Talon’s (Micah) Blog

I’m up and running on my new dreamhost webhost. Took a while to figure out how to get the databases to move over correctly but I got it after 2 hours of trying.

Third time was not the charm for me on 70-291.  I scored better than both other times but still failed it.  I guess I’ll take it again after a year or so of experience.

Yep, I’m dumping 1and1 for my webhost. 1and1 use to be good until the last year or so when its becoming very pathetic. They way overcrowd their servers and then jump on customers who use excess disk space when its well within their quota. Well they shouldnt advertise the extra space if [...]

I posted my resume on monster.com. I was gonna wait till I got my MCSA (still need 70-291) but I figured why wait. I was gonna simply post a link to my resume on my website in a protected HTaccess directory and link my resume (its in HTML) but once I got going [...]

My desktop is back up and running with 4gigs of RAM.  I’ve got everything re-installed and i get about 10 more FPS in games.

Turns out my new Mobo wasnt DoA.  It was the new PQI turbo memory that fried the memory slots.  I just tried the memory modules in my bros computer (has 2gigs PQI turnbo 4200 2 volt memory in it).  The modules fried 2 of the 4 DIMM slots in my bros computer.  I’m RMA’ing the [...]

My new computer got here yesterday. My new motherboard was DOA. I’m on my laptop for a week or 2 while I wait for newegg RMA.
I got all the computers switched around I needed to. The only thing I couldnt get to work was the stupid 4u Norco case. The thing [...]

I just ordered a brand new 4U rackmount server to act as my TV streaming/sageTV box.  Its a x2 6000+ 3ghz AMD, 2gigs of DDR2-533, dual 500gig sata drives, 500w PSU, 4U Norco case, DVD burner, gigabyte mobo and a 7600gt.  The graphics is needed for the TV server to stream live TV to the [...]