How to WoW for Free

NOTICE: Private World of Warcraft servers are a violation of Blizzards terms of service and you may not want to risk trying them (or mentioning them in retail WoW) if you are fond of your Blizzard WoW account(s) and don’t want to get them banned.

Private servers are servers run on third-party technology that has been developed in the open-source community to emulate (pretend to be) World of Warcraft servers.

They are designed so that a normal WoW client (the game installed on your hard drive if you play retail World of Warcraft), can connect to them and they act as a normal Blizzard server would act, (with any modifications and changes particular to the private server that you play on).

All that is required is an installed and working copy of World of Warcraft, and using Notepad or another text editor to change a small file in the World of Warcraft/data/enGB/ (or enUS) folder, called REALMLIST.WTF.  Oh, and an account with the private server so that you can log in.

In this example I’m going to be using www.naxpgaming.com.  Goto this site and create an account, then find the realmlist.wtf file and make a copy of it.  Call this file Realmlist.blizz, and edit the Realmlist.wtf file that you just made a copyvof.

Where before it will say something like:

set realmlist eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
set patchlist eu.version.worldofwarcraft.com
set realmlistbn “”
set portal eu

Delete all of this and simply put the line:

set realmlist eu.logon.naxpgaming.com

Save the file and load WoW.  You will now be connecting to the NaxP server.  (Ignore any news on the left of the login screen as this is still collected from the Blizzard servers automatically).  You will be able to log in using the account created on www.naxpgaming.com, and then choose a server suited to your play-style.

When you wish to reconnect to your retail WoW account, close WoW and rename the Realmlist.wtf to Realmlist.naxp and rename Realmlist.blizz to Realmlist.wtf.  Reverse the process to connect to retail (Blizzard) WoW again.

Simple as!

How to Torrent

Torrents aren’t just for downloading movies, TV shows, software and suchlike on a ‘try-before-you-buy’ basis.  They are also used for software patches, shareware, freeware, and open-source software distribution.

As such, I’ve written this guide to downloading torrent files, and will have to hope that none of your readers are ‘dis-reputable’ enough to click on the ‘software’, ‘movies’, ‘tv shows’ or other links that are on these sites..

www.isohunt.com, www.mininova.org, www.thepiratebay.org (Google for ‘torrent downloads’).

I should state for the record that the Government is currently in the pockets of big business, music corporations and suchlike and are trying to say that using torrent downloads or peer-to-peer networks such as this guide illustrates is illegal or immoral in some way.  (Check the PirateParty.org.uk website for more information about this).

They are also trying to strong-arm your Internet service providers into monitoring your internet activities and informing on you (and potentially removing your basic human right of free internet and network access) if they deem you ‘unfit’ in some way.

That said, the program you need to download torrents is a BitTorrent Client, such as uTorrent (www.utorrent.com), or BitComet (www.bitcomet.com).

Once your torrent client is installed, goto a torrent download website and simply enter the name of the (open-source or free software, show etc.) that you are looking for, and find an entry in the results that has lots of people seeding (sharing) it.. (often the ‘S’ column in the search results).  Click the entry, click ‘Download the Torrent’.

Your bittorrent clients will open with a list of files in the torrent download, tell it ‘Ok’ and your torrent client will start searching for people sharing the file and downloading it to your computer.  Alt-Tab back to your browser and start your next search.. although it is also worth setting your torrent client preferences so that the ‘Download’ folder is a hard drive/drive letter with lots of free space on it for your downloads, which can sometimes be quite large.

That’s it!  Interesting search terms on torrent sites can be.. ‘album’, ‘dvdrip’, [tvshow] ‘season’ and ‘axxo’, however be cautious that these terms don’t link to anything that might be copyrighted and thus put you at risk of government strong-arming.

Other interesting websites for torrent users are:  www.free-codecs.com, or searching for ‘XP Codec Pack’ or ‘Vista Codec Pack’ on Google and installing the packages, this often helps if you have a .avi or .mpeg clip that has been encoded (saved) in a format that windows doesn’t naturally support.  They also have a nice cut-down version of Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, that is very good.

Another good media player is the VLC Media Player, which can easily be downloaded from www.videolan.org.

All links and software mentioned in this article is free or open-source and provided by reputable companies.  The only software that you should be wary of are the files that you download using torrent sites and your bittorrent client.  Virus-scan every download before running it (Especially .exe files and software downloads! .avi and .mpeg files are a lot safer).

It is often worth reading the comment and descriptions for downloads on the torrent sites, too, as this is a sharing community and people are usually quick to comment or complain if there is something wrong with a file or it isn’t what it says it is.

-nuff said.

Kids Democracy

Easy-to-use-voting-system-for-schools, parents, teachers and pupils.

To enable and enhance the interchange of ideas and information between schools and their local community.

Secure and encrypted safe and empowering.

Edit: I think the key point here being getting a generation of kids used to the idea of voting and debating for change for themselves and realising their own power.

Jedi Reiki:- Rebel Healing and Consciousness Activism in the 21st Century

In line with the traditions of Reiki and Jedi spirituality as they are developing in the world at the moment, this document is an initial act to form a new school of thought consciously directed towards creating a spiritually-aligned and non-denominational school of principles that is rooted in human compassion, rational thought, principled action and consciously directed healing and energy-work.

