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Guess it would be cool if the Admins/mods of this forum wrote a few lines about themselves, like, your experience with computers, real life job (if it got anything to do with computers), other mod/admin jobs at old non-existant websites (your own?), etc.

All the mods/admins like Kyle, tim the newsguy, CIWS, fugu, Mcseiam, FLECOM, Major Domo, Ice Czar, Mota, Lethal, PS Rage.... just to mention a few.

Now not asking for your complete lifestory, just a few lines about yourselves, a way for the users to get to know you better.

:cool:
 
MindBuster said:
Guess it would be cool if the Admins/mods of this forum wrote a few lines about themselves, like, your experience with computers, real life job (if it got anything to do with computers), other mod/admin jobs at old non-existant websites (your own?), etc.

All the mods/admins like Kyle, tim the newsguy, CIWS, fugu, Mcseiam, FLECOM, Major Domo, Ice Czar, Mota, Lethal, PS Rage.... just to mention a few.

Now not asking for your complete lifestory, just a few lines about yourselves, a way for the users to get to know you better.

:cool:
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Here's Lethal: Sure, just ask more personal questions. Double dare ya! :p

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This actually isn't about feedback or suggestions, but a legitimate question nonetheless and may prove helpful afterall.

I have had a varied background like many of my age that cut their teeth on the 70's counterculture. Since this is close to Veteran's Day, I am a combat veteran who took advantage of the G.I. Bill and earned two Associate degrees, a Bachelors degree and a Masters. I taught college for three years, but soon tired of that and managed hotels and restaurants for 15 years which proved a bit more exciting. I moved to Myrtle Beach and began running Beach Clubs which was a hoot and a half, but ended up going into construction as a General Contractor for the big bucks in this inflation proof area. I sold the business several years ago and turned to building and repairing computers after that and got my A+ and MCSA to be an 'official' builder and maintenance personnel for offices. That was a dismal failure profit wise, but I learned a lot in the process. I now manage a resort park community and simply love it. I get a shot at maintaining the office network as a sideline, so I'm still in there as far as computers go. I was married at one time and have a son who graduates from Georgia Tech this year as an Architect. As the Grateful Dead so aptly put it "what a long strange trip this has been" but just proud to have been there and contributed to the overall outcome :p

I'm sure many of the other Mods and Admin personnel would like to show off their background to you as well....or maybe not :D
 
That's one hell of a background Major. (i will refrain from any age jokes :p ) I wanted to be a GC at one time.

Myself, well...I have a varied background. I am of course a pc enthusiast like I'm, sure many, if not all of you are. As for education, initially I was a music major, then a civil engineering major, and finally, I'm 1 class away from my bachelor's in IT, however I have only ever had one really IT related job, which was at Earthlink and let me tell you it was a great company to work for back when it first started. One of the best jobs I ever had and a lot of fun. I have about 12 or so years of drafting experience working for construction companies and finally landing a steady public agency position. Funny thing is I'm actually a GIS professional, which isn't really anything I ever planned on doing. I make maps for a living and it has since sparked my interest in statistical anlysis and I'll be going for my Master's in geography.

Aside from what I do for a living, I'm also a husband and father of 2 girls, ages 4 and 9. I play too many games, I buy too many toys and I like comics. I blame my geekness on the fact that I was born the same year Star Wars came out, I never stood a chance.
 
Hmmm, guess I'll chime in:

Well, I'm a "has-been" case modder as I just don't have the time to put into it any more. I was recently commissioned by a popular magazine to build a custom machine and had to turn them down (twice) due to time constraints (i.e. I have none) :(

I own 7 computers: my daughter has a 750MHz P3, wife has a 800MHz P3 notebook, truck has a 1GHz Celeron, server is a 2.53G P4, "playstation" is a 3.06G P4, HTPC is a 3.06G P4, and workstation is a dual Xeon at 3.06G.

Current "money-spending" hobby is photography - using a Nikon D70 and a king's ransom worth of toys to go with it.

Professionally, I run a Motorola Two-Way Radio shop. Officially, my title is "Manager" but I am paid by commission and act as: sales rep, technical supervisor, system engineer, quite often landskeeper and janitor (the wonders of management).

As far as education goes, I have a diploma with honours in Electronics Engineering Technology.

