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Nephil Thief

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  1. Alas, no, but be assured there are wonders aplenty anyway.
  2. Everything I ever wanted to know about mushrooms, courtesy of a fellow named Stephen Stephenson. http://www.amazon.com/The-Kingdom-Fungi-Biology-Mushrooms/dp/0881928917 It's quite heavy on the jargon, and more or less consists of a series of extended infodumps, but I'm finding it entertaining anyway - fungi (and biology in general) are something I just never bothered learning much about. (And the complexity and range of fungal, uh, behavior is just fascinating. Jeff Vandermeer doesn't cover a tenth of it.)
  3. Sylae is offering a PCI wireless adapter, not USB adapter. Which is probably a better solution anyway.
  4. The above works now. Thank you! Seriously, this is amazing. Edit: still crashes on save in the Scenario Editor... Really though I should not have offered to try and fix stuff, because a) I'm not much good with C++ I'm mad busy right now (just started on a new job last week) And also I've basically abandoned the idea of making a BoE scenario, at this point. Your work is seriously impressive though. Just messing around in the Scenario Editor, I was able to create a wand that shoots slime and is powered by the weilder's intelligence. The level of control is astonishing.
  5. Don't know, and honestly it might be beyond my expertise. My main thought is that a PCI USB controller might work, if the one on the motherboard is dodgy.
  6. USB adapter looks normal... Oh oh oh wait a minute. I somehow misread that bit about USB controllers as "wifi adapter" - thought you were on a laptop! Whoops. D'oh. Okay - are you on a desktop? Do you have the adapter plugged into a front USB port? If so, try a rear one. Front USB ports are always flaky. (And Dell does use rubbish USB controllers in my experience, and just rubbish in general.) Edit: USB stuff in dmesg looks normal. Also it looks like I'm really stupid today. I mean, how many laptops have that many SATA ports?
  7. Hmm. You're located in the US, but it's using the wifi country code for the UK. (GB is "Great Britain.") That might cause problems, not sure. And it does need firmware apparently, but you have that already. Hmm. Can you link the output of 'ifconfig -a'? Edit: to be entirely clear, the USB adapter is detected by your kernel and appears to be working (though I think the country code might present an issue). Edit 2: whoops, I missed that it switches to US later. Good.
  8. That ThinkPenguin adapter has the same chipset as my netbook's wireless, IIRC. It should be handled with the ath9k driver. It doesn't need any firmware, and should work magnificently under Linux, going all the way back to the 2.6 kernels. (It should also last forever and give excellent signal reception, if my netbook is any indication.) If I were you, I would take a look at the output of the 'dmesg' command, and see if there are any errors or warnings from the wifi adapter. If you can't make head nor tail of it, post it here and I'll take a look. As for random cheap adapters, one catch is that they may require proprietary firmware. I'm assuming you don't care about that, since you're already running Linux Mint. But IMO you should try to make the old USB adapter work, before chucking it and buying another. Usually these issues can be fixed in my experience.
  9. Just FYI, as of Wine 1.7.45, the VC++ package is installable in Wine and the game runs! Edit: err, it runs, but is very slow and crashes a lot. I'll see if I can fix any of this stuff. Edit 2: looks like an unimplemented function is being called somewhere. I think it might have to do with different C++ function name mangling on Windows vs. Linux? Not sure.
  10. Oh cool, a question I can actually answer... There are a lot of chipsets that will work with a modern Linux distro. For my laptop-turned-router, I use a cheap one with the Ralink RT5370 chipset. Something like this: http://www.ebay.com/...=item3aac6fd532 This chipset is fantastic. Strong signal, bandwidth about as good as 100 Mb/s wired ethernet. Re the Dell wifi, the ThinkPenguin guy makes it sound like the MTU is wrong? That can be changed using ifconfig, if necessary, but I doubt it's the problem. More likely either the wifi is weak or the Linux driver is rubbish, or both.
  11. @BainIhrno Nope, unfortunately not; at least not without a lot of setup. It needs .NET 4.0 and a library called XNA. Edit: .NET 4 should run under Wine but might have problems. Not really sure. XNA I have no idea.
  12. Ah, got it. I'm thinking those two might be related though - casual disrespect can be a manifestation of political power. Probably all the more so when those being disrespectful don't normally consider it such. (I can think of a lot of day-to-day examples of this.) As do I... And you raise a good point there. South Korea was once a dictatorship, too. OTOH, I feel that it's perilous to forget that the ghosts of imperialism aren't the only force at work. Might be my privilege talking though. I sometimes have to remind myself that the stability of my life, here in the US, is largely a result of my background; peace is a privilege here. I'd just rather that it became a right; as opposed to making everyone's life equally filled with violence.
  13. @Goldengirl: that's an interesting thought, and I'll have to mull it over a while. A few things on this though I think the key word in the first few sentences is "formal." Those power structures may be formally defunct, but their continued influence is huge. A lot of the old policies are basically still there in force, just more or less unofficially. (I may be misunderstanding you there, though.) The other thing is that... well, I'm not very knowledgeable about international politics, to say the very least. But I think some of the liberation projects have not worked so well. Zimbabwe, for instance, is still a brutal dictatorship.
