The Perfect Storm How a Combination of Random Events can lead to Disaster

The Perfect Storm How a Combination of Random Events can lead to Disaster

No, this post isnt about that Wolfgang Peterson & George Clooney movie but it does borrow from the concept in a business sense.

This week we skirted close to disaster but the rest of the business was completely oblivious to the danger.

I wasnt worried, it was all under control but my boss said to me later, "we nearly had the perfect storm today". I thought about his words and realised that he was right.

I was wondering just how many times we, and other businesses nearly have the perfect storm and dont even realise.

What is a Perfect Storm?

In the book and movie of "The Perfect Storm", the storm wasnt a cyclone or any kind of normal severe storm event. It was just a normal storm in which several other conditions were perfect. Its simply the combination of several unlikely events which results in disaster.

Our Experience

Factor 1: Backup

This week weve struggled a bit with backup. We had a faulty tape which meant that we missed out on our backup job for one night. I replaced the tape for the next night and tried to run the backup again. It failed again - this time because the previous nights tape had left a bit of gunk in the drive. I cleaned the drive but although the system was ready for backup, we now had two days worth of "unsaved work".

Factor 2: Backup ISP and Server

Like many critial businesses, we have offsite redundancy. In our case, we have an offsite domino server which is part of our cluster. Our offsite provider had told us a little while ago that they needed to switch ISPs and re-run our infrastructure. We were told a month ago that there was no pressing urgency. Of course last week, on the night of our last successful backup, we were told that it was starting to become urgent.

You can imagine our surprise when we came into work on Thursday to find ourselves disconnected. Our main systems worked, the internet worked, everything was Ok. Its just that our redundant server was no longer accessible.

Factor 3: Board Day

I work at one of those lucky companies who dont have board members in attendance every day. In fact theyre usually only around on monthly basis. Guess what.... the day of the storm was a board day.

A Lucky Escape

We were careful, we took precautions. Earlier in the week wed had some work done on our main production databases but on that day, they were out of bounds.

Like I mentioned earlier, nothing happened. The production servers all stayed up, we eventually got our offsite server back and we got a backup that night. All was well but you have to think...

If anything had gone wrong on the day, we had no backup and no offsite server. We were hosting one of the most critical meetings of the year and the most important people in our company were all onsite watching.

The question is; would you recognize the perfect storm if it started forming near your company?

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The Most Creative Tattoo Fonts – How to Choose it

The Most Creative Tattoo Fonts – How to Choose it

=Look, They have a tattoo, the characters and words such as tattooing names? Be sure to have proper research on the best tattoo fonts. Tattoo design is a serious art. Since tattoos are usually a lifetime and are parts of the body, always the best is the right approach.

You can choose from a range of available fonts. You can build and select different fonts to your computer. The combination of fonts with your tattoo design tattoo and verify the final design is very easy with the computer. Print your chosen tattoo designs and present to advise it to your tattoo artist. This will help your artist to your favorite tattoo design on your body and crafts.

When it comes to fonts, styles and Fiery Icy Tattoo are the most popular. If you want a cool personality, these fonts are best. Several popular designs in Old English used. Normally people prefer Tattoo writings collected for obvious reasons.

Do you really know the main reason these tattoo fonts are used? Usually, people use them in name tattoos. Most tattoo fans love this kind of tattoo design. Names of parents, children or person who has died are the most used names in tattooing. There numerous other reasons behind the use of tattoo fonts.

Kanji Japanese calligraphy tattoo fonts are also very popular. Initially Kanji calligraphy was used to write on bones. Today, among Japanese who prefer to give old charm to their tattoos, the rounded and natural Japanese calligraphy is more popular.

However, Kanji has evolved along the time and has diverged into two diverse styles: SOSHO Kanji and MINCHO Kanji.

MINCHO Kanji in Japanese is just like Times New Roman in English. In Japan, it�s the most frequently used font in print. It�s is more formal and gradually becoming popular in other media�s such as Billboards in Japan.

