Czarism.com The Blog of Czar

After an unsuccessful run trying other blogging platforms (Tumblr, Wordpress, Posterous. etc...) Czarism.com is back and trying to return to normal. What normal is, that's still to be seen. At the moment this blog is about the rambles of old man Czar and his adventurous through happiness. While Tumblr was working out pretty well for a while it sure was limiting and the disqus add-on seemed to be a hit or a miss at times.

The follow are some notes I have taken as I read, How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

This brief blog entry will note the steps to set-up (re-install) VMPlayer (VMWare Player) on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. VMware Player is a freeware virtualization software product from VMware, Inc., a subsidiary of EMC Corporation. Player can run guest virtual machines produced by other VMware products; it cannot itself create new virtual machines. VMware provides free virtual disk images of several pre-configured operating systems and applications, many of them community-contributed.

Yesterday Luna and I attended the 48th Sakura Matsuri (Japanese St. Festival) in Washington D.C., and what a nice experience it turned out to be. Sakura or Cherry Blossom is the Japanese name for ornamental cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms. Matsuri is the Japanese word for a festival or holiday.

This brief blog entry will note a few tactics I employ to earn some gold and have fun in the on-line world of Guild Wars via resales. Regardless if your Guild War's character is Player Vs. Player (PvP) or Player Vs Environment (PvE) Guild War's gold is a part of your in-game activities. So what's the best way to earn some extra platinum? Lucky for us, GW offers common world areas, such as towns and outposts, where all players can gather & meet. Trading and resales then is the easiest way to earn < 200% ROI. The obvious choices are to flip mini pets, tomes, &/or weapons...

While the default clock rates on my desktop are `get things done` I'd rather milk every megahertz available to me. The default the settings on my system is 8*333Mhz & 800FSB, and i've found that 8*420Mhz & 1008FSB runs quite stable and relatively low heat (as the C2D is already energy efficient). Below are the results of my findings...

Overclocked - 8x420Mhz (1008FSB) or 2x3.36Ghz

This brief blog entry will note the steps, reason, & links I followed to install VMWare Tools in a Windows XP Guest without using VMWare Workstation. The host machine is Ubuntu Linux and the application being used is plan ol' FREE VMWare Player (VMPlayer). First, what is VMWare Tools? "VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine by your VMware product. It is very important that you install VMware Tools in the guest operating system.

This brief blog entry will note the simple steps to installing and playing Guild Wars on any ol' (well, min requirements apply) Ubuntu Linux system. This task is done using Wine, as CrossOver & Cedega cost money. Wine is a software application which aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 architecture to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. Wine also provides a software library known as Winelib which developers can compile Windows applications against in order to port them to Unix-like systems.

While my earlier blog entry to install the 'official' savage 1 freeware still works, the fine folks at www.newerth.com has packaged the latest binary of Savage: The battle of Newerth. "Our aim is to keep the Savage1 community together as gamers migrate to play Savage 2 (when it is released) and to provide services for and information on the games."

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