{"id":344,"date":"2010-02-05T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcrampton.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2021-03-18T23:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T03:25:58","slug":"geek-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Geek Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now got EVE Online working under that older desktop.&nbsp; A couple of tweaks, and it&#8217;s smooth like butter.&nbsp; Uh, except for sound.&nbsp; That&#8217;s still in the works.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Capsuleer&#8217;s Log<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Warping through twelve jump gates to get across Metropolis.&nbsp; I&#8217;m seriously hoping that the training agents on this side of space &#8211; even though they&#8217;re also Pator Tech School &#8211; don&#8217;t hate me for my long lapses between missions in Embod IV.<\/p>\n<p>Huh.&nbsp; So Todifrauan VII, the system that houses another Pator Tech School station, is low-security.&nbsp; How sweet is that.&nbsp; While I&#8217;m biting my nails about my ship getting blown to bits, I&#8217;m still distracted by the variances in jump gate construction.&nbsp; All seem to act the same &#8211; swallow the ship in a wormhole, shoot it across space, leaving a trail of light as wake &#8211; but there are fundamental differences in construction.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve arrived at Pator Tech School in the far-off Todifrauan system.&nbsp; I cross my fingers and bring up the station&#8217;s agent manifest.&nbsp; Level 1 Agent is available to me.&nbsp; Level 2 Agent is not available to me (expected).&nbsp; Lo and behold, there is a Training Agent under Agents of Interest!&nbsp; Excellent!&nbsp; Wait, that name looks familiar.&nbsp; Embod IV?&nbsp; *Jaw Drop*&nbsp; Will he talk to me?<\/p>\n<p>*Shifty Eyes*<\/p>\n<p>He will!&nbsp; Here we go again, warping across fourteen gates back to Embod IV&#8217;s Pator Tech School station.&nbsp; I&#8217;m pretty sure that this guy trains in combat.&nbsp; At this pint, I&#8217;ll take what I can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now got EVE Online working under that older desktop.&nbsp; A couple of tweaks, and it&#8217;s smooth like butter.&nbsp; Uh, except for sound.&nbsp; That&#8217;s still in the works. Capsuleer&#8217;s Log Warping through twelve jump gates to get across Metropolis.&nbsp; I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[10,32],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-eveonline","tag-gadgets-and-nerdery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-5y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}