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Messages - Kid Antrim

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LAN Parties / Greetings and Salutations...
« on: April 06, 2006, 10:04:10 PM »
Cool!  Fall will work better for me.  I bought a Harley last summer so I have plenty to do this summer.  ;)

Hope you guys are all happy and healthy!

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LAN Parties / Greetings and Salutations...
« on: April 06, 2006, 01:44:45 AM »
It's been too long.  Thought I'd drop a line.

Would like to hit a LAN down your way whenever you have another one.  Is there a mailing list I can get on to be notified?  Godspeed and I might swing down if schedules work out for one.

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Software / Tribes Vengence
« on: June 25, 2004, 06:03:38 PM »
Any Tribes players down there?  Anyone gonna get this sucka when it comes out?  I'm a Tribes 2 junkie so I'll more than likely give it a whirl.  But then... I have been driving by the sewer plant up here for the last ten years 10 times a week on my way to work, maybe the fumes have finally gotten to me...  :rolling

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Software / Battlefield 2
« on: June 25, 2004, 06:01:57 PM »
Anyone see the video for Battlefield 2 that was released at E3?  Looks pretty sweet!

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Whatever / The end of the road, a new beginning
« on: June 25, 2004, 05:58:42 PM »
I guess there are a few positives of all this.  My last day is next Wednesday, June 30th.  About 30 others from the Engineering department are departing the same day.  They needed six people to stay, I did not volunteer to do so.  It's now or never, the rest are done by the end of October so I just said the heck with it.

I have another job lined up already so I'm covered there.  The severence package is pretty darn good so I can't complain.  I'll draw double income for a while which will be nice.  I'll use that cashola to pay off some bills, that should help offset the drop in pay going into the new job.

Anyway, I will probably still play a few games.  I really want to get an Xbox and try out Full Spectrum Warrior!  Aside from that I guess I'm looking forward to Tribes Vengence.  :)

Hope everyone down there is doing ok and not faced with these cross roads in life.  It's definitely a stressful time, although it's not been nearly as bad now that I have something else to go to.

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Whatever / The end of the road, a new beginning
« on: June 11, 2004, 10:28:21 AM »
On a side note, DUG as you knew it when we completed down there at your lan a few years ago will never play together again.  This past spring broncovb killed his fiancee and then turned the gun on himself.

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Whatever / The end of the road, a new beginning
« on: June 11, 2004, 10:21:38 AM »
The time has finally come.  At the end of June, the majority of us here at GTW NSC Engineering will be losing our jobs.  The positions are being pushed out to the ODM's and overseas.  

Doesn't look like I'll be in the tech sector after this, as I'm really tired of it for the most part.  Time to pursue work that requires less BS and stress.  I remind myself of Kevin Spacey in American Beauty...  "I'm looking for a job with the least amount of responsibility possible.".

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LAN Parties / LAN-Bush! 2004 Pics are Posted!!!
« on: May 04, 2004, 02:50:47 PM »
OMG the second dude from the right looks like the skinny nerd from the movie Road Trip!   :lol



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LAN Parties /
« on: May 04, 2004, 02:48:33 PM »
I remember having a fiber backbone at our last lan up here.  Good times!  :)

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LAN Parties / re
« on: January 20, 2004, 01:56:54 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by n1c
you should have gone withe the Logitech MX 500 or 700!!! Clan A! likes them a lot :)


I didn't care for the way that one fit my hand.  It's a very nice mouse, I will agree.  I wanted one that was comfortable, accurate, responsive, didn't lose track of where it was or stutter, and it had to have a button for my thumb to set for my VoIP button (teamspeak).

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LAN Parties / re
« on: January 20, 2004, 11:38:57 AM »
Whoops!  Sorry about that.  

BTW, I ordered a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 last night.  My Razer 2100 just isn't cutting it.  I'm tired of it sticking all the time.  :(

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LAN Parties / re
« on: January 19, 2004, 09:32:17 PM »
What did i do?

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LAN Parties / re
« on: January 19, 2004, 12:23:23 AM »
My oh my...  Hulk would indeed be a good name!  The only two problems we had were power, and time.  Didn't get over till 3AM.  Power, well it was our first time in that building and that room, we learned some things.  The most important being that people will daisy chain 50 power strips together and then yell at me that the circuit breaker blew, when it was actually the first power strip in their RAID-5 array of strips.  lol  

Oh and I also got blamed for the server being down.  Uhh, I don't think so bucko, how about you get power back to that switch that 30 people daisy chained power off of and then come talk to me.  I swear, people were plugging into all kinds of crazy stuff!

