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Archive for July, 2008
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Friday, July 25th, 2008Wotlk Beta Deathknight
Saturday, July 19th, 2008The closed beta has started and due to existing characters being locked out, I decided to roll a deathknight and see how the new starting area come out.
My new deathknight with the new armor graphics. They have changed this since the alpha test.
When you first load in after the whole opening cinematic you start out on top of a floating necropolis. And low and behold there is the Lich King wandering around giving you a starting quest. You can’t really see it all that much but look for the new shadows coming off the character models.
Just looking over the edge of the top of the starting location, can see we are pretty high up.
Used a portal down into the necropolis and see this lovely room with the crystals and yet another portal.
Looking over the edge from the necropolis again. Can see the scarlet crusade area.
I’m doing a quest here but it allows me to capture an outside view of the necropolis of where you started out.
Another view of the scarlet crusade camp and flying around as the eye. Yes you control the eye it becomes a pet of yours will you do this quest. Quite fun.
Hopefully I’ll have a video to show off some of the other cool stuff.
New Server up and Going
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Isn’t that just the coolest looking server you ever did see? This thing was about 12 years old and in serious need of replacement. Of course it was fully capable of multi-year uptimes and handled email, http, dns, routing, and file serving with no maintance.
This is the new server that replaced the old one. Cleaned up the corner that the computer was sitting in making cleaning much easier. Also allowed me to upgrade the network to gigabit internally as well as increase the hard drive size. This is the computer that has the custom made molex to sata power cable as I described here.
Making a power sata cable
Saturday, July 5th, 2008So as I was building a new server for my apartment out of an old surplus dell that I had gotten from an auction I realized that in my haste I had forgotten about power to my new sata drive. I had purchased a new pci sata card as the motherboard only had ide connections. So with a search of the apartment discovered that I did not have an existing molex to sata power cable. I did find I had a sata power cable but the molex end was all wrong it being a female end and not a male end.
It was now time to either purchase a pre-made molex to power sata cable or see if around the apartment I could construct something. I found an old dell whose power supply had gone bad but low and behold it had power sata cables, but no male molex connectors. A little more digging and in a disused 486 box I found a cpu fan connector that had a male molex connector on it. I now had all the parts, time to break out the solder iron.
I first tried to solder out the old wires from the power supply and this worked for a couple of the wires, but with the larger groupings of wires my solder iron simply wasn’t powerful enough so out came the wire cutters and I soon had a bunch of wires freed from a PSU. I decided to remove all the wires since the wires seemed to be long enough that I might want to use them in another project.
I cut off the female portion of the cpu fan power cable as well as the two wires leading to the fan it self. After untangling the PSU wires I was left with five wires on the sata cable and 4 wires on the molex cable. Well ain’t this a problem I had an unequal number of wires to try and match up. Now I knew that the black wires were grounds and was safe there and had two of each. One red and one yellow wire matched up just fine but what was I to do with this extra orange wire. A few minutes searching the web I found that the extra orange wire is a 3.3v rail and isn’t actually needed so I was safe.
A few minutes with the solder iron and I had connected the parts together and I now had a molex to sata power cable. Due to cheapness I used black electrical tape to cover my solder joints and not shrink tubing. I also wrapped the wires in tape in a few places to help reduce the clutter. Another item of mention is that I left the unused 3.3v line attached to the sata end and just tapped it up with the other wires, just in case I might ever need this wire.
Plugged my new cable in, closed the case up and the computer powered right up detecting my hard drive so my power cable was working.
And yes I know the photo quality leaves a lot to be desired.
Hello world!
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Houston we are a go.