So I had to do a summarization of the hardware we got going here.

CPU power:
AMD Turion(?)   x4  1.5Ghz (laptop)
AMD Phenom II x6, 3.4Ghz (game rig)
AMD Phenom II x4 3.4 Ghz (fileserver)
Intel Pentium 4         1.8Ghz (firewall)
Intel Celeron             1.4Ghz (sec)
Intel Celeron             1.5Ghz (offline)

=                                44.7Ghz

Memory:
4x1 Kingston HyperX 4.00GB
4x4 Kingston HyperX 16.GB
Laptop DDR                512 MB
Laptop DDR                512 MB
P4 DDR2                     1GB
Laptop                         6GB

=                                  28GB RAM

Disk:

320GB Raid 10
640GB Raid 0
320GB Raid 0
500GB Raid 0
5 TB External
80 GB SSD
250GB Sata
320 Sata
160 GB Samsung
30 GB Laptop
600 GB Laptop
+++

= 8,2 TB Space (More than that including Raid spares++, probably around 10TB total)

GPU: Any combinaton of these. I can run CrossFire CL and PhysX at the same time.
2x6790 2GB VRAM CF OPENCL
1x8800GT 512MB VRAM PHYSX
GeFore MX440 PCIe Edition, 64MB

Laptop GPUs
1xAMD Mobile CF2 512MB
2xIntel915 Some variants of therse 32MBx2

GigaBit Switched Network. JF4.
OS: Win7, Debian based security software, Several distros that follows rule #1 will be more than happy to accomodate your needs in case you break the ISP router. Here be dragons, if that wasn't obvious enough.

ISP 25/5 Line, no quota. :D
Power drain: Probably around 1KW per hour when all computers goes max settings and troughput.


Now the question is: Will it run Beowulf? Or skynet!

Metallica Roskilde 86 2nd gen complete

 Just had to grab the opportunity to grab one of the most prized Metallica bootlegs ever: The *complete 2nd gen copy* of the Roskilde 86 show. (The 1st gen is destined to go with the taper to the grave and will *never ever* be released.)

From the left:
Dual DVD transfers of Toronto and Quebec 86
Germany 85 Remade with multiple audio
The Green one there: 2n gen Roskilde DVD!

Some jewels: (From the left)
California: Anaheim 86 (Jasons's 2nd show, uncorrupted version)
New York: Uniondale 86 1st gen LPCM audio
Sweden, Frødalundborg: 1987 Remade with as much SBD as we could find

 

Various, including a Roam tour rehearsal proshot

And heres an overview of the whole collection
(Yeah right like I even printed out 10% of what i have) :) :) :)

Interested in trading: Check my trading list (a bit out of date, will update soonish as all the veterans are releasing their stuff before Metfuk goes down)

Leave a comment if you're interested!

Here's some more pics:

Gaming: PS2 on HDMI trough your computer!

So you have all these cool PS2 games but you have no hardware that supports a composite cable anymore, do you? No, all you have is HDMI, DVI and maybe VGA. Well there's a reasonable solution to all this!

I got something called EasyCap, which is a capturing device that goes into the a USB2 port. On the installation disk is drivers and Ulead Visual Studio. The serial code is printed on the CD.

Here's how it looks: (the black cable is a S-Video cable)

The only drawback with this cheap device is that the sound capture chip only does 8Khz mono. So what i did was attach a female-to-two-male cable from the PlayStation into my stereo. Here's my Visio skillz for the schematics:

BAM, you get good sound. They look like this: (Obviously they probably need to be longer!)

So far I have not been able to get a widescreen live capture going on in Ulead Visual Studio, but it might be some configuration thing somewhere (The program asks you on startup if you want 16:9). Maybe it is EasyCap that can't do 16:9.

Anyway, the 4:3 picture I got on the 27" 1920x1080 from the humble PS2 was at least very impressive.