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September 26, 2002
Redrawing the Pattern
For those of you familiar with the Amber Cronicles by Roger Zelazny, the following was the result of a discussion regarding conflicting copies of the Pattern. For the rest of you, it'll probably make as much sense as carpet bombing Iraq with Ding Dongs.
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:49:43 -0400
From: secret asIAN man
Subject: Re: Dawn of Amber! (DOA spoilers)
To: The Amber Mailing Listcaptain feedback:
> See, if Dworkin knew already that there were flawed, or damaged, Patterns in
> existence when he drew the one from the first series, why would he insist
> that the Pattern must be erased before a new one be drawn (if I'm not
> mistaken Dworkin's plan was to slice himself open on the Pattern and have
> Oberon draw a new one after)?Dworkin: Okay, Obie, if you listen to only one thing your father says, listen to this. If you ever have to reinstall the Pattern, make sure you uninstall the old Pattern first.
Oberon: You can't just install the new one over the old one?
Dworkin: No. I tried that with the screwed up installs I did before I got this one. It gets really messed up. Don't believe that uninstall thing in the Jewel, either. All it does is remove the icons.
Oberon: It leaves the Patterns behind?
Dworkin: Yep. There's gotta be at least eight, twelve, maybe more, Patterns out there that were all busted up before I figured out that they weren't getting erased. No idea where they all went. The registry is huge and it's messy. I was just lucky I got the whole replication thing going between the Primal Pattern controller and all of the other Patterns. The one in the sky keeps flickering in and out, though. I think it has something to do with the way the Moonlight network interface is working.
Oberon: Dad, that just went right over my head.
Dworkin: Don't worry about it. The thing's in and it's fine as it is. I even got the ghost profiles working on them. Just don't get any liquids on it or you might fry it out.
Oberon: Even sweat?
Dworkin: No, sweat's okay as long as you don't have some way for all the energy passing from one line to another.
Oberon: Okay...
Dworkin: Here's the number for tech support. They work on a pretty chaotic time schedule so you might have to sit on hold for awhile and they're not generally very useful. Figure if it really becomes an issue, one of your kids will probably have a better idea of how to get it working anyway.
Oberon: You sure?
Dworkin: Sure! Osric helped Suhuy stop the Logrus from flashing 12:00 all the time.
Posted by KinCross at September 26, 2002 11:00 PM