New Ars Technica article up
Designing a highly reliable small & medium business network Check it out and let me know what you think. Comments so far have shown it to be pretty controversial.
Installing Win7 on my DAW
Well, I am finally getting around to installing Win 7 since it’s the holidays and I have time on my hands. Since I am posting, I have obviously been partially successful, though it has been much more of a headache than I would have liked. The main cause of the trouble is the fact that […]
First Ars Technica article up
Today is kind of an auspicious occasion: my first article has been published. While in some ways this seems like small potatoes compared to writing books, it’s actually kind of a big deal to me for three reasons:1. The audience is MUCH larger than for any book I have written.2. The feedback is much more […]
Weekend hard disk adventures…and two must-have tools
Well, I bought and installed a shiny new WD 1.5 TB hard disk this weekend, and I have to say it went better than expected, despite the fact that it took a day to complete. The physical installation, of course, was a piece of cake (one of the great things about SATA). No messing about […]
Eating Leather – Drakensang: The Dark Eye review update
Posted by in Review on October 9, 2009
So, in my previous review of this game, I ranted quite a bit on how buggy the stupid thing was since it crashed my system. Since then, my system got flakier and I came to realize it wasn’t the game, it was most likely the video card (based on the fact that the system only […]
Review of "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown
Posted by in Review on October 7, 2009
I don’t normally review books, but this one I have to get off my chest. I’ll put the summary right up top for those who don’t want to read the whole thing: This book is a horribly unimaginative way to ruin appreciation of ancient art and completely ruin any hope of ever understanding basic physics.Not […]
My son’s new guitar
It’s a Dean MAB1. Awesome guitar, if you can get over it being MAB’s signature guitar. Plays well and sounds great. Here’s the specs:– Real Floyd Rose– EMG 81/85/SA active pickup set– Grover tuners– 25.5″ Scale– Alder with a Mahogany fretboard.– Wizard-ish neck radius Here’s a clip of him playing it (first take): http://brianhill.clthosting.com/MAB1Demo.mp3 He […]
Hacked facebook pics
Posted by in Funny on August 24, 2009
Some of these are really funny in a disturbing type of way. Moral: Be careful which sites you tie into your Facebook…
My new 7-string guitar.
An Agile Interceptor Pro 27 in tribal green.Specs:– Mahogany body, ebony fretboard– 27″ scale length– Dual EMG 707 pickups– Licensed Floyd Rose– Grover tuners– Double cutaway, quilted maple archtop– Tuned to open C minor with a low G (G-C-G-C-G-C-D#)– Strings are Di’Addario heavies (.012 – .054) with a .072 7th string. Here’s Pics: And here’s […]
Kind of a neat thing I noticed today…
My number of plays for Steve Vai hit this:Just thought it was pretty cool considering how much Vai likes the number “7”.
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