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X Rebirth: Free play guide – Getting started as a pirate – 1: Basic navigation

X Rebirth is now, with version 1.21, finally in a state where it’s playable. Previously it was crashing on a regular basis and I gave it a month to get back on track. Luckily the dev’s have fixed up the worst bugs by the time of writing.

The campaign mode is still not all that great though, so I started out in free play to see if it was better. It is – a lot. However, getting started can be a challenge for new players (it was for me) so I thought I’d write up a short guide. Personally I prefer some action so the guide focuses on how to take over other ships to build up your trading fleet rather than going the long way and purchase a fleet.

Note: I’ve included a step on editing save files. This is a workaround because I haven’t figured out how to fix a ships engines yet. You can change a lot by editing the save files but personally I don’t because it takes the fun out of the game by making it too easy.

The guides will cover:
1. Navigation
2. Getting cash by long range scanning
3. Getting ready for a fight (missiles and marines)
4. Taking over another ship
5. Repairing a ship by editing a save file

Navigation / controls
Start a new game in free play mode. Navigate as follows:

[Left mouse]: Look around / change direction (click and hold)
[Right mouse]: Fire primary weapon
[Mouse wheel]: Throttle (forwards and backwards)

[w]: Up
[a]: Left
[s]: Down
[d]: Right

[r]: Fire secondary weapon (missiles) / Scan (if in long-range scan mode)
[Enter]: Bring up quick menu
[Space]: Toggle mouse look / Steering mode
[Tab]: Boost (eats up your shield energy – so be careful in hostile areas)

[.]: Local map
[,]: Region map
[m]: Switch between missiles
[n]: Switch primary weapons

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Nagios3 – location of config and plugin directories with Crunchbang (debian squeeze)

First:
apt-get install nagios3
apt-get install freeipmi

Access from http://localhost/nagios3/

Config files:
root@cruncher01:~# ls -l /etc/nagios3/conf.d/
total 32
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1695 Nov  1 23:11 contacts_nagios2.cfg
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  418 Nov  1 23:11 extinfo_nagios2.cfg
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1152 Nov  1 23:11 generic-host_nagios2.cfg
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1803 Nov  1 23:11 generic-service_nagios2.cfg
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  678 Nov  1 23:11 hostgroups_nagios2.cfg
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 2167 Nov  1 23:11 localhost_nagios2.cfg
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  657 Nov  1 23:11 services_nagios2.cfg
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1609 Nov  1 23:11 timeperiods_nagios2.cfg
root@cruncher01:~#

Plugin directory:
root@cruncher01:~# ls -l /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/ | head
total 3588
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 108904 Jun 28  2012 check_apt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7262 Jul  3  2012 check_backuppc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2242 Jun 28  2012 check_breeze
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  51984 Jun 28  2012 check_by_ssh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1723 Jul  3  2012 check_cert_expire
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      9 Jun 28  2012 check_clamd -> check_tcp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  35112 Jun 28  2012 check_cluster
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  51536 Jun 28  2012 check_dhcp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  47568 Jun 28  2012 check_dig
root@cruncher01:~#

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How to enable NTP on the vCenter appliance

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1.0.10200 Build 1235310
root@10.10.10.10’s password:
Last login: Mon Oct  7 17:18:29 2013 from vrtx-vcenter
vrtx-vcenter:~ # yast2 ntp-client add server=210.173.160.27

Error:
Cannot update the dynamic configuration policy.

vrtx-vcenter:~ # ls -l /etc/resolv.conf*
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  22 Oct  8  2013 /etc/resolv.conf
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 795 Oct  7 17:35 /etc/resolv.conf.netconfig
vrtx-vcenter:~ # cp -p /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.orig
vrtx-vcenter:~ # !ls
ls -l /etc/resolv.conf*
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  22 Oct  8  2013 /etc/resolv.conf
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 795 Oct  7 17:35 /etc/resolv.conf.netconfig
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  22 Oct  8  2013 /etc/resolv.conf.orig
vrtx-vcenter:~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf.netconfig > /etc/resolv.conf
vrtx-vcenter:~ # !ls
ls -l /etc/resolv.conf*
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 795 Oct  7 17:38 /etc/resolv.conf
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 795 Oct  7 17:35 /etc/resolv.conf.netconfig
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  22 Oct  8  2013 /etc/resolv.conf.orig
vrtx-vcenter:~ # yast2 ntp-client add server=210.173.160.27
vrtx-vcenter:~ # yast2 ntp-client enable
vrtx-vcenter:~ # sntp -P no -r 210.173.160.27
vrtx-vcenter:~ # date
Mon Oct  7 17:39:25 JST 2013
vrtx-vcenter:~ # cp -p /etc/resolv.conf.orig /etc/resolv.conf
vrtx-vcenter:~ # !ls
ls -l /etc/resolv.conf*
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  22 Oct  8  2013 /etc/resolv.conf
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 795 Oct  7 17:35 /etc/resolv.conf.netconfig
-rw-r–r– 1 root root  22 Oct  8  2013 /etc/resolv.conf.orig
vrtx-vcenter:~ #