Old enought to be in a mueseum. xD

LOL You think that's old, you should see their industrial fuse box~

OH MY GOD..

old phone porn..

<3 <3

TAKE MORE PHOTOS OF THIS KINDA STUFF, and I'll DEFINITELY send you lunch money..

hahahahahaha HAHAHAH

also how did you get this job, what / where did you go to school for this?

LOLNO.

I'm not qualified. Like... at all. I learned all this on my own, just like everything else I know how to do. it's fucking great. I just show up and I'm like, "HAI, I'M UR PHONE/NETWORK GUY. 8D GIMME ACCESS TO UR MAINFRAME AND D-MARK PLZ." ...and they do whatever I tell them. >u> ...they live in fear of their district manager yelling at them I guess. lmao

Hell I can walk into the back room of a wal-mart all the fucking time and people never ask me anymore. Sometimes I'm not even working there - I just want my soda bottle that hasn't been stocked yet~ eue The last time I did one of those jobs, they let me into their server room without even asking who I was. loooooooool

do you run your own business for this then?

took your personal knowledge, and just stuck a magnetic sticker on your van, and that's in a nutshell how you do this for a living?

I WANNA KNOW DETAILS..

oxo

I'm rapt with attention, and wanting a tecchy bed time story..

pwease

lol Kay. xD

Well basically a friend of mine introduced me to this guy that used to run an IT company that was a subcontractor for a much bigger company that contracts out for... well... the majority of our modern day commercial businesses/industry. The best thing about this is... they don't know how old I am, they don't require me to be qualified, and they don't care! |D They just call me when they need someone!

...and my phone's been ringing off the hook lately. o3o; So dis is gewd~ Believe me, it's been a godsend and I would be starving and desperate without it. The pay is freaking fantastic, but the work is random. I never know when I'm gonna get paid, or how much it's going to be.

So.. yeah. xD

oxo

So you have a company and a boss you report to, who's an old freind?

No boss really. They give me a work order and a phone number if I need it. I just call when I'm done. ouo

And while I may not be qualified, I'll have you know I'm damn good at what I do. ;)

oxo

I told someone at a museum in .. Michigan?

They had an OLD OLD OLD telephone exchange board, with the brass plugs and the cotton woven insulation type wire..

"I can repair that and make it work for you.." to a curator..

I have a book from the .. 50's? I think, that my Grandpa let me have, which details old telephone and electrical and alarm circuitry.

The schematics are semi-modern, the components are DRAWN, but the wires are still modern straight lines.

I learned ALOT and that little book used to be a bible for me.

I still have it, and I added a soft foam plastic, to be it's new cover, and protect it.

Gave it to my son for an Xmas 2X Xmas ago, but I stole it back to .. borrow.. or something.



~Kiyote!

D'awwww... xD

I dunno where I learned everything I know. o3o; Bits come from the internet I guess... others come from personal experience. Very few things did my stepdad teach me. He knows a lot but he never tells me anything, so I learn it all on my own (he hated when I learned how to use SSH - I got dangerous real quick. LOL). I learned how to hack my own video games, hack my mac, and back when I used to have a PC (like when I was 12 or something), I did some shit on that. My friend and I developed a virus for the PC about two years ago that was basically the file version of a forkbomb~ That was magical. xD It was just for fun tho.

Then I've got my own renderfarm I used for my 3D stuff that I built myself. Took a bit of programming and good networking skills to get that functioning properly. I learned how to set up my own firewall, NAT, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, VPN, and a bit of SQL. ...so yeah, I know enough to be very dangerous in a server room. xD Beyond that, I'm very comfortable working on hardware. I've swapped enough power supplies and motherboards to do it in about five minutes.

ouo

o.q indeed..

we must have tea sometime and discuss things that are brass, copper, and silicon..

lolomg. xD

Seriously. Get ur butt on ebay or go find an IT dumpster and get your hands on a 1U server to play with. ouo You'll learn a lot about servers by setting up your own. And trust me, there is nothing more awesome than having your own epilepsy-inducing machine in the basement running your server 24/7. They scream like a banshee and have modular hardware that is absolutely orgasmic to work on. |D

Just. Get. One.

You'll see what I mean.

haha.. oxo

I hope I'm not too forward..

but, do you want my email so we can trade war stories back and forth?

You can just note me. xD I hardly ever check my numerous non-personal email accounts...

okie dokie

Wires... wires everywhere!

Got nuff wire~? ouo

Nu, not enough! NEEDS MOAR.

AMG~ klsahgkjhgkjlahkjhglhdklgj *adds moar*

!!
TV show ideeeaaaa~! :'D
Repairing with Raiyou~

LOL

...and hooking up your iPod to the PA system IS JUST THAT EASY! 8DDDD (I do that sometimes when I work late at night. lol)

Blasting out the neighborhood with nice music, are you? xD

Blasting out the shitty tinny speakers more like. xD

Looks almost as bad a security system I had to upkeep after it was done 5 years ago by an unorganized asshat. I never seen such an atrocity in my life but this looks pretty damn close to that nightmare. Glad I don't mess with any of that stuff anymore. It's easy once you do it a few times but it takes sooooo freaking long I feel like ripping the wires out of the wall and boards. lol

I just tone 'em out untangle and repunch to the 66 block if necessary when I don't know what it is. c: Easier than trying to read the last monkey's handwriting. xD ...and it only takes maybe 10 seconds to rewire something.

Most of the stuff I find in back rooms is pretty offensive to me. It works, but just barely. However, when you're not getting paid per hour, you learn not to touch it~ Believe me, this isn't the worst pain in the ass I've come across.

That doesn't sound to bad. I had to replace wires in walls for the sensors and shit and sometimes the wire decides to not come out where it was supposed to. It's like taking a stick and poking at a really tiny hole on a giant wall while blindfolded. lol Would've been easier if my genius boss didn't lose the wire fisher in the wall, which to this day I can't fathom how he did.

I got payed per job so I know what you mean. If I got payed hourly for what I used to do I'd have a nice car and wouldn't sleep on a couch. XD

Haha... xD I hear ye.

I usually get paid per job as well... so I work fast to keep my hourly rate (figured by amount of payment/time at work) from getting too sucky. P: Usually my payment comes out to something pretty nice. On a bad day I'm making 30 bucks an hour. ...but I don't get steady work either.

If I was you, I'd tear out the whole wall, re-drywall, spackle, and paint it, and be done in an hour. xD

I was anywhere between $25 to $60 if you took the time it took to do a job and how much of cut I got out of each job. Working with idiots like I used to a couple hour job turned into a 2 day job. There were times when the money wasn't worth dealing with peoples stupidity. I hate having to do something 3 or 4 times cause they keep going over what I do and fuck it up. Now I get payed $125 a day and work on a yacht but it's also not steady work. I would do the hourly math on that but sometimes I show up and work the whole day and sometimes we're only there for an hour or 2.

I could do all that in an hour if the spackle dried that fast. XD Even with a heat gun it would take at least 2.5 to 3 hours...unless I plaster the fucker, then it would take me like 30 minutes. lmao

lol Ya... Again, I agree. I'm forever cleaning up after the last guy. >_>;

woot his guys a phreaker!