On the other hand, SOSHO Kanji is relatively more modern, cursive Kanji style and used to create smoothly flowing lines. You can see SOSHO Kanji fonts in the movie �The Last Samurai�. SOSHO Kanji style is the most used tattoo design by the martial art lovers.

A perfect tattoo means perfect combination of design and tattoo fonts. Therefore, before you choose tattoo fonts, it�s crucial to understand the right meaning. Research and pick carefully in order to get the most unique tattoo fonts you love the most. The style of use of tattoo fonts tells a lot about personality.

 

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The first bug on Oracle Database 12c how to create a PDB by cloning a remote existing pluggable database

The first bug on Oracle Database 12c how to create a PDB by cloning a remote existing pluggable database

In this post I want to describe how to create a PDB by cloning a remote existing pluggable database: at the end of this process you should have a new PDB (in my case PDB103) contained in a target CDB (CDB001) cloned from a source PDB (PDB003) contained in a remote different CDB (CDBTEST).
In my case both source and target databases are located on the same machine.

When I took part at the presentation of the new Oracle Database 12c here in Rome I took some pictures, but I was not ready with my phone when an interesting slide was presented.

While testing the scenario of today I suddenly remembered about that missing pictures: luckily few days later I received from Oracle also the pdf of the event so Im now able to show you the following screenshot:

In 2006 I tested the beta release of Oracle Database 11gR1 because at that time my company needed to test new features for its products.
As you can read from the screenshot many test cases were conducted by Oracle and by beta testers, but a bug is always behind the corner when you consider a complex software solution as the Oracle Database and today Im not able to close my thread with the usual "Thats all" comment.

Anyway lets start describing the content of my current containers. My machine has two container databases named CDB001 and CBTEST.

[oracle@vsi08devpom ~]$ ps -ef|grep smon
oracle 4081 1 0 Jul15 ? 00:01:23 ora_smon_CDB001
oracle 16455 1 0 Jul17 ? 00:01:25 ora_smon_CDBTEST
oracle 26501 26466 0 14:08 pts/1 00:00:00 grep smon

On the target database CDB001 there is only one pluggable database (PDB101)

[oracle@vsi08devpom ~]$ env|grep SID
ORACLE_SID=CDB001
[oracle@vsi08devpom ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL@CDB001> select name, open_mode from V$PDBS;

NAME OPEN_MODE
------------------------------ ----------
PDB$SEED READ ONLY
PDB0101 READ WRITE

On the source database CDBTEST there are four pluggable databases (PDBTEST1, PDBTEST2, PDBTEST3 and PDB003)

[oracle@vsi08devpom ~]$ env|grep SID
ORACLE_SID=CDBTEST

SQL@CDBTEST> select NAME, OPEN_MODE FROM V$PDBS;

NAME OPEN_MODE
------------------------------ ----------
PDB$SEED READ ONLY
PDBTEST1 READ WRITE
PDBTEST2 READ WRITE
PDBTEST3 READ WRITE
PDB003 READ WRITE

The PDB003 pluggable database contains few rows into MARCOV.T1 table:

SQL@CDBTEST> alter session set container=PDB003;

Session altered.

SQL@CDBTEST> select count(*) from marcov.T1;

 COUNT(*)
----------
 100

Im going to create a database link into the CDB001 container database connecting to CDBTEST using the ezconnect method.

SQL@CDB001> create database link CDBTEST_AT_VSI08DEVPOM connect to SYSTEM identified by oracle using vsi08devpom.mydomain.it:1521/CDBTEST;

Database link created.

Im able to successfully test the new database link.

