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Million Man LAN

Posted by michael on from the half-a-league-onward dept.

stovey-san writes: "LanWar(EAST: Louisville,KY) and LANtrocity(WEST: L.A., CA) are teaming up to form one of the largest lanparties ever, MillionManLan. Check it out, both sides are to have up to 2,500 participants with linked networks for the ultimate fragfest for a total of 5,000 gamers! Lanwar 12 is starting tomorrow (Sat-Sun) with a sold out 562 gamers, so expectations are high! MML takes off on May 25 for SIX straight days!"

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  1. *SIX DAYS?!* by mewsenews · · Score: 4, Offtopic
    Hmm, let's see:
    • bad take-out food
    • no showers
    • sleeping on the floor
    • best company the guy on the machine next to you
    • staring blankly at a screen for more time than could EVER be considered healthy


    I propose they should rename these things from "LAN parties" to "Sysadmin Boot Camp".
  2. Something really cool! by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    You can get small single board Pentiums with the memory, networking, video and sound hardware all built in. There are many models of these. Some are designed for embedded use, others as industrial computers, and yet others for other purposes. Some can fit in the palm of your hand, and others are a little bigger.

    The really cool thing begins by buying a whole mess of these. Even different kinds. Modify a large tower case to contain them, and hack a high end KVM switch into the case, so that a single monitor, keyboard and mouse would be used. In other words, the thing would look like a factory made computer. Little does anybody know, there are, say, 40 computers inside.

    Some of these computers would have hard drives, and would contain all the data used by all the others.

    One of the computers would have two network interfaces, and would serve as a firewall and NAT "box" for the rest of the box, making it possible to hook up to an external network.

    One of the computers would be an X server. Its job would be to display the software running on all the other computers.

    All the others would boot various operating systems. You could run all the BSDs, several Linux distros, maybe one with your own Linux From Scratch setup, perhaps one of them would even run OS/2. Several might run VMWare or another virtualization system, so they could run more operating systems while other jobs are going on in the background. You would essentially end up with a "computer" that is actually a whole bunch of computers, running many operating systems and tons of software packages simultaneously.

    NOW HERE'S THE COOL PART!

    You take that to your next LAN party! Show everyone how you're running all kinds of applications in 20 different operating systems all at the same time, and the system stays very responsive!

    Oh well.

  3. Re:The hicks have been feudin longer they win by BigMeanBear · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd rather be a Kentucky hick than a retarded California vegan.

    since when did flamebait get modded up?

    eat me hearty

    -Kentuckian

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