Would I get laughed at?

[Muz]

Hello,

Would I get laughed at if I turned up at a LanX event with a laptop?

Regards,

Muz.

[SNOW FOX]

no i dont recon.
just show up and have a good time :D

[SPOT]

nah we have a few guys that game on lappys.
feel free to come along man,
doesn't matter what you use to game, just as long as you game!!

[Muz]

Thanks,

I drove a friend down to the last lan you had, and it looked pretty cool, wish I had went afterwards, so I am looking forward to the next one.

Regards,

Muz.

[*NoN*Da]rY*]

;) welcome to the fold.......

OMFG! Unix RULES!

[dominatrix]

if you're up for a LAN soon, there's yummy (http://yummy.viclan.org.au) in two weeks *wink wink*, and zilla 3.11 before the next x in february... In Ballarat anyway. theres a few others like MorB and the LAN Before Time which are coming up pretty soon aswell

[Moo]

Would I get laughed at?

Yes. But i would also call you a prick. I wish i had a laptop. My sperm needs frying dammit

[Muz]

Ahh yes, the famous Moo, we finally meet. I have heard a lot about you.

[SNOW FOX]

Originally posted by Moo
My sperm needs frying dammit

BAHAHAHHAHA what does you sper have to do with a Laptop?

[Moo]

3 posts and you have heard of me? my 2500+ posts on this site alone precedes me!

BAHAHAHHAHA what does you sperm have to do with a Laptop?



Hot laptops could cook men's fertility

Wed Dec 8, 8:48 PM ET
By Patricia Reaney

LONDON (Reuters) - Teenagers and young men should keep their laptops off their laps because they could damage fertility, an expert says.

Laptops, which reach high internal operating temperatures, can heat up the scrotum which could affect the quality and quantity of men's sperm.

"The increase in scrotal temperature is significant enough to cause changes in sperm parameters," said Dr Yefim Sheynkin, an associate professor of urology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, on Thursday.

Linky: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20041209/od_uk_nm/oukoe_health_laptop

[Muz]

Who the hell needs sperm when you have a leet laptop on your lap?

[SNOW FOX]

haha that is a good point.

[Joshu]

I guess it's the laptop's own form of protection.

[mudgie]

Yes, I do appreciate the testicle-frying fun of a lappy.

[*NoN*Da]rY*]

w00t! No little kiddys for laptop users!

[Muz]

There is nothing quiet like a freezing cold night and an overheating laptop in your lap :woot

[Bento180]

keep talking like this and i'm bound to laugh at you! No one cares though, except now you may be ragged for being infertile...but ya know at least ya nuts are warm in winter

[dominatrix]

me being quite illiterate when it comes to expensive stuff, how hot do laptops get on the bottom?

[BlueShadow]

not very if there Intel Amd on the other hand not to sure. Some Asus laptops it says do not place on lap in the manual.

I will lan at lanx when i go with a laptop.

Be even better when I bring an AP so I can walk around and play

[Muz]

If you bring an AP and for some reason get lost, you can borrow my uber leet wi-fi finder to find your way back home :D

[MR_PEA]

the cool thing about laptops today is the wireless factor... there is something cool about checkin ya emails and chatin to your mates while your on the bog!

[Muz]

I am more of a fan of checking emails/chatting while in the car :)

[BlueShadow]

lol im a fan of running a wireless isp and we are indead need of that uber wifi finder u have....

I could bring one of our new cisco series, 106mbit connection via wireless

[MR_PEA]

wouldent that be nice we could set up a mobile web cam so all of the kiddies can watch ballcam over the network!

[Muz]

Yeah, A wi-fi finder is great for when you are in cafe's in the city, you dont need to walk around with your laptop running netstumbler trying to find the best spot, with this you just click once, and it scans for 2 mins then shuts down. The camera idea sounds cool...:)...as does the wireless ISP....ownage.

You can set my laptop + webcam up on whatever to get the mobile stuff happening....if you want....or....get a good view of some office chair racing:)

[SNOW FOX]

Originally posted by MR_PEA
wouldent that be nice we could set up a mobile web cam so all of the kiddies can watch ballcam over the network!

yes do that, that would be MADNESS!!!

