TrenchGoat

Excellent news. I don't plan on going out there any time soon just to buy a fan. This suits me fine for the time being.
 
Cheers!

Absolutely I will. I'm always lurking around in this forum but every time I've had a question there's always been a quick and detailed response.
Not really seen any elitism or noob-bashing, either.
 
LTT = tech forum of choice these days
 

This is excellent news, thanks guys!
 
We were all going to chip in for the hardware so cost there isn't really a problem and one of us has insanely good internet so we'll store it at his house
 
I'm looking forward to doing a shit ton of research now re: hardware, plugins etc. Love research.

Hi, a group of friends and I used to have LAN parties all the time but we've since moved apart and can do it less and less frequently.
 
During a conversation, someone brought up the idea of a server / NAS that can:
 
  -Host private games (to try and cut down on all the game server rental/accounts we have going on)
 
  -Stream the same music to all of us at the same time like internet radio, but in a way that we can all add to the playlist from our own machines remotely (i.e, a friend in another city could upload a track from his library and it would be added into the playlist / conversely if someone stuck some Bieber on there someone else could remove it)
 
  -Host permanent VOIP
 
  -Allow us all to upload files, screens etc so we can share while gaming or even leave files there for people to pick up when they come on.
 
I know these things are doable on their own, but is all of it possible from the same machine? If so, which OS / programs am I looking at here?
 
any help is greatly appreciated