You are a genius and a lifesaver; I never would have guessed there would be a forum topic about this!
Oddly, this did work for me by default with OpenJDK, but I had to switch to OracleJDK to save my frame rate. So Minecraft may not be entirely at fault. Either way, I'm very grateful to have an effective workaround!
Problem: When you try to run the server, you get an "Error loading ModLoader config."
Explanation: No idea, it only happens on linux.
Solution: Run the following commands in the server directory.
sudo java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar /minecraft/minecraft_server.jar
sudo chown $USER ./server.log
I'm seeing slightly different messages but it looks like the same issue overall:
java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:900)
at ModLoader.loadConfig(ModLoader.java:778)
at ModLoader.init(ModLoader.java:602)
at ModLoader.initialize(ModLoader.java:1691)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.s(MinecraftServer.java:151)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:404)
at dm.run(SourceFile:490)
"Just run it as root" isn't really an acceptable fix. Filesystem permissions are there to protect servers, and this error indicates that it's trying to change something in the filesystem that it isn't supposed to. Just letting it do that is exactly what I don't want to do.
If someone says "Merry Christmas" to me, I say the same thing back. I'll also happily wish someone a Happy Hannukah or Eid Mubarak if they say it to me first (though Eid al-Adha is drifting earlier into the year now). However, I don't initiate these exchanges, and I can't recall a time when I found it expedient to refer to "The Holidays" in general, so I found this survey too limited to choose a response.
It irritates me when people say things like "Jesus is the reason for the season," because it's not true historically. "The season" was a pagan festival first (your Yule, perhaps), and early Christians co-opted it opportunistically as part of their effort to convert Europeans (likewise with fir trees and a few other elements). The Christian scriptures don't say anything about the solstice or December or even winter in their two dissimilar nativity stories (check Matthew and Luke yourself, if you're skeptical).
Obama has already established his ability to kill US citizens at will without charges or a trial, without any credible legal rationale. Stopping this bill would be like closing the barn door after the horse is gone.
In the original picture shown at the beginning of the video, we see ornate corbels holding up the bay windows, we see detailed buttresses on the ends of the towers and jutting upward to hold up the walls below the windows. None of this is replicable to any worthwhile degree in Minecraft. The buttresses would either be too big and moderately detailed or too small and awkward.
There's towers on each corner of the keep, but no buttresses or anything. I don't know much about Revolve's style, but I'm betting if he could've added buttresses he would've. Unfortunately, they probably would've looked awkward.
I agree with your thesis, but I would question whether buttresses are a good argument in favor of it. Buttresses didn't originate as an intentional aesthetic feature; they're a hack that real world architects use to hold up buildings that aren't otherwise structurally sound (sometimes years after the fact). Yes, they're often heavily decorated, but that's an attempt to compensate for their being necessary in the first place. Given the option, most architects probably would have left buttresses out entirely, to give a better view of an uninterrupted decorated facade instead (not to mention bigger windows with a better, unobstructed view).
(Admittedly, these parts of your post could be interpreted as a complaint that the physics of architecture are missing from Minecraft. The careful use of load bearing walls and columns simply isn't a consideration the way it was for real world cathedral builders, since it's easy to float stone blocks in mid air with no support at all. This is a valid criticism if the goal is to force players to simulate real world structures, but I think that interpretation would be on a shaky footing since your main concern seems to be the aesthetic aspect.)
But as much as I would not sing Minecraft's praises in this area, I do see the haters' point somewhat. If you see a Rembrandt at a museum and notice a visible brushstroke, do you criticize it without considering how that brushstroke was used skillfully to create a particular impression? Do you declare that paint on canvas is ill-suited to visual depiction? Or do you admire the way the man achieved an effect with his tools? I dunno, maybe Jackson Pollock and the "limits" of randomly splattering paint would be a good counterexample.
Indeed. But how many times have you seen a heterosexual person display some form of "Straight Pride"? I mean, seriously, as in not just as a parody?
I'm pretty sure it's a lot less than the times you see something about "Gay Pride" or whatever.
I know a straight woman who attended a gay pride parade dressed as Rainbow Bright and shoved pictures of it in my face...book. Does that count?
Is it the pride parades that bother you? Do you and Thompson1928 also wish that Irish people would keep it in their bedrooms on St. Patrick's Day? Since your TV already has an Off button, I assume there are scary armed homos in your house holding you captive and forcing you to watch these events. I can only express my concern for your physical safety and my hope that you manage to find a way out.
