The ninth ComputingStuff LAN Party
The ninth ComputingStuff LAN party was held at Ruben's (wackomenace) house on 13th April 2007 in celebration of the Easter holidays, the end of sixth form/college and start of university life.
This party came just over a year after the last one, that being the longest time between parties. University, lifestyle changes, location changes and general lazyness were all blamed for the absence of parties.
The party got off to a somewhat good start with Simon and Dan arriving first to set everything up. Simon bought along his new Apple PowerBook and Dan came with his HP laptop while Ruben was there as ever with his trusty Apple iBook. For the first time, a wireless network was available, although co-ordinating MAC addresses for access took a little time.
Next to arrive was Will at his first ever party, and he decided to make a grand entrance dragging his ancient Compaq laptop with built in floppy drive, a hard drive with less capacity than a DVD and the ability to play DOS games running in an interpreted BASIC environment...
Suffice to say, he wasn't playing too many games, except for Unreal Tournament, which he managed to get working on the brick, albeit with an atrocious resolution which meant that the crosshair was invisible.
Finally, Matt decided to drag himself out of bed and come along to the party, also bringing his new laptop. The absence of desktops really made a difference, both in terms of space and power consumption, while the wireless network made it easier to connect. The option to go into the garden was also available for the first time, although nobody made use of this.
Pizza was ordered as usual online, although we needed a little pestering from Dan and a little time while I managed to connect to my own network before it could be ordered, but it did get here in record time!
Unfortunately, Jon was unable to attend the party due to other commitments.
The party ended unusually early at 6pm due to two reasons: Simon had another appointment and Ruben wanted to go out that evening.
All in all, a good time was had by all!TM
The participants were:
- Simon (PCRanger) [Admin]
- Ruben (wackomenace) [Admin]
- Dan (slightly_demented)
- Matt (matty_c)
- Will
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