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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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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...
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.
Wonder how many people are gonna be spending the night at the local jail because they're word processor was using an illegal key.....
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...is not very difficult.
Hmm, a bunch of geeks in a large room with an equivalent number of Athlons/Pentiums and monitors, heating up the room and bringing out the stank in everyone... do I really want to be there?
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I think I like this picture better.
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Kid-proof tablet..
I think I see a girl in that picture.. but I'm probably mistaken.
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I have always wondered why seemingly intelligent people do not understand the benefits of deoderant.
Geeks wonder why normals don't like being near them...It's cause they friggin stink!!
Every time I go to a LAN party or computer swapmeet, I just want to put tape on the top(so they are held de-pressed) of a few deoderant cans and throw them around the room like tear gas canisters.
If only they made deoderant cans that would fit a riot gun.....
...before a LAN isn't a LAN?
Or does "Local Area" refer to bandwidth in some wierd way?
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A - I didn't see even one Aqua desktop
B - I didn't see any BSD Grrls in red latex
C - I didn't see Heidi Wall aywhere
D - I can smell that room from the picture
This
It looks an awful lot like:
1. An AOL tech support dungeon
2. Microsoft's BorgCollective Coding Campus
3. The Star Trek Official Storyline Accuracy Chamber
or maybe it is Ascroft's office.
:-)
everyday seems weirder than the next,
virtros
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As pipe is probably saturated with the slashdot effect now, not really. This brings a whole new meaning to "party crashing". Michael must be taking his revenge on them for not inviting him.
Seems a little too big to be a fun LAN party. You'd seriously have to do the buddy system there. At a LAN party, I woudln't trust leaving my computer for the time it takes to instal NetBus or BackOrifice.
Nor would I trust logging into anything on that network. Probably sniffers all over the place.
I like 'em small, like at a friends apartment(or a party room) where you can just chill, eat food a few feet away, etc.
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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I'm not sure I see the point..
I see two reasons that LAN parties at your/friend's housees are better than playing on the internet:
1. See people you know and test their skills while talking to them
2. Meet new people and test their skills while talking to them
However at this large a scale, this seems almost to become as anonymous as the internet. If you join a game, you probably don't know who you're playing against and the transaction cost of finding them would be pretty high. At best you talk to the people immediately next to you.
Most of them are probably better off playing online from home where at least they don't have to walk a mile to go to the bathroom.
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The guy in the top left is looking at porn!
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
I'm not absolutely sure. That red "X" is rather impressive, however. :)
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Well, gee, if you can't even show a picture of it, I don't think I want to be there!
SIGFEH
that there is only one fan in the place (bottom right). Also, looking at the traffic graph, what happened at 8:15? Looks like someone kicked out a plug. An almighty groan must have risen from the crowd about then...
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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.
OK, I'll bite. Just what *is* the official term for that many computer geeks all in one place? Looking at all those monitors I'm thinking maybe calling it a 'phosphera' of geeks? Or maybe you just use scientific terminology and simply append 'kilo' or 'mega' to the word, i.e. a thousand geeks all in one place would be 'one kilogeek'. Any other suggestions?
Yes, I AM a computer geek and proud of it, dammit! And yeah, if I lived anywhere near there I'd probably be like, maybe, third from the left in the fifth row.
Now look at THIS picture, and ask yourself the same question.
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I agree with you - 100 % - I think the most humble I have ever felt was after seeing this intro - 256 bytes - aggh! - and it still runs under NT!
Now, I want to see the same intro in Linux - I am not sure if there is a way to make it work and stay that small or not - I am just OK with x86 ASM, but not to that level!!!
DAMN! I bow before 3 sc hardcore!
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Can you imagine the gore, blood, and assorted carnage one could achieve by running through that room with a BFG9000?
Mmmm... Pistol Whip...
there are about 5000 people here.. and we're all having a good time. here are some pictures from the floor.
Our world is shrinking...
Pushin' 'n dealin', shovin' 'n stealin'
How many times do we have to tell you... Dreamhack is a DEMO party, hosting competitions in all sorts of areas as 64k DEMOs, Wild Music, and so on. The network itself is not laggy at all, of course. The equipment in here (sponsored by Cisco and other huge network companies) is worth in the > $25.000 range.
