This script will fix the dropdown text color in OGame, I made it for Firefox (Only tested with 3.6) it makes the select tags inherit the text color so the text inside em is readable.

Download

Over at userscripts.org

Changelog

1.1 – 25/Jan/2010

Removed jQuery loading because OGame already includes it, fixes galaxy overview

1.0 – 22/Jan/2010

Initial Release

Code

// ==UserScript==
// @name           OGame (1.X) Dropdown Text Color Fix
// @namespace      http://theelitist.net/ogame-select-tag-fix/
// @description    Fixes OGame (1.X) Dropdown Text Color
// @include        *.ogame.org*
// @exclude        *board.ogame.org*
// ==/UserScript==

// Modify the CSS
$(document).ready(function() {
	$("select").css("color", "inherit");
});

Post any bugs/suggestions here in the comments or at userscripts.org

Well it’s been a while since I posted a log on here so it’s time for another one, it’s been a busy week both at home and at school.

First of all I got my internship, I had an employment interview at a school this morning, and after talking a bit about my experience in the IT, a run through of my tasks and a sort of tour around the building I was accepted. I’ll start my internship at Friday 5th of February, I would’ve started at the 4th but due to circumstances there wasn’t any time for my “mentor” to get me going on Thursday.

Other then this next week we have the terms exams again so I’m preparing for them a little, luckily this time they’re all on one day instead of spread throughout the week (They take 5-20 minutes each and there’s 3 of  ‘em).

And lastly I’ve been dispatching the new navigation system to all websites that use my CMS. and I’ve been training Adv. Weapon Upgrades in EVE to IV (Maybe V) so now I can fit additional modules because of the powergrid savings.

Well that’s it for this log, stay tuned for the next one (or next post).

~Xeross

This morning I arrived at school, got my stuff and went to the classroom only to find out I was an hour early, fortunately this gave me some time to talk with the internship coördinator however he wasn’t present. They said he’d arrive at 8:30 but he still wasn’t present at 8:45 so I decided to go to the OLC (Open Learning Center, Huge room with lotsa computers) and catch up on some school work.

At 9:25 I shut down my USB Ubuntu and head to the classroom. After figuring out questions we had to answer through brainstorming around a central subject we went to the OLC again to find stuff about the subject. In this case development in hardware (CPU, graphics cards, storage devicers, etc.).

For CPUs and graphics cards it’s just a bigger, better, faster, stronger kind of thing and that’s about it and with storage devices we have SSDs. After finding the required information I had to resize my casper-rw file (This is where USB Ubuntu stores all changes) because it was full, this took 15 minutes and after that I could boot back into Ubuntu.

Once it was done booting I started looking on the internet how I could run my password manager from within linux (It’s a .NET Framework executable). Fortunately there’s Mono which allows you to run .NET applications on linux, after installing the packages I tried executing the password manager and it worked, so another step into switching to linux.

After this I decided to go look for some oldschool games (Dracula: Reign of Terror, Knights and Merchants, etc.) that would run on the school computers. I installed both of these games through Wine and tried playing them. Dracula works pretty well however Knights and Merchants is being buggy (However that’s probably fixable). Hereafter we went back to class to “Report our findings” and after this I had some more time to toy around with Linux before we had to discuss our portfolio and internship efforts with our mentor.

Then I took the bus home and found a reply from the internship coordinator that he reviewed my qpplication letter and résumé and that he made a few modifications. After this I sent them to the Elementary School that I’m applying to, and I already have a reply for an application meeting/conversation, however the date might need to be changed.

Other then that I gathered all my stuff from all around New Eden and hauled it to my main base of operation, also tweaked some of my market order prices and well that’s about it.

~Xeross

Welcome to the fourteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

The first banter of 2010 comes to us from the EVE Blog Father, CrazyKinux himself, who asks the following: As we begin another year in New Eden, ask yourselves “What Now?” What will I attempt next? What haven’t I done so far in EVE? Was it out fear, funds, or knowledge? Have I always wanted to start my own corporation, but have never dared doing so? Is there a fledging mercenary waiting to come out of its shell? Or maybe an Industrialist? What steps and objectives will I set myself to accomplish in order to reach my ultimate goal for this year? EVE is what you make of it. So, what is it going to be for you?

Kind of a coincidental subject if you ask me, well let’s get started with the plans for 2010.

First of all I’m going to be focusing more on PvP, I’ve been flying solo trying to pirate people for a few days now and I really like it so far. Currently training up my skills to fit my Rifter even better, and my first kill is a fact.

