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Alienware Aurora R4 Wireless Failure
Last night, my wireless card on my Alienware Aurora R4 seemed to have failed without warning. Not sure exactly what happened but my system could not detect it. It freaked me out because I had done nothing and could not use any of the Windows diagnostic tools to recover it. Looking at the Device Manager,…
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Magento, OnePica and Amazon S3 Configuration
I’m using Magento on Amazon EC2. Part of the infrastructure that I’m going to be using is Amazon S3 to handle user uploaded content and OnePica will manage it. My version of Magento is 1.7. At the moment, OnePica is not officially supported on Magento 1.7 according to the download link. However, my coworker pointed…
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Amazon EC2 Load Balancer: Out of Service Message
Let’s say you’re setting up a load balancer for your instances in Amazon’s EC2. After you create your load balancer and assign it your instances, you may see on the Health Check tab “Out of Service”. The way you get rid of it is by clicking on the “Edit Health Check” link. Inside, you will…
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Diablo 3: How to Stay Engaged with the Game
With the recent patches as well as my boredom with World of Warcraft, I have become somewhat of a Diablo 3 fanatic. Now, for those who are slowing down, got turned off at some point (even early on) or are burnt out, I want to convey my enthusiasm in trying to reel you back into…
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Diablo 3: Conspiracy Thoughts
I was chatting with a friend the other night regarding Diablo 3 and had been watching quite a few Diablo 3 videos on Youtube recently. The experience made me think a bit about the evolution of Diablo 3 compared with the start. While I do not possess any direct insiders to Activision/Blizzard (at one time…
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Diablo 3: Items that Sell on the Auction House
In writing on the items that do not sell well on the Auction House, I wanted to present a separate article based on my own experience of what can sell on the Auction House in Diablo 3. For myself, I do not have a great deal of magic find gear and only play on Monster…
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Diablo 3: Why ilvl 42-59 Items Do Not Sell on the Auction House
I think most people who play the Auction House in Diablo 3 are focused on high end items. Apparently, a lot of botting is hurting the economy on top of that and Blizzard has done little to handle that issue. One thing I have noticed that I’m not certain is a direct correlation to the…
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Diablo 3: Monster Power vs Paragon Leveling vs Item Farming
I’ve watched a few videos on using Monster Power for leveling. The mathematics essentially demonstrate the efficiency of using say MP1 as opposed to MP4 in terms of XP/hour. The justification is that higher monsters have greatly increased health, which takes longer to kill as opposed to the calculated amount of experience. So my theory…
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World of Warcraft: Change Dailies to Weeklies
I made a suggestion on the forums that World of Warcraft should change the vast majority of key dailies into weekly quests. I felt that the problem at the moment is that you lose too much by not completing every single daily if you do not login for a day. For a lot of casual…
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Why the Switch to Diablo 3
I mentioned that I switched from playing World of Warcraft to Diablo 3. The main thing obviously is that I got serious burn out from the dailies. I absolutely hate dailies. Logging into World of Warcraft and thinking about accepting a daily quest literally makes me want to puke. So I still needed to get…