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Sorry for the typos, this is consecutive hour number 30 of work...and no alchohol! Just a follow up question...my system at home gets shut down every night I'm there, how much work is lost each time I shutdown/restart?

Wow Mark, thaqnks for the detailed how-to. I actually already have a registered copy of firedaemon runnon on my game server, so I can see how it would be useful in this application. From (briefly) reading a (very few) posts here, mentioning "clusters", "farms", and entire offices, I honestly...

Alright guys, I'm in :mrgrn: Not that I'm a threat to any of you, starting so late in the game. Could you guys help me out the setup? I plan on putting it on the "master" system then ghosting it out to the rest. What is the best way to do this? Can I do the complete config on the master, or...

Looking into getting involved here...I do have a fair number of machines. But I need assurances that the client is completely stable and won't negatively impact the active application. I have 20 of Athlon64 3000+ machines that run 24/7 off a T-1. Would this be a significant contribution?

Nope, the T-1 and server are at the store. Usually when I'm playing I'm doing so from home via DSL. Although I could use the advantage of a single-digit ping....

My father, and co-owner of the center. Be nice to him, he's a definate noob.

LOL, listeing to Aphex Twin's "Film" right now. :P

Mostly they're into BF: V, but because we don't have that many people yet they're been playing on other people's servers. While you were on yesterday we had 3 people playing there from my place. Keep in mind our hours are from 3-10PM M-Th and 3-12 F (PST). I'll enable voting on the server, when...

Well, that was fun. Except for the crash. Someone was screwing with my AA server and brought the machine down.

2 people are on right now...c'mon in

BTW: Ping times will drop significantly in about an hour or so...I'm doing a massive upload right now.

You name it and I'll be there.

I don't like the idea of constantly altering the content of my audio tracks. I'm not an Audiophile (256-320kbps MP3 is fine for me), but that just sounds like a good way to screw up your tracks.

Well, Handruin was able to w(h)oop me...

Just finished replaing the Smoothwall firewall. Merc, The PXE server isn't for doing entire system loads...just for ghostcasting. The PXE implementation of the onboard Realtek 8169 positively blows chunks.

I'll be on around 7PM, still working on this Damned PXE-boot BS...

YES! :lol:

YAY! :mrgrn:

If I'm on IM, you can send me a message. I haven't quieted down my new rig, so it's turned off every night. Yes, the server is supporting both my customers (not too many yet) and the SR/SF crowd. I may be opening up some of the other servers as well (CS + AA, BF I can't as the bandwidth...

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...