Other then this I’ll be helping Lord Baltor to bring some life back into Novadyne Dynamics, at the moment we’re kind of inactive and we need to get back into it again, I’ll primarily be helping him and the corp by creating a website and hosting a forum.

And another goal of mine is to fly a Golem by the end of the year, calculations indicate training for it would take approximately 240 days so it should be achievable.

And well, also train up my trade skills to become a better trader, and my mining skills to make mining more profitable.

As you can see I want to train for a very broad spectrum of “Classes” which is kind of difficult with this skill system unless you take your time, So well I guess this is the entire plan for 2010.

~Xeross

Participants

• CrazyKinux’s Musing – A beginning is a very delicate time…
• The Wandering Druid of Tranquility – Words, words, words…
• My God It’s Full of Stars – What Now?
• Into the unknown with gun and camera – Show me the money
• Ecliptic Rift – Enabling the future
• Inanity and Doom – New Year’s Resolutions, New Eden Style
• Break Vol – Blog Banter #14
• Guns Ablaze – What Now?
• Adventures in Mission Running – The Way Forward
• Diary of a Pod Pilot – Things I want to do
• Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah – The Year That Will Be
• Roc’s Ramblings – WordPress ate my blog
• Vive Virtual – Frontier Living
• A Mule in EVE – Next on the chopping block
• Prano’s Journey – I Peer Into My Crystal Pod…
• Life in Low Sec – Expanding the Franchise
• The Light of Stars – Testing the claims of CCP
• A Memoir From Space – A New Direction
• The Chronofile – Blog Banter 2010
• FlashFresh – What now for Flash?
• EVE Opportunist – Fyreite in 112
• Mike Azariah – Jiorj
• Yarrbear Tales – Year in Review
• The Independant Analyst – The Year Ahead
• The Travels of Black Claw – Where ma I going?
• Warp Scrammed – What to do this year
• Sered’s Lives – Searching for directions in 2010
• Finders & Keepers – New Tears, Same Great Taste
• The Captain’s Log – To Dream of the Future
• The Lathspell of Mithrandir – Resolutions
• The Midnight Sun – EVE Blog Banter #14

I’ve decided to rename the Daily Log to just Log, I wont be able to write a post daily so this name fits better.

Today I’ve been working on my CMS, primarily on managing groups and their rights, I’ve almost finished the module and once it’s done I can finish up with the Novadyne Dynamics website.

I also have some renewed motivation regarding programming and I’m very happy with that because that means I can finish up some projects I still need to finish.

Well I’m going to bed now.

~Xeross

It seems that somehow the last few days slipped by without me thinking about writing a log entry, I don’t know how this happened but today I have one again.

I have finally installed Dragon Age: Origins, I’m always a few weeks/months late with trying new games because of my busy schedule, I have played it for a few hours now and I have to say it looks great, and the gameplay is good. I’ll definitely be playing this for a few more days/weeks.

Besides this I’ve also made good progress with the Novadyne Dynamics website, so far I’ve implemented API Key adding/removing and the Operation Management/Logging is coming along pretty nice too. After this I need to implement forum authentication and a Loyalty Point system and then we can bring Novadyne back to life.

I’ve also changed my path again in EVE, whilst PvP and Pirating are great things to do the endless scanning for targets is just not my thing, I don’t have a lot of time to play and scanning endlessly just doesn’t fit in my timeframe. I’ll be trading and missioning primarily again for the time being.

Well I guess that wraps it up for today, there wont be a Captain’s Log as there isn’t anything interesting to tell today.

~Xeross

Today at school we got another “Skill Training” called “Troubleshooting II” somehow I couldn’t focus on it because I was building a USB linux OS.

However I encountered 1 very weird (And typically Microsoft) registry key, if this is enabled you can get Windows to crash into a BSOD by pressing the right control key and pressing scroll lock twice while holding it, for more info linky.

On other news, I made my first kill today in EVE Online, check out my Captain’s Log of today for more info on that.

~Xeross

Captain’s log the 6th of January 112yc, 20:31.

Today was a good day, I’m still flying solo in my Rifter and slowly gathering more knowledge and experience about fighting other pilots.

Today I undocked to continue my journey through low-sec looking for some fights, however I didn’t accomplish this today, though I did get my first kill.

