Bo Holt wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
I have always said I was born 10-15 years too late. I'm 45 and wish I
had been old enough to catch that wave and work in an environment like that... when the industry was filled with real computer people and not
so mainstream. Good times!
Bo Holt wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
I have always said I was born 10-15 years too late. I'm 45 and wish I had been old enough to catch that wave and work in an environment like that... when the industry was filled with real computer people and not so mainstream. Good times!
It was pretty much what you'd imagine it was. I was on the other coast (north-east US) working for a networking company. We played games during lunch and took packet captures of game play, just to test devices. (This was back when Novell servers were still popular. We found that some games, like Doom, caused broadcast storms that would cause devices to reboot.)
Of course, camping had its problems... one guy was the target of a camper so often that he found out who it was, went over to his lab where he was playing, and literally cut his ethernet cable, just to make him stop. It worked, but only long enough for that guy to replace the cable. lol
... A squeegee by any other name wouldn't sound as funny
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Doom was notorious for ruining an IPX network. Happened at my University a bit when we played Doom on occasion in the Computer lab. Would cause other machines to crash. I think they banned it?
Timex wrote to Bo Holt <=-
It was pretty much what you'd imagine it was. I was on the other coast (north-east US) working for a networking company. We played games
during lunch and took packet captures of game play, just to test
devices. (This was back when Novell servers were still popular. We
found that some games, like Doom, caused broadcast storms that would
cause devices to reboot.)
Of course, camping had its problems... one guy was the target of a
camper so often that he found out who it was, went over to his lab
where he was playing, and literally cut his ethernet cable, just to
make him stop. It worked, but only long enough for that guy to replace the cable. lol
... A squeegee by any other name wouldn't sound as funny
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Dennis Katsonis wrote to Timex <=-
Doom was notorious for ruining an IPX network. Happened at my
University a bit when we played Doom on occasion in the Computer lab. Would cause other machines to crash. I think they banned it? Can't remember but it was taken off.
Kurt Weiske wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-
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Dennis Katsonis wrote to Timex <=-
Doom was notorious for ruining an IPX network. Happened at my
University a bit when we played Doom on occasion in the Computer lab. Would cause other machines to crash. I think they banned it? Can't remember but it was taken off.
Co-operative DOOM at high difficulty, 6 player, running over IPX in
the
office, in 1994 or so. We placed a 6 person conference call for voice
comms. I still haven't matched that experience online.
It was pretty much what you'd imagine it was. I was on the other coast (north-east US) working for a networking company. We played games during lunch and took packet captures of game play, just to test devices. (This was back when Novell servers were still popular. We found that some games, like Doom, caused broadcast storms that would cause devices to reboot.)
Of course, camping had its problems... one guy was the target of a camper so often that he found out who it was, went over to his lab where he was playing, and literally cut his ethernet cable, just to make him stop. It worked, but only long enough for that guy to replace the cable. lol
Co-operative DOOM at high difficulty, 6 player, running over IPX in the
office, in 1994 or so. We placed a 6 person conference call for voice
comms. I still haven't matched that experience online.
Dennis Katsonis wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
Six player? I though Doom originally supported a maximum of four.
Maybe you were using a different port or something that enabled it?
Bo Holt wrote to Timex <=-
games sometimes. The whole job was fun. Biggest career mistake I ever made was leaving that job. It was the last time I truly LOVED my job,
and that was back in late 2007 when I left. Been a long time.
Hindsight!
I think of the job where I described taking the network down playing
multiplayer games because the users were on the same subnet as the
servers.
I was a telecom analyst, supporting video conferencing, a call center
and a lot of phones and faxes. Worked in a team of people, all with
their specialties - one network guy, a UNIX guy, an NT guy, a couple of
desktop people and a helpdesk analyst. It was the last time I felt like
I had a peer group.
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