Archive for December, 2007
World of Warcraft on Linux Part 2: Ubuntu and The Burning Crusade.
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007With Ubuntu running, installing World of Warcraft and the Burning Crusade is a piece of cake. From a terminal: glxinfo | grep rendering resulted in: direct rendering: No <– this needs to become a yes for WoW to run. So Under system –> administration –> Software sources –> Ubuntu software I checked all of the […]
World of Warcraft on Linux Part 1: Hardware.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Here is the list of hardware that I used to run World of Warcraft, Burning Crusade (WOW) on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (desktop.) While this system is low on the hardware it runs WOW quite nicely at 1024×768 with 40 fps. 1) 512 megs of Kingston ddr333 memory. Yep, it is less that the minimum requirement […]
Welcome to Pimpmycomputer.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Originally, I set up this website to discuss mythtv. While this was a good idea I felt that I really needed to become broadly based in topics. My intent now is to discuss anything from how to get a Nintendo Wii, its fun games, running World of Warcraft (WOW) on Ubuntu Linux, Hardware, software and […]