nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

Off Topic Thread 3.0

Zzippy

All things non-rugby related here.

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

Neil3030

Those supervisors should all be fired!

[Deleted User]

Interested Observer wrote: »

I never did a PhD or anything but I remember from college that one of the main perks seemed to be you got your own PC, and hence the opportunity to play COD2 or whatever it was at the time over LAN with your fellow PhD candidates. They didn't seem to do much work.

Sounds like a PHD alright.

[Deleted User]

I never did a PhD or anything but I remember from college that one of the main perks seemed to be you got your own PC, and hence the opportunity to play COD2 or whatever it was at the time over LAN with your fellow PhD candidates. They didn't seem to do much work.

Neil3030

I thought you guys were all jocks, wtf?

Dave_The_Sheep

dregin wrote: »

We were allowed play Counterstrike in the school's computer lab. I actually made a map of the whole school. Looking back on it now, I can't think that a game where you run round a school shooting people would go down to well at all...

Vaguely recall hearing about people being expelled / arrested for doing that in the States. Might just be urban legends though.

dregin

We were allowed play Counterstrike in the school's computer lab. I actually made a map of the whole school. Looking back on it now, I can't think that a game where you run round a school shooting people would go down to well at all...

Stheno

mfceiling wrote: »

I used to go to real parties with girls and beer and stuff.

When I was in training in the nineties in a tech firm we turned our lab into a LAN for gaming.

When we were found out we got threatened with the sack

mfceiling

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I always remember that coming later. I had been to LAN parties as early as 1992 but I don't remember modem play until 95/96 and it was an online version of Quake.

I used to go to real parties with girls and beer and stuff.

Podge_irl

Deleted User wrote: »

I had a mini LAN over the Christmas break and a decent sized LAN the year before.

Growing up though and into my 20's had some absolutely massive LAN's - upto 10 players and a unending supply of pizza, buckfast and burger bites.

Those were glorious, incredibly smelly days.

Having LANs in your house with CRTs was always something of a logistical nightmare. And Christ the room got hot.

[Deleted User]

Zzippy wrote: »

Yep, but he's sh1t at it cos he won't take PEDs. Fishing is rife with it, I'm telling you... the next big scandal in sport.

Zzippy

Deleted User wrote: »

Is... is that Paul Kimmage?

Yep, but he's sh1t at it cos he won't take PEDs. Fishing is rife with it, I'm telling you... the next big scandal in sport.

[Deleted User]

prawnsambo wrote: »

You forgot the forerunner: The modem game. Only available to two players, but moDoom was my favourite back in the day.

Bulletin boards and horrible laggy rocket fights!

I always remember that coming later. I had been to LAN parties as early as 1992 but I don't remember modem play until 95/96 and it was an online version of Quake.

It's weird. It really all happened from 95 - 2005. Things haven't evolved much since then.

prawnsambo

Buer wrote: »

I'm not fully up to speed on the new cross city set up but I assume you'd still need to change Luas around O'Connell Street. It should take about 20 minutes, I reckon but you'd be as quick walking once you get off the first tram if it's during rush hour.

I would say just walk from O'Connell Street when you get off the red line. I'd say about 20-25 minutes.

If you fancied a stroll, I'd say you'd do it all on foot in about 35 minutes.

The red line from Heuston to Abbey St. is about eleven minutes on average according to the Luas website. Frequency is about 4 to 6 minutes during the day. Walking from Abbey St. to Stephen's Green is about 10 to 15 minutes. Probably the best way to do it because you'd have a wait time and the green line doesn't take as direct a route to Stephens Green as the walk would.

[Deleted User]

Zzippy wrote: »

If you install this yoke, I'm in...

Is... is that Paul Kimmage?

prawnsambo

You forgot the forerunner: The modem game. Only available to two players, but moDoom was my favourite back in the day.

Zzippy

Deleted User wrote: »

So Zzippy are you going to come to the boards LAN? We can all install fishing simulator...

If you install this yoke, I'm in...

Sport-Fishing-Simulator-SCATRI.jpg_350x350.jpg

Buer

ClanofLams wrote: »

Does anyone know how long the Luas takes from Heuston Station to Stephens Green?

