The primary driver of the refresh was my ASUS M3A78 Pro motherboard had finally stopped working. I purchased a cheap ASRock A785GXH motherboard as a replacement off eBay. My main requirements were a PCI-e 16x and PCI-e 4x slot and…
Slivers in M15
So, I’m semi exciting about the new slivers in M15 and the new sliver land. First up: . Taps for any color to play sliver spells. The odd part is that it doesn’t tap for sliver abilities. At the moment,…
ManaWerx 1K
I am looking forward to the ManaWerx 1K next weekend for game day. I’m also looking foward to looking through the SCG States tournament results and finding a few new ideas in B/W Aggro. There is just too much good…
Running out of resources in ESXi
Since I passed the Windows test, I’ve reinstalled ESXi 5.5 on my Dell 1950. It’s nice to be able to run multiple VMs on one system each providing a dedicated service! The downsides are they eat memory and hard…
R/u Failure
The more I play the R/u deck, the more I feel it’s not a winner. It has everything you need, it’s just that it’s not able to reliably find the parts you need in time. Also, it’s just incapable of…
Game Day Preparation
I’m not sure where to go with Game Day. Additionally, with GP Phoenix coming up in April, I’ll likely be playing the same deck at Game Day as I will then. I’m a playset of Thougthseize away from Black Devotion.…
Next Steps
With the 74-409 text passed, I’m now starting to do non-Hyper-V stuff on my lab network. My next cert I plan on getting is my CCNA from Cisco. While I’m flying and training toward my ATP, I plan on doing…
Going for ATP
I’ve decided that I’m going to get my Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate in the next few months. I almost meet the full ATP requirements, and am only lacking the 50 hours of multi-engine time (I have 40 hours) and…
Completed Microsoft 74-409!
I passed the Microsoft 74-409 Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center test on Monday! Going in, I totally felt that I was going to fail. I hadn’t had any experience in Hyper-V, Microsoft Server 2012 (or Server 2012R2), or…
The Submarine (HTPC build)
I’ve been having issues with my desktop reliably starting up (a mobo issue). It’s been happening with the desktop for the last few months, but has steadily been getting worse and now it only starts sometimes if I unplug it…