Tech Savy

[Joykins]

My tech savvy is spotty, even though I work in software development--I am more or less a power user at home. I leave hardware installation to my husband or the work IT department, I can read a manual and follow directions, and there isn't much XML-related I can't do as that is my job. I can do some scripting also and have input into software development but my real expertise is data analysis.

My degree is in English literature . I'm not a techie in the sense that I'm interested in computers for what they are, but I am interested in what I can make them do for me and I will brush up my skills to the point necessary to make the magic happen.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by Joykins

my real expertise is data analysis.

My degree is in English literature .

Finally! Someone who can tell us precisely when those infinite number of monkeys will have that Shakespeare transcription worked out!

ApK

[MrsJoseph]

I can use my computer...and I know when to scream for help.

[AlbertaCowboy]

Originally Posted by ApK

Finally! Someone who can tell us precisely when those infinite number of monkeys will have that Shakespeare transcription worked out!

ApK

They're almost there, working hard under the pen name Dan Brown.

[Joykins]

Originally Posted by ApK

Finally! Someone who can tell us precisely when those infinite number of monkeys will have that Shakespeare transcription worked out!

ApK

I feel like I have been analyzing the output of those monkeys for many years and to be honest I don't think we'll ever get Hamlet, but it's not impossible that we will see a randomly generated duplicate of a memorandum from the Nixon White House in our lifetime.

[SpeakOfTheDevil]

Slightly better than the average person. I know how to reformat my computer...after all, I got much practice after I broke my third computer. =d LOL.

[CWatkinsNash]

I get along with computers better than I get along with most people. I'm pretty good with most hardware and software issues. I could build my own, and have done so for someone else, but I really don't have much desire to. I find them to be much more interesting when they come already assembled.

I'm primarily a Windows girl, but I know my way around a Mac when I need to, like when my roommate has issues with his G5.

When I was in Florida, I did tech support for a community of a few hundred retirees. (Fortunately, not all of them had computers.) I usually got paid in baked goods.

[sierkahn]

Originally Posted by jbcohen

Another mobile read forum member brought up an interesting point, how tech savy are forum members?

In the real world I am employed as a network administrator so technology is what I do and electronic books are simply a natural extention of what I do already

But how tech savy are the rest of the members?

On a scale of one to ten, I would place myself somewhere around one for tech knowledge or tech savy.

[astrangerhere]

As an amusing aside, the day after i voted in this thread, my power source gave out in my largest computer. So I'll be spending the evening pulling everything out and rebuilding into a new case with a new power source.

[John F]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

As an amusing aside, the day after i voted in this thread, my power source gave out in my largest computer. So I'll be spending the evening pulling everything out and rebuilding into a new case with a new power source.

Um, I'm not to tech savy, but wouldn't it be easier just to replace the power source?

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by John F

Um, I'm not to tech savy, but wouldn't it be easier just to replace the power source?

Not when you are upgrading to a power source that wont't fit in the case that you have. Also, each component (mobo, graphics card, sound card, CPU, drives and hard drives) have thier own power cord running from the power source. Even if my new power source did fit in my current case, I'd still have to take half the components out to get the power wired into components underneath them.