SQL@CDB001> select * from cdb_pdbs;

 PDB_ID PDB_NAME DBID CON_UID GUID STATUS CREATION_SCN CON_ID
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------------------------------- ------------- ------------ ----------
 3 PDB0101 532253118 532253118 E18E282148FD10A5E0430100007FC94D NORMAL 1734497 1
 2 PDB$SEED 4063453634 4063453634 E18E1CE36B940C96E0430100007FE168 NORMAL 1720746 1

SQL@CDB001> select * from cdb_pdbs@CDBTEST_AT_VSI08DEVPOM;

 PDB_ID PDB_NAME DBID CON_UID GUID STATUS CREATION_SCN CON_ID
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------------------------------- ------------- ------------ ----------
 2 PDB$SEED 4063610283 4063610283 E1B2A529DB382EACE0430100007F78B8 NORMAL 217 1
 3 PDBTEST1 3064465721 3064465721 E1B436871D9E4110E0430100007F9BBC NORMAL 1547881 1
 4 PDBTEST2 2395404598 2395404598 E1B43A36FA0B41A9E0430100007F6671 NORMAL 1548944 1
 5 PDBTEST3 2434165039 2434165039 E1B43D98C0DC41F6E0430100007F7CE7 NORMAL 1550036 1
 6 PDB003 1448206714 1448206714 E2B9BE56B8B936CEE045000000000001 NORMAL 2744910 1

Under the directory of the CDB001 container there are the following files and directories:

[oracle@vsi08devpom CDB001]$ pwd
/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001
[oracle@vsi08devpom CDB001]$ ll
total 2286044
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 17973248 Aug 5 14:18 control01.ctl
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Jul 15 15:52 PDB0101
drwxr-x--- 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Jul 15 15:48 pdbseed
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 Aug 5 14:00 redo01.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 Aug 5 14:18 redo02.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 52429312 Aug 5 02:20 redo03.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 1226842112 Aug 5 14:15 sysaux01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 828383232 Aug 5 14:15 system01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 62922752 Aug 5 13:52 temp01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 94380032 Aug 5 14:15 undotbs01.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 5251072 Aug 5 14:06 users01.dbf

As usual to clone the remote pluggable database it must be in READ ONLY mode. The current open mode of PDB003 pluggable database is READ WRITE.

SQL@CDBTEST> select pdb_name, status from CDB_PDBS;

PDB_NAME STATUS
---------- -------------
PDB$SEED NORMAL
PDBTEST1 NORMAL
PDBTEST2 NORMAL
PDBTEST3 NORMAL
PDB003 NORMAL

SQL@CDBTEST> select name, open_mode from V$PDBS;

NAME OPEN_MODE
------------------------------ ----------
PDB$SEED READ ONLY
PDBTEST1 READ WRITE
PDBTEST2 READ WRITE
PDBTEST3 READ WRITE
PDB003 READ WRITE

I need to close and open it in READ ONLY mode.

SQL@CDBTEST> alter pluggable database PDB003 close immediate;

Pluggable database altered.

SQL@CDBTEST> alter pluggable database PDB003 open read only;

Pluggable database altered.

From the target container database I can now issue the following command to clone the pluggable database PDB003 contained in the remote database container CDBTEST.

SQL@CDB001> create pluggable database PDB103 from PDB003@CDBTEST_AT_VSI08DEVPOM file_name_convert=(/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDBTEST/PDB003,/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001/PDB103);
create pluggable database PDB103 from PDB003@CDBTEST_AT_VSI08DEVPOM file_name_convert=(/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDBTEST/PDB003,/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001/PDB103);
 *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-17628: Oracle error 19505 returned by remote Oracle server
ORA-19505: failed to identify file ""

On the alert log the following error is logged:

ORA-17628 signalled during: create pluggable database PDB103 from PDB003@CDBTEST_AT_VSI08DEVPOM file_name_convert=(/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDBTEST/PDB003,/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001/PDB103)...

Because the database link can connect to either the root of the remote container database or directly to the remote pluggable database, I decided, after several failed attempts, to create another database link referencing the remote pluggable database:

SQL@CDB001> create database link PDB003_AT_CDBTEST connect to SYSTEM identified by oracle using vsi08devpom.recupitalia.it:1521/pdb003;

Database link created.

