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/dev/null/nethack Tournament 2001
bakunin writes: "Tonight (Halloween) at midnight Pacific U.S. Time, /dev/null's third Annual NetHack Tournament opens. As with past years, the Tournament is open to anyone who'd like to play. We're also open to anyone who'd like to volunteer to run a game server, since (though we have a T1 hosting the main game server) play can be slow across the transoceanic links." /dev/null is calling for volunteers to run a server; you only need a modest machine but must have good bandwidth. See below for more information.
bakunin continues: "/dev/null is a loose association of networking geeks, unincorporated and noncommercial. We make no money from this; we just do it for giggles.
The prize structure going in, as we're open to suggestions to change this during the Tournament, is:
Prizes
The "standard" prizes will go to:
- Highest Score
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Highest Score in each class
- Most Ascensions
- Lowest Scored Ascension
Since we'd appreciate volunteer servers to help speed the game play up for folks not near Oakland, California, here's roughly what you need to host:
Server Requirements
Remember, before volunteering, that anyone with admin level access to a game server box is not allowed to compete. So don't volunteer to host if you want to be a contender.
- a multi-user NetHack installation (thus, probably, a Unix of some sort; the /dev/null server is an OpenBSD system)
- sufficient speed/disk/memory to support 250 player accounts and 25 concurrent players (ours is a P133 with 64M of memory and 2.5G of disk)
- a dedicated Internet connection (our is on a T1)
- since NetHack needs real user accounts, we'd recommend that it be a dedicated system (the players will need to be entered in /etc/passwd to play on the box)
And my mother smelt of elderberries!
-DFW FP
While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.
from Passos' The 42nd Parallel
third post
Why unix geeks have such a bad reputation for being hackers...
stick it, taco
I just looked at their site...
they don't support this bullshit...
they should be hacked and hacked now...
Does anyone have any marijuana to share for Halloween?
Thank you and have an Afghan opium-filled day.
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Way to go, these loyal geeks want to play some games tonight and you just /.'ed there entire t1 line.....
Now how are all the geeks who are too old to go tricker treating but to young to go drinking gonna play nethack all night?
Hmm?
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The leggo got stuck in the drink, but HAL hehe, or something november ago'd, said, yeah playing nethack sounds like fun, but how would one know if people are cheating when playing the game, since i've never played nethack before, and most computer games i've seen have various levels of cheating, but like you said something about the moon, but anyway, yeah the point it was trying to make is that IT sure hopes the game is open source'd and someone looked at the code, as to me it sounds like it could be fun.
But the above was called a card of wolf, and yeah man, moon makes people loonie at times. 8)
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details, kinda odd that this happened on Halloween. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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