CiXeL's Local WiFi BBS


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[Welcome] [Works In Progress] [Projects On Hold] [Completed Projects] [Miscellaneous]

Welcome!

Welcome to my little space on the world wide web. I am a twenty year old Australian whose interests are very broad. I like interfacing hardware to an IBM computer, and using software to control it as you can see from many of the projects listed below. I write a lot of software now and then, and like to distribute it as CardWare. This involves the people who use it to send me a PostCard of their local city and a comment of the weather on the reverse. I try to scan them all in and put them on display for all to see.

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Yes it is simple and intentionally made to look like it was created in 1999.
It is actually a tribute to the website Damaged Cybernetics.

Welcome to my little space on the world wide web. I am a twenty year old Australian whose interests are very broad. I like interfacing hardware to an IBM computer, and using software to control it as you can see from many of the projects listed below. I write a lot of software now and then, and like to distribute it as CardWare. This involves the people who use it to send me a PostCard of their local city and a comment of the weather on the reverse. I try to scan them all in and put them So where did the name DiskDude come from? One day in 1994, I was sitting in an Information Technology class with absolutely nothing to do. We were learning Turbo Pascal at the time (well, self learning...) so I decided to be an idiot and annoy everyone who used the PC I was working on after me. I made a little program which executed on every reboot which said "DiskDude was here!" in nice big blinking text which just sat there for a while making stupid noises, preventing Windows 3.1 from loading for a certain time period. :)

Why DiskDude though? I wanted to make it as stupid as possible and that's all I could think up of at the time... if you ever see me on IRC and all I do is stuff around, then you know why! After getting my Internet connection around six months later, and joining the now dead Damaged Cybernetics group, I retained the alias because a) I couldn't think of anything better than IceMan and b) I wanted to see how people took such a stupid name... It is surprising, because at one stage, a lot of people had a lot of respect for me and my work, and used the name "DiskDude" very seriously... very funny stuff! I couldn't help but laugh my head off sometimes. :-)

Works In Progress

Here's a brief description of what I'm currently up to these days. Things are going slower all the time, because I am currently undertaking a double degree with Engineering (Communications) and Computer Science, which is very demanding.

Projects On Hold

These projects have been put on hold until I get some more free time. This is most likely to occur over my Christmas breaks but no completion date has been set.

Completed Projects

Miscellaneous

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Last updated 22nd March 1999

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