Hello, my name is Stephen Charles Rea, but you can call me “.rev” and I’m a Microsoft Certified Trainer. I created  askthemct.com to start publishing helpful how-to segments and IT Certification News. Once I’ve completed the setup and get a theme and template nailed down I’ll put up a contact section for you to9 send in questions that you want answered, in the meantime I will do my best to keep you up to date in what’s new in technology, new exams and certifications. If you have any questions please ask.

Now that the introduction is out of the way. I’d like to tell you about my equipment. I will be doing most of this using Dreamweaver and Windows Live Writer from my HTPC running Windows Vista Ultimate. I just put this system together last week, because I watch a lot of TV, something you may find out about when I rant about the show Heroes in the middle of some server rant.

HP Pavilion Elite m9000t CTO Desktop PC

• 50″ Panasonic TH-50PHUK Plasma Display (Commercial Display)
• ASUS/HP IPIBL-LA Socket 775 Motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Quad processor Q6600 (2.4GHz)
• 4×1 GB DDR2-667MHz Dual Channel SDRAM (4GB)
• 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT Dual DVI-HDCP (PCIe)
• 2×750GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache Hard Drive(Internal)
• 2×320GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache Hard Drive (eSATA)
• 1×320GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache Hard Drive (USB)
• Intel ICH SATA Raid Controller (Integrated)
• 2 Port SATA to eSATA Conversion Kit
• HP LightScribe 16x DVD+/-R/RW Drive (SATA)
• LiteON Blu-ray DVD Rom (SATA)
• Microsoft Xbox360 HD-DVD Player (USB)
• 15-in-1 Memory Card Reader
• PCIe ATSC-NTSC TV/FM (ViXS PureTV)
• PCI ATSC-NTSC TV/FM (Pinnacle PCTV)
• Realtek Hi-Def 7.1 Channel Sound (SPDIF)
• Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Adapter
• Front Panel Audio/USB/FireWire
• HP/Microsoft Media Center Keyboard/Remote
• Microsoft Wireless Mouse/Keyboard combo
• Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (32-bit)

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