Today, Jens and I finally got over to storage and removed all the boxes with computer/office stuff and moved it over to the house for us to sort through. We plan on spending several hours tonigh throwing stuff away and seeing what is salvagable for sale.
It was weird seeing stuff from several years ago. Like my old Earth and Beyond install CD & boxes and Read the complete Post.
Welp, for those of you that are in the know we’ve been making some plans lately to move forward with some pretty big ideas.
One of the first steps in this is us moving from our large home in Henderson to a condo here in Vegas.
The overall plan for the next year is:
We’re moving to a condo to finalize our ties in the Las Vegas area and keep a place to stay when we come back to visit Las Vegas.
Once some final things are resolved here, we plan to move to Los Angeles for a spell to get some of our new business ventures in that area moving.
Once that has been settled (hopefully by sometime next summer) we plan to move to Costa Rica and are looking to open a Bed and Breakfast of sorts down there.
A lot of these plans are contingent upon some things settling down in the Las Vegas area that I can’t get into publicly right now.
Anyways, we’re getting to the point where I should have a site up soon with all the equipment and things that we’re not taking with us in our various moves for sale.
So far, we have about 16 computers, 14 monitors, and a WHOLE lot of miscellaneous parts up for sale. Our pool table, 57 inch Sony HD TV, and a couple other household items are going to be up there as well.
Will post more as the big “garage sale” gets closer to happening.
Welp, we got Vista installed in the VM with no issues. It ran dog slow, even with all the pretty extras turned off. I bumped the VM’s memory from 1gig to 1.5gig and that helped a lot.
Anyways, I could not get the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2’s drivers to kick in. It kept saying something along the lines that the drivers were not made for this edition of windows.
Which is odd. I have been told that the NVTV drivers would not work and I have two Vista boxes running with nVidia NVTV dual tuner cards running great.
Welp, that’s that for the WinTV-PVR, we’re going to try out the Adaptec DUAL Tuner USB device for MCE. Gonna order one soon and give that a go. The more tuner’s the better 
WE DID IT!!!
We succeded in getting Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 R2 with a TUNER in a VMWare window.
Was quite simple actually. Steps:
Voila! We did it. Now, on the 3danalyze. This part I have not fully configured, so you can not actually watch TV on the VM itself (video drivers dont support direct3d) BUT we were able to connect from the XBox360 Extender and use the tuner on the server!
Looks like I just won’t listen to other tech guys out there sometimes. I am trying to do what seems to me is theoretically possible but in actuality may be impossible.
Anyways, the latest “fun” project to me is getting Windows XP Media Center 2005 R2 to run in a virtual machine.
SO, here is the plan:
I am setting up a box that will run VMWare Server (doing this for the USB support)
I have a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB that has hardware mpeg 2 encoding. (needed for MCE)
The box configuration is:
AMD Athlon 3700+
4 Gig Ram
2x 300 Gig SATA drives in Striped Raid Config
1x 160 Gig Boot Drive
Host OS is Windows 2003 Enterprise Server x64 (why? because I have a liscense for it!)
1) I will install Windows MCE 2005 R2 in a VM
2) I will run 3d Analyze to emulate DirectX 9 in the VM
3) I will install the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB and route the USB to the VM (VM Server does this)
and if everything goes well, I should have a fully running MCE in a VM!
Why do I do this? Because I can!
We began last week or so consolidating our computers at the house. We had a pretty extensive network running with over 30 computers. We used to use them for gaming and what not. We had some awesome LAN parties over the years.
Since we’re moving to a much smaller place in preperation for our migration from Vegas, we started consolidating.
Our network is now:
Big Blue - 3ghz, 2gig ram, 2 Terrabyte array running windows 2003 R2 Enterprise (domain controller)
Sliver Streak - AMD64, 4gig ram, 800 gig in HD, running windows 2003 Standard with VMWare Server
Mine and Jen’s gaming rigs
Angel and Dana’s computers
Draylan’s Laptop
Andrew’s Gaming rig and Media Center Box
1 XBOX360, 1 PS2
Quite a pairdown eh?
We’ll be putting up a list of computers for sale once we get them tested, wiped, etc. Looks like about 14 Monitors and about 20 Computers will be up for sale.
This is my first time using WordPress. I am still learning the basics, but I have the Family, Catherwood, and About Me sections pretty much complete.
Hopefully, I’ll get more done and start filling you guys in on what’s been happening.
I finally got around to working on my website again. I will be posting my info as I get to it.
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