Useful picture "How To" book on computer repair

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RayLopez99

I know Paul and some of you diehards would laugh, but I found this book useful, since it goes beyond the typical troubleshooting problems, or so it seems. Useful as a reference, but only as a keyword searchable e-book, not the printed version which might be too heavy to store.

Note the author is a PhD. Yes you need to be a PhD these days to troubleshoot your PC! :)

RL

A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC
EIGHTH EDITION
Jean Andrews, Ph.D.

1329 pp.(c) 2010, 2013
 
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Paul

RayLopez99 said:
I know Paul and some of you diehards would laugh, but I found this book useful, since it goes beyond the typical troubleshooting problems, or so it seems. Useful as a reference, but only as a keyword searchable e-book, not the printed version which might be too heavy to store.

Note the author is a PhD. Yes you need to be a PhD these days to troubleshoot your PC! :)

RL

A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC
EIGHTH EDITION
Jean Andrews, Ph.D.

1329 pp.(c) 2010, 2013
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OMG. It's longer than Tolstoy's War and Peace (1,225 pages).

I wonder how long it took to write the first edition ?

Maybe it's double-spaced ? If it was written by a PhD,
it would have to be double-spaced.

Paul
 
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SC Tom

Paul said:
OMG. It's longer than Tolstoy's War and Peace (1,225 pages).

I wonder how long it took to write the first edition ?

Maybe it's double-spaced ? If it was written by a PhD,
it would have to be double-spaced.
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Hopefully it's not hand-written. We all know how legibly doctors write :)

I looked at a few random pages on Amazon, and it looks like it's pretty well
written. If I was going to get it to use as a personal reference, I think
I'd opt for the Kindle edition. That way it would be more easily searchable.

There's also a lab book to go along with it, if you wanted to go for your A+
certification.
 
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Michael Black

Hopefully it's not hand-written. We all know how legibly doctors write :)

I looked at a few random pages on Amazon, and it looks like it's pretty well
written. If I was going to get it to use as a personal reference, I think I'd
opt for the Kindle edition. That way it would be more easily searchable.
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But how much is it going to cost? I have a few hardware books, bought at
clearances, and they were fine when I was using more older equipment. But
they leave out what's more recent, and most people want the recent.

So it might be fine right now, but lacking in a year or so. So then it's
another costly book.

Might as well buy old, and cheap, and then use the internet for more up to
date information.
There's also a lab book to go along with it, if you wanted to go for your A+
certification.
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That might be the real point to it, more for the certification than to do
things.

Michael
 
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Flasherly

But how much is it going to cost? I have a few hardware books, bought at
clearances, and they were fine when I was using more older equipment. But
they leave out what's more recent, and most people want the recent.

So it might be fine right now, but lacking in a year or so. So then it's
another costly book.

Might as well buy old, and cheap, and then use the internet for more up to
date information.
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Destined for the how-to be "Dummies" trashbin if not scanned into PDF
for outdated downloading. Still, books can be OK for general PC
transferences, as not everything has moved along onto proprietary,
*nix-loaded wristwatch and handheld computers. Or linked into cloud
subscription services to proprietary protocols and market aims.

On the other hand, might cost $50,000, these days, a year, to keep up
with all that in a course materials at learning institutions. Wonder
who might Microsoft endorse for better approved credentials to their
structure...

I once read a book on designing processors for the hell of it, too;-
University of Auburn, not sure, maybe an outdated, sophomore
course-grade. Found it somewhere, and thought it very interesting for
a general ancillary-type reading, nonetheless. Pretty much a linearly
logical approach in all aspects.
 
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Flasherly

OMG. It's longer than Tolstoy's War and Peace (1,225 pages).

I wonder how long it took to write the first edition ?

Maybe it's double-spaced ? If it was written by a PhD,
it would have to be double-spaced.
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I've read a lot of Tolstoi, except not that one. Seems I recall he
started out a teacher, as well titled among land-owner classes, though
nonetheless a disillusioned man, at points, among them, apparently, at
the early cusp Bolshevism formed between dissatisfied proletarians;-
had his own thing going, anyway, with gambling debts and late nights
out whoring at the campfires with whatever local gypsy troupe might be
setup nearby. Not sure as a class structure, they actually had Ph.D.
qualified to write things like what his contemporaries were up, like
Dostoevski's Diary of a Madman. Of course, by the time _Quiet Flows
the Don_, by Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, it was all academic in nature,
anyway, until Solschenizyn and his gloominess, Nancy Reagan remarked
at a WH party. Alexander had it relatively well, comparatively.
Towards later life many revered him and some actually established a
religion to accompany his belief system.
 
