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How to run a dedicated Steam server on your Ubuntu box - Countestrike style

For a while now Valve through Steam have had a dedicated server for Linux from which you can launch your multiplayer fragfests.  I've recently started messing about with it and I've gotten Counter Strike, Counter Strike Source and Half Life multiplayer to launch off of it.  I'm still mucking about with server settings and finding statistics for it however I did not find a ton of documentation on this through Google so I decided to put up my notes here.

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Steam’s buy one, get one free with Brothers in Arms, violence, Hold Steady and console games - Friday deals ahoy!

It's Friday!  The world is poised on the edge of a weekend and it's time for some pretty cool deals. The biggest one is from the folks at Valve, but also save on games and music this morning from Amazon.

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Use Nvidia? Valve has free games for you! Use ATI? Free games too!

If you've got some bastardized desktop with both ATI and Nvidia installed then you've just been hit by two branches of the lucky tree.  Nvidia (my preferred brand) offers a bit more in the way of free games, but ATI has some stuff as well.

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