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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:09:17 PM

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I've got some old receivers that I snagged from storage hooked up and driving my Klipsch 4.1 speakers. I've just got them in stereo, one set on each receiver. No sub yet, but I'm not too concerned about sound, just sources cus this is a Video Lab, not an Audiophile pit.

I've got an old IBM laptop down here connected to a DELL monitor for now. I also brought my SMP Pentium3 2U server machine down here, but I haven't hooked it up yet. I have an old Athlon XP in tower down here as well, but it has no hard drives right now =). They're all in the 2U.

I found an old Pentium4 board with Processor that I bought from a friend a while back. Might get that set up, too. Might put it in the tower and replace the AthlonXP 2500+ Barton and consolidate all the SDRAM to one machine. It wouldn't be too bad for cranking on some video encodes. Might be a good "controller" machine for the lab, too. I've got Remote protocols throughout the house, so I can control encodes on QuadZ80 from anywhere right now. Working out pretty well, but I'll soon need to run some Cat5 down here and get a Gigabit Ethernet network set up. Wireless is not cutting it for LAN transfers, and once I start moving big video chunks around, it's going to be painful without some gigabit love!

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QuadZ80 is definitely a beast

Monday, April 9, 2007 8:32:05 PM

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The LAN party was something of a success, but there are more interesting things to note...

Running Vista 64-bit on ol' QuadZ80 was working out until I disabled Node Interleaving. I re-enabled it. I was under the impression that it should be disabled so that Vista can do NUMA. I guess either that was wrong, or Vista's NUMA sucks because I was getting Blue Screens and dying applications out the butt.

I heart VMWare. I should try to test products for them or something. I've got VMWare 6 going on Vista64. I've FreeBSD 7.0 compiling ports, WindowsXP syncing to my Palm, and MS-DOS running all while playing LOTR beta all on top of Vista64 yes

Good times. I'm getting my virtual machines set up better now. I basically use FreeBSD more than anything else, but the WindowsXP 32bit install on vmware is purely for syncing with my Palm Tungsten T3. No 64bit drivers on Vista for the USB cable! However, it works great through vmware which is pretty damn cool.

I've got the 8800GTS cranking for gaming, and I left my old 6800GS in the box with a second monitor hooked to it. Windows handles the second monitor very well even though NVIDIA's control panel does not. Vista's monitor settings are in line with Mac OSX, and may even have better detection. When I move, I'll be getting a wide-screen LCD and putting two monitors next to them. Then I'll probably line up some cheap monitors on the top shelf of my IKEA Jerker Desk. I'm thinking 4-6 monitors tops =).

Working from home today, so I'm gonna get back to some Lua scripting.

Things left to do:
* Get Palm devkits installed on WindowsXP vm.
* Get Plucker going on WindowsXP vm.
* Xorg is compiling on my fresh FreeBSD-CURRENT build now, gonna set that up with vmware-tools
* play with some virtual appliances. I've already messed with FreeNAS and JanusVM. JanusVM is very cool! It does onion routing and everything for you transparently. It significantly slows down my internet connection, but that's to be expected.
* Get some more hard drive space and set up an instance of FreeNAS as a virtual storage server.
* need more RAM! 2GB ain't enough for 4+ operating systems running at once!

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