OK, tomorrow morning will be here soon, so I want to put up some reminders for tomorrow. First, there will be ABOUT 75 chairs. What that means is, last year we had 76 max, I still could have crammed someone somewhere, but we have to be realistic when it comes to how many we can actually cram in. mmmkay? But, if your arriveing really really really late, you might ought to pack your card table, for just in case. You never know. Could be the biggest DFWLanParty ever :) Second, remeber that all chairs are first come, first serve. If your driving in from out of town, try to arrive at no later than noon. Doors will open at 11am for early birds (which I suspect, there will be many. Last, Brent, who is our Regional Sales Rep from Bawls, will be joining us, and he will be working his magic to make our party better in his own special way!

So, I'll look forward to seeing all you guys tomorrow! RAWK!! (oh yeah, and watch your inboxes for the newsletter, with directions and what to/not-to bring)
--Sharaz Jek

Just a quick pre-LAN update... its looking like we are going to be moving to 5v5 format on the CS tourney. So, bring your teammates accordingly. And keep your ears open, as there is going to be an announcement at the LAN concerning future DFWLanParty CS Tournaments.
--Sharaz Jek

Registration for the Januray 26th DFWLanParty has opened! This is going to be a great year of LanParty Fragging, so signup and lets kick this one off right!

OSP, the preferred Q3 mod at DFWLanParty, recently released a 1.0 version of their hightly configureable mod. it will be in the files section in a little while. Quake 3 is also up to v 1.31, which is also available in the files section.
--Sharaz Jek

Hey, since this page is destined to be here for a while, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to thank our sponsors for making DFWLanParty as great as it is!

www.myGameWear.com - for our awesome forums and the t-shirts!
www.hardocp.com - for the ratpads that you all know you love and crave!
www.bawls.com - for keeping us awake when we play!
www.phoenixcis.com - for keeping our pcs cool, full of ram, and up to date!
fishysdvds - for all the great dvds (like dragonball-Z!! haha)
--Sharaz Jek

The 2001 DFWLanParty Gaming Season has officially come to a close!! And WOW this was a great year! The year 2001 saw several new games come out that have been real hits at the LANs, and some network upgrades that have proven to be quite beneficial, but most of all, we have all met lots of new faces that we are glad to call friends. And if it wasn't for all you friends, DFWLanParty wouldn't exist, so thanks to all you guys!

Unfortunately, Crue was not able to be with us at the November DFWLanParty, as he and the wife and kidlet were vacationing in Las Vegas. While this is great for him... guess what it means for us? It means that Sharaz forgot to take care of camera arrangements! DOH! *slaps self*

So as most of you know, the December DFWLanParty was canceled (back in October, actually). I think.. no wait... I KNOW we all need a breather from all the hardcore gaming we've done over the past year, so a month off is due. I for one, am going out of town on that weekend. So, lets all plan to have nice relaxed Christmas' with all the people we care about, and lets plan to start it back up on January 26th, 2002!

Last, even tho we DFWLanParty won't meet in December, don't forget we can all hang out together in IRC! We now have 2 channels on 2 networks. They are: irc.enterthegame.com, #dfwlp; and irc.gamesnet.net, #dfwlp. The Gamesnet channel is newer, and not many people idle there, and the ETG one usually has about 20 people in there who can answer questions you might have, or be the butt of your next joke!

OK, thats it for now, we'll see ya in 2002!!
--Sharaz Jek

Regisration is open for the next DFWLanParty! And guess what..?? This party shall forever be remembered as...

"The Thanks-Mas LAN"

This will be called this for a several special reasons. 1) It will be on Thanksgiving weekend. 2) This will be in lieu of a December LAN, since we all need a break, and I'll be out of town. 3) This LAN will have an entry fee of $0.
--Sharaz Jek

I want to take a brief moment to anounce a new addition to the DFWLanParty Staff! LAYGO has been a loyal attendee for many months now, and with all the time and effort he has put into making the tournaments at DFWLanParty as best as they can be, it just seemed natrual to add him to the ranks! Congrats LAYGO! Now, Stand, and be recognized, SIR LAYGO! Oops, I mean... Now, join #dfwlp, and be Op'ed, LAYGO!
--Sharaz Jek

A most excellent LAN Party indeed! I think we saw the greatest diversity of games that we have seen in a long time! We had many great rounds of the Wolfenstein Test, the resurgance of the old favorite Quake 2 (Action! Quake2 and Nighthunters), lots of RA3, DM, and FFA from Q3, but one of the most intersting and fun games we played was a new demo of Aliens vs. Predator 2! The Alien was totaly awesome! Oh yeah.. and lots of CS!

Much too all your surprise, there are pics up from August and September are up, and hmm, even Octobers too! Aren't you proud of me?? (Sharaz officially off butt again)

Finally, dont forget we now have IRC channels on two networks, irc.enterthegame.com and irc.gamesnet.net. Both are #dfwlp. Come join us!
--Sharaz Jek

A new version of OSP came out this week, bringing us to v99w. 1.0 should be out soon! You can get is from the Orangesmoothie website, or from our local files section.
--Sharaz Jek

The new Threewave CTF mod is out, and WOW is it awesome! Inclusions and remakes of excellent previous Q3CTF maps, and remakes of several Q2 classics, this CTF mod is in my opinion, by far, the best there is! Check it out at their website! I've added the files in .exe for windows and .zip for linux to the files section.
--Sharaz Jek

Whoo Hoo! A new Quake 3 Arena patch is out for our fragging pleasure! And since I love you all so much *sniff* here is a local link for you to download it from!

q3pointrelease_130.exe
--Sharaz Jek

Congratulations to Crue and Jonet' who were married on September 8 2001! Well wishers can click here!

In case you didn't know, Crue is "THE MAN!" when it comes to getting YOUR PC onto the network! Be his friend, OR BE PACKETLESS! :P
--Sharaz Jek

Registration for the September DFWLanParty will open tonight at 9pm! Woo Hoo! If you have any questions, an excellent resource if the DFWLanParty IRC Channel. Many of the regulars and Staff hang out there, and can answer any question you might have. Just point your favorite IRC client to irc.enterthegame.com #dfwlp.

