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Behind the Scenes

Alan McCloskeyJun 13, 2008August 25, 20140

This blog has been a long time coming. Over a year ago I tried to do a blog on my main website, alanmccloskey.com… but I

Alexa Changes Ranking System

Alan McCloskeyApr 18, 2008August 25, 20140

Alexa has apparently changed their ranking system…. you can read the annoucement here: http://www.alexa.com/site/company/announcement We were at 116K, and the day they changed

OSIM

TrishaMar 25, 2008August 25, 20140

Hey I grew up in Washington schools and I spell osim!!! Herm….hheeerrrmmmm (strokes beard)… I’ve known about this….. but here’s my thoughts: When I brag

OCModShop Desktop Wallpaper!

Alan McCloskeyFeb 25, 2008August 25, 20140

Show your geek pride with these new OCModShop wallpapers! All of these wallpapers are available in 2 widescreen (16:9 and 16:10) formats and one 4:3

2 Large Repositories

John-ErikFeb 19, 2008August 27, 20140

Personally, I have two large repositories of data. 1) My media center, which holds recorded TV and my ripped DVD images. 300 GB, 320 GB,

RAID 5 on OCMS?

Alan McCloskeyFeb 16, 2008August 25, 20140

Well, I agree that Raid 5 is slower than raid 0 because if the extra “on-the-fly” parity that must be calculated and written, but there

OCMS Brand Update?

Alan McCloskeyFeb 15, 2008August 25, 20140

I have been thinking about updating the site’s branding for a while, because of some of the confusion about the name “OCModShop”. For one, more

Web Compression on OCMS

Alan McCloskeyFeb 12, 2008August 25, 20140

Oh, and the website is now much faster. I was looking for a way to increase performance, and I found an option in IIS that

Datacenter Raising Rates

Alan McCloskeyFeb 6, 2008August 25, 20140

My local datacenter is looking to raise my rates… so I am looking at moving the servers to another datacenter. Right now I am

Energy Drink Shootout

Alan McCloskeyFeb 1, 2008August 27, 20140

I started to write an article in January 2006 with a “Energy Drink Shootout”. I even bought some acrylic ice cubes like they do when

Cranking out PAX Articles

Alan McCloskeyJan 31, 2008August 25, 20140

I’ve been trying to crank out all the PAX gaming articles as quickly as I can. I have a few more game previews before I

Hard-Core Modders Needed

Alan McCloskeyJan 18, 2008August 25, 20140

We know where our roots are. You want bleeding-edge hardcore modding and overclocking articles. I’m looking for hard-core modders and watercoolers to write articles and

wuddya git fuh x-mas

Alan McCloskeyDec 27, 2007August 25, 20140

Well, I wuz gonna start a “wuddya git fuh x-mas” thread, but I guess Trisha started it. Here’s my haul: Super Mario Galaxy Medal of

Ph4t l3wt list (so far, more coming tomorrow):

John-ErikDec 26, 2007August 25, 20140

– A full set of lenses, hoods and adapters for my camera. Just need the speedlite flash now! – Star Trek 10 movie boxed set.