The time finally came to dismantle our second Duct Tape Server and reclaim its components for a new build. We pulled the case apart bit by bit to review the effects of gravity, time, and transit. It's hexagonal shape stood up remarkably well over the past 2 years (remarkably well considering it's all just TAPE).
The case of DTS II was still structurally sound after over a year (!), so we changed most of the internal components, reloaded the OS, and dubbed this DTS 2.5. Here's what this incarnation has under the hood:
The OS was an optimized XP kernal and a Blackbox shell which had a footprint under 100MB.
DTS 2.5 was on server row at MillionManLan 8, July 9-12th 2009. It hosted a dedicated 24 person Team Fortress 2 server, a dedicated Left 4 Dead server, an Armagetron AD server, and an FTP server.
Duct Tape Server II is our second generation build. It was built entirely from nine rolls of gray Nashua duct tape, two rolls of translucent duct tape, a little black duct tape for the art, and these computer components:
Duct Tape Server will be on server row at MillionManLan 7, July 3-6th 2008. It will host a Teamspeak server, an FTP server, and an Armagetron Tournament.
