Here We Go....... Just so you know, this is the order these happen to be in my list. No particular order, but you should all check out Errant Story, El Goonish Shive, Gene Catlow, and Girl Genius if your looking for good stories.

• The Foxfire Chronicles - http://foxfire.comicgenesis.com/
• 10th Charm - http://tenthcharm.com/index2.htm
• Accidental Centaurs - http://www.accidentalcentaurs.com/index.php
• Alien Dice - http://aliendice.com/
• AppleGeeks - http://www.applegeeks.com/
• Better Days - http://www.jaynaylor.com/betterdays/ (Mature)
• Brat-halla - http://brat-halla.com/
• Caribbean Blue - http://www.katbox.net/cblueen/
• dead winter - http://www.deadwinter.cc/index.htm (Mature, but awesome)
• Starslip Crisis - http://www.starslip.com/ (Made by the guys who do PvP Comic)
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures - http://www.missmab.com/index.php
• Dominc Deegan - http://www.dominic-deegan.com/ (The Best Webcomic of ALL TIME)
• El Goonish Shive - http://www.egscomics.com/ (PG-13)
• Errant Story - http://www.errantstory.com/comic.php (PG-13)
• Explosm! (Thanks ya'll) - http://www.explosm.net/

For five days WoWhead will be taking the first 5 entries in this contest:

http://www.wowhead.com/?contest=name-that-screenshot

and drowning them in insane WoW schwag. Get on that!

http://www.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000182

$6.50 is a small price to pay for absolute account security. I'll be buying a dozen as soon as they're not sold out.

The WoWAceUpdater is being discontinued while wowace.com is making the transition into becoming curseforge.com.

http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.php?topic=14316.0

What this means for us: For all of us who stand by out Ace-based addons, we'll be using the new curse client to update addons starting in August. Read that forum thread carefully and take it all in. Basically, instead of updating to beta versions of addons every night, we'll be update the "realease only" versions of addons on a less frequent scale. Of course, we'll be able to select "download betas" (I certainly will) to get the latest and greatest versions of our addons.

The ONLY thing we'll need to really worry about now is making sure that our favorite mods all make the move to the project space at www.curseforge.com. Let's hope that there's still active development on all the addons we've come to love and they make the switch!

i am a fag

For the first time, I will be raiding completely on my linux machine tonight. The game, all addons, and all the extra programs used to run my G15 keyboard are up and going. It was a big pain in the ass to get the keyboard working.

The only thing that hasn't made the transition yet is Ventrilo. Trying to run vent via Wine has not produced much optimism, so I'll be stringing a wire across my office to run Vent on a nearby windows machine.

Other than that, I should be 100% tonight, barring any crashes or other catastrophic failures. I'm at about 60fps standing around in Shatt, so I'm hoping Black Temple will be just as good.

http://elitistjerks.com/f32/t27791-wowcardioraid_offline_graphic_wow_log...

i look a lot more stoned and tired than i really am

Well, my little linux project is coming to fruition. Basically, I've set out to build a linux machine that can handle WoW and all the stuff that surrounds it.

Attached is a little video of the machine in action, complete with Ventrilo and WoW running side-by-side (emulated through Wine).

Next up will be the WWS parsing program and then an open source alternative to the WoWAceUpdater called WoWUIUpdater (http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/05/10/addon-spotlight-wow-ui-updater/).

Open the video with a video player that supports ogg theora (http://www.theora.org/).

So, this has been a project of mine since I found out that you can run WoW in Linux at really great performance. It kills me whenever I hear from someone that their computers are crashing or that they're getting 1 frame-per-second (guilty) in raid. I kinda always wished that we had a quick and easy "drop ship" solution that people could just order and - BAM - WoW runs great.

The lowest cost I've been able to get this down to is about $600 (including shipping costs). The main parts from Newegg are here: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=1...

There are about $45 in mail-in-rebates as well. The case and power supply are here: http://www.amazon.com/MFBK400-Micro-V400PSU-2-5-25-ULT33114/dp/B000FIS91...

By running Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/desktopedition), we save about $200. Of course, Linux requires a little bit of elbow-grease to get running, but all the parts are compatible.

I've ordered the first iteration of this system for myself and will be testing how it all goes this week. If people are interested, let me know.

I'm considering switching to FIOS. I'm at the point in WoW where the only things I can possibly do to improve my performance are 1)hardware upgrades and 2) Internet upgrades.

Currently, on Comcast, I'm at 300+ latency during the evenings. I'd like to get this as low as possible and was wondering if anyone has any experience with Verizon FIOS. Hit me with some numbers like max download rate and, more importantly, WoW latency.

Click Here to Download Trillian from download.com

Download the application from the link above.

Once installation is complete follow these steps to set up your IRC connection.

1. Click on Trillian > Connections > Manage My Connections
2. Cllick Add a New Connection - Protocal will be IRC
3. Server Alias is what ever you want to call this...for me it's Downfall
4. IRC Line should read: irc.freenode.net
5. Nickname: Your IRC Name
6. User Name: Blank
7. User Info: Blank
8. Close to Save.

Trillian Setup

Your setup of Trillian is now complete.

In order to connect to IRC each time you will need to follow these steps:

1. Go to your buddy list and right click on the white bubble.
2. Chose Join Channel
3. Enter #Downfall

Trillian Connect

You are now connected!!

http://www.mmorpgs.com/Kunzite/guide/guide.php?pageid=19

Read it and learn it.  Some great tips in here for you guys on how to pick up some extra gold quickly and well within the ToS.

I'm going to be building a new machine in the next few weeks.  The following are the pieces of hardware I'm looking to pick up:

http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishLi...

 Could our more technically-inclined members go over that list and hit me with some feedback?  I generally buy a generation behind to pick up a better deal.  

I've been playing wow on an athlon64 3400+ with an Nvidia 6800GT since day one and I think it's time to finally upgrade ;)

Edit: updated with new link to the wishlist

Well, I finally moved over to a completely Linux laptop.  So far, it's pretty freaking sweet.  Once you get used to the "linux" way and get a little comfy with the command line, there's some incredible free and quality software out there. Here are some screenshots of WoW running in windowed mode:

Ubuntu WoW 1

The laptop has a pretty crappy video card, so I hope that I see larger performance on my desktop when I convert it over soon.  I also found WoW UI Updater (http://wuu.vagabonds.info/menu.php) which I'm running using a Python interpreter natively in Linux.  So far, so good :)

Here's so more screenies: 

Ubuntu WoW 2

Ubuntu WoW 3

The following is post off of Wowinsider.com (click the links!) and addresses an issue a lot of us have had with WoW performance recently. Try these beta drivers and then make sure you do the following:

From Nvidia themselves:

* Disable vertical sync within the World of Warcraft in-game video options.
* Enable hardware mouse acceleration and disable smooth mouse within the World of Warcraft in-game video options.

Read on for more.

New Nvidia beta drivers, and a fix for WoW in SLI mode - Filed under: News items, Hardware