Prosper President, Computer Meme, Cybernoia

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Went to my first Prosper Australia executive meeting last Wednesday; the President of some ten years Maurie Fabrikant stood down and, with some surprise, I found myself President of the 102 year old organisation. On that topic (yes, I know I've mentioned it before), this Wednesday I'm speaking about said issues at 6.30pm at the Hume Global Learning Centre, 1093 Pascoe Vale Rd at a forum entitled "Please Explain Mr. Brumby"; please come along. One of the speakers at the gathering is Matthew Guy, a local Liberal Party candidate for the Upper House.

Spotted the "What's on Your Desktop" meme from a couple of el-jayers. These are the machines that are in regular use in my soho;

Gigabit desktop, Celeron 2.8 GHz, 256 meg RAM, 80 gig HDD, 120 gig HDD. Windows XP Home and Fedora Core 3.
HP Compaq NX 5000 laptop, Centrino 1.6 GHz, 512 meg RAM, 60 gig HDD. Windows XP Professional and Ubuntu 5.10
HP Compaq Evo N1000V laptop, Pentium 4, 1.4GHz, 40 Gig HDD, 512 meg RAM, Windows XP Professional, Ubuntu 6.06

Plus I have a Pentium II-MMX, 256 meg RAM, 20 Gig HDD with Windows 2000. There's also three other Windows 98 machines which see little use and three laptops in storage.

Networking-wise I have a

Cisco 2900XL 24 port Catalyst Switch a Cisco 4000 series router (thanks to laptop006) and a Billion 4 port switch/router/aDSL modem. Damn I like that Cisco router. Just perfect for my studies.

Oh, on topic for those of you using MS-Windows try this:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

Gaming this week consisted of a brief game of my one-to-one Call of Cthulhu/Nephilim crossover and the first session of the Paranoia/Cyberpunk crossover ("Cybernoia"). The latter seems to be working quite well with a greater sense of narrative development and seriousness than the standard Paranoia game, and with greater "setting realism" than the standard Cyberpunk game. The two systems merge well too. I've started writing the "combined rules" out which I will distribute as a PDF - it just works too well for the gaming public not to have a copy.

Comments

bush?

[tatjna.livejournal.com]

Well gosh.

[v3nu5.livejournal.com]

Just did that crazy notepad thing! :o!

[greylock.livejournal.com]

What's up with the notepad thing?

[pache.livejournal.com]

my emulator's currently blown up so i did a quick net search to check what'd happen - according to what I found that little quirk of notepad will actually work with any combination of 4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters, 5 letters... hence the site reckons it wasn't aimed specifically at bush, although i'd suggest it might just be the coders covering their backsides for when it got found out =)

and congratulations Mr. President =)

[uke.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your new position!

[mystic-one.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new position :) *applauds*

Tried that notepad thing.... had me laughing to see the result. Very neat little 'bug' but yea.... doesn't leave you much hope does it.

[darkstardeity.livejournal.com]

Conga-rats

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

And I can't get that bug to work. (Win98/SE). Possibly it's something new they did that causes the breaks.

[raven2000.livejournal.com]

i'm currently working to get the router (it too is a 4-port, dsl) here connected or rather our two wireless connections to meet with it.

your photo makes me hot.

[raven2000.livejournal.com]

if you ever need an intern let me know mr. president.

[baconsoup.livejournal.com]

did the notepad things. interesting

Tell us, did Mr Brumby Explain?

[omnot.livejournal.com]

How'd it go?

Oh, and I'm very much going to enjoy freaking out the ever so slightly paranoid with the Notepad thing. ;-)