3. Why do gay/lesbian/bi groups distinguish themselves as gay/lesbian/bi yet they want to be accepted as a normal part of life. Personally I do not believe in pride groups of any sort because they somewhat endorse the thought of separation. If they just want to be a regular "part" (sorry for poor word choice here don't know what to really use here) of life why do they insist on separating themselves from straight people. (sorry again for poor wording here essentially what I mean is why do they diversify themselves from society so much but they dont want to be "irregular" so to speak)
Imagine you're an ordinary lesbian, and indeed, all you want is to be accepted as a normal part of life. So you present yourself that way to your friends, family, and co-workers. You set up house with the woman you love, you adopt some kids and do your best to raise them, and you get T-shirts and bumper stickers that say "Please just call us NORMAL."
Then one day, after 18 years of stable, boring domestic bliss, the person with whom you've built a life collapses suddenly and is rushed to the hospital. She's admitted to the emergency department, and you and your kids arrive right behind the ambulance. You're panicked about what might happen to her, and ask to see her, since you might be able to comfort her, or help make medical decisions in her best interest and according to her wishes. You dread to consider that it might even be your last chance to say goodbye to her.
But the clerk at the desk says No; you aren't her "real" family member, legally speaking, and therefore you aren't entitled to visit her. You frantically try everything you can think of; calling lawyers, friends to vouch for you, signing paperwork, arguing with the clerk, etc., but nothing works. Some hours later, you're told that it's too late; the person most special to you in all the world has died, isolated and alone behind a locked door.
Despite wanting to be considered "normal" and declaring yourself as such, you've discovered that the Law considers you abnormal. If you want to change that, you're going to have to work together with other people who also want to change it; these are generally going to be other people who are considered "abnormal" in the same way (who propose a variety of strategies, sometimes including pride parades). And in the process, you're going to have to present your case to the electorate as a wronged group with some sort of identifiable name. At this point, you might find yourself peeling that bumper sticker off your car.
I think that's basically how it works. You can mentally replay this scenario for any of the other thousand federal rights that GLBT folks currently can't access.
(True story; their names were . Except for the T-shirts and bumper stickers; I made up that part.)
There was a ton of features promised that never made it.
Notch likes to speculate and free associate about future possibilities, and his fans like to take his words much more seriously than he does. Just try to learn from the recent past; if you think you see Notch "promising" things for 1.9 or 1.10 or 11/18/11, take a moment to realize that what you've seen is an incomplete snapshot of his evolving thought process at one moment in time, not a conventional committed feature list.
A good rule of thumb is to trust a programmer more when they talk about the past and less when they talk about the future. If Notch or Jeb say they've finished something, then it's probably a good bet that you'll see it soon. If they say they're working on something, or planning or designing something, then that something does not yet exist at all, and it may well never exist.
And guess what we're getting? new features.
just because we're getting npc's doesn't mean that was a bug fix.
and on rare past occasions, we have gotten new features on 1.something.whatever anyway.
True, but they're "new" features that were originally planned for 1.8, then delayed. So it depends whether you look at it terms of what was released (in which case this is indeed 1.9, since it has features that weren't in 1.8), or in terms of what was planned (in which case this is 1.8.2, since it's a straight continuation of the 1.8 Adventure Update, not a brand new feature cycle). Either way, it isn't all that important (except to modders, I suppose, if Proloe is right).
Is anyone using this to grief yet? Seems like it would work really well. Fight some mobs for a while, then go to your enemy's base and die, and no one can go near it. Presumably every operator of a public server has had to mod this out already.
Nah, the problem is that Notch hired one programmer to work on Minecraft instead of ten. Time isn't the only variable.
If you want to scold the customers for something, it's about time people realized that Notch likes to run his mouth about features that he thinks might be cool to implement someday, or what if it worked this way, or whatever, and none of this constitutes a serious commitment to deliver anything; certainly not in the immediate next release. As I watched the wiki's change list for 1.8 grow day by day, I felt like I could already read the disgruntled forum posts the week following release, and it was obvious that a bunch of it would move to 1.9 before 1.9 was ever mentioned. There was just no way that 1.5 developers were going to be able to follow through on all of that at a high level of quality.
Have our torches all transformed into lanterns yet? Why not? Because Notch was thinking out loud and unwisely revealing a tentative plan that didn't pan out when he gave it some more thought. And yet it's still on the wiki. Stop hanging on the man's every word.