WHAT??? YOU DON'T HAVE AN IRC CLIENT??? No problem! Just click right here!
--Sharaz Jek

WE had our first serious virus threat yesterday at DFWLanParty. If anyone was infected and was not running any antivirus software, look on this page to find a free removal tool and intructions on how to clean your system.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.funlove.4099.html

I cant stress enough how important it is for each player to make sure they have current antivirus software on their pc, both to prevent bringing an infection into the lan party, and to keep your computer from being infected while at a lan party.
--Sharaz Jek

Could it be??? Could it be that Sharaz has actually done something productive that will make the DFWLanParty community full of joy that they get to see all the wonderful pics that our very own Crue slaved over a hot camera all day to take? Yes, folks, Sharaz is up and awake, and actually, as I type out this text (written in emacs on a Linux workstation JIMIX! gah!) the pics page for July'01 is already uploading. By the time anyone reads this, it should actually already be working. Click here and try?!

There have been many requests for some of the newer custom Counter Strike maps, and today I put them in the rotations on the general play servers. These new maps will be available on Zeus in the ../games/half-life/counterstrike/maps directory. The tourney will still run on the familiar maps that come with the download.

Quake 3 Arena Servers will be running version 1.29h, which will also be available on Zeus. Mods running on DLP Servers will be OSP v99-v3, and RA3 will be yer basic v1.5.

This month, Laygo will be giving a test run of the "grilled-hamburger-distibution-system" that we have been talking about for a while. Since we just trying it out, there will not be beef for everyone, and it will be first come, first served. There will still also be the standard pizza run I will make for everyone who is not first :) Depending on intrest, we will see how this goes for future DFWLanParties.

Last, everyone who is registered be on the lookout in your inbox for a DFWLanParty newsletter! Frag you guys this weekend!
--Sharaz Jek

The registration for the August DFWLanParty is now open! Click on the Signup link on the left to add your name to the list of people who will die lots in all the funnest games on the 25th!

Oh yeah, and to spite Jimix, this post was written entirely with notpad. GAH!
--Sharaz Jek

Id Software released a new Quake 3 Arena patch today, version 1.29g. It seems to be running pretty nice, so we will be using it tomorrow. I'll have it available on Zeus for anyone who does not want to download the 20-something meg file.
--Sharaz Jek

Two days away!! Can you just TASTE IT?? lol I know I can!! This week has been pretty lean on the gaming for me, as I've been making final preparations on the new cabling system for the party. All you fraggers will no longer have to bring your own Cat5 cable anymore ("...hey Sharaz... you have a cable I can borrow for today??"), which I know will be a MAJOR relief to some of you (and you know who you are... EACH MONTH!! HAHA!!). Well, that's all for now, I know I'm sooo ready to LAN it up this weekend!!

And Oh yeah!! Don't forget, you can hang out with us in IRC chat by pointing your favorite client @ irc.enterthegame.com #dfwlp. You can always find someone there to answer any question you may have!
--Sharaz Jek

Welp, DNS is now fully functional agian for the site, and that means that so is FTP. This also means, that I can now upload the pics from the June DFWLanParty! Yay!! Check them out!!

Registration should also be fully fuctional too, so if you have had problems in the past few days, give it a try now. Everything should be hunkydory!
--Sharaz Jek

It is very very likely that you are not reading this. DFWLanParty.com is experiencing some techinical difficulties... please stand by!!
--Sharaz Jek

One of our DFWLanParty regulars has taken First Place the the CPL 4 Year Anniversary Doom II Event!! Congradulations to Jason, aka Dominous! Great job man! I guess DFWLanParty can proudly say we are now home to 2 world champion gamers! Succubus, who has been attending for several months now, has also just recently won a CPL Tourney abroad in Europe. When I tell people that the competition is fierce at DFWLanParty... "no, I'm not joking." :)

OSP has also released version .99v of their Q3 mod, so grab it from their downloads page. Head over to the OSP Downloads page, and download it NOW! "osp-quake3-0.99v.zip" is what you need, its the second file from the top. Updates are mainly to make sure it continues to run fine with the 1.29 patch.

The Requirements page (linked from the Info Page) has been updated. Please take a look at it, note the changes in yellow.
--Sharaz Jek

Id Software released a new patch for Quake 3 tonight. It's available all over (even here, when I put the link up).

Its pretty possible that the new 1.29 patch will break mods like RA3 and OSP Tourney (what we use to play CTF). Ill be testing it tomorrow to see what happens. If it does, then we will be playing 1.27 for one more month until the mod authors have a chance to update their code (if necessary)
--Sharaz Jek

There is a new LAN party about to kick off in the near future! www.fragwire.com is taking registrations for its July LAN party, and for those of you into longevity, this one is for you! Its going to be 3 days long!! It will be the weekend before the July DFWLanParty.
--Sharaz Jek

OMG!! This is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time!! Saw this on some gaming forum on some gaming site, I don't remember which. LANGUAGE WARNING :) You will totally understand why. That said, CLICK HERE
--Sharaz Jek

OK People!!! If you are reading this (and you are) then that means that Registration is now open for the June 23, 2001 DFWLanParty! GO GO GO!! YOU TAKE THE POINT!!! AFFIRMATIVE!!!

UPDATE: There was a little hiccup in the registration script... so a couple of you will need to register, sorry about that. But its fixed now :)
--Sharaz Jek

Tonight is the GhettoLanParty, so anyone who is the mood for some LANnage, head over to www.ghettolanparty.com (whoot they finally got a real URL!). Signup and Directions and other info is all listed on their page. I'll be heading out there to have fun, so I hope to see many of you DFWLP'ers there!
--Sharaz Jek

Well, 415am, and another lan party has come and gone. I just want to shout out to all the participants who drug their rigs out to the red oak community center, and thank everyone for making DFWLanParty all that it has become. Without all you players, DFWLP would obvioulsy not exist! Great LAN everyone!

Oh, and there is something very weird to be seen here.
--Sharaz Jek

There have been many rumors about my whereabouts for the past few weeks, and I hear some people are saying that I was in a terrible car accident. Well, that's not even close to the truth, but I could tell you know that a long hospital stay was involved, and I've pretty much recovered 100%. That said, here are all the pics that you have all been waiting so long for!!!

I made the road trip up to OKCLanParty this last weekend, and I'll definitely say I had a great time! Up there they have a fondness for CTF... there were some vicious games of instagib CTF going on, talk about hard to make a flag cap!! Whoo hoo!! Anyway, for those of you who have not experienced the LAN that spawned DFWLanParty, you can check out their site here, and sign up for next months when their registration opens up soon!

The next DFWLanParty will be here this weekend!! Whoo hoo!!! I know I'm looking forward to seeing you all there again this month! Last month we had a HUGE variety of games to play, and this month it looks like there will be many small Classic Gaming tourneys to take part in. there are a few forum threads that mention this, head on over there to pick up the info. CS will of course make its normal return to our evening's agenda. Frag ya this weekend!!

