SteelSeries Introduces LE Aion Keyset Zboard
Posted by Trisha | Filed under Gaming, Hardware
SteelSeries, a leading manufacturer of game peripherals and accessories, introduced today the new SteelSeries Zboard™ Limited Edition Aion™ Keyset and SteelSeries QcK Limited Edition Aion™ Asmodian Mousepad. Co-designed with NCsoft ® Corporation, Aion’s publisher and developer, the limited edition gear provides customized functionality and original artwork from the game that allows players to battle and [...]
Tags: Aion, Keyset, SteelSeries, Zboard
Weird Unresponsiveness from Windows Vista
Posted by alan | Filed under Hardware
Over the past several days, I’ve had weird problems with my main PC, which is where I create most of the content for OCModShop. Yes, I have all of the assets guarded on a seperate RAIDed box, so don’t worry about that.
I first noticed the problem when moving MP3s over to a new Synology 2TB [...]
Matrox Quad Monitor DisplayPort Video Cards
Posted by alan | Filed under Hardware
Matrox just released their triple and quad-monitor DisplayPort M-Series graphics cards.
They feature 1GB of memory and can output a large 2560×1600 resolution per output (max resolution is only available through DisplayPort… DVI only supports 1920×1200). They are targeted towards business, industrial, and government applications, and have an equally businessy price at $400 and $630.
You can [...]
Mac Bloggers Bashing Laptop Hunter Commercials
Posted by alan | Filed under General Life, Hardware
I’ve seen a few technology bloggers immediately start bashing the Microsoft “Laptop Hunter / it’s a PC ” commercial. They say that it’s like comparing apples or orange (pun intended). In the commercial, the “actor” goes into an Apple store, and cannot find a computer with the features she wants near their budget ($1000 or [...]
Tags: 50 Linksys router, actor, Apple store, Best buy;, budget product, firewall;, Linux;, Mac, Microsoft;, much better hardware, professional hardware, technology bloggers, technology-savvy, USD;
Vista no likey Blu-ray
Posted by alan | Filed under Editorials, Hardware
I’ve written in previous posts that I finally procured a Blu-ray burner for the OCMS Labs. The drives have come way down in price, but the media is still somewhat expensive, even when compared to dual-layer DVD-R discs… you can get a 50-pack spindle for around $35! That’s about 70 cents per disc for those [...]
Tags: backup, basic mode, bluray, burner, dvd, hard drive, lab, powerdvd, spindle, verbatim, vista, windvd
Availability of Blu-ray Media
Posted by alan | Filed under Audio/Video, Editorials, Hardware, Photography
So, I’ve finally secured a Blu-ray drive for the OCMS labs. Now the only thing is to get hordes of BD-R media, so I ventured out on one of our famous OCMS Field Trips.
I go into one local computer store and ask where their Blu-ray media is. Looking bewlidered, the sales rep called over the [...]
Tags: LAN;, manager the row, sales rep, software backup, Staples, store manager, USD;
3ware Escalade 7000 and Server 2008
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes, Hardware
So, I’ve been toying with Windows Server 2008 for a few weeks, and have ironed out most of the kinks… until I came across this little issue…
The server I used has a 3ware Escalade 7000 RAID card (2-port SATA). There are no “official” Server 2008 drivers, but their support said that the latest drivers work [...]
Tags: 2008, 3ware, array, forum, RAID;, rebuild, server, support
Big Long Fight with PHP and FastCGI
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes, Hardware
So it took a good 15 hours from start to finish with Server 2008. This is why I don’t really like to do upgrades unless I absolutely have to. I finally nailed down a configuration of Server 2003 that doesn’t crash or give me headaches, and here I am upgrading again!
To add insult to injury, [...]
Tags: cache, fastcgi, internal server error, isapi, php, server 2008, wordpress
Server installation troubles with DVD-ROMs
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes, Hardware
I can be such a dumbass sometimes.
If you read my previous post, you know that I’m trying to install Server 2008 on a spare server. Well, I’ve had quite a fiasco that I haven’t experienced in a long time….
I created several boot DVDs, but I couldn’t get the server to read any of them. I [...]
Tags: 3ware, driver, floppy, os, RAID;, server 2008, spare server;
An Introduction and Recent Happenings
Posted by tyler | Filed under Gaming, General Life, Hardware
So before I go ahead with anything else, I wanted to go ahead and give a brief introduction to everyone. My name is Tyler Pilgrim and I’m a 19 year old computer science major out of Georgia College and State University and UGA. I’m also working on a minor in English, which was originally my [...]
Tags: Georgia College;, Intel;, OCModShop;, State University;, The Witcher;, Tyler Pilgrim;, UGA;