SQL@CDB001> select * from cdb_pdbs@PDB003_AT_CDBTEST;

no rows selected

But even with the different database link the statement continues to fail:

SQL@CDB001> create pluggable database PDB103 from PDB003@PDB003_AT_CDBTEST file_name_convert=(/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDBTEST/PDB003,/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001/PDB103);
create pluggable database PDB103 from PDB003@PDB003_AT_CDBTEST file_name_convert=(/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDBTEST/PDB003,/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001/PDB103)
 *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-17628: Oracle error 19505 returned by remote Oracle server
ORA-19505: failed to identify file ""

Lets try using a different method to connect the two database containers and create another database link using the following CDBTEST tns entry:

CDBTEST =
 (DESCRIPTION =
 (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = vsi08devpom.mydomain.it)(PORT = 1521))
 (CONNECT_DATA =
 (SERVER = DEDICATED)
 (SERVICE_NAME = CDBTEST)
 )
 )

Creation and testing of the database link using the CDBTEST tns entry.

SQL@CDB001> create database link CDBTEST_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM connect to SYSTEM identified by oracle using CDBTEST;

Database link created.

SQL@CDB001> select * from cdb_pdbs@CDBTEST_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM;

 PDB_ID PDB_NAME DBID CON_UID GUID STATUS CREATION_SCN CON_ID
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------------------------------- ------------- ------------ ----------
 2 PDB$SEED 4063610283 4063610283 E1B2A529DB382EACE0430100007F78B8 NORMAL 217 1
 3 PDBTEST1 3064465721 3064465721 E1B436871D9E4110E0430100007F9BBC NORMAL 1547881 1
 4 PDBTEST2 2395404598 2395404598 E1B43A36FA0B41A9E0430100007F6671 NORMAL 1548944 1
 5 PDBTEST3 2434165039 2434165039 E1B43D98C0DC41F6E0430100007F7CE7 NORMAL 1550036 1
 6 PDB003 1448206714 1448206714 E2B9BE56B8B936CEE045000000000001 NORMAL 2744910 1

The statement using the CDBTEST_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM database link still continues to fail:

SQL@CDB001> create pluggable database PDB103 from PDB003@CDBTEST_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM file_name_convert=(/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDBTEST/PDB003,/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001/PDB103);
create pluggable database PDB103 from PDB003@CDBTEST_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM file_name_convert=(/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDBTEST/PDB003,/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001/PDB103)
 *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-17628: Oracle error 19505 returned by remote Oracle server
ORA-19505: failed to identify file ""

Lets create the latest database link connected to the following tns entry:

PDB003_CDBTEST =
 (DESCRIPTION =
 (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = vsi08devpom.mydomain.it)(PORT = 1521))
 (CONNECT_DATA =
 (SERVER = DEDICATED)
 (SERVICE_NAME = pdb003)
 )
 )

Creation and testing of the database link using the PDB003_CDBTEST tns entry.

SQL@CDB001> create database link PDB003_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM connect to SYSTEM identified by oracle using PDB003_CDBTEST;

Database link created.

SQL@CDB001> select * from cdb_pdbs@PDB003_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM;

no rows selected

The statement continues to fail even using the latest available database link: PDB003_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM

SQL@CDB001> create pluggable database PDB103 from PDB003@PDB003_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM file_name_convert=(/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDBTEST/PDB003,/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001/PDB103);
create pluggable database PDB103 from PDB003@PDB003_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM file_name_convert=(/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDBTEST/PDB003,/opt/app/oracle/oradata/CDB001/PDB103)
 *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-17628: Oracle error 19505 returned by remote Oracle server
ORA-19505: failed to identify file ""

The available database links created and used are the following:

SQL@CDB001> select DB_LINK, HOST, OWNER from dba_db_links;

DB_LINK HOST OWNER
------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- -----
CDBTEST_AT_VSI08DEVPOM vsi08devpom.mydomain.it:1521/CDBTEST SYS
PDB003_AT_CDBTEST vsi08devpom.mydomain.it:1521/pdb003 SYS
CDBTEST_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM CDBTEST SYS
PDB003_TNS_AT_VSI08DEVPOM PDB003_CDBTEST SYS

