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| Sukasa Posts: 1314/2068 |
Practice, and don't worry about training too much.
I learned everything I know about computers and programming almost completely by myself, just by fiddling with settings and having the ablitry to screw up a computer without gettin gin trouble whilst fixing it. Good fun, and I learned a lot that way. EDIT: And yes, GET THE MANUALS! It makes things about 400 times easier when you have the manuals and drivers and everything for something than when you're shooting in the dark. Sure, you'll eventualy hit that can, but it's easier if you get the manuals (a.k.a. turn the lights on) |
| Zer0wned Posts: 32/118 |
yeah... I kinda came to that conclusion eventually, I'll be asking for a lot of the office equipments' user manuals when I start working during the day again so I can learn that way. Phooey. |
| paulguy Posts: 28/71 |
well you can always do some research on it online. just google for the make and models for the stuff and viola! you'll probably get some infos. Other than that, you're pretty screwed. A lot of that stuff requires some kind of training. |
| Zer0wned Posts: 21/118 |
Because I'm the only person in the office I'm working at that's available/remotely capable/cheap enough, I've recently been promoted to tech (or rather, had it added to my job title, along with the other 25,000 little additions/modifications since I've started working, but this one came with a $2 an hour raise =D).
As far as the computers and basic networking go, I'm fine and dandy. But then there's stuff like faxes, printers, slightly more advanced networking, and local phone systems that I've never had the opportunity to tool around with, and it's not like I can just fool around with these things at the workplace to get an idea of how it works. So I ask, is there a mystical book/site/other non-class source(no time, money, or method of transport for classes) in which I can gain a general tech's level knowledge of troubleshooting and setup of these kinds of things? Or am I pretty much stuck at dealing with these on more a case-by-case basis? Because it seems that although the subject matter is diverse, it'd be a fairly common scenario to want a similar all-in-one reference like this. And I'm working solely with windows environments ( just for specification, if it helps you to help me. Please no uncalled for opinions on windows T_T, can't spell flamewar without lame, right? ). Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance, even a nudge in the right direction would be fantastic. |
