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| Thread ID: 35188 | 2003-07-04 12:25:00 | OT : what do you do for a living? | beetle (243) | Press F1 |
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| 157510 | 2003-07-04 12:25:00 | now this is my second go at posting this so if i get two different posts blame the puter that went " bleep - blank" again. so please dont grumble. as their are a lot of people on pf1 that are working in the computer industry, i was wondering what the rest of the pf1 regulars do? i know we have students, and web designers, and computer techs &? so my question is what do you do and will you tell? and my next one is how many puters do you have and what sort are they? are they made (born) or store bought as is? and most pf1's no im a motel operator and student, mum and wife. and i have a pc company puter. or any other information youd like to tell : that wont cause a riot? please any one? just out of interest what do you do? does it have a label? (the job i mean) beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 157511 | 2003-07-04 13:23:00 | I have 6 PCs 5 are "store bought" brand names (3 are HP, 2 are Toshiba) 1 is "roll your own" Most reliable are the brand name ones, long term I do not work in the computer industry. I work in a specialised field, best described as being a "legislative compliance" function. Perhaps I secretly audit Motels to see if they meet the required Standards, you never know? I could tell you about this Motel I stayed in when I was in Wanganui, it had the most delightful young lady looking after it, an attractive blonde and a real computer whizz. But I won't |
hagrid (1972) | ||
| 157512 | 2003-07-04 13:42:00 | Studying for the Bachelor of Information & Communication Technologies (BICT) (www.cpit.ac.nz) at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) (http://www.cpit.ac.nz). Work at Briscoes (http://www.briscoes.co.nz/) as a Checkout Chick or whatever the heck they want me to do. Also commonly seen posting here or at other forums or chatting elsewhere. In my bid to procrastinate. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 157513 | 2003-07-04 13:44:00 | On the PC front I have one that I built myself and half of one that I built myself. There is another PC in the house that was a got from a friend of the family or something. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 157514 | 2003-07-04 14:49:00 | Work in Pulp Industry, PCs running the Machines are mostly NT with fancy proprietary interfaces so you'd hardly know windows was there. Desktops for monitoring are mixture of NT,W2K and XP rolling out. We're not looking forward to that as the IT Nazis lock everything down, refresh rates set to 60 Hz and 600 by 800 resolutions, flicker terribly and look ugly. Bet their desktops aren't like that and I bet they have more than 32 Mg ram too. Try running W2K on a 32Mg ram PC, like swimming through treacle! At home I have a roll your own, I wanted the experience of doing it myself. It replaced an old Pentium 90 which is now out the garage as a back up PC. On the net the P90 is as fast as the AMD 1900! It was satisfying to build myself but would be cheaper going with a name brand and you've got someone to complain to! When you buy all the bits and put it together yourself the dealers don't want to know if you have glitches. They date so quickly too, when I built it it was the fastest PC around, now a year later it's less than entry level on some specs. The Stationery Warehouse have a good deal on at the moment, Compaqs, with an all in one scanner/printer and a CDRW for I think it's $1647 incl. I bought one for my daughters 21st birthday. and It's fine for all normal stuff. There's about a thousand bucks worth of software on it if you buy it retail. I'd buy one myself if my wife would let me, network it and then I'd be able to get online at home. Since my little daughter discovered MSN it's almost impossible to get PC time or to get on the phone. Cheers, Krafty (Kraft, the German word for strong, is the generic name for the pulp we make, hence the nick) |
krafty (3711) | ||
| 157515 | 2003-07-04 15:59:00 | Student and Tutorial Assistant at weltec (wellington institute of technology) Computer-wise... well I have 5 running computers in my room alone: two servers, a smoothwall box, a test box and my main rig. I have a rack shelf covered in various bits of old hardware that I sell off every so often... I could make a few working computers out of the gear I've got there. My closet is dedicated to the servers I run, and can be seen in more detail here: forums.overclockers.co.nz It's all updated since then, but the idea and basic layout is still the same. There's 4 other computers around the flat, all networked. Yours truely went crawling under the house installing cat5. Not for the faint hearted or the sane, but I'm used to it; My old man is a telecommunications/data engineer so I got to go to work with him at Telecom depots and exchanges all over the place when I was a kid.. I also got to crawl under houses and in rafters doing cabling while he had a smoko break :D I generally troll hardware related forums, as my main interest in computers is hardware and networking. I hold the position of super moderator at the OCNZ forums. I also have a penchant for silent computing, I'm always modding and adjusting to get the best balance between good cooling and silence. This is why my servers and smoothwall box are tucked away in a closet - SILENCE! :D My main rig is watercooled, I used to flat with the owner of liquidcc.com, so watercooling was not foreign to me when I got around to doing it. More about my watercooling here (forums.overclockers.co.nz) I also write the odd review and guide for Radiativenz.com, I seem to have become their cooling reviewer. Like JM I tend to procrastinate... a lot. I seem to work best when work is due any moment and the stress is on... I've been known to go through the unhealthy phases of not sleeping, usually a few days, at most a week... you get used to it when you're attending 3-day lans and you want to get your money's worth ;) |
whetu (237) | ||
| 157516 | 2003-07-04 18:31:00 | If knowing nothing is 1 and Bill Gates is 10 then I am 1.2. The guts of these things will always remain a mystery to me,my interest is in seeing them work well and trying to get to grips with the O/S. I am a Vigneron and a cabinet maker. |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 157517 | 2003-07-04 19:49:00 | Currently I'm a house husband & I stay at home & look after our 5yr old twin boys.(They just started school in May :D ) Prior to my current job I spent 10 years working in the road construction industry operatring heavy machinery such as Diggers,rollers,Truck & trailers,Transporters,Bitumen tankers & Rotomill. I didn't know a thing about computers till nearly 5years ago when the wife bought a Hewlett-Packard home from dick smiths. The HP was in & out the repair shop 8 times (No fault of ours) It was then that I decided that the crowd doing the repairs were incompetent & I decided to learn about the inside of the PC by buying old 486's from garage sales & trade-exchange & also getting hand me down PC's from friends & their friends. Our current PC's are an HP 6701 633mhz which HP gave us to replace the first lemon. 2nd PC is an AMD 500mhz which I put together from bits & pieces a few years ago & I'm still changeing bits every now & then. We have telstra cable & the 2 pc's are networked using a crossover cable. I'm about to build my first decent PC to replace the HP.(got a new case yesterday) Also I've been a regular visitor to press F1 since the end of 1998 Cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 157518 | 2003-07-04 20:32:00 | Geriatric.Probably playing with comps. before most of you were born. Still think DOS is a better OS than windows. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 157519 | 2003-07-04 21:20:00 | Retired (he says gleefully), after years in R&D/precision engineering/science, at Joseph Lucas, English Electric/GEC Power Engineering, Horstman Gauge/Aerostatic, Flight Re-Fuelling, DSIR, IGNS. Actually lost count of the number of computers from 286s up Ive bought , made up, played with and 're-cycled' ( for a consideration of course :) )maybe about 10 a month during the mid/late 90s for a few years after retiring. First PF1 posting was 15 September 1998 ( I think, the old archives seem to have gone), it was about MS Regclean removing some Netscape entries from the Registry, so partly crippling the program, typical Microsoft dirty tricks. Now have 4 homebrews networked, 2 for serious use and 2 to play with and to test things out on. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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