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Starcraft 2 secret mission how-to mac os x after campaign completed

26^th August, 2010 |

Okay so you have played the campaign (finished campaign) and now see you are at 24/26 missions or 25/26 missions – obviously there is one mission missing, the secret mission.

By now you have researched on Google how to get this mission and you have launched the mission “Media Blitz” and directed the Odin to the bottom right map corner and destroyed the building (looks like science building from Starcraft 1). Then you have picked up the documents and it reads “Secret found” – however, some 20 minutes later you have finished the map and it turns out that you cannot access the secret mission! What gives? Apparently when you have completed the campaign already the secret mission does not show. Here is how to fix this situation: as I have just done it and provide you with the screenshots, you can be assured that it DID work. If it does not work for you, then it either something went wrong or you are loading the wrong savegame/mixed something up.

This how-to is for Mac (OS X, Snow Leopard, 10.6) only, but I am quite sure something similar exists for Windows (PC):

1. Go to the folder /Users/MAC USERNAME/Documents/Blizzard/StarCraft%20II/Accounts/RANDOM NUMBER/ANOTHER RANDOM NUMBER/Saves/Unsaved/

2. Scroll down until you find one of the media blitz save games.

3. Copy it

4. Go to /Users/MAC USERNAME/Documents/Blizzard/StarCraft%20II/Accounts/RANDOM NUMBER/ANOTHER RANDOM NUMBER/Saves/Campaign/

5. Paste the file

6. Open SC2

7. Load the save file you just copied over from the CAMPAIGN tab, nothing else – make a mental note of the time (so you dont end up opening the wrong file).

8. Play the level “Media Blitz” again to get the secret documents.

9. Finish the mission, click on “continue”

10. Back on the “bridge” click the Starmap

11. Play the secret mission.

More details at IGN
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“user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.”

26^th August, 2010 |

An issue that I run into for quite some time under Mac OSX 10.6 (but also 10.5) – Snow Leopard and Leopard – was

“user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.”

I received this message when conducting operations in Terminal such as installing things from command-line or changing entries in /etc/hosts/

Regardless of my username/password combo having Administrator rights I continued to receive this note.

Just recently I fixed this “is not in sudoers file” problem by going through these steps:

1) Logout of your current account
2) Login as root
2a) Obviously you need to be able to “switch/change users”, if you don’t have this option, either go here or conduct these steps:
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and click Accounts.
- If some settings are dimmed, click the lock icon and type an administrator name and password.
- Click Login Options.
- Select “Enable fast user switching.”
3) Being logged in as root (you will need to recall your root password! – if you cannot or don’t have one, Google how to setup a root password) you open Terminal
4) In Terminal you enter
echo ‘the-user-name-that-is-giving-you-the-trouble ALL=(ALL) ALL’ >> /etc/sudoers
* obviously you will want to replace the-user-name… bit with your own username.
for instance, to give you an example:
echo ‘mike ALL=(ALL) ALL’ >> /etc/sudoers

Now you can quit and relogin as your regular user (e.g. mike) and run any sudo operation using your regular user name and password combo.

So what’s going on with the site and in general?

10^th August, 2010 |

As regular visitors may have noticed there were only few (or no) updates to the site in the past few weeks (or months).
This was primarily due to the fact that most of my time was soaked up with finishing my diploma thesis.
I have now successfully graduated from university and will be entering “business” in October this year.
In the meantime I plan to simplify this site and update most of the 700 posts.
My advertisement revenue is down from previous 900 $ USD to a laughable 11 $ USD a month, while the number of visitors has just slightly declined from 10,500 (daily) to 5,000 (okay that’s a 50% drop, but still). The drop in ad revenue is also explained with the new theme that I introduced in December 2009. It is, as I may have to admit, too confusing and too colourful/image heavy.
Many preferred the white theme before (2007 to 2009). In that sense I will try to do a good job in coming up with a real simple and user-friendly design. After all this site is not primarily for me, but for you. Also, I need to fix the download links and generally links that link-out. I will pay more attention to comments. For all the trouble and lack of updates I am sorry. Stay posted and keep the comments coming.

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