I used to say that you weren't a true hardware geek until you'd fried at least one piece of hardware. Having already fried about a half-dozen by that time, I had the credentials. :p I used to have a room with lots and lots of parts-- if we got rid of a box at work, or if another company in the building dumped theirs, I took it home. This in addition to the purchases I made all-too-often in order to upgrade PCs that were working just fine. I spent more time building a "gaming rig" than I ever spent gaming, until I realized that building the PC was the game.
Those days are past mostly because now I spend more time using the computer than I do upgrading it. But it's a good education to have. Being able to both troubleshoot and fix problems with a minimum of fuss and dollars looks like it'll be useful for a very long time.
Those days are past mostly because now I spend more time using the computer than I do upgrading it. But it's a good education to have. Being able to both troubleshoot and fix problems with a minimum of fuss and dollars looks like it'll be useful for a very long time.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
