How knowledgable are you with computers?

[Phantasm66]

That wasn't even a good attempt at pretending to be a guru.

I would have attempted to back that claim up with some colorful evidence about something pretty mad, like a server farm or writing some device driver code or being a CCIE or something, that would have been at least a credable start.

But "I fix computers like for my pals" is pretty off the mark. About as off the mark as you can get.

 

[Phantasm66]

"Hey, I know how to connect a HDD up to some cables and select a setting in a BIOS that it autodetects - I must be a guru!"

Please, go on. Amaze us all with the legendary tale of the time you fitted a DIMM module or reinstalled Windows XP.

:evil:

:evil:

Anyway, enough said on the matter. No sense in me going all badass - maybe he missed my warnings.

 

[negroplasty]

LOL Phant, you sure know how to make people feel at home . I am pretty comfortable as a power user, although I guess I could be a guru too, I have fixed and built a few computers ! But as Phant quite rightly put it:

The more I learn, the more I realise how little I know

 

[poertner_1274]

LoL you guys are funny. That was a good read after a long day at work. Things like this just put you back in that relaxed mood. Thanks fellas.

 

[Tarkus]

Heh, I don't actually do anything to fix them. I just touch them and they start working.

 

[MrGaribaldi]

Originally posted by Phantasm66
I would have attempted to back that claim up with some colorful evidence about something pretty mad, like a server farm or writing some device driver code or being a CCIE or something, that would have been at least a credable start.

But "I fix computers like for my pals" is pretty off the mark. About as off the mark as you can get.

I disagree that to be a guru you have to run a serverfarm/write device drivers/being CCIE...

And I think it's possible to be a guru with computers, as long as it is within one field...

Just because you don't know everything there is to know about computers...

I know a couple of Cisco guru's, they know more or less everything cisco, but put them infront of a Novell network, and they'll have a hard time...

If you can fix any problem with your friends computers, yes you are a guru to them...

Where Phantasm is basing his definition on what the smartest man in greek said, I have a more pragmatic approach...

There is nothing wrong with either definition of guru, as long as you explain the context in which it is used...

.02$

 

[Phantasm66]

Of sort its impossible to know everything about computers - no one ever will.

I just object to the use of the word guru in general.

And you did contradict yourself a little, because someone who knows EVERYTHING cisco would be a CCIE.

Certainly as far as some kid popping on here and telling me he thinks he is a guru because he can fix his mates PC is ridiculous.

 

[Phantasm66]

All I am saying is, if you want to call yourself a guru, then you better be ready to back that up with something pretty impressive.

If you can do that, I will give you that title, but I warn you I don't impress easily.

 

[MrGaribaldi]

Originally posted by Phantasm66
Of sort its impossible to know everything about computers - no one ever will.

I just object to the use of the word guru in general.

I can agree that coming onto this board and saying you're a computer guru without anything impressive to back it up isn't too good an idea, but if the person states that (s)he's a guru to his friends/company/whoever and goes on telling why, then I don't have a problem...
Though I might refrain from calling him/her a guru myself..

Originally posted by Phantasm66
And you did contradict yourself a little, because someone who knows EVERYTHING cisco would be a CCIE.

Quite correct
But you still got my point, even if I did manage to contradict myself...

Originally posted by Phantasm66
Certainly as far as some kid popping on here and telling me he thinks he is a guru because he can fix his mates PC is ridiculous.

hehe... See above...
Anyways, lighten up Phantasm!
Go out on the town and enjoy yourself!
That nightclub we went to (with 2 floors of rock) had a lot of goodlooking girls... Maybe take a trip back there?
(and thank you for showing me around... I had a great time!)

[size=1]EDIT: just fixed some formatting[/size]

 

[Arris]

Originally posted by Phantasm66

If you can do that, I will give you that title, but I warn you I don't impress easily.

I can make Pentium 4 based systems from Cereal boxes and sticky back plastic!!!

 

[Arris]

Originally posted by acidosmosis
hehe. I saw the Guru section with a 1 .... was like "uh oh!"

and yea, you are NOT a guru because you can fix your friends 'puters. If you were a guru you would be making about at LEAST $200,000 year, and would probably be working along side Bill Gates.

