trip to darwin for evo5

yeh so talking to burk, and he has somehow convinced me to head up to darwin again. so let's all make use of cow while his buying impulses are high.

need to find someone who will put up with me for a few nights...say January 18/19/20/21/22/23. i'm more than happy to pay for whatever, prefer to stay with gamers that i know.

will also need to be lent a monitor for the evo period.

if i can organise everything, and find some well priced tickets, i may very well make the trip up. going overseas next month so i'm not 100% sure about darwin, mainly due to money.

oh, and if anyone sees cheap tickers from either canberra to darwin, or sydney to darwin, post here or tell me. best i've found so far is about $530 return with qantas.

gooooooooooooooooo cow!

We shall be honured to be in the presence of teh bouvine once again :)

love to have you hear again cow
:)

Yep I'm making my annual migration back home in a couple weeks too.

$530 with Qantas, I'd seriously think about snapping those up ASAP considering peak load on flights usually, and it's QANTAS too which I prefer to fly on.

Sweet
Anyone looking to come to evo5 in late January 2005 is encouraged to make the journey. So save your money and get in touch with friends to secure accommodation and come on up for the mighty evo5.

OK, while we are on this topic, I have somewhere to stay when I come up, but I need a 17" monitor when I get there.....want to avoid having to buy one from cashies for the sake of 2 weeks.

So if anyone has got a spare, it would be much appreciated.

Beggers cant be Choosers

:P

Wrath, Im sure you could use my dads....:P

If not.... I will probably have bought a new one by then.
You could use this dodgy bastard.

i know psycho penguin has a 17" lg flat panel monitor that is unused...
try him???

Cowzor.
We have a fold out fouton-couch thingy at our joint that your more than welcome to use. Thats if you can put up with and my housemates (heretic and metalattack) :P :D

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Cowzor.
We have a fold out fouton-couch thingy at our joint that your more than welcome to use. Thats if you can put up with and my housemates (heretic and metalattack) :P :D

yeah i mean if you dont like chick, partys and BEER... then yeah i dont think u should come ;)

I say get the boy up here, then huge piss up at Milenko's house :D

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I say get the boy up here, then huge piss up at Milenko's house :D

it aint called milenkos house... its called "house 'o' three pimps"

i got an old 17" u can borrow cow

We the Collective shall have many things at many peoples disposal, just turn up, thats the main one ;)

...yeh we dont have chicks and beer...but we do have me....and the beer can be organised :P

just get Wendy and Lani over, and you're all set :P lol

Seats on sale until midnight Monday 8 November 2004 (Sydney time) or until sold out.

Hurry - seats are limited.

Darwin to:

Brisbane from "69
Melbourne from "83
Alice Springs from "90
Sydney from "91
Adelaide from $226
Perth from $243
Cairns from $271

These internet only, one way specials are valid for travel from Tuesday 7 December 2004 until Saturday 26 February 2005.

Virgin may throw something cheaper back later today.. there is only special from Sydney not canberra.

for some reason it would be cheaper to book to syd then a flight to canberra.

Costing me $600 return from Darwin to Canberra start of december

it's a lot cheaper.. because if you are flying to canberra, the plane goes to sydney, then to canberra.. direct flights are always cheaper.

and I fly qantas and virgin blows....

not all virgins blow kurt.

yes but virgin AIRLINEs, is crappy. I dont like it.

Some virgins blow...but that really depends how hard you slap em.

I've already had a good trawl through 14 days worth of flights Canberra-Darwin return w/stopovers. The one cow picked out with Qantas seems to be the cheapest still, and personally I'd only ever fly with Qantas. So cow better pick that flight out quick, because the cheapest I got was $601 although this was one via Melbourne on a 737-800 and dash8 at canberra return via sydney on shitcraft.

how many of you guys are coming for EVO?

Just a note for those who are thinking of coming up for evo, Book NOW. Peak time about there and flights are more expensive as flights sell seats.

Also it probably would help if we could get a confirmed date for evo.

i'm gonna book tickets this afternoon. fly in night of the 19th, depart morning (00:00) or the 26th. $371 sydney return

as jay said, a confirmation of evo would be great, considering that's half the reason i'm up there.

Cow, Jay, all other weary travellers..

I have just spoken to Foskey Pavillion and we are confirmed for 21st - 23rd January.

yay...
is that the same place as the last awesome evo?
that was the wickedest time...
my friend went to noosa to live on the day of the start of the evo...

yes, same venue as last Australia Day.. i was there for most of it.. but i got My Citizenship on Australia Day.. haha

w00t....I am booking tickets for the 18th - 31st of Jan in 2 weeks

And Virgin did it again! haha

Darwin to:

Brisbane
"49*

Sydney
"49*

Melbourne
"69*

Adelaide
"99*^

I much prefer flying Virgin actually.. i don't like eating on a plane... it makes me sick.

w00tage...I just booked my tickets this afternoon - $545 return with QANTAS....I'll be arriving in Darwin on the 16th and staying until the 31st, so see you all at Evo :D

Hope you have somewhere to stay :P

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yay...
is that the same place as the last awesome evo?

no, the last awesome evo was at Darwin High

Quote from stealthninja:
no, the last awesome evo was at Darwin High
What was wrong with the Foskey ??