And there is still no way to create a pluggable database to a remote target destination from a local source. You can see on the "SQL Language Reference" which CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE syntax is allowed:

SQL@CDBTEST> create pluggable database PDB103@CDB001_AT_VSI08DEVPOM from PDB003;
create pluggable database PDB103@CDB001_AT_VSI08DEVPOM from PDB003;
 *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00922: missing or invalid option

Even tracing the unix Oracle server process with the strace system util I was not able to get useful information to know how successfully complete the statement and why its failing.

The end of the story: after I have contacted My Oracle Support the Oracle engineer confirmed the issue, tracked as bug 15931910 and it is still being worked upon by the development team.
Other platforms could be affected by this bug but I have no reason and time to test it.

So at the moment there is no way to clone a remote pluggable database using a database link, but as a workaround you can follow this post to manually create it to the new target destination

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The Last Best Article On How to Fix the Olympics!

The Last Best Article On How to Fix the Olympics!

I dont just spend my time writing games. I have interests. I have passions. And that is why, every two years, I plop my well-rounded self onto to couch for several weeks to watch an abusive amount of the Olympics.

And were serious about it in this household. We were dumb enough to renew our Tivo subscription for the Winter Olympics, just so we wouldnt have to sit through commercials like animals.

Of course, those who feel that they are oh so superior to any mere sporting event have totally tuned me out by now. Good. They dont deserve the Olympics. Sure, the event is expensive, commercialized, and occasionally full of corruption, stupidity, and incredibly tight-assed officials. But there is an awesomeness there that the bad parts simply cant obscure.

However, speaking as a game designer, the Winter Olympics could really, really use some tightening up. There are countless ways to make the events more interesting for the people who count. That is, us. At home. But Im not going to suggest, as some have, dropping sports. That is cowardly and Unamerican. Also, if some young, strapping lad has spent his short life wrecking his body to be best at something that is almost surgically absent of interest, Im not going to be the one to tell him that his sport sucks beyond redemption. Even if it does.

So here, offered free and out of my pure love for humanity, are my ways to make the Winter Olympics much more cool and watchable. Im not the first to make up such a list, but I plan to be the last.

Downhill Skiing, Speed Skating, Slalom - Heres a rule. Any sport where you cant tell with the naked eye who is winning is dumb. These events are always decided by a margin of three squintillionths of a second, periods of time too small for the human brain to process them, and only magic, time-telling robots can tell us who won. And maybe the robots are lying. Because robots hate us.

My game designer powers tell me that this is an easy fix. Just add a factor that will cause a greater variance in the finish times for the athletes. A polar bear randomly wandering halfway down the course should solve the problem. And, for extra exciteness, put a ribbon on the bears tail. Pull it off on the way down and we shave five seconds off your time.

Ski Cross, Snowboard Cross, Short Track Skating, Any Four-Person Roller Derby On Ice - These are how downhill skiing and speed skating should be done. Fast races. You can see who won. Awesome crashes.

And in Short Track Skating, on average, 90% of the skaters are disqualified. Anyone can win! Heck, I just got a Bronze for the mens thousand meter, and I never left my house!

Anything With Ski Jumping That Doesnt Involve Lots of Nifty Flipping In an XTREME Manner - These are the most tedious sports to watch that dont have the word "luge" somewhere in the name. Every jump looks exactly the same. Also, these sports are harder to fix, as the slope doesnt really have a good place to put the polar bear. The only way to fix this is to change the rules and equipment to make ski jumping exactly identical, in every way, to snowboard halfpipe and hope that nobody notices.

Any Event With a Snowboard - Thank God for XTREME sports for keeping the Olympics watchable. Enjoy it while it lasts. Give it a decade or two and the Olympics-fun-sucking-machine will have its way with them. Remember, a snowboarder got booted from the Olympic village for getting photographed displaying his bronze medal in an (ahem) erotically suggestive way. The fun window is closing fast, folks.