Last, but not least, I am husband (11 years) and father to a 9 year old girl (birthday this weekend)
 
Hello, my names Denise Im a 26 year old Libra from Segundo Beach
I like long walks, kitties, S&M and bondage

Im also a pathological Liar but only of Fridays :p

borderline sociopath, polymath, anarchist artist
(read advertising\marketing art director and designer)
ignores computer revolution (because I could)
until obsolecsent :rolleyes:
currently caught in a classic case of over compensation

specialties, communication strategies and corporate identity development
Environmental & Industrial Design, Typographic Design and Illustration

I built my very first computer 5 years ago, and havent looked back since then
workstations and reliability in computing is my thing,
thus data integrity (storage system forum) and reliably powering such monster configs (power supply forum)
security and thermodynamics in computing
currently teaching myself to segway into 3d animation on a
dual 244 Opteron K8W w\ 4GB of PC2700, PNY FX3000, and several RAID arrays (local and on the LAN)

Gaming: limited to a flash version of Asteroids :p
 
Ice Czar said:
(read advertising\marketing art director and designer)
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No shit. This is the only part of your "bio" that I understood - what is it with you people? :p
 
After building my first computer at age 8 (in 1976 btw) I got bit by the electronics bug Graduated High School at 16 Joined the military and trained to become an Electronic Technician on tactical telecoms systems but because I flew threw the course in record time I was offered the chance to be retrained on a "new" satellite telecoms system and took it.
During the next 6 years I earned two degrees by correspondence and served in the first Gulf war.... My not so good experiences in the Gulf war ended any thoughts of a military career so I did not re-enlist when my obligation was up. I then got a very boring civilian job repairing office equipment and worked there for about two years before I got sick of dealing with moron IT techies so I took a job as an Electrician at the local Beef packing plant (it is now the 5th largest one in the world btw) were I was immediately bumped to the "tech shop."
After working there for a year I was offered the chance to manage the IT department and took it. After the plant was sold and a new management team was brought in was promoted to ASSistant plant manager which is were I am today. :)
Of course this is the condensed version but you get an idea. :D
 
PS-RagE said:
No shit. This is the only part of your "bio" that I understood - what is it with you people? :p
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while insanity isnt a prerequisite of the industry
it does help, however in the event your sane when you start
that wont last long :p
 
Real name: Joe
Military Occupation: Air Foce, SSgt, 3C071
Real-world Occupation: System and Network Engineer
My Story: Back around 94 my girlfriend at the time had a computer and I played sim-farm (yeah, I know) and eventually found Doom. From then on I was hooked and when my mom got me a computer for college in 95 the first thing I did was went shopping for a game for it. The very first computer game I ever bought was Mechwarriror2, which definitely rasied the bar for gaming at that point. It also maxed out the system requirements of our PC (486-DX4 100MHz, 500MB HD, 8MB RAM). And so began my days of PC upgrades. When I enlisted in the AF in Mar 97 (went to basic in April) I had my chioce of jobs when I went to MEPS. I told them I wanted a job where I could work on PCs since I loved the hardware aspect of it. And so I was told I wanted to be a 3C0X1. The rest would be history, or I thought. When I got to my first base (Holloman AFB, NM) I was a comm-center goof and only touched a computer when I had to print out a message for someone. Then I'd call them so they'd come and pick it up at our little McDonald's drive-through looking window. In short no PC work. However, I did get my first taste of networking by going with a couple of cable-dogs who had me running CAT-5 through the ceilings. Not long after that I got to run fiber under the street. Fun, but boring at the same time. Then I PCS'd to Mildenhall, England in Nov 98 where I went into Special Operations. We did everything: User support, cabling, servers, infrastructure, phones, satellite uplinks, sentry duty, some other fun stuff, the whole deal. After 5 1/2 years of that I moved to my current unit at Fort Meade, MD. Not much I can say about it though except for the most part its system and network engineering. As for education, I finished up an AAS in Information Systems Management in Feb of this year, and I'm about 85 hours into my BS from UMUC. As for family life, I got married in October 2003 and I have a 2 year old son.
 