Besides the table legs collapsing on 2 people. And some technical issues we encoutered in set up ..

What were your problems with it??

Just a note I have two monitors people can borrow

One is a 17inch and the other is a 19inch let me know if you want to borrow them

Dibs on the 19 if thats cool Sper0 :D

I thought Darwin High was too bright. At least with foskey we can reduce the amount of natural light entering the building

Will try and make it back to Darwin for EVO5.... Depends on how much cashew i have in the piggy bank.... cheapest flights i found are from Cairns to Darwin via Brisbane and even then i need to get a bus up to cairns from Townsville and back :(

But I will probably need a monitor but I will let you guys know when i get the details...

I trust i will be able to stay at either "The Eaters Cave" or "teh house 'o 3 pimps" as both of these establishments have a 5 star rating and come complete with a fully stocked bar and lounge area...

:D

are you wanting to sell ne of those monitors?

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Will try and make it back to Darwin for EVO5.... Depends on how much cashew i have in the piggy bank.... cheapest flights i found are from Cairns to Darwin via Brisbane and even then i need to get a bus up to cairns from Townsville and back :(

But I will probably need a monitor but I will let you guys know when i get the details...

I trust i will be able to stay at either "The Eaters Cave" or "teh house 'o 3 pimps" as both of these establishments have a 5 star rating and come complete with a fully stocked bar and lounge area...

:D

Indeed my hairy friend. if you dont come i will be most unhappy :)

was the last evo at darwin or foskey?
i went to the foskey at the beginning of this year (or end of last)...
im confused :S

no worries wrathlon yours :)

and kiza.. nope :D

Legendary...I owe you one Amanda ;)

i have a spare 19" monitor and should be dragging myself out of the woodwork for this one finally :-) ive missed practically every other lan so far 0_o

Quote:
Besides the table legs collapsing on 2 people. And some technical issues we encoutered in set up
And the power box ****ing exploding, and the lack of tourneys, and the lack of promised projectors, and the fact that there weren't any good new games out at the time. (I won't hold the last point against anyone :)

I'd actually have to agree with SN about the last awesome evo being at DHS. The venue wasn't perfect (lighting as Longtom said - I still preferred it to the Foskey Pavilion though) but the actual gaming was outstanding.

HAHAHA Stonefish .. I remember that .. Sponge was mr firefighter from what I remember oh and lataf I think :) ..

Power box was on fire nicely.

I had 1 projector going :) sure we can organise more this time :) big venue ..

Will try and secure some Xbox's for the console gamers. ;) more on this later.

Only thing I hate about foskey and and DHS is there is nothing in the near proximity. 10mins drive (depending on speed) to nearest food. OR more so depending on what you want ..

That fried Power box was hilarious....All I smelt was burning silicon...and as I';d had an issue earlier with my mobo being gay...I freaked :p And Im guessing a lot other people did judging by how many sidepanels came off before everyone realised what was happening :p

burning silicon.... in a powerbox??

and to my recollection it was just a loose plug causing an arc... no frying

just some slight plastic charring

It smelt like burning silicon...whether it was or not is a different matter :p

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Will try and secure some Xbox's for the console gamers. more on this later
Team Alice will probably be in Darwin around that time once more. Don't know if we'll actually attend the LAN part, since the last one was unanimously voted as complete and utter crap by all 10 of us. If I'm there, so will my modded Xbox be.

A projector doesn't even count as existing if all it does it run powerpoint. Needs consoles :)

(And what the **** is a sidepanel? :)

yeah, well if people bring consoles. if you don't like evo, you don't have to come..

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Team Alice will probably be in Darwin around that time once more. Don't know if we'll actually attend the LAN part, since the last one was unanimously voted as complete and utter crap by all 10 of us. If I'm there, so will my modded Xbox be.

A projector doesn't even count as existing if all it does it run powerpoint. Needs consoles :)

(And what the **** is a sidepanel? :)
hehehe.

Well with new sponsorship from projection plus we should be better :) ..

Just need to run some things through the committee and exec before anything is set in concrete.

with the sponsorship from (insert lots of places here) evo is going to go off.

woooo what is it :) .. oh wait :p

i will announce sponsorships when they are final and when the committee agrees :P

If going to Darwin Party Hire dont get the dodgy tables :)

i just want internet to be at dga and evo!
that would roxor my boxor...
at the bits and bytes evo there was internet, cant you get a sponsor from say, internode and get a hook directly into the fibre for real fun?
If not dont worry

I'll be willing to share my dial-up if anyone can find a phone port at foskey:)

guys, it's not as simple as that.. but be assured, i'm doing everything in my power. we will probably be using my adsl modem if we do have a connection.

