tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66849044151069918532011-04-21T17:13:51.083-07:00Stealing ideas from one is plagiarism.<br> Stealing ideas from from many is research.James Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13685230890016544203noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6684904415106991853.post-91241558320773798962008-08-30T17:25:00.000-07:002008-09-01T09:34:37.498-07:00

This article is a little off from the theme of my blog. I didn't really search for anything, except maybe intelligent players in WoW. You can read some of the responses on the Dual-Boxing Forums and the Official WoW Forums.The ProblemUnfortunately, World of Warcraft is full of immature idiots and spoiled children. In spite of all the intelligent, considerate players in the game, they really

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This article was written specifically for a development environment on Ubuntu using MySQL.I can work from home whenever I want, though it's usually better for me to limit myself to working at home after hours. This creates a problem with keeping my work in sync. I've always assumed the best way to handle this was to carry a laptop around. However, this keeps me from taking advantage of our

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There have been several occasions where I wanted to change my MySQL data directory. First it was to run multiple instances of MySQL, which I gave up on. Then I bought an external drive to save my development environment, including my source code and the MySQL data directory, so I could develop from any machine at work or home. Both times I kept running into problems getting such a seemingly

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I have been playing World of Warcraft quite a bit lately. In fact, I've been multiboxing--playing with five characters at a time. Yea, I know this makes me quite the nerd.Luckily, I can do all this with one computer, unlike the old days when multiboxing could only be done with several computers. My system has an AMD Athlon X2 64 Dual 4800+ processor with 2GB of RAM and a striped volume set up

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I hate Windows, it sucks. As I say, failure is not an option--it comes bundled with Windows! However, the embarassing truth is that I need it. I can't live without Photoshop and World of Warcraft, and I don't care to try getting them to run on Linux. Additionally, my job requires me to have some form of Linux for the software development environment we use.I've tried several solutions that

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Like many people I imagine who want to start their own blog, I've been sitting around waiting for the perfect blogging idea to come to me. I have considered blogging about technology, fictional redneck characters, finance, World of Warcraft, computer programming, etc. Most seemed OK, but none really clicked with me until now.I got to thinking today and realized that sometimes I search for some

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