Pros:
1. Convenient to use for internet/Web browsing
2. Great sound (When it works...see bottom)
3. Great Battery Life
Cons. (Please NOTE, I bought mine Used. I am not 100% certain if this is a product defect or because the guy who sold it to me broke it.
1. I have difficulty turning it on and off. Sometimes it seems to take forever to turn on.
2. Sound is awesome, but sometimes it randomly goes tinny and I have to restart it.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
HP Touchpad Crackling/Static/Tinny Sound
If you are getting static sound from the speakers I noticed something that will fix it.
The speakers were fine until I plugged in the headset to listen to some music. When I went to play it back out of the speakers it was crap. What you need to do is turn the volume ALL THE WAY DOWN, after using the headphones. weird but it solved my problem.
Okay It keeps Happening D: here are some other suggestions I have found.
1. Turn the Sound all the way off, then all the way back up
2. Make a skype call to echo
3. Go into sleep mode while playing sound.
4. Turn the Touchpad on and off
Okay It keeps Happening D: here are some other suggestions I have found.
1. Turn the Sound all the way off, then all the way back up
2. Make a skype call to echo
3. Go into sleep mode while playing sound.
4. Turn the Touchpad on and off
HP Touchpad and WebOS Doctor
So I got suckered in to buying a used HP Touchpad. Still pretty close to the new list price of 150$.
Anyway when I got it I thought there was a problem with it so I called support to ask what to do.
Here are the steps for reinstalling the WebOS software if the Touchpad isn't working:
Navigate to: http://ws.hpwebos.com/webosdoctor/serialnumberinitial.htm
If that doesn't work and you end up at the select a device page, just click the palm pre.
Enter the serial number
fb359ua11aba which will be detected as a touchpad.
you need java installed but you will be prompted to download the webos doctor. Just follow the instructions.
After doing a system scan, there will be a prompt to plug in the touchpad. Make sure you press the volume up and power button to enter usb mode.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Super Dungeon Explore Review
Alright Ladies and Gents,
I admit I haven't actually played a board game in quite some time. I never managed to get a copy of Space Hulk which I desperately wanted. I played Mordheim back in the day with 40k and Fantasy, also some D&D 3.0/3.5.
My true passion with hobby gaming is really the miniatures and miniature painting. I only rarely desire to try to board game instead of Video gaming, because lets face it...video gaming is more convienent. This year, however, a particular game caught me totally by surprise. That game is Super Dungeon Explore.
PICTURES:
So lets start of with some pictures to get everyone on the same page:
Here are some of the Pictures of the Miniatures and the Awesome Gameboard that was set up at GENCON.
CONTENT:
Alright so the Box has a ton load of miniatures, dice, counters and boards all jam packed into it. You get:
- 50ish totally awesome looking minis
- Bunch of dice
- Bunch of stat cards
- Bunch of Counters
- Bunch of maps
- And the rulebook.
THE BACKGROUND INFO
So a pretty awesome bargain. (You can also buy SDE for ~$70 from Scifigenre when they get it)
I'll tell you all the truth, I didn't hear about the game until it was released. As I said I've been on an island on my own when it comes to board games and stuff. Anyway, the mailing list on coolminiornot was advertising it and they tricked me into almost purchasing it on the post after doing some reading about what other people thought. I haven't been happy to be tricked like that in so long. So far I've only heard positive reviews about the game and all the negative reviews are based on the stuff I'm use to anyway, I'll go into it below.
I'll tell you, I'm not a crazy diehard anime fan or anything. And I don't really like the chibi style at all, I think that stuff is crap typically, but SDE had me sold pretty quick. That and my friends ARE diehard anime fans (currently watching Fate Zero) which they started associating SDE characters with Fate Zero characters.
Chibi style pictured below:
Anyway I saw the Limited Edition of Candy and Cola (an additional limited edition character) for sale on coolmini a while back and I was like.....meeeeh....chibi sucks. Now I am seriously regetting it after playing:
Candy and Cola Mini I had to hunt around the internet to get a copy
(I got mine from Trollandtoad.com)
So I don't really like Chibi style, but you know who does? Girls. you know who doesn't normally play games? Girls. You know who are totally game to play this one? yup girls.
Super Dungeon Explore is advertised to be a light fun, quick and easy to play, difficult to master board game. And It pretty much is. It ends up being a cross between Gauntlet Legends, Dungeons and Dragons, and Anime thrown all together. I like D&D, but I am long past the times where I will sit down with the 155323 rule books and references. I want something simple to pick up and play. I.E. THIS GAME.
DEMO GAMES:
My friends and I played a few games after I assembled some of the pieces, we still used bases for the dragon and the miniboss but all in all a great time. Too good in fact. We started at 8pm on friday night, we had some drinks and sat down for a "quick" demo game. Anyway me, my brother, and a friend started playing 2 rounds. It was awesome. We all had a great time, we were originally just going to play one game, but it was so good we started a second.
