March 31st, k-slug, ACM, and MIS Club joined together to host the biggest LAN party held on the k-state campus. Official count was 53 computers, eclipsing any previous LAN party. The pwning took place in Nichols 122, as usual. It was a really fun time which lasted in to the wee hours of the night. With the large number of people, there were several subgames going on at all times. Mainly, Quake III, Unreal Tournament 2004, Warcraft III, Counter-Strike Source, and Enemy Territory, were played with a few smaller games of WoW and what-not being played.

We had a couple of machines setup demoing Linux as well as distros available for attendees to take at their leisure. There were plenty of Linux machines present, showing the that Linux has got game, and of course Windows machines and even some Apple hardware was present also. Thanks to Seth, a dedicated server with an Athlon X2 3800+ and 2GB of Ram, running Gentoo of course, powered all the pwnage. Thanks also to kuffs and Jesse for admining said server and running the party.

There was quite a variety of people present, including a group of gamers from Salina and even the police. With the recent theft from some of the computer labs in Nichols, all rooms are supposed to be closed by midnight and security wasn’t informed of the LAN, so they stopped by, but that didn’t stop us from tearing any n00bs a new one.

ACM took some pics of Late Night at Nichols which Brent has hosted over here, where you can clearly see how awesome the LAN party was. Travis Bradshaw brought a PS2 and Guitar Hero, which was hooked up to the projector in N122. So besides all the pc gaming, there was Guitar Hero going to whole time. MIS club had a raffle drawing for some good prizes, including an external 100GB hard drive and a Razor Diamondback gaming mouse!

All in all, it was a great LAN party and k-slug as well as Linux machines, had a great showing and we are looking forward to having another this fall semester!

The installfast was great fun for the 10 or so people who showed up. We had five installs: two ubuntu, two gentoo, and one Fedora Core 4. We also managed to get a new member involved (welcome, Matt). Hoozh took a bunch of photos and posted them online.

Things got a little tricky midway through when the Internet connection went down due to a failure from K-State’s internet provider. Luckily, between CDs and local mirrors, most were able to give their “new” distros a decent test drive.

At one point, attendees got a sneak peek at the CIS server room so our CIS members could show off their “primo” cabling job.

All in all the installfest was pretty good for our first one because in-person contact is a nice change from e-mail and IRC. It was also good to see at least one new face. Let’s hope the next one will draw an even bigger crowd and we can try a greater variety of distros (anybody cowboy enough for slackware around here?).

Linux is all about choice, and there is a huge number of distros to be tried out there. That’s what an InstallFest is for: trying out new things and getting abetter look at your choices. See you next time!

K-Slug held its first event of the 2005 fall semester and its first event in awhile for that matter on Saturday, October 1st , 2005. “Tweak Night”, was a success in that we had approximately 20 people show up and most of them brought a computer. It wasn’t a raging success or anything but at least it was an event to get the ball rolling with K-Slug.

It was a good time for members just to hang out and talk about everything Linux and to check out other people rigs and to see what they were doing with Linux. Andy Ruder stole the showing everyone how you can play Star Wars through AA-lib.

K-Slug had its monthly meeting on March 5th, 2004. Only three people brought computers to play games. Where the heck was everyone? Anyway, it was slow getting started because we had DHCP daemon problems. We ended up playing Unreal Tournament 2004 with an additional K-Slug member joining in from Delaware.

Burning Dog and Virus where the ones that did the majority of the fraging. All and all it was a pretty good night of gaming. I do find it ironic that Burning Dog and Ducky ended up having to play on their Windows partition because Deltar couldn’t get DHCP configured to release an ip address when they booted to Linux and even in Windows they couldn’t get a connection to the outside world. Oh well maybe next month we can have a DHCP server up and going.

K-Slug got together at 133 Derbery and hung out. One K-Slug member installed Linux (Slackware 9.0) for the first time. Other than that we just hung out and at pizza (Thanks David)! We then decided that we should game at the next meeting.

On January 10th , 2004 K-Slug had its first meet-n-greet for who knows how long. Seven people showed up and to topics discussed ranged for talking about everything from different Linux distributions to enhancing you intelligence through neurogenetics to building a Linux powered robot.

It was suggested that at the next K-Slug meeting we meet at a place where we can bring our computers and just play around with our different Linux distributions and answer each others questions.