Lisias

Nightwith - Bless the Kerbal Child.

I see walled gardens...

Well, there's the Old and Faithful Orbiter-Forum.

The best way to earn trust is doing everything you can to prevent people to have to trust you. People here are somewhat traumatized, and trust is becoming a pretty scarce commodity nowadays. I completely agree with you here. Hope for the best, but expect the worst. The hard part will be to expect the worst without causing it - like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is, frankly, my worst nightmare. This is going to bite our sorry SAS'es royally. See my signature for the reason (or this link). It appears to be related to site load. These pesky 502 and 503 http errors started to happen pretty early, almost the same day they announced the P.D. closure and before the last employees were kicked out to the streets. IMHO, would you be right, I would be experiencing these 50x errors all the time, but in the last week I only experienced them between 02:00 and 5:00 Zulu. Today I start to get them more or less at 21:00 Zulu. My guess is that someone downgraded the hosting plan or something similar. I think that a way to mitigate this is to activate the html caching - but, obviously, this have some drawbacks.

Well... Worst happens, we go to Orbiter Forum so. KSP started there, anyway! https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/gathering-design-ideas-for-a-spaceship-builder.19974/ Back to our roots!

HAIL THE PROBE! https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/gathering-design-ideas-for-a-spaceship-builder.19974/

I will check this by night (GMT-3). Keep in mind that that is a dump from the Browser point of view, we just don't have access to the Forum inner guts, so no private messages or anything that demands being logged on to see.

There's the tool the Internet Archive uses: https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/index.html Somewhat more complicated than httrack (what I had used for a decade, by the way), but it's how these guys do things. It also worths to mention that I found this too: https://archive.org/details/forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com_202305 Updated at May 2023 with this tool. I'm reading that documentation to see if we could use the 2023.5 dump as a baseline to save Forum's bandwidth. Additionally, I think it's a very good idea to have this dump shared between many people, again to save Forum's bandwidth - there's no need to every single user here to do the job by themself, we can collaborate.

I appears to be appropriated at this moment.

Advertising is not exactly my favorite entertainment media, but someone has to pay the bills. CurseForge proved that this is a viable business model - they outlived every single Game Studio that ever touched KSP - something to think about. You don't need to have a profit on the stunt, it's enough and sufficient to have the bill paid - somewhat as a Non Profit Organization, where all the profit is reverted back to the "business" instead of being distributed as dividends. There're drawbacks on this approach, no doubt - money changes everything - but if the alternative is bad enough, it may be a viable option.

I wondering what would happen if @HarvesteR made this announcement here, on Forum... (he did on Orbiter's one, when he announced KSP! )

I swear all my attempts to fire a archive there failed, never managed to fire up one with success - it always ended up with an error...

I noticed that rhe 502 errors have a Schedule, they usually starts at 23:00 GMT-3 and keep going between 3 and 4 hours. Maybe this is the reason? People doing personal backups? Perhaps it would be a better idea to allow Web Archive to do it? It would save a lot of bandwidth, and with Forum using the same infra as everything else on TTI, wasting such bandwidth on a frozen game at expenses of the profitable ones is surely something that will not be seen with fond eyes. Another idea would be a static export of the site into a torrent? (Assuming Invision does something like that)

I think a Mars Cycler would be the next logical step. That would cut transplanetary costs to a fraction.

This thing made me remind of this french craziness: Leduc 022. And... Yeah, the cockpit is essentially almost inside the intake!

KSP2 Crazy Train! And we already have the OST!!!

I think he's right, but I don't think this is going to happen unless TTI is forced to somehow. You see, the unpublished assets are a good bargaining chip while trying to sell the IP, because they are an potential source of incoming in the future - the new owner can try to sell them as new DLCs. An expectancy of incoming is better than nothing. Something must convince TTI that it's more profitable to them to release them now in Beta than to keep these assets close to heart as bargaining chips.

