IT Legends – Tech in Connecticut

Experts-Exchange.com having a little fun at all of us who know the little secret to view answers without having a subscription via google.
I have to say, I like it!
Fun. Check
Attempts to solve a problem without being normal jerk company. Check.

Good Job Expert-Exchange!

So..   This.. Very awesome informative  image is the reason for the previously described water cooling blocks for my video cards.

Check out this thermal Image I took with a borrowed FLIR Thermal Imaging Camera.

Inner Video card is RED

For Reference:

Yellow blob on bottom is Video card getting enough air.
Red Blob on top of it is the inner video card cooking,
This is why I need to find the time to setup the water blocks!
Blue Circle on top is the copper Water block on my CPU, That is doing it’s job!

Disclaimer: the FLIR Camera is AWESOME and super easy to use and I would be happy to take a review Unit  from the company and would then post tons of more crazy pics. But unfortunately they and I have NO relation and I had to borrow this one.  oh well.

We’ve decided over here at IT Legends that we need a new theme.  So, we are looking for WordPress Themes (we use the latest stable release, always).  We’re dark and according to James very 90′s – they want their background back.  Hey James, we want you to write again – get back up on that horse man…  or maybe we’re just looking in the wrong place?

So, if you’re getting this post on facebook or an RSS Feed instead of going to the site directly, please run to the IT Legends site and poke around a bit.  We like the layout, but we can be convinced to find another theme.  Does it need to be free?  How about free as in beer or less than $50 (but we prefer free since we’ve only made $3 – actually considering the cost of the domain, hosting, etc – we’re still in the red).  Yes, if you send a theme suggestion that we end up using, we will buy you a beer (or a beverage of your choice) the next time we are in proximity.

Repairing a friend’s PC tonight. She got it for free and it didn’t work.. Someone had previously tried to fix it and replaced the Power Supply with one that is so not correct it is silly… They put the 20 pin connector into the 24 pin slot on the mother board.. hmm Why won’t this power on???

I know, I know.. those pins aren’t “Required” but with a Pentium D class power hog, what do ya expect..

Luckily we had an extra PS around the house(surprise)

Anyway.. to the point.. I’ve mostly managed to avoid Vista.. really, but this PC has it installed and I have to say.. WoW.. It really sucks!

First I couldn’t connect to my own wireless networks, so I disabled the  firewall, then it displayed that it was back on, then it displayed that it was off again,  is not on.. now it is on..Then Windows showed it ON but not at recommended settings. So I click on what is recomended.. mistake…

So I mange to get onilne and head straight to windows update… more fun…

First, There are no important updates, just optional ones.. So I click to see those.. oh wait.. now there are actually 69 critical updates right next to those… . sigh..

I’ve used Windows 7 for a couple hours, nothing like this crap….

Disclaimer: I’m still on XP on my main PC.

Have you ever gone to a 3-day intensive training and feel like you didn’t absorb all the information?  Somehow you missed out and now your boss expects you to be an expert in the topic.  If we establish an analogy of learning to food, you could compare these types of trainings to 3 days of multi-course meals, one after another.  Your body can’t digest all of that material.  So much goes to waste.  The same with training.

Digestible training would be training in chunks of size that your brain has an appetite for and capacity to assimilate.  Perhaps not all training can be done in this fashion, but the tools available to us today to provide skills training at a distance are incredibly easy to use.  I think trainings can be broken down into small, 15-minute or less digestible chunks.  If a topic at hand truly takes 8 hours, then break it down into something more easily processed and retained.   If its self-paced distance learning, it gives people the opportunity to work at their pace to properly absorb the skills and information.  People that learn fast can take on more chunks at once than someone who might be new to a subject or got stuck on one point and needs to research a little more to grasp a concept.

It is my goal to issue a series of digestible training videos to my clients and different ones the public at large.  There are a lot of good examples of this type of training already out there, but I still see a lot of these intensive 3-day training camps that, in my mind, are more of a waste of money and time than a benefit (if there were other ways to teach the topic – some skills to not lend themselves to distance learning).  Here’s a good example of how to make an MP3 podcast in digestible chunks.