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Technical Details Behind the LAN-Party Optimized House
New submitter Temporal writes "Yesterday, Slashdot reported on my LAN-party optimized house. But, lacking from the internet at that time were key technical details: How do I boot 12 machines off a single shared disk? What software do I use? What does my network infrastructure look like? Why do I have such terrible furniture? Is that Gabe Newell on the couch? The answer is a combination of Linux, PXE boot, gPXE, NBD/iSCSI, and LVM snapshots running on generic hardware over generic gigabit ethernet. I have even had several successful LAN parties with a pure-Linux setup, using WINE."
...plenty of wine would make a Linux-centric LAN party tolerable, and perhaps even enjoyable.
Why would you ever name a device Crashman? This just seems ominous!
"Which machine do you want to use for the LAN party?"
"Oh, Crashman looks really stable."
It's like you went public beta before working out the kinks~
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That's google for ya.
Every computer using geek has an Asian girlfriend except me.
How they fuck do they do it?
You have to be white, nerdy, and socially awkward. I've got all three! Come hither, ladies!
Release early, release often. I thought that was the way we're supposed to work.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
This is a made up story by the liberal media.
Blizzard clearly stated that no one is interested in LAN parties and the whole concept is dead. Please move on. There is nothing here to see.
And afterwards you lit a cigar with a hundred-dollar bill.