  14. Okay good - apologies if I caused any alarm about this BTW.
  15. FYI, as far as I'm concerned the special node system has always been a major barrier. It's easy to pick up, but actually doing anything complex with it is nigh impossible - at least for people like me who have poor spatial and/or organizational skills.
  16. Right, bricking it wouldn't be good. Hmm. http://www.zyxel.com/us/en/products_services/c1000z.shtml?t=p It's from ~2013, I'd hope they're still updating the firmware! Also *giggle* *snort* I did some Googling, I *think* the firmware updates are invoked manually? Not sure though. Oh. Couple other things re proprietary routers like that, one should: 1. Make sure the admin interface is not accessible from the WAN side. Likewise any kind of SSH access. This is inconvenient, but a lot of routers have factory user accounts with weak passwords. 2. Make sure UPnP is disabled. If you have outbound rules, UPnP allows them to be bypassed. (Okay okay, done 'splaining now.) In my case there's extra impetus: the two Windows PCs belong to my dad, who has historically been a lightning rod for malware...
  17. Yaaaay someone noticed this thread! w00t! How's the firmware on that thing? Still being updated? Or did you replace it with e.g. OpenWRT? To be honest I don't trust router firmware very much. It might have a smaller code base than e.g. IPFire's Linux kernel, but it gets outdated fast (especially if it's Linux based). And old routers tend to not get firmware updates at all. Separate subnets, right? I should do that at some point. There was one memorable occasion when flying-dutchman was compromised - compiling stuff with GCC that I didn't order, while I was away from keyboard - and I think that happened via one of the Windows PCs, which was also very obviously compromised. (Tiny little binaries on the C: drive that drew all red flags on VirusTotal.) Since implementing outbound iptables rules on doomguard I've not seen any more compromises on my network, but that could be coincidental; I should still put the Windows boxes on a different subnet just in case. I'd need another switch for that though, and probably have to mess with the wiring a lot. (Alternative would be using wireless and wired for separate LANs. That might be more feasible, what with the laptops. I'm not really a fan of wireless though.)
  18. OMG. This is amazing. I don't think I can properly convey how impressive a feat this is. Re Linux, WinForms should work under Mono; though I'm not sure what (if any) changes that might entail. OSX I have no idea about. Edit: oh wait this uses XNA, which I am totally unfamiliar with. I'm guessing it might run under Wine. Probably better to just whip up a virtual machine though.
  19. ... yeaaaah. That sounds more than a bit icky. I think I'll stick with the minimally bloody 2D tile-based gameplay, thanks.
  20. @Slartibus Very much agreed re not judging/condemning people over it. OTOH I feel like the other direction has to be emphasized too: just because something should not be punishable, it does not follow that it's morally acceptable. When one tacitly and knowingly supports imperialistic warfare (for one example), that is a kind of corruption. Edit: to be clear though, I don't feel it's my business to take inventory of "how complicit" other people are; I just thought it was kind of needful to point out the above.
  21. For me, right now: mostly 1. Finding freelance work 2. Teaching myself how to program 3. Getting more involved in activism 4. Finding medical insurance that isn't rubbish (@gem helper - seriously, best of luck to you. I can't even imagine.)
  22. @Neb: guilt isn't the point. (In retrospect, my comment about a "guilty system" was probably a poor choice of words.) The point, IMO, is recognizing that seemingly small aspects of behavior also carry ethical weight; and can cumulatively contribute to the world being a better place, or a worse one. (Noting also that the US, at least, seems addicted to the Big Man school of history; which is, more or less, a load of rubbish. No person exists in a vacuum.) But yeah - while one obviously can't make perfect ethical choices every time, it's better to know the situation; so that one can, at the very least, make slightly more informed choices. (IMO anyway. Frankly my choices are still awful and stupid 99% of the time.) [Edit: obviously some people do more than just "make slightly more informed choices." Sorry all.]
  23. @Neb - I think gem helper is talking about being complicit, not being *directly* responsible. e.g. I am complicit in US war crimes - my tax money funds unethical (and often quite frankly illegal) things abroad. I could refuse to fund my country's drone strikes, use of torture, etc. but then I'd be in prison. The fact that I know this is a problem, and am not behind bars right now, basically says that I'm considering my freedom more important than other people's lives. The best you could say is that I'm banking - and banking very, very hard - on being more useful to humanity while out of jail. To paraphrase Iain Banks, a guilty system allows no innocence.
  24. Well yes, that's kind of what the OP was about. Though admittedly I've been doing a bad job of it. (Disclaimer: I just woke up. I might be a bit discombobulated.)
  25. @Edgwyn: re Saida Gundy's tweets, I actually do feel like she crosses a certain line when blaming slavery on "Europeans" as a whole. Maybe not racist exactly, but it kind of smacks of biological racialism, which I consider un-Kosher regardless of origin. Also I prefer to be held accountable for my own sins - which are plentiful enough, thanks - rather than the sins of my ancestors. (Especially seeing as slavery, right now, is a serious global issue that figures into a huge number of supply chains. GoldenGirl started a thread about this once - a thread where, if I recall correctly, I showed a deep lack of scruples myself. Hopefully I've learned better by now.) So yes, on that, I kind of see where you're coming from.
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