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Star Citizen Hits 40 Million in Funding

If you are a Wing Commander fan from back in the day this is for you and your inner child. Read the update here. I signed up way back in the day when the game was being kickstarted. This game will swallow many weeks of my life when it gets to Alpha/Beta and then release.

10 Years of Deadwood

If you haven’t seen it then watch this video… Once you finish watching grab a copy from some place and watch it all the way through. If you have seen it then watch this video and then grab your copy and re-watch! Caution, profanity does ensue in this video clip as well as the show. […]

Infinidat Website Launched

You can now find the new Infinidat company website here. I am most interested in the newly announced Infinbox storage system. I liken it to a high density Swiss Army knife of storage. Below are some of the major components of the InfiniBox. InfiniRAID InfiniSnap Up to 2 PB in a single 19 inch rack […]

VCP Recertification

It was only a matter of time, but it seems now that VMware is taking a page from other vendors to align it’s certification’s with its releases more closely. The announcement which can be found here details out how VMware will be working to make sure certifications for VMware professionals stay current an applicable. When […]

VMware Horizons DaaS Launched

VMware’s much awaited launch of its Horizons DaaS product came to be today. This service is a product of the Desktone procurement last year and its integration into the Horizon suite. The official announcement can found here from VMware. Ever since I started hearing of the direction for Horizon suite I had concerns on how this […]

Rig Rebuild

Well it was inevitable at this point. The OS on my Gaming Rig gave up the ghost. I think after loading 400 games on the OS, re-imaging it to a new HD and then running about a dozen and a half game alphas/betas on it the OS succumbed to its injuries. Spent the weekend backing […]

Tropico 5

Tropico 5 was announced a bit ago, but a new trailer is out for today. My gaming crew turned me on to this series at Tropico 3 and I have enjoyed it ever since. The fact that this new release will be CO-OP makes it a possible great add to the weekend tool kit of […]

VMware VSAN has Arrived

VMware is finally releasing its VSAN product next week. With today’s presentation the specs for VSAN have been released. A few bullet points below.                   I am highly interested in load testing this with VDI as this could be a cost-effective performance boost for VDI clusters I […]

Infinidat – Not Today

Looks like they had to push the new site launch out a couple more days. Stay tuned sports fans, I believe it will be worth the wait.

Infinidat

For those of you who have seen some of the discovery articles on The Register and are interested to find out more about the Infinidat product offerings then you are in luck. The Infinidat web site seems to have a countdown to something for 4 PM Central time this Thursday. Be there or be squared. […]

Homeworld Remake

For all of us suckers who wish to go back to old school on space tactical combat and have lived under a rock then I have a treat for you. Homeworld is a great game to solo on a weekend when you just want to do something. I highly recommend that if you haven’t played […]

Back…

After almost two years of not coming up for air I am finally back to a week that didn’t involve lighting my hair on fire and deciding that a world without sleep was a more efficient place. So this is my second attempt at keeping a blog of random information and pieces of flair. Who […]

SimCity is at it Again

You knew it had to Happen

For all of you that have watched the birth and death of many Windows Operating Systems you just knew this had to happen eventually.Maybe not as famous as of the BSOD on stage of ole, but just as fun. Take a Spin over to the Register to read their scoop on a Metro UI demo. […]

Peyton has Landed

Peyton Manning to the Broncos… As a Giants fan I’m glad to see Manning stay out of the NFC. Now we don’t have to have Manning Bowl every playoff season. Now as a Chiefs fan while it just may have gotten more difficult for games against the Broncos at least we get to see Peyton […]

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