Bug Stomp

Anyone else seriously finding weirdness still?

Plenty. The weirdest is the way Brother Jerome will sometimes say a random response in SL, when noone's said anything - even when there's noone else in the whole sim at the time, and no objects talking on channel 0 (I tested that by leaving a av+chatlogger by him for a couple of days).

Maybe it happens with all our bots? We wouldn't notice on the web, because there'd be no chat window open to display a spontaneous response generated by the AIEngine. It would presumably just get lost in the ether, with nowhere to go. But with the SL patch permanently linked in instead of a chat window, he's always 'present' and listening.
Maybe he gets bored if he's left alone too long

I firmly believe the AIEngine is at least as much voodoo as science!

I have always said inanimate objects have a mind of their own. Maybe BJ is getting lonely and talking to himself

Surely he is praying but we do not understand the subtle poetry of his words.

!#@!$@, ##%%$, and **()_!

The uploader ate my files and I don't have the backups I need. I have one I can use, but still.

I can't upload. I e-mailed the Prof about the sluggishness, and that went away, but it still won't load my bots, and I just want to throw rocks at something breakable.

The file is not on your hard drive? Not even in the trash?

No. It's my own fault. I can redo some of it through transcripts I guess . . . pain in the neck. Never will I forget to back up again.

The Clerk says,
"Never will I forget to back up again"

That's right, Clerk! Exactly what I've been saying for the past 20 years, or so, time after time...

Here Clerk, since your father was a minister, this one is for you

Jesus and Satan have an argument as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they agree to hold a contest with God as the judge.

They set themselves before their computers and begin. They type furiously for several lines of code streaming up the screen. Seconds before the end of the competition, a bolt of lightning strikes, taking out the electricity.

Moments later, the power is restored, and God announces that the contest is over. He asks Satan to show what he had come up with. Satan is visibly upset, and cries, "I have nothing! I lost it all when the power went out."

"Very well, then." said God, "Let us see it Jesus fared any better."

Jesus entered a command, and the screen came to life in vivid display, the voices of an angelic choir poured forth from the speakers.

Satan was astonished and stuttered, "But how? I lost everything, yet Jesus' program is intact! How did he do it?"

God chuckled and replied, "Jesus saves."

hahaha! That's a cut-out-and-keeper, if ever I've seen one!

Prob -- my mother is MARRIED TO a minister, but he's NOT my father, who isn't one.

But I should've saved my bots.

Maybe Brother Jerome could save your bot, if you prayed with him?

Seriously, I know I am dense, but if you were uploading, don't you still have the text file on the hard drive? I don't understand how and upload error deletes a file from your hard drive? Sorry to be slow, but I like to understand things.

Somehow uploading it seems to have screwed it up, and I hadn't made a backup, thinking that the on-disk bot was impervious to the importer, but it seems not. Right now I'm so annoyed (to say nothing of developing carpal-tunnel syndrome) that I don't know what happened, but it's damn sure never gonna happen again without my having a backup somewhere that I can fix the messed-up on-disk file.

God only knows.

BJ tends to cut off my chats at about two exchanges. Bless you my child and go in peace, basically. Makes me wonder about the clergy even more than my mom's husband heretofore known as Dave.