I’m blind in one eye due to complications from a soldering accident at a tournament last year. I have to keep it covered because my eye is very sensitive to light. I’m actually this guy.
No… no you don’t. I’m just doing this because it pays more than a fast-food restaurant.
My brotha. To be honest, I’d rather be paid for doing absolutely nothing 5 times a day. But since I don’t have enough money to play with the stock market, or the skills/career to grant me continuous residual pay…I’m stuck working at a car wash until something better comes along. Now, the thought of travel + good money for doing shit I actually enjoy doing sounds like heaven right now. Yes I’m fully aware of the bullshit you must go through. I’d rather have those problems than the ones I’m having now.
Well, I seem to have accidentally misled people on how much I make. You probably make more than I do. I make around $40 a job, untaxed, and do 2-3 jobs a week (usually less). A lot of these service calls are to places an hour away, and I don’t get paid for gas or travel expenses.
This also isn’t an entry level job. I have four years of office helpdesk support, and four or five years of IT consulting with businesses.
I mean hey, if you want to go this route… study up and get your A+ Certification, then put a resume on Monster and Careerbuilder.
Liking the Christmas theme ava!
I see… well I really would like to be a traveling computer repairman. But not for the company you work for.
Yo Duckie, I gotsa question
So, I pretty much know next to nothing in terms of advanced computer mechanics. That being said, how difficult would it be to change out the graphics card in my laptop? I know that’s usually a desktop thing, but it has to be possible to some extent doesn’t it? I just don’t feel like shelling out hundreds of bucks on a new desktop when I could possibly just get a new graphics card in the laptop I already have, nor do I feel like getting even a shitty cheap desktop tower and putting a new GC in.
Unless you have one of these it’s impossible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_PCI_Express_Module
Laptops generally aren’t meant to have modular graphics cards.
Fuck.
Anyone have any overclocking tips then? My graphics card is picky as fuck. It runs Left 4 Dead 2 and DMC4 pretty well, but won’t emulate PS1 and Dreamcast games.
That’s really weird since basically any computer out there can handle PSX emulation, back in the day I used epsxe on a 1ghz Duron with a MX440 graphics card and it was perfect, surely your laptop is more capable (and newer) than that if it can run those two games.
Could be a driver issue or something set up improperly in the emulators themserlves. I haven’t messed with PSX in a long time and never Dreamcast, but back when I was messing with PSX there were all sorts of tweaks and plugins and stuff, maybe you don’t have it tweaked properly. But I highly doubt it’s a hardware problem.
(not quite the thread for this, sorry for the derail Duckie X()
That isn’t a GPU problem that’s more of a CPU problem.
Yeah, my apologies as well. It’s just been something I’ve been wondering for a while.
Maybe I’ll make a specs discussion thread or something if there already isn’t one.
It’s all good. Martian, these are the threads you’re wanting:
This is mostly a thread for me and other guys who work the PC warranty repair circuit to share their stories.
(edit: Ninja’d by Adam!)
shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/computer-help-thread-v4-0.25875 could ask for help here
shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-official-pc-computer-thread.153697 this one’s more about specs
Come on Duckie!! Want moar stories. I’ve seen some pathetic pieces of technology in my time but… god damn that laptop just wins it all.
Also I’m assuming you probably memorized that link to your front page story by now, of when your eye got fucked up. Everytime I see someone ask what happened to your eye that link always gets posted.
Fo real. I’ve seen way too many people ask him that same question lol
I’m many things, black is one of them, so sure, I’m black.
However, the neighborhood I lived in was mostly puerto rican. Hell, there were more chinese than black people on my block.
I’m sure you did, but that is still not a reason to be scared. People prone to violence don’t attack strangers during the day unless they have a really compelling reason to. In your case, any potential ne’er do well would assume your there on business and leave you alone, if they bother to have paid attention to you at all.
Don’t fall victim to the illusion of transparency.
Followed closely by a perky-chested 16 year old asian girl with red hair trying to kill him, of course.
looks at pics in op’s post Faith and begorrah, sweet Mother McCree!!!
I learned this from experience: when somebody needs you to fix their “Laaaab-top”, that shit is already dead, and as the Irish say, it’s all over but the cryin’.
Had a service call an hour away today, except I was given the wrong address, and it was more like 1 1/2 away. There was no cell phone coverage, and I had no clue where to go because the address was some County Road that wasn’t big enough for Garmin to give a shit about it. I fortunately passed by the post office, and the helpful woman inside gave me some great directions on how to get there. Unfortunately, when I got there, I couldn’t find the house. None of them were labeled. There was a shack, a house, and two trailers. I saw a black man working on a car outside, so I stopped and asked him if he knew where the lady I was looking for lived. He said no. I got back in my car, then headed back up the dirt road for a spot where I could get cell phone coverage.
Finally, I had one bar, and I attempted to call the home office. Garbled mess. A very nice elderly black man heard me trying to talk to the office, and asked if he could help. I showed him the address, and he said “Oh, that’s just over there” (he pointed to where I just was), “it’s the trailer in between the three houses.”
Yeah. Right next door to the man who said he didn’t know where she lived. Okay, fine. Some people don’t know their neighbors’ names. It happens.
Anyway, I go back to that house, pull in, and then get out of the car. The guy working on the car looks up at me again, and I said “No worries. Just me again!” and I head up the lady’s walkway (a series of concrete blocks laid in a row) to her trailer. A nice lady pulls up at the same time and asks who I’m looking for. I tell her, and it turns out I’m looking for her daughter. She takes me up the walkway (past the gigantic ass dog whom I’m told hates strangers, but licked my hand and laid down in front of me), and when I come in the door (“Hey! The compruter man is here!”) I’m overwhelmed with the smell of piss inside.
Fortunately, this client’s laptop is in one piece, but I can’t say the same for her house. I wish I’d have been able to take pictures of it, but it’s safe to say that I’ll never complain about my living arrangements again. There was no working light (at least I couldn’t tell the difference between on and off…), and I had to use the light from the TV to illuminate my work.
The family was really sweet. The woman who lived there had three kids: two boys and a girl (who arrived later), and the two boys were playing games on their iPhones. Yes, plural. They had one each. Shithole trailer with one room, a bathroom, and a living room, all of which smelled like piss… but dammit they had iPhones. Anyway, like I said… they were sweet. They asked very thoughtful questions, even though the little 3-yr boy wouldn’t look me directly in the eye. They were impressed that I didn’t go to school to learn how to fix computers. They were fun to talk to and made me laugh a few times while I fixed the laptop. The older boy was of working age, and went outside to check on something before going to work. I finished the job without any problems, and I left.
While I was leaving, I saw the boy helping the man outside… the guy who was working on his car and didn’t know where his neighbor lived. Yeah… my ass he didn’t know her…
I meant to ask this earlier, if no one else has. Why do you wear an eyepatch? Can we see it?
it was already asked
yo duckie, why don’t u go for your A+ certification?