Rogue

Behold! I am slowly returning to a civilised life. Last night I finally got to go and buy a fridge and get it delivered. So now instead of living like some barbarian, hunting and gathering every evening just enough to live through another day and only keeping that which I could cure in salt; Now i can actually store perishables and spend time on more important things... like gaming.

So if I was to add the fridge to my list of things in my house I now have:

• Computer with piles of parts.
• Bed
• Dining table with chairs.
• Fridge

Oh yeah, if I wasn't taking weeks to do it you could almost say I was progressing.

More errors. More fun. Snippet of upper error. "gggg" is a successful is record pullout and sysout dump using the datasource. A second table using exactly the same principles throws the exception below;

Starting client...
gggg
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: antlr/RecognitionException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredField(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getDeclaredSUID(Unknown Source)

Blarg. Dang it, I've had to go back to basics again and naturally I've forgotten everything. So now I've got this error...

09:58:51,151 INFO [DatasourceConnectionProvider] Using datasource: java:/SCFMDS
09:58:51,370 INFO [TransactionManagerLookupFactory] No TransactionManagerLookup configured (in JTA environment, use of process level read-write cache is not recommended)
09:58:53,853 INFO [TxConnectionManager] Could not enlist XAResource!
javax.transaction.RollbackException: Already marked for rollback TransactionImpl:XidImpl[FormatId=257, GlobalId=PPDT50087/15, BranchQual=, localId=15]
at org.jboss.tm.TransactionImpl.enlistResource(TransactionImpl.java:501)

Which is probably going to take me an hour to figure out. Should only take me a couple of minutes. *sigh* Nothing ever changes.

And on the ML front big pimp Lupin is practically on (over?) the breaking point thanks to some rejects posting garbage with reprocutions they have no concept of in the feedback thread. It happens every LAN (around the wheel turns...) and I think he's just plain had enough of it. I seriously hope he doesn't decide to back it in, he's a valuable asset to the team and a great bloke. It'd be a crying shame to see him give it up.

Maybe we could just lock his IP from viewing the forums after every event? Then CQ, CP and myself could bear the brunt of the ridiculous abuse leaving him safe to recover.

Just a thought, the wheel keeps turning.

Ah yes. Another MonsterLAN, another journey. The Eleventh Commandment was really pretty great. You'll have to excuse any rambling as I'm running on empty with only a few hours sleep and am still having to put in a full day of work.

I had to put my precious LCD under the plane on the way back to Adelaide since I forgot to put my pocket knife in with my case, meaning they wouldnt let me onto the plane. So I just put everything under as additional luggage and got on. When I got home I took it out and couldn't see any damage, of course it may be internal or even just have dead patches on the screen. I won't know until I can boot up.

I sunk a lot of hours into getting the tournaments at XI as fluid as possible. Researching server configs, emailing lans and online tourney groups, stress testing setups, load testing, then play balancing and finally writing some automation scripts to make life a little easier. That's in addition to having to sit there for 12 hours monitoring and controlling the whole thing, not being able to do anything else at the same time.

I don't yet know whether it's actually paid off or not. My initial impressions were that all the effort was vindicated, but in the new feedback thread when asked about the comps everyone is just saying "yes". And that doesn't tell me shit. I'd actually like some comments, even bad ones. Everyone just saying "yes" gives me no impression of what I need to change. Damn it.

Ok so maybe I just got the google earth beta, and maybe I'm not actually in space. But it's pretty damn cool all the same. For those who don't have it yet (shame on you! unless you're a dial up user, in which case don't bother) check it out at earth.google.com which should have a download link on the top right.

For those that do you can see where I am right now by checking out:
33°10'09.12" S 138°00'35.51" E

Those are the precise coordinates for my desk. Jeez I love this program.