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New server

3 January, 2009 (10:40) | General

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 [...]

Busy times

16 November, 2008 (18:47) | General

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 [...]

AR-15

30 September, 2008 (19:03) | General

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 [...]

New Job here I come

28 September, 2008 (21:03) | General

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, [...]

New Job?

8 August, 2008 (10:49) | General

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 [...]

File server online

5 August, 2008 (19:00) | General

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 [...]

File server upgrade

29 July, 2008 (11:38) | General

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 [...]

hypernauts up again

2 July, 2008 (10:33) | General

The hypernauts episodes are back up on my website under the “downloads” page.