Archive for April, 2006

Eureka!!!

Posted by Lance on 27th April , 2006

Ahh, sweet victory (hopefully)!! After consulting with a more experienced mad scientist (read: the kind Asus phone tech), I think I’ve sorted out my RAID 0 problem. After creating the RAID 0 array, I had tried to install XP, but after clunking away for a few minutes, the installer responded that it couldn’t find any [...]

Creature Sighted in Bethlehem! Citizens Panic! News at Eleven.

Posted by Lance on 27th April , 2006

The horror! The creature stirs!! Now if I can just get the damn Raid 0 array to be bootable… Calling Asus at lunchtime.

It's Aliiive!!!

Posted by Lance on 27th April , 2006

Thank the silicon gods – it booted! First try! You’ve got to see the inside of this case – total hawt sex. I’ve just started configuring the Raid 0 array. Too excited – got to get back to it! Pics tomorrow.

Massster, the Body Parts Have Arrived!

Posted by Lance on 26th April , 2006

Egor, my faithful hunchback minion (by this I mean the Fed Ex guy, of course) arrived yesterday bearing multiple boxes of smexy new hardware. So… psyched! I started putting stuff together last night. Man, a computer case used to be sooo much less complicated. Fans have been breeding like horny bunnies in there, and it [...]

Dr. Stein and the Forbidden Lure of Oblivion

Posted by Lance on 19th April , 2006

I’ve been feeling the age of my Wintel PC for some time – at least as far as gaming horsepower goes. With Windows Vista supposedly just around the corner though, I’d made the decision to wait and see what was going to happen regarding emerging DirectX 10.0 hardware and the new OS system requirements before [...]

The End of an Era

Posted by Lance on 10th April , 2006

This is a bit of a personal message, but I needed an accessible public place to host it. I’m leaving my current WoW guild, and doubtless the following post won’t last long on the guild forums, but I wanted my friends to be able to read my goodbye. Read on if interested: ———————————————————— Unfortunately, this [...]