Lastly, don't forget to click on our sponsors links! Our newest sponsor, www.mygamewear.com has shirts and hats that nearly everyone can wear and enjoy, pertaining to almost every type of game! Also, thanks to HardOCP/RatPadz, Fishys DVD Store, Cole3d.com, and PhoenixCIS, you guys definitely make DFWLanParty all that much better!! j00 guys RAWK!!!
--Sharaz Jek

Well, the attendees link is fixed (um, someone try it in Netscape 4.x and 6.x and tell me what it does), and now Ii obliviously need to workout the rotating sponsors deal, which is now gratuitously broken. I love Javascript, and so do you. :)
--Sharaz Jek

Registration for the May 2001 DFWLanParty has opened as of now. So go sign yo sef up!!

Contests for this month will be the tried and true 4v4 CS tourney, round robin format, and a new one for us this month will be our first Case Mod Contest, sponsored by PhoenixCIS. There will be a very nice prize that is definatly worth modding your case for. More details soon (as in, the rules :)

And the pics from April will be up shortly, so stop asking me in IRC! (oh yeah, DFWLanParty has our own IRC channel, so point your IRC client at irc.enterthegame.com and join us in #dfwlp!)
--Sharaz Jek

Man, I'm already counting the days until the next lan party! April has brought us an extra week between our normal 4 week interval, and I'm definitely already feeling withdrawal!

Just a few announcements about the next LAN party:
Quake 3 event - will be Rocket Arena 3. Likely 4v4 in a round robin format. RA3 has been asked for for a long time, and we will finally give it a go and see what happens! With the relatively small learning curve, RA3 is easy for everyone to play, as knowing where all the guns, ammo, and armor is never the issue.
Counter Strike tourney will move up to 4 man teams this month.
--Sharaz Jek

I've been getting a lot of script messages letting me know about invalid email addresses from the registration script. Don't forget... if you neglect to put in a valid email address in your registration, then the SQL server also neglects to keep your registration in the database. No biggie, if your registration was refused over an invalidity such as wrong email, please feel free to register again.

On another note, I rebuilt one of the Linux servers yesterday, and I must say, this is the best running Linux server I've ever built. Zoom.
--Sharaz Jek

As per request, I've posted round by round results of the "DFW 3 Man Rumble" CS Tourney that went down at the March DFWLanParty. They can be viewed here.

Code phase of the day... for those who understand... :)
"The Pictures are not up yet. Repeat... The Pictures are not up yet..."

Lastly, regisration is now open for the April 2001 DFWLanParty. When you signup, REMEMBER to put in a valid email address, or your registration will be automatially removed, and you will have to register again. There will be 70 available chairs, first come, first served, as always. Hope to frag you all there!! (um, see you all.. :)
--Sharaz Jek

*Keanu Reeves voice*
WHOA...
That was an Awesome LAN Party!!

Round Robin has definaly turned out to be my favorite tourney style. It was so awesome to see how every round meant so much to every team. It was awesome to see the lead change hands several times as the tourney progressed thru the evening. And when it came down to the last match, there was still no clear winner until after all the scored for the evening were added up. A definate nail biter! :P In the end, The Regulators stole the victory for themselves with just a 3 round lead over IFOR.

The Quake 3 "Who OWNZ DFW?" Tourney was also filled with some fierce competition. I honestly had no good prediction who would come to the top of the losers bracket, and when the final match took place for the championship title, Lost-Cause came out on top as the victor, losing only 1 match the entire day (to the winner of the losers braket, who defeated LC in the first match, but LC pulled out the win on the second match).

I should have all the pictures up within a day or 2 (my Diablo2 habit permitting...).

Last, I want to thank [H]ardOCP.com and RatPadz for the great mousing surfaces, Cole3d.com for the heatsink/cpu cooler, MyGameWear.com for the wearables, and PhoenixCIS.com for wealth of hardware that fuels our desires to tweak a little more out of pur pcs... thanks for making DFWLanParty that much better!
--Sharaz Jek

OK, we are getting settled in at our new webhost, so all the kinks of moving over should iron out smoothly soon. If you are reading this, you are seeing data from the new host, as the old host has a different copy of this page. This also means that if you are reading this, you are also now able to sign up for the March DFWLanParty. Because of the lateness of the opening of the registration, there will be no "at the door fee" of $15, and all entrance fees will be the standard $10, whether you register or not. Please note that at the time of this posting, the .dll file that sends the confirmation email out is not registered on the server, but it will still show your registration on the Attendees page.

I know this will disappoint everyone, but there are no pictures of the February DFWLanParty. Sorry. So, if you want to see the Feb. pics, click here, or go to the previous page.
--Sharaz Jek

This month will feature a new event for DFWLanParty. I'm excited to announce that this month we will have what we call "The DFW IRON MAN!", which will consist of up to 4 teams competing in 2 hour marathons of CTF. The winners get bought dinner, by none other than Sharaz Jek himself! (don't that sound enticing?? :)

Here is how the teams will work: if there are less than 20 participants, there will be 2 teams, (1) 2 hour round. If there are 20 or more participants, we will divide up into equal amounts, and there will be 4 teams, (2) 2 hour rounds.

I'll update this post again soon, and I'll list the maps we will be playing, as well if there are any other last minute twists on this one.

I'm stoked that we are finally having a CTF event at DFWLP, as its great fun for people of all skill levels, and something a large number of us can all take part in at once!
-Sharaz Jek

Here is a cut/paste of the info that LAYGO sent me on the "offical unofficial" CS Tourney that will be running under his supervision:

The tournament will consist of 8 or 16 teams. A minimum of 8 teams or maximum of 16 teams with the top seeded clans getting byes for the 1st round. It will be random seeding for all teams, so who gets the byes will be by virtue of the luck. If there are more than 16 teams, the 1st 16 signed up will participate.

The maps will consist of ALL DEFUSION MAPS (DE_DUST/DE_CBBLE/ETC)! Absolutely no other map type will be played. With a maximum of 16 teams, there will only be a need for 4 maps maximum, 3 minimum. So, maps in order of round being played are as follows:
- Round #1: DE_DUST
- Round #2: DE_CBBLE
- Round #3: DE_TRAIN
- Round #4: DE_AZTEC (if needed - depends on team count)

The rules for each & every game are as follows:
- NO OVERALL TIME LIMIT (mp_timelimit 0)
- Each game will consist of best of 14rounds, 7rnds as CT, 7rnds as T (mp_maxrounds 14)
- 3min round limit (mp_roundtime 3)
- Friendly Fire/Grenade will be on with NO punishment for a TK (mp_friendlyfire 1 & mp_friendly_grenade_damage 1 & mp_tkpunish 0)
- 30 second Bomb Time(mp_c4timer 30)
- Force Chase Cam will be on in locked mode (no Free Look - mp_forcechasecam 1)
- "Ghosting" or "Dead Talking" is not permitted & if used, results in immediate disqualification of the entire team. Put simply: "DEAD MEN DON'T TALK"
- Only team captains are permitted to talk using "messagemode1" or "say" (mm1), all other communication should be via "messagemode2"

Other issues:
- If a player's PC crashes during the match, it *WILL NOT* stop. Play will continue & either a registered sub can enter, or the player connects as soon as possible.
- Voice Communication Programs are allowed. Again, if you're dead, you're expected to be quiet.
- Any known, or unknown cheats/hacks/glitches/exploitations/attacks on other players/servers will result in immediate disqualification & removal from the lan party & banned for eternity!
- Any rulings or conflict resolutions will be handled via a panel of Lan Party Staff members & confidents.

Any questions/comments should be directed to: laygo@dethkorps.com

Thank you . . . please drive thru.

So there ya have it. Questions can be emailed to the address above, or you can meet him or other DFWLanParty Staff members and players in #dfwlp on irc.enterthegame.com:6667.
-Sharaz Jek

Call me off my rocker, but I'm pretty seriously considering going back to Windows 2000 Server for the DFWLanParty servers. Don't get me wrong, I'm not unhappy with Linux. And there is definatly the stigma of using something other than M$, but I'm finding that the power I have available in my servers is not put to good use when I use an O/S that can only effectivly be a GAME SERVER on a single ethernet card or address. And I'm less likely to lose the server logs (thru my own fault of course) in Windows. :) Oh well, im still thinking.

I plan to have the pics from the November DFWLanParty up by the end of this week (but as always, no promises :)
--Sharaz Jek

American McGee's Alice. All I can is "wow" and "stop what ever it is you are doing and go download it right now" from this link.
--Sharaz Jek

Against my normal discipline, I have decided to get off my duff before the first week has ended, and actually make a post to the site before my normal time. :)

MAN what an awesome LAN Party that was! We totally killed our attendance record with 68 people! Um, yeah, the room only holds 55. How did we do it you ask? I'll let you all in on the secret, that it had to do with breaking the law of physics that says "2 particles of matter cannot occupy the same space...". Funny part is, last month we had 55 people, and kept tripping the breakers.. and with 68 that didn't seem to happen. Yet another Law of physics broken, I'm sure.

The Tourneys that we held were also a success! The 'Who OWNS DFW?' Q3 1v1 Tourney was won by *69|Katsu, and the 'DFW 3 Man Rumble' was taken by 'Deth Korp' (LAYGO, Phoenix, and Upgrader). Both of the final matches were well worth seeing! c4.LoSt-CaUsE was unseated as our reigning champion, but only by one match. He ascended to the top of the losers bracket (put there by none other than Katsu himself) and took Katsu down in the first of the 2 matches that had to be played. But having lost the coin toss for the first match, and the first round of the final 2 that it would take to win for LC, Katsu invited LoSt-CaUsE into one of his best maps, and sealed his victory.

Our first Counter-Strike tourney went well too, the only hang-ups being that the the config I copied right off the CPL web page is written wrong, and that teams had a hard time getting their matches started on time. In the end, it came down to Deth Korp vs. Dash (dloob, Inf, and Morph). Dash lost both rounds by only 1 win. That was definitely an exciting match to watch!

Thanks to our sponsors, for providing Prizes for the tourneys! Bawls supplied cases of their high octane Guarana soda to the 1v1 tourney winners, Seaworx.com put up a battery backup unit that Katsu took home for his efforts, and PhoenixCIS sponsored Golden Orb Coolers for the winners of the CS tourney!

Anyway, the December DFWLanParty has been canceled since I'm going out of town. Phoenix is considering putting together an alternate LAN party in lieu of DFWLP, so you can check the thread here and see any info that comes out on that.
--Sharaz Jek

Tomorrow is the day! WHOO HOO!!! Yet another fine day of frag filled pleasure. :)

Very IMPORTANT that everyone keeps in mind that all seats are first come first serve. Get your CS Tourney Team together and get your butts over here Pronto! And if you are participating in the Q3 Tourney, you better also get here fast and get your spot. Keep in mind that some people are coming for general gaming only, and that those spots could prevent you from getting a seat if you are not punctual enough. Last month at the official time the doors opened, there was ALREADY 35 people there. Don't be seatless!

The "DFW 3 Man Rumble" Counter-Strike Tourney will start at 2pm. The "Who OWNZ DFW?" Q3 1v1 Tourney will start around 4. It will be difficult for someone to participate in both, and since this is only a 1 day event, the schedules will be pretty tight. The CS Tourney will run on my new PC, a dual P3-800 with 512 megs of ram, and the Q3 tourney will be running on my old box, which is a dual p3-560 with 360 megs of ram. I don't wanna hear no complainin'. hehe :)

I sent out a news letter yesterday, and I'll prolly shoot out another one this afternoon. I look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow! FRAG BABY! FRAG!!
--Sharaz Jek

We are about a week or so out from the next LAN party, and it looks like we are definitely 'go' on the 'Who OWNZ DFW?' Q3 1v1 Tourney, since the CPL Qualifier has been moved to a different day. I'm sure they were afraid they were going to lose all their players to DFWLP anyway... :P

And speaking of the 1v1 tourney, SeaWorx.com has anteed up the prize this month... and its something no LAN gamer should be without! The winner this month will take home a nice APC Battery Backup unit for their PC. So get your practice in!

This weekend several of us are taking a road trip to participate in OKCLanParty. If you can make it up, check their site! Hopefully one (or a group, depending on the nature of their tourney) of us will be bringing home their prize. >:) One of their admins has actually signed up for the Nov. DFWLP too... so hopefully his truck will not catch on fire the day before and once again prevnt him from making the trip (please note this was caused by helping a friend in need, so never ever do that).
--Sharaz Jek

Tonight is the night that Registration will open for the November DFWLanParty! Woot!! This month will feature not 1 but TWO tournaments for your prize winning pleasure (not to mention you get to have your name plastered over to the left!!). The 'Who OWNZ DFW?" Q3 1v1 Tournament will make a return, along with our new feature, the "DFW 3 Man Rumble" Counter-Strike Tournament. Teams will be "pick your own", so get your teams together and get ready to RUMBLE!!

