TheKosherCoder
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Happy birthday!!
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I don't know if this happens to anyone else, and I only have about a year's worth of job experience as an IT intern so maybe I shouldn't be talking, but some people make me wonder how they got their job at all...
Here's mine:
"What is this Linux thing you're talking about? Is it expensive?" followed by "What's a Linux distribution?"
-Senior level network/hardware guy, who works in the server room all day with Solaris machines, who claims to have a Master's in Computer Science and routinely spouts off about how smart he is...right.
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Well folks im gonna jump in this and you guys aren't gonna like it. I Currently took a glance at this forum and realized im like the perfect candidate for this thread.
I was using an Nvidia card with 512 on the card. Ive switched to a ATI Radeon(insert large number here) card.
I was surprised when i was gaming and getting my usual 3:1 kdr (muahaha). That my power supply would go haywire. It makes an insanley loud beeping almost as if its a post code.
So i did what almost any person would do at a first glance. I switched the power supplies and the EXACT same thing happened. Only then did i finally realize that my vid card has been draining the crap out of my powersupply making to the point of almost melting. I even put a thermometer up to it and recorded a temp of 102 degrees.
My personal opinion, granted its not much being pretty inexperienced to you guys, i would DEFFINITLY take Nvidea over ATI, any day of the week.
You gotta read the box and check the minimum power supply requirement before you buy the video card. Sounds like your power supply wasn't powerful enough to handle the card.
Personally I've always gone with ATI and have never had a problem. On the other hand, the one time I tried a nVidia card, it was a lemon and put scanlines through my screen. I'll stick with ATI. :P
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Laptop - Dell Studio XPS 1640 (main):
Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 @ 2.8 ghz
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 (1gb)
4gb RAM
500gb 7200 RPM Seagate HD
Windows 7 Ultimate
Games: Perfect World International, Portal, Half Life 2, and a bunch of other random Steam games.
Shitty old desktop (secondary):
1.7 ghz Pentium IV
ATI Radeon 9600 XT (128 mb)
1gb RAM
40 gb hd
Windows XP Professional
Consoles:
Nintendo Wii (for brawl. and only for brawl. not sure why I bought this one.)
Nintendo 64 (gotta get my goldeneye fix once in a while)
Playstation 1 (no games for it, bought it for $5 and have done nothing with it so far...)
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Hey. I'm Ben aka TheKosherCoder, and a college student at an awesome university that Hak5 happened to do a show at... in the not so awesome state of Virginia! ;)
Favourite game: Duke Nukem 3D
Favourite OS: Ubuntu for everything but gaming, CentOS for server, Windows 7 for gaming.
Favourite console: Not much of a console person...I'll go with Wii. Please don't kill me. D:
Nationality: White.
Accent: American...?
Sex: Male
Race: White
Height: 5'9"
Build: Skinny...kinda.
Favourite band: Alice in Chains
Favourite book: Don't really read unless I'm forced to for class.
Favourite author: ^
Favourite movie: Kill Bill series
Favourite director: Quentin Tarantino
Favourite TV Show: Recently? Community
Favourite actor: Clint Eastwood
Favourite actress: Halle Berry (sp?)
Favourite Comedian: Gabriel Iglesias
Other hobbies: Mountain hiking, rappelling, biking, guitar, sarcasm
Occupation: Intern/Programmer at a small ass IT company you've never heard of.
a hak.5 linux distro
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I agree, especially with Backtrack/Knoppix STD/whatever else available. It's actually fairly easy to make a simple distro using a tool called "Remastersys" -- but it does take a good amount of time to get everything installed and working the way you want it to even with a tool to do some of the work for you.