Thursday, January 30, 2014

Ohhh... I get it!

Polished-off A Machine For Pigs... Creepy as hell, but I think I had a better experience with The Dark Descent. Still, worth your time!

Getting back into the new Ys, and then Shin Megami Tensei IV... And The Brigmore Witches in between.

Of the three PCs affected by the storm, two just needed new PSUs; the other was mostly toast, so it's now salvage... Whatever usefulness I can get out of an old Sempron rig, anyway. The good news is that I recently came into a 3.2GHz HT Pentium 4 machine with 2GB of RAM and a Vista license, so that'll do nicely as a replacement :)

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Back It Up!

Stalled on A Machine For Pigs and Ys, but wrapped-up Burial At Sea (good stuff!) and the first act of Broken Age (also good stuff!).

Saved a company ~$10,000 by recovering/rebuilding an old Windows 2000 machine that was running the only copy of their ancient HVAC control software, and put a system in place that can resurrect the machine (should this happen again) in ~15 minutes.

Lost three computers to a recent power surge, despite being connected to a surge protector and a UPS... Damned epic ice storm. So far, it looks like only the PSUs were affected, and they're nothing fancy, so cheap will do.