Hi, my name is Frank... and im an addict ;)

anywho... im going to try to keep this fairly short as im not particularly interesting or important :p

no military for me, im just waiting to get drafted... lol

i work for Miami-Dade County Public Schools... im one of the comptuer techs at a highschool... its an ok job... pays fairly well, and im just glad to have any tech job down here in miami...

im going to college to get my BS in computers or networking or some crap, i dont even remember anymore lol

ive been using computers quite literally as long as i can remember... i even learned to read on my Apple IIe lol (yes im one of the youngins around here hehe)

my grandfather introduced me to electronics and i was hooked, i started by building radios and various other fun stuff... that got me into computers even more because now i learned more about the hardware and such... and thats really me, a hardware guy :)

i did a lot of case-modding, electronics, and server/networking stuff... still have my uber network but its really not what it used to be, my accelar still sits in a box, with college and a fulltime job, its hard to do much of anything really... oh well...

what i have managed to squeeze in is photography... my setup is pretty decent for a non-pro... Canon 1D... 17-40 f4L, 70-200 f4L, 50mm f1.8, 550EX, Bogen 3001N and a head, dont remember the number...

also got a bit in audio (again) except this time im just listening, have a decent headphone setup... sonica (optical) > Behringer UltraCurve DEQ2496 EQ/DAC > headamp i built around the BurrBrown OPA548 > AKG K1000's modded with silver wire...

my computer is a Dual Athlon XP 2500+ (barton) @ 2ghz each on a Tyan S2462 with 768mb ram (ya ya im poor i know) with a Radeon 9600NP (read: poor)... 2x 73Gb 15k.3 Seagate Cheetahs that i got incredibly cheap (read: FAST FAST FAST) on the onboard U160 scsi... 2x 200gb 7.2k rpm maxtor for... ... linux isos... also a modded fortron 550watt psu to run the board after my original PSU met a nasty death when i was watercooling... eventually got tired of changing water and such and just put some crappy volcano 12's a friend had... meh... it works... ooo and dual samsung 15" LCD's :)

all in a pos stock antec case.... sigh
 
Im waiting got the Mod Auction thread.. "Win a date with...."

Im sure it'll be soon...

:D

And for the record.. as nice as some of you guys are.. you wont be getting a bloody dime out of me.. :p
 
....and also for the record, we're not that kind of staff :p

SKiTLz said:
Im waiting got the Mod Auction thread.. "Win a date with...."

Im sure it'll be soon...

:D

And for the record.. as nice as some of you guys are.. you wont be getting a bloody dime out of me.. :p
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and I'm glad to hear that, cuz I don't think I would want to date any of you guys :p

Well, except for Lethal ;), but then her husband would most likely kick my ass 6 ways to sunday....
 
JSClark said:
and I'm glad to hear that, cuz I don't think I would want to date any of you guys :p

Well, except for Lethal ;), but then her husband would most likely kick my ass 6 ways to sunday....
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Awww... I'm flattered. But you're right, mota wouldn't approve. :)
 
PS-RagE said:
Last, but not least, I am husband (11 years) and father to a 9 year old girl (birthday this weekend)
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You're a husband AND father to a 9 year old girl? :eek:

sicko


jk :p
 
PS-RagE said:
Last, but not least, I am husband (11 years) and father to a 9 year old girl (birthday this weekend)
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and a Happy Birthday to the little [H]ardlette ;)
 
Lethal said:
Awww... I'm flattered. But you're right, mota wouldn't approve. :)
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Married Mods! That's very cool. :cool:

" Married to The Mod "; was a recent book or movie wasn't it? ;)

P.S.

And a very Happy Birthday to PS Rage's little girl!
 
PS-RagE said:
Last, but not least, I am husband (11 years) and father to a 9 year old girl (birthday this weekend)
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Happy birthday to the little one. :)
Mine comes up this Friday.
 
Hmm...
Maybe I'm not the old guy here after all.

Then again...
 
Hmmm, I am the White Dwarf in the Galaxy of Mods, Super Mods and Admins, I
moderate a forum that about three [H]ard|Forum members know exists, Lethal
(She is the [H]ard|Forum equivalent of Sauron's All-Seeing Eye), MajorDomo and Moi! :D

Born: 10 Oct 1976
Nationality: South African
Ancestry: German, French and Dutch
Gender: Male
Height: 196cm
Weight: 96kg
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown (short)
Real Name: <Encrypted>
e-mail: you@wish.com

I started with computers at the ripe old age of about 10. My father bought a Sinclair ZX
Spectrum 48K and unlike today's machines, the instruction manuals taught you the techie
stuff about CPU, RAM, ROM, Stackspace, Heapspace, RS232 interfaces and the whole
catoot, it even tought you how to program in BASIC (We wrote a few games from books,
and I even later got a Machine Code Compiler for the Spectrum). Bless Sir Clive Sinclair
for his crafty use of the Z80 chip.

