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It's up. All Onslaught, map rotation. bots will be added to keep at least 4 to a team. This thing is really fast. The server is running @ 216.228.25.250 Password is 'tweak' I'll be posting this same message @ SR, so you may see some of the regulars from there as well.

Well, considering I now have a T-1 at my disposal, and a dedicated UT2004 server running, let me make some firewall modifications and fire one up. Stay posted here, or you can catch me as 'ddrueding' on MSNIM or AIM.

When I was still in High School, I tried my hand at restoring a 1966 Austin Healey Sprite Midget. I wasn't very good at the tuning work (the 1996CC inline-4 had twin carbs), and I was terrible at repairing the interior, but I rebuilt the entire wiring harness from scratch and had great fun with it.

I think designing and building a car from the ground up would be a great experience. Not only can you get the lines, balance and dimnenstions exactly how you want them; but you can lose some of the crap stuck in modern cars.

I think the most fun part of my new (and ridiculously fun) job running a gaming center is teaching people who haven't played games on computers before how to do it. Teaching is very fun and very rewarding (I spent quite a bit of time helping in a 3rd grade classroom a few years ago), but...

Would you take a 9700Pro over a 9800Pro?

I hear ya. In addiditon to my 30 hours a week of normal consulting, I'm putting in an additional 42 hours a week at my new place. I had enough time to do my laundry for the first time in 2 weeks today. Sleep is further down the list.

Guardian SJ

"b" it is.....ugh. Oh, well. 3.5 hours sleep isn't soo bad...

Ugh...5AM...I hate 5AM. I need to be up in 4 hours, and I'm not tired. So do I: a. work straight through the night, knowing that tomorrow I am hosting a party from 11:30PM until 3AM. b. get smashed and pass out in 30 minutes, knowing that the reception tomorrow at 11AM would be a complete...

Freezer trick has helped me in similar situations...

Both ends are under the desk? Most allow the cable to be unplugged at the drive end as well.

Jungle sounds so much better after 2AM. Dieselboy - Invid Awesome

I've always found that unplugging/replugging the drive works fine. I've only used USB drives (no firewire).

The coolest thing about a game in 96k is that even when you are posted on /. your webserver isn't destroyed. Remember when the GB+ DARPA videos were posted? :lol:

Well, I have no idea how they did it, but the sound is definatly MIDI-based. That saves you quite a bit...

Absolutely insane. Ran great on my PC. When I switched to th task manager, it showed the .exe taking up 390MB of RAM and 70% of a A64 3000+ :o

Not necissarily Howell. The plan that Valve is offering is basically a bulk rate on the retail product. This is the one I had the highest hopes for, considering how difficult Steam is to manage in the gamecenter. But their "easy how to" is the exact same thing that I'm doing now. One of the...

No, I mean if they thought these things through, instead of just being a PITA. They've already come up with a great strategy, preventing multiple people from playing on the LAN/Internet with a key that's already in use. This is really hard to bypass and easy to implement. But then taking steps...

Er, em, yes....I guess I need to stop dismissing things without actually looking into them :oops: Sorry about that. Yes, I'm learning quite a bit here. Though I am still quite serious about the whole thing, it is fascinating even at a theoretical level.

The price/GB is staggering. According to newegg, a 147GB SCA drive is $600, with the 73GB version going for $275.

If the game writers wern't asses, making their keys incredibly difficult to change, than this would be the easy solution. However, many of the games make it so difficult that re-installing the game is the easiest way to change the key.

Thanks for the detailed post. I really appreciate the time you've put into this crazy plan of mine. I'll try to do it justice in my response. First (SPOF): A single server. Though it is a choke point, is also much less complicated than having multiple servers. If I went to multiple servers, I...

thanks

Do you have the time to go into details?

One Server with the following spec: 1x Tyan Thunder K8W 3x Intel Pro1000MT Quad Server Adapters 1x MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X 28x Seagate Cheetah 10K.6, 73.4 GB 2x 14-drive SCA backplanes (supermicro I think) 2x AMD Opteron 240s 4x 512MB Buffalo PC2700 ECC Reg. 1x Antec TRUE550 EPS12V (and something...

Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it. To be honest, I didn't even consider it...as SCSI has always = expensive.

The bartender should be able to help with that... :wink:

So you still have both mobos?

I'm glad you like it ;

This is what I'm doing right now. I could do this, but it would cost an additional $2600. Ideally there would be no hard drive in the workstations at all. I have been thinking, however, that dedicating a GbE port to each client is a bit overkill as well. Working with the numbers provided my...

So here I make one of my very few contributions, and I get no responses? I've taken so much from the group, I wish I could give more back...but this was it :oops:

4:20AM.....doing BIOS updates on systems...then re-programming the entire BIOS...this is so boring. I hope i don't screw up :eekers:

If you are happy to accept the item they sent, then they should be happy to refund the difference. If you would like the proper item, ask that they ship you the correct item and a pre-paid box to return the incorrect one. This way you keep hold of [i]something]/i] until they get it right.

Does anyone know of a motherboard with or more PCI-X busses? A couple Supermicro boards have 6 PCI-X slots, but I think they are all on the same bus. I think I'd need at least 3 busses to handle the load from all 20 machines, correct?

That would be an issue. The different companies have different policies, but the safest route is just to buy enough standard copies and not make a fuss. I already can track usage, and this move is specifically targeted at our new store (no purchases made yet). Also imagine the benifits of this...

20 games, 22 licences of each game, average cost ~$35. 20*22*35=$15,400 We don't want to pirate or steal games, that's why we're spending so much. By doing what I have described above, we are only keeing each licence of each game on one machine at a time. This is specifically to avoid...

Looks really interesting. I'm currently wading through Ghost Corperate and PXE servers, this looks like it would be better suited.

Thanks for the hint, but I'm still having issues....BOC is not my strong point...

Quite likely. But a pair servers as mentioned above with 2GB of RAM and Dual Opteron 240s would cost under $15k. If we are running diskless, that is saving me $2600 from the workstations, and not needing the GBoC 24-port switch allows me to save another $1300. The savings associated with...

What do you guys think of this? Two Servers with the following spec: One Tyan Thunder K8W With Three Intel Pro1000MT Quad Server Adapters And One 3Ware 9500S-12 Handling Twelve Western Digital WD740GDs My biggest concern is the total bus capacity of the motherboard, it only has 2...

Yes. I'm thinking about this...more to come...

Merc, I have to ask...what can use more cowbell? I can think of many things that could use less, but more?

I've had really good experiences with them. Last week I thought they had shorted me 4x A64 3000+ CPUs and some cooling fans. I called the same day and the person on the phone put me on hold for a few minutes, when she returned she had the tracking number for my missing parts on 2nd day FedEx. As...

This would be a quick death to this idea. It really becomes more feasible if there is no drive on the system whatsoever (due to the cost of drives "transferring" from the workstation to the server). I was actually playing with the idea of "swapping" the files out to the local drives (as Freeborn...

OK, I have some more time...so here's the thought (if any) behind my maddness. This proposal isn't for my current project, it's for the second store (the funding is already in the bag). The problem is twofold: 1. We are currently using 36GB raptors and they are 95% full (UT2004 alone is...

This is a very undeveloped idea that I'm hoping you guys (gals?) can help me work through. I'm toying with the idea of mapping a drive to a server, than installing a game (UT2004 for example) to the mapped drive, then playing the game off the mapped drive. Clearly this will have some...

My biggest question would be what the fabric speed is... The Dell I linked to has "Switching Capacity: 8.8 Gbps", pretty good for enrty level I think.

We burned him :eekers: