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Well I’m getting back to my first mmo since WoW and DAoC died for me. I loved the RvR/PvP aspect of DAoC and when the population died off I went to WoW for a while… and it just never did it for me. I’m excited to be playing Warhammer with a select group of players - some old friends, some select people. My old guild Outreach is people I will always be friends with, but with a different playstyle these days. Hard to put a finger on, as I really did have a good time in Outreach, but I decided to give the GM thing a spin again in a new way.

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What can I say? I’m no Colbert, but I try really hard…

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I love storage space. Terrabytes of it. What I don’t love is Chinese made junk motherboards by the brand of Foxconn. More specifically, I don’t enjoy hunting for hours trying to find drivers that seem to not exist anywhere, and losing two of my original drives full of irreplaceable data.

So this all started innocently enough, with me trying to add a few new hard drives to my aging media storage PC. With the plummeting cost of storage, it only made sense to get a couple new SATA drives. Long story short, I got the two new drives and installed them, booted up and couldn’t see them in Windows. Sure on the boot screens (raid bios) both drives were visible, just not in Windows.

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This is one of those posts that is meant to help me organize my thoughts a bit, and share with friends what I’m up to. Not really interesting to the casual random reader - so move along if you are one of those.

As many friends know, I accepted a position in November of ‘07, as I was job hunting. I’ve settled into my position, and found my pace, so to speak. I enjoy my job quite a lot; it has the ideal mix of high-pressure support situations, steady project work and breathing room I can use for documenting our systems. Very nice in general, I’m quite happy.

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So today we had a TWC service tech visit us because I called to complain about poor picture quality and channels dropping out. Five minutes of unintelligent rambling about our lack of a digital cable box later, he glanced at the picture on the TV and decided we weren’t worth his time to check the line quality. He left, and we got nowhere.

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Before I lose your attention completely, let me just point out that you likely hate this part of your life, and it would be a real shame not to read a little bit further here. I still dislike this part of my life, but I manage to dislike it a lot less than before. The subject is shaving, and being that I’m a pretty average guy, I just shave my face. Regardless of what you shave, this is some pretty crazy good stuff right here.

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Given my propensity to post at random, (not on any regular basis), I am hoping to shock everyone with a little flurry of posts over the next few days. Why?
Two reasons have propelled me to try out Linux:
1. I need to expand my horizons technologically, period. It costs me nothing but time, and could bag me a very valuable set of knowledge for future system building.
2. Virtualization. Click to read my post about it, and why it’s so crazy nice!

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I should write a really long post right now, all chock full of details and miniature how-to guides, but I’m lazy and will only take time to give you the fast ‘n’ dirty version.

Virtualization (the way I am using the term) is a very simple concept. Run a program on your PC that displays a window that is a complete computer living on an “island” in your computer. You can run a bunch of these at once, tabbing through a whole bunch of computers all running inside yours! How cool, right?!

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We’ve used Time Warner for our cable TV and RoadRunner (from Time Warner) for our Internet connection, and so far no big complaints. The service has been fairly reliable for a non-business connection, and fairly fast for the cost ($23 per month for 5mb/300k speed). So what’s the problem? This is just a “promotional rate”.

Once this so-called “promotional rate” or “promotional campaign” ends, prices double for cable TV and RoadRunner. Our bill jumped from roughly $55/month to $112/month over the course of two months. That kills my inner child, it really does.

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Music, quality, drm free and easy to use

Many of us have been downloading music for so long (not in the legal way), it’s a little hard to imagine spending money at the iTunes Store, let alone leaving home to buy a CD. But the world is changing quickly, and it’s very possible that some of us will be considering a change as well. Not many of us will ever really bow to our RIAA masters, but supporting artists is an honest and noble cause.

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