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Diary of a B+ Grade Polymath ([personal profile] tcpip) wrote2010-10-04 04:21 pm

Linux User Groups, MBA Progress, Gaming Updates

Wednesday I attended MLUG, a much smaller Linux group which was apparently the result of a splinter from LUV in the distant past (the reason nobody can actually remember). They were a convivial lot, meeting in that wonderful organisation, Computerbank. The speaker had written a small C program (about 200 lines) which conducted a binary tree sort. Over time I hope we can strongly integrate our work and activities; in time, I would like to see several local Linux user groups across the state (Ballarat has one, Geelong should be next) with LUV acting as the federal body. Tonight I am attending the Hub at Docklands on LUV's behalf and tomorrow is the monthly LUV general meeting.

Have received further grades for my MBA course. In the major assignments for Strategic Management and Contemporary People Management, I received 80% and 77% respectively. Better still for the former course I discovered user/permissions error which allowed me early access to my own marks, the results of everyone else's marks, and the ability to change them! Not wanting this error to go wild I contacted the administrators immediately who, not surprisingly, thanked me for my vigilance and removed my "special powers". I am hoping that next semester I can enrol in the three courses required to also receive professional membership to the Australian Computer Society.

RPG Review 9 is late, but should be out at the end of the week. Thursday night was another session of Mouse Guard Death on the Reik, Saturday we were at J&D's for an afternoon of History of the World which played like a simplified version of Britannia on a grander scale and on Sunday was a return to The Haunted Ruins for the ongoing RuneQuest Prax story. Tonight is the first session of the multi-sage Britannia using Pendragon's system, starting with the Romano-British period.

Let me guess ...

[identity profile] imajica-lj.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Bypass traverse checking for the win?

Re: Let me guess ...

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
To be honest I didn't check. I simply followed the navigation options. I might inquire however.

BTW, what are you doing Wednesday eve November 3?....

Re: Let me guess ...

[identity profile] imajica-lj.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
I should be free on the third ... sup?

Re: Let me guess ...

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
First Wednesday of the month of November... Something different to the first Tuesday of every other month... Say, when's the last time you spoke at LUV?

[identity profile] ltempt.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, the ACS is still around?

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think it will ever go away. When a significant profession sets itself up with an association and gives itself a qualifications barrier to entry, then there will always be a degree of seriousness (real or imagined), and associated political contacts, attached to that group.

(User groups, 2600 chapters, Ruxcon, SAGE-AU etc notwithstanding!)

[identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Reminds me of those nerd summits i used to attend while in UK :)

[identity profile] imajica-lj.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, re ACS; still hell no.

WHEN WILL THIS FOSSIL JUST DIE?

[identity profile] longi.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"...MLUG, a much smaller Linux group which was apparently the result of a splinter from LUV in the distant past (the reason nobody can actually remember)."

I know why but I'll save that story for email :)

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2010-10-04 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Do tell! I'd be fascinated to hear it... (I have heard versions, but y'know, the more the merrier)