haha sometimes the ccons would make us leave if students wanted to do actual work, imagine that! lol or if a class needed the room. but after say 11pm you could play without being bothered. zach On Feb 13, 2008 1:37 PM, Narcis <narcis at luky.nl> wrote: > >> > >> > > > > Haha - that's a huge part of Netrek history that you are speaking > > about > > influencing! :-) > > > > mark > > > > P.S. I somewhat fondly remembers the days when I was 13 or so, and I > > would visit my father's work to play Netrek on his Sun 4. It was a > > work-only Netrek server, and outsiders did not have firewall access > > in. > > It was busy non-stop throughout the day for at least a year before > > they > > finally restricted hours to 12pm-1pm and 4pm->8am. It was then VERY > > busy > > at those times, with a wait queue of 20+. Hahaha.... > > > > I remember the sysadmins bursting in my office when the backbone > started to > crumble under 40% load caused by my harmless series of clients that > were running. > > I managed to convince them it was a load test that went out of > control, i even came > up with explanation of the word netrek in relation to network, > tracking and something else :-) > those were the days! > > regards > > C > > > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev >