tkrow21 Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 What was your most difficult activity or challenge with computers? Navigating and using a BIOS in a foreign language when i was 12. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Keeping up with everything. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayMeow Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Does programming count as a tech activity? If so, then I could probably cite a few...otherwise, I'd have to agree with d3, although building WC from scratch was challenging and frustrating as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taowulf Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Working on a voice mail system that used Windows, Linux, RMX, Sun and a crappy RAID controller for the primary message store. For 3 years. Oh, and I can't forget the craptastic ATM transport that garbled audio that we got blamed for. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3d c0m3t Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Trying to think of something I had difficulty with? Oh okay. Off the top of my head I'd say understanding the use of GTL. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjmagneto Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 Rebuilding an Apple ][ GS memory card after some bad ram chips shorted out the sockets. Those darn things were expensive to start with and I had to replace them all. The upside was that got me interested in tweaking PCs. I think I was 21 when I bought that computer. Various programming related stuff for school, including printing up 10 pages of COBOL code and lining them up on the floor in order to read them. Don't even get me started about the system I was supporting at work. It was a pain with the hardware and users. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerm Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 There are so many I cannot name them all, but one of the worst was revamping a school's 300+ node network infrastructure that was about 10 years old with no backup or security policies in place. Before they hired me as a consultant their students were watching porn in study hall. lol...I still can't convince them to get a phone system with voicemail. Another bad one was a similar scenario at a bank (yes I said bank) that had just had someone else upgrade their NT server to Server 2003 but had concerns when data went missing. Come to find out the bank had not done a backup of any of their data in nearly 6 years. How scary is that? A bank that hadn't backed up any of their own or customer data in almost 6 years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeock Posted June 29, 2009 Posted June 29, 2009 (edited) Reverting code while on continuous integration cycle with SVN! Edited June 29, 2009 by mikeock Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Keeping the family computer running... literally.... It's guaranteed fail! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathmineral Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 learning proper typing, still can't do it very well but better than finger poking. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkrow21 Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 learning proper typing, still can't do it very well but better than finger poking. I use three fingers on each hand, is that proper or not? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabrielT Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 I fell down the stairs bringing a computer home once that was challenging i guess. Other than that learning to touch type and fixing computers in high school for our computer tech for extra credit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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