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Gauge -> RE: Tips and tricks to keeping your pc running as close to like new as possible? (11/10/2006 11:44:06 AM)
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ORIGINAL: thisishis
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ORIGINAL: Gauge
OK... I AM a computer tech and I can give you advice based on experience and training.
In that case, you probably understand that there are many different methods for training and obtaining experience. The comparison of a formal education in many cases is no better nor worse than hands on, informal training. A certificate or a diploma or a formal education etc is not always needed to learn something. Having one does not alway equal being more or better qualified.
Some of the most knowledgeable techy people i know received their experience and training during the very beginning phases of the internet coming into existance..... prior to the existance of computer college courses and tech training programs were even thought of ... never mind actually existing and being available. Many of them learned from the only sources available: hackers and programmers hanging out in the very first chat rooms..... none of whom had received 'formal' training.
Sometimes i can't help but wonder: How do formally trained tech people think people learned computers before the formal training was available? Hmm? [:D] It reminds me of that well known debate of "What came first? The chicken, or the egg?". [;)]
My comment was not born out of arrogance and if you took it that way then I am sorry. The fact is that I started learning this stuff on my own by pretty much trial and error on my own computer. It was only until someone brought me a machine that wasn't working and I fixed it that I realized that I have a natural interest and aptitude for doing this sort of work.
My formal training such as it is, came much later after years of fixing stuff. I really went to school to find out why what I was doing was working and what the names of things were. I also learned some networking, but I am not as proficient in that as I would like to be.
I am well aware of the school of hard knocks and I am also aware that formal schooling does not make someone good at what they do, they just have a piece of paper that they can wave around mostly, but it is the EXPERIENCE that really counts. Getting your hands in there and solving problems... there is no better learning tool. So, do not think that I am knocking those that do not have a piece of paper... frankly I learned more on my own than I did from school... and I am $13,000 lighter for the experience.
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