about me
I’m a geek adjacent, who in her late 20’s, has rediscovered her love of all things PC and whilst I don’t claim to have the knowledge or the skills, this blog is a little insight into what I’m playing with this week.
I also like to offer up my opinion on anything tech based. I don’t work in IT, or near IT.
I grew up on computers. I got my first one when I was two. My parents have lost count of how many times I’ve used C:\del *.* and so have I. I chart my teenage years by technology. In 3rd form, I had a 386DX-40 and that became the PC we ran our BBS off. By the end of high school, I had a Pentium 133mhz which I did my IT papers on for tech and passed all three of them with merit.
I failed the entry test to get into the CBC at AIT (it wasn’t a university back then) and so I went into the workforce and haven’t stop since.
Some time was spent at art school, where I became fluent in the likes of Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Photoshop and Quark Xpress. I got my certificate in Production Graphics, which is a low-end graphic design qualification. I spent my days running a digital press operation and wrestling with the joys of postscripting for CTF (Computer to Film) for offset printing. And all this while doing my design work in Adobe Illustrator for clients such as Super Liquor and Hire A Hubby.
I was pleased to give that all up for a mainstream corporate job, where my affinity with computers ended up being used as our division would send me computers to use and abuse to troubleshoot the faults (faulty motherboard, hard drives etc) as well as server maintenance.
Now days I’m that person who does the IT basics around the place and doesn’t get paid a cent extra for it 
Desktop Computer
Motherboard: Asus M2A-VM HDMI
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 2Ghz
Ram: Sometimes 4gb DDR2-800, sometimes 8gb DDR2-800
Video: Asus 9400GT 512mb DDR2
Hard Drives: 2x 80gb SATA II, 1x 1tb SATA II
Case: Gigabyte SETTO 1000
Monitor: AOC 17″ LM728 Samsung 23″ Wide 2333SW+
Keyboard/Mouse: Microsoft Wireless Desktop 1000
OS: Windows XP Professional Windows 7 Professional RTM
Acer Laptop (The Acer has gone to Rob for now)
Model: Acer Aspire 4710G
Processor: Intel 2.0ghz T2450
Ram: 2x 512mb DDR2-533mhz 2x 2GB DDR2-533mhz
HDD: 120gb
Monitor: 14.1″ wide with brightview
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium / Windows 7 Beta Windows 7 RC / Windows 7 Professional RTM
Hewlett Packard Pavilion DV6-2019AX Laptop
Processor: AMD Turion II Ultra Dual Core M520 2.3ghz
Ram: 1x 2gb DDR2
HDD: 500gb 7200rpm
Monitor: 15.6″ Widscreen (720p)
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
Video: 512mb DDR3 ATI Video
Infrared MCE Remote that fits into Expansion Slot
1st Windows 7 System sold by Harvey Normans Manukau
Connectivity: 10/100/1000 ethernet, a/b/g/n wifi
Misc Technology
Hewlett Packard Photosmart 2610 MFC
Hyundai L19 Monitor
Nokia 6121c
Logitech Harmony 785 Remote
MySky HDi 320gb PVR/Decoder
Nintendo Wii
Sony Playstation 3 (currently 40gb)
Apple iPod/iPhone Dock with Remote
Samsung 32″ LCD Television HD Ready (4 Series)
DLink DSL G604T-Gen II Router/Modem/Wireless AP
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook Sold to buy iPhone
Apple iPhone 3G 8GB Black