Hockey - Basically soccer on ice. Which means its boring. The best way to fix it is to force the players to play 60 minutes straight. No rests. No interruptions. Watching their desperate efforts to flail the puck into the net around the 50 minute mark will be awesome. Also, the profound fatigue will make it much harder for them to keep away from the polar bear.

Figure Skating - The perfect sport for the Winter Olympics. No sense of fun or spontaneity. Comically corrupt judging for us all to argue about. And sparkles, sparkles, sparkles! Plenty of excitement, but not the sort that is ever, you know, exciting. Perfect viewing for those of us with cardiac issues.

Theres still room for some minor changes. First, no skaters under eighteen. I want to be able to watch some contestant pull out her sultry Salome dance without feeling like my name should be on a list somewhere.

Second, three nights isnt near enough for Ice Dancing. We need a minimum of eight nights to fully appreciate the splendor of whatever the hell that is. Oh, and finally, the entire current pool of judges could perhaps be removed and replaced with ANYONE AT ALL.

Bobsled - In my brave future world, everyone in the bobsled will be forced to switch places halfway down.

Curling - There is a general progression that goes on with curling. People hear about it and go, "They do what? What brooms? That sounds dumb!" And then they sit down to watch it for a few minutes, hoping for a good laugh. And then they say something like, "Wow! How lame! Theyre just playing shuffleboard with brooms. And they ... Ooh. That was a nice shot. And the shouting and the snacks and theyre all middle aged. This is so dumb. And ... Sweet. Completely knocked their rock out of there. ... Where was I? This isnt a sport. This ... This ... ... ... SWEEP HARDER, BITCHES!!!"

Curling is the ultimate sport of the Winter Olympics. It moves relatively quickly, compared to, say, hockey. A lot of points get scored. There is strategy. You can tell who is winning with the naked eye. And there is an eccentric, low-tech charm to the thing, an "I could do that" air (even though you really cant) that makes it far more approachable than watching wiry, teenage pixies jumping eighty feet into the air.

So to fix curling? Show more of it. Especially the woman. A lot of them are totally hot in a kind of naughty librarian sort of way.

Oh, and One More Thing - The best way to fix the Olympics is to get rid of the tight-assed, suffocating self-importance of the Olympics. After the Canadian hockey-women won their gold medals, they took to the ice and drank champagne and smoked cigars. Look at the pictures. They are awesome! And so some officials got angry and made them apologize. Hey, we arent talking someone performing an act of love on a bronze medal here. Its celebrating your hard-earned victory by cracking a cold one on the back of a Zamboni.

The Olympics is about (i) insanely dedicated young people (ii) doing crazy things (iii) for our enjoyment and then going off to have (iv) mind-bogglingly athletic sex. Anything that does not directly contribute to one of those four key factors must be destroyed without mercy. Preferably before 2012, when the next Real Olympics will happen.

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The Sims 3 Bugs How to fix Stuck leaving work school invisible

The Sims 3 Bugs How to fix Stuck leaving work school invisible

In the middle of the night, after a few hours i resolved a stuck problem sims with the tent in Egypt. Now i faced to finished another bugs, that things actually make me mad, but reeally thanks to this forums to give me some backup to resolve this problem... (http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/51811.page)

This is some of the picture ive taken which simply describe the problem (not all of problem, but some problem ive had today).

Kids and teenagers forced to leaving their school, then get stuck. They cannot going anywhere (stuck) , even we command them to do an activity.

A working sims also forced to appeared in front of their office. Same with the kids and teenagers out of the school, they cannot going anywhere. Sometimes they get stuck with each other.

When that thing happened in my town, there were some foreign sims come to town and also get stuck.

Believe it or not, how to resolve this problem is very simple !