While travelling through low-sec I got into a system and found a lonely Mammoth together with a Retriever in an asteroid belt, as I neared them I locked them and opened fire, however the ship’s systems warned me I was in CONCORD secured space, slightly confused I checked my navigation computer and found that I was in Empire Space, so I cancelled the gunfire.

After making this discovery I tried to think of a way to still get the kill, and that’s when I spotted some wrecked Guristas ships which my ship indicated where killed by their drones. So I approached one opened it and ignored the “This is someone else’s kill” warning.

After this the Retriever warped of and I requested a convo with the Mammoth pilot, he accepted it and I asked him if his friend had any drones left (And if he could send them after me), he said his friend didn’t and I decided to wait for him to come back.

After a few minutes the Retriever pilot arrives back in a Caracal, I quickly targeted him and started orbiting him at 500m distance, I activated my afterburners, damage control, webber and warp scrambler. He started firing at me and so I also started firing at him, after a while it seemed that I was at the losing hand, my shield were nearly depleted and his halfway through however, after a while his armour started burning up a lot faster then mine and it looked like I might win, after a while we were both in structure but fortunately his decreased faster then mine and a few seconds later his ship exploded.

So after this I decided not to destroy his pod and send him back to the clone vats as that would make CONCORD take actions against me, I warped to a safe place in the system and waited till I could dock again. After this I docked and now I can proudly say I made my first kill.

After that I continued to roam low-sec and thought I had scanned down a Bantar, however upon arriving at the site all that was there was a Jaguar that locked me and so I lost “Rifter II“, after this I went back to get “Rifter III” and continue my roam but I haven’t been able to scan down anything interesting after that.

Now I’m docked in a station in low-sec and resting to continue my journey tomorrow. I’m also thinking about joining the Blood Money Bootcamp which is opening their doors for new recruits the 17th of January.

And finally I also got some more notes regarding PvP, I’ve updated “Attachment A” of yesterdays log.

Computer, save secure file, end recording.

Well it’s the 5th of January 2010, second day of school, now a very quick run through.

We had to look up some info about programming and source code (What’s a programmer, What’s source code, etc.), however there was 1 thing particularly interesting, a guy named Jan Sloot who was a TV Mechanic (Or something like that) invented something that could make 16 movies fit on something that normally can only contain 64KB of data.

You can find more info on it on Wikipedia, and there’s also a documentary and a book. He probably invented a way of storing that instead of bits used switches with more then 2 values. People also say he invented a compression algorithm, however this has nothing to do with compression, just the way of storing it.

EVE

When I got home I fired up EVE to take my new Rifter for its maiden flight, just check my Captain’s Log for today.

~Xeross

Captain’s Log, 5th of January 112yc.

After getting my Rifter assembled and configured yesterday she was ready for her maiden flight today. Flying without any crew on-board takes some getting used too, however the silence is nice for a change.

First thing today was getting familiar with the Directional Scanner, I’ve read a manual on it recently so I understand how it works. So we flew to a random Empire system to try and find someone in an asteroid belt.

After 3 minutes of scanning I found someone and 30 seconds later I arrived at the belt to see the person warp away just as I left warp myself.

So now it was time to  head into Low Security space, after trying to find a target for a while I found a Caracal but I made the mistakes of hesitating whether to attack and the Caracal took off. After moving around and scanning again I traced him down again but he had some company this time. After rescanning a few times I found the Caracal was gone and a wreck had taken his place.

After this I decided to send a system wide message containing the text: “I see you got the Caracal”, after this I got a confirmation that they indeed successfully killed it. And after looking at the public info of these people it’s apparent they were pirates.

After this 1 attempted to scan me down and attack me, however I’m not too sure if this was indeed the case. I managed to get away quickly before they got near enough to disrupt my systems.

After this I continued my journey and a few systems further I requested the list of people currently in that system to find there was a group of pirates that were all part of something called “The Bloodmoney Cartel”, after seeing them destroying some ships again (Through my scanner) one appeared next to me I instinctively docked at the station.

After a while I decided to undock and this pirate was still floating near the station, I think I somehow panicked or something because before I knew it I had locked on to him and opened fire. However after a short while he burned through my shield, armor and structure without me even burning through his shield.

After this I docked at the station again because he would get shot if he podded me, in the 30 minutes after that we had a conversation on ships, ammo and other pirating related things (See Attachment A) , thanks to this I now have some more knowledge about PvP.

After that I headed back to get a new Rifter assembled so I could continue my journey, but still a loss is a loss.

Computer, save secure file, end recording.