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Dreamhack 2001
flagg writes: "One of the world's largest LAN-partys is taking place in this very moment, Dreamhack 2001 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Take a look on this picture and ask yourself a question: Do I wanna be there?"
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I just got an e-mail from NOC@ex... regarding the scheduled shutdown of service for excite@home customers (well when they refer to customers, they mean the IP's -- of whom real people are customers, so it means you too).
Excite@Home is now projecting the shutdown time to begin at sunrise (You got to love these post 911 time frames), on Dec 1 2001.
The shutdown would not be a complete shutdown. IP would be routed through a few routers that are still in place. What this means is that you'd probably be able to use the Internet still on your cable modem (unless your ISP shuts it down through pity). One good thing about this is that there would be enough bandwidth (about the speed of a 14.4 modem for everyone), for you to read mail and do basic browsing.
Excite also mentions how any reversal of this shutdown would take a month to process (FSCK, I guess they have a lot of red-tape, then again ATT holds a stake in them).
Later.
D.
wow, i've never seen a bigger collection of dorks in my life. one high school football player could physically terrorize the entire lot of 'em while one high school cheerleader could emotionally destroy all of them.
geeks!
Link: 1gbit/s to EBONE with the help from Arrowhead (http://dreamhack.swm.pp.se/) ;)
;) TP-cabels
98% boys, 2% girls
40km (we are in sweeden you know
2km tables
(Dreamhack is greate, but The Gathering in Norway is way better. (and even larger))
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tsk tsk tsk, and they cant even max it out
In the networking class I took in the 80's at IBM they defined a LAN as a network where you did not have to use a common carrier for the physical layer.
:-(
If had to cross a road/right of way, you had to use some sort of common carrier (like a phone company) you were then subject to regulations and speed limits
The network then became a WAN.
I am at the party. Momy, I want to go home. It's to big.
The official numbers is 5-6000, we did a quick scan for windowz hosts and found about 3500.
Thier are 4554 seats on the map.
Just a mile or two away from the complex is a power distribution central.
- Frankly, I don't. For me, the fun of a LAN party is being there pulling an all-nighter with my buddies, spilling drinks, making a mess, watching pr0n, and laughing it up all over the place...
have you ever been to a swedish party? this is pretty much what we do all the time! *g* the scandanavians surely know how to party.. but, unfortunately, wont be any strippers there.. that kinda stuff aint looked upon nicely here (in sweden)..- Going to these hangar Lans with thousands of people just doesn't have that kind of intimacy... it's more geared toward people that just don't have broadband access and wanna get a couple of days of some lag-free gaming in.
um.. most people in Sweden HAVE decent internet connections. and, if you have ever had gaming parties over the sunet.se backbone - you wont complain about lagand, when ADSL (2.5Mbit) is provide for a measly $25 a month (www.bonet.se)? who would be stupid enough to use a modem?
No-one. Using pirated (that's warezed for you l33t people) is not illegal in Sweden.
Distributing or copying copyrighted works is, but if you download it from somewhere, it's the person you copy it from who's commiting a crime.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
(clickable link, for the lazy) pictures of the setup of the site very cool
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
http://stat.event.dreamhack.org/
:)
;)
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Quite elite..
Arrowhead in cooperation with Ebone
in combination with a Black Diamond
I'm on an ethernet connection in Sweden, 400km or so from Dreamhack, dunno really... Downloading at around 750k/sec from an ftp inside dreamhack... hehe
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