This eventually led to the leap to XT, then to AT, then to 386SX, then 386DX, then 486DX,
then Pentium 60 and so on, through everything from 20MB MFM HDD and 512KB of RAM
through VESA Local Bus hard disk controllers and 1MB VGA adapters with 65K colour
and the glorious MPC specs for 1x CD-ROMs with disk caddies.

I was an avid gamer and Sierra, Dynamic, Lucas Arts and Accord were the air that I
breathed, Westwood's Dune II nearly cost me my 12th grade. I enrolled in a B.Sc Comp.
Sci. and there things only got worse. Network games and the Internet caused me to take
5 years on a 3 year degree, however I finished, and then did my Honours Degree, started
lecturing (Multimedia, Graphics, VB and Java) and have been busy with my M.Sc for two
years now.

I recently quit lecturing (the morons are dragging me down to their level, and no, I am not
a snob, South Africa's school system sucks!) and have signed up as a middleware
Java/XML developer for a major South African bank (starting 1 Dec 2004 ... and I feel like
Red (Morgan Freeman) in Shawshank Redemption on the bus where he said: "I am so
exited I can hardly sit still to hold a thought in my head, I guess that is the excitement
only a free man can feel" ... I am FREEEE from idiots who take 32 hours of class time to
NOT understand primitive data types in Java!)

Sorry ... that was WAY too long for the smallest fart in the crew! :D
 
…sure, why not:

Real Name – Tom
Real Job – Hardware design engineer for a “really big” company; specifically, PCI / PCI-X / PCI-E Gigabit / 10 Gigabit Ethernet card products.

The story so far – Wow, where to begin…..got my interest in electronics a million years ago when I was the drummer in a band (like everyone else in the 70’s). I quickly figured out that I played the mixing console far better than I played the drums, and the path became pretty clear. Soon, I was recording not only our band, but other bands in the area as well. In addition to my day job of selling “high end” home audio systems, I and a buddy were running an 8-track studio (that I built) for a friend, and also doing lots of local live PA work and some short tours with my 3000 seat PA system (that I built). The guy that owned the 8-track recording studio showed off some of our work to a friend of his from Hollywood CA, and three weeks later, my buddy and I were standing in “our” 24 track studio in Hollywood, CA. It was a pretty breathtaking transition for a guy from the Pacific Northwest….:eek: Most of the time we had a ball, and because of the credentials of the guy we were working for, I got to push buttons in the biggest and best known studios in LA. It was very, very cool….and I’ve got the hearing damage to prove it.....:D

Well, as the nursery rhyme goes, “when it was good it was very, very good but when it was bad, it was horrid”….so, after a few months in "Lost Anglos", I bagged it and came back to Oregon where I dug in and spent the time to get my B.S. in Electrical Engineering. My first job was a full custom analog ASIC for a well known company, followed by a job doing industrial automation / process control, (which got boring rather quickly). A little over four years ago, I was lucky enough to land this job, which I’m very happy with and hope to keep for a long time. I also seem to keep busy building up some bizarre prototype for investor friends of mine, so there's usually always something "interesting" going on in B.B.S. labs.....:cool:

My first PC got built when I returned to engineering school; it was a 8086 with TWO floppy drives in it….:D It was quickly hot rodded with a Z80 CPU and a clock mod. The next one was an 8 MHz AT (80286) which was followed by 386’s, 486’s, Celeron’s, and Pentium’s one through four. The first 1+ GHz machine I ever built was a P3 for a buddy (remember Step Thermodynamics….??). I can’t recall what machines I built that crossed the 2 and 3 GHz lines. My kids and family seem to get my “old” machines about the time I want a new one, so it all works out well.

I have a very patient wife, two boys (15 and 17), four dogs, one house, two cars, one truck, and a shop where PC’s are still built up and tortured as time and family allows. Oh, and room for a chopper project that my oldest son and I are contemplating, but that's another story.

Best Regards – B.B.S.
 
Holy wow. All you guys (and gals) are my type of folk. geeks, nerds and wierdos.

