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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

Pictures are available.

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ComputingStuff LAN parties

A LAN party is a gathering in which gamers gather to share a local area network (LAN) and participate in extended gaming sessions of popular games such as Quake, Doom, or Wolfenstein. On a LAN, response time among players is much faster than the same interaction over the internet, changing the quality of the game. In addition, gamers have the opportunity to meet other participants in the flesh. LAN parties range in size from a few players getting together in a private home to gatherings of over a thousand players converging to participate in a large public event.

ComputingStuff hosts its own LAN parties regularly - they are held at each member's house one by one in a rotating fashion, with each one being in celebration of a particular event. ComputingStuff LAN parties are an excellent event to meet other ComputingStuff members and socialise while playing multiplayer games, sharing files and eating pizza.

Aftermath

After each LAN party, a small article is written up, normally accompanied with pictures of the participants. These articles are posted on this page for your consumption. The articles are a very good way of getting to know more about the LAN parties and participants, especially if you have never attended before.

Participation

Participating in a ComputingStuff LAN party is a completely new experience. Never before have gaming, file sharing, eating and wreaking havoc been tied in such a way!

In order to participate in a ComputingStuff LAN party, the following points need to be met:

  • You must be an active participant in the ComputingStuff community.
  • You must be a good-standing ComputingStuff forum member (this means no board spamming, insulting others etc.)

If you meet the points above, then all you need to do is to wait until the next LAN party comes up, and sign up for it. It's that easy!

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