote:
This of course assumes that NT will run next year... I hear Excel 2000 still stores dates as two digit integers, hence my pesimism.
I suspect thats roumer, and not fact since excel has, iirc used a proper internal representation for quite some time...
Rumour it may be, the information came from release notes associated with Gnumeric in which it's date handling got fixed; the maintainer of Gnumeric and author of the release notes is non other than Miguel de Icaza, someone not exectly known for his brilliant PR-abilities ;-)
jg@cyberstorm.demon.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Laurie Brown wrote:
We've got a major LAN party planned for 21/22 Jan 2000, which is a
[ ... ]
There may be an NT box required for Tiberian Sun and so forth (no Linux servers).
This of course assumes that NT will run next year... I hear Excel 2000 still stores dates as two digit integers, hence my pesimism.
That's why I said "may"! ArfArf! I've got customers still using DOS5 fer Gawd's sake...
Cheers, Laurie.
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On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Laurie Brown wrote:
That's why I said "may"! ArfArf! I've got customers still using DOS5 fer Gawd's sake...
LOL. That'll be their choice and not your ability to sell then, hehehe ;-)
jg@cyberstorm.demon.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Laurie Brown wrote:
That's why I said "may"! ArfArf! I've got customers still using DOS5 fer Gawd's sake...
LOL. That'll be their choice and not your ability to sell then, hehehe ;-)
Absolutely! We're rolling out NT4 (spit) but their main platform, and I swear this is true, is DOS5 and Win3.1 (NOT 3.11), with... Novell 3.12 as file and print server. I know, but it's a living...
Cheers, Laurie.
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jg@cyberstorm.demon.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Laurie Brown wrote:
That's why I said "may"! ArfArf! I've got customers still using DOS5 fer Gawd's sake...
LOL. That'll be their choice and not your ability to sell then, hehehe ;-)
Absolutely! We're rolling out NT4 (spit) but their main platform, and I swear this is true, is DOS5 and Win3.1 (NOT 3.11), with... Novell 3.12 as file and print server. I know, but it's a living...
Don't knock Win3.1. I've just downgraded my system from that to Win98 and I am regretting it. It didn't like my CD drive or my graphics card. It doesn't recognise my scanner or my sound card. The "help" is useless. Arghhh!!!
Never mind. I am wading my way through the Linux installation guide.
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