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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 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.

Comments

[baralier.livejournal.com]

I hadn't known about the Gloria Jean thing. Not that I buy coffee anyway but thanks for the tip.

[casca-2u.livejournal.com]

Thanks in particular for the gloria jeans segment of your post, because I do frequent it now and then... I'd like to think it matters in a little way where I put my money.

[frou-frou.livejournal.com]

Squirrel huh? *raises eyebrow*

[cptjohnc.livejournal.com]

I just heard an "intelligent design" piece this morning going to work -- one of our states, Kansas, is apparently poised to make it the cornerstone of their science curriculum, somehow. What's next... burning witches?

I believe in a creator, in the abstract, theological sense, but I don't believe that there was a 6 day period, or that species haven't been allowed to evolve through natural selection. I tend to favor more of a 'first mover' approach. Makes me a bad Christian and a bad scientist, I know. Oh wait -- I'm not a scientist :)

3 things:

[lardarsegreg.livejournal.com]

Those computer names aren't that strange, At least you have some idea of what computer does what.

It's nice to get a full set of something, even though I have no idea what the magazines are about.

And that quote is just insane...

[rustythoughts.livejournal.com]

Quite interested in the Mimesis rules, and game design in general. I'd enjoy being involved in any review.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

My server naming scheme is voodoo loa.

I'd be interested to look at the Mimesis RPS rules, though I might say mean things about them :-)

Nelson has expunged any ideology or opinions of his own in favour of blatant opportunism - with luck his pursuit of conservative vogue will lead him into territory unpopular with most Australians, because transplanting US politics into Australia really doesn't work.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fustian/]

Different Worlds: smartest gaming mag of the Golden Age. I've had the Superhero Issue #23 for decades, but I'm still missing 5-7, 11-13, 32-35, 39 and 44-47; according to the link you posted though, all my missing issues are still available!

lan names....

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

Rat is the perfect name for FC4...as in stabbed in the back by a dead...

On AXIS I have:
TheMountain OpenBSD(IP Lan Bridge/IDS)
TheAvatarsCave Debian Sid/HURD/OpenBSD/dragonflyBSD/netBSD/ (workstation)
TheValley HURD (mine, as in my one day soon distro) (hurd build system)
TheRiver OpenBSD/HURD(L4)/BEos (sql/apache/ldap)

And a buncha other stuff I am not gonna talk about here. :)