As last month (and we saw that it was quite successful!) ALL seats at the November DFWLP will be First Come First Serve. You can ICQ me at 8132754 or come to our IRC channel #dfwlp on irc.enterthegame.com.

That is all.
--Sharaz Jek

Yesterday's DFWLanParty was yet another attendance record setting LAN Party. We had 55 people and every chair was filled. Congratulations to all the DFWLanParty players who have made this the biggest DFWLanParty we've ever had! WOOT!!

The 2v2 "Terrible 2's" Quake 3 TDM Tourney was an overall success. In the end, it came down to the team of c4.Lost-CaUsE & [KYA]Rage as our winners! Congratulations guys! They each took home a case of Bawls to drink and Golden Orb CPU coolers for their processors from PhoenixCIS as prizes!

Man we had a lot of new faces! I'm sure at least 50% of you were first timers at DFWLanParty! It was great to meet you all... I tried to meet as many of you as I could, but I know many of you got past me! We had a great showing of DFW old timers too... Clan {C4} was there in force and [K4H] boys came out,

This post was originally really long, but I guess subconsciously I didn't really want to save the changes, because I clicked "no". Then I yelled and screamed for a few seconds. I'll try and remember the rest of all the goodness and post it back up soon. :)

Oh yeah.. there was something in there about "don't forget to come hang out with us in #dfwlp on ETG's IRC network". :)
--Sharaz Jek

Quick reminder for those of you traveling from north to DFWLanParty tomorrow.... The traffic will prolly once again be total crap comming south. Your best bet will be to head west toward Ft.Worth on I20 as you are heading south (I20 will be the last freeway interchange before you get to the DFWLanParty) and get off at the Hampton Exit (second exit after you get on I20). Turn left on hampton, and take it south about 15 minutes till you get to about Bear Creek or Ovilla Rd (either of those will be fine) then turn left and it will take you to 35e again. Once you get to 35e turn right and you will be only an exit or 2 from Red Oak Road where we are.

See you guys tomorrow!!! RAWK!!!!
--Sharaz Jek

Well we are 2 days out till the Next DFWLanParty!! RAWK!!! This one is going to be awesome!! There will be a Q3 2v2 TeamDM tourney (random draw teams) and lots and lots of high caliber fast paced Counter-Strike action! With tourney prizes from Bawls and PCIS, and other door prizes to take home for some lucky gamers, DFWLanParty is gonna be the place to be on Saturday Oct. 28th!

I sent out a newsletter this evening, so everyone who has signed up to play will get it. Some of you will get it twice (oops!! sowwy!!) I'm not sure if ill blame the clicker on my mouse of the clicker button on the browser, but I'm sure its not my fault! (hehe anyone belive me? :)
--Sharaz Jek

The new Half-Life 1.1.0.4 patch came out today, and after I played it a few hours on the net this afternoon, I've decided its stable and that the DFWLP servers will be running it.

I got mine at FilePlanet... Full Version and Update Version are both there. A full list of mirrors for the file can be found at PlanetHalfLife. As Always the patches will be available on the file server at the lan party to save your the 18-50 meg download, as I know many of you are banwidth-challenged. :)

The Q3 Team DM Tourney will be running the old trusty 1.17 patch. And since lots of people have been asking, and i obviously forgot to mention this on the front page (but its been gove over many times in the FORUM... get in there and participate!!) the 2 on 2 tourney will be random draw teams. That give anyone a shot at the title this month, and the ooh ahh prize. The winners will each recieve a case of Bawls and an Orb Cooler (for what ever processor they have) for their system from Phoenix Computer and Internet Services! OH YEAH!!

Everyone also remember that all seats this month are first come first serve. Doors open at 11am, LAN starts at 12. we will run all day long and wind down at 12-1am. So no matter what # you are ont he signup list, you have a shot at a seat. Get there, and if you want it, TAKE IT!.
--Sharaz Jek

Well, even though our last one was a failure, we are once again attempting to make a presence on IRC. We have a new channel on irc.enterthegame.com, at #dfwlp. I'm pretty much always there, and if I'm away, you can post questions you may have there, and I'll get them.

Lots of people are asking about the prizes in the "Terrible 2's 2v2 TDM Tourney" at the next DFWLP, and the prizes are being sponsored by BAWLS and PCIS, and they are putting up 2 cases of Bawls Guarana, and an Orb Cooler for what ever CPU the winner happens to have. And of course will as always have the standard run of other door prizes to win too, so come on out and win stuff! :)

That is all.
--Sharaz Jek

OMG!!! [H]ardOCP.com finally put up that video we did who knows how long ago! (I think it was Augustish?) Long live RatPadz!!! Check it out!!
--Sharaz Jek

Well guys, we are about a week out from the next DFWLanParty! I'm ready to RUMBLE!! How about YOU?? :) This month we will feature a 2vs2 Team Death Match Tourney, and we have a new sponsor on board who is coughing up a prize I know I would not mind winning. :)

Today I finally took a look at a very cool feature of Windows 2000 Server, the Distributed File System. The basic premise is that you can make shared folders and files available to users under one logical share root. That way a user does not have to remember what server and/or share to drill down to to find the resource needed, they just know that the DFS root is located on \\Server. The really cool part is, not only can an admin combine all shares from a server into one central folder, you can also combine an entire networks resources into a single dfs root too. \\Server1 and \\Server2 both have 10 share directories, but they are all available under \\Server1\dfs, and the user sees them all under one folder. This paragraph falls under the "Sharaz is prolly the only one who cares about this" category. At any rate, all file shares on the file server can now be reached at \\jove\dfs. From there, if you can open it, you can use it.
--Sharaz Jek

The hardware page has been updated to reflect the new permenant changes to the operating systems of the game servers.
--Sharaz Jek

I know this will only reach a very small portion of the playerbase, but IP address of the VRGN quake server has changed. The New IP is:

208.206.231.245:27960 -=|VRGN|1v1|=-
208.206.231.245:27961 -=|VRGN|RA3|=-
208.206.231.245:27962 (private clan server, password necessary)
208.206.231.245:27920 -=|VRGN|AQ2-PiRo's Playground|=-

Unfortuatly the timeing of this switch was so that I was not able to update all the MOTD's ahead of time to let the players know that the IP change was comming up, but oh well. You got over it, right? :P
--Sharaz Jek

WOW!!! Now that's Service with a Smile!! The Pics are done, and if any of you haven't noticed, the stats were up a few days ago. GO CHECK EM OUT!!

