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  • Apps That Seem to Crash WoW on OS X 10.5.5

    I wrote this quick script to take care of apps that seem to Crash OS X 10.5.5 on my Macbook Pro. I have just 1GiB of RAM instead of the recommended 2GiB, but ever since killing the processes in the script below, I haven’t had a crash.

    The bad guys are:

    • Google Updater
    • Cross Over
    • HPEventHandler
    • HP IO Classic Proxy
    • HP IO Classic Proxy 2

    I killed privoxy in my script below just to get more memory to run Warcraft.

    #!/bin/bash

    C1=`ps ax | grep Cross | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
    echo “C1: $C1”
    kill -9 $C1
    C1=`ps ax | grep “Google Updater” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
    echo “C1: $C1”
    kill -9 $C1
    C1=`ps ax | grep “HPEventHandler” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
    echo “C1: $C1”
    kill -9 $C1
    C1=`ps ax | grep “HP IO Classic Proxy 2” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
    echo “C1: $C1”
    kill -9 $C1
    C1=`ps ax | grep “HP IO Classic Proxy \-” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
    echo “C1: $C1”
    kill -9 $C1
    C1=`ps ax | grep “privoxy” | grep -v grep | cut -c3-6`
    echo “C1: $C1”
    kill -9 $C1

  • Warcraft: Why Do People Need What They Greed?

    I caught 2008s infamous SxSW bug. While I was sick I medicated myself with lots of carrot juice, orange juice, and WoW, a really fun MMO, where I played a Tauren Warrior.

    While adventuring and tanking for the first time in RFC, my crew of 5 people ran into a problem.

    Poth, a paladin, rolled need on a Robe of Evocation.

    This shocked me because paladins almost always wear mail armor, and I’d never seen a paladin wear cloth before.

    Sisterjohn rolled need, too, and happens to be a cloth wearing mage.

    The following argument ensued:

    I had to give my 2 cents.

    Then Poth came up with an interesting point that I’ll later show to be a lie. He says, “Show me healing gear at this low level and I will :-)” The irony is that if you look at his gear now, it’s not at all a healing specific chest piece, but the Robe of Arugal.

    Here’s the shocker of a profile:

    Is Poth greedy? Is he a ninja? Or in the interest of leveling a Paladin in an interesting way did he really need that gear?