How knowledgable are you with computers?

get a grip. no one is a guru. I am not, and I am sure you are not either. Just because you know some things doesn't make you a guru.

A guru knows a hell of a lot more than anyone on this site.

Wooteh, I was right

He's started tormenting our new guru

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.

Yeah, fixing your friend's computer does not make you a guru. Sorry.

Too bad i can't take my vote back and vote for guru, I can fix computers too !

Why do you look at me like that, guys ?

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.

"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.

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:

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

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$

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.

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.

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..

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

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!)

EDIT: just fixed some formatting

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

LMAO :haha:

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:

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.

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.

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. :blush:

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