Making a decision between a managed and an unmanaged switch will ultimately be based on cost and/or whether you want to segregate your traffic. There are many other features possible with a managed switch, but VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) is the popular feature.
Well, here it is a week after the launch of Dead Island, and I still can’t play co-op on a Local Area Connection. I’ve downloaded all the updates, went through having the developers version at launch, lost inventory, had clipping issues, graphics issues, and damn it I still want to play it. So, I came up with this brilliant solution to fix the LAN with Dead Island. I went and bought it on the PS3, within an hour I was playing co-op with my next door neighbor.
In Warhammer® 40,000® Space Marine® you are Captain Titus, a Space Marine of the Ultramarines chapter and a seasoned veteran of countless battles.
A millions-strong Ork horde has invaded an Imperial Forge World, one of the planet-sized factories where the war machines for humanity’s never ending battle for survival are created. Losing this planet is not an option, but a darker and far more evil threat is lurking large in the shadows of this world.
If you have owned a LAN center for any period of time you know that funny stories are inevitable; ie. The time I got mad at a gamer for asking for a free showcase hour 3 times and each player was only supposed to get one, and it turns out it was triplets and 3 very different people; or the one time I caught on camera a guy that was talking to a young lady at the front counter fall on his ass and try to play it off with the lady on camera.
So, I thought I would share some of the stories that a couple of the LAN Center Owner/operators on SALC had to share: (I’m not going to post what centers they are with to protect the identities of those involved 
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Update: I’ve now gotten the day 1 patch and alot of the issues appear to have been handled. Graphics still seem a little shoddy on the PC and you can still see alot of glaring indicators that its a console port. I’m now back to playing it and should have the review out by the end of the week. Right now I’ve had to move on to getting my Space Marines review done.
Update 2: LAN MULTI-PLAYER on PC is borked. I tried for hours for me and a friend to find each other on a LAN Game to no success. Apparently a lot of people are having this issue. Damn it guys I would have just preferred you delayed the PC release to get this stuff fixed before releasing. Apparently Console players are happily gaming away thou. Deep Silver is aware of the issue and is working on it vigilantly. (I’ve been following their twitter pretty closely)
Update 3: I’ve done my review of Dead island and I also show How to LAN Dead Island properly.
Original Story Below:
I’ve had alot of people asking how to determine how much they will really need for their first year. Well I was running the majority of them through the list of their expenses that would possibly incur in their first year and telling them to use that to come up with their total startup costs. Well thanks to Alomax at DreamGCS we have an excellent worksheet that can be found here to use for free!
