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Way back when I first started working for a small networking outfit, we were informally split into 'Team Red' and 'Team Blue'. Everyone agreed that Novell was o
by bluedino 4y ago
Way back when I first started working for a small networking outfit, we were informally split into 'Team Red' and 'Team Blue'. Everyone agreed that Novell was on the way out, and the younger guys with their MCSE's made up most of Team Blue. I had un-officially started 'Team Yellow' and was sticking Linux boxes in when I could.
Anyway...one afternoon I was at a law office installing some legal library software (or something), and one of the younger lawyers asked me into his office. He had a couple copies of Warcraft and Command & Conquer, he had installed them on a couple of the office computers but couldn't get network play going.
Not really knowing what I was doing, I opened up the properties dialog for the network adapter, added the IPX/SPX protocol, and started the game up on two computers.
It worked! It was that simple. I remember the guy pulling a $50 out of his wallet and handing it to me. And, since they were within walking distance of our office, I got invited back over a couple times and we played a lot of games (and drank a lot of beer) over there.