Yes, and No. kinda.
my personal problem (and several other people's) with broadcom wifi was not the driver, but the order in which certain things are done on bootup which stops the wifi from working.
I am in no way an expert on the subject, but my problem was solved by doing the following:
1) Create a new file/etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
sudo nano/etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
2) Add the text below, save and close (ctrl + x to close, y to save)
#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: ndiswrapper # Required-Start: # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: S # Default-Stop: # Short-Description: enable to load ndiswrapper # Description: enable to load ndiswrapper ### END INIT INFO rmmod ohci_hcd rmmod ssb rmmod ndiswrapper modprobe ndiswrapper modprobe ssb modprobe ohci_hcd
3) Set file access permissions for your new file:
sudo chmod 755/etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
4)create a symbolic link call S99ndiswrapper in the folder/etc/rc2.d, from/etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
you update to the new release, and have to manually fiddle with modprobe to get it to engage your wifi card properly =/
I managed to get that working, but am now left with a problem that frankly has me stumped, in 7.10 I had no issues what-so-ever watching a video while simultaneously talking to someone on skype. Since updating, these two things have become mutually exclusive... launching a video, and then trying to make a skype call yields an uninformative error in skype "call failed: there's a problem with the audio output". Starting a skype call, and then launching a video results in the video opening but being unable to actually "play".
colour me clueless...I have no idea what to do haha.
I'm not writing this to rag on you or anything, but I do not think your comment is entirely fair.
1. Loot tables were screwed up, very difficult to find good loot, horrible amount of grinding to get anywhere financially
Loot dropped from wrecks was probably never intended to be the rewarding part of killing mobs; the bounties emphasize this. The entire idea, as I understand it, is that players craft as much as possible, so as to avoid the horror that is "drop-rate-loot" like in WoW; essentially loot from mobs is a nice little bonus on top of the bounty (and so is salvage)
2. Salvage was just a huge timesink with little more to show for it. CCP should be streamlining play, not making it more complicated.
Salvage makes killing mobs even more profitable, not only do you get bounties, the occasional loot, but you can also recover Salvage goods which represent a VERY healthy amount of cash over time; not to mention they can be used to manufacture interesting things for your ships. Does it take time to salvage? yeah, it does, but you don't have to salvage if you don't want to... and you can outfit a cheap ship for this purpose to make it a quick task for easy money (use a destroyer for this!)
3. Rats on the missions were toughened up *without* dropping their numbers, making missions unplayable.
Rats on missions are buffed up to represent a challenge, LvL 1-4 missions are, with very few exceptions, quite easily doable provided you're using the right tools for the job, and do not usually put you in unescapable situations.
4. Higher level missions require beefy ships, beefy expensive ships. Giving the player the ability to warp out of a tight spot and take the status penalty of failing a mission they aren't prepared for is good risk/reward. Putting in scramble friggies so the ship *will* be lost is not good. Also, the borked AI is the reason why a 1v1 against a human ship is tough but you can take 1v30 no problem against the computer. But when all the scramble friggies target you, that becomes untenable.
Ah yes, you need beefy ships, these can be paid for using the massive wads of cash you earn salvaging wrecks. Your idea of good risk vs. reward as presented above, is essentially NO RISK, since there is really nothing "failing a mission" will do to you apart from maybe a teeny standings hit.
Yes, there are frigates that scramble you so you can't warp out, now if you KNOW this what do you do? That's right, you blow em up first. Have I lost a ship to this? YEP, and expensive fully fitted battleship. Was this bad game design? nope. It was MY fault for not destroying the frigates, confident my tank would not fail...which it did. My fault, no one else's.
5. Drones bugged all to hell, only getting worse the longer I played.
Already much improved, still far from perfect, but getting better. Though I'd agree the little sociopaths need some more work.
6. CCP obviously not playing their game. Putting the new high level missions in lowsec so people can get griefed, not providing any sort of mission that could involve an entire player corp along with a reward commensurate with the risk and number of people involved. You could run solo missions as a group if your corp isn't powerful but the reward is no better. Most decent players would make more isk per hour soloing level 3 or 4's so there's less incentive for getting the corp together for a big group activity.
I mostly agree with this part really.
Add on to all that the incessant griefing, CCP cheating, and the inability to hold out against people who have all day to devote to the game, it ceases to be fun and becomes a job. I'll take my gaming in smaller, bite-sized chunks, thank you.
I can see it now, you pop open the mac and reach for the power button, and the security staff all throw themselves to the ground and shake in fear of your mac exploding.
Airport security is in general retarded, and unbelievably racist. The last time I flew to the US I got sent into the "we're going to hassle you for two hours" queue and I was the only white person there, the rest were all arabic or black people. The only reason I was there was indubitably my long hair and trenchcoat.
