Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
Iron Lore and THQ have finally released an expansion for the hit game Titan Quest. I played through the original twice: you can play it three times, each at a new difficulty level. To be clear, this review is for…
Category Technology
2007/04/09: Tyan
The great server upgrade took place this weekend, or to be more accurate is still taking place. I had a lot of spare parts at home and had already built the server. As I started to remove files from the…
File Hamster version backup
A really nice and clean backup application that keeps multiple revisions or your files, a sort of personal version of Microsoft’s volume shadow copy service. Designed for artists and media professionals who make constant changes to the same document, this…
AVG Anti-Rootkit Free
For all of us fans of GRISoft’s free AVG anti-virus comes an anti-rootkit. Lots of these floating around, but you can’t go wrong with free now can you? AVG Anti-Rootkit Free
Filehippo software Update Checker
A nice little application from Filehippo.com that is a single executable, no install. It scans your system and looks for updates to software and drivers you have installed. It generates an HTML page and loads in your browser. Slick and…
2007/04/02: CRT
It seems my friends that the CRT monitor is in fact dead. For my day job we have many locations and buy only CRT monitors. Everything has gone swimmingly until last week when our vendor said they couldn’t get CRT…
2007/03/26: WHS Redux
My APC UPS problems continue ( see last week for more details ) with random reboots. I don’t believe the battery is working at all right now. I have a brand new APC Smart UPS 1500 Rackmount in the garage,…
Promise SATA300 TX4
I was repurposing an older Xeon workstation and needed SATA ports which this particular system lacked (see eBabble Weakly for more info). There is a distinct lack of SATA rev 1.0a (with spec extensions)controller cards available, i.e. 300 MB/s connection,…
2007/03/19: APC
For no particular reason that I can locate my APC Pro 1000 UPS caused my server to reboot on two separate occasions. I have all my network wiring terminating in my furnace room in the basement, as my house is…