By that time our other roommate got back and he wanted in so we started a third game. Sadly, we messed up with the rules in the third game because our "know it all" 3rd gaming buddy just started innately applying rules from other games into it, AND we messed up 2 major game mechanics. Anyway at that point I was really disappointed with the game, because were were having so much fun....and then we started playing by the "rules" and all fun evaporated. (turns out we had been more or less playing by the correct rules for the first 2 games)
That finished around 3am took a break to grab some food. At that point I was super sad and contemplating if I wanted to try to sell off the game or not. Other reviews commented on several things that just didn't happen in our third game. Being disappointed I sat down at the computer and used my googlefu to find out what we missed. Turns out that other friend had totally made us play the last game incorrect and it was horribly broken. I didn't wanna finish my night having had such a bad experience so we sat down to play it correctly.
.......well honestly I have never seen time just freaking vanish. We started at 3.....and at 8 in the dammn morning we were finished. Best Time spent ever. The tension and excitement just exploded in the room it was on! We had sooo many awesome moments where the right die roll could have changed everything. When we finally got a hang of the rules, it was a blast, we all totally lost track of time, granted the first 2 games didn't last that long but lets face it, we were also a little hammered and we probably set up the maps weird. Not to mention we all like to act out moves and stuff going on in the game and hurling crazy taunts at eachother during rolling. Bottom line we were up till 9am just talking about how we haven't had that much fun in a while.
PROS:
-Simple Rules, Allowing you to pretty much jump into it
-Tons of awesome minis
-Chibi style that could get light gaming friends/girlfriends/girls in general to play.
-Variety of heroes and monsters could lead to some serious replayability.
-Complex enough where strategy and tactics still matter. I.E. new gamers can enjoy it, but so can hardened game veterans.
CONS:
-Chibi style (depends on if you like it or not for pro or con, I didn't initially but now I'm loving it)
-The Rulebook isn't always super clear on certain things. We need an included full demo match kind of like they use to do in the old 40k rulebooks. For the most part the game is pretty explanatory, but there were some phrases that had us confused. Examples of things we did wrong (I'll also admit no one had completely read the book before we got started)
- Instead of drawing ONE loot card for ALL the heroes, we accidentally let every hero draw a loot card.
- We also only allowed 4 skulls of spawning a turn (In reality it is 4 skulls per spawn point)
- We also only had the consul moving 4 skulls in response to a player turn, i.e. we missed the rule about after the hero and the consul take turns until the heroes have all been activated, then the consul gets to activate all the rest of the people
-I want a real quick reference sheet with the spray patterns and stuff
Regarding other reviews:
A LOT of reviews and people complain about the assembly required for SDE. HONESTLY STFU WHINY BUGGERS. CLEARLY, none of you have had to build an army in 40k just SHUT UP. Yes there is a little bit of assembly, but compared to all my other games, ha! It didn't take that long just make sure you expect to take some time to do it. I also still just used bases in some cases. W/e I am really excited about getting to paint my guys. I am a painter!
Also in case you were curious, and have been looking around for stuff about the game, you might find that there were some manufacturing defects. Yes, my counters were off centered on one side. No, it didn't bother me much or effect how much fun we were having.
Things I want to see in the future:
OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE SODAPOP MINIS GIVE ME EXPANSIONS WITH MORE MONSTERS AND UNDEAD GUYS.
The game is awesome. I haven't played enough games to be bored of the kobolds yet but MOAR MINIS is always what I want.
CONCLUSION:
I'm a grad student on a budget, and there are like 4 games I really want that just released right now including Skyrim, and saints row the 3rd. I choose this. Yes, it is expensive, but it is totally worth it. I have not had so much fun with my friends doing a gaming thing in a long time. This game is pure awesome. If you fail to purchase it you suck....and you can cry alone in a corner about the assembly time because my givadam-o-meter reads nothing.
Finally:
Post your completely painted minis on Coolminiornot!
Monday, November 14, 2011
TigerDirect is Sneaky
Darn I got sent to the HP Touchpad link at tigerdirect:
Here is what I saw
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Looks good right? That's what I thought....
Sounds too good right? HP Tablet in STOCK at the $150 Price?
Rebate Information |
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| All rebates expire at Midnight Eastern Time on the date listed unless otherwise noted. Hmm still looks fine. Now.... |
Sneaky Bastards! What they don't include is the information on the rebate:
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
Qualifying purchase is an (1) HP Touchpad and (1) New HP Laptop, Desktop or Workstation on the same receipt. Each qualifying purchase equals (1)
$150.00 Rebate Amount
I.e. you have to BUY A FUCKING HP COMPUTER to get the deal. Later on I checked Best Buy, and at least they don't hide it from you, you know immediately you need to purchase a computer.
