Referred by Seth

[AdvancedSetup]

Hello,

 

I'm here from an invite from Seth at KH.

 

Background:

 

ASE Mechanic Certified

Electronics Degree

MCSE

Unix Admin Certified (many years ago, so not up to date at all with it)

MS Partner (in progress)

 

Mechanic for about 12 years

Electronic Design, Assembly

Electronic Estimating

Proprietary Database Support

 

70K desktops company (12 years)

Desktop Support

Back Office Automation Support

Computer Security Operations

Network Administrator

LAN/WAN Supervisor

Taught various classes on general computing for Analysts as well as MS Office

 

Self employed (1 year)

Convert 20 Server NT4 Domain and setup Windows Active Directory 2003/Exchange 2003

 

Current Administrator/Moderator at http://www.kixtart.org (Microsoft Logon Scripting)

Moderator on UBB Threads development site (main site: http://www.ubbcentral.com )

 

 

I enjoy helping others while also learning myself. I do not typically participate in any "fan boy" discussions about applications or operating systems. If you like the application or the OS that's fine with me. I may offer other alternatives, but I won't be dogmatic about it and if I think you are I will probably discontinue posting on that topic as I find such conversation a waste of time. No one pays me to pimp their OS or Application

 

Hope this site works out well and hope to have a good time here while helping others and learning new things myself.

 

Cheers.

[help4me]

Welcome :) Glad to have you here :)

[Seth]

Thanks for joining Advanced Setup.

 

Your expertise is most welcome.

[Guest imported_Mike]

Welcome and many thanks for joining...

 

You certainly have some experience under your belt which will come in use. :)

 

Mike @ FPH

[petef]

I enjoy helping others while also learning myself. I do not typically participate in any "fan boy" discussions about applications or operating systems. If you like the application or the OS that's fine with me. I may offer other alternatives' date=' but I won't be dogmatic about it and if I think you are I will probably discontinue posting on that topic as I find such conversation a waste of time. No one pays me to pimp their OS or Application[/quote']

Welcome AdvancedSetup!

Your position stated above is admirable.

 

I never heard the term "fan boy" before, but I assume you are referring to topics

about programs or operating systems where people take sides according to their

favorite product preference and engage in long winded discussions defending their

favorite and bashing anything else. I agree that is a waste of time.

 

On the other hand, I think it can be productive to engage in discussions that

compare the features of one program or OS against another as long as it's

done in a professional manner and as obectively as possