Context Today I installed Debian 8 on my HP Pavilion Notebook PC, during the installation (specifically during the network setting up), the the system prompted: Hardware needs non-free firmware to run, missing firmwares are: - rtlwifi/rtl8188efw.bin - rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw  after the installation the wifi it's not recognized and I think it's missing another FW, because the touchpad doesn't work properly, but that's another story... I'm not a huge expert on system administration, but I'm in CS so you can be specific. Question Is there a way to detect which firmwares my system is missing? Where do I have to look to download firmwares? (well I'm on Debian) How can I install it? (is there something automatic? or do I have to make them?)  Can someone explain the best practice to overcome this kind of problems? Maybe taking as example the problem with my wifi, so I can solve it too.
Which repository source do I need to add to my sources.list to access the package firmware-linux-nonfree?  I am using Deb 6 testing 32 bit.
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Destruction or removal of the source   after that time won’t affect the ability. Note that some    abilities   cause a source to do something (for example, “Prodigal Sorcerer deals   1 damage to    target creature or player”) rather than the ability   doing anything directly. In these cases, any    activated or triggered   ability that references information about the source because the   effect    needs to be divided checks that information when the ability   is put onto the stack. Otherwise, it    will check that information   when it resolves. In both instances, if the source is no longer in the   zone it’s expected to be in at that time, its last known information   is used. The source can still    perform the action even though it no   longer exists.   Is the entire exchange ability countered because the Tree is dead by the time it resolves? Or do we use the "last known state" (toughness 0), thereby killing its controller? 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I've been messing around with  for some time, just pushing it out as text and it hasn't hurt anybody (that I know of), but I'd like to start doing things properly.  I have seen so many purported "standards" for the JSON content type:  application/json application/x-javascript text/javascript text/x-javascript text/x-json   But which one is correct, or best? I gather that there are security and browser support issues varying between them.  I know there's a similar question, , but I'd like a slightly more targeted answer. Difference between "speed up something" and "speed something up" Both seem to be in common usage, but is there a nuanced difference about when one is more appropriate than the other? Thanks. How to add click event to an element? I originally read this book in the mid- to late '70s.   The premise was a bureaucracy whose job it was to manipulate events in human history by making the smallest possible change that would effect the desired outcome. Not time cops in the sense of going after law breakers.  The intent was to maintain a policy of non-interference as much as possible but when interference was warranted then to make the least possible change and to do so invisibly.  For example, they might take someone's keys off the dresser and put them just out of sight underneath the dresser where they plausibly might have fallen.  The subject would never know of the manipulation but would then be delayed getting out of the house and the ripples grew from there to avert a war or otherwise affect events on a large scale.  After reading that, whenever I would lose something - especially in an improbable way such as dropping a screw at my feet and then finding it on the other side of the room half an hour later - I would take some consolation in the thought that I had just averted some global catastrophe.  I was pretty scatterbrained as a kid (we call that ADHD nowadays) so I experienced this a lot.  Given that I've spent so much time pondering the ideas from the book, I'd love to re-read it. How can I find more music similar to the ones I like? How do I install applications in Ubuntu? How can I install applications like Google Chrome on Ubuntu?  Are there any commands to install an application?    Index of answers: Which one is the formula of angular velocity? Is it $\omega= vr$? If not then why does the source below use $mvr=nh/2\pi$, where $mvr$ is angular momentum and $vr$ is angular velocity? Again $\omega=v/r$ shows radian per second. I saw $\omega= vr$ in one book and $\omega= v/r$ in another! proving that $f(x) = x^s$ is holder continuous with holder exponent s Im trying to solve the following question         In the second step  where do they get $k!=2^k-1?$ Should I do anything when I see several references that are not used in the text? In a linguistics paper I read, I noticed that several references in the bibliography are not actually used in the text. This is for about 10-15% of the references the case. Should I do anything with this? I always thought that all references must be used in the text, because even if they are just suggestions for further reading you would want some explanation why it is relevant and what you can find where.   I only know the author through their work and do not know the editors. The paper is from 2011. The references are rather general. They are relevant to the paper, but you would want page numbers with them unless you are familiar with them. They are all from different authors and different institutes. It is likely that the references were used in previous versions of the text. Why would spacetime curvature cause gravity? It is fine to say that for an object flying past a massive object, the spacetime is curved by the massive object, and so the object flying past follows the curved path of the geodesic, so it "appears" to be experiencing gravitational acceleration. Do we also say along with it, that the object flying past in reality exeriences NO attraction force towards the massive object? Is it just following the spacetime geodesic curve while experiencing NO attractive force?  Now come to the other issue: Supposing two objects are at rest relative to each other, ie they are not following any spacetime geodesic. Then why will they experience gravitational attraction towards each other? E.g. why will an apple fall to earth? Why won't it sit there in its original position high above the earth? How does the curvature of spacetime cause it to experience an attraction force towards the earth, and why would we need to exert a force in reverse direction to prevent it from falling? How does the curvature of spacetime cause this?  When the apple was detatched from the branch of the tree, it was stationary, so it did not have to follow any geodesic curve. So we cannot just say that it fell to earth because its geodesic curve passed through the earth. 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