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Thread ID: 137016 2014-05-13 06:41:00 Those that work with computers every day .. Nomad (952) PC World Chat
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1374874 2014-05-14 01:05:00 I found being a desktop tech boring but pretty happy in a sysadmin roll where I get to touch a whole bunch of enterprise technologies. san/lan/wan/ISDN/SIP/vm and pretty much any other fun acronym you can think of ;) Alex B (15479)
1374875 2014-05-14 02:11:00 Being a web designer as far as hardware goes, as long as what I'm using does the trick I'm happy. I get more excitement out of seeing the effect a new frame work scripting package has on the speed of my workflow as most are designed to eliminate the need to write a lot of code. Webdevguy (17166)
1374876 2014-05-14 04:45:00 as far as hardware goes, as long as what I'm using does the trick I'm happy.

You and 100% of other users.
It's when it doesn't that trouble-shooting skills are needed.

Hardware is essential, try doing anything without it!
Bring back coding in assembly I say and cut the cruft!:devil tee-hee.

http://www.menuetos.net/
www.returninfinity.com
KarameaDave (15222)
1374877 2014-05-14 04:54:00 honestly karmeadave, you are spot on.

ita nother reason i want to get a tv card so i can hook up my aging atari 520stfm to modern display and learn to code.

while i could use emulators etc theres somethign about using actual hardware that people long ago learned on that appeals to my desire to learn.

sure i coudl get a rasberrypi but i assume something like the atari 520stfm has less of a learning curve.

troubleshooting skills surpass all other bodies of knowledge in their utility.
Mirddes (10)
1374878 2014-05-14 05:07:00 You and 100% of other users.
It's when it doesn't that trouble-shooting skills are needed.

Hardware is essential, try doing anything without it!
Bring back coding in assembly I say and cut the cruft!:devil tee-hee.

http://www.menuetos.net/
www.returninfinity.com

I get to do plenty of trouble shooting it just tends to be code fixes rather than hardware issues.
Webdevguy (17166)
1374879 2014-05-14 20:55:00 I found being a desktop tech boring but pretty happy in a sysadmin roll where I get to touch a whole bunch of enterprise technologies. san/lan/wan/ISDN/SIP/vm

Yeah.......but I found servers boring.
At least inhouse, nothing happens much, enterprise stuff all tends to be much the same, same apps, networks and so on....

Techy stuff, you get a lot of variety, ranging from the cheap awful PCs to awesome state of the art gaming machines. You get a variety of issues too... far more than in corporates.
Networks may be smaller but so?
pctek (84)
1374880 2014-05-14 21:53:00 pctek, have you ever been involved with setting up servers or building networks or just maintaining them? Webdevguy (17166)
1374881 2014-05-15 01:46:00 Yeah.......but I found servers boring.
At least inhouse, nothing happens much, enterprise stuff all tends to be much the same, same apps, networks and so on....

Techy stuff, you get a lot of variety, ranging from the cheap awful PCs to awesome state of the art gaming machines. You get a variety of issues too... far more than in corporates.
Networks may be smaller but so?

lol ok then, clearly your experience is greatly different to mine.
Alex B (15479)
1374882 2014-05-15 02:47:00 pctek, have you ever been involved with setting up servers or building networks or just maintaining them?
Building networks - yeah at Akld Uni.
Servers - F&P.
pctek (84)
1374883 2014-05-15 04:01:00 Building networks - yeah at Akld Uni.
Servers - F&P.

And you found that boring?
Webdevguy (17166)
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