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Postby Lance » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:28 am

I just wanted to let you all know that I have received and accepted the following offer:

The EZ Post Corporation wrote:The EZ Post Corporation, creator of the award-winning automatic posting program, Khrushchev's Other Shoe, is pleased to announce a new, significantly upgraded product. The new version of the automatic posting program is called Мастер, but will appear as Mactep on forums that do not support Unicode in the username field.

In addition to fixing a number of bugs and correcting some other issues in the Khrushchev's Other Shoe version of the program, Мастер includes a rich set of new and upgraded features, including adaptive sarcasm detection and filtering, expanded music trivia capabilities, and a completely redesigned humor module.

As a holder of a current license of Khrushchev's Other Shoe, you are entitled to an upgrade to Мастер and 90 days of installation/technical support, free of charge.

We at the EZ Post Corporation hope you enjoy reading the posts generated by the new Мастер software. As always, report any problems to our technical support hotline.


Let me know if you have any trouble with this new version.
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Postby Enzo » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:28 pm

Does Mactep come with the updated Slay-V utility?
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Postby Мастер » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:22 pm

Enzo wrote:Does Mactep come with the updated Slay-V utility?


No, but a Margarita unit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita
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Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:59 pm

Let's hope this one knows something about sports . . .
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Postby troubleagain » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:49 pm

Are you discontinuing support for the previous version? Because, frankly, I think if it isn't broken, it shouldn't be fixed. So there. And I liked the humor module just the way it was.
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Postby Lance » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:36 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:Let's hope this one knows something about sports . . .

I didn't buy the sports pack. It was far too expensive for what you get.

troubleagain wrote:Are you discontinuing support for the previous version? Because, frankly, I think if it isn't broken, it shouldn't be fixed. So there. And I liked the humor module just the way it was.

The two versions can't be installed at the same time. Sorry.

And I'm a little surprised you like the old one that much. I thought it was getting quite worn out. Had it not been for this free upgrade I would have probably just discarded it.
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Postby KLA2 » Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:39 am

I shall miss the inherent cleverness in the name Khrushchev's Other Shoe. {Sigh}. Khrushchev's Other Shoe is dead, long live Mactep.

Perhaps someone could tell us the keyboard key combo to create the ? Cyrillic ? character that replaces the "t" used. Or just post the word so it can be saved, copied and pasted.

Or, we could just call him "Mac" until he gets annoyed and goes back to "Khrushchev's Other Shoe". :P
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Postby Мастер » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:20 am

KLA2 wrote:I shall miss the inherent cleverness in the name Khrushchev's Other Shoe.


:)

I'm not sure that many people got it. But probably, fewer still will get Mactep :P

The Мастер won the lottery. Finding himself freed from the need to work for living, he threw himself into his literary project, which was the true story of Pontius Pilate and Jeshua ha-Nozri. (Needless to say, his version is somewhat different from the more familiar versions by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.) However, his book was condemned by the Soviet authorities, and this drove the Мастер to madness. Destroying his manuscript and abandoning his beloved Margarita, he ends up in an asylum, where, his name being forgotten, he is known simply as Мастер (Master). But things begin to change when the mysterious foreign professor visits Moscow...

So, the short version is, the Мастер is some guy in a lunatic asylum, who is called the Мастер because nobody knows his real name.

KLA2 wrote:Perhaps someone could tell us the keyboard key combo to create the ? Cyrillic ? character that replaces the "t" used. Or just post the word so it can be saved, copied and pasted.


I don't know how to type it, it is copied from somewhere else. Here it is:

Мастер

Note that all the characters are Cyrillic, and perhaps slightly different than their counterparts from Latin fonts...

For those who might not be aware, the pronunciation of Мастер is "Master."
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Postby Мастер » Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:12 pm

troubleagain wrote:Are you discontinuing support for the previous version? Because, frankly, I think if it isn't broken, it shouldn't be fixed. So there. And I liked the humor module just the way it was.


Ah, that is so nice :oops:

Lance wrote:And I'm a little surprised you like the old one that much. I thought it was getting quite worn out. Had it not been for this free upgrade I would have probably just discarded it.


That, not so much.
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Postby Lance » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:11 am

Aw, you know I love you.
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Postby Arneb » Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:08 pm

Oh man, no comrade footwear anymore? You will be sorely missed, valiant marcher.
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Postby Lance » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:01 pm

So what does everyone think of this new model?

I can't help but think it's been acting defective.

Should we dump it and go back to the old one?

Or should we just scrap the whole concept all together?
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Postby Arneb » Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:49 pm

Since I did get the allusion of "Khrushchev's Other Shoe", but not the one of Mactep, I am all for the old version. Makes me feel feel on a par, intellectually. Helps my inferiority complex.

And "comrade footwar" is an all time gem of the board, so we eould be able to keep that, too.
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Postby Frogmarch » Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:43 am

what if there is one of those MS easter egg things in the KOS and Mactep software where by if you type "Karma Karma Karma Karma
Karma Chameleon", you can take over the whole board, well at moderator level?
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Postby Dragon Star » Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:57 am

Frogmarch? Wow, long time no see... :)
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Postby Frogmarch » Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:59 am

yeah, I pop in occasionally.
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