fun TE facts! :)

snadam

Here is what I got so far:

There are ~26 members with the word 'Jedi' in thier name

jedi  
Jedi Knight 
JEDI-KNIGHT 
JEDI/TECH 
Jedi2155 
jedian 
jedibarneybarnes 
jedidagger 
jedidiah012 
jedidrw 
JediEnigma 
jedigeek 
jedijee 
jediknight 
JediM28 
jediman 
jedimastr 
jediren 
jedispock74 
jedisteve666 
jediweapon  
JediWireless 
jediz19 
jedi_5ive_11ven 
jedi_k9master 
jedi_master_tech

your turn!

dynamik

There are only a few thousand less posts in the CCNA/CCENT forum than all the MS forums combined.

royal

royal posted on june 4th at 5:10pm that he is hungry because he is hungry. At 5:11pm, royal goes to search for food to eat to rectify his issue.

Claymoore

dynamik wrote:

There are only a few thousand less posts in the CCNA/CCENT forum than all the MS forums combined.

Which would be impressive except half of those posts are people asking for advice on what to purchase for a home lab...

Here is a personal one:
I have passed the same number of IT exams in the 9 years BEFORE I joined TE as I have in the 6 months SINCE I joined. I guess this site works.

royal

Really though, a fun fact. I joined this site when I had only an A+, Network+, and MCP+ and was still a noob with only 3 months of experience. Look at my join date. I've accomplished a LOT since I have joined. A lot of it is thanks to TE and being able to converse with people who share similar goals. Thanks TE!

astorrs

TE posters average 99.97 posts/day of which the moderators account for 12.24%

And coincidentally tomorrow is the 6th "birthday" of the new forums.

blargoe

73 new members today so far.

Slowhand

I don't know how "fun" it is, but I was only A+ certified back in late October of 2005 when I first joined this forum. I took Security+ that Halloween, and went on to do MCSA, CCNA, Linux+, and not nearly enough drugs. Career-wise, I'd just come off a job at CompUSA, working as a PC technician, and had just started a job doing helpdesk work for Kaiser Permanente. In the time since, I've worked as a systems engineer in the NOC of a datacenter/ISP, and as a systems administrator for an IT outsourcing firm.

astorrs

Slowhand, were you at Kaiser when they did their Citrix rollout? That was probably the most badly managed project I've ever seen/heard about.

bighornsheep

I remember the spring/summer of 2006 on TE when a whole gang of us joined and was pursuing MS certs, royal (I think he was called rcroyal then?), lukequake are ones that come to mind, Mark (sprkymrk) were providing lots of help and support!

Like many of us, I started with just my A+ & MCP working as a PC tech at a local computer shop, today I have a few more certs, completed my B.Sc. and is managing a mid-sized multi-vendor network with more than 50 switches, routers and firewalls.

Slowhand

astorrs wrote:

Slowhand, were you at Kaiser when they did their Citrix rollout? That was probably the most badly managed project I've ever seen/heard about.

Thankfully, I was gone by the time the Citrix demon reared its ugly head. The funny thing is, I was supposed to be working on security issues and virus remediation for Kaiser, since so many hospitals had issues with people bringing in laptops and/or not properly patching machines. The one I worked for was one of the few that didn't have these issues, so they just kept me on doing helpdesk work. Badly organized. . . that's putting it mildly.

dynamik

In an attempt to appease blargoe, I created this thread: What have you accomplished since you came to TE?

HeroPsycho

From the acronyms of certifications contained in the forum listings, only two do not have a single letter in common with [url]www.techexams.net:[/url]

PDI and LPI

This random fact was brought to you by the Fraternity of Sheer Boredom!

Slowhand

HeroPsycho wrote:

From the acronyms of certifications contained in the forum listings, only two do not have a single letter in common with [url]www.techexams.net:[/url]

PDI and LPI

This random fact was brought to you by the Fraternity of Sheer Boredom!

I don't know if the fact that you figured that out makes me laugh, or just want to cry. . . a lot.

HeroPsycho

Slowhand wrote:

I don't know if the fact that you figured that out makes me laugh, or just want to cry. . . a lot.

Me, too, man... Me, too...

Schluep

There are 395 threads still contining the word "****." Most of them refer to dumping data and the rest are large numbers of members on the offense against even the mention of the term as a possibility. A great testament to the quality of members here and the moderation of this board as I see it.

Sie

Not got much to add so i'll just add this:

Domain Name: techexams.net

Created on..............: Fri, Mar 22, 2002
Expires on..............: Sun, Mar 22, 2009
Record last updated on..: Tue, Apr 17, 2007

Mishra

Fun fact: I don't know what I'm doing!

JDMurray

Fun fact: This month is the 6th anniversary of TechExams.net.

dynamik

JDMurray wrote:

Fun fact: This month is the 6th anniversary of TechExams.net.

Less fun fact: I've only been here 15 months

<== TE Noob

JDMurray

dynamik wrote:

Less fun fact: I've only been here 15 months

<== TE Noob

May be, but you'll get to 4000 posts before I do.

sthomas

Top ten posters as of 6/06/08.

1 Webmaster 52n31, 6e06 05 Jun 2002 8493
2 sprkymrk Charleston, SC 21 Feb 2006 4688
3 mikej412 Chicago NW 'burbs 23 May 2005 4201
4 JDMurray Surf City USA 06 Jul 2003 3679
5 Ricka182 Somewhere in Time.... 15 May 2003 3340
6 janmike Springville IN 11 May 2003 2884
7 dynamik St. Paul, MN 13 Mar 2007 2858
8 Plantwiz here 02 Feb 2005 2597
9 royal Chicago, IL 14 Jul 2006 2382
10 Slowhand Bay Area, CA 25 Oct 2005 2081

I am at 30, right bellow my username is bellboy who I have never seen post here before.

Another one, the first 150 people who joined techexams have 0 posts (excluding webmaster) and the first user to join was on June 6th 2002 and his username was Adam.

michael_knight

Ohh I didn't tell you Jedi is my MIDDLE name Michael "Jedi Mind Tricks" Knight

snadam

michael_knight wrote:

Ohh I didn't tell you Jedi is my MIDDLE name Michael "Jedi Mind Tricks" Knight

ok ok, 27 users with Jedi!

actually the stat is 26 usernames that START with JEDI. Im way too lazy to go through all the names w/jedi in them.

gojericho0

Is there anyway to see how many users have been exiled from techexams since the beginning?

dynamik

gojericho0 wrote:

Is there anyway to see how many users have been exiled from techexams since the beginning?

I'm sure Webmaster has some stats somewhere. It's probably a lot because of all the spammers. I don't think us mere mortals can find that information publicly available though.

However, more prominent members such as Darby and Aquabat have earned themselves the [banned] suffix

Those are the only two in the top 200 posters.

Mishra

oh I didn't know aqua was actually banned... I knew he didn't have that great of a reputation.

Tyrant1919

What'd he do?

networker050184

He was what we in the industry refer to as a jackass.

dynamik

networker050184 wrote:

He was what we in the industry refer to as a jackass.

That sums it up nicely. Basically, he just wasn't able to have a rational conversation and was quite immature. He got banned (I assume) for the thread where he tore into a bunch of moderators and made things personal. That thread no longer exists, but this thread is representative of his style: http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30580

That's definitely worth a read, just for Keatron's response.

astorrs

"hacker chi"