A geek's blog

Gear

James — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:10:14 +0000

Here is a nice little photo listing of my gear, minus a few things that I fogot at home when I took these pics.

All the gear I wear on a daily basis

The little tool set I keep on my belt

My dagger, soon to be replaced on my belt line by a smaller knife

My everyday pocket knife

My PSP

My cell phone/MP3 player

My iPAQ PDA

My multitool

My multitool again

Yay for Xmassing!

James — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:06:09 +0000

Yay for Xmassing time again! Well its been a long, long, long time since I last posted, but I’ve been having some issues at home and don’t really have regular access to the internet now. But anyway it is time for Xmass again, and I’ve already got some really great gifts. I got a nice tshirt that reads “I void warranties” on the front, got a really cool geek shoulder holster for my pda and cell phone, got a nice new cell phone, and even got a really nice leather shoulder holster for my pistol.

My new geek shoulder holster and new cell phone.

My new shoulder holster with my pistol in it.

I am out in Utah right now visiting and while I am here I got to do a bit of networking work. Now for right now it is not pretty but it works much better then what was there and is only a temp setup untill we can do structured networking.

The 24 port 10/100 switch I gave them and installed.

The IPCop router/Firewall I built and installed a while back for them.

As I said not pretty, but it works well.

Tactical Gear

James — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:16:54 +0000

Well its been a while since I’ve posted here, lot of stuff going on …ton of stress we are having to move and so on. But anyway tonight I decided to finaly get some pictures of my tactical gear which I’ve been meaning to do for a while.

Front View

Left View

Right View

Extendable baton

Utility Pouch

Hat and goggles

Survival Knife mounted on my leg

Knife that will be mounted to my vest

Belt gear including multitool, flashlight, belt and then my gloves

My com gear including my GMRS/FRS radio and cell phone both wired into my headset

Front of my vest

Back of my vest

Mossberg 12 gauge pump action

S&W Modle 422 .22LR pistol, holster and mags

Well thats all of it, I may post more pics in the future but not tonight.

My room

James — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:12:38 +0000

Wow its been a long while since I’ve posted here. I’ve been travling a lot recently, ABQ, Chicago, Salt Lake. I’ve taken some time and resources to work on my room/office/studio. I moved the amp and the equilizer onto my desk, I also got a new case and mothboard for my main desktop. I’ve taken a few pics of my little space, its not much but its mine and it does what I need it to.

My desk setup, I can control the two computers on the desk from the main desktops keyboard and mouse

The midi station and larry’s recording station. Both of our stations for recording the show will soon be moved to the couch since we are going to start recording video as well.

A few of my bigger speakers, my nikkon camera on the tripod, and my gutar.

I’ll post some pics of the “set” for the suddenoutburst show as soon as I do some work on it and get some better lights.

Leaving ABQ

James — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:33:37 +0000

Well its been fun this last week in ABQ, got to go shooting, see my freinds, eat some really really good food. I picked up a few things like my new pistol and a case and holster for it. I finaly while I was here decided to switch my laptop back to linux ..and I am so much happyer with it on nix now, I’m using ubuntu 8.04. Well I guess thats about all I have to say I’ll go ahead and post some of the pics I took while I was here.

The wolfy left, and joe right.

The wolfy while we were out shooting …that was lots of fun

NEW PISTOL!! its just a .22 LR but hey inside a house thats more then enough

Picture I took for my Rant Radio forums profile. May use it in other places ..not really sure yet.

In Phoenix

James — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:16:27 +0000

Well I’ve got about another 50 minutes on my layover here in PHX so I’d tought I’d write a quick post and put up the pics I took while I was flying in. Wish I could get some good pics when I fly into ABQ but it will be too dark.

Any way these are just a few pics of the ground and clouds from the pane.

Oh and I added another server Vetis into the rack …or well next to it since the current rack is full ..I really need to build a new one. But yeah, this server is being hosted for my friend out in Chicago. Even though he is without internet for the most part right now. Well when he gets net again this server will be up and waiting for him.

This is the first one I took of some clouds

Next one also of some clouds ….and the wing.

One of the ground …I just thought it was a cool shot.

Anyway those are a few of the pics I took. I’m gonna be in ABQ this week visiting the wolfy. I’ll take some pics while I’m there and post them here.

Also VoIP update, I HAVE A STABLE SYSTEM!!!! YAY! …sorry ..is just something that makes me very happy …it has taken me so long to put together a stable VoIP system. I am using switchvox free edition for the PBX and my desk ATA is a Linksys PAP2 V2.0 I am also using DLink VTA-VR in the server room and at the wolfy’s house ..which I will be setting up when I get there. Anyway ..yeah thats all for now.

Been a while

James — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:19:23 +0000

Man it has been a long since I last posted, but I’ve been really busy having to do this community service for school and working on the computers and so on. I recently got to have my mate come out to OKC and visit. He came for my graduation and it made me very happy that he was here. Well for the last two weeks I’ve been working at a thrift store as my community service and I’ve found a number of cool things. But yeah anyway here are some pics of my room since I’ve moved it around recently and a pic of the updated server rack and of some clouds that I tought were cool …if you don’t like it …deal with it.

First shot of my room/studio

Second shot of my room

My guitar and some of my bigger speakers

An updated pic of the server rack

Yay for new PDA!

A picture of some clouds that I thought were really cool

New setup

James — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:11:30 +0000

Well I finally got around to working on my server rack setup a bit, adding new power bars and moving things around. Also finally got my DLINK ATAs working so I now have one out in the server room along with the phone and the comm switch which will let me share that line with a fax and modem and answering machine later on.

The New setup incling my lopsided phone and the new ATA …I had to take the pic at an angle because there was ti much junk on the floor.

New stuff

James — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:24:30 +0000

Well went on a thrifting trip a few days ago, found some great stuff. First off I found a really nice camera and a bunch of lenses for $15. After that I found a nice set of 5.8ghz phones for $10 and a really really nice HP Photosmart 2575 network enabled all in one printer which is now hooked up and running wonderfully, I really can’t find any problems with it which is odd since most I get from thrift stores have some issue with them.

Camera

Camera and everything

Camera

Largest lens

2nd longest lens

3rd longest

shortest

Camera without a lens

New printer!

New photosmart 2575 all in one

Phones

Expansion unit

Base station

New switch!

James — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:28:32 +0000

I had an amazing find at the thrift store the other day. I was looking around and happened on what I thought might be oh a rack mount power strip which I could certainly use. So I reached down and picked it up and turned it around and my eyes went huge it was a 24 port unmanaged switch which I quickly checked to see if it worked and it did. Well I bascily picked up a switch that I checked and it goes for $875 as a refurb and I got it for $3!! So its in the rack now right above the network patch panel. I also finaly have the asterisk server up and running and have my numbers registered in it and ringing to my in house extensions.

Picture of the current rack setup with the new switch in it.