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Quiet Man

I know Paul and some of you diehards would laugh, but I found this book useful, since it goes beyond the typical troubleshooting problems, or so it seems. Useful as a reference, but only as a keyword searchable e-book, not the printed version which might be too heavy to store.

Note the author is a PhD. Yes you need to be a PhD these days to troubleshoot your PC! :)

RL
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Sock Puppet Alert!
 
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Mr. Man-wai Chang

I haven't read the book yet. PhD in Chemistry? :)

Note the author is a PhD. Yes you need to be a PhD these days to troubleshoot your PC! :)
A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC
EIGHTH EDITION
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Mr. Man-wai Chang

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I had actually attended some computer science lessons delivered by 2
lecturers who got their PhD in different fields: one in chemistry, one
in quantum mechanics. :)


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Paul

Mr. Man-wai Chang said:
I had actually attended some computer science lessons delivered by 2
lecturers who got their PhD in different fields: one in chemistry, one
in quantum mechanics. :)
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Chemists need more skills than other graduates, because
chances are, they won't be working as chemists. And
computer programming probably pays better than
chemistry.

I think chemists would make good bartenders though.
They would mix your drink with great precision.

http://www.gauge.com.au/images/pic_index2.jpg

Paul
 
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Mr. Man-wai Chang

Chemists need more skills than other graduates, because
chances are, they won't be working as chemists. And
computer programming probably pays better than
chemistry.
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You have to be the best if you want to work in the chemistry field after
finishing your study in chemistry. There are just not that many chemist
jobs. The best graduates work in labs and manufacturing plants, I
believe. The rest would merely become teachers and salespersons.
I think chemists would make good bartenders though.
They would mix your drink with great precision.
http://www.gauge.com.au/images/pic_index2.jpg
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I got your message, Your Honor! :)

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Metspitzer

You have to be the best if you want to work in the chemistry field after
finishing your study in chemistry. There are just not that many chemist
jobs. The best graduates work in labs and manufacturing plants, I
believe. The rest would merely become teachers and salespersons.
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Of course you could always do a meth lab.
 
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Mr. Man-wai Chang

Of course you could always do a meth lab.
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Tell this to for this generation of teens. :)

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Paul

Mr. Man-wai Chang said:
Tell this to for this generation of teens. :)
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My organic chemistry professor, used to review
different synthesis procedures for various drugs,
so in fact we would be prepared for the modern world.

Back then, meth wasn't even on the map, so that
wouldn't be in my notes. But the difficulty of
making LSD would have been covered. And no, making
it wasn't part of the labs for the course :) Being
bumbling students, we would never have finished. I
remember one procedure for making something a lot
simpler than that, I might have had to redo my organic
lab four or five times, until I got the desired product
from the reaction. It kept disappearing during
purification (you know it's all going down the
drain somewhere). I think that's why I didn't
enjoy organic, because it was too much like
"cooking in a kitchen". One mistake and your
soufflé falls flat.

http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/the-mission-soufflé

Paul
 
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Flasherly

My organic chemistry professor, used to review
different synthesis procedures for various drugs,
so in fact we would be prepared for the modern world.
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Sounds like my biology professor and an impromptu lecture, best I can
figure for a general course and curriculum, she delivered on sexually
humanoid characteristic practises, as sociopolitical deviations of an
impermanent, if not exploratory nature within some contrast to a
largess, per force, affecting religious tradition and human
consciousness. A strikingly developed and attractive woman, I thought
her métier a reflection of advocacy no less eminently suited to the
subject matter.
 
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Mr. Man-wai Chang

My organic chemistry professor, used to review
different synthesis procedures for various drugs,
so in fact we would be prepared for the modern world.
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Would that kind of jobs recruit graduates from Hong Kong? I don't think
so... :)

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jamesjaddah1755

I once read a book on designing processors for the hell of it, too;-

University of Auburn, not sure, maybe an outdated, sophomore

course-grade. Found it somewhere, and thought it very interesting for

a general ancillary-type reading, nonetheless. Pretty much a linearly

logical approach in all aspects.
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Can you tell me the name of the book?

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 

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