Registration seems to be going pretty smoothly so far. I want everyone to remember several things:
1. All seats will be first come first serve this month. Doors open at 11am.
2. If all seats are open, then why should you register? Well, if you do, it only costs $10 to get in. Its $15 otherwise. And if you don't register, you wont get the newsletters and you wont know whats going on.
3. If you are Definatly comming, then definatly register! If you are prolly not comming, then definatly DON'T register! lol Easy enough?

Well, that about covers it for now, email me if you have any questions about the seating next month!
--Sharaz Jek

Well, Registration will open for the October DFWLanParty tomorrow night. Everyone who wants to, is of course welcome to register, but if you aren't totally sure you are going to make it out, then leave the spot for someone else who is.

On another note, I went out to visit the Ghetto LAN Party, and I have to admit, I had a pretty good time. I'm a really stinky CS player! lol But that didn't stop me from having fun. :) Their network ran smooth, and aside from only 1 or 7 client PC problems, all in all they have a pretty good LAN party going. I do not envy their drive out to DFW though.

For those of you who don't know (uh because I didn't make a news update yet) the outcome of the September DFWLanParty's "Who OWNZ DFW?" 1v1 tourney again brought c4.Lost-CaUsE to the top of the pack! Great job LC! And also, like last month, one of his own clansman was hot on his tail, as the last match was fought against c4.Morph. Creative Labs sponsored First Prize again, and LC has a Sound Blaster Live! MP3 on the way to his house via postal carrier. Congrats!

I should have time to work on the stats the pics from the Sept LAN tomorrow night, but thats not saying they will be done tomorrow :)

Don't forget the DFWLanParty Message forum is available for you all to post messages about what you would like to see at upcomming events! Check it out!
--Sharaz Jek

Very Important Information:

WE WILL NOT BE PLAYING THE NEW 1.25 PATCH FOR Q3 Tomorrow. There is not enough time to test it for proper stability before tomorrows LAN Party. I will have it available for you to take home, BUT THE SERVERS WILL CONTINUE TO RUN 1.17.

Counter Strike will be b7.1.

That is all. :)
--Sharaz Jek

It has come to my attention that the entire world wants to come to DFWLanParty. Well, maybe not that many, but if you take a look at the list, you will see way more than 55, which is how many chairs we have. The Registration for October 28 DFWLanParty will open on September 25, 9pm. I *might* send out a news letter to remind you, but I didn't this month or last month, as getting people ON the list has not been a problem. Its the people who go to sign up at the last minute and learn that "Oh, I'm #90."

Now, so far, we have never reached the maximum capacity of 55 in the room we currently rent. And each person on the waiting list, that has wanted to play, has been able to. That's not to say that trend will continue forever, but that is however the trend that will bump us into a new, larger building. The way I see it is, if the DFWLanParty players can fill the Red Oak Community Center 3 months in a row to 55, I would say that I could justify canceling this contract and moving to a larger place. We want to have 80-100 people don't we?? YES!!!

So, if you all remember to check the site Monday night, those of you who really want to come, but ended up at the bottom of the list this month, are now warned. :)
--Sharaz Jek

Another great road trip is comming to a close, as soon after this particular post is uploaded, I'll be packing up my PC and heading back to Dallas. Hopefully I'll make it back in time to begin recooperation before its back to work again tomorrow :)

Yesterday was a fun filled day of Classic CTF, lots of 1v1, Freakball, and some CS (they dont seem to play that as much in Oklahoma as we do in Dallas). We had a giant game of about 20 on 20 CCTF, and unfortunatly that mod is apparently pretty bandwidth intensive, as it lagged out pretty bad. But we all played on, and had a pretty fun round of total bedlam. You pretty much could not run anywhere there was not a rockey flying to! And the nailgun is definatly something to be desired! CCTF turned out to have some redeeming qualities!

Along with me on the trip to OKC, were Escher and Riboflavin. And we got ourselves tied up in a challenge with the staff from another Texas LAN Party, SystemAddicts LAN from Amarillo. Took some screencaps of the matches. Brutal.

And more in the JavaScript forage, as you can see on the left side, the sponsor links now rotate. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time, but have never had anyone to show me anything that knew anything. SoulPig helped with the pictures script on the Previous page, and {OLP}Timberwolf gave the script for the rotating links.

Last, we are a week out from the next DFWLanParty, so for all you people who registered, look for a newsletter in your mailbox tomorrow night. If anyone needs to cancel, please let me know ahead of time to I can let the those who were not as fast as you know that there is a spot open for them.
--Sharaz Jek

I have finally found time to update the pictures page with the big versions of the thumbnails that have been there for a week or so. Until I learn how to make the Javascript compatible with Netscape, you will have to Use Internet Exploder for the time being.
--Sharaz Jek

OMG!!! The September DFWLanParty's Registration page has been available for only 7 days... and look at it! WOW! A couple people have mentioned that they never got an invitation to come signup... sorry, but I've not been sending them out (uh, not been needing to! lol). I guess I used the phrase "sorry dude... but watch the website Monday morning and signup as soon as you can, and you'll get in next month" too many times, as they all did just that.
--Sharaz Jek

The stats from the August DFWLanParty are up. Go to the Previous page to see them. They don't seem to have parsed totally accurately, but hey, you begged and begged for them. Don't blame me if it says you scored fewer kills then you actually did. Write me a new program from the ground up that does it correctly, and then I'll listen to you whine. :) I'll hopefully have the pics finished today too, the thumbnails page is already up.

At the September DFWLanParty, we will again hold the "Who Ownz DFW?" Quake 3 Tournament. The first one seemed to run pretty well, and I already know of several things I plan to do differently to make it run even better next month (hehe, like how to make it not take 6 hours!).
--Sharaz Jek

Ok, the bug has been squashed. An unforeseen problem arose at the 10th registration, but now the script works properly. Mad Props go out to Swifty|SXE, who is responsible for all the automated registration scripts we see in the registration section. There is actually a lot more to it than the players see... there is a ton of stuff I can do now to manage the player database online. So get those spots while they last!
--Sharaz Jek

Inferno helped me find a little bug in the new registration script, so I had to pull it back down. I hope to have registration back up tonight. Sorry guys!
--Sharaz Jek

The first section of the new pics is up. Its just thumbnails for now until I get the viewer worked out (its gonna be kinda cool :)

Uh, no I wasn't working the whole time like I said I would be.
--Sharaz Jek

Well, that was an AWESOME LAN Party!!! We had our first organized tournament, and I must say it went as smoothly as I could have asked. The undefeated champion of the day was c4.LoSt-CaUsE, who took home a sweet Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer, donated by Creative Labs. And we also had a new attendance record, with the DHCP log showing 46 computers. We only lost 1 circuit breaker (uh, 2 times!) but there was like 12 people on it DUH! After we balanced out the load a little, it was smooth sailing the rest of the day.

