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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Whats Behind Your Name? Post 54369 by Perderabo on Wednesday 11th of August 2004 01:03:47 PM

08-11-2004

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There is rather long story to mine. I am a fan of the horror genre and thus I am a fan of HP Lovecraft. Lovecraft wrote horror stories for magazines. And he used the "universe" concept. That is all of his stories happened in the same universe and elements and characters from one story would find their way into another story. And he encouraged other authors to use these elements as well. One such element was the Necronomicon, an evil book of great power. He even had a fictitious history of the book which was so scholarly that many people took it as real. Lovecraft said it started with a some mad poet who was inspired by a nameless demon. He later fessed up and admitted that he dreamed the whole thing up. Despite that some people saw him as writing documentaries and believed the book to be real.

Later, some joker actually wrote a Necronomicon and made a small fortune by selling it to people who thought it was real. Rather than thanking a "nameless demon", he thanked "the demon Perderabo". This is where I first heard the name.

Apparently he did not dream up "Perderabo", rather it's a name of some very obsure demon. And the original myth inspired some weirdo named Alister Crowley to call himself "Perdurabo". I'm not sure if Crowley was just a bad speller or if he was trying to be a bit original. Actually, since it's an ancient Arab legend, there are probably mutiple ways to spell it in English. Just like Kaddafi, Qaddafi, etc.

Anyway, in the 90's, I would sometimes play an online game called dikimud. I played a mage and used the name Perderabo. Then I started using it for other stuff. And that's the whole story. Aren't you sorry you asked? Smilie

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MHEARD(1)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 MHEARD(1)

NAME

       mheard - display AX.25 calls recently heard.

SYNOPSIS

       mheard [-d cmns] [-n] [-o cfpt] [-v] [port...]

DESCRIPTION

       Mheard  displays  information about most recently heard AX.25 callsigns, the interface upon which they were heard, the total packets heard,
       the time at which the last one was heard and other information.	Mheard displays different information, in different  orders  depending	on
       the settings of the arguments. Information on specific ports can be displayed by giving the port names as arguments.

OPTIONS

       -d cmns	    Sets the information that is displayed for each AX.25 callsign heard. The different arguments are:

		    c	 Display all the information with regard to callsigns, from-callsign, to-callsign, port name, and any digipeaters that may
			 be in use.

		    m	 Display miscellaneous information, the from-callsign, port name, no frames heard, the last  type  of  frames  heard,  and
			 which different PIDs have been heard from that station.

		    n	 Display the default information. This is the from-callsign, port name, no frames heard and the date and time last heard.

		    s	 Displays  statistics  about  the station heard, the from-callsign, port name, no I frames, no S frames, no U frames, time
			 first heard, and time last heard.

       -n	    Supress the displaying of titles.

       -o cfpt	    Sets the ordering of the information displayed. The meanings of the different arguments are:

		    c	 Sort list by from-callsign.

		    f	 Sort list by number of frames heard.

		    p	 Sort list by port name.

		    t	 Sort list by the time last heard, this is the default.

       -v	    Display the version.

FILES

       /var/ax25/mheard/mheard.dat
       /etc/ax25/axports

SEE ALSO

       ax25(4), mheardd(8).

AUTHOR

       Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>

Linux								  19 August 1996							 MHEARD(1)