Balandar

Testing to see if I can record movies, it seems to work. http://balandar.com/movies/Grulg-Retaliation-02-05-2005.wmv

Two hours. I'll be there.

"The Royal Photographic Society of Azeroth is proud to announce the winners of the World of Warcraft Sports Screenshot Competition. We were happy to see that so many of Azeroth's heroes take time from their adventures to enjoy recreational activities! Click here to see the winners. " >8] Grulg's favorite: Whack-a-Gnome

A new comic from worldofwar.net http://www.worldofwar.net/comics/heroesofw...pter8/index.php

At first, mid - high level 50's. Later there will be battlegrounds for different levels.

All other positions are based on promotion. The only rank for that you can fight for (once a month) is the captain rank. We will have quests for peons to obtain grunt. And other means to go higher within the clan.

/spoon

Meeting times are normally 9pm EST. I would like to make them 10pm EST. 9pm EST is bad for me Sat. nights.

Welkum!! RAARGGHH!

From http://www.markeedragon.com/u/ubbthreads/s...ws&Number=29818In May of 2004 we worked with an exploiter to stop a very damaging exploit in the game. The reason we got involved was at the exploiters request because his competition had just found out how to also do the exploit and he did not want them to benefit from it. You could say it's exploiter conflicts. lol Today I got a message from the unnamed exploiter telling me a lot of information that was not known. According to him he has moved on to other things and wants to tell all about his exploits. It's an interesting read and gives you a look into these exploitations and how they are very much like a normal business. These exploits no longer work. So don't be a dork and try them. If you do it may throw some red flags and get you into some hot water. The following is from the exploiter. It is unedited and is exactly as I received it. So Long! And thanks for all the birds! Confessions of a UO Gold Farmer You all have seen my Picture: From 5/10/2002 to 5/29/2004 I generated approximately 9 billion gold. I am a programmer by trade, and a tinker by hobby. I love things like automation and scripting. I have loved the Ultima series and was playing UO the day it hit the street. However, life does catch up and I quit UO as a player in August of 1999. However, wasn’t until December 2001 that UO would come back into my life. I received an email from EA telling me how UO had changed so much, and I was honestly curious. But, the pangs of defeat were still in my gut. You see, when I quit UO I had lots of stuff, all of which I gave away to newbie’s on their first day. A Castle, many houses, gold, goods, and loot, all given away freely. A close friend quit UO like I did, but he had the bright idea of hocking his account online on Ebay and got like $1000 for his account. I was disappointed because I knew I have a MUCH better account than he did. Don't we all? Given all that, I decided that if I was going to get sucked back into the UO worlds, I was going to have a goal. My goal was to make back all the money I had played in the pervious years of playing UO and then I would quit. So there I was, I had the game and a goal, but I lacked a plan. Thank goodness for my education! College seemed to pay off, or maybe I just broke even. Anyway, I started researching what people where buying and selling. I spent about 40 days gathering data and when all was said and done, I discovered that UO had a 4.3 Million dollar Ebay Market. There was definitely a piece of pie to be had, and gold was the hot item. Plan in hand, I started looking at game play with a new passion I never seemed to have in the years of play prior to this. I quickly realized that one player on his own really could not be a producer. Later I did find that a single player could make a decent profit, but the work involved was definitely labor intensive. You can read more about that on Julian's web site. Anyway, UO is just a client/server computer program. Programs like these require user input, but that can be scripted or programmatically controlled. And, this is something I knew a thing or two about. What about the EULA and ROC? Well, the EULA stats that no 3rd party applications are allowed, but we all know and use many different utilities out there. So, since I agreed to the EULA, I am the first party, being the paying member for UO and EA is the second party, being the provider. So, if *I* make/author a utility, it is a 1st party utility, and in my opinion, anything you make doesn’t apply. Over simplification maybe, but I can sleep at night on those terms. Now, the rules of conduct are a different story. The ROC say something like, thou shall not macro unattended. The litmus test for this rule is a GM asking you to respond, and if the GM is satisfied, you are golden. I concentrated on resolving this first problem and I believe it was a pretty creative solution. Instant messaging has been a great blessing and is used by millions of people everyday for instant communication. When a GM talks to you in the game, or anyone for that matter, UO becomes one massive IM application. So, why not wire UO up to something akin to Trillian and pipe any in-game text to an IM application of your choice? This is exactly what I did. Since I was able to get game text from the game client, I piped it to MSN messenger and was able to converse with GMs or anyone else in the game from my smart phone that was MSN messenger aware. So, as long as you are able to respond right? I felt that I had satisfied the ROC. Game on! In the end, however, it wasn't GM intervention that was the challenge. It was interactions with the less than desirable persons that also farmed gold. Interaction with people like Lee Cadwell, aka Black Snow Interactive, was like being in an old west town where you were asked to leave by sun down. "This game aint big enough for the two of us....DRAW!," is a quote that comes to mind. You can read some of the ICQ logs here. There were even people that made bots that hunted bots. The motto was, if I can’t compete, I'll just make it so no one can. There were also others like IngotDude that would stoop to the use of dupe bugs instead of focusing on "allowed" game play mechanics. We all know what happen to him in the end. Actually, it was because of him that I first came into public light. A picture of my operation that I showed a select few was circulated and assumed was his setup was posted on Stratics.com. I was consumed by pride and had to explain that it was *my* setup depicted and not Ingotdude's or BSI's setup. Between the pressures of my competition, the required maintenance work and the impending doom of on-line game markets, I decided to retire my bot farm in favor of other possibilities that required less work to maintain. Last May I sold off the last of my game assets and today I have posted my bot army for sale on Ebay. I don't want to part with these beasts of burden, but I do have to close this final chapter in the gold farming adventure. They are trusty little machines, and will do everything you ask of them, provided you know how to ask. Or, if you know someone that needs a computer, you can hook them up with one of these. Who knows, they might even want to play UO. And just to be clear, I am selling just the computers. ============== He appears to have ebay auctions up selling the computers that were used to farm all of this gold. If you are interested to see them closer you can do so here. I did a little further looking and it looks like several people bought gold from him on ebay according to his feedback. I have to say that I'm glad he's out of the business now. Since we exposed this big exploit in the game we have had a good long run of no issues like this that I have been aware of. That's a very good thing. Kudos to the UO dev team.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/enviro...sp?story=603975 Climate change: report warns point of no return may be reached in 10 years, leading to droughts, agricultural failure and water shortages By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor 24 January 2005 The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already. The countdown to climate-change catastrophe is spelt out by a task force of senior politicians, business leaders and academics from around the world - and it is remarkably brief. In as little as 10 years, or even less, their report indicates, the point of no return with global warming may have been reached. The report, Meeting The Climate Challenge, is aimed at policymakers in every country, from national leaders down. It has been timed to coincide with Tony Blair's promised efforts to advance climate change policy in 2005 as chairman of both the G8 group of rich countries and the European Union. And it breaks new ground by putting a figure - for the first time in such a high-level document - on the danger point of global warming, that is, the temperature rise beyond which the world would be irretrievably committed to disastrous changes. These could include widespread agricultural failure, water shortages and major droughts, increased disease, sea-level rise and the death of forests - with the added possibility of abrupt catastrophic events such as "runaway" global warming, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, or the switching-off of the Gulf Stream. The report says this point will be two degrees centigrade above the average world temperature prevailing in 1750 before the industrial revolution, when human activities - mainly the production of waste gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), which retain the sun's heat in the atmosphere - first started to affect the climate. But it points out that global average temperature has already risen by 0.8 degrees since then, with more rises already in the pipeline - so the world has little more than a single degree of temperature latitude before the crucial point is reached. More ominously still, it assesses the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere after which the two-degree rise will become inevitable, and says it will be 400 parts per million by volume (ppm) of CO2. The current level is 379ppm, and rising by more than 2ppm annually - so it is likely that the vital 400ppm threshold will be crossed in just 10 years' time, or even less (although the two-degree temperature rise might take longer to come into effect). "There is an ecological timebomb ticking away," said Stephen Byers, the former transport secretary, who co-chaired the task force that produced the report with the US Republican senator Olympia Snowe. It was assembled by the Institute for Public Policy Research in the UK, the Centre for American Progress in the US, and The Australia Institute.The group's chief scientific adviser is Dr Rakendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report urges all the G8 countries to agree to generate a quarter of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025, and to double their research spending on low-carbon energy technologies by 2010. It also calls on the G8 to form a climate group with leading developing nations such as India and China, which have big and growing CO2 emissions. "What this underscores is that it's what we invest in now and in the next 20 years that will deliver a stable climate, not what we do in the middle of the century or later," said Tom Burke, a former government adviser on green issues who now advises business. The report starkly spells out the likely consequences of exceeding the threshold. "Beyond the 2 degrees C level, the risks to human societies and ecosystems grow significantly," it says. "It is likely, for example, that average-temperature increases larger than this will entail substantial agricultural losses, greatly increased numbers of people at risk of water shortages, and widespread adverse health impacts. [They] could also imperil a very high proportion of the world's coral reefs and cause irreversible damage to important terrestrial ecosystems, including the Amazon rainforest." It goes on: "Above the 2 degrees level, the risks of abrupt, accelerated, or runaway climate change also increase. The possibilities include reaching climatic tipping points leading, for example, to the loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets (which, between them, could raise sea level more than 10 metres over the space of a few centuries), the shutdown of the thermohaline ocean circulation (and, with it, the Gulf Stream), and the transformation of the planet's forests and soils from a net sink of carbon to a net source of carbon."