Look at this picture:

STEP 1 :


YOU JUST COPY THE TROUBLE TOWN,

example : if your town named "Sunset Valleythree", just copy it and the copy will be named "Sunset Valleythree2". Look at the picture, right beside "Sunset Valleythree2" (the copied town) theres my "Sunset Valleythree" (the original town with bugs).

STEP 2 :
UPDATE YOUR PATCH TO THE LASTEST VERSION
Thanks to will.max on Kaskus, he updating all of the patch and you can download every version of the patch here : http://www.kaskus.us/showpost.php?p=525652917&postcount=26

As my experience this night, try to working with removing the school buildings and work buildings -> it wont give you any help at all. Theres some disadvantage from this :

1. Your teenagers who have a part time job will losing their job.High school newly started look like a part time job, so you must leave your teenagers "fired" from their early part time job.

2. Another bugs will coming -> invisible sims and stuck sims for active household.

3. Even its not a trouble at all, this also take effect -> working sims will not losing their work grade, but your kids and teenagers will lose it. They will started their school again in C Grade.

UPDATED (20 November 2011) :
1. I have copied the town and after 1 day i played it again, the trouble were back and more worst, so i try to update the patch and seems updating the patch is the only one solution.
2. Check your video card, is it compatible with the game or not? The video card located in Device Manager Folder,named "Display Card"

I suggest to people -> dont started to fix this problem with "resetsim firstname lastname  ", cause it dont fix the bugs anyway.

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The Tale of Anita Sarkeesian or How Geek Culture Lost Its Mind and Can It Be Gotten Back

The Tale of Anita Sarkeesian or How Geek Culture Lost Its Mind and Can It Be Gotten Back

Let the shouting commence!

Due to a combination of burnout and health problems, I havent been blogging for a while. Now that everyone has forgotten I exist, I am starting again, in order to fix a serious problem: I am still employable in the game industry.

Look. Im 43 and I have 2 kids. The game industry doesnt want me, and, if it ever does, itll just be to make me do 80 hour weeks and ruin whats left of my life. So Im going to solve the problem by saying things that make the game industry think I stink like old fish.

And, if you want to piss off gamers, here is the number one thing you can say: "Women are human beings, and they deserve to be treated with respect."

And no, Im not about to talk about Penny Arcade. Theres a much bigger, more significant ongoing story thats been going on since I started my blogging sabbatical. So lets talk about Anita Sarkeesian!

(If you know this whole story and dont want to wallow in the absurdity once again, just skip to the last section. But I think the tale is surreal enough to merit multiple tellings.)

Anita Who Now?

I really think this story is fascinating, and, despite all the virtual ink that has been spilled on it, there are fresh things to say. So heres some background to the story. Its a good one.

Anita Sarkeesian made videos on YouTube for her channel, Feminist Frequency. Its what youd expect: Analysis of popular culture from an "Are women in it? How are they portrayed?" kind of perspective.

They were decent videos. A little dry. Some people criticized them for not being up to the LOFTY quality standards of YouTube (chuckle). The standard, young male, testosterone-poisoning, Make Me a Sammich crowd that gets mad whenever women are discussed in any context, tended to come out and shout, but other than that, it was pretty quiet.

Then Sarkeesian did a Kickstarter, to fund a series of videos called Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. The idea: To prove that women in video games might, get this, not be portrayed in a well-rounded, three-dimensional way (when they are portrayed at all).

When I heard about this Kickstarter, I kind of shrugged, because women being portrayed badly in video games? Duh. Might as well have a Kickstarter to prove the moon exists. But anyone who takes time to call out game designers for crappy, hack storytelling is doing The Lords Work, so I hoped she did well.

Instead, She Pulled In a Fortune

Turns out, she struck a nerve. As obvious as her conclusion was, a lot of people were thrilled to pony up bread to make some noise about it. And good for them. Her goal was $6000. She pulled in over $150000. Because, it turns out, fixing even an obvious problem involves people making some noise about it.

The Kickstarter was a phenomenal success.

