roadrunner

yep, we can still have it around my place.

The best w/e though is the 19th/20th, as the other two seem doubtful at the moment.

The following is what space I have available -
One dining room table – fits 3 people
My computer room – fit 1, poss 2 people including me
A spare room – fit 2 too 3 people (req’s desks)
Living room – fit 2 people (req’s desks)
A big fridge for beer

Total 8 people comfortably – 10 at the maximum

I suggest my local wetherspoons is the best place to meet first before going to the killing grounds

Norman, unfortunately I don’t have ADSL otherwise you would be more than welcome to interlope.

Dizzy – Details will be sent shortly mate.

rr

HHxx

RR, floor is fine for me

From the look of things I will bring some extra-extra-extra long patch cables, unless someone has some wireless cards

H

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

Bagsy a dinning room place

H cheers for the nic card

I can do any date (given enough warning) so the 19th/20th weekend is fine by me.

Is this purely a CS thing? cause I don't have many other games, never needed them

Matt

Nimbus

Maybe we should have a few other LAN playable games on standby incase we get CS-overload.

The only decent one I have is Age of Empiers (1, 2 and conquers expansion). Very addictive too and excellent fun.

dsmith

Oh God here I go volunteering a server and it looks like we might actually need it.

The Box that is free at the moment is a dual Pentium III 700Mhz about 512Mb Ram with about 20Gb disk.

Can be built with Linux (mandrake 8.0) or Win2K Pro, or both ?

Guys that have run servers what is the best OS - may have to get it on an Internet connection (prob only 64K ISDN) before so someone can configure it up - thats unless My very own Dell Poweredge Monstor will do the trick. Size of a Shed, sounds like concorde on Take off. 2 x Pentium Pro 200 512Mb Ram. 8Gb Disk (though I may be able to add to that temporary like)

24 Port 10/100 Switch not a problem. (Please note all ports will be 10mb except mine and the servers )

Deano

HHxx

Nice one Deano But I doubt that would make much difference, thats unless I hear/see someone saying/typing "wtf?", "no way", "you lpb" etc....

The most easiest OS would be Win2k to configure, driver wise, if you use the PPro machine.

H

NM

I am running 1.2Athlon with XP OS nice and easy to interface, can bring a disc if required .

If we stick to games using the Half Life engine like TFC, DOD etc we will at least have an idea how to play them as the structure and keys are very simular. I am not up to date with Age of Empire and therefore will just have to **** people off by asking what key does what .

Cheers

Neal



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Dizzy

I should have my own intel 10/100 card.. dont know if I've got any cable but I may be able to "borrow" some from here

any of those dates should be ok atm.

whats the cov meet?

pc should fit in the back of my little scoob

rr - u must have a big drive m8

I'll bring some soft drinks for us kiddies

HHxx

Ok, I'm not promising anything with a server, but if I can "borrow" my test box I will

Problem is its a large pizza box shape 2u rack mount, I have 2 of them both duals, one 866 the other 1g.

Now going to do some hiding of equipment

H

Nimbus

Sounds like this is coming together nicely

I'll try and grab a few longish patch cables. I also have some RJ45 connectors, so we can string a few together if neccessary. I'll bring the 8 port hub as well. We can daisy-chain it to one of the outlying rooms to save on cabling.

We will probably need a few 4 way power adaptors. I may have one I can bring...

19th or 20th sounds like it's the date to go for. Any preferance for Sat or Sun? Agree we should meet up first at JD-Wetherspoons. Any preferance on timings. Need to get as much game game play in as poss, in between quick grabs of food and drink .

dsmith

I have several 4-way extensions on good long thick leads I "acquired" when we moved offices recently.

Hubs - Pish How many switches do we need

Sunday for me would be best

[STi]Magpie

roadrunner

dizzy - the drive is small m8, its waht u do with it that counts

Just had a thought - POWER!! would anyone be able to get hold of a 6 or may 10way power blocks? I only have 4ways.

Nimbus, how about creating a games list. That way we can get an idea of what everyone would want to play?

CS
RTWC
TFC
DOD
Medal of Honour - (Hopefully if we can source the game earily)
WW2 flight game - maybe microsoft combat WW2?
driving game of some kind?
More CS

rr

Nimbus

Damn, out tech'd again be Deano. I give up

RR,

Can you let me have a plan of your house and I'll draw up a cabeling plan Please draw to scale

roadrunner

Nimbus - I'll draw something up and email it over to you

rr

dsmith

Nimbus

As I'm sure you know try not to run the cables next to the power leads for more than a few meters

RR - What Internet connection have you got.