Anyhow, I took some screenshots of the performance section of task manager, I will get them this week.  Here were numbers on the sever:

Peak CPU Usage - 39%
Average CPU Usage - around 20%

Page File - 4.8 gig

Network Usage Max on one NIC - .3%
Network Usage Avg on one NIC - .2%

When I was firing up all the servers initially, Windows Server 2003 popped up and said "You are out of virtual memory, Windows will adjust the virtual memory size to correct this problem."  I was like, daaaarn!  That's sweet!


What did we run?
12 Call of Duty Servers
12 Enemy Territory Servers
8 Battlefield 1942 Servers

The Hulk just laughed at it.  Never a lag complaint, never one second of server downtime.  What an awesome machine, and awesome network.  I am truely lucky to have been able to use such equipment for a LAN.

We had a team come up from Kansas City.  They were #1 on TWL for BF1942 for a year I was told, went something like 178-2 overall.  And yeah, they walked home with two video cards per player.  I didn't mind.  We scrimmed them in CoD and I think I killed one of them, once.  But I'm not sure, it could have been me imagining things as I waited for the next round to start, having been killed immediately.  Sheesh, I got a taste of what you guys got when we came down there!  What went around, came around.  lol.  It was fun though, they were good guys and totally deserved to kick everyone's butt.  Team Carrnage from Cedar Rapids actually held their own very well against them in CoD.  They tied two maps dead even, and the third one went about 10 or 12 rounds.  It was awesome to watch.  I just stood back and shook my head, clearly I could never match their skill.  Wow!

 read posted rules #5
http://www.ambushsite.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=402&page=#pid8119
Thank you:D

[Edited on 1-20-2004 by Boomslang]

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LAN Parties / re
« on: January 14, 2004, 05:45:34 PM »
I'll see what I can do.  Never hurts to ask!  :)

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LAN Parties / re
« on: January 14, 2004, 08:51:56 AM »
Quote
Originally posted by ZWarrior
WOW!  Nice to work for the sponsor huh?


You don't hear me compaining! :)  We are spoiled I won't deny that.  I am learning a lot about setting this monster up.  

Each NIC has been assigned 8 IP Addresses.  Each Game is assigned to one NIC via command line IP Address configs.  We're going to try to run the whole show (game wise) from this one system.  So basically there will be 16 servers running at any given time for people to compete on, or pub/practice on when they're not in a match.  It's quite a site, luckily I have some smart fellers here showing me a few of the ropes on this IP stuff.  It's not hard, I've just never done it.  It sure does make multiple servers a breeze.  Wow!

I will try to get some good pics of everything.  And post the results as to performace status running this much stuff on one box.  It should be interesting.  lol

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LAN Parties / re
« on: January 13, 2004, 07:38:46 PM »
Well, we finally have our hardware for the LAN.  Allow me to brag (and probably pull my hair out on saturday)

The Server
1x Gateway 4-Way 995 Server with the latest and Greatest Xeon Processors (due to NDA, I cannot disclose what they are but you can imagine...)
6 gig of RAM
65gig RAID-5 SCSI Array
3x Intel Gig NIC's

OS: Windows 2003 Enterprise Server

Games:
The three NICs have been assigned 6 IP's each.  Each game will have it's own NIC, and 6 IP's.  I've got them configured now for 4 match servers and two pub servers per game.



The LAN
1x Extreme 7i Switch with 24 GIG Ports with fiber on board

5x Extreme 48 port 10/100 Switches with Fiber Gig uplinks




That's all I can brag about I guess.

Oh, and please pray for me on Saturday...  I think I'm going to need it...  even though I'm not a game admin, I'm sure I'll be up to my neck in just about every problem that can spring up...  lol

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LAN Parties / re
« on: January 07, 2004, 04:45:50 PM »
What can I say...   They always have an excuse.  :;(:

[Edited on 1-7-2004 by Kid Antrim]

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Security / Re
« on: December 13, 2003, 08:54:31 AM »
I think the smartest course of action would be for them to relay people to the Dell website, and from there have a place where people can find info on spyware.

