Ouch… nearly 8 Million went to the stores today to get their copy of the World of Warcraft expansion pack : Burning Crusade. Lots of new content (zones, dungeons, new mounts, quests) and 10 new level to raise. On some servers there is such a large population, that Blizzard is now looking to split them in two. It looks like my server will be hit sooner than other servers.
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Weekend in the Alps
Just spend the weekend in the Alps with a few friends from Geneva. The change of scenery was pleasant, yet there wasn’t enough snow to enjoy the ski slopes. Looks like a strange snowless winter so far.
CrossOver Linux 6.0
Today, CodeWeavers have released their latest version of the CrossOver suite. CrossOver Linux 6.0 allows you to install and run natively a select few windows applications on top of a Linux system. The applications are installed inside Windows ‘bottles’. The CrossOver suite is based on the Wine application, but has lots of proprietary extensions. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the API on top of X and Unix.
My interest in the current version of CrossOver Linux 6.0 is it’s capability to run World Of Warcraft on Linux. If I had to run any other kind of Windows applications, I would run them inside a VMware virtual machine, but unfortunately 3D graphics are not accelerated in these VMware machines.
2007 & The year of the Pig
Happy New Year 2007.
The Christmas period and the days after them, where rather quiet, and we took our time to adapt and clean-up the flat. We took advantage of the R&R we earned during the course of 2006.
This coming year will be very important for me and Jackie. In only three months we are expecting our family to grow by one member. We are very happy and looking forward to this coming event.
2007 is also the year of the Pig in the chinese horoscope. “The Pig is a fun and enlightening personality blessed with patience and understanding. People born under the sign of the Pig enjoy life and all it has to offer, including family and friends. They are honest and thoughtful and expect the same of other people. “.
Just like in 1947, 2007 is the year of the Fire Pig. “Active, outgoing and extroverted, Fire Pigs breathe new life into everything they do. These Pigs are vivid, motivated individuals who cannot be deterred from a goal once they have set it. They are emotional and passionate about their loved ones, their occupations and their objectives. They are bold and vivacious, unafraid to take risks despite the consequences. They make great bosses because they do work so hard and because they are so spirited. But don’t doublecross a Fire Pig. They have the ability to be quite abrasive when things don’t turn out as they planned.”