Computer knowledge

[nymusicman]

Geeks are simply Nerds with Marketable Skills!

Most of the computer geeks I talk to are all self taught through trial and error and believe that is the best way to learn, but you do have to have an initial interest in computers to even want to go through the trial and error process. I started out on a TRS-80 from radio shack, and have been hooked ever since.

Computers are really a lot like cars. Some owners will take it to the garage (computer store) whenever something goes wrong, and it's always an expensive proposition. Some owners will learn enough about it to change the spark plugs (install software), change the oil (clean out viruses), and the other more basic tasks, but if the alternator goes, they take it to the garage. The the most hardcore ones will learn how to change the motor (umm... this is where we get into acronyms like CPU and other technobabble), and will never need to take it to the garage.

You just have to decide how interested in cars....errm, I mean computers you are, and of course how much you want to spend on labour.

It's quite funny you say computers are a lot like cars, because I definitely know my way around computers (yes I'm a geek, if you don't believe me the penguin is here to prove it) but I wouldn't know my way around a car if my life depended on it.