The Geek and I

pics of my new shiny Mac Pro!

Decided it was time for an upgrade as running 3-4 VMs at once was getting to be a little … slow at times.

And having VMs eating processor and RAM while playing World of Warcraft?  For shame!  Work and play at the same time causes sumthin’ sumthin’…

New system has 12GB RAM and 2 4core 2.26Ghz Xeon processors (which have hyper-threading as well).

Here’s to another 3 years!

pr0n viewer fasties!

Cause with 8 processing cores for a workstation it is the same as a mainframe for home.

View from above seeing both cooling towers and 6 memory sticks

The motherboard with interconnection of fragile.

What is 6 x 2 totaling 2 banks of 3? Compensation!

*sniffle* - the innards were so pretty...

Watching the number of people pugging and the overall decline on the average raider capability proves this out.

This afternoon, I did a pug VoA25 on my alt. And was #3 on damage and DPS, wearing T7 pieces. I missed #2 by about 20k damage and 15 DPS. That’s just one rotation difference. #2 was a main in T8+ gear all around. Tank was #7 overall and from my guild…and on an alt as well.

WTF?

Sunday did another pug VoA25 but this time on my paladin. I normally MT, but they needed a healer. My heal set is dandy but still sporting 2 pieces of T7. I was #2 on healing and #1 was resto Druid. Again I must say WTF?!? This is an alt spec! 5 healers below me and from what I could tell… All main spec and tons of nicer gear.

Listen, I am all for the casual player.

But don’t brag about your leetness or numbers when an under geared alt or under geared alt-spec punk you down. Epeen is a virtual hard-on. I do not need to see it whe mine is bigger anyway.

I do not know how much longer I can play this game with any seriousness. Most players are just bad. Really bad. Ouch.

Call 1-800-331-0500

Have your iPhone 3G S box handy.

Explain that your iPhone 3G S won’t activate and that you would like to read off your IMEI and SIM Card # and ICCID # from the back of the box.

Power off, Power on.

Zing!  You are done!  How easy is that?

Found info via Apple Forums here.

Each time an iPhone release is done, the activation system is overload.

Both phones for my wife and I failed (look below), while friend of mine just did his phone moments ago and went through fine.  Guess I get to wait the ‘48 hours’ or some such.

Todays fail included for your viewing enjoyment…

Now that’s some fail!  Thanks!

OOoh, so I upgrade my 3G (and my wife’s 2G) to 3.0 yesterday.

And now we both have battery life issues with the battery draining quite quickly and charging is pretty lame as it charges but never gets full.

Others via the Apple forums are seeing the same thing.

I’ll be updating and adding to this post as I find more information, but as of right now, I am not a happy user of iPhone OS 3.0 on phones available today.

Update 1: Push notification issues with email accounts – one idea is to delete them and recreate from scratch as they are actually in an always on ’state’ on the phone after upgrade.  Will try.

Update 2: Well, I did a complete wipe and reinstall, reinstalled my apps (and only set up 1Password), leaving the rest for later, phone was ~20% charge and left for the office.  Charged phone at the office and things seem to be okay right now, phone hasn’t been warm and it is still doing well on the battery.