Will Code for WoW Monthly Fee!

To recap a bit, I’ve been up to nothing special. Meg left me for a bit a couple of weeks ago, she should be back anytime today. There were 3 instances where the N/W trains have failed me miserably causing me massive stress and on one occasion, even being late to work. I have a cold which hit me hard last Friday, thank goodness my immune system is up to the challenge, I’m in the process of recovering.

I managed to get a copy of Gears of War 2 a day before release thanks to a co-worker.

Got bored last Sunday and decided to have breakfast with another one of my co-workers, we went into the city and this is what we had:

After breakfast, which was really around lunch, we ran into this bangup parking job. He/she clearly knows how to park NYC style:

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This guy, Cliff Bleszinski is my new role model. He’s the lead designer of Epic games who also made Gears of War and the upcoming Gears of War 2. Not only is this guy successful, he also comes off like a douche. Awesome! I too would like to follow in his footsteps and become a successful game developer/designer and have interviews where I come off as a cocky douche. *no sarcasm at all*

I mean seriously this guy is pure pwnage!

Virtualization seems to be the latest trend these days and I’m fortunate enough to get my hands on the technology so I can play around with it a little. Thanks to Dreamspark and my student status, I was able to get Windows Server 2008 Standard and Windows Server 2003 Standard for free. I’m glad to see Microsoft supporting and providing students with their software giving them the opportunity to learn.

My host operating system is running Windows 2008 Standard along with VMware’s free version of VMware Server. I believe you can get a maximum of 10 licenses when you register on their website. So far I am running 3 virtual operating systems: FreeBSD v7.0 (desolace) for the public server, FreeBSD v7.0 (dragonblight) for data related services such as MySQL, LDAP, NIS/NFS servers, and Windows XP (sourge) for media services/testing purposes. All 3 have been delegated a maximum of 1 CPU and 1GB of RAM each. All are running perfectly fine in VMware Server and I don’t notice a significant slow down on the host operating system.

The host server’s physical specs are:
- AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core Processor running at 2.3GHz
- 4GB of RAM (most likely going to be bumped up to 8GB soon)
- 4x 500GB SATA drives which are paired and mirrored using RAID 1.
- Gigabit Ethernet

I’m still planning on adding 2 more operating systems to the “virtual OS farm”. Possibly a Linux variant for testing and also a Windows Server 2003 installation to prepare myself for the certification exam I’m planning on taking. I can see how this type of setup can replace huge server racks. It would definitely suck less juice from the outlet, however I do think an extremely beefy host server is needed to run everything smoothly in enterprise environments.

Might just be overkill for a home network, but still, how else is one supposed to learn?