The big problem with this whole thing is  that companies like Dell and Gateway don't like making recommendations to a certain specific company, because then you open yourself up to a liability that either:

A) That company really isn't that reputable in their spyware removal software.

B)  Some other spyware company that you didn't know about or didn't want to list files suit against you for unfair practices (ala Microsoft style)


I agree with everyone, spyware is a bigger problem than spam now.  I have a system at work that I will have to reload because I cannot figure out how to get rid of the spyware I have on it.  It would spawn popups when I was opening Control Panel, or Windows Explorer for pete's sake.  I deleted every reference I could find in the registry, and everywhere else.  The popups have stopped but now my system crashes when the popups try to spawn and I have to reboot.  It's complete BS that anyone should be allowed to install something that is this intrusive, and I would literally like to slice and dice the people that make these programs.  They need to die a horrible death.  OK maybe that's a bit harsh but it really makes me livid...

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Security / Re
« on: December 09, 2003, 11:22:56 AM »
I don't get it.  Are people pissed because Dell won't help them remove spyware?  If the spyware wasn't installed at the factory, how can you blame them?  I have idiot friends who load all kinds of crap off of the internet that is riddled with spyware.  I tell them time and time again not to and they do it anyway.  Now I don't help them any more, I just laugh when they call wanting my help.  If they're not smart enough to stay out of trouble, oh well.  I hate spyware as much as anyone, but it's time to stop babysitting people.  The minute Dell starts helping people with all of their spyware problems, is the same instant that their overhead starts to go up, and their prices will follow.  It's common sense people.

It's time for people to stop being stupid when it comes to using a computer.  The days of tech support holding everyone's hands are over.  If you want hand holding, you can call a pay per call number now and pay for it by the minute.  I have absolutely no problems with this logic.

[Edited on 12-9-2003 by Kid Antrim]

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LAN Parties / re
« on: December 09, 2003, 11:16:33 AM »
Quote
Originally posted by Wolverine of Ambush!
HOW do you get 6 9800 XT's ?    What sold them on that...How many people usually come to your parties up there?

just curious.....


The Slam event actually had about 40 people two years ago.

As for the prizes...  fringe benefits of working in the industry I guess.  People who used to work here, now work for some of our vendors.  It's a buddy network thing.   I'm anxious to see what Nvida will volley with.  :)

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LAN Parties / re
« on: December 09, 2003, 10:26:26 AM »
Kitchen pass or not, here's what's in store:

ATI has come through. They are giving 6 9800 XT's for the Call of Duty Tournament winners, and 6 9600 XT's for the Wolfenstein ET tournament winners.

We are just waiting for the final announcement for the battlefield 1942 tournament winners (Nvidia).

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LAN Parties / re
« on: December 02, 2003, 02:28:01 PM »
What did i goof up Z?   lol

We've got some nvidia cards in the door prize category I guess.  I'm not in charge of the prizes.

[Edited on 12-2-2003 by Kid Antrim]

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LAN Parties / re
« on: December 01, 2003, 01:46:19 PM »
Here's the site:

http://www.napalmlan.com

[Edited on 12-2-2003 by ZWarrior]

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LAN Parties / re
« on: November 24, 2003, 10:31:24 AM »
Sorry gang.  There won't be any UT in tournament play.  If someone wants to fire up a pub server, that's fine.

We opted to go with the top games off of TWL, although I'm not sure what's up with HALO.  I've only played it once, not sure if I liked it.  BF is fun, CoD is definitely fun, and ET is a blast and a half.

I hate to say it, but UT2k3 just isn't nearly the game that the original UT was.  



[Edited on 11-24-2003 by Kid Antrim]

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LAN Parties / re
« on: November 22, 2003, 03:37:10 PM »
What: A LAN...  duh

Where: Western Iowa Tech Community College Campus

When: January 17th

Games: There will be tournaments in Battlefield 1942, Halo, Call of Duty, and Enemy Territory.

Details: It's still early in the planning, but we have Nvidia, Gateway, Microsoft, and Bawls on board so far.  Other sponsors are in the works.  

Tournaments and Prizes are not set in stone yet, but we're working on some very VERY nice prizes.

We're still working on details.  I will post more info as it becomes available.

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