Oolite Bulletins

What does "HOSAS" mean?
(This may be a normal term in the "joystick" world, bit it means nowt to me.)

lets speed this up a bit.. a couple of clues and there are many clues available British author PFH STNG enemy "species Taking "PFH" as an understandable misspelling for Iain M Banks, in Excession the ImprobablyNamed GSV, after hearing about the eponymous Excession, dumps most of it's...

not my first rodeo... i survived cyclonr tracey darwin christmas 1974.... we just had the 50 year anniversary and lets just say the cyclone monument? memorial? display? whatever it is was an insult. looked like it had nothing to do with darwin or the cyclone... it looks like a tree fro "The Lo...

it soon developed a drunken bias to steer to the right, Worn potentiometer? Should be replaceable - but watch out for log- versus linear- tracks. Alternatively a dry joint, sporadically giving a change in resistance on the circuit. Ah, the joys of sensor troubleshooting. It never leaves you. Though...

Should I be knowingly cruel and ask if there's a Windows PowerShell equivalent? There doesn't seem to be any PowerShell equivalent, but you can check out gogrep on Windows. It's quite fast from what I have seen and works both with zipped and unzipped files. Can be run from within PowerShell or stan...

-exec zipgrep dealEnergyDamageWithinDesiredRange {} ... ... ... I had never heard of "zipgrep" before today, but the moment I read that, I knew what it did, most of it's usage, why it was called that, and why it was invented. Should I be knowingly cruel and ask if there's a Windows PowerS...

Firstly that it be mysterious... Achieved. Not necessarily the way you wanted, but it's definitely mysterious to me. I wish that there be a reason that some systems initially appear to be inaccessible Sounds intriguingly mysterious. Once the clash with "Email System.OXP" is fixed and I re...

I was trying gas-giant skimming a few days ago. I blew up. I don't have the Deep Horizons OXP. Here you go: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File:Deep_Horizons-Gas_Giant_Skimming.zip Ah, so the DeepHorizons address in the Wiki is wrong (as well as almost-dead). You have a Wiki-editing key, don't y...

form a united front Fair dibs! Now... if you could have the Species OXP of your darkest dreams, how would you embellish the insectoid systems? What would you like to find in them? What does "insectoid" mean? There are a number of ways of dichtomising (dividing into two) the metazoans (mul...

And v 0.4 is now available with a much more radical addition: restricted system entry Is the logic of this as-intended? As far as I can tell, this restriction : Changes the appropriate links on F6 to display in red (oops - my intermittent red-green colour-blindness alarm has gone off ; it's not my ...

I seem to have found a bug with Alien.Systems ; can you check it, and see if you can find the fault. (Given the discussion about variable scoping, I'll hazard a guess that you've got a namespace-clash with another OX(P||Z).) I've gone round the loop of "install Alien,Systems ; find bug ; remove...

[ If... If... Or... or... Or... Or... I have considered such things for some time, certainly with regards this oxp and don't want to reveal very much at present. However, if a system is both insect inhabited and communist then I don't see why both couldn't be represented in some manner. Some people...

More generally, how do the commie insectoids think of themselves? Insects who happen to be commie - or commies who happen to be insects? Commies are always commies first, comrade. Communist theory says that anyone who puts any other loyalty ahead of the communist party is "racist". Not th...

it could save some unnecessary calculation when it actually matters, I think I get it: why do the expensive check first when it also has to pass an inexpensive one? Literally, they teach you this in first-year computing science. As you say, you've learned piecemeal ; it's easy to miss noticing this...

Is there a way to get the Messages to appear at all of the possible Stations in a System instead of only at the Main Station? Have several vague ideas on how this might be accomplished but before the Tweaking Experiments begin would like the opinion of some better JavaScript writers than myself. My...