Actually, it's television for the idiots, and computers for the losers.
Not all losers (aka geeks) are intelligent, as Slashdot proves.
You die too easily.
It _was_ a demoparty, and I used to go there, but now, to what reason? Last time I was there, there where gamers there, a lot of them, but they at least had demo competitions... I made a 512 bytes mini-intro (just for fun, there where no matching competition) with a friend...
Btw, I'l bite and answer two other messages:
There's no snow at all in Jönköping atm (or in any town in south sweden).
Sweden is a _long_ country, so this it's-dark-all-winter-and-bright-all-summer doesn't apply that much at all to e.g. Jönköping. But anyway, what does it matter when you'r in a building four days in a row, with ponly the light of thopusand monitors to guid you?
DH used to be in another, more northern town (borlänge) before, but even there, there where no snow and quite bright...
Btw, if you want to go to a _real_ demoparty, visit The Gathering in Norway!
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I guess 'sponsor' can mean many things...
According to the big screen, we are using 1.3 MW.
Stumbling in the dark
I hear slavering of jaws
Eaten by a grue.
Today it's more of a combined event: lots of gamers, and a small group of us, demosceners. The demoscene is not what it used to be... more and more people are into gaming than into demos, so when organising such an event, it's obvious you get 80% gamers and 20% sceners. It's not that much fun, agreed, but a fact of life...
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(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
Hugs
this picture kinda shows what The Gathering is all about .. It started out as demoparty in '92 and is still running hot. These days all 5k of tickets gets sold out in ~24-48 hours, so there's apparently a huge market for lanparties here in norway, sweden and other close countries :)
.. well, guess what, since this isnt your average lanparty where people are staying in small, overheated rooms (like most "hey, lets gather over at our house"-lanparties), it works out quite nicely. Most people also shower daily (guess some of you havent heard about that. ;))..
.. well, it sorta could be. But that would be boring, wouldnt it? What you usually do is that you go to the party together with your demogroup, your clan or your friends, whatever suits your need. You sit together with the people you already know (5-10-50-100) - and guess what, just on the row behind you, someone you know from IRC is sitting .. and you're meeting them for the first time ever! .. and then, suddenly, the coder of that *awesome* demo just suddenly pops by your row to say 'hi' .. you kinda have to be there to get the spirit :)
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Some people has been complaining about "the stench has to be awful"
Ok, for those of you that are complaing about things getting too anonymous
DreamHack looks really nice this year, hopefully there'll be a few good contributions to the democompos and we'll see some nice showdowns in counter-strike and Q3
.. and to end it all up; go there!
mats
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
> 3. But not the condom concession. ...
then i guess you'll only get 'em going, eh?
However,
The next big party is "The Party" in Denmark, Dec. 27-29. Some 4000 people will be there.
Their web site is http://www.theparty.dk
The computers are using so much electricity, they can't even get the lights to go on :)
Sounds like fun, until someone realizes that the snack machine doesn't work either...
When I showed the picture to my girlfriend, she thought it was a cityscape :)
Woz
Dreamhack 2001 - Nerds on a hunt for love
Funny comic-strip about Dreamhack 2001.
Yeah, I know about these - but 256 bytes is even more amazing. Thanks for some other links, though!
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My friends and I will have LANfests in a large basement - roughly 10 to 15 of us. The room is generally about half as tightly packed as the pictures of this festival appear to be. It will get to be almost 105F in there if we don't open a window, unless the air conditioning is on in the summer. Even then, it gets fairly warm. (90F-ish?)
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According to their website, on this page:
Toilets and showers
Toilets and showers are available in the hall. A crew team is cleaning the toliets 24h a day. Showers is 10 SEK per use.
Also, check out the games they're playing!
But why doesn't NT complain? I remember NT would complain of such things (I remember trying to run DOOM on an NT box one time - gave me an error about trying to access the hardware directly). This switch, as you point out, is done via a BIOS interrupt - so why doesn't NT complain? Did MS change something to allow better handling of this?
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