Going from the general to the specific, I'd say<div> - the game(s) would be decided and announced in advance</div><div> - each participant is responsible for bringing their own suitable hardware</div><div> - each participant is responsible for pre-installing the selected game and performing any other set up required before the meeting starts</div>
<div> - I could bring my old-school 16-port 10 Mb/s hub (!), and we wouldn't use IBM's network AT ALL</div><div> - in the case of BZflag, there is a server portion which can run on a suitably-configured Linux/BSD box (virtual or not) which could lead to some non-game-related discussion<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mike Pfaiffer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:high.res.mike@gmail.com" target="_blank">high.res.mike@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 10-09-28 08:42 AM, Kevin McGregor wrote:<br>
> I like the idea, and I'd definitely attend and participate! I'm not sure how<br>
> much fun it would be for some of the fuddy-duddies in the group, though. ;-)<br>
> Mind you, if the game(s) have an "observer" mode (BZflag is one that has<br>
> this), we could throw that on the projector and make it more of a show.<br>
<br>
</div> If someone knows of a game in addition to BZflag with an observer mode<br>
maybe we could make a list. This brings up an interesting point... Will<br>
IBM let us use their network if a lot of people bring in their machines<br>
and start playing games?<br>
<br>
It occurs to me we could also have an educational component to the<br>
"game night". The first item is how to set up multi-player games<br>
directly in Linux/Mac/BSD/whatever. The second could be how to do the<br>
same with virtual machines. Going from the specific to the general, one<br>
could extend these techniques to a more generic connection of networking<br>
software.<br>
<br>
> Kevin<br>
<br>
Later<br>
<font color="#888888"> Mike<br>
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><br>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Kelly Leveille<<a href="mailto:kel@kelweb.ca" target="_blank">kel@kelweb.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Mike's Warzone 2100 demo offer gave me an idea...<br>
>><br>
>> Has there ever been a MUUG game night? Perhaps we could vote on 1 or 2<br>
>> favorite open source games& use one of the meetings (Xmas Party) as a LAN<br>
>> party? We could do the round-table first& then LAN party for any who wanted<br>
>> to stay.<br>
>><br>
>> Just an idea.<br>
>><br>
>> Kelly<br>
>><br>
>> -----Original Message-----<br>
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>> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:36:15<br>
>> To: Continuation of Round Table discussion<<a href="mailto:roundtable@muug.mb.ca" target="_blank">roundtable@muug.mb.ca</a>><br>
>> Reply-To: Continuation of Round Table discussion<<a href="mailto:roundtable@muug.mb.ca" target="_blank">roundtable@muug.mb.ca</a>><br>
>> Subject: Re: [RndTbl] RTFM brainstorm.<br>
>><br>
>> On 10-09-27 10:28 AM, Sean Cody wrote:<br>
>>> We are quickly powering through our current RTFM pool.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Since the point of the exercise is to educate the group it seems only<br>
>> reasonable to find out what commands/systems the group would like to hear<br>
>> about?<br>
>>><br>
>>> That being said, is there any command/system you were always curious<br>
>> about but haven't found time to investigate?<br>
>>> What about a command you are using but you are unsure if you are getting<br>
>> the full potential out of it?<br>
>>> Any particular command you enjoy using that you think other people could<br>
>> benefit from?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Let us know and we'll add it to the pool.<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> If anyone wants, I can talk about a trio of commands. "cd", "pushd",<br>
>> and "popd". I can also give the standard lecture of how directories are<br>
>> created/removed/arranged.<br>
>><br>
>> At a later date I can give a short demo of a cross-platform game<br>
>> called<br>
>> Warzone 2100. I can even demo a GameBoy emulator (I used to run a game<br>
>> oriented BBS with a friend and I guess it's still an area I pay a little<br>
>> attention to). An admitted departure from the system admin oriented<br>
>> presentations, but a break every now and then couldn't hurt. ;-)<br>
>><br>
>> Later<br>
>> Mike<br>
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