How Technically Savvy Are You?

Henry Plainview wrote:

^Never trust guys with beards. 
That's Teddy, I do believe...


Edited by Slartibartfast - April 28 2009 at 04:55

I'm so useless I can't even fix my broken avatar.

Ouch, Solid State math is an utter bitch from hell.

Dean wrote: I have tried chip design using Verilog in the past

I used to be quite proficient in VHDL (similar to Verilog in its goal, anyways) - I programmed a complete radar processing subsystem on FPGAs in that language as my first job out of college.  Sadly, programming is like any other learned language - if you don't use it, you lose it, and at this point it's been so many years since I sat down to write a piece of VHDL code that I'd almost have to learn from scratch.

Dean wrote: I can program machine code and assembler for Z80 and 680x0 processors

Which I'm sure you were doing when I was still in nappies. 

Dean wrote: I'm an electronics engineer specialising in mixed signal and DSP, covering frequencies from just below RF down to subsonics. Software forms a major part of what I do, but it is only a tool needed to do my job much like a 'scope or a spectrum analyser is. I have tried chip design using Verilog in the past but I wasn't quite smart enough (okay at layout though). I'm an IT manager by default on a mixed PC and Sun network and I hate it - brain the size of a planet, been on MCP courses, can build servers from scratch and all I do is change frigging ink cartridges.   I can program machine code and assembler for Z80 and 680x0 processors, but lost interest when the 80186 came along so I've never really bothered learning the ins and outs of programming the PC to that depth, but find VisualBasic does most of what I need on that platform. C is a doddle, C++ and C# have the ability to do my head in at times so I have a bad habit of dropping into C when I get lost, but generally I can fumble my way around.   On this scale I'd say I'm 4.8 since I may have been able to hack at sometime in the dim and distant past, or not, but you can't prove anything and I'll deny it anyway and I may have been involved in cracking at sometime too, or I may not, again, you can't prove anything, and if you can then it wasn't me. Okay?

Please see the above.

I understand nothing of that post - not a jot - nada - zilch - I thought C++ was the autocensor kicking in

I am without a doubt a complete & total dren retupmoc

I have a couple of people to promote, but I have to ask other admins how to do it.

Complete and utter techno-thickie and proud of it

That's about how I was before I started college. If if didn't help me, I didn't learn it. Come to think of it, I still kinda am that way, although now I will occasionally go off and learn something that I find interesting. I'm also going to build a zelda deathmatch in QT this summer. Should be fun.

I'm a 2 as well. 

I suppose that I'm a 2, but as a little kid, I was above all my friends, a real nerd, to say the least, was playing all the games and knew every stuff, that my friends are doing right now :P

I am about to start college for programming, but I know some VB6 which was kind of useless except to teach basic programming skills, and I have been playing with python for a while, which is fun. I can make a basic looking html page with CSS as long as I have w3schools open, but I never properly learned anything about that, I just spent a week following examples and learning some syntax. Over the summer before school starts I think I will start into C++ or java, I learn more from experimenting on my own anyway. As far as networking is concerned I don't know anything, mostly because I have never learned anything about it, and as far as "hacking" is concerned I don't know anything about that either, but I have my eyes on a book that teaches some pretty useful stuff.


Edited by A Person - April 25 2009 at 15:37