We had some awesome door prizes that were passed out too: some nice Aiwa headphones, a couple Rat Pads from HardOCP.com, the top 2 finishers in the Tournament got a case of Bawls each, and Creative Labs had some T-shirts to give out too.

The registration for next month will likely open sometime tonight.

I'm now officially sat down to work on the web page. Hopefully I still posses pics from the July party. I definitely have pics from August. I definitely have logs from CS. The logs from the Q3 tourney may be screwed. The logs from the other Q3 server are probably ok, even though I've not yet looked at them.
--Sharaz Jek

Well, we are just a few days out, and I know I'm ready to rock! This should turn out to be our best LAN party yet! There have been several cancellations, and that means many people have moved onto the guaranteed list, so be sure you check your name to see if you are in. If not, then you can try for one of the 1pm "up for grabs" seats. At ever party in the past, there has always been seats, so if you were on the sign-up list, you got an email with my cell phone # in it. Give me a call at 1pm and I'll let you guys know what's up as far as empty seats.

Servers are running pretty clean, the problems we had last month with connections being denied to the file server have been cleared up. Should be smooth sailing. All the Quake Servers have been updated (ACTF v1.3, OSP v.99d, RA3 v1.3), Counter Strike is at b6.8 (who knows what bugs they have killed and caused with the new release). Unreal Tournament has been added to the lineup (not sure who requested it, we will see if it gets any play this month, and the Quake 2 servers were (ahem!) collecting some rust from age, so I got them ready for play too. And yes, I finally got the logs working for CS, so maybe this time around we can have some CS logs to gloat over.

This non-one line post is not dedicated to Ribo (he only likes 1 liners)
--Sharaz Jek

Wow, look how full the Attendees list is. (translate=look how long the waiting list is... 56 and higher is "on the waiting list")
--Sharaz Jek

I've updated the info page. Ribo hates one line posts.
--Sharaz Jek

Completed some server upgrades today. Both the CS server and my Dual P3 workstation got 3Com 3c905ctx NICs today. Parallel tasking means higher through put with lower CPU utilization! Then we pass the savings on to you!!! (uh, forget that...) Q3 server has had one for a while, and it has worked so well that I thought more of the same could not hurt.

Sent out a newsletter tonight, and within just a couple of minutes, delivery failure notices started appearing in my inbox. Registrants with invalid email address, who have not spoken to me in person, are the first ones to make room for people to move up on the waiting list. Replying to the DFWLanParty Newsletter is the absolute best way to keep communication above between you and me, and unless you have taken it upon yourself to let me know another way that you are in fact still coming, no confirmation and invalid email earns you the "boot" :) There's always next month!
--Sharaz Jek

WOW! Look at the explosion of registrations we have for the August 2000 DFWLanParty! I guess I should take a moment and remind everyone that the first 55 people on the list will have their seats guarantees until 1pm. After 1pm, any remaining seat will be "first come first serve." I also want to have the Q3 1v1 tourney under way by 4pm, so late comer's keep that in mind. There will be another DFWLP newsletter going out in the next few days reminding players to let me know about any cancellation, so I can release your spot to another player. :)

And bad news to all the people who have been asking me about stats for the July lan party. The logs are no where to be found. Oh well, we can all gloat in August when I dont (uh format them) lose the logs somehow.
--Sharaz Jek

The first section of pics from previous lan parties is back up. follow the Previous link and you can see them there.
--Sharaz Jek

Well, here is the new site design! I'm totally excited to have something new for dfwlanparty.com. I built this new design from the ground up with Dreamweaver 3, and needless to say, I'm very happy with the way the site turned out. I've been bouncing this idea around for some time now, and I finally put it into html! Just so you will all know, link here and there may not work for a few days till I finish up the updates. If a broken link does not seem to work after a few days, feel free to email me and let me know. :)

Someone on a modem email me and let me know how much faster the page loads (which i certainly hope it does! lol)
--Sharaz Jek

I'm pretty seriously considering holding a tournament of some sort at the next DFWLanParty (yes there will be a cool prize). Most likely a Q3 tournament. Prolly double elimination. If we can get at least 16 people involved, then I think it would be fun enough to be worth the time and effort it would take to run it. There is a topic in the message forum on this here.

On the technical front, I have unfortunately devised the perfect set of instructions for installing Win2k on a Promise Fasttrak66 RAID controller (works the same way for a modded Ultra66 controller too). I had the unfortunate pleasure of having my computer put in a state where it needed a reload (not by me *grr*), and I was up till 3 this morning remembering the steps it takes to install Win2k. My adventures are posted here.

Well, that's all for now, this non 1-sentence post is dedicated to Riboflavin!
--Sharaz Jek

Went to the early setup for QuakeCon 2000 last night, and not surprisingly, they ended up delaying the door opening (typical?) until like after 10pm. So Quinton and I get in there, and we meet up with Rage, -dloob-, Inferno, and Lost-Cause (LC seemed to be having trouble keeping people from sneezing and spraying on his PC?). We also saw some non-local-yokels, such as {KYA}LABTYD, Gabriel{AoA}, Trinity{AoA}, and Mitzkrieg (other folks who prowl the T2K message board forums). Also saw a couple of my Okla-homies, Despite and Epoth from OKCLanParty. And that was only the first night of the early setups, so I'm fairly sure I'll be seeing more and more of all our pals soon.

So last night, when we were setting up, they hand out a sheet pf paper to each registrant, and on it, I was very surprised to see the IP address that was manually assigned to me. ??? So then some one tells me that "oh yeah... they don't want DHCP cuz it slows down the network!" Now theres something I've never heard before! Not sure if I agree, but on well.

I'm at work right now, fun huh? After leaving a 1000 person LAN party and dragging yourself out of bed, hehe, its hard to focus your priorities :) Anyway, I'm going straight back after work tonight, so I'll update you all again tomorrow!
--Sharaz Jek

File server got an upgrade today. Added a 60GB hard drive, bringing the new figure to 126 gigs of available hard drive space (swapped out the 27 that was in there) WOW! Thas a lota puddin!

For all you schmucks who keep icq bombing me about the stats and pics, I should have them up sunday night, but the more emails and icqs I have to answer on the subject, disctracts me from the task at hand... hehe

What a great LAN party!!! 12 hours straight of all the gibbing goodness a person can handle, and pizza to boot! hehe. So did we all have fun? I know I sure did. Can't wait to do it all again next month.

