{"id":77,"date":"2008-08-01T21:19:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T04:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2008-08-01T21:19:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T04:19:37","slug":"montage-diablo-2-broadcom-linux-wireless-stupid-car-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Montage: Diablo 2, Broadcom Linux Wireless, Stupid Car Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vacation is over, and I&#8217;m headed back. Diablo 2 expansion pack has helped me stay sane. My god (is there a patron god of lonely programmers?) how many hours have I logged in this game over the last 8 years? Must be hundreds. And I&#8217;ve never played a druid before. Man, rabies <strong>rules<\/strong>. (How often do you get to say &#8220;rabies rules&#8221;?) This game is so fun.<\/p>\n<p><em>discontinuity<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And now, after two years, I finally have wireless network access from my linux laptop. (&#8220;HP&#8221; Compaq, you put a windows-only chip in my laptop, you suck.) Big props to the <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxwireless.org\/en\/users\/Drivers\/b43\">b43<\/a> project, and to the previous bcm43xx project, and to the people who reverse engineered the hardware. I imagine something like an order of magnitude more development time went into developing the Linux drivers than went into the Windows drivers, and the donations page lists a total of ~1500 euros. Easily an order of magnitude less than you&#8217;d charge to develop such a driver. (Mental note: donate.)<\/p>\n<p><em>discontinuity<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I picked up my car from the body shop ($4000 for bodywork and paint and it STILL HAS DENTS), the check engine light was on. Well, too bad, I drove it about 1000 miles to visit family. Light still on. Took it to a garage, emissions system error&#8230; it&#8217;s the gas cap. Who designs this crap? What do I have to do to reset the &#8220;check engine your gas cap is loose&#8221; warning? I&#8217;ll shut up now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vacation is over, and I&#8217;m headed back. Diablo 2 expansion pack has helped me stay sane. My god (is there a patron god of lonely programmers?) how many hours have I logged in this game over the last 8 years? Must be hundreds. And I&#8217;ve never played a druid before. Man, rabies rules. (How often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[54,284,53,55],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-other","tag-diablo","tag-gaming","tag-linux","tag-prelude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}