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Hi GRRR.

I don’t know about you all, but I am busy suffering from withdrawal symptoms due to the lack of a proper LAN. As such, without any further ado, let’s get down to business.

I am keen to arrange my second LAN for 2010 for the weekend of the 6th of May. I trust that this is sufficient notification for those prospective LAN’ners to mentally prepare those around them for yet another dramatic event.

For the benefit of those that have never participated in a LAN at Norita, this is more or less how it goes down: sycho:

1. We start anything from 20:00 the Friday evening with several “reality-constrained-individuals” only joining the Saturday morning. The network will be up ‘til the last man goes home.
2. Bring your own computer; any computer will do as long as it has a NIC in it and have some form of graphics card. If you don’t have a computer, fear not I have a couple of spares that can be pressed into service. If you need a new computer, let me know and I can provide you with a quote…
3. Group sanity suggests that we stick to headsets only, full range speakers are not a good idea at a LAN.
4. Bring whatever you plan to consume. I’ll show you where the fridge, ice and glasses are, you help yourself. If there are no veggies amongst us, I was thinking to braai the Saturday evening. There is a SPAR and Checkers very close by in case anyone needs to go for refills.
5. I have enough sleeping space for those that do need to “meditate” a little bit. Gamers don’t sleep…
6. Reality-constrained-individuals that plan to go straight from the LAN back to reality should bring their own toothbrush…
7. Everyone should bring their own deodorant
8. A swimming pool is provided; bring your own towel.
9. If you have a good game that you think we should play, then bring it with. The games played are a very simple matter of democracy if you can convince other people to play your preferred game, then that game will be played.
10. I will not stop anybody from copying whatever, bring enough hard drives.
11. We tend to be around 8 regulars, but I can cater for around 25 people with minimum issues and around 40 with some additional logistics. I just need to know as soon as possible who will be joining, and how many people will be coming.
12. Any other questions (and RSVP) can be send to mailto:?subject=&body=. If you'd like more details, just ask.
13. Internet access will again be available.

So, in summary:
Date: 7th and 8th of May 2010.
Time: Starting the 7th May at 20:00, and ending when the last person leaves on Sunday.
Place: Norita 13, Rosendal, Durbanvile, Cape Town, South Africa, Planet Earth. See directions below
Games: Anything / Everything.
Food: Bring whatever you plan to consume. We could club together on Saturday and go and buy meat for a braai.
Contact Details: mailto:?subject=&body=

Directions:
Proc Directions Data = LAN.Norita13 ;
Do while LOST EQ TRUE ;
Take.N1 to EAST ;
Left.join Durban_Road ;
Right.join Old_Oak ;
Left.join Melina ;
Left.join Norita ;
If StillLost EQ True then ;
%PhoneCell(Skouperd) ;
End ;
If Succesfull then do ;
LOST = NOT (LOST) ;
End ;
End ;
Run ;

For more information, contact me on mailto:?subject=&body=

Kind regards,
Skouperd

nooit.... the one weekend I'm going away! sorry I have a Tai Kai weekend would have been awesome!

Probably not good for me either. I'm in Jozi the week before, don't think the missus will look to kindly on my coming home and then pissing off again immediately.

TBH, best for me is going to be any thing in June/July. I move out of the house end May, so will be packing during that month - but after that I'm on my own for 6 weeks as Camilla and the kids are in Sweden. Plenty gaming time for me then.

Ice: Tai Kai - Lan, Lan - Tai Kai, dude, this is not a difficult decission!

Dragonne: No problem Jarrod, there is a fair chance that Ursula may need to depart to the USA for a 4 week trip in June / July as well, which means, there will DEFINATELY be another one in June / July.

Does a bear shit in the woods!

Ek is Da! And even if i have to work the next day!

.......i think i shall grace you with my presence ....sounds laaik fun

Myself and Etienne (ETKR) will be there again from Saturday morning.

Ok, some preliminary numbers are in and from the sounds of it, it is going to be another epic lan with only Dragonne, Ice and Panda not able to attend from the previous event. But in turn we have more time from Eggman, Voetsek, Ghalima, SirNukeALot, and a couple of others. We may even have a surprise appearance from some of the iB guys. (awaiting confirmation)

I have aranged some additional tables for us (since the ones we've used last time has now finally been converted into a single humangous bookshelve). I've already secured us some additional bandwidth (from two different ISPs in case seacom sucks again), I've cleaned up some of my hard drives. Removed the firewalls. Increased the DHCP. Enabled wireless (phuck knows who need wireless, but in case you need wireless you have wireless). Enabled 2Gb/s teaming support on the server. Tested all the network switches. Rewired some of the dodgy network cables. Double checked the power. I even managed to arrange better sleeping conditions.

All in all, this should be fun.

Skouperd wrote: I even managed to arrange better sleeping conditions.

no need to boast if you bringing your missus

I wish I was in CPT!