Glad to hear I'm not imagining this! I've got a 5-year-old Macbook Pro (2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM, 1440x900, Snow Leopard), used exclusively as a multiplayer client. In 1.7.3 I get chronic choppiness, freezes, and disconnects, especially at dusk, dawn, and portals. On our 1.8 test server (exact same map), everything is smooth 95% of the time, I barely notice sun-rises and -sets, and going through a portal is SO FAST! I can hardly wait to upgrade the main server once certain things are fixed or modded (I can't introduce griefermen to this world as-is, given what others have built in it). I was expecting a boost from the lighting changes, but not this much of a boost.
From others' descriptions of new performance problems, maybe some of the work load was shifted from client to server? Our 1.8 world does take up 2.5 times as much RAM as it does in 1.7.3, last I checked. Singleplayer is effectively both client and server in one, so I could see that being a pure slowdown.
Edit your level.dat file (likely with NBTEdit) and set MapFeatures to 1. I did this with my server's map (originally created on Beta 1.2_02 and upgraded with each release), and I've found two villages so far (took a lot of searching, though). I saw some reports that this is supposed to be unnecessary after the pre-release versions, but I have not confirmed this yet.
(If those instructions aren't clear enough, paste the keywords into google. There are a few pages out there with more details.)
Minecraft has saturated its target market and isn't going to make much more money. Over two million sales so far; does anyone really think there will be three million or four? And since it's a one-time purchase instead of a subscription, the only incentive Mojang has to work on it now is to avoid angry forum posts from its established suckers-I-mean-customers (which they don't read anyway). But if they put out a new game, they stand to collect that money from us all over again (unless the MC support in the meantime is bad enough to sour enough of us on them altogether). I'd probably focus on other projects as well if I was in that situation.
Dear Mojang, please sell Minecraft to someone who has a QA staff and doesn't consider maintaining a massively popular game to be a chore. Or at least someone who does their chores. I'd even be willing to pay that new owner a small subscription fee in violation of my terms of purchase, in exchange for better development practices.
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Oddly, this did work for me by default with OpenJDK, but I had to switch to OracleJDK to save my frame rate. So Minecraft may not be entirely at fault. Either way, I'm very grateful to have an effective workaround!
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I'm seeing slightly different messages but it looks like the same issue overall:
"Just run it as root" isn't really an acceptable fix. Filesystem permissions are there to protect servers, and this error indicates that it's trying to change something in the filesystem that it isn't supposed to. Just letting it do that is exactly what I don't want to do.
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It irritates me when people say things like "Jesus is the reason for the season," because it's not true historically. "The season" was a pagan festival first (your Yule, perhaps), and early Christians co-opted it opportunistically as part of their effort to convert Europeans (likewise with fir trees and a few other elements). The Christian scriptures don't say anything about the solstice or December or even winter in their two dissimilar nativity stories (check Matthew and Luke yourself, if you're skeptical).
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I agree with your thesis, but I would question whether buttresses are a good argument in favor of it. Buttresses didn't originate as an intentional aesthetic feature; they're a hack that real world architects use to hold up buildings that aren't otherwise structurally sound (sometimes years after the fact). Yes, they're often heavily decorated, but that's an attempt to compensate for their being necessary in the first place. Given the option, most architects probably would have left buttresses out entirely, to give a better view of an uninterrupted decorated facade instead (not to mention bigger windows with a better, unobstructed view).
(Admittedly, these parts of your post could be interpreted as a complaint that the physics of architecture are missing from Minecraft. The careful use of load bearing walls and columns simply isn't a consideration the way it was for real world cathedral builders, since it's easy to float stone blocks in mid air with no support at all. This is a valid criticism if the goal is to force players to simulate real world structures, but I think that interpretation would be on a shaky footing since your main concern seems to be the aesthetic aspect.)
But as much as I would not sing Minecraft's praises in this area, I do see the haters' point somewhat. If you see a Rembrandt at a museum and notice a visible brushstroke, do you criticize it without considering how that brushstroke was used skillfully to create a particular impression? Do you declare that paint on canvas is ill-suited to visual depiction? Or do you admire the way the man achieved an effect with his tools? I dunno, maybe Jackson Pollock and the "limits" of randomly splattering paint would be a good counterexample.
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I know a straight woman who attended a gay pride parade dressed as Rainbow Bright and shoved pictures of it in my face...book. Does that count?
