It's about time I posted something on here. And the news is that I have built myself a new computer !! It's well wicked….. I've finaly bitten the bullet and dumped Windows and built myself a system that runs Linux, Debian 5.0 with Xen virtualization is my weapon of choice. My hope is that I can use this cool virtual toy call 'PCI Passthrough' and the idea is that a virtualized Windows XP system will have full access to the Creamware Scope card that I have in the system. The pain and heartache I have gone through to get here has been huge, I can't explain all of it but let me just say that I have ended up with two $500+ motherboards and I will never be buying a Gigabyte system again…. I love ASUS…. 'nuff said…. Anway the new machine has i7 920 CPU, 12gb RAM, 2x RAID5 Arrays totalling in 2.5TB storage. There are some really cool things I can do with this system and then there are some things that should just work but simply don't, like the damn iPOD… it’s really frustrating but a fun game at the same time. Now that I have some content for you all I will post up my stories as this progresses. But for now here are so pics for you to ogle at, the first one is a shot during the build when I was installing the Gigabyte board, the second is more recently after I installed the ASUS board and took a screenshot of the desktop... YEAH BABY !

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