KaosDG's Story so far:

Real Name : Karl
Job: Information Tech / Systems Administrator

Hmm. I've always been into "technical" crap, since as long as I can remember.
My first real foray into electronics was repairing my dad's burnt out Fischer Tube stereo.
(I think I was about 10 or 11). I learned a lot that day about proper grounding and paths of least resistance :D
My first video game was Pong. It's still in my parents house somewhere.
My first real computer was a Coleco Vision ADAM, and since then it's all been downhill.
I've owned all manner of computer and video game console. For what? Who knows. Geek penis envy ;)
I wrote my first video game in grade school, it was a cheap rampage rip-off, done in BASIC, for the Apple IIe or IIc. It was pretty fun, but only single player and a single level.
Throughout junior highschool and HS i was into all the computer stuff, and I was the "go to " guy when someone needed a report printed out, or some kind of technical information.

I got into CS in highschool, and was a founding member of their "Software Development club" (We got all the chicks!)
We started several games and apps, but never finished anything.
I took up CS in college, but I dropped out before receiving a degree (to my defense the CS courses were never hard, it was always the physics or other retarded stuff that kept me back) Someday I want to go back.

I've been in IT for about 8 years now, and like the typical pre-dotcom burst employee I had it pretty good (I was just over 20 and making close to 80k/yr )
after that... well. lets just say "that be that"

Currently I'm completely involved in networking / back-end stuff. I get some kind of high when I sculpt up a network, from the design to plugging in CAT5.
My current project is an Asterisk PBX for my apartment (again, no reason, just geek-neediness)

so yeah, that's me.

oh yeah, I'm also the forum-infamous LawnMower Man.
 
Grad H.S. and in the U.S. Navy at 17. Spent 6 years active duty. Trained as an E.T.
Sub school / duty first, then went to be a skimmer puke on an F.F. for the rest of my enlistment.
I have traveled to 5 of the world's 7 continents and almost any country you can get to from the Med. and did time in Beruit, Central America, Persian Gulf, and the Gulf of Sidra. Got Car Bombed in Naples Italy about 1.5 months before I got out in 1988.
Went to work for Boeing for a few months, then got a job working for DoD on the Hawk and Patriot SAMs for about 18 months and transfered to the DoT and have been there ever since.
First PC was a Vic20 in 1983. Then a C64, C128, Amiga 500, and crossed to IBM compatable with a 386sx16 and have been with them since.
I have trained and worked as an electronics technician and have work on all kinds of equipment. Radio Communications, TeleCommunications, RADAR, Navigational Aids, Missiles, Computers, etc,etc
Wrote 4 or 5 articles and reviews for HardOCP a few years back, but I take too long :D
I've been a Mod or Admin here since about 2000.


edit- I do have A+ and Net+ Certs, but that's all I'll say about those ;)
 
Sorry for the late reply.. been away on vacation.

Real name: Bhairav
Nationality : Indian.
Age: 22
Religion: Jain (look it up ;))

Completed my EE degree from Bombay University last year, and I'm now doing an MBA, with Marketing my most probable specialisation.

Started off with technology with an old ZX Spectrum PC. Messed around with a few Lego Mindstorm sets, as well as my dad's old Casio digital diaries. Futz around with the computer at home and the laptop all the time. Called "Geek" with lotsa love by my friends, as well as "Donkey" for my ability to come up with inane jokes all the time. :p
 
So, I'm thomas. I'm a news videographer/reporter for a CBS affiliate in fairbanks alaska. I'm 22 years old, and I enjoy long walks on the beach, candlelit dinners, and roast dog - because I'm half korean.

I got my start on a Tandy TL/2, with a 8 mhz 80286 processor. added a 21MB hard-card that cost 220 bucks. That died, and I moved up to a packard bell 486SX running at 25mhz. I was overwhelmed with 200MB of hard drive space. Then I moved up to a Gateway 2000 pentium 120, which I overclocked to 133. From then on, I havent purchased a computer from an integrator.

I currently have a athlon 1.4, which I'm about to upgrade to run some half-life 2 loving, and a Apple G4 running at 933 mhz. I never use my PC for anything but games.

I have a penchant for putting myself in places of bodily harm or pain, and plain out doing stupid things.

I have a long history here. I got my moderating start here in the first general mayhem forum, I was de-modded for being an ass, and re-instated when I pitched kyle for the apple forum, with the promise that I'd look after it myself. One day I logged on and was a supermod, and do a little here and there now as well, however I feel bad because I don't do nearly as much "work" as the rest.
 
Methodical said:
.... and do a little here and there now as well, however I feel bad because I don't do nearly as much "work" as the rest.
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Yep ... I know that feeling! ;)
 
Hello, I'm not a staff but my goal in life is to pick my own title on this forum :rolleyes:
 
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