When do you considered a person to be tech-savvy?

[rudeguy]

Pretty sure windows won't be able to see anything if there's a passcode lock on the device.

Well, I think that's how it works on my wife's non-upgraded 4s.

Just the pics.

 

[surfsatwerk]

They solve their own tech problems, or have enough sense to toss it and buy a new one.

 

[wabbitslayer]

When they know enough to know what they don't know.

This.

Here's an example of non-tech savvy.....

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2368873

thought that was gonna be a link to the guy that was recently RMA'ing his mobo after he shorted it out by not installing it with stand-offs

 

[ImpulsE69]

When they figure out you never need to pay for porn or install a "viewer" to see it.

 

[olds]

Build a computer, no.
Use a cmd prompt,yes

 

[JackBurton]

when they can pull 13gb of photos and vids out of my aunt's iphone without installing itunes/icloud and not having access to wifi/internet.

i gave up and told her to get a better phone. im not gonna pull my hairs out for this one

I would call you not tech savvy.

 

[Oyeve]

When they can do a 1/1 interleave on an STFM controller and winchester drive.

 

[Tweak155]

Not that they only built the computer, but can tell me all the parts and the speeds they run at (including bus speeds). Then I'd consider it.

 

[gorcorps]

When they can do a 1/1 interleave on an STFM controller and winchester drive.

winchester is a gun, not a drive

silly goose

 

[Oyeve]

winchester is a gun, not a drive

silly goose

IBM 3340[edit]
The IBM 3340 Direct Access Storage Facility, code-named Winchester, was introduced in March 1973 for use with IBM System/370.[29] Its removable disk packs were sealed and included the head and arm assembly. There was no cover to remove during the insertion process. Access time was 25 millisecond and data transferred at 885 kB/s. Three versions of the removable IBM 3348 Data Module were sold, one with 35 megabyte capacity, another with 70 megabytes, the third also had 70 megabytes, but with 500 kilobytes under separate fixed heads for faster access. The 3340 also used error correction. It was withdrawn in 1984.
The 3340 was developed in San Jose under the leadership of Ken Haughton. Early on the design was focused on two removable 30 megabyte modules. Because of this 30/30 configuration, the code name Winchester was selected after the famous Winchester .30-30 rifle;[30] subsequently the capacities were increased, but the code name stuck.
The significance of this product, and the reason that disk drives in general became known as "Winchester technology" had nothing to do with the configuration of the product. This was IBM's first drive to not unload the heads from the media. The Winchester technology allowed the head to land and take off from the disk media as the disk spun up and down. This resulted in very significant savings and a large reduction of complexity of the head and arm actuating mechanism. This rapidly became a standard design within the disk manufacturing community.
The name stuck in the USSR, Hungary and possibly other countries as an umbrella term for all hard drives; it is still in wide use today.

 

[Tweak155]

^ Whoosh? Or sarcasm in return?

 

[mikeford]

Tech saavy is the ability to fix a computer built by an ID 10 T includinng MS OS installed.

 

[mikeford]

First removable drive was in the IBM 1130, something like 100k on the disc. Track access time was in seconds, but it worked.

 

[wabbitslayer]

Anyone who gets this (w/o having to look it up) can be considered tech-savvy:

 

[rudeguy]

Anyone who gets this (w/o having to look it up) can be considered tech-savvy:

Hint: fuck.you.linus.eat.me.tar.gz is not a valid command

 

[Oyeve]

^ Whoosh? Or sarcasm in return?

Return.

 

[jagec]

Anyone who gets this (w/o having to look it up) can be considered tech-savvy:

Does "man tar" count?

 

[JumBie]

Someone who can trouble shoot problems with their computer and take the necessary steps to solve them.

 

[Kaido]

A person is tech savvy when they don't have to ask me computer questions.

I appreciate those people at work.

 

[tortillasoup]

Building a computer is easy, but as I've learned from my last core i7 build, building a computer that actually is stable, is not cut and dry. I'd say the early 2000's were easier as hardware was not as fussy. Ram etc.. basically worked if it fits. Now you have to check compatibility lists and all that crap and DOA/flaky hardware is all too common and it's rare a brand new build "just works", whether there's faulty hardware somewhere and you have to play the "buy a new one and try it" game or perhaps some kind of incompatibility or known issue etc... Having to cross reference compatibility lists can be tedius as the product IDs they use may not be searchable on whatever retailer you use as they may not use the same product IDs so trying to find a motherboard and ram that is certified compatible, at a single retailer, can be tedious.

I've been fighting with my build for over a year now figuring out why I have so many random issues. I had solved the worse of it by changing the video card, which is something I just took a guess at, and bought another. But now I have random lockups. It makes it worse when the problems are not reproducible but instead, only happen randomly a few times per month. Random lockups are the worst too as they don't generate any kind of logs.

Someone who can figure out problems like this off the top of their head would be what I'd consider tech savvy. But simply building a computer that can boot, that's fairly standard and easy to do. The average person thinks it's really complicated but if you were to show them I'm sure it would be easy to teach someone how to do it.

What surprises me though is the amount of tech/IT people who are tech savvy in their field but don't know even basic programming. I worked in a few IT shops and I was usually the only person that knew basic coding. Was actually frustrating as that created an environment where custom code or even open source software was not allowed, making life harder in certain situations.

Are you using a decent power supply? Maybe you should switch out power supplies and or the motherboard.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Just build a pc? no, build it, test it, run it stable, perform pd successfully...savvy.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

when they can pull 13gb of photos and vids out of my aunt's iphone without installing itunes/icloud and not having access to wifi/internet.

i gave up and told her to get a better phone. im not gonna pull my hairs out for this one

You have my sympathies.

iPhone shows up under My Computer on Windows 7. iOS presents a fake thumb drive with photos and video. (But nothing else.)

Image Capture utility (Applications folder on a Mac) also will do the job.

Or the SD card / camera attachment. ($30 iPhone accessory.)

 

[Jaepheth]

When they stop asking me and start doing their own Google searches