We called this LAN Party "Amber lights on the hon-kwang" for a very good reason. The hon-kwang is a little 10/10 micro-hub, with a colission light. They tend to produce random packet colissions, and it was Mike's idea to cause as many packet colissions as possible!
The hon-kwang is actually the power adapter used on the hub. The actual name of it is a CentreCom, made by the well-known company Allied Telesyn International.
There are many fotos. They have been resized, so click on each one to see the full-sized version. And no, I did not post the 3.2MP originals - as it occupied about 110MB of data on my memory card...
^Mike helps Brenton setup the LAN Party the night before. The day of, Brenton uses Mike's $12 ABS 10/100 5-port hub from NewEgg as a "cable tester," much to the dismay of Mike, who claimed: "It is a nice little hub, what do you mean it's a cable tester?" To the far right, Brenton crimps his cable. He's done it so much that he tens to know a thing or two about such practices...
^Mike sets up his modified Pavilion as the gaming rig of choice, along with the Sony Digital 8 camcorder as a webcam (in order to test the damn thing.) Centre-wise, we have one of the couple of random electric-sphere thingies that were lying around the night of the LAN Party, and to the far right, we have a slightly-blurry shoof the lighting when one was to enter the basement from ther staircase... (And to think that the bloody 'red firetruck light' from Kohls would come in handy...)...
^Left to right: Mike's FANLESS video card, some Bawls, Brenton's colection of leftover haloween candy.
^Left to right: Brenton's rig [p4 because "problems with AMD64 under win32 XP {erm... anyone?}", Dudd carries his 17" Dell CRT in, Mike's expiriment box expierences a hard disk failure.
^Left to right: Joe's Shuttle box, middle pic: Dudd, Mike, Joe. {L->R}, last pic: Joe hard at work playing Quake III.
^Left to right: Mike's Digital8 webcam, casting the DDR danceoffs to Simon in NH, and Rachel in Lebanon, PA, and Brenton's LavaLamp. Middle picture: Mike's AMD Athlon XP 3000+ with stock cooler temperature, and Mike's rubbish on top of the 10/10 SuperStack 3Com switch...
^Left to right: Mike does math homework before the party starts, other Mike is talking to other people on the server, and Mike gets taken by suprise while doing math homework. [again.]
^Left to right: Other Mike's machine [complete with the Prescott...], lighting courtesy of Kohls in Quakertown [it's funny because it's true.], A female unit [Sagan] on the pionex Pentium.
Yes, the video card got pushed out the slot, WHILE THE SYSTEM WAS RUNNING. Someone who shall remain nameless forgot to screw it in while installing it...
You can actually see a video demonstration of the procedure here, and proof that it works. [Hosting by putfile.com, it is ~23.1MB in Size, and is a Quicktime movie.]
And yes, I really did play Quake over Thin-net. And yes, I did really intentionally try to lag the other players by flooding the network with 75 different pings at a time..
Needless to say, due to the fact that the projector has a maximum resolution of 640x480, and Mike's ATI Radeon 9200 did not want to correctly mirror on it until a few tries were performed, it was not sucessful. Also, the room was too bright - despite being quite dark - for the projection apparatus to show well on the screen. The amusment to that is quite clear in my mind...
XP on the Tangnet Celeron!