From Acidosmosis' web site:
I am a 20 year old computer "guru". In the last 11+ years I have been studying computers in my spare time. The first PC I used was a 386SX 40MHz with 1MB of RAM, and a 40 meg hard drive running on DOS 5.x. Since then I have used DOS 5x, DOS 6x, Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, and Linux.
At the moment I work for an Internet Service Provider in North Carolina as a technical support rep., billing rep., pc technician, and other positions.

LMAO :haha:

 

[DigitAlex]

LOL !

(i know it's a lame post, but I HAD to do that, bc it's always the kinda stuff you run into with Acid )

hehhehehehehehe :evil:

 

[Th3M1ghtyD8]

I would consider myself an expert, as I have knowledge of Hardware, Software, Windows Internals (Registry, System Files etc.), Linux, 3D modelling and Mapping, medium skills in Programming (VB, Delphi, Java, C, C++ & Asm), medium Web design skills (HTML4, XHTML1, CSS, Javascript & DHTML). Not to mention my inevitable skill of fixing PCs

As for someone mentioning Bill Gates as being a guru, somehow I think not, anyone with a bit of Cash can buy other software and remarket it, he probably doesn't know any more about how windows works than I do.

 

[negroplasty]

LOL Arris, that's great! Another wasted post, but this one really did make me fall off my chair :haha: !

Th3M1ghtyD8, I think you are giving Billy a little less credit than he deserves, after all; he did design his first OS with a group with something like five members - read this somewhere, there is a possibility it is incorrect.

 

[Nic]

Arris: That was a good piece of research you posted, and boy was it funny.

I guess you can call yourself anything you like when you're not around others that know you better, after all if you don't actually state what your definition of a *guru* is, who can argue.

Edit: I just noticed that we now have *2* Gurus amoungst us. P66, where are you?

 

[negroplasty]

P66 voted Dumb *** nic! A little bit of an understatement IMO, but the statement he made was perfectly valid.

I don't think we have any guru's here to be honest, that's taking the word by its real meaning, and not what your friends think of you. I mean really, if my friends thought of me as a guru, I would probably slap them for insulting the REAL guru's out there; however few there may be .

 

[aoj145]

Tarkus also has the new CPU Cooling System where the Water turns into Wine.

 

[Nic]

Tarkus also has the new CPU Cooling System where the Water turns into Wine.

In that case, he is a 'God', and not a 'Guru', so maybe he should get his facts straight.

 

[Tarkus]

<sarcasm>

maybe I'd better put my <humor> </humor> tags if bold for some of you.

</sarcasm>

sheesh! You guys take things way too seriously around here.

<humor>

Oh, and BTW Phant, I've been in the industry since you've been in diapers.

</humor>

 

[Phantasm66]

Since you are only a handful of years older than me, I doubt it.

I DO know people who have been in the industry longer than I have been in diapers, and they wouldn't hang around in a site like this. They've got more important things to do like spend every last free minute of time with their families because they are working all of the time to learn their big $$$.

I'm starting to think now that you only posted "guru" to incurr my wrath, perhaps as a means of amusing yourself.

Please don't bother. I've already been as sarcastic and funny as I am likely to be, and anything else will probably be nasty cheap shots, probably more demeaning for myself than anything else as I beat you in a series of below-the-belt verbal punches. I am too stoned and tired for that.

 

[Phantasm66]

Originally posted by Phantasm66
I voted for Dumb ***.

The more I learn, the more I realise how little I know.

I am ashamed that I don't know more about cisco networking, various types of programming like bash shell scripting, python, perl, etc. I should know more about relational database managment systems like Oracle, and it goes without saying that I should know MUCH MORE about UNIX.

There's so much I want to know and I reckon I will be spending my whole life learning it. So therefore, dubbing myself anything other than a ******* is wrong. Because I am a *******.

OK, on reflection, I will accept a promotion to "Beginner" , if you will accept a demotion from "Guru" to the ever humble "Expert" ???

Is it a deal?

There's so much I want to know and I reckon I will be spending my whole life learning it. So therefore, dubbing myself anything other than a beginner is wrong. Because I am a beginner.

 

[DigitAlex]

All of you you creeping humans are really pathetic !!

Why don't you believe in me any more ???

 

[acidosmosis]

All of you just need to calm down and recognize one thing. I am your master. Your just lucky I let you be and do what you want. Don't make me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry. So be good and hug each other




lol j/k

 

[aoj145]

We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

 

[acidosmosis]

hehehehe aoj145.. get off the floor man, these guys are dirty, they never clean the floors here.