Been a while since my last post, sorry to any readers. Things have been going well. Mostly marketing lately, trying to figure out the ins and outs of power launching all of my projects waiting in the weeds. My primary focus for the projects has been my Parent company for all individual projects. I’m trying to get some FREE advertising anywhere I can, but not how you think. I’m looking for any companies/websites that revolve around development that might be willing to have their ads placed on our sites for FREE until we’ve decided what the reality of our advertising campaigns will be.
In tech news, I missed my xbox 360. I missed using it so badly, that I purchased a new TV to use with it. Being who I am(a tech junkie) I had to get the best one I could find at Best Buy short of a Sony XBR8 or an LEDtv. What I finally decided on was a 40″ Samsung ToC 640 120Hz HDTV. It has a lightning fast response rate. Also, the 120Hz is fully customizable and down scalable to 60Hz if need be. It has some extremely deep blacks with a dynamic 80,000:1 contrast ratio. I’ve setup XBR8’s before with their Million:1 contrast ratios and honestly, I can’t seem to tell the difference between these tv’s. The TV is full HD 1080p, has a plethora of ports, it’s networkable with RSS feeds and weather built right into the controls, as well as media playback through the USB ports. If I had to voice any complaint, it would be with the audio, which is typical of any LCD for the most part. But the way the ToC 640 handles bass is just too poor to even appear like they made an effort.
My plan for the TV aside from missing my 360, which I rarely play anyways, is to hook it up to the PC. I will be purchasing 2 new PCI-E video cards to run in SLI and utilize all 4 heads to connect my 2 current Acer H213H’s as well as the Samsung ToC 640, and a third H213H that I will purchase when the time comes. Luckily all 4 displays are the same 1920×1080 full HD resolution, so windows that I move from display to display will fill the same amount of space, different resoltuions on shared desktop space for me is just plain unbearable. The plan for the desk will be the 3 H213H’s side by side on articulating, telescoping, rotating arms. This should give me the ability to turn them to portrait mode when required. I will have the Samsung ToC 640 above them and a telescoping, tilting arm. To the right of all of these, I plan to have a wall mounted multi-touch display to run OSX on with the small Logitech DiNovo mediaboard to control it in case I need to run any Mac speciffic apps, which unfortunately seems to be the case with my venture into RoR at the moment. My primary system is currently, and will always be multi OS but I’m doing this without a bootloader and just have removable SATA drives setup across the front containing OS drives for Vista x64 Ultimate, Windows 7 x64, and OpenSuSE11×64.
I have my laptops and other workstations here still, all setup for different purposes such as Audio, Video capture, SEM, etc… But I’m also planning on building a Server for file serving/storage, DNS, and AD services.
Ya, this is going to be fun!
