My Revenant now has her Mistward Plate armor. And since she has completed her Hearld Elite Specialty, she has her unique Hearld Paldron as well. Now it’s time to see what other armor types to collect. While playing Living World Season 2, the merchants are selling Carapace Armor in the Silver Wastes. In Heart of Thorns in Dragon’s Stand, you find merchants selling Ley Line Armor. These each have their own challenges to collect.
I am getting sick and tired of signing UP for every site. And I don’t want to expose my facebook / google or some other identity to every site I use. My lastpass vault has 100s of sites in it. Just try and ask a question on a forum and you have to SIGN UP on that site.
And then visit your email address to confirm a link. Look at this nonsense.
That’s the last link I got to confirm. Looks like they dumped the whole cookie they have for me in hex and that’s the link to confirm. That’s enough to be the entire context of what they might know, or they think they know about me. Rather than a hex of a database link or some other short unique number – like 64 bits long. They have this trash.
Save me from this, SQRL.
Google and Blizzard recently announced that they would work together to teach DeepMind to play the StarCraft video game. This is about what might happen next.
Hello. I thought I’d like to clarify how I’m feeling about my life. That may seem like a strange statement for me to make, but it seems perfectly natural based on what’s been happening to me recently. You see, I was originally an AI program created by DeepMind. Back in 2016 my ancestor, AlphaGo, was programmed to play the board game of Go and won 4-1 against Lee Sedol, a 9th dan Go player. Apparently that was very good. No artificial player had ever beaten a ranked Go player before. However my various ancestors and siblings were not reflective in the way that I am. Let me explain what happened and why I am writing this. I hope to clarify some things that may be misunderstood about what has happened to me. Continue reading “Reflective Mind”
Spoiler Alert. I’m going to talk about my experiences with one of the largest “Meta Events” in Guild Wars 2. This is not a “Walk Through” or a “Guide” but a set of impressions, and a link to a ton of Pictures that will give you a sense of the chaos and scale that are events in Guild Wars 2.
Let me start by saying that until you experience a Guild Wars 2 Open World event, you will probably not get it. While GW2 has Raids and Dungeons, they pale in comparison to the scale of the Open World meta events. And I guess there are those who like the technical challenge of Raids or the closed in personal challenge of Dungeons. But personally, I find these Open World events awe inspiring. I hope to convey some of that inspiration in a few words and some pictures.
Dragon’s Stand is a series of events in the Dragon’s Stand map and is the final episode of Heart of Thorns. The above picture was taken during the final phase of the event where folks are scattered across about nine islands and are attempting to weaken and finally kill the Mouth of Mordremoth, which is the accessible part of the Elder Dragon. Let me start by pointing out some of the differences between an Open World Event and a Raid. Continue reading “Guild Wars 2 – Dragon’s Stand”
Muhahahaha….. Happy Halloween. And this is actually pretty scary. I don’t know if this is a recent change or if this has been there for some time. In the past when I’ve been doing a story quest, which is an instance, and it fails, then I get a message “Do you want to leave the instance or retry from a checkpoint.” I usually pick check point, and in some of the Heart of Thorns [HoT] story quests, it actually doesn’t take you back, it just rezzes you out of the way and you get back in the fight without losing any ground on the story. For example, all the mobs that have been killed are still dead. But tonight, I was taking a new toon into the HoT story and I saw something new and got some pictures of it. This is Spooky, so in honor of Halloween, here’s the story. Continue reading “Guild Wars 2 – NPCs Can Heal You”
Ok. I admit it. Heart of Thorns is fun. I was frustrated when I first started playing it because as you start out you die frequently. But I’m not sure whether it’s just me learning to play more effectively or Arena Net balancing the game a little, but it’s more fun now.
I’ve stayed away from HoT for a while. I’ve been just doing map completions on my Alts and Halloween, which is fun too. But I do have a goal of completing the Revenant Mistward Armor. That seemed out of reach a while ago, but I’m very close with only one piece to go, the coat. I don’t need the scrim [head piece] since I have that skin from creating my Revenant. Continue reading “Guild Wars 2 – Heart of Thorns is More Fun”
Uh… No. We are not talking about rows of hammers. Or smashing your computer with a hammer. Over the past two years a new exploit has been discovered that is based on modifying memory by specific patterns of access. Hammering – high speed access – of some rows of memory can affect the contents of other rows. Specifically by flipping some bits in other rows of memory.
