Archive for August, 2007

The RAMSAN Series, Ultimate SSD for I/O Applications

Got a huge SQL database and tired of your hard drive array bogging you down with “slow” I/O operations? Tired of having a mountain of cash and want to turn it into a small humming steel box? Just like owning the fastest hardware available? Well look no further as I believe I have found one [...]

Apple Releases New iMacs

I believe this may be the first time I have ever looked at Apple hardware and actually wanted to touch it through the screen. I myself had never been a huge fan of Apple “desktops” with their lack of upgrades, typically expensive markups, and their reliance on mobile hardware but this latest round of iMac’s [...]

Unreal Tournament Coming to PS3 and PC, Crossplatform and Equal

A few weeks ago Microsoft released their crossplatform first person shooter Shadowrun on both the Xbox 360 and the PC. What could have been a great game and perfect merger between the platforms but Microsoft tweaked the game to help give Xbox 360 players a slight performance advantage to make up for the differences between [...]

Phase Build: X_Man’s Mach II GT

During the end of July I began a run of three phase-change builds for customers ranging from Atlanta to San Francisco. This is the first of them, it is a Prometeia Mach II GT modified to hold a quad-core load. I post all my builds over at XtremeSystems so this will be a crude copy/paste. [...]

Hardware Recommendations for August 2007

Time to jump back onto the animal that is by blog and whip it back into shape. To kick things off let’s go with the monthly hardware recommendation. As of late nothing major has launched however there have been some major cuts in prices. The price drops have been so severe I’m surprised the police [...]

Busy Times

I have a blog? *Gasp* Holy..carrots. Been so busy I’ve completely forgotten to post here so it’s time to catch up a bit. Lots of things have changed with the most important bit being that I am once again a full-time student. I’ve changed my major to Computational Media at Georgia Tech, estimates show that [...]