FUCK YOU TIGERDIRECT. ASSHOLES!
SimpleScalar Alpha Compile Problems
If you are just trying to install the alpha configurations and you are getting problems:
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cd $IDIR/simplesim-3.0
make config-alpha
make
If it throws an error, and it most likely will you have to change some more source code.
Open machine.h in the simplesim folder.
Move the line (line 224): extern enum md_opcode md_mask2op[];
below the definition of md_opcode (14 lines down line 238 I believe. It just needs to be after the full definition of md_opcode )
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Original Source: http://atchleyfam.com/2010/12/09/running-simplescalar-on-ubuntu-in-alpha-config/
Weird Compile Errors
If you end up with commands that aren't recognized,
The example I have is in Compiling simplescalar commands
it says that "-redir:prog " was not found which is complete BS.
The problem could be....if you copied it from a pdf or from another word processor:
— – - <----those are all different ascii hyphens. For some reason they got converted to the middle one there.
Anyway just delete and put the correct ones
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Roman Legions / Hadrian's Wall /Britain
Here are a few and my recommendations:
King Arthur (2004) PG-13 (Theatrical) R (Director's Cut) 126 mins
IMDB Rating 6.4
Plot Summary:
Arthur is actually a roman soldier, and the movie takes place while the Roman Empire is essentially collapsing. Arthur leads a bunch of his 'knights' from Hadrian's wall. He and his knights only want to finish their duty and be honorably discharged and freed. They are given one final mission to rescue a boy.
My Take:
First off: See the Director's cut.
There has been a lot of criticism about this film, but for what it is, I found it amusing. Its also the first movie I saw Clive Owen in. The movie has a pretty all star cast and an INCREDIBLE soundtrack, some pretty funny lines and some good fight sequences. It's no gladiator or braveheart but still good.
Recommendation: See IT
The Eagle (2011) PG-13 (Theatrical) 114mins
IMDB Rating 6.2
Plot Summary:
So the story is, the Ninth legion vanishes without a trace and a young centurion named Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to figure out the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. He and his british slave Esca set out past Hadrian's wall to find the lost emblem of the Ninth, the Eagle.
My Take:
Well, I thought the opening scene was awesome. But honestly the rest of the movie was fairly unremarkable. this may seem harsh, but I really didn't care or give a damn about the characters in this movie. I thought It was kind of lame. The ending wasn't that great either.
Recommendation: Skip it.
Centurion (2010) R (Theatrical) 97 mins
IMDB Rating 6.4
Plot Summary:
The ninth legion, is once again the topic of discussion like in the Eagle. In this version, the Ninth gets utterly annihilated and the survivors are on a quest to just get back home.
My Take:
I really liked this film. It stars the chick from Hitman, and magneto from Xman First Class. I thought the violence and combat sequences were really good.
Recommendation: See IT
Thursday, November 10, 2011
SimpleScalar Problem with archives, .a files
If you get:
"could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
make: *** [cjpeg] Error 1"
www.ict.kth.se/courses/IS2202/ar
Put in $IDIR/bin and rename
Float.h Errors
If you see:
"float.h values not know for cross compiler"
Steps:
make LANGUAGES=c CFLAGS=-O CC="gcc -m32"
make enquire
$IDIR/simplesim-3.0/sim-safe ./enquire -f > float.h-cross
make LANGUAGES=c CFLAGS=-O CC="gcc -m32" install
make enquire
$IDIR/simplesim-3.0/sim-safe ./enquire -f > float.h-cross
make LANGUAGES=c CFLAGS=-O CC="gcc -m32" install
Original Source:
Now if you get an error with equire:
. / Xgcc-B. /-DCROSS_COMPILE-DIN_GCC-g -I./include -I/usr/include-DNO_MEM-DNO_LONG_DOUBLE_IO-O0-I.-C. / Enquire.c
In file included from / usr / include / sys / types.h: 270,
from. / enquire.c: 401:
/ usr / include / BITS / pthreadtypes.h: 99: Warning: unnamed struct / Union that defines no instances
. / xgcc-B. /-DCROSS_COMPILE-DIN_GCC -g-O -I./include -I/usr/include enquire.o Enquire
enquire.o: In function `fcheck ':
. / enquire.c: 2186: undefined Reference to `__isoc99_sscanf '
enquire.o: In function ` dCheck ':
. / enquire.c: 2186: undefined Reference to `__isoc99_sscanf '
enquire.o: In function `ldCheck ':
. / enquire.c: 2186: undefined Reference to `__isoc99_sscanf '
make: *** [Enquire] Error 1
Solution:
The first 8 lines in enquire.c add:
# Define _GNU_SOURCE
That's it. Current problems is to use sim-cache and sim-outorder
execution encountered an error when gzip (gzip with sim-profile executive is normal; mcf with the implementation of these three are normal):
Original Source: http://daizw.blogspot.com/
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