The intent is to bring people together in a tolerant and compassionate way that bridges and transcends national, political, religious, monetary and other cultural barriers, and aids in evolving society beyond the global competition for energy.

The goal should be a free and democratic global society based on mutual respect and social inclusion – Where no-one person is left behind and no greater value is placed on anything before the planet Earth, her people, and the right of each person to live individually and without oppression – Within the bounds of a just and truly democratically created and applied international law.

Off the top of my head, anyway.. I’ve started writing this document because I’ve always known that Reiki and what the Star War’s films describe as The Force are comparably one-and-the-same, and it bothers me somewhat that there is a Jedi ‘Church’ being created and ‘Jediism’ being potentially cult-ified into a religion, (which I feel is the one thing neither Jedi Philosphy or Reiki are and are lucky to avoid being).

Anyways *Peace*

— Chris Asher

Potentia Vobiscum

Ahoy there!

Where attention goes, energy flows.

Your thoughts, ideas, actions, beliefs and emotions at every moment are important to the future of yourself, your nation, this planet, and all the peoples living on it.

You count just as much as everyone else, and you can help make the difference, tip the balance, make a change, by standing up together with others of like-mind and similar locality.

You may have been taught to be powerless all of your life. If so then cast off those chains. Stand up for your beliefs. Work with your friends and colleagues, make a difference together.

Stop relying on Government for all the answers. Truth is they are going to have to cut back on their spending, and if we’re going to bear the brunt of this recession, we should look to our people and our communities first – and technology can make that more possible – efficient and effective, than ever before now.

Idea: Start small community networks based around free-sharing and mutual support. “Judge not thy neighbours, rather help them and empower them”. Teach and share technology to make Digital Britain happen for everyone, as soon as possible. Harness redundant TV antenna for true wireless community neighbourhood networks. Introduce secure and truly anonymous network layers between community and ISP / Internet.

Idea: Create grass-roots community activity and knowledge-sharing networks, helping the less tech-savvy to come online and join the party. Make democracy take root digitally in every village, town and city, bringing everyone into the voting community and giving everyone a true vote and voice, then continue the debate about the future of Britain in the 21st Century, once it’s a real debate with lasting consequences.

Idea: Approach the open-source software community for a build of an operating systems software engineered to permanently network Britain anonymously and securely, in every home, office and school, independently of any central information hubs or controls, once the program code that runs the country is open, free, secure, and no longer based on proprietary systems, then talk about bio-metrics and identity cards.

EVERYBODY SAY: ‘I am a free human being and I will not be dictated to or controlled”. Believe it. It’s true. The order of law should and will one day protect that truth, not enable it’s circumvention in the name of ‘Political Correctness’, ‘Health and Safety’, or ‘National Security’.

BELIEVE THAT. It’s vital. Our grandparents and a whole generation fought and died for that truth, and now our own authorities keep micro-managing our lives and legislating our personal freedoms away to the detriment of our for-bearers sacrifice.

Would you believe my Grandparent’s generation resented the intrusion of means-testing and quite rightly believed that the government had no business in knowing the minuscule details of their lives?

It’s a far cry from the world of “We’re going to overtax you until your balls ache, and then if you are of ‘low income’, we’ll ‘tax credit’ it back to you, world that we live in today, isn’t it?

It’s time for a real change. Register to vote and use your democratic will like never before. Rally, Stand and *Make a Difference*. Everyone can in this Democracy and that can still be what makes Britain Great.

Let’s Prove it.

(Why am I the only one thinking outside of the box? If we’re going to stand up and fight for real change, fairness, honesty, honour, justice and freedom, at every level of our society, let’s re-think it from the grounds-up, with every free citizen working on it, and see what kind of future we can truly enshrine for the coming generations.)

Namaste,
Chris Asher

P.S. Potentia Vobiscum = May the Force be with You. I hope it will.

British Pirate Party Flag :D

Copyright infringed on several flags I found and plagurised off Wikipedia and Google images, (which is sort of appropriate I suppose.. ).

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A Zen Story

(Plagiarised from Principia Discordia)

A Zen Story

A ZEN STORY by Camden Benares, The Count of Five Headmaster, Camp Meeker Cabal A serious young man found the conflicts of mid 20th Century America confusing. He went to many people seeking a way of resolving within himself the discords that troubled him, but he remained troubled.

One night in a coffee house, a self-ordained Zen Master said to him, “go to the dilapidated mansion you will find at this address which I have written down for you. Do not speak to those who live there; you must remain silent until the moon rises tomorrow night. Go to the large room on the right of the main hallway, sit in the lotus position on top of the rubble in the northeast corner, face the corner, and meditate.”

He did just as the Zen Master instructed. His meditation was frequently interrupted by worries. He worried whether or not the resr of the plumbing fixtures would fall from the second floor bathroom to join the pipes and other trash he was sitting on. He worried how would he know when the moon rose on the next night. He worried about what the people who walked through the room said about him.

His worrying and meditation were disturbed when, as if in a test of his faith, ordure fell from the second floor onto him. At that time two people walked into the room. The first asked the second who the man was sitting there was. The second replied “Some say he is a holy man. Others say he is a shithead.”

Hearing this, the man was enlightened.

“Another World is Possible”

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Bloody awesome!