How Computer Savvy Are You?

[Asher]

I'd go 10.

[BeBMan]

15

[KMadeleine]

i said 3. your post mentions only programs, and i can install games, but when it comes to plugging in my microphone, i have to ask hubby to be my tech support. "computer savvy" is just not how i think of myself at all!

i also have to ask him whether 0 is true or false, on that 0 / 1 thing, every time i'm changing something in an .xml. i just can't ever remember. it's easier to ask him and save the braincells to use on something else.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Question too vague.
Answers too self-flattering I expect.

I vote 48" pizza.

True dat. Can I have a slice of your pizza please?

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Answers too self-flattering I expect.

I intentionally rated myself low so that I couldn't be accused of this. I'm so smart.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by KMadeleine
i said 3. your post mentions only programs, and i can install games, but when it comes to plugging in my microphone, i have to ask hubby to be my tech support. "computer savvy" is just not how i think of myself at all!

i also have to ask him whether 0 is true or false, on that 0 / 1 thing, every time i'm changing something in an .xml. i just can't ever remember. it's easier to ask him and save the braincells to use on something else.

The fact that you know what 'xml' is and can edit them means you're probably a 5 as it is ...

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by BeBro
15

1-10, but 15? Sold American!

[BeBMan]

Hey, I bought my computer all by myself, so I deserve I high rating

[lord of the mark]

Re: How Computer Savvy Are You?

Originally posted by Patroklos
On a scale of one to ten.

I ask because I have been trying to put my own computer together and I have realized I have really fallen behind the curve since the last time I was really into doing things myself which was highschool, 8 years ago. Sort of humbling actually.

So how savvy are you? 1 bieng nothing, 5 being you can install/operate programs and trouble shoot them yourself for the most part, 10 being you can write your own programs a professional quality and such.

I can install stuff, but Im not sure I can always trouble shoot well. Im often asked questions at work about how to do stuff in Excel, but thats the closest thing to an app i "own" and theres plenty of stuff in Excel I dont know all that well. Ive dabbled in lots of other apps from SAS to SPSS to Foxpro to Access. My wife thinks Im a computer expert and asks me everything, but then, well.....

Ive taken really entry level programming, a REALLY long time ago, totally obsolete.

I installed RAM on my daughters laptop, and thats about the most sophisticated hardware thing Ive done, Ive guess. I could probably install more sophisticated stuff on the desktop but afraid to screw things up. Other day, POTM tells me they disassembled and reassembled a PC in tech class last year, my eyes light up, "So you could help me install HW upgrades?" and shes like "Only if we backup EVERYTHING first"

[KMadeleine]

Originally posted by snoopy369

The fact that you know what 'xml' is and can edit them means you're probably a 5 as it is ...

no, it just means i'm addicted to civ and sometimes like to do stuff like give myself every trait, because i'm a permanoob . i edit 'em in notepad, that's not exactly advanced super-current technology!

[Blake]

I voted 8. I've never programmed network drivers or OS's or anything, even though I do always build my own PC, install my own software, am a paid programmer and have compiled custom linux kernels.
Maybe I'm a 9 but I really think that the lofty heights of 9 and 10 should be reserved for hardcore linux geeks.

[Solver]

It's not a very fair scale. On this scale, I'm probably 10 - I can program in a variety of languages, always install my own software (and am picky enough), am comfortable in Windows and Linux, having also used a bunch of other OSes, etc. But I am not that good on a scale that is for IT experts. I am poor with graphical programming, and don't have really in-depth knowledge of hardware. I'm a full geek though.

[Zoid]

I'm probably a 7. I haven't done any programming to speak of though...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Blake
I voted 8. I've never programmed network drivers or OS's or anything, even though I do always build my own PC, install my own software, am a paid programmer and have compiled custom linux kernels.
Maybe I'm a 9 but I really think that the lofty heights of 9 and 10 should be reserved for hardcore linux geeks.

I disagree, if somebody rates a 10 they should know better than to waste all that time on Linux.

Linux is a celebration of mediocrity. Why do you think most Linux-based applications are so awful?

[snoopy369]

How many Windows kernels have you compiled?