[RESOLVED] Question, getting technical about techs

Ok, what seperates a Tech, from the run of the mill computer user? Compared to most people I know I'm like Einstine. I'm a Tech for the most part and have worked on computers. There are people that make me look like idiots, and people who make them look like special ed students. Some have degrees and others who don't are better at it than the monkeys with suits. This is regarding the "Techs-only" section I saw.

I mean people who fix a computer (by some stroke of luck) or upgrade there own computer (by ordering a new one from Gateway, Compaq, etc...), I mean you can't rilly call those techs. Most of the people who reply to this might not even be able to call themselves techs. My Grandma says I know everything but compared to most I know nothing it seems. I CAN'T EVEN PROGRAM FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! https://forums.windrivers.com/ However I am good at what I do.

Well I guess I'm done, any thoughts?

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Well...

You can troubleshoot a faulty machine and you are able to figure out what's going wrong with it, within the first couple of minutes or hours.

You can install every kind of hardware device or peripheral without trying to understand why this part is not written on the manual.

You know the way the machine "lives", "breathes", "communicates" and "sleeps". You are able to hear what the Motherboard "whispers" to the peripherals while booting.

And finally the most important,
You think as if you were an ancient Greek philosopher.
"En ida, oti ouden ida", which means "I only know one thing. I know nothing".
"Girasko ai didaskomenos", "I grow up, always learning"!

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by AlienDyne:
Well...

You can troubleshoot a faulty machine and you are able to figure out what's going wrong with it, within the first couple of minutes or hours.

You can install every kind of hardware device or peripheral without trying to understand why this part is not written on the manual.

You know the way the machine "lives", "breathes", "communicates" and "sleeps". You are able to hear what the Motherboard "whispers" to the peripherals while booting.

And finally the most important,
You think as if you were an ancient Greek philosopher.
"En ida, oti ouden ida", which means "I only know one thing. I know nothing".
"Girasko ai didaskomenos", "I grow up, always learning"!

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I agree totally?????? https://forums.windrivers.com/ https://forums.windrivers.com/ https://forums.windrivers.com/

Seriously, Aliendyne has summed it up quite effectively in his reply.

The 'What is a Tech?' type question is like saying 'What makes a good Quarterback?'. A lot of practice , possibly reading about things, more practice and understanding when to do something and when not to.

Keep learning as nobody knows everything!!!

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I agree with everyone above.
Personally, I know more than the average end-user but not nearly as much as most of the people in this forum.
But every day on Windrivers I learn something new and that's what its all about!


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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by AlienDyne:
Well...

You can troubleshoot a faulty machine and you are able to figure out what's going wrong with it, within the first couple of minutes or hours.

You can install every kind of hardware device or peripheral without trying to understand why this part is not written on the manual.

You know the way the machine "lives", "breathes", "communicates" and "sleeps". You are able to hear what the Motherboard "whispers" to the peripherals while booting.

And finally the most important,
You think as if you were an ancient Greek philosopher.
"En ida, oti ouden ida", which means "I only know one thing. I know nothing".
"Girasko ai didaskomenos", "I grow up, always learning"!

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Could not have said it better! Except the Greek part, don't know any!! This is why I respect what Alien posts...this is the attitude of a tech and not a weekend geek!

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You spend your whole life believing that you're on the right track,
only to discover that you're on the wrong train.

You got it AlienDyne. I am kind of a "self-proclaimed" Tech. I usually wind up fixing every computer owned by every person I know, and I am pretty good at it, but I still get hung up sometimes so I come to the forum.

I certainly hope I don't start hearing the computers start atlking to me https://forums.windrivers.com/ .

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My PC started whispering to me and I figured I'd "made" it to cool tech status, but it turns out it was only one of my cooling fans going bad. Bad fan! Bad, bad fan!! Dang! I'll keep listening, though... https://forums.windrivers.com/

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You want the right answer?!? You must be asleep, 'cuz you're dreamin'... https://forums.windrivers.com/

A User can turn on their own machine, often without help, and may be able to use a keyboard without reading the instruction manual.

A Power User is a User who can utilize Office and the Internet without help, and knows how to do simple maintanence on their computer.

An Enthusiast is a Power User who can fix many problems with their own system, and may even be able to build their own machine.

A Tech is an Enthusiast who can repair most problems with PC's and related equipment, and builds machines for other people.

A Wizard is a Tech who can handle even the most arcane of problems, and not only builds machines but designs or programs them.

A Guru is a Wizard whom everyone else comes to for help.

An MCSE is a User with a fancy piece of paper. https://forums.windrivers.com/


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Scary Guy is a tech who knows the terms too.

Well I guess that answers my question. I'm a tech/sub wiz. Wow, talk about bringing a topic back from the dead.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by AlienDyne:
Well...

You can troubleshoot a faulty machine and you are able to figure out what's going wrong with it, within the first couple of minutes or hours.

You can install every kind of hardware device or peripheral without trying to understand why this part is not written on the manual.

You know the way the machine "lives", "breathes", "communicates" and "sleeps". You are able to hear what the Motherboard "whispers" to the peripherals while booting.

And finally the most important,
You think as if you were an ancient Greek philosopher.
"En ida, oti ouden ida", which means "I only know one thing. I know nothing".
"Girasko ai didaskomenos", "I grow up, always learning"!

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Right on the money ! I have to agree with AlienDyne 100%.


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The more I know, the more I know I know nothing.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by cyberhh:
The more I know, the more I know I know nothing.

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To know that you know what you know; and to know that you don't know what you don't know: that is true knowledge.

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Ya never know, ya know?

To know all that, and your abilities and limitations, and what your friends and enamies know, and everything else for that matter, is true knowledge. Knowing what you know and what you don't know is just knowing your abilities and limitations. Just my 2¢ https://forums.windrivers.com/

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yeah your all getting some good answers here.... as long as you try your hardest and are not afraid to admit that you do not know it all.... and actually go and try to solve a problem then you are on the right track... if i had a leaky basment and the guy said he did not know what the prob. was but offered to talk to others and do research on the problem untill he figured out a solution than that would be better to me than some " basement guru who thought he knwe what was going on but just ends up messing it all up....
just my half a nickel

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by sowulo:
To know that you know what you know; and to know that you don't know what you don't know: that is true knowledge.

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This I give 11 1/2and a half. If knowledge is power, how much power do you want....

NEED more input, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">If knowledge is power, how much power do you want.... </font>

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True, but if power currupts, and corrupiton is crime, and crime dosent pay, then if you go to school do you ever get payed?

And come on, people who even visit these forums want power... Always upgrading and tweeking there computers. Why not tweek there own mind as well. I think most peoples minds could use a good upgrade, or service pack update, or maybe a good format and a reinstall of everything.

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I see stupid people.......

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Ya never know, ya know?

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by sowulo:
I see stupid people.......

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uuh huh... I see em too...
Ready for my close up Mr S

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And Control Enter STILL wont let me post a reply.
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