Volonazra is new the new captain for the next month! Raaaarrrgh!

No meeting tonight! Captain clomp will start at 10pm EST. Meet in Booty Bay by 9:30pm EST. To get to booty bay, take the boat from Ratchet. Ratchet is located East of the crossroads. Further directions will be made available at that time.

Not bad. Only 2 to 1 ratio.

If you do not already have a subscription to World of Warcraft, it might be a while until you are able to get one. To say the least, the “test run” they mentioned in their January 10th press release has not been going so well. “We haven’t requested that any retailers pull the games they already have off their shelves,” Gil Shif, public relations representative, said. “We’re just being careful not to release additional copies to be sold until we feel the game servers can support additional players.” Blizzard declined to comment on how long it would be until more copies of World of Warcraft would be shipped to retail stores. Read more at filefront.

They pulled copies from the stores since they "oversold". I think they are waiting to get the servers stable before selling anymore. I doubt they expected 600,000 people to buy copies and play the game within a few weeks of going gold. The only problem I would see, and the reason it is taking so long, is that they have to patch 70 some servers every time they make an update. Bringing down 70 servers to patch and then bringing then back up has to take a lot of man hours to do...

/drool Any ETA on when this will be implemented?

The Lust of Uglutz Grulg on his "pijun". Clan Meeting 10/15/2004 Uglutz and his mount...

Har, lat hab tu fynd easir tings tu mayk! Green iron hauberk's sell for around 5 gold on the AH. They are not very easy to make. 20x Iron Bar 4x Heavy Grinding Stone 2x Jade 2x Moss Agate 1x Green Leather Armor (9x Heavy Leather, 2x Green Dye, 4x Fine Thread).

Thanks. And I do get in teamspeak, except when I am at work.

The email (pijun) will arrive once an administrator has reviewed your application. Also, what do you mean by "getting on world map"? I do not understand what you mean by world map. There is a world map in game, but none on this website.