Is it the pride parades that bother you? Do you and Thompson1928 also wish that Irish people would keep it in their bedrooms on St. Patrick's Day? Since your TV already has an Off button, I assume there are scary armed homos in your house holding you captive and forcing you to watch these events. I can only express my concern for your physical safety and my hope that you manage to find a way out.
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Imagine you're an ordinary lesbian, and indeed, all you want is to be accepted as a normal part of life. So you present yourself that way to your friends, family, and co-workers. You set up house with the woman you love, you adopt some kids and do your best to raise them, and you get T-shirts and bumper stickers that say "Please just call us NORMAL."
Then one day, after 18 years of stable, boring domestic bliss, the person with whom you've built a life collapses suddenly and is rushed to the hospital. She's admitted to the emergency department, and you and your kids arrive right behind the ambulance. You're panicked about what might happen to her, and ask to see her, since you might be able to comfort her, or help make medical decisions in her best interest and according to her wishes. You dread to consider that it might even be your last chance to say goodbye to her.
But the clerk at the desk says No; you aren't her "real" family member, legally speaking, and therefore you aren't entitled to visit her. You frantically try everything you can think of; calling lawyers, friends to vouch for you, signing paperwork, arguing with the clerk, etc., but nothing works. Some hours later, you're told that it's too late; the person most special to you in all the world has died, isolated and alone behind a locked door.
Despite wanting to be considered "normal" and declaring yourself as such, you've discovered that the Law considers you abnormal. If you want to change that, you're going to have to work together with other people who also want to change it; these are generally going to be other people who are considered "abnormal" in the same way (who propose a variety of strategies, sometimes including pride parades). And in the process, you're going to have to present your case to the electorate as a wronged group with some sort of identifiable name. At this point, you might find yourself peeling that bumper sticker off your car.
I think that's basically how it works. You can mentally replay this scenario for any of the other thousand federal rights that GLBT folks currently can't access.
(True story; their names were . Except for the T-shirts and bumper stickers; I made up that part.)
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Notch likes to speculate and free associate about future possibilities, and his fans like to take his words much more seriously than he does. Just try to learn from the recent past; if you think you see Notch "promising" things for 1.9 or 1.10 or 11/18/11, take a moment to realize that what you've seen is an incomplete snapshot of his evolving thought process at one moment in time, not a conventional committed feature list.
A good rule of thumb is to trust a programmer more when they talk about the past and less when they talk about the future. If Notch or Jeb say they've finished something, then it's probably a good bet that you'll see it soon. If they say they're working on something, or planning or designing something, then that something does not yet exist at all, and it may well never exist.
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Don Knuth has been doing that with TeX since 1989 or so. Not sure if that's what you meant by "catches on".
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXfuture
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True, but they're "new" features that were originally planned for 1.8, then delayed. So it depends whether you look at it terms of what was released (in which case this is indeed 1.9, since it has features that weren't in 1.8), or in terms of what was planned (in which case this is 1.8.2, since it's a straight continuation of the 1.8 Adventure Update, not a brand new feature cycle). Either way, it isn't all that important (except to modders, I suppose, if Proloe is right).
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If you want to scold the customers for something, it's about time people realized that Notch likes to run his mouth about features that he thinks might be cool to implement someday, or what if it worked this way, or whatever, and none of this constitutes a serious commitment to deliver anything; certainly not in the immediate next release. As I watched the wiki's change list for 1.8 grow day by day, I felt like I could already read the disgruntled forum posts the week following release, and it was obvious that a bunch of it would move to 1.9 before 1.9 was ever mentioned. There was just no way that 1.5 developers were going to be able to follow through on all of that at a high level of quality.
Have our torches all transformed into lanterns yet? Why not? Because Notch was thinking out loud and unwisely revealing a tentative plan that didn't pan out when he gave it some more thought. And yet it's still on the wiki. Stop hanging on the man's every word.
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From others' descriptions of new performance problems, maybe some of the work load was shifted from client to server? Our 1.8 world does take up 2.5 times as much RAM as it does in 1.7.3, last I checked. Singleplayer is effectively both client and server in one, so I could see that being a pure slowdown.
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(If those instructions aren't clear enough, paste the keywords into google. There are a few pages out there with more details.)
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Dear Mojang, please sell Minecraft to someone who has a QA staff and doesn't consider maintaining a massively popular game to be a chore. Or at least someone who does their chores. I'd even be willing to pay that new owner a small subscription fee in violation of my terms of purchase, in exchange for better development practices.