Microsoft Hardware: Free for a Few Geeks
A few weeks ago, we announced that we would be giving away ten LifeCam VX5500 webcams, courtesy of Microsoft. The requirements were simple: you had to be a member of the Microsoft Hardware group on Geeks. Oh, and we decided that the giveaway would only be done once we reached 7500 members on the Geeks site. I still can’t believe that in such a short amount of time, we have surpassed that goal. It blows me away! You guys are an amazing community, and we’re growing by the day.
In order to choose the winners, I wanted to make sure it was completely fair. Kat and I got together on IM. We discovered that there are 60 pages worth of members to the group when you list all group members, with 18 listed per page. I then went to Random, and first told the site to select ten random page numbers, between 1 and 60. Once I had the ten pages, I told it to choose a number between 1 and 18, since there are 18 members listed per page. The following page numbers were chosen: 27, 13, 52, 56, 37, 14, 7, 59, and 45. The random number on the page was 16. SO: the 16th person listed on each of those pages wins a free Microsoft LifeCam VX5500 webcam! Here are our winners!
- Kumar Veetrag
- Robootto
- Brian
- Jonathan Bracero
- Brandon
- Ross
- Phil Williams
- Rivahratt
- TechGuy555
- Norman Rowe
Congratulations to all of our winners, and thank you again to everyone who has made this community such a great place already!
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12 Comments
Haiku Venue
October 16th, 2008
at 7:30pm
Microsoft Hardware: Free for a Few Geeks
ivanandersson.com
October 19th, 2008
at 6:00pm
Microsoft Hardware: Free for a Few Geeks
GHz.gr
October 19th, 2008
at 5:17am
Microsoft Hardware: Free for a Few Geeks
sbushfan11
October 18th, 2008
at 5:48pm
Congrats to the ten winners of the Micro Soft Life Cam VX5500 web cams :)
Veetrag
October 18th, 2008
at 5:51pm
Thanks Chris and Kat for the gift. :-)
Geeks is really a cool place where we interact with people with similar interests and learn a lot.
Congratulations to other winners too.
Ant Knee
October 18th, 2008
at 6:01pm
Congrats to the winners!
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October 18th, 2008
at 10:14pm
[...] Microsoft Hardware: Free for a Few Geeks [...]
OekelWm
October 19th, 2008
at 8:25am
Congratulations to all of the winners!
Kyle Teachman
October 19th, 2008
at 10:41pm
Congrats to all of you that won! And thanks to Chris for always doing these give-away’s!
eric Regnier
October 20th, 2008
at 11:08am
Congrats to everyone
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October 21st, 2008
at 4:01am
[...] Just yesterday, we gave away ten webcams from Microsoft. We finally reached that 7500 member mark… and we’ve smashed it already! Have you [...]
Jim
October 21st, 2008
at 1:37pm
Well, congrats to 9 of the winners, anyway. In randomizing the page nos., Chris apparently also ‘randomized’ the 10 pages to 9, or else forgot to list one page number. Or else I can’t count. Special congrats to the winner on the unlisted page.