Quote from owa_13:
i just want internet to be at dga and evo!
that would roxor my boxor...
at the bits and bytes evo there was internet, cant you get a sponsor from say, internode and get a hook directly into the fibre for real fun?
If not dont worry
is the 13 in your nick related to your age in any way? 'hook directly into the fibre' indeed. we've had dga's in the past with shared internet (back at the bridge club), it's not much use for anything beyond instant messengers.

having the internet at the LAN would probably be useful for people who end up having unexpected problems with steam. eg. Offline more not working, files need validating

that's probably the only reason to have internet at DGA, because steam may want it

and IM, which i think we need some sort of mini-forum on the DGA's intranet. or a chat room? I'd be useful. The only problem would be registrating ur user name and password, so people can't body snatch

Hey all, if wireless was able to get connected over to evo you would be able to connect in to either DarwinWireless's IRC then there would be no need for the internet for chatting, otherwise someone could setup a small linux box with a hybrid IRC server installed

just some thoughts

Cheers
Rip

If we had net though, just use MSN or whatever

The reality of having internet at a lan... is that there isn't enough bandwidth to do anything, at all, with 200 people you'd be lucky to have enough to connect to msn.

and the modem would get a hammering

Isn't there already an IRC server being run at DGA events?
What would be better anyways would be an IM server of that program that allows you to see what games people are playing and allows you to join them and whatnot... that would rule...
The internet thing wouldn't be too bad for those who need to access steam to get into offline mode maybe if they set it up so that you had to physically move to a certain switch to do what you need and then move it wouldn't be so bad...

I'm not too sure about DGA running IRC servers at their events, I have not have the opp to be at a DGA or EVO events yet as everytime one has been on somthing else has come up :( but this coming EVO will be diffrent ;)

Cheers
Rip

there has been irc servers at various dgas, they never get much attention. there was one at last evo, it maxed out at about eight users.

my skewl hooks directly into the fibre. Pity we dont got cable in darwing.

And the "13" was set up last year when i was 13...

no ur school doesnt hook up via fibre.
At most it has a fibre connection to the satalite dish (4Mbit), provided by LATIS, hich will be on the roof of ur school. There is know way the government would spent money on a fibre net connection for any territory school (except h possibility of the uni haveing one).

What DOES the uni have...cause I have hit about 1 meg/second there....

probably 16 mbit

2mb/s

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What DOES the uni have...cause I have hit about 1 meg/second there.... I assume you are referring to CDU?

You would notice though that after a few seconds it will drop dramatically.
After the speed stops varying I usually see it rest at about 250-350k/sec when I dl at the uni.

Thats during the day, but when I was living on the campus, at night the bandwidth would pick up, and thats the sort of speeds I used to get...never went under 600k/s

we had a mini forum, we've had IRC.. both maxed out at less than half a dozen users.

If my memory is correct, the uni has an OC3 connection

which is a cluster of 3 T1 connections...

but I'm not sure

t1's are american. australia doesn't have them.

and fyi, t1 = 1.544Mbps
oc3 = 155Mbps.

Australia has E1... same shit, different name.

e1 is 2.048Mbps

ok, similar shit, different name :P

oh and before i forget; oc = optical carrier. t/eX = copper.

so yeah dga32 was good.

Isn't there an offline version of ICQ or something that we could use?

ICQ Corp ..

yes there is .. its used on Darwin Wireless.

CDU has a 14 Mb connection through Optus, Soon to have a much fatter pipe ( 155Mb - oc3 ) through telstra ( connecting Darwin-Alice- to Adelaide AARNET). But not all 155 Mb will be available.

Just a thought - for instant messaging similar to ICQ why dont ya install a Jabber server, We just got one setup on the wireless network works a treat -

there are several clients that work on the jabber server like trillian and Exodus etc...

Just a though

Cheers
Rip

suggested months ago, nothing done about it.

we will investigate an instant messaging solution for EVO. There is a meeting coming up, i will bring it up.

and you know as soon as management starts using words like 'investigate' and 'solution', nothing will ever happen :)

well if i say i'll make it happen.. and it doesn't.. i'll get castrated.

at the meeting, we'll find someone willing to get it working and get them to do it :P

Darwin Wireless has expressed an interest to demo thier connection and equipment at Evo5, still in the process of working out if we can beg controlled internet throught that connection

Quote from Burk:
well if i say i'll make it happen.. and it doesn't.. i'll get castrated.

at the meeting, we'll find someone willing to get it working and get them to do it :P
don't find someone willing, find someone capable.

bah, willing and capable.

just shush.

i had a brief jab at jabber (heehee) a while ago.

the (free) servers all either a) run on linux, or b) run in windows, but only have a command based interface with which to run the server. so i gave up on that one. could only sort of get it working on the home network.

the clients are easy as piss though - tons of quality jabber-compatible IMs out there.