umm yeahhhhhhhhhhh so anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy... Merc even scares me... don't fight him. He'll tear your head off.

I'm a guy you ran into on the internet. Maybe I am like your teachers... I'm not an admin or an IT guy per se.

Are you being sarcastic? I really can't tell.

It seems like you were being sarcastic with the photoshop bit. I honestly don't know any 14 year olds. If your questions are sincere, I don't think I know anyone so arrogant of any age, and I know some arrogant fools! It's cool that you can do those things, I'm interested in the quality of your knowledge, and what you have done with it. Mind sharing? I haven't done very much as far as I'm concerned, for someone passionate about computers.

Just for fun and to reminisce, basically my body of knowledge consists of dabbling in windows since 3.11 & DOS days, taking apart radios and playing with them, old school phreaking when phreaking was dying, dialup bbs's, early internet gaming. I did a lot of activity on AOL's 'dark side' when the first photoshop came out, and similar types of groups. I did tons of reading. Technical specs, game confs/engineering game's to do what they shouldn't, bbs discussions, some early cookbooks and color books (if anyone is aware of those semi-obscure references), and manuals of all kinds.

Middle school consisted of me playing with all the machines I could get my hands on, and usually me being a recluse in the library fixing macs for the librarian. I met my good friend that has been, and is still, running clanbbw.com. We ran a CS server in HS for a long time that was supported by the community we created. The forum has been up for a number of years now.

In HS I had my first job [bagging groceries] and built a couple computers. During this job I bought a lot of networking equipment on ebay. Continued playing games through HS. Set up pretty big lans. Ran a CS server. I also studied to take the CCNA test, which I never did.

I have used heavily just about every release of Windows except ME since the 3.11 days. I convinced my family to get an iMac 333mhz in the transition to HS. I got into unix through playing with Linux [very] briefly and learned of BSD and was instantly hooked on the BSD unixes.

Another friend of mine started a web hosting business and I was part of the operation. Although it was not a success, as hosting was not the most lucrative business plan at the time. He had a server colocated at a nice facility, the hosting site was wlwhosting.com, and is no longer in service. He has since moved to wingedleopard.net, and wrote his own forum software thinktankforums.com.

Myself and the two friends I am referring to, in HS bought a lot of wireless equipment so that we could setup a 4 house connection to the internet at different locations loadbalancing across 4 ISP's. That ended up working in a 2 point operation, but mine could never get connected because the distance was too large and triangulation was difficult without proper arial maps and/or a gps. I sold all my equipment to a friend. Check out documentation on this project: http://wingedleopard.net/lucas/projects/network/ "November 2002" In fact, I joined these forums techwarelabs.com/community/ a few months before doing this project.

In Summer '03 I moved to SoCal for college and I've been here since. I haven't really done much with computers except personal custom things: http://www.projectdp.com/project/promo.html. I still have interest in the field, especially the security portion. The network stuff has depreciated with me, and I'm not too intimidated by most tasks regarding it.

I've joined relevant groups that I try to visit regularly, 2600 la2600.org, oc2600.net, ivu irvineunderground.org, and such.

I wouldn't say that I'm the man at any of these things but it is a part of me, and some of it is also my curse. So there's me. That was fun to recall.

I'm not fighting you, you're fighting yourself haha.

Your example is not quite right since the main problem people have is that your name is claiming an arrogant/boisterous thing, when you seem to not live up to your own claim. Your claim challenges anyone who thinks being smart is something to be proud of, and you don't seem to exemplify that idea wholly. You have the pride part down.

Well I'm glad, keep up the good work. I just stated the obvious, that your name seems misrepresentative at times.

wha?

Excuse my ignorance but, what's a BF?

haha word up jason :wavey:. don't be scared :rolleyes:

:yawn:


This thread sucks.

Why don't you share your tech background Tyler? I kinda like this thread.

I don't care for the pointless arguing.


Though as for me, I'm all self taught. No certifications or nothing. I did work at Dell for a day and quit because it was stupid, with a lot of stupid people. Oh and I did work at a computer store for a few months just doing sales and building, but I just don't like that type of environment.

Otherwise I personally hate computer related jobs. Well of course besides TWL, but I don't consider that your typical computer job. I just want to keep it as a hobby, not go to work and deal with computers all day, and then come home and be on the computer for fun.

Believe it or not I'm going to School soon to take police studies and I plan to become a police officer, something I've wanted to do since I was about 12.

It's only pointless because you don't care to see the point. I'm trying to get through to smartkid that if he has a name like that he's asking for people to prove him wrong. If he's not up to that challenge maybe he should choose something else, or not be so easily pantytwisted. It's annoying to make an involved post only for a staff member to call it succinctly "pointless".
Makes sense, don't bother questioning stuff so you just get the rules and ruthlessly enforce.

Societies need people like you :thumbsup:

Otherwise, I'm interested in why people waste their lives with computer jobs if they hate them so much. If I hated any type of job I would quit and work to find what I like. Props to you for quitting Dell, that's what I'm talkin' about! If one sticks with it just because it's bearable, I pity them.

Dell does suck... I work in a help desk and our company uses Dell and of course, they break all over the place. We HATE calling to get parts replaced...

That's because the good dell jobs are in India ;)

:lol:....

Those guys are worse... I had to fight them all week to get a monitor exchange...

No.. I had to fight lol... 2 hours, 5 operators, and 100 dead brain cells later, I got no where. Turned out they canceled the exchange without telling me =/ So I'm just gonna do a return. Their support SUCKS! I have nothing against Indians, its just that their LACK of intelligence regarding their OWN products is quite ridiculous.