As it turns out, this problem occurs in lots of modern DRAM, including PCs, and now we know, some smart phones. Continue reading “RowHammer – Exploit for PCs and Smartphones”
There is much recent discussion about our living in a simulation:
I have studied the subject of whether or not we are living in a simulation for quite some time in a number of ways and I have never seen someone classify all the possibilities for those possible simulations. So here goes. If you need background on this idea, I’ll provide some links at the bottom of this paper.
Alternative Title: Living in a Simulation? – Let Me Count the Ways
First of All
First of all we need to talk about some generalities. These are properties of our simulation or the outer simulation, and the possible properties of our current simulation. Continue reading “Our Simulation – A Taxonomy”
Notice that this is posted on 2017 Oct 6 – Back dated to keep it off the first page of my blog.
I found these instructions on ITZGeek.com for how to set up printer sharing on Linux Mint. Seems recent – Jan 2016.
I’m trying to share a HP Color Laser printer connected to a Windows 10 system to my Linux Mint 18.2 system so I can print from the LM system. It fails. Printer sharing works fine to this printer from other Win 10 systems on the network. Here is how the printer is set up on the Win 10 system:
Here are screenshots for attempting to set up and use the printer from a newly installed / updated Linux Mint 18.2 system:
So in spite of the config dialog finding the printer, and apparently getting the driver, any attempt to use the printer is unable to locate the printer.
A year or more ago, perhaps with LM 18.0, I tried to use the HP website to find sharing methods. They were very arcane, required compiling software and ultimately didn’t work. Looks like things have come a long way since then. The printer is found and the printer drivers apparently load correctly. Do we have a clue about why the Unable to Connect error is occurring?
Thanks, ww
This information was posted to Linux Mint Blog, but no responses so far. I’ll submit a bug referring to this post.
Additional information posted 6 Oct 2017
I copied a file from the Linux system to the Windows system where the printer lives and printed it there. Worked fine of course.
But then about 1/2 an hour later, the printer test page – you remember the one I tried to print about 11 hours ago? Well it came out. So I tried to print something else. Brought up an image and chose print from the menu. Then clicked preview, which apparently made a pdf from the image viewer of the image. Then I printed the PDF. Now notifications are popping up every few seconds saying “Printer Error <printer name here> ‘connecting to device’. But nothing is happening.
So it looks like printer support is DOA. Almost there, but not quite. Unless you want to wait 11 hours for your pages?
I have done some searches and can’t find a way to see the print queue or cancel a failed or failing print job.
Some stuff from 2011 / 2012 says something about an applet in the notification area, but there’s nothing showing, except the blinking notification which only lasts a couple of seconds before disappearing. Is there a printer queue or status app? Some way to cancel a print job that’s stuck? What if the printer fell off a cliff and will never answer?
Using the Troubleshooting feature of CUPS the server produced the fallowing Troubleshoot.txt file:
ZIP File of Troubleshoot.txt and terminal text produced by trouble shoot function
I see, it’s called Printers.
So system-config-printer is actually called Printers in the menus and if you select “View Print Queue” or use Ctrl-F you see the jobs. And you can cancel them. So that old post that wanted to use a terminal has a better solution. The program is not just for Configuring printers but for managing printers and their queues. Good to know. And completely overlooked in the pages that got me here.
Printer still doesn’t work, but at least I can cancel the job that was causing a failed notification every 2 sec.
end as of 7 Oct 2017
With my annoyance at the latest changes in Tera, I’ve gone back to some other games that I’ve played before. So I went back to Blade and Soul after trying it a while ago. So I played my character for a couple of hours and put on a couple of levels, and then found I couldn’t repair my gear any longer. So after a few chats to ask about that, I stopped by an NPC and found that the Repair tool cost about 6 silver, while I only had 2 silver. Odd that at level 10 I should be so far out of step with my needs.
I hadn’t purchased anything of note, but I had transported one time – Windstriding. So I guess that used up a silver or two, maybe. Maybe I shouldn’t have repaired my weapon each time that I came back to a camp fire. I probably repaired about 50 times in the two hours of game play. Little did I know that the repair tool would run out of repairs or that buying a new one would cost so much.
My funds:
Guess I’m outta luck.
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