[RndTbl] Tangent: Re: RTFM brainstorm.

[Mike Pfaiffer]

On 10-09-28 01:53 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
> Going from the general to the specific, I'd say
>   - the game(s) would be decided and announced in advance
>   - each participant is responsible for bringing their own suitable hardware
>   - each participant is responsible for pre-installing the selected game and
> performing any other set up required before the meeting starts
>   - I could bring my old-school 16-port 10 Mb/s hub (!), and we wouldn't use
> IBM's network AT ALL
>   - 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

	We may need a router. I'm 95% certain we could bring one.

				Later
				Mike



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