Talon’s (Micah) Blog

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 [...]

I’m about ready to buy sagetv ($80 for server license, and 5x $30 for client license) and have my streaming media server.  I’m just about done with reformatting my linux file server to windows XP so the software will work easily.  Gonna have 840 gigs of usage space (150 of it hardware RAID 1, nifty [...]

http://www.silicondust.com/wiki/products/hdhomerun
I just bought 2 of these.  This gives me 4 digital HDTV channels streamed over the network.  I’ma setup my comp as a test mediaportal TV server.  If everything goes right, I’ll be buying 2 more and building a windows server to have a centralized everything TV server.  With dual/quad core CPU, 2gigs memory and [...]

I’ve ordered this monitor to dual monitor with my current 19″ LCD. The 22″ will be primary and 19″ secondary. I got it because I need dual monitors for a contract job I just got. About 5-10 hrs a week of tech support for a large gaming clan.

Well its been 1 year I’ve been running Folding At Home here at my house. I’ve folded 226 WU’s, not bad for a years time. I have 10 CPU cores here, only 6 of em are folding on a consistent basis. My desktop x2, Mom laptop x1, bro desktop x1, other bro [...]