Who are you guys?

[freeway]

23 year old male
undergrad history/political science
currently in my second year of law school

I started out on an Apple IIe and worked my way up. I build computers, networks and repair pcs for friends and family. I also run a website for the township I live in. Dan

 

[Pulsifer]

I'm twenty years old and working 60% of the time at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Computer Systems Engineer. I also own my own business, PGM Solutions, which builds computers and networks for small to large companies and even the government. I also (somehow) manage to go to school at U.C. Berkeley (2nd year student) and I am studying Information Management Technology.

 

[MereMortal]

I'm 32, currently writing my dissertation for a Ph.D. in astrophysics at MSU. I do scientific programming on massively parallel platforms (numerical simulations of the surface of the Sun). In other words, soon to be unemployed...

But I wrote my first program on punch cards! :Q
And I once choked out a computer at NCSA by submitting a job that used over 8GB of memory...

 

[damien6]

Once, I was in the:
Boys Scout, Army (7yrs in an Infantry unit), went to two yrs college for three yrs (Liberal Arts major) but dropped out due to boredom, became over the road truck driver/owner operator (last time I was leased onto Prime Inc in Springfield, MO.), came back to NYC and went into import/export/manufactureing of sports head wear (family run business), then network admin (MCSE/MCP+I, A+). Now a professional (web)surfing, pr0n munching, "upgrade" crunching (almost everyone in the family received a left over PC from past upgrades), want to be video editing, practically broke and a recent father of one. Ain't that a trip.

 

[kazanchik]

i am 22. i am graduating from rutgers university nj in may with b.s. (bullshit) in computer science. honestly, i dont know what the hell i want to do with my life. i found a job and i'll start soOn, and ill seE what happens then.

Now I am building A MONSTER. i got a SWEET bonus so m0ney is not an issue.
THIS WILL BE MY FIRST BUILT SYSTEM and i'llbe asking you guys aaalllooot of questions.

just got....
2040U MITSUBISHI MONITOR.
FONG KAI fx-320 black SUPER MID TOWER WITH ENERMAX 431POWER SUPPLY
getting....
1.2 THUNDERBIRD 266MHZ FSB.
ASUS A7V133 MB.
4 *256 (1024 TOTAL)133 MUSHKIN CAS2 RAM
SOUNDBLASTER PLATINUM 5.1
ATI ALL IN WONDER RADEON DDR 32MEG
PLEXTOR 16*10*40 (IF OUT IN NEXT THREE WEEKS)
MIDILAND 8200 S4 SET OF SPEAKERS
DVD (I DONT KNOW WHATS BEST OUT)?

I WISH ATHLON 1.3 WAS OUT allready....
hopefully this system will make me a better programmer

 

[novice]

I know this thread is getting old, but then, so am I . I am the assistant manager of a Title Insurance office, former banker. Graduated a long time ago from Eastern Washington University (Magna Cum Laude, big deal ) Started with my first PC back in September of 95 and didn't know the difference between a CD rom disk and a floppy disk. With the patient help of my friend Roy (now a programmer for Siemens) and countless hours of reading and monitoring forums like this, I now know the difference between disks, but even successfully built my last PC with only one short phone call to my friend! I now am trying to maintain my little home network of 3 systems (all home built) for my wife and 3 sons ages 14, 11 and 9. My 11 year old is the resident software expert and is still trying to "download the world". (Come on Dad, how bad can a little virus or two or twenty be?) As to age, I am about to turn 46, but it is a "young" 46. I only feel old after coaching the younger boys' basketball teams, those full court scrimmages with 11 and 12 year olds are murder!!
Novice aka Chuck