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belchingmatt
It’s taken me far too long to get back to this blog since the first few days when everything was quite buggy. I don’t have a lot of patience for things that don’t work properly so it may have been a bit daft of me to sign up for beta testing. Read more
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belchingmatt
Why do experts always think they know everything and then proceed to be completely unhelpful? Because at the end of the day they are just salesmen, the bane of my life.
I asked someone to come in today to resolve a networking issue. I specifically asked when I contacted them for them to bring in a 50m cable for troubleshooting purposes, so what did they arrive with today? That’s right nothing! All I am going to get from today is a quote for a cable installation when I don’t even know if it will resolve the issue.
So what was the excuse, well there was some mention of run radius being special for cat6 over cat5e and then a mention of it not representing a real installation etc. But at least it would have told me if it worked. How am I likely to exceed the radius limit by trailing it along a floor, and how can they say there is a difference between cat5e and cat6 when a couple of quick searches tell me they have the same limitation?
So they have wasted their time and my time and I still have the same trouble I started out with and all because they just push push push for the sale.
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belchingmatt
The title says it all really, I have finally made my first meaningful post.
Enjoy.
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belchingmatt
A few years ago I was thrown in at the deep end when it came to computers. At home I had always been fortunate enough to have friends who would help out with hardware and software issues so I never had to. At work the company was so big and network so locked down that the chances of learning anything there were pretty slim.
In 2004 I emigrated to Sydney and that is when I actively became involved with all things PC. I could no longer run the machine up to a friends at the weekend, or call them at four in the morning for immediate advice, the geographical location prohibited all of my usual options.
From that point I had to start working things out for myself, and when I couldn’t do that I came to Dennis for advice. I quickly picked things up and without knowing it became the support guy for all of my new friends in Sydney, quite a turn-around when compared to where I came from.
One of the great things about Sydney are the great council clear ups. Every six months or so each local council would collect furniture and other discarded household goods from the roadside. Over a four week period I collected a couple of monitors, HDDs, optical drives, keyboard, RAM and then eventually case with a reasonably decent motherboard and CPU.
With some decent advice from readers here I got the system up and running to a reasonable level and then started overclocking. I got about a 50% increase from the CPU and although it was running stable it was a little too warm for a hot summer in Sydney. It was at that point that I thought of modding the case to improve the airflow, and it was going pretty well until an unexpected split from my wife left her with custody. 
I may have a chance to complete it the future.
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belchingmatt
A new colour scheme for the forum I see. I wonder how well that will go down with the masses or if it will change before final release?