http://theintersect.org Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:15:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I finally finished grinding standing with an R&D corp so now I'm free to pursue missions with another corp that I have specifically chosen for their political allegiances and an item in their LP store with a nice LP to ISK conversion rate. Before I embarked on the journey to ... http://theintersect.org/2010/first-blood/ Last time I was questing my morality as an innocent corporation owner's plea for surrender was cut off mid-sentence as his headquarters exploded. Today I'm questioning my mentality. Seems I got a little caught up in purging the earth of democracy loving Gallente at the behest of my hyper-capitalist overlords and ... http://theintersect.org/2010/questioning-my-mentality/ [15:44:43] Message > Gallente Company HQ: Unidentified ship, cease your attack! We are operating fully within both Caldari and Gallente law. [15:45:09] Message > Gallente Company HQ: Unidentified ship, stand down! We are a civilian entity. We pose no military threat. We have no boosters, minerals, tech, or anything else of ... http://theintersect.org/2010/questioning-my-morality/ So I am grinding standing with the Caldari Navy with my Industry alt to get rid of the refining tax. I got enough standing to move up an agent, the agent appears under the "available to you" list in the station but when I talk to them ... nothing. They ... http://theintersect.org/2010/agent-is-available-to-you-but-gives-no-mission/ I have a file lying around with instructions for getting around some OpenSolaris issues I've ran into lately, they may prove useful to others. ld: fatal: file /opt/sunstudio12.1/prod/lib/crti.o: section .rela.annotate has invalid type [ SHT_RELA ] ld is trying to do 64-bit linking on a non-64 bit system, do export LD_NOEXEC_64=1 and ... http://theintersect.org/2009/opensolaris-workarounds/ I switched to Ubuntu around about April last year, migrating from Debian (and a little bit of Windows). Too many brain-dead decisions* by Canonical since then mean I am looking for a new OS. I've used a number of different systems while testing Rakudo and while choice is a Good ThingTM ... http://theintersect.org/2009/the-lament-of-an-os-nomad/ Much the same as one upgraded from Vista to XP, I upgrade from Karmic to Jaunty today. The workarounds and hacks to fix everything that Just WorkedTM on Jaunty was too much -- such as the DNS problem -- everything I have tried to far resulted in working DNS but ... http://theintersect.org/2009/upgrading-from-karmic-to-jaunty/ (alternative title: Too Much Time on My Hands, which goes rather nicely with my last Perl 6 post). So, in the beginning there was lolcats, then there was lolcode, then there was lolsql (jnthn even wrote a parser for it!) and then I took the joke too far and started lolsh, ... http://theintersect.org/2009/i-maeked-u-a-shell/ So a company that routinely removes functionality from their operating system, to avoid confusing their poor, helpless users with too many checkboxes and features, ships a release with broken DNS resolving? I think, from an end-user point-of-view, "not breaking the internet" should be a lot higher up in the scale than ... http://theintersect.org/2009/karmic-chaos/ (Sorry for the bad pun). One of the limitations of Mubot is that if karma is altered multiple times in a message, only the first alteration is actually made. For example, if someone says: John++ Cameron++ Cromartie-- Mubot only alters John's karma (lambdabot would alter all three). So after I had made ... http://theintersect.org/2009/mu-bot/