LAN Party - Central Illinois - June 30th

[Fuse]

LAN/360 party at my home in Bloomington, IL
Register here: http://fuse.gotdns.com/LAN/Reg/Register.asp

Details:
-June 30th to July 1st. If you come up Friday Jun29th, it had better be in the evening. Everyone MUST be gone by 9pmish on July 1st. I work for a living on Monday (plus I need a lot of beauty sleep).
-This is my home - If you disrespect my family, me, or the property, you're out. (usually doesn't need to be said, but is a point to be made considering the next bullet...)
-BYOB. If you are 21+, bring drinks, enjoy them in moderation. Also needless to say, if your drinking, you're not driving.
-Smoking is ONLY allowed in the backyard...
-I respect my neighbors, so will you.
-Being from a Saturday to Sunday, it will be a full weekend. I can offer up the floor of my basement to sleep, but that's all. So if you want a warm bed, better bring one as you will not sleep with me, my wife, or my brother in law - and that fills the bedrooms.

Music:
-I will have my DJM-909 mixer out with my cheap turntables as well if anyone wants to bring records and spin. Hopefully I will get someone with better tables and better speakers. (If you plan on coming and can provide these things, please let me know)
-The police in our town are cracking down on noise complaints.
-If the 360s don't take up too much bandwidth and I am able to, I will be broadcasting music online to http://www.midwest-edm.com (perk of being radio manager, even when we really haven't gotten things going yet)

Equipment:
-The main focus will be PC games, but XBox360 will also be there.
-I will offer up my computer as the main server for the night, but this also means we play what I have/want/can install.
-I have a 24 port managed router, a 5 port switch, and I think another 12 port router laying around. I don't expect to get enough to fill the 24 porter, but you may need to bring your own cat5. I only have about 100ft and a crimper.
-I can supply at LEAST one xbox360, most likely 2 on 2 different TVs.
-I have cable internet, which will only be accessible by me (this way we can avoid key checks for games like unreal etc... )
-IF internet is needed for something you come to me first. I will have wireless access (to internet, NOT the gaming servers) for you if you need it. My upload is about 400kb/sec. It's not BAD for upload but that is part of the reason we will separate the gaming LAN from any web dependencies.
-The XBox360(s) will be connected to the web for XBox Live capabilities.

Equipment needed:
-Turntables/CD decks? Anyone have 1200s? Anything is better than what I have.
-Mixer? As I said, I have a DJM-909, a very very nice battle mixer, but if you want to bring something else-go for it.
-Speakers/Receiver. I have a junky one and sub par speakers, but we can make it work. I don't want fullstacks in my basement though, it's a small place.
-Extra router. I have not used this managed router yet, so am not completely sure if it works.
-Games (PC/360)
-360 controllers. We have 5 total to use with two 360's, so 3 more would be nice.
-Extra folding table. Plastic/wood/whatever. If you have one, we might need it.

PC Games (supply more ideas):
Unreal Tournament 2004
Counterstrike
Starcraft(BW)
Company of Heroes

XB360 Games (supply more ideas):
Gears of War
GRAW
GRAW2
Crackdown
Madden


"Registration" (don't I sound official now?)
Register here: http://fuse.gotdns.com/LAN/Reg/Register.asp
If you have issues with the page (I wrote in 5 minutes, so it's possible) send me an email at DJFuse.Radio@gmail.com with the following information.

-Name
-Age
-Phone number
-Location (city, I don't need your address)
-Where you heard about this from (How do I know you? If it's from a website, what's your username?)
-Do you plan to bring anything
-Plan to come friday night, saturday morning, or saturday evening?

After I get that information I can get back to you with my address and my contact information.

[Anamodiel]

Gosh darnit. I'll be in LA during this party. It would have been so much fun to get drunk with you guys.

[Da6onet]

Gah this will be the weekend after I've already spent a week there with Kirsten's family. That said, I'll be seeing you sometime between the 16-23 ^_^

[Lits]

Anybody driving up there from the Southern region? If so I'll be saving up for half the gas expenses, plus whatever other inconveniences may arise from me tagging along.

[Strod]

Sounds like fun. I may be able to get a few days off for this. Maybe maybe not. We will have to see, oh and Lits if it does go the right way .. I would pick ya up

[Fuse]

plus whatever other inconveniences may arise from me tagging along.

Like the rest of my divorce?
*nudge*wink* just kidding...


*cough*
Well dag, I originally planned it for the 23rd, but it turns out that is my mother in laws birthday so I moved it back a week. We can definitly work something out for either the 16th or durring the week though.

[Anamodiel]

plus whatever other inconveniences may arise from me tagging along.

Like the rest of my divorce?
*nudge*wink* just kidding...


*cough*
Well dag, I originally planned it for the 23rd, but it turns out that is my mother in laws birthday so I moved it back a week. We can definitly work something out for either the 16th or durring the week though.

I would actually be in the vicinity if you guys were to actually have it on the 16th (or so). If it is changed, I will ask my parents if I can go (but I bet that I won't be able to anyway...).

[Fuse]

For now I'm keeping the date as it is, I won't consider changing it unless I get like no responses by the end of this month.

[NoCry]

make sure you ask though ana! that being said; i think we are actually a decent group of people; sorry fuse; a little far for me although i will be in america next year to do a mini tour of the east coast.

[Anonymous]

How far is the drive from Chicago to get there?

[Fuse]

About 2 hours stright down 55.
If no traffic and you have a radar detector to go 80ish you can make it in about an hour and 45 from the 294/55 merger.

[Adad]

hmm, that'd be about 3 hours from me...not bad at all.  Let us get together

[Pirus]

lits you need to get that b/f of you to get you a car! lol well first you need that lil card from the dmv but anyway! umm thats probably 6 hours from me I might can make it I'll have to wait until it gets closer to check my schedule.

[Fuse]

I just set up my webpage with all this information, and a link to "register".
By register, I mean it just tells me some info I want if you decide to come. You can also let me know on here, but I figured it would be an easy way to take keep things in one place for me.

http://fuse.gotdns.com/LAN/Reg/Register.asp

[Fuse]

Well I just scheduled my first set of flight lessons, which I've been waiting for years to start. One of the things I wanted to do through my training is to keep a blog. Most of you know I hate keeping anything of mine on someone elses servers - so I run my own for everything (Web, FTP, TS, Games, ect...) So I started searching for blogging software compatible with IIS5.1 (Basicly, an ASP based software suite)

In that process I found a pretty sweet forum, which I have an initial setup of here: http://fuse.gotdns.com/forum . I am still tweaking this quite a bit, but please come by and try to break it. I want to see what kind of flaws I can find with this thing but don't have time to mess with it myself too much. I'm still trying to customize it so it will look good.

I have a few blogging programs I will be installing either later today, or tomorrow - that too I'd like some testers, if possible.

Also, please let me know if you plan on comming to the LAN party/Get together. It's less than 2 weeks away!

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