19 Aug 2006

Where did all my time go?

Posted by Jacob Emcken

… down a drain called World of Warcraft.

As a few people have pointed out, I havn’t blogged for some time now. I spend most my evenings playing World of Warcraft and havn’t really used my spare time on all sorts Open Source stuff as I used to.

This is my character so far. It is actually now pretty easy to get WoW running under Linux with WINE.

But at work I have tried to update our Instiki installation to the newest 0.11 version which wasn’t as easy as it may sound. I finally got all the old stuff migrated and all seemed to work until we tried to proxy from our DMZ to the internal Instiki wiki. Instiki didn’t like that… I is some time ago now so I dont have the error message. But if I stumble upon it I’ll put it here.

Instead I found a Media Wiki altered by MindTouch called dekiwiki.

The cool thing about that wiki is they made a page where you can get you own public readable wiki, I already made my own at emcken.wiki.com. Not much for you guys, but now have a place for all my notes and shit which usually just lie around on my disk until it dissappears in all the other mess.

Category: Computer, Games, Linux, Work

4 Comments to Where did all my time go?

Chris
August 28, 2006

So, as a person with WoW actually running on Ubuntu, how would you advise a novice (if at all) who is having install problems? Ubuntu, check. WINE, check. WoW, check. Installing… blargh. CD changing issues. What was your process?

Jacob Emcken
September 4, 2006

Hi Chris,

I remember I had issues with the CD changing but it is long time ago so I dont remeber the excat problem and how I solved it. But my guess would be that I used a terminal to unmount and mount the new CD’s.

Remember that when you unmount a CD, no resources can be using it. Ie. if you have a terminal open which stands within a directory on the CD, the computer sees the CD as busy and it cannot be unmounted.

Alternatively you could just copy the entire installation from a windows partition (if you have one).

mbp
September 29, 2006

Which realm are you playing at Jacob? :)

Jacob Emcken
October 2, 2006

I’m playing on the Trollbane server.

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