I recently bought a Roku2 XD device. I already have an Apple TV2 but I was curious at what this device could do. The Roku2 is pretty much the same device as the ATV2 except the XD model supports 1080p video whereas the ATV2 will do up to 720p. It is also cheaper than the…
I finally got my Apple TV generation 2 jailbroken. Why you ask? Well, I am after XBMC so that I can stream files from my DLNA server. I used Pwnage tool. Check out http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/5239805497/tic-tac-toe for more information. Check your firmware version also. When I did it, I was running version 4.2.2 but it was the…
I’ve been playing around with the idea of getting one of those low powered CPU and running ESXi on it. I finally got a chance to playing around with one. I picked up an Asrock E350M1/USB3 from Newegg. I also got a G.Skill 8GB of ram installed. Unfortunately, the ram and mobo/cpu weren’t on sale…
After a few days of playing around with their server and having some difficulties, I decided to cancel their service. I’m new to Windows hosting since I’ve always used Linux hosting, so I’m not that all familiar with it. A lot of my questions can easily be resolved if they had a better FAQ or…
I’ve been looking around for a cheap host for .NET. It’s more expensive than Linux shared hosting. I didn’t want to spend too much being that I just want to play around with it to familiarize myself with the technology – so I’m not asking for much. What I do need is a plan where…
My work was kind enough to replace my aging 24” iMac (MA456LL) with a new 27” iMac (MC814LL). It’s a huge difference, not just screen size but performance as well. I’m coming from a Core 2 Duo processor to Intel’s i7 Quad Core Sandy Bridge. This has Hyper Threading so I get up to 8…
It’s only been a couple of months since I built an X58 i7 960 rig. Then the Z68 motherboard comes out. This was the build I was looking for but at the time of my first build, all I hear are speculations of how the Z68 would work. Now that it’s here, it’s definitely what…
I finally turned my rig that I built a few months ago to an ESXi 4 server. I replaced my workstation with an i7 2600K. So my ESXi rig is the same as the older workstation except it’s in a different tower and using a different power supply. Here are the specs with cost to…
Newegg recently had a good deal on the Kings SVP100S2B/96GR SSD drive. It was $160 with a $50 mail in rebate, plus 10% off. So after everything, I would’ve paid about $1 per GB on an SSD. The advertised read speed is 230MB/s and write speed is 1810MB/s. I’ve always wanted to play with SSD…