How to make yourself an EPIC L.A.N party

SIZE:

First off, depending on the amount of friends you have your going to need to decide just how big your LAN is going to be. I’ve hosted a multitude of LAN’s all of whcih presented new problems. My personal residence can support about 10-15 people with out blowing a breaker or worse yet, running out of room.

WANT MORE PEOPLE!?!?!
OFFER A COMPETITION/TOURNAMENT WITH AN AWESOME PRIZE
(this could be covered by an entry fee)

Consider a Venue:

Got something HUGE planned? Plenty of churches, community halls, public areas, are willing to Host Events, like this for free or a nominally small fee. Now I am not saying you have to go all out “BLIZZCON” but people want to feel at home in their natural geek environment.

The Equipment: Continue reading

Contest: Spice Up Our Background

We are looking to spice up our background picture on the main pages of The IT Lounge

What We Are Looking For
Something creative related to the stuff we write about, the games we play, and the people who run the site. You can create something on top of our current background or create something completely new.

What We Will Give You
$10 🙂

How To Create and Submit

Create
Download the PSD to help align your creation with or site layout and submit if we pick yours.
http://download.138.197.17.16/ITL_designer_layout.psd

-Try to keep the majority of you creation above the red line.
-Also remember to put your creation in new layers.

Submit
To enter, save as a jpeg and upload it as an attachment the contest forum
thread. ./forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=71&sid=58b0beaf14760fa965a7fe90b141d371
DO NOT ATTACH THE PSD. It will be to big.
If you win, we will have you email the original PSD to us.

Contest Ends 5/1/2010

Good Luck and Have Fun
-James

Android Live CD v0.3

Android x86 Live CD

Over on the Google Code page theirs a project for an Android Live CD for x86 machines with limited driver support but for the most part works as an example of Android. The Live CD supports Mouse/Audio/Networking/SD Card. It’ll boot natively or in a virtualization program such as VMware or Virtualbox The live CD runs Android 1.5 and lack applications that are closed source by good such as the Android Market and G-mail. Though you still have the ability to install .apk file for applications.

Live Android via Google Code

Android Live CD v0.3

Android x86 Live CD

Over on the Google Code page theirs a project for an Android Live CD for x86 machines with limited driver support but for the most part works as an example of Android. The Live CD supports Mouse/Audio/Networking/SD Card. It’ll boot natively or in a virtualization program such as VMware or Virtualbox The live CD runs Android 1.5 and lack applications that are closed source by good such as the Android Market and G-mail. Though you still have the ability to install .apk file for applications.

Live Android via Google Code