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Million Man LAN
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!"
Will this be a good place to pick up hot chicks??
..they'll beat the numbers at the 1995 Million Man March in no time flat.
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I propose they should rename these things from "LAN parties" to "Sysadmin Boot Camp".
Sure, lots and lots of people to play, but I honestly don't see how this would be any more fun than going to a LAN for one specific game and having much fewer people. That way competition will be good, tips will be shared, and it is a more personal experience. If I wanted to join this many people I'd just fire up my game server browser and pick one of the thousands of Half-Life games going and play there.
..or any other online game for that matter.
And also an appropriate level map for a death match of 5,000. Maybe something like downtown LA or Area 51.
;-)
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Why do they even bother calling it a "Million Man Lan" if they are only going to accept 5,000?
Seems to me they're undercutting themselves.
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Make sure they understand what CounterStrike is. If they think it is like SuperMario Brothers and they catch you guys playing it, they might consider you guys to be "at risk" for Columbine-type behavior. I'm not trying to be funny, so make sure your school administration understands what kinds of games you guys are going to play.
Parties with over 5000 people (and that's 5000 in ONE place, no cheating like this) have been around for quiet a while in scandinavia.
:)
Dreamhack and The Gathering (couldn't find a URL) comes to mind.
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> I find them extremely tedious, and full of 12 year old CS cheaters^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hplayers
Are you kidding?! This is the *dream* of CS players everywhere. If someone seems to be cheating, you can locate him, yank him away from his computer, and SEE if he has any cheat programs loaded up.
And if he does... oh the screams. The wonderful, musical screams of cheaters in agony! Screaming, sobbing, crying out for their mothers! But will their mothers come? NO! Only wave after wave of HORRIBLE, SEARING PAIN!!! I can almost hear them now...
Why no, I don't think I play too much Couterstrike.
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I don't think many are getting the reference. Means they are either too young or too old. That was a pretty lame movie, though at the time I thought that red-headed girl was pretty hot.
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We can have a lot of use for all these 200-man people (1e6/5000=200) attending that party, like sending 200 letters to congressmen, or posting 200 troll messages on /. Oh, wait, nevermind.
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
I was at DesertLAN in the beginning of Dec in Phoenix, AZ. It was the funnest ever. There was a CS Tournament, open gaming, and super monkey ball on a giant projection screen. I dunno how many people there are, but I know if work will allow me... I'll be at MML!
Who friggen cares? Just get a cable modem and play on the internet, it's the exact same experience, except you don't have to be in a room with 2000 people who haven't showered in a week.
I can see the point of getting together with a few of your friends and all playing Counterstrike (or whatever), but gatherings this large are pointless. You're paying >$50 to haul your computer over to some warehouse so you can play on some monster LAN that's as anonymous as the net. That strikes me as a dumb waste of money.
Delivery boy: "I've got a truck with pizzas here and loads of beer and red bull"
Organisers: "Alright - who ordered pizza and beer?"
I would so love to see all 5000 hands suddenly go up...
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.
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...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...
There's going to be 995,000 men there who are not gamers, eh?
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Oregon's Million Man Lan was last fall. The server admins ditched the MML2k organiser and started the Northwest Lan Gaming Association, and they're doing The Promised Lan this spring.
Obligatory disclaimer: I used to date the Parid guy, and I came up with the name. And yes, we asked the Aussies first.
Be nice to that tpl.net server, kids. Oregon/Washington gamers, please go have a look. NWLANGA wants to make this a regular kind of thing.
I don't know what your preferences are, but when we LAN party, we do it in the dark, as much dark as we can accomplish, save the glow of fifteen monitors.
But with so many people, will it be legal or safe to darken the room?
Alternatively, is it really safe to have 2500 grumpy sleepless nerds in one place?
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In reality, No.
But I know that I'd want my hot chick to be a gamer/computer nerd. Someone i can share my obsession with. Now that's a great place to meet people with the same interests.
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All of these are ISPs, but specifically geared toward gaming -- that is, low ping, ample game servers, admins available to kick cheaters, etc. Most of them have a presence on QuakeNet, for those IRC-inclined.
Someday the States will have a gaming ISP as well.
(which doesn't matter to me, my nose doesn't work, ha!), this sounds like a neat thing. A few years ago (okay, better part of a decade ago), I was involved with the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts' first Expo. (predecessor to the Atlanta Linux Showcase) We got a room down at Georgia Tech, and it was really much like a LAN party before LAN parties were common-- folks brought their own machines in and ran the demos that way, showing to the public what Linux could do, what hardware it could run on, and all sorts of cool stuff.
Now, we had a few dozen machines there, and the infrastructure was non-trivial. Finding a place to host it was tough to begin with, and then, half-way through, I found myself throwing an extension cord over a balcony because we'd blown one of the breakers downstairs. How do you power 5,000 gamers and their Uber-Gamer rigs with the overclocked Athlons and the neon lights under the hood?
We could get away with just a few cheap 10 megabit hubs, but gamers? 5,000 gamers? You're going to need more than just standard 100 megabit switches; you're really looking at Cisco Catalyst class hardware. The infrastructure to this thing, set up for only six days, must be mind-boggling. And you know how it always goes, you show up to a LAN party and there's always one guy who can't seem to get his machine on the network... Now there's a thousand of him... How do you schedule games? There's 5,000 people here, you're not gonna want to frag the same ones for six days straight...
And after you've looked at all that, how you do it all at a price that'll still attract 5000 gamers, that's the impressive part...
-JDF