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--- Quote from: stufflord on December 07, 2015, 07:09:33 PM ---https://youtu.be/RtlYi1yLTVQ?t=49s https://youtu.be/RtlYi1yLTVQ?t=1m19s --- End quote --- this man is a legend to me |
| AtlasBlue:
--- Quote from: Tokthree on December 07, 2015, 07:01:54 PM ---The real question here is who the forget touches their motherboard while it's still powered? --- End quote --- Not me; that's for sure. Update on that PC building class I posted about way back: It's going alright, I'm learning a LOT more than I thought I would have. I've answered most of the burning questions I've had about how certain components work, what does what and why it is used, and so on. It's my first period and the highlight of my day, which is... OK. It makes me determined to stay awake through 1st period, but after that the rest of my day is a complete drag. I also wish the content we're learning was a bit more updated, I mean the build kits we use for labs only support up to 2 GB of RAM and the kits include floppy drives (even though we don't use them.) and IDE HDDs. Don't get me wrong, I love learning about old computer hardware, but with the CompTIA A+ Certification test apparently about to go through a major overhaul, I really hope we start learning about some of the newer or upcoming tech. Also, I wish we did more labs. A lot of the stuff we do is online, and it's kind of a drag considering how terrible the school issued laptops are. But hey, I'm still loving it. |
| Skig²:
--- Quote from: espio100 on December 07, 2015, 03:59:55 PM ---Im going to get the same one. Reviews says its good so I guess it is. --- End quote --- I might get it tomorrow at Micro Center. Many of the reviews say it works better than a wired connection (not an option for me). Hopefully I'll like it. |
| Nickelob Ultra:
--- Quote from: AtlasBlue on December 07, 2015, 08:08:54 PM ---Not me; that's for sure. Update on that PC building class I posted about way back: It's going alright, I'm learning a LOT more than I thought I would have. I've answered most of the burning questions I've had about how certain components work, what does what and why it is used, and so on. It's my first period and the highlight of my day, which is... OK. It makes me determined to stay awake through 1st period, but after that the rest of my day is a complete drag. I also wish the content we're learning was a bit more updated, I mean the build kits we use for labs only support up to 2 GB of RAM and the kits include floppy drives (even though we don't use them.) and IDE HDDs. Don't get me wrong, I love learning about old computer hardware, but with the CompTIA A+ Certification test apparently about to go through a major overhaul, I really hope we start learning about some of the newer or upcoming tech. Also, I wish we did more labs. A lot of the stuff we do is online, and it's kind of a drag considering how terrible the school issued laptops are. But hey, I'm still loving it. --- End quote --- I can imagine the only reason they still make you work with floppy drives and IDE/ribbon cable hardware is for the sake of familiarity. Then again the ribbon cable of IDE is so recognizable and pretty hard to forget up. There's probably still a percentage, though shrinking, of computers out there with that kind of hardware. |
| ZERØ:
--- Quote from: Nickelob Ultra on December 08, 2015, 12:06:19 AM ---I can imagine the only reason they still make you work with floppy drives and IDE/ribbon cable hardware is for the sake of familiarity. Then again the ribbon cable of IDE is so recognizable and pretty hard to forget up. There's probably still a percentage, though shrinking, of computers out there with that kind of hardware. --- End quote --- IDE and Ribbon cable is a bit confusing for me, The whole slave thing I still don't understand, tried fixing up and old Windows 98 computer I had in the garage and when it came to putting it back together the CD rom did not read anymore but the floppy did, we never figured it out so that old pc went to the recycling plant because we couldn't reinstall the OS on it, 98 did not come in floppy drives and a computer that old does not support booting from usb. |
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