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Technical Details Behind the LAN-Party Optimized House

Posted by Soulskill on from the do-you-take-requests dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Desk height by Temporal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's a fair criticism. I wanted to make the desks lower but I also wanted the monitors to sit higher when folded up, and the desks were getting stupidly deep, so I had to compromise. In practice, though, people aren't typing at these desks, they're gaming, which in my experience (as someone with some RSI problems) is not as sensitive to desk height.

  2. Haha ... by vivek7006 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "I purchased 12 copies of Windows 7 Ultimate OEM System Builder edition, in 3-packs. However, it turns out that because the hardware is identical, Windows does not even realize that it is moving between machines."

  3. Re:Dude, that's lame by hpa · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As the author of Syslinux/PXELINUX I found the article rather interesting and enjoyable. :)