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    Tiger Shark iLuminatae's Avatar
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    Funny day today :)

    An IT guy from work came over to my apt today to look at my new pc - he walked into the room, took one look at it, said f#$k then walked out without saying a word. lol
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    Had that happen with my Cable Modem Tech from ATT... Man he didnt want to touch my collection with a 10-foot pole

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    HAHAHA, the same thing happened when a Comcast tech guy came to my house. When he saw my rig and goodies downstairs he was like, Ohh, umm...is that the one I have to work on? It's really nice..

    Then I showed him the way to my mom's rig, haha

    Colossus, I'm sure my tech guy would have died if he would have saw your setup!

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    Most people see the computer I have or the ones I have done for friends and just ask why the hell I would waste my time. Most people just call it lame because it takes twice the effort to understand it.

    To each his own though

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    Yeah, thats what my friends are saying about the one i'm saving up to build now, to hell with them!
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    that's pretty funny. never had that experience...but hopefully in the future sometime. actually...i'm really hoping to impress the guys in my dorm this coming year. shouldn't be too hard. (none of them are really oc'ers or modders)
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    I dont get it. Why dont they like to work with ur comp? cuz its so awesome?
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    lol.... the same thing happened to me when the Adelphia guy came down to hook up my cable .


    He was like... "ok, Mind if i take a look at your pc's specs in windows? Just to see if it meets the minimum requirements." I was like... "uhhh.. sure". And as soon as he walked in the room... he was like.. "Ok.. wow.. takes care of that"
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    I had a similar experience recently. I put in a TV Wonder PCI card and installed a splitter feed to it from my cable modem feed. So, in order to be perfectly legal with my cable modem provider, I called them and asked if that would be OK, acting like I hadn't actually done it yet. They were very concerned and insisted that a techie had to come out to do the installation, for free, just to make sure everything was alright. Well, I wasn't about to pull out the splitter, etc. so I just left it in line. The techie walked in, saw my systems, and the one with an HBO movie showing and said, "Yup, that looks about right." He did check check the levels for me; a Radio Shack, $1.98 splitter had nearly no insertion loss, LOL.
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    Originally posted by OS-Wiz
    He did check check the levels for me; a Radio Shack, $1.98 splitter had nearly no insertion loss, LOL.
    Isn't it amazing how good quality a lot of radio shack's stuff is? I'm always amazed how good their audio and video cables compare to the much more expensive "mid grade" stuff being marketed by Monster, etc. Its definitely not as good as the high end stuff (transparent, etc), but its still a great deal for how much they cahrge!

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    I had a guy come over today to install braodband cable and as soon as he saw the main PC he said:

    "Why is it glowing blue?"

    I thought that was pretty funny.

    He took one good look at the setup and said something like "You don't need me to explain this to you..do you"

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    Originally posted by OS-Wiz
    They were very concerned and insisted that a techie had to come out to do the installation, for free, just to make sure everything was alright.
    Charter did this for you? I've never heard of them doing anything for free. Is there another cable company in STL?

    Also how did you get HBO on your computer?

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