This link shows good steps for setup

Add these to the Config.WTF file:

SET gxApi “opengl”
SET ffxDeath “0″
SET ffxGlow “0″
SET M2UseShaders “0″

If you experience stuttering, bad sound or no sound what so ever, then add the following options as well:

SET Sound_SoundOutputSystem "1"
SET Sound_SoundBufferSize "150"

Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\.purple\logs

Windows Vista:

C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Roaming\.purple\logs

Ubuntu:

home/user/.purple

You can find more about my general WoW escapades at My Personal Blog; this blog is just for this one character, leveling from L1 up to L70 (L80?) or as high as I can get him.

Today I registered a new Blood Elf Paladin and named him DèmonHuntér. You will notice the special characters of é and è in places of the e’s…this is due to the fact that the name “DemonHunter” was taken. My namesake came from http://www.demonhunter.net/

The Paladins start out atSunstrider Isle, in Ghostlands. I am told that only Paladins go to Ghosland, or at least start there. I am not sure, but it is something unique to them.

Quest 1: Reclaiming Sunstrider Isle: I got this quest from Magistrix Erona at 38.22. The task is to kill 8 of these Mana Wyrms. They are located right in the vicinity of where you are, look for them floating in the air. Each wrym gives you XP fo 50 points and this puts you into L2 because it is only 400 points to get to L2. Kill all 8, level up to L2 and turn in the quest to Magistrix Erona for bonus of 100 XP. Grab the next quest from her, Unfortunate Measures. Also grab the Paladin Training quest from her.

When you turn in all of these quests and you have a choice of items to win, always check your character button for what he is wearing, Paladins are cool because they can wear Mail, like chain, and that is really strong. So keep getting and putting on as much heavier clothing and protection as you can. Mail is preferred, but until you get all Mail, wear Leather or Cloth or whatever you can get your hands on. Something is better than nothing.

2: Paladin Training Turn into Jesthenis Sunstriker, right inside the building where Magistrix Erona is standing. Gain XP:40. Grab Well Watcher Solanian from Jesthenis also. Three other quests should show on your mini map, A Fistfull of Slivers, Thirst Unending, and Solanian’s Belongings.

3: Well Watcher Solanian: Solanian’s Belongings is up the tower, and you get it from Well Watcher Solanian, who you also turn in a quest with the same name and gain XP:15. Also grab The Shrine of Dath’ Remar.

4: Unfortunate Measures - Go kill Springpaw Cubs, around 40.24, 18.40, to the NE of the tower. Turn into Magistrix Erona, the same place you got it, gain XP:250. This should level you up to L3. Grab a new quest from her, Report to Lanthan Perilon.

5: Report to Lanthan Perilon - This guy is at 35.40, 22.51. Just turn the quest in, nothing else to do, gain XP:25. Grab a new quest from him called Aggression.

6: A Fistfull of Slivers and Thirst Unending - Go grind on those Mana Wyrms again, using your Mana Tap weapon and looting silver from them for these 2 quests. Gain XP:360 for Fistfull and XP:250 for Thirst.

7: Aggression: The best place to kill these guys are around 34.26. You should level up to 4 during this time. If not keep grinding till you do. Turn it back in to Lanthan Perilon and get XP: 360, and grab Felendren the Banished from him.

8: Solanian’s Belongings: Pickup the journal at 37.68. Turn back into Well Watcher Solanian for XP: 360.

9:  The Shrine of Dath’ Remar - find at 30.00, 19.00

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iPod Classic Video 160GB

I am suspicious of this, but my curiosity might get the best of me and I may have to try it. An iPod Nano/Video for $8 ??

I signed up for a Flickr account and am planning on using it to promote and/or sell my photos that I used to list on www.deepellumphotos.com .  Most of my current work is from traveling and taking photos of different cities and areas around the US, but I also have some stuff from my trip to London in 2005.  My hopes are to go back to London soon and then to take a trip to Israel within the next year, where I will take so many shots that I fill up my HDD on my laptop :O

One reason for setting up a new Flickr site is a post on read on this blog a couple of months ago.   I keep a RSS Feed on my bloglines from this blog and read many of their suggestions.

Keep checking >:O

2007 Projects: 

My most successful 2007 kick-off project was my new Heroes Blog, based on the hit TV show Heroes.  Before the show ended for the writer’s strike, I was averaging about 300 hits/day.  That doesn’t sound like much really, but considering I haven’t promoted the site hardly at all, it is less than 6 months old AND that once I registered it and put up the first homepage, it was already a P2 on Google, I don’t think it is bad at all.

The other 2 projects are my Dexter Blog, based on the Showtime original series Dexter, and the Bionic Woman Blog I put up for that show. Dexter and Heroes seem to be doing quite well with ratings, but I am not too hopeful about The Bionic Woman.

Everyone have a great New Year and check back often for more updates in 2008.

So I wanted to buy one of the older Demon Hunter albums  and I got it on Amazon for $9.49 (only 50 cents cheaper than iTunes) but I got the songs in MP3 format, DRM-free and placed right into my iTunes Library.

Methinks Amazon found a new customer

I like the sleek interface and the fact that it actually works with IRC. Trillian was kinda hit-or-miss with IRC, and the connection to Sametime with Trillian was an additional plugin that you had to install (and needed admin rights to if it is a work machine) so it made it more cumbersome to get Sametime working. Not so with Pidgin, it is just another account-type connection like AIM or Yahoo. And Pidgin includes GoogleTalk also, which Trillian didn’t connect to unless you went through a Jabber server.

So go check out Pidgin, it is a sweet little program.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

I ran the update from my 7.04 Fiesty box and it worked great. I remember last time trying to update from Edgy to Fiesty and it didn’t seem to go so well, though right now I can’t remember why. But the update to Gutsy will work great if you follow these 2 stesps:

1) Make sure you are already running 7.04 Fiesty. You won’t be able to update to Gutsy from any previous version, you will need to download the ISO and install from scratch if you aren’t currently running Fiesty.

2) Run your update manager and make sure you have installed all updates to your Fiesty box. After installing all the updates listed, click the “check” box on the update manager to re-check again, to be safe. This is recommended by Ubuntu.

Afterwards, it takes about 2-24 hours to update, depending on your connection. Since I am on FIOS, it only took me about 2.5 hours total.