And the testosterone-poisoning crowd LOST THEIR MINDS.

Tales Of Moral Courage In Video Gaming

If you ever have any doubt that nerd culture has some nasty, toxic issues with women, the harassment Anita Sarkeesian received should dispel them entirely. Her Wikipedia page lists all of the abuse she received, but the most infamous example is the anonymous and gruesome Flash game where people could beat her face.

Folks, this is beyond trolling. This is profound psychological damage. This is Invest In a Bulletproof Vest territory. That Sarkeesian persisted in the face of all of this shows her virtual balls are well bigger than mine. I would have hid under the bed and never come out.

This is surreal! Its a Monty Python sketch. And heres the thing! What was she trying to do?

Was the trying to eliminate Twinkies? Cancel My Little Pony? Make some giant James Bond laser and blow up Mount Rushmore? No! She was trying to make some lousy YouTube videos! To prove an obvious thing everyone knows!

(You know how everyone knows it? Because, in every one of the million discussion threads that bring out people to put down Sarkeesians work, the arguments are always: Its not a problem. Its the creators right. Theres no need to make this video. The production values suck. Women dont spend enough on games to be considered. [WRONG!] Nobody ever says her actual conclusion is wrong. For the same reason there arent impassioned arguments about whether adding two and two gets you four.)

So the money came in, and, unlike certain other Kickstarters I could mention, the promised product is forthcoming.

Videos That Exist!

As of this writing, three of the videos are out. Theyre exactly what you would expect. Carefully considered, methodical in their arguments, decently made, a bit dry, with occasional sparks of true brilliance.

I often see guys online saying that her videos are pointless and dont prove anything. This is how I know that they never bothered to, you know, watch them. Dont believe me? Go to this one and skip to 7:40. If anyone has come up with a better display of the tired hackwork that so often passes for video game story-telling, PLEASE send me a link.

One thing youll note about her video pages is that commenting is disabled. Something that is inexplicably considered a horrible crime by the testosterone crowd. Setting aside that YouTube comments are the most useless way to make an argument about anything anywhere, I think it should be a rule that once the death threats start coming in, you are allowed to start controlling the channels by which people communicate with you. Duh doy.

(You will note, for example, that having YouTube comments disabled has affected my ability to give my opinion not at all.)

Now On To the Main Question

So thats the prologue. Nerd culture, as a whole, engaging in the biggest over-reaction/freakout in the history of freakouts. Whenever these videos are discussed anywhere, go to the comments and read the rage. (Which, you will find, is not unanimous, but not hard to find at all.) This, again, is far beyond mere trolling. Sarkeesian has poked a huge, sensitive nerve in the entire culture.

Now here is the thing, the point, the puzzle, the question at the heart of the whole mess ...

Why are guys so mad about this?

Y U So Mad?

(All nerd-based blog posts are federally required to contain 5% Pony content by weight.)

Its a handful of YouTube videos, saying an obvious thing in a quiet way. Why the rage? Why any rage at all? Why not just go on to the next video?

The obvious reason surely has much to do with this: Humans are naturally loss-averse. In other words, people with privileges (the privilege in this case being young men having video games made to please them and only them) get very angry when those privileges might be taken away. Some people just never learned to share their toys.

This is a lot of that, but I think theres more. I think its a real mystery, and, as much as its been discussed, I think its important to prod it a bit more. (Or maybe Im wrong. Maybe it really is that simple. But its at least worth thinking about, when Im not going on about esoteric design issues or making fun of the stupid new Star Trek movie that was stupid.)

I have a self-serving reason: my two daughters are some of the biggest nerds in nerdworld, and I want them to grow up in the sort of geek culture where they can say things and have opinions and write games without getting harassment or death threats.

So, if you missed my blog, its back. Ive missed a lot of good stuff to talk about, and this is one issue I want to talk about a lot more. And thank you, Anita Sarkeesian, for tolerating a lot of garbage to say True Things. And hopefully make game stories better. Because its needed.

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