Right now, I will be happy to be alive when (or if) KSP3 is launched...

Your KSP installment is well configured, nothing is put on the wrong place. But it's missing a dependency: [ERR 07:32:21.803] AssemblyLoader: Exception loading 'MoleUtils': System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Exception of type 'System.Reflection.Refle at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes(System.Reflection.Assembly,bool) at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes () [0x00000] in <9577ac7a62ef43179789031239ba8798>:0 at AssemblyLoader.LoadAssemblies () [0x000e6] in <4b449f2841f84227adfaad3149c8fdba>:0 Additional information about this exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'WildBlueTools, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its depe File name: 'WildBlueTools, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' It's that old "friend" Assembly Loader/Resolver bug again. Something fails to be loaded, it got nuts and then screw TweakScale and everybody else that uses Reflection and/or Loads a DLL (and, as usual, TweakScale is not shy on complaining when it isn't felling well, so it ends up taking the hear! ). Install this thing: https://github.com/Angel-125/WildBlueTools/releases I think this will do the trick - unless the WildBlueTools asks for something else that it's not installed... Let me check... <hack hack slash & hack again>.... Nope, didn't found any Dependency other than Unity on the WBT source code. Install this WildBlueTools thingy and this should do the trick - if anything else blews, it's another missing dependency. Hit me here, we fix it, rinse, repeat! Cheers!

What settings? It's only a few of them, or it's everything? If only a few, it's probably my fault - tell me what's nor persisting and I will try to reproduce here and see what happens. If everything is lost, then I'm inclined to think it's something environmental. In this case, please: Send me your KSP log Tell me how you are launching the game CKAN Steam It's the launch command line the default or did you customized it? By a shortcut in the desktop Others?

KAX 2.8.1.1 is on the wild! https://github.com/net-lisias-ksp/KAX https://github.com/net-lisias-ksp/KAX/blob/master/CHANGE_LOG.md https://github.com/net-lisias-ksp/KAX/blob/master/INSTALL.md https://github.com/net-lisias-ksp/KAX/releases https://legacy.curseforge.com/kerbal/ksp-mods/kerbal-aircraft-expansion-kax https://spacedock.info/mod/2150/KAX Changes: Fixes a pretty stupid mistake I let pass trough related to duplicated textures in different formats. Closes issues: #18 There’re DXT3 textures on the distribution (errata: on the fillesystem - errata’s errata: is really on the distribution), but KSP likes DXT1 and DXT5 only Thanks to @Nophallus for the report that leaded to this fix! === update === SpaceDock was updated (I forgot to do it on the WeekEnd). I will work on a CurseForge release ASAP. === update² === Now also on CurseForge!