It was really, really, vile. They could at least grab some random white people to try and disguise their racism. So yeah, I'm not visiting the states again =(
No offense, but I'd like to see someone play WoW (pvp) at a decent skill level using a controller...
The thing that startles me about this whole debate, is "why-oh-why do they not just sell keyboards and mice for use with games that benefit from that control system".
If I could play WoW, UT3, hell even EVE-online on console, with a mouse and keyboard, I probably would; I personally think console makers are dropping the ball not enabling a specific crowd/genre to play on their hardware you know?
I agree, the massive amounts of geek-centric info available on wiki (Game myth/cosmology, sci-fi characters, exhaustive WH40K fluff etc. etc.) are some of the things I visit *the most* on wikipedia.
Can you reply on customers (and even some retailers) being competent enough, and able to ask the right questions, to build a machine that does NOT have issues? And if not, is that or is that not M$'s problem?
I'll confess that my machine is quite a beast (quad core, 4gb ram etc) but I bought my mother a new laptop, which is pretty low-spec, and barring a windows mail bug with some items being undeletable (now fixed btw) no problems for her either.
I'd love to run ubuntu on my desktop as well, I'm very happy with it on my laptop, but for the life of me I can't get my games to work with it (yet... I see another long weekend coming up).
So yeah, linux zealots, if you're reading this, make all my games work without me having a massive headache and you'll have another convert.
Am I really the only person who is not super dissatisfied with Vista?
I've honestly not experienced anything negative with it.
I still prefer the ubuntu installation on my laptop mind, but gamers will be gamers, and Wine hurts my brain =(
...but my warlock alt needs to be level 70 in time for the next arena season!
And then I need gear...and practice... and to level up tailoring.
And I never did finish levelling cooking on my warrior.
oh dear oh dear.
Your signature contains a full stop, in a position where a semicolon would be appropriate.
In addition, "full stop" does not appear to be spelled with a hyphen. (source: wikipedia.. ahum);)
technically, you're subject title should be "technically," not "techincally." =P And technically, it's "your subject title", not "you're subject title"
=)
Maoists IN GERMANY don't pose any threat whatsoever, and probably never will. Just like Nazis in the States. Which of these two groups has access to very large amounts of firearms though?;)
Just nitpicking.
If you can get your hands on a copy of the rulebook (any edition, illicitly or otherwise) you're in for a treat.
I still have my hardcover and each time I open it a smile spreads across my face from ear to ear.
The introductionary fiction is classic imho.
Go find a download!!
you must feel pretty moronic now eh Jack? or is this just another "great injustice" ? Get it through your fat head, you're an asswipe, and everyone hates you.
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out of interest (and I'm asking you cause, hey you're here :D), can't I just get rid of pulseaudio alltogether then?
I am in no way an expert on the subject, but my problem was solved by doing the following:
1) Create a new file
2) Add the text below, save and close (ctrl + x to close, y to save)
3) Set file access permissions for your new file:
4)create a symbolic link call S99ndiswrapper in the folder
thanks to the handy ubuntu forums for helping me with this =D
you update to the new release, and have to manually fiddle with modprobe to get it to engage your wifi card properly =/
I managed to get that working, but am now left with a problem that frankly has me stumped, in 7.10 I had no issues what-so-ever watching a video while simultaneously talking to someone on skype. Since updating, these two things have become mutually exclusive...
launching a video, and then trying to make a skype call yields an uninformative error in skype "call failed: there's a problem with the audio output". Starting a skype call, and then launching a video results in the video opening but being unable to actually "play".
colour me clueless...I have no idea what to do haha.
Loot dropped from wrecks was probably never intended to be the rewarding part of killing mobs; the bounties emphasize this. The entire idea, as I understand it, is that players craft as much as possible, so as to avoid the horror that is "drop-rate-loot" like in WoW; essentially loot from mobs is a nice little bonus on top of the bounty (and so is salvage)
Salvage makes killing mobs even more profitable, not only do you get bounties, the occasional loot, but you can also recover Salvage goods which represent a VERY healthy amount of cash over time; not to mention they can be used to manufacture interesting things for your ships. Does it take time to salvage? yeah, it does, but you don't have to salvage if you don't want to... and you can outfit a cheap ship for this purpose to make it a quick task for easy money (use a destroyer for this!)
Rats on missions are buffed up to represent a challenge, LvL 1-4 missions are, with very few exceptions, quite easily doable provided you're using the right tools for the job, and do not usually put you in unescapable situations.
