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Ho3K – Taking a Break

HO3K_2011_04_00001 — Heroes of Three Kingdoms

We like living in Heroes of Three Kingdoms, except for two big problems:

There are two currencies. Money and Funds. And due to the second problem, this is just too much of a hassle to mess with.
There is no good wiki. Oh they have a wiki. But it only has the bare minimum of content, and nothing to help you deal with the Two Currency problem.

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Dekaron Evolution – Install Failure

Update: The Fix is to install to C:Evolution GamesDekaron Evolution rather than to C:Program Files. This means that you can manually update using the manual patch at: Recent Update

When installing the Client found here: http://evolutiongames.net/dekaron/

It said it needed the (dot)NET 3.5 support and the Microsoft page provided an installer for (dot)Net 4.0.

The system is Vista x86 SP1.

Error Boxes in Order

Ho3K – Chains with Pickup?

Chains are pretty interesting. They are Skill Macros.

I’d like a sequence to end with a PickUp to grab the loot automatically.

Here’s the Chain I have, and it works, except that the Pickup never happens.

What’s up?

– windy

Mounted combat is available from level 30 in Heroes of Three Kingdoms. But the quest chain to achieve it is not well documented and is confusing. This is a guide to gaining Mounted Combat with a minimum of cost and headaches. I had to attempt it three times before I got it right and finally help from the forum got me across the last stumbling block. It cost me 3 Gold in Money to gain it rather than the usual 1 Gold, so I’m trying to save you the money.

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Heroes of Three Kingdoms – Hints

Heroes of Three Kingdoms is a FTP MMO from Perfect Worlds. I’ll put a detailed review in later, but I wanted to post a major hint for playing at levels between 20 and 30 now. I’ll show you how to make your weapon glow like this picture.

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Open DNS Newletter Email is Phishing

The latest email from OpenDNS has been flagged by Windows Live Mail on Windows 7 as a phishing attempt apparently:

Here are the details from the email:

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Subject: [OpenDNS] February 2011 Newsletter - Home Edition
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Qt 4.7 on Ubuntu Lucid not loading JPG Image Plugin

I’ve written a photo resizer program, which can be found here on Source Forge.

I’m now porting the program to Linux, which is no issue except when it comes to getting it to run on a system where the development environment is not installed. I’ve installed the following packages: libqtcore4, libqtgui4. The program runs fine, except that JPG support does not work. PNG works fine.

The image plugins are there in both usr/lib/qt/plugins and usr/lib32/qt/plugins. Although the list is not the same which is strange.

ReportLibPathsAndImageFormats — Report Lib Paths And Image Formats

So why won’t JPG images load into my program?

– Windy

Ubuntu 10.04 – Nvidia driver install issue

Update: Restart to clear the error below and then install the [recommended] driver. All is well as far as I can tell.

Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Zotac GeForce 9300 Motherboard

attempted to install the [recommended] choice and it failed.

With a previous install, this worked, but then system failed to start graphics when it rebooted. But that system used to have an AMD video graphics driver installed, so I reinstalled the entire system and now this occurs.

How can I clean out the “archives” and try this again?

– windy