more on noblegarden
ok, so noblegarden isnt all that bad. you have to run around and find brightly covered eggs and loot them. inside you get noblegarden chocolate and if you do the daily for the 20 brightly covered shell fragment (and 13g 23s). there are also some rare drops in the eggs, for example i got –
spring rabbits foot
spring robes
black tuxedo pants
spring circlet
the great part is, that you can use the noblegarden chocolate to buy items. here is a list -
| cost | item |
| 5 | noblegarden egg |
| 10 | blossoming branch |
| 25 | white tuxedo shirt |
| 25 | black tuxedo pants |
| 50 | spring flowers |
| 50 | spring robes |
| 100 | spring rabbits foot |
| 100 | tome of polymorph: rabbit |
so some of the rewards are almost worth it. all in all it isnt as lame as i expected it to be. the brightly covered eggs are actually very easy to find. i found that either early in the morning or late afternoon is the best time to get them. otherwise you a lot of other people to contend with in a race for eggs. it took me about 25 minutes total to gather enough for tome of polymorph: rabbit. that was the only thing i wanted from this world event.
battle.net authenticator
so i bought a blizzard authenticator about a week ago. the shipping was super fast (and free). it was super easy to set up and now i have a little more security for my wow account. after seeing all the stuff about wow accounts getting hacked, or keyloggers from adobe flash players, i decided a little more security would be a good thing. granted, it is just a game, but its the only game i play.
nlite os cont. again
so i managed to re-install my new copy of windows. it went rather smoothly and the drivers i slipstreamed in all worked fine. i did get a bad_pool_caller blue screen of death a couple times, but that was due to bad drivers, i updated the drivers and everything has been running smooth.
the only complain i have is boot up and shutdown. it hangs on a black screen for 10+ sec and then continues. other than that its all great.
i may go through the whole process again to further tweak the system. for now i am partially happy with my windows install. even though it is still windows….
ping network or range in network script
#!/usr/bin/env bash
## Ping all machines in a Network
PING=”/bin/ping”
echo “Enter Subnet(eg:192.168.xxx)”
read Subnet
echo “Do you want to PING the entire network or a RANGE of IPs ? Enter your choice”
echo 1. Ping Entire Network
echo 2. Ping a RANGE
read choice
if [ $choice = 1 ];
then
{
echo Pinging…..
for((i=1;i<255;i++)); do
${PING} 192.168.${Subnet}.${i} -c 1 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ];
then
echo -e “${Subnet}.${i} is up”
fi
done
}
fi
if [ $choice = 2 ];
then
{
echo Enter the Starting IP of Range
read a
echo Enter the Last IP of Range
read b
echo Pinging…..
for((i=$a;i<$b;i++)); do
# ${PING} ${Subnet}.${i} -c 1 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
${PING} 192.168.${Subnet}.${i} -c 1 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ];
then
echo -e “${Subnet}.${i} is up”
fi
done
}
fi
exit 0
nlite os cont.
i went through customizing windows media center 2005 again. i trimmed out all of the unnecessary programs, languages, help files, services, themes, etc. i also slipstreamed the drivers for my dell xps m140 into the iso and also added an additional folder, named additionalprograms, containing the following programs -
avg free 8.5
ccleaner 2.18.878
imgburn 2.4.4
filezilla 3.2.3.1
firefox 3.0.9
foxit pdf reader 3.0
gimp 2.6.6
spybot search & destroy 1.6.2
vlc
i am currently burning the iso to dvd, when it is done i will reboot and attempt to install my new copy of windows.
the real bummer is i have to re-install world of warcraft which will take awhile. i did remember to backup all the patches for the game and burn those onto dvd as well. this way updating will be a breeze.
noblegarden
noblegarden is another world event. it runs from april 26 to may 2. during this event people can do the following achievements -
blushing bride
chocoholic
chocolate lover
desert rose
dressed for the ocassion
hard boiled
i found one!
noble garden (there is a horde version of this quest as well, you hide an egg in silvermoon city instead)
shake your bunny-maker
spring fling (there is a horde version of this quest as well)
sunday’s finest
there is also 2 quests you can grab to go for the achievements -
the great egg hunt
a tisket, a tasket, a noblegarden basket
so yet again, another crazy world event that would involve no-stop gameplay and only focusing on the event in order to get the achievement. this world event also counts towards the achievement what a long, strange trip it’s been and for that achievement the reward is a violet proto drake.
needless to say, i wont be trying to finish off the world events, most of them are ridiculous, i will definitely post about each event as it comes along.
fishing daily 6
finally, got the last quest for the achievement chasing marcia. the ghostfish was a relatively easy quest. go to sholazar basin and fish in the rivers heart which is in the middle of the map.
i had to fish for awhile to get the phantom ghostfish. when you get the phantom ghostfish make sure to open your inventory and use it quickly, it has a 60sec cooldown. i got the items below before getting the quest item -
10x barrelhead goby
5x nettlefish
3x driftwood
2x pygmy suckerfish
weeds
tattered cloth
for the quest reward i got the usual bag of fishing treasures. in it i got -
7g 40s 59c
3x elixir of water walking
3x worthless piece of orange glass
runic mana potion
another mysterious egg
so while doing the fishing daily the ghost fish i decided to buy another mysterious egg and try again for the green proto drake
fishing daily 5
finally a different daily. dangerously delicious was super easy. just fish anywhere in wintergrasp for the terrorfish. it took me about 20 casts to get all 10.
the reward was the usual bag of fishing treasures in it i got -
8g 70s 24c
3x pygmy oil
4x deviate fish
velociraptor skull
mysterious egg
the mysterious egg hatched this morning.
i got a cobra hatchling
looks like i have to try again to get the green proto drake