Ah yes, you need beefy ships, these can be paid for using the massive wads of cash you earn salvaging wrecks. Your idea of good risk vs. reward as presented above, is essentially NO RISK, since there is really nothing "failing a mission" will do to you apart from maybe a teeny standings hit.
Yes, there are frigates that scramble you so you can't warp out, now if you KNOW this what do you do? That's right, you blow em up first. Have I lost a ship to this? YEP, and expensive fully fitted battleship. Was this bad game design? nope. It was MY fault for not destroying the frigates, confident my tank would not fail...which it did. My fault, no one else's.
Already much improved, still far from perfect, but getting better. Though I'd agree the little sociopaths need some more work.
I mostly agree with this part really.
You d
they are! right up to the inevitable purge/dispel leaving you with essentially a gimped warrior!
Getting 40 people (25 these days) to all perform a specific task, at a specific time, online... yes. it's incredibly difficult and frustrating.
Much, MUCH more difficult that most people imagine.
Raidleading gave me grey hairs (literally)
Yeah, my right hand is pretty much useless due to a birth defect, so I'm always interested in the development of alternatives ;)
But what I'd REALLY like is some mechadendrites, WH40K Mechanicus style!
Praise the omnissiah!
Compulsory Wiki link for the confused: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeptus_Mechanicus
I'd rather they spent the money (and labour) on raising the dykes a wee bit higher, to be honest.
I can see it now, you pop open the mac and reach for the power button, and the security staff all throw themselves to the ground and shake in fear of your mac exploding.
Airport security is in general retarded, and unbelievably racist. The last time I flew to the US I got sent into the "we're going to hassle you for two hours" queue and I was the only white person there, the rest were all arabic or black people. The only reason I was there was indubitably my long hair and trenchcoat.
It was really, really, vile. They could at least grab some random white people to try and disguise their racism. So yeah, I'm not visiting the states again =(
No offense, but I'd like to see someone play WoW (pvp) at a decent skill level using a controller...
The thing that startles me about this whole debate, is "why-oh-why do they not just sell keyboards and mice for use with games that benefit from that control system".
If I could play WoW, UT3, hell even EVE-online on console, with a mouse and keyboard, I probably would; I personally think console makers are dropping the ball not enabling a specific crowd/genre to play on their hardware you know?
I agree, the massive amounts of geek-centric info available on wiki (Game myth/cosmology, sci-fi characters, exhaustive WH40K fluff etc. etc.) are some of the things I visit *the most* on wikipedia.
But that's really the issue isn't it?
Can you reply on customers (and even some retailers) being competent enough, and able to ask the right questions, to build a machine that does NOT have issues? And if not, is that or is that not M$'s problem?
Reading my own comment...
Maybe the esteemed Mr. Reznor might be interested in organising/funding just that:
A great site where artists can have their free music aggregated and promoted (with perhaps a wonderful review system)
Of course in order to prevent metric tons of shite being on the site a rating system and strictly divided categories may be neccesary.
well, as the saying goes:
Build it and they will come
I'd do it myself if I was in any way competent enough to do so (I can make you snazzy graphics though!)
I'll confess that my machine is quite a beast (quad core, 4gb ram etc) but I bought my mother a new laptop, which is pretty low-spec, and barring a windows mail bug with some items being undeletable (now fixed btw) no problems for her either. I'd love to run ubuntu on my desktop as well, I'm very happy with it on my laptop, but for the life of me I can't get my games to work with it (yet... I see another long weekend coming up). So yeah, linux zealots, if you're reading this, make all my games work without me having a massive headache and you'll have another convert.
Am I really the only person who is not super dissatisfied with Vista? I've honestly not experienced anything negative with it. I still prefer the ubuntu installation on my laptop mind, but gamers will be gamers, and Wine hurts my brain =(
...but my warlock alt needs to be level 70 in time for the next arena season! And then I need gear...and practice... and to level up tailoring. And I never did finish levelling cooking on my warrior. oh dear oh dear.
I capitulate!
Your signature contains a full stop, in a position where a semicolon would be appropriate. In addition, "full stop" does not appear to be spelled with a hyphen. (source: wikipedia.. ahum) ;)
compared to some other middle-eastern nations... yes.
If you can get your hands on a copy of the rulebook (any edition, illicitly or otherwise) you're in for a treat. I still have my hardcover and each time I open it a smile spreads across my face from ear to ear. The introductionary fiction is classic imho. Go find a download!!
Anyone else miss these guys?
Earthdawn is by miles my most treasured setting, and I do not think that place will ever be usurped by anything WotC puts out these days.
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HAHAHA
and further
EL OH EL.
you must feel pretty moronic now eh Jack? or is this just another "great injustice" ?
Get it through your fat head, you're an asswipe, and everyone hates you.