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Diary of a B+ Grade Polymath ([personal profile] tcpip) wrote2005-08-11 07:48 pm

Tech Toys, Gaming, Religious Nutters,

I've been fortunate in the past couple of weeks to acquire a HP Compaq nx5000 (although I'm at a loss why the inbuilt sound card is utterly silent), a Cisco Catalyst 2900XL switch and a dodgy Canon scanner.

People would be utterly disturbed by my LAN. The workgroup is called "Woodland". The computers are "Hedgehog" (Mandrake 10.1/Windows XP dual disk dual boot), "Bunny" (Windows 2000/FreeBSD dual disk boot) and "Rat" (Red Hat Fedora Core 4, the laptop). "Squirrel" (SQL server) and "Badger" (Windows 2003 server) and "Shrew" (BSD server) are also planned. Solved my USB problems from last week with a kernel upgrade. Annoying to say the least. On a related topic CCNA studies go well, with another two modules and c85% for the exams.

Also after over twenty years of collecting, I now have a complete set of Different Worlds magazines. The elusive copy was issue 23 which I gave away as a teenager to a kid down the road who wanted to see what the 'zine was about... On a related topic have hacked out the Mimesis RPS rules into some sort of very specific rules rather than the vague ideas and concepts that I was working with. A new design group is being set up within the next twenty four hours and anyone who wants to be a playtester/designer should contact me.

Related item: brain-breaker of the week goes to a line from [livejournal.com profile] patchworkkid "Only in an MMORPG could I use a knife forged from ogre shit by a blind elf to murder a dwarf for his magical hat."

Apparently 'Intelligent design' an option: Nelson; yeah, for the really stupid. On the same note, there's a good anti-homophobic thread going around. I won't repeat it, because most people on my flist would already agree and have already seen it. However, I do recommend you boycott Gloria
Jeans
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Re: lan names....

[identity profile] imajica-lj.livejournal.com 2005-08-12 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
I was remembering all the promises, good feeling, support , code and hours of free testing and document writting we all gave Red Hat inc.

I will see you all crammed in the third eye of Hell you bunch of pig fuckers.

Re: lan names....

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2005-08-12 04:06 am (UTC)(link)

Well, if they lose the community that supports them they only have themselves to blame....

Re: lan names....

[identity profile] imajica-lj.livejournal.com 2005-08-12 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed.