About Me:
I've been into video games since I was a kid, starting with my first computer, and 8088 4mhz box running MS-DOS v3.2 given to me by my Uncle who is in the computer field. I've been a computer geek ever since. The first video game I ever remember playing was one written in BASIC called "Desert". It was a text based adventure game of sorts where it would tell you a story and you could perform six different actions. After that, I soon moved on to Nintendo and Super Nintendo, using my computer for utilitarian tasks only, for several years before I came back to PC gaming. When I did, the first game I remember playing was Duke Nukem 3D on my486/66mhz and 16mb RAM. It was awesome! I still remember that game, and come to think about it, not only do I still have my game and expansion set CD's for it, but it is currently installed on my rig now. <That's how good it was!
Anyway, time passed and I realized that I needed faster hardware to run newer games, so I moved away from learning software to get more into PC hardware. The first thing I did was purchase a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 and install it. It is, to this day, the best piece of hardware that I have ever purchased. The reason, though, is partly because it is the first ever that I installed on my own and the fact that I had sound on my computer at a time when many people still didn't have a computer (circa 1994). I learned how to assemble PC's, troubleshoot hardware and software issues, and resolve them. One Summer, while in high school, I even worked for Brookhaven National Laboratory doing PC Repair. I soon upgraded to a Pentium 233mhz with 16mb RAM and moved up to playing Heretic and Hexen. I remember games like ROTT (Rise Of The Triad), Doom, Doom II.
Regardless, here I am today. I have an associates in computer science and work as a Capacity Analyst (capacity management of servers) for a global news provider. I, like many of the first members to write an intro here at CoalitionLAN, was a part of 7hmGaming.com. I enjoyed it while it lasted, when to many LAN's that 7hm hosted, even helped setup at one or two of them. I also frequent the vent server located at trinity3.nrgservers.net (Port 3504). I love to play all sorts of games such as Painkiller, Quake4, UT2k4, UT99, Q3A, etc...
Hobbies: Playing with vb, c, c++ programs on the side for various reasons, play guitar (just started taking lessons recently), learn more about linux/unix admin, learning VMS as well.
My computers.
1)
Athlon64 3200, 1.5GB RAM, nVidia 6800GT 256mb Video Card, X-Fi sound card (Fatal1ty edition)
<< Main desktop/workstation/gaming-rig2)
Athlon 2200 Sempron, Linux server, used to use for Vent, now I'm going to switch it to an "download" and ftp server. IE: download files from the internet to it, then store them there until I want to pull them to my main rig. That way, it can download files while I'm doing stuff on my main rig.
<< Main Server3)
DEC 3000 (Digital AlphaServer) - Alpha Processor. Running VMS (Virtual Memory System). Just borrowed this one from work so I can learn on it. I might setup some sort of file server on it.
<< I bet you don't have one of these 
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