Sepiid, Gamers Life

For years, we’ve endured their criticism. Gamers are immature. Gamers are immoral. Gamers are wasting time and money on silly, stupid toys. Nag nag nag. Blah blah blah. What annoys you about non-gamers? When they talk about gaming, what inane and ignorant comments irritate you the most? Here’s our list of grievances. Share yours.

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OK, here is everything you will need in step-by-step format to get up and running on Win2k8 as your desktop OS in ‘20 Easy Steps’. Any of the driver downloads mentioned below with an Rxxxxxx, are available via the Dell support site. Just put in your laptop model and select Vista x64 as your OS version. Only grab the drivers specified since there are a couple that are not needed and others that are better to grab elsewhere. I provided the Rxxxxxx as a reference so you can make sure you are installing the correct version. As an FYI, step 5 and the second half of step 20 are not required if you do not intend to use Bluetooth.

1. Ensure Hardware Virtualization is enabled in your BIOS
2. Install your preferred flavor of Windows Server 2008 (full not core)
3. Download and install Intel Chipset - R140623
4. Download and install Wi-Fi - R171132
5. Download and install Bluetooth - R142183
6. Download and install Video - R142931
7. Download and install Audio - R171788
8. Download and install Touchstrip (fingerprint scanner) - R173506
9. Add the following roles;
Server Manager > Roles > File Services > Windows Search
Server Manager > Roles > HyperV
Server Manager > Roles > Windows Deployment Server (recommended for VM deployment)
10. Add the following features;
Server Manager > Features > .NET Framework 3.0 Features > .NET Framework 3.0
Server Manager > Features > Desktop Experience
Server Manager > Features > Group Policy Management (recommended)
Server Manager > Features > Remote Server Administration Tools (recommended)
Server Manager > Features > Removable Storage Manager (recommended)
Server Manager > Features > Windows PowerShell (recommended)
Server Manager > Features > Windows Server Backup Features (recommended)
Server Manager > Features > Windows System Resource Manager (recommended)
Server Manager > Features > Wireless LAN Service
11. Perform full windows update including optional components
12. Download and install KB950050 (updates HyperV to RTM)
13. Launch services.msc
14. Change the following services to ‘Automatic’;
WLAN AutoConfig
Windows Audio Endpoint Builder
Windows Audio
Themes
Superfetch
15. Start > Run > gpedit.msc
Computer > Administrative Templates > System > Set ‘Display Shutdown Event Tracer’ to ‘Disabled’
16. Start > Run > regedit
You will have to make two registry changes to enable this service.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters

EnablePrefetcher DWORD 3

EnableSuperfetch DWORD 3
17. Reboot
18. Control Panel > Personalization > Theme > select ‘Windows Aero’ (you can skip this if you prefer the server look)
19. Extract the attached RAR file to a directory
20. Control Panel > Device Manager
Update the Broadcom device driver by pointing to the folder with the extracted files
Update the three unknown devices by pointing to the folder with the extracted files

The only things I haven’t found yet for x64 is the Wave Security Suite for fingerprint login to your laptop (BIOS still works) and an x64 version of PC-Cillain. I don’t care so much about the fingerprint login, but I am planning to go ahead and load the Forefront client for my AV needs.

Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any issues or get stuck on something and I will be happy to help. Also, sorry for not sending this information sooner, but I was reloading my laptop with server only yesterday and I wanted to make sure I had ironed out all the kinks first.

VMware Training

An unbelievable time was had by our two “teams” at the VMware training.  We did our best to cripple the VI kernel and eventually succeeded.  In all actuality, the process proved what a terrific product VI3.5 really is.

 

If you can imagine 31 VMs running processor stress tools then you can start to get a flavor of what we were up to.  Picture two DL360’s (presumable G4’s) running dual 3.7 procs.  Then picture 2GB of ram each (blah) and 31 VMs running in a Vmotion/HA configuration.  All the while picture the VMs running processor stressing tools.  Then picture VMware’s HA and Vmotion constantly recalculating the right setup for the cluster.

 

We had this going on for 36 hours straight averaging 97% processor utilization and 90% ram utilization.  We didn’t bother measuring the disk latency which I’m sure was unacceptable, but that didn’t matter.  VMware performed flawlessly.  At one point, we tried to PSOD (Purple screen of death) one of the hosts.  We couldn’t do it.  However, we were able to choke the system(s) into submission.  One of our team (Dana) implemented a known linux command to chew up all the ram remaining on the box.  It just put the system into a “hung” state.  Vmotion nor HA was working on that particular host at that point.  When we rebooted the host, the VMWare and HA started moving the VMs until the server was back online.

 

Very cool test that some may not have ever tried.  It’s also something to consider when designing a failover/HA scenario.  Here’s a pic of the crew that shared in this technology killing session

  

Howdy all,

First time writing a simple review, so don’t kill me quite yet.

I bought GTA IV on Tuesday about 4pm, and played for about 2 hours or so.Â
At this point I really like the story line, and the graphics are great on my 42″ Vizio.  First thing i did after the intro was to swipe a car and go crazy.  The driving is fairly intuitive, and easy to get use to.  After I smashed other cars wrecked a few more and ran over pedestrians, I finally got offed by the police.  I revived at the nearest hospital then actually began the story line. 

So i met up with Niko’s cousin and learned about his bad gambling debt and had to from this point protect his dumb ass.  It was fun, then i had to go pickup a co-worker and her friend.  was told i look like a slob and had no chance.  was told to buy new clothes, and got some camos, leather jacket, and boots.  i geuss that mad me cool enough to get a date.

met up with the lady and went bowling, the mini game was great but hard to figure out the power portion.  mainly gutter balls.  i thought Obama did a crappy job with a 37, i shot at 34!!!!

After that, i had to go either be lookout or beat the crap out of some loan sharks at the basketball courts.  after that i got to go play another mini game of pool with the cousin.  that was fun but again crappy hard to figure out the power of the shots.

i saved after that and called it a night.

My impressions so far are great, i like the game, the graphics and the controls.  i haven’t been playing long enough to see any glitches or bad parts.  so i will see as i play more.

So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or…? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)

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