[RndTbl] Tangent: Re: RTFM brainstorm.

[Kevin McGregor]

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

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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