Tech Talk / Nerd Musings / Geek Daydreams
Tonight’s scheduled fest is done and I got pwned! We played for eight maps, or about two hours. Thanks to Section8, Ent, Mike Hawk and Lupin-The-3RD for showing up and making the first scheduled game a good one. Man, I’d…
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Plague has moved to the datacenter to host Rainwalk.net so I bought a new Supermicro SC822i 2U case for it. I took a few pictures while I was setting it up: The box it came in. Big. Brown. Expensive….
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Plague has been converted and reborn as a dedicated server for Rainwalk.net and is now located in a rack graciously donated to the cause by At-Link in their facilities at 365 Main. It isn’t a modded box per se, but…
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Background: Locust finally received some new hardware to make it a decent secondary rig, and in honor of it’s rebirth, I decided to give it a new look with some stain and basically do a better job of rerouting everything….
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In making an entry to the Locust pages, I just noticed that It’s been about a year since I’ve done any mods or anything to it. Wow. Anyway, I got to feeling antsy about my hardware so I bought a…
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I recently picked up a new A7v266-E motherboard and an Athlon XP 2000+ processor for very cheap off of ebay, so I decided to throw that processor/mobo combo into the old Locust and upgrade Earthquake slightly from an XP 1600+…
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In another attempt to appease my modding urge, I’ve redone Plague again, this time adding the temporary array from the old Headcrash setup to this box. Basically, I wanted to see if I could stuff four 10,000 rpm SCSI drives…
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While reinstalling Win2k server on Headcrash, I decided to take some time to run some benchmarks against the storage subsystem to see what would make the best setup out of the hardware I had on hand. Here are the results…
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In a continued frenzy of modding, I’ve completely redesigned Headcrash to be a lean, mean rig. It’s been stripped down of all extra hardware and now exists to serve up test web pages, dedicated game servers and act as a…
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Updated the campaign log with more updates. The battle is joined for control of the Ruins of Warsaw. Who will win? The Community of Sielce or the forces of the Black Baron?