The server's DHCP log showed a new record for total clients, comming in at 42! Last month we had 39. DFWLanParty keeps on growing and growing, and its all because of you guys! Thanks for helping us to become what we are! I'm not totally sure to be honest, but I think DFWLanParty has grown to the largest regular LAN party in the Dallas area (and if we arnt now, we will be soon!). Each month since weve moved to the new room, weve had more players than the previous month, and thats cool.

A real big shout out and Thank You to Elbarak, owner of Seaworx.com. Seaworx.com supplied all the soda that kept you from being thisty as you ate pizza! Thanks Elbarak!! And also wanna thank Riboflavin, Pussywiggle, Knight, Mr. Cool,

Registration will be open for next months fest soon, so keep an eye on the signup page. There will also be pics and stats uploaded soon too, and I'll update those pages too. Oh yeah, the requirments page has been updated too.
--Sharaz Jek

Wow, kind of lacking in news updates lately, sorry guys I have actually been very busy with real life, which seems to always get in the way of what we all know is most important. I started a new job last week, and I'm still adjusting to sleeping and waking at normal people hours :)

Last weekend, I did however make it out of town to OKCLanParty in Oklahoma City. We had a blast! I did really well in a Q3 1v1 tourney, and they also had a Instagib CTF tourney too. I had never tried Rail only CTF, but I must say it was very cool. Definitely levels the playing field, even the people who are not as good as the top dogs can be a valuable team player. And it is HARD to score a capture that is for sure! lol

So are we all looking forward to this weekend? I know I am!! I've not had time to send out news letters and things like that, so I kind of worry that attendance may not be as high as we would all like, but we will see. I'll be sending one out tomorrow. I've also not heard back in from too many of the sponsors that had expressed interest in DFWLanParty and the gamers that attend. Oh well, if I don't hear back from them, we will figure something out.

Anyway, I look forward to seeing you all on Saturday!! Oh yeah... if you registered for the July 22 Lan Party,and your name is not on the list anymore, its because you entered an invalid email address. I need you to reregister (tho I'll still let you in if you don't :). You need a valid email address so you can receive the newsletters.
--Sharaz Jek

Hey everyone! I'm out of town this weekend, and where am I? I'm at a lan party! Surprised? Not at all! I'm in Houston for the weekend, staying at {C4}Quinton's house, and Q, {C4}Pussywiggle and I came and crashed a little LAN clan [T2K] was holding. We are at an apartment complex with a 155mbit connect, and WOW it smokes! So I'll prolly spend most of the day taking bludgeonings like a man from PW. Ah well, thats enough webpaging... time to FRAG BABY!
--Sharaz Jek

I'll apologize in advance, but those of you who registered for the next DFWLanParty and did not enter an ICQ number AND did not give a valid email account, are going to be removed from the list. I MUST be able to contact you about upcoming events and changes. If you registered and see that your name is not on the list anymore, you are more than welcome to reregister again, but you must put in a valid email address so I can contact you.
--Sharaz Jek

The stats worked out ok, but they are still not what I would really like. If Gibstats had support for OSP logs, then I would be in a perfect LAN world. Well, maybe not. Gibstats cannot read 1v1 logs per match. It just shows the whole days activity as one huge graph. If you kicked lots of butt, then you will be at the top, but you cant see who beat who in what match. OSP Tourney gives the server flexibility so I don't have to sit in front of it all day and monitor the maps, but the downside is it write funny logs, that so far can only be read by Æstats. Æstats is cool, but it cannot show details of match by match scores, which my old parser could. The old parser could not read OSP logs. :( Then of course, I didn't take logs of the Counter-Strike servers, so oops! The other hard thing about stats is people tend to change their names throughout the day, and that makes them not appear as high on the graph as they should.

And on a load balancing note, since the servers ran so well by splitting Q3 and Half-Life up, I've gone one step further and added another NIC to the Q3 server, and split the IP addresses Venus used among the 2 NICs. I figure that the less traffic a single NIC must contend with, the better the whole network will run on game day.
--Sharaz Jek

Well, another month has come and gone, and this one again broke a new attendence record. 39 people came and fragged, and showed brotherly love to those who would stand in front of their railguns! Thanks to everyone who came, and to Knight, Pussywiggle, Quinton, Escher, Crue for all the help setting up and tearing down. It wouldn't happen without you guys, so thanks a bunch!

As I mentioned last night, Creative Labs is considering comming on board as a sponsor of DFWLanParty. They send me some shirts and stuff to give away as door prizes (duh, you were all there and saw it! lol) and if it works out, we may be seeing more cool stuff that gamers like to play with too!

Stats will be up soon. When they are uploaded, the first word in this paragraph will be a link to them. If its not a link, I'm not done parsing. :)

Pics will be up soon. When they are uploaded, the first word in THIS paragraph will be a link to them (original, huh? hehe). If its not a link, then I'm not down editing. :) Thanks Elbarak and Crue for being the digital camera squad!

Finally, registration is open for the July 22, 2000 fest is now open. If you want to attend, register quick! there will be 55 seats, and if you want one of them, well you know the drill. See you all next month!
--Sharaz Jek

I've been thinking on how I can resolve the less than satisfactory performance that the Half-Life server saw last month. Pings of over 40 are bad. Granted, the server is run on a Dual 500 Celeron with 256 megs of RAM, but with only 1 NIC, that could be causing a bottleneck. I've switched out the NIC in the Q3 server with a 3com, so that should help. I've also moved Half-Life over to the Quake2 server, since there probably will only be 1 or 2 Quake2 servers running at any given time (lower demand for Q2).

On a related note, the Quake2 server has received an upgrade. It was sporting a P2-400, but I dropped in a new motherboard and a P3-550. I hope to get a hold of a new Abit or Asus motherboard (why, oh why did I sell mine? lol) and this chip will overclock to 616 and still not need extra cooling (I've already tested it >:) Also, this server now has a brand new NIC from Netgear, (FA311) so we will see how it performs. If it sucks butt, then I'll get another 3com, but Netgear has always worked well for me in the past, so I'm hopeful that this new model from Netgear will perform well too.

Oh yeah.. many people askin' this, sooo here it is: Entry fee is $10 pre-registerd, $15 at the door. Bring extra $5 if you wanna get in on pizza at dinner time. There are resturaunts nearby if you don't prefer pizza :) The first 55 people listed on the Registered Attendees page will have guaranteed seats until 2pm. At 2pm, anyone on the list can have whatever seat is still available, they will be first come first served at that time. You will be able to call and find out if there are seats available.
--Sharaz Jek

i have decided that i don't feel like doing the rest of this. :) It will prolly be vapor soon anyway.