Archive for the 'melchior' Category

November 27th, 2007

maxtor cable select

maxtor cable select - Google Image Search
So I think my 120GB hd bit the dust, time to get a new “big” one, and move the 250 and the 160 down a notch.
Either way, it means posting is a pain from my laptop, so I probably won’t do it a whole lot cause browsing is slow [...]

November 26th, 2007

back in rochester

I am back, but unfortunately, my desktop computer @ home is acting up.
It was stuck in a blue screen -> reboot -> repeat cycle and I didn’t know what to do.  The error code meant some sort of error with css.exe.  I checked the hd for errors, then did a repair install.  Now I just [...]

August 12th, 2007

Hard drive not found

I took a vacation day on Friday, and it was good I did because Thursday night after work I tried to authenticate my xbox to my storage array and it just kept failing.
I go to check on the domain controller and get no response via the network.  Shit.  I go downstairs to the server rack [...]

September 18th, 2006

Bookmark Sync

after steve kept talking about how great google browser sync was, I decided to install it and try it out for syncing my bookmarks between my laptop and my desktop
Google Browser Sync
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – [...]

June 22nd, 2006

Paint.NET

Paint.NET
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

btw, the last post was edited with Paint.NET and I figured I should let everyone know about the [...]

April 5th, 2006

I thought it was spring

It snowed in Rochester last night, and is flurrying now. I thought it was supposed to be spring?

I kid, I kid
I would rather have it snow than rain, any day of the week
RIT Webcams
I broke my remote desktop control yesterday, so while I could still post, I only had the links from my blog-esq [...]

February 2nd, 2006

Tin Foil Soldier server madness

Tin Foil Soldier
there is going to be some down time in Tin Foil Soldier land, I am building a raid 5 array and am not quite sure how I am going to arrange the computers / storage.  I am not about to make a 1.2TB array using NTFS, NetBSD doesnt seem to have any great [...]

October 4th, 2005

broked

my desktop computer’s motherboard decided to die, so right now i have my old laptop hooked to my monitor/keyboard/mouse
if i can find another powersupply for my new laptop i will hook up its docking station, because my old laptop is only 600Mhz, and while thats fine for my servers, its hella slow to do other [...]

June 11th, 2005

Dave’s Help with Kerberos and AD

Welcome to Dave’sPC.Net
with the help of dave’s website, I am working on integrating all of my computers into an active directory thats running on balthasar

May 10th, 2005

paper

every 10 minutes, a window pops up to tell me that i have a paper due at 2pm
every 10 minutes, i click “snooze” for 10 more minutes
its quite a system i have
go outlook
you have told me about what i need to do
now microsoft just needs to figure out a way to get outlook to motivate [...]

April 25th, 2005

frozenCPU

so…
the other day kevin and I went to frozenCPU,
and i ended up bying a fan for the qube (caspar) and a new processor heatsink for melchior (my main machine)
I had hoped to install the new heatsink and be able to overclock the proc without having to worry about heat, but its being retarded and will [...]