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Jacqueline · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 93 Location: Ev'rybody down!!!!

I have:
Compaq 486dx75 laptop, fully working (battery is toast) colour 10" display, built in trackball, 340MB hard-disk - no OS
Sun Sparcstation LX desktop, complete and working with (slightly battered) KB/Mouse and 21" (bloody heavy) display, 108MB ram, hard-disk of some size or other.. currently installed with Solaris 7.

Are these of any use as props or anything else?
If i knew how to code, I'd set one up as a dialing computer.

I also have knocking about:
About 20 various cards/boards of various sizes, cables, hard-drives (both living and dead), cdrom drives, HDD caddies, a 10Mbit network hub and a fairly complete pentium 133MMX machine that's doing sterling work holding up a coffee maker. I also have a P3-866 with 512MB Ram that could be loaned as well... any suggestions for uses for these??
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sm0keyb · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 1359

I have several DHD/ Dialling computer programs including a customisable one (you can put your own team names in etc.) if it still works. I haven't tried it with XP yet.

Dialling computers are of limited use IC 'cos we currently only need one on the Delta site & I think it's questionable if we'll be going back to Barnswood. I have a low spec pentium which I've rack mounted which we've used in the past as the dialling computer.

There have been several proposals for an IC network, to have the Wiki available IC etc but they've never really come to anything. Dead cards tended to be used for alien widgets but PC bits sprayed gold have become a bit passe now. I've got a box of electronic circuit boards that aren't quite so recognisable as PC bits.

I've got a pile of PCS & laptops mostly working if there's anyone with the expertise & the interest to have another go at the network thing. I'm useless with networks myself.
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Jacqueline · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 93 Location: Ev'rybody down!!!!

I am a former network tech, my home network (as JT could tell you) it comprises of large piles of kit, some of the excesses that I'm not using are listed above..
I'm pretty sure, if we wanted an IC network, I could set up my P3 server with the hub, and provide an IC network with wired and semi-secure wifi access. (Semi-secure because that's the easiest way to make it reliably work and that's all that's needed for this) If the Dialing computer software will run on win2000, it should work fine on XP, and I can load up another machine with 2000, and add it to the network as the dialing computer. That is if we have a site planned with mains? (This pile of kit would need a gen of it's own, making it uneconomical to use at a site without mains)

Extra pc's (with linux - I'll have run out of windows licenses) I could set up with browser and open-office as internal computers, but the poor car could probably only carry one or two in addition to my own kit.
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Nuclear Physicist pet lovers, our cats have 18 half-lives.

Olivia Chase · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject:

An IC network would be very nice but it has been issues like transport and power that have held it back so far. Also, would you rather be playing a game or watching/fixing a network? It will rely on OC skill to maintain and fix and to me that is too much responsiblity for one person.

Personally my imagination never runs out of batteries, but can occasionally crash (easily fixed with coffee) but I would not expect someone to stop what they were doing to fix it.
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Jacqueline · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 93 Location: Ev'rybody down!!!!

30 players and staff aren't a huge burden to support (so long as people support their own personal kit themselves) If we wanted to do it seriously, I could set it all up on my rack mount dual p3 (Compaq proliant DL360 G2 if you're interested) and bring along my N-series wifi access point and 24 port 10/100 switch.
As you may have noticed, I have an addiction to enterprise grade gear.
Getting one server and some basic network hardware setup is only about 20 minutes work, and not a major thing to support onsite either. I can do 99% of the work at home, like getting all the server software installed (I use Linux, it's been stupidly reliable for me - Debian in this case)
The only requirement would have to be a site with mains, which would rule out a visit to candlestone. I'd just need the web-guru's attention to sort out some way to download a complete copy of the wiki and upload any changes afterwards.
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Nuclear Physicist pet lovers, our cats have 18 half-lives.

Jacqueline · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 93 Location: Ev'rybody down!!!!

Trust me, I have all the necessary kit spare to make it work and cope with the likely usage levels, and enough room to transport server box, network gear and cabling/UPS. and not skimp on my own kit. (Would make giving lifts to more than 1 other person hard tho, but that's ok)
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Nuclear Physicist pet lovers, our cats have 18 half-lives.

sm0keyb · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 1359

This sounds too ambitious for Candleston. Unless another player besides me is taking a generator we'll only have about 2kW of power overall. That might be enough during the day but at night the lights will swallow half of it. Be good to talk it thro' though & see what we can do. Linux sounds good 'cos it's less immediately recognisable than Win. I even have 2 or three Amigas if we have a way of hooking them in.
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Jacqueline · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 93 Location: Ev'rybody down!!!!

Server plus network kit is definitely something we'd need mains for, it'd be jut too much hassle to do it from a generator.
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Nuclear Physicist pet lovers, our cats have 18 half-lives.

Jess Parker · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:37 am Post subject:

There is no mains at Candleston, just sand. Lots and lots of sand.

So buckets and spades might be in order, along with beach towels and a moblie bar Very Happy

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Richard Tyler · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 413 Location: Cardiff

print a nice techy screen on some acetate and glue it to the lappy screen Smile

Roleplay the rest. The problem with a real network is that you are limited by having a real network. Very Happy

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