If its anytime and ISDN we can rig up a bit of communal web access for scoobynet surfing whilst dead

Deano

Nimbus

Deano,

Actually, I was going to wrap the power cables with the data ones to make it nice and neat.. That's what I do at work...

dsmith

LOL

Oh God. Scoobynet STi Meeting = "When Techies Attack"

I dont dare tell the wife yet

Deano

roadrunner

Deano - only have a dialup connection

roadrunner

Deano - could you bring two 12 or 24 port switches. One for down stairs and one for upstairs. Actually, could they also have Gb fibre uplinks. I always wanted gigabit in my home.....ermmm bandwidth

rr

Dizzy

got some 4ways I can bring still dont know where in milton keynes you are though play "spot the brown out" / "fuse the house" when 2500 Watts is suddenly drawn through 1 wall socket

I'll bring some nails too to replace you fuses
sunday would be best for me. as for games...
CS CS CS!!!!
I luv starcraft.... but dont mind playing any others
got Return to Castle wolf but thats a bit crap multiplayer.
Q3CTF? see my mad rocket jumpin skillz

NM

Hi Guys

Now we have the people, what equipment do we need other than our PC. Lets make a list of equipment we have access to and equipment we need. As networking is is foreign to me one of you guys is going to take the plunge.

I have 1.2 Athlon PC with 10/100 Network card with cable, running on XP OS.

My mate Muddy Funster is interested if there is a space. He is running P1.7 with 10/100 network card, again running XP OS. He has a 19" monitor but doesnt fancy lugging about so can anyone supply a monitor.

Also have you a flat white wall or a projector screen .

CS on a projector rocks .

Cheers

Neal

dsmith

Right

Games PC - Athlon 1Ghz 17" Monitor

Potential Server - (need to know if this will be powerful enough ?) Dell Poweredge - 2x P200 Pro, 512Mb Some SCSI disks (may add more ?) Running Win2K Adv Server. (Its Big by the way!)

1 (maybe 2) Cisco 24 Port 10/100 Switches (Soz havent got the Gig Modules for these ones
1 3Com 24 Port 10 Meg Switch + 2 x 100 Mb Ports.

1 x Spare Nic - Dlink 10/100 (plus a few ISA NE2000 in case Steve turns up )
1 x Spare 15" Sony FlatScreen (as in triniton not TFT )
1 x Random 17" - A bit of a Goldfish bowl but OK

3 x 4 Way adaptors min 5m lead (some longer....)
1 x 8 way lead.

Strangely I havent got easy access to Patch leads. We never seem to have enough.

Sod it I'll just bring the entire Loft

Deano

Nimbus

Well,

I was going to bring my laptop to play on, but if we are thinking of playing other games I will probably bring my home PC (Athlon 700 - 128 (or 256mb if I can borrow some mem from work) and Nvidia TNT2). I'll leave the 17 monitor at home though and bring a 13" (visible screen size) one from work.

Neal, I can bring one for you if you like. Not quite the same as 19" or projection though...

I also have a 3com Ethernet card that's spare if anyone needs one. Not been used for a few years but should still work.

Nimbus

Deano,

Do you have a UPS

dsmith

Doh !

Give me a couple of hours

Nimbus

LOL


Errr, I was only joking... (fearing deano will turn up with one)

roadrunner

Neal - we are nearing 8 people so far. When I get home tonight I'll have a good think on what the real maxiumum amount of people I can fit in. I'll let you know tomorrow. If there is space (which I think there is) Muddy is more than welcome to come.

Has anyone got the xbox would love to see Halo in action

rr

roadrunner

So shell we pencil in Sunday 20th Jan then. What time would you all want to come over?? 9am/10am/11am or even 8am .Anyone is more than welcome to crash around the night before - kinda like a pre-CS test day

Directions/postcode will be given once I know who is coming

rr

Dizzy

isn't sunday the 21st?

I'm up for that sunday (provisionally). I'll have 2 check my diary to see if i'm free

er.. my poor old pc 750 athlon G2GTS 400Megs(ish) 17" mitsubishi I'll bring the lot + some games.

I've got serious sam too which is a REAL laugh (I'll dig it out)

Nimbus

It's Sunday 20th.

R U looking at the right year...? 2002 you know