I jumped on a good deal from dell this week. If you configured a server with $2600 or more before adding it to the cart, it took $750 off the top instantly. I was able to get the following server for $2200 after shipping and tax and an additional $700 from newegg to buy the [...]
I havent posted in a few months. I’ve been really busy with a ton of stuff. Left my job at microsoft, I was there 10 months and a senior tech, pulling at least 50 hr weeks avg a week ( in a 4 day work day).
Went to Apple Cyder Press in Cashmere WA youth rally [...]
I picked up a AR-15 today. A Rock River Arms entry tactical model. With a quad rail, surefire G2 mount, EoTech Holo Sight and tactical handle with deployable bipod. Its a .223 rem AR-15 with a 1/9 twist and foldable front sight.
I must say the EoTech is really cool but it was pricy. I’ll go [...]
Yep, my new job search is over. I interviewed for and accepted and will sign the contract on Tuesday for a Tier 2 Server/systems support/administration for a small Data Center, just a few doors down from the Microsoft DC’s. I start on the Oct 20th for 3 months of contract work and then Lord willing, [...]
So you know how you get all those career builder match emails suggesting jobs for you to apply to based off key words? Well I look at those and I found a job that says “System administrator (Gaming)”. How perfect is that.
The job add pretty much is what I do now, being a [...]
Well after a lot of playing around, bench marking I decided to go with a 6 disk raid 0+1 instead of raid 5. The raid on the mobo is pretty much junk and performance on the raid 5 was ~12MB/sec read and write. I wasnt expecting great performance for the integrated fake raid [...]
I’m constantly bouncing on less than 10% free space on my file server. And I’ve got 1.3TB’s of usable space (850gigs is actual raid 1 space). So I just ordered a new mobo with 6 sata ports and onboard nvidia raid 5 (I know its cheap and fake raid, I wont get much [...]
The hypernauts episodes are back up on my website under the “downloads” page.