I'm not fully up to speed on the new cross city set up but I assume you'd still need to change Luas around O'Connell Street. It should take about 20 minutes, I reckon but you'd be as quick walking once you get off the first tram if it's during rush hour.

I would say just walk from O'Connell Street when you get off the red line. I'd say about 20-25 minutes.

If you fancied a stroll, I'd say you'd do it all on foot in about 35 minutes.

[Deleted User]

A brief history of the LAN party

So back in the early 90's PC gaming was starting to seriously take off with more and more mainstream titles coming out with dedicated multiplayer. This was before the Internet was widely available and so to play against your friends the PC's had to be directly connected.

Because of the hassle of having to physically move an entire computer, monitor and peripherals to a friends house you tended to do it over a weekend and play non stop pretty much. It wasn't something that could be done with any frequency so it was a kind of 'party' hence the term LAN Party.

LAN technology was barely available back then and most people were still primarily using DOS as opposed to windows so it was an entirely different era.

The first LAN I ever went to wasn't a LAN. We were using daisy chains of directly connected PC's using COM ports and LPT ports. It was difficult to setup and broke down quite easily. On top of that most people were manually upgrading their PC with bits and parts from wherever you could get them cheaply and as a result moving a PC often resulted in it not turning on when you arrived to the hosts house. I vividly remember those first LAN days where a few people were gaming and most people were taking apart machines and trying to get stuff working.

It was an amazing time for learning about technology.

Anyway Windows 95 came along and revolutionised networking. After this you just needed a router that everyone plugged into and the connections become more seamless between a greater number of machines.

You would spend anything from a day and a night upto a week at times playing an endless variety of pirated games and there would be regular breaks for food and drink and copying copious amounts of pornography across PC's.

Eventually the internet became widely available and fast enough to support online gaming and that sort of killed the LAN.

There is still nothing like hunkering down for a few days of blood, sweat and buckfast in one house with a few mates but it's much harder to organise now.

My LANs were always at the end of August. My training season would be over so I'd be on a break and from when I was 16 on my folks would go away on a holiday just the pair of them for that week, and the house would become basically an open LAN party for the duration.

So Zzippy are you going to come to the boards LAN? We can all install fishing simulator...

prawnsambo

ClanofLams wrote: »

Does anyone know how long the Luas takes from Heuston Station to Stephens Green?

I think you have to change. So Red line from Heuston to Abbey St. and then walk to Marlborough St. and get the Green line to Stephens Green.

ClanofLams

Does anyone know how long the Luas takes from Heuston Station to Stephens Green?

[Deleted User]

Zzippy wrote: »

No seriously, though, along with a tracker mortgage, WTF is a LAN?

Local Area Network. Way of connecting computers together, I think in this context it was before online gaming was much of a thing.

b.gud

Zzippy wrote: »

No seriously, though, along with a tracker mortgage, WTF is a LAN?

Local Area Network

Zzippy

Deleted User wrote: »

More like Lazy Asinine Namecalling

No seriously, though, along with a tracker mortgage, WTF is a LAN?

[Deleted User]

Zzippy wrote: »

LAN? Lame Ass Nerds?

More like Lazy Asinine Namecalling

Zzippy

LAN? Lame Ass Nerds?

[Deleted User]

Boards Rugby LAN....

[Deleted User]

I had a mini LAN over the Christmas break and a decent sized LAN the year before.

Growing up though and into my 20's had some absolutely massive LAN's - upto 10 players and a unending supply of pizza, buckfast and burger bites.

Those were glorious, incredibly smelly days.

Podge_irl

Ah, the wagon wheel. Seemed like such a good idea at the time, but was actually pretty **** pizza.

Think the last LAN I went to was the last Darkside.

dregin

Last LAN I was at I ended up trying to eat a wagon wheel after watching someone else do it. That did not end well. Coincidentally, it was also the last time I even considered eating anything form Mizzonis.

mfceiling

I have a 10 year Toshiba laptop running Windows XP.

Used once every 2 months to file a vat return and given once a year to the accountant for the end of year returns.

Lot of lads here in the computer/software industry?

(And the ladies)