Have you been (PC) technically challenged lately?

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John Doe

As everybody knows, my last major challenge was using voice on a
day-to-day basis. But of course there are other possible personal
computer technical challenges. I suppose somebody could do unusual
or extensive hardware configurations, for example.

I press the power button on my ultra-portable computer (smart
phone) and it powers up and connects to the mobile hotspot for
Internet access. It's so easy. And on the personal computer side,
I really don't miss having to configure jumpers on video cards and
stuff. I guess that ease-of-use has to do with computers being
mainstream.

Do anything challenging lately?
 
As everybody knows, my last major challenge was using voice on a
day-to-day basis. But of course there are other possible personal
computer technical challenges. I suppose somebody could do unusual
or extensive hardware configurations, for example.

I press the power button on my ultra-portable computer (smart
phone) and it powers up and connects to the mobile hotspot for
Internet access. It's so easy. And on the personal computer side,
I really don't miss having to configure jumpers on video cards and
stuff. I guess that ease-of-use has to do with computers being
mainstream.

Do anything challenging lately?
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Just finished soldering six differently colored. 3" long wires to a
cubed 31/64" on/on/on DPDT switch. 3/16" clear 2:1 heat shrink tubing
placed over all the then referenced solder joints (stranded wire) and
a larger piece 1/4" black piece to hold them together secure slightly
above the junctions. Instead of taking a picture, I could learn CAD
to representationally draw it before learning another program for
drafting the three electrical logic states I'll be employing it. How
are your hands when working through a jeweler's loop with a pinpoint
soldering iron, and can you keep it up for two hours going at it
steady? Don't you love guys at do-it-yourself sites [must take them
at least all day to] running a series of micro photographs
illustrating each step in meticulously fine detail?
 
As everybody knows, my last major challenge was using voice on a
day-to-day basis. But of course there are other possible personal
computer technical challenges. I suppose somebody could do unusual
or extensive hardware configurations, for example.

I press the power button on my ultra-portable computer (smart
phone) and it powers up and connects to the mobile hotspot for
Internet access. It's so easy. And on the personal computer side,
I really don't miss having to configure jumpers on video cards and
stuff. I guess that ease-of-use has to do with computers being
mainstream.
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Jumpers on video cards? How old was your video card? Haven't seen
jumpers on most any card recently, except an add-on PCIe eSATA card that
had jumpers to switch between external eSATA ports and internal SATA ports.
Do anything challenging lately?
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Oh let me see, within the last year:

(1) upgraded from 4GB DDR2 to faster 8GB RAM.
(2) upgraded the CPU from Phenom II X3 to X6.
(3) upgraded the GPU from Nvidia 8600GT to AMD HD 6870.
(4) added SSD to system and imaged the system files over to it; then
reorganized remaining hard drives' file structures.
(5) upgraded from a Zalman 600W power supply to a Corsair 750W
(6) helped a friend combine his multiple internal hard drives into a
single spanned volume.

Yousuf Khan
 
Yousuf Khan said:
John Doe wrote:

Jumpers on video cards? How old was your video card? Haven't
seen jumpers on most any card recently
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Apparently you misunderstood the subject and my post.
Oh let me see, within the last year:

(1) upgraded from 4GB DDR2 to faster 8GB RAM.
(2) upgraded the CPU from Phenom II X3 to X6.
(3) upgraded the GPU from Nvidia 8600GT to AMD HD 6870.
(4) added SSD to system and imaged the system files over to it; then
reorganized remaining hard drives' file structures.
(5) upgraded from a Zalman 600W power supply to a Corsair 750W
(6) helped a friend combine his multiple internal hard drives into a
single spanned volume.
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The word "challenging" doesn't mean "upgrades".

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As everybody knows, my last major challenge was using voice on a
day-to-day basis. But of course there are other possible personal
computer technical challenges. I suppose somebody could do unusual
or extensive hardware configurations, for example.
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Did you design and develop the voice recognition software? If so then
that would be a challenge worthy of feeling good about, otherwise meh.
 
Astropher said:
John Doe said:


Did you design and develop the voice recognition software? If so
then that would be a challenge worthy of feeling good about,
otherwise meh.
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I know that you feel inadequate and intimidated, AssTrophy, but I
wasn't bragging. It's been years since I did that. And as I made
clear, that was just an example. I gave other possible examples.
And I was asking for other possibilities. The idea is challenges
similar to building or fixing a PC when PCs were not mainstream.
Like when you had to set jumpers on a video card just to get the
thing to work properly. The fact that PCs have become mainstream
has made them very easy to use.

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Wow. Searching the UseNet archive for Assfur's ID returns 10
posts. Over half are troll replies to my posts.
 
I know that you feel inadequate and intimidated, AssTrophy, but I
wasn't bragging. It's been years since I did that. And as I made
clear, that was just an example. I gave other possible examples.
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You must be joking or perhaps more likely, you have tickets on yourself.
And I was asking for other possibilities. The idea is challenges
similar to building or fixing a PC when PCs were not mainstream.
Like when you had to set jumpers on a video card just to get the
thing to work properly. The fact that PCs have become mainstream
has made them very easy to use.
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Setting links on video cards probably was challenging for you. You
should try wire-wrapping a video controller.
 
Astropher said:
John Doe said:

You must be joking or perhaps more likely, you have tickets on
yourself.
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Tickets? No tickets on me.
Setting links on video cards probably was challenging for you.
You should try wire-wrapping a video controller.
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I made my own wire wrapping tool, Assfur. I designed and built
some unique chess clocks (the way they worked was unique, not just
the shape or size). But all that is off topic, you don't really
want to hear about it? Because you know I want to tell.

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