I have one. Have a MiniPEB (great device), some software, lots of cartridges. And TI 99 Calc. I fired up the thing, and loaded a SpreadSheet I had created for fun some years ago. Everything is still working as expected. Then I fired up Office 365. Tried to open an old Office 95 spreadsheet I found on an old backup. Bleh. The I tried to install my old copy of Office 95 so I could open that spreadsheet. Bleh. Then I fired up LibreOffice to read that damned file - now it works, but the last stable doesn't export Office formats in a way that Office 365 fully understands (graphs, advanced scripting, etc - even some more advanced text formatting), you need to have the latest LibreOffice Beta - but it doesn't support my version of MacOS anymore, and I don't want to upgrade because I will lose 32 bits support and I have lots of 32 bits applications I still rely on and I don't see why in hell I would buy everything again. excrementsification. Even on Open Source. I have this one to tell you guys: on Day Job, we are commissioning new ProxMox VM hosts to replace our VMWare, we are done with VMWare. For good. By historical reasons, our Firewall and Router are pfSense (used to be OpenSense, but when we migrated, we had to use pfSense or we would lose support from the datacenter). Well, we can live with it. The old VMware servers used pfSense 2.5.1, we installed 2.7.2 on the new (obviously). And I got screwed. On pfSensse 2.7.2 they ditched ICS and started to use KEA as DHCP server. But... KEA is still in Techonologial Preview, and it's missing a awful amount of features that ICS were providing up to 2.7.1. Yes, they broke a lot of features on DHCP from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 - and had I mentined they shoved a Preview application on the STABLE BRANCH? Features that I was relying when I made my migration plan. Features that I need in order to have two similar environments running at the same time under the same infrastructure, and redirect clients between the environments by simple DNS magic (exactly what's KEA doesn't support). And this damned pfSense version is, allegedly, homologated by IBM to be used on the DataCenter. Now what? I'm screwed, as always. And we had paid for being screwed. The rationale is that by using anything else, we will no get support from NetGear. But I don't need support for a product that I can't use and end up relying on something else, so... Yeah. excrementsification. === == = POST EDIT : 2024-0705 = == === I forgot to mention: The 2.7.2 release notes doesn't mention the withdrawan of any features, neither that KEA is in Preview. Today I had time (and patience) to look into KEA's documentation (completely defeating the need of pfSense, that are supposed to shield me from this) and realize that KEA's missing features are, in reality, optional plugins that weren't activated when they integrated KEA into 2.7.2 (and, again, on a minor version bump). Interesting enough, KEA is a complete rewrite using C++ (using Boost, by Kraken's Sake!) and PostGRESSql or MariaDB as data back end (JESUS CHRIST!!). ISC published a migration tool, KEAMA, that supports migrating DDNS entries (one of the missing features), so I conclude that the new KEA have support for it (I'm losing my temper already, I'm still really liquided off with this stunt). In a way of another, everything pinpoints to the fact that the missing features are there on the daemon (besides hidden on some bloat - Boost and SQL, Jesus) and they just didn't activated them (neither created the GUI for them). Yeah. excrementsification.

You know... I'm a retro-computer enthusiast. And I got some retro computer from the Soviet era and... Dude, they are "bad" (note the quotes), but also... Pretty good! Oukey, they were starting and, so, copycatting whatever they found in West and adapted to their needs, but still... I have here two home computers based on the PDP-11 architecture - damn, the best the West had at that time were Z-80 ZX Spectrums or 6502 Commodore C64 - the 68000 were being used on 50K USD (in 80s USD!!) HP 300 Mini Computers and high performance UNIX Workstations!! Looking on that Soviet tech, the conclusion I reached is that Soviet really excelled in Engineering (perhaps even more than the West), but failed terribly on Manufacturing. Going back to my retro-computers, the design and the ideas look pretty good for the era - but quality of the plastics and the reliability of the components are the problem on them. And what you said apparently corroborates my hypothesis...

Idiocy is "contagious" disease. There's a old adage from my time in which I thought it would be a good idea to try a PMP certification (yeah, yeah... I was younger and inexperienced at that time ): Good Managers don't work for Bad Managers. You see a Bad Manager, you can be absolutely sure all the managing hierarchy under him is equally bad, or in the way to be - because the good ones that haven't left yet, are working on their way out. This is not a new phenomena - it was always this way even before Management became a concept. Completely removing the remedies it used to exist to prevent incompetents from reaching the top brass. You see, idiocy and incompetence are the inherent state of the Human Being - we all born idiots and incompetents - we have to learn our way out of it. If we remove the very mechanism that allow people to learn from their mistakes, they will not have any incentive to do it - they will not even realize these are mistakes at first place. Ignorance is the root of all evils. I couldn't agree more. I started to see these things in the I.T. Industry from the late 70's. With the enormous successes they got, other Industries started to copy cat it, and this is the net result. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are the new Jack Welch - the worst possible practices from manufacturing reached the IT engineering and computer science in the late 70s, and from there started to spread to everywhere. Now we have, essentially, two generations disconnected from best practices (that works) and professional ethics (and I'm not even touching the legal factor - some of these people should be in jail).