[Moo]

I reakon we run a laptop in teh courtyard of Uni (where you can get wireless access) and a dirty big long network cable to the room. ;)

[SNOW FOX]

rofl He's a thinker this boy

[Chris Meagher]

Originally posted by Bento180
keep talking like this and i'm bound to laugh at you! No one cares though, except now you may be ragged for being infertile...but ya know at least ya nuts are warm in winter
Christ if only you were infertile ben, i would certainly sleep better knowing you could never procreate..... =P

[Bento180]

Originally posted by Chris Meagher
Christ if only you were infertile ben, i would certainly sleep better knowing you could never procreate..... =P
Its been a long time since i've heard the cry of the forum bitch
kinda annoying, but it will be satisfying when he is put in his place...

[BlueShadow]

back to wireless it could happen one day maybe, depends on what is not being used at work for our Wireless network, cause I cant just take an AP if its in use cause then we would have unhappy customers

[Muz]

Don't B&D Technologies sponsor LAN X events? Perhaps they would give you guys a lend of one...

[BlueShadow]

maybe but could the lend Cisco its shit if its not cisco

[Muz]

Yeah Cisco are good, but couldn't you just turn a blind eye for a few days and perhaps use a different brand if you cant get a Cisco?

[BlueShadow]

senoa, senoa is good

[radass]

Originally posted by Blueshadow
maybe but could the lend Cisco its shit if its not cisco

you're another cisco-snob clone eh

[Moo]

yes... having all cisco equipemtn helps my isp [/sarcasm]

[radass]

a lot of the shit that people use cicso for could in reality be done just as well with a cheap linux box. Instead, uninformed / greedy network consultants sell a ton of low end (but overpriced) cisco hardware and support contracts just for basic network applications. Sure, if you're telstra or comindico you're going to want some big ass top end cisco gear .. but to use it for pissy things like wans, small office gateways etc is just rediculous.

Just my 2c

But i'm right ;)

[BlueShadow]

we use Cisco, cause A, the owner aka my boss of the ISP I work for, works for the Department of defence and they use cisco, he uses cisco for its good ness and reliablity, everything we use now is cisco execpt for servers there Compaq, Cisco wouldnt make a diffrence at your Lans but it is good

[Joshu]

Originally posted by radass
uninformed / greedy network consultants sell a ton of low end (but overpriced) cisco hardware and support contracts

You forgot the part where clueless upper management falls for the ruse :rolleyes:

[radass]

yeah, but it's not the place for managers to understand this stuff, otherwise they wouldnt need to hire a consultant. We're like plumbers and electricians to them, ie 'just fkn make it work'

As for cicso, of course it's great stuff. Just totally retarded to use it as a DSL router for a small office, for example. But since the markup on it is about 100% it's easy to see why it happens

Compaq eh ? :D

[Muz]

How much would a really good Cisco router cost, because I am sure it is a little more than a $20 dollar 486 running Linux;)

[Joshu]

Crawz has an AP which he brings to some LANs... but it's locked to allow 4 MACs access :p

[radass]

last i looked (few years ago) absolute bottom end, 800 for a dsl bridge & router running a cisco OS

then theres heaps of stuff in the 3k to 10k range but they keep going up to 500K, most likely more ..

[Muz]

I feel sorry for the companies that pay so much money for Cisco stuff. Yes it is good, but if you just use a Linux machine you barely have to pay a cent, and you get free upgrades for life. Same with offices, why are they paying so much for Windows licenses when Open Office looks basically the same and does all the stuff that Microsoft Office does...same with servers, why pay heaps of money for Windows server when you can get one for free which is just as good, and in my opinion, better. Geez, you can even pick up a Linux Server on the front cover of some magazines, I got a SuSE 9.0 Server (also a desktop cd) with a Linux User and Developer Magazine :)

[radass]

apart from cisco, ease of use is the problem. plus, open office is slow as fuck. They're afraid of having to pay irritable unix people to manage their shit .. i guess they much prefer the smug cisco bots :)

[Muz]

Wouldn't Windows support people be more irritable than Unix guys. If you sat two people down, one on Unix, one on Windows, at the end of the day my money would be on the Windows guy being more irritable :p

[Joshu]

The Windows guy doesn't get expected to run stupid Win32 applications on the server.

E: ...what I should say, is nobody has high expectations of the Windows server guy in the first place ;)