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By: Mania’s Arcania » Mania Hits Level 35 IRL

Mania’s Arcania » Mania Hits Level 35 IRL — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:20:43 +0000

[...] of the Lich King graphics. (You may or may not remember that I’ve been using my laptop as my main and only machine since my desktop blew up earlier this [...]

By: Oakshorn

Oakshorn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:57:26 +0000

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By: Ansawa

Ansawa — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:43:54 +0000

Okay, thankfully the dragonhawks are easy to get to and there’s a safe spot close enough to them for me to cast beast lore!

Unfortunately, they are not tameable.

My sadness is infinite. :(

By: Ansawa

Ansawa — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:39:18 +0000

Well, now that the patch is downloading–

I’m going to try to get you what information I can on the Sunblade Dragonhawks.

And, if they’re tameable, I’m going to try to be the first hunter on Feathermoon with one!

Although the screenshot on WoWhead leaves me hopeful… http://www.wowhead.com/?screenshot=view&1.25867#72103 — is that a hunter in Gladiator gear standing behind it? *_*

By: Simon M

Simon M — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:42:48 +0000

Hey Mania,

As far as getting your bookmarks back. This is for the future, of course. Try Mozbackup (http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/) with firefox. It saved my butt last month when my mobo fried out in a freak series of brownouts. Make a backup of all your settings in firefox and throw it on a thumbdrive (periodically, re-backup). Also, if you don’t have one, get a UPS (I learned the hard way).

Cheers,

Simon

By: Jayhawk

Jayhawk — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:33:53 +0000

Way to go Mania =)
Glad to hear you’re up and running!

By: Amewen

Amewen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:29:29 +0000

Yeah Mania! I knew you would figure out a fix, you are amazing :o).

By: Palladiamors

Palladiamors — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:22:12 +0000

Tournament Test Realm, and you don’t, anymore. But the tournament test realm is going live as the Tournament realms, a real where you pay additional money, but do NOTHING but arena. Literally, you make a character, start out at seventy, and immediately have access to high end gear, enchants, gems and the like. Personally I hate it, but it helped me measure in a few pets without having to build them up, so eh.

By: Bobo & SgtPork

Bobo & SgtPork — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:17:42 +0000

@ Softi TTR = Tournament Test Realm. Blizzard was testing the software for their upcoming tournament. Unknown (by me, anyway) if it will be a regularly accessible feature after teh patch.

By: cloudmonkey

cloudmonkey — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:56:21 +0000

Hey Mania,

I definitely feel your pain!

A recommendation for the next time you need to set up a local Apache, MySQL, PHP development environment under Windows:

Get XAMPP from Apache Friends (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html). One easy install gets you Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin, etc. The XAMPP Control Panel lets you easily start and stop the Apache and MySQL servers (to free up memory and cycles for WoW). The entire installation goes in one directory and it doesn’t mess with the Windows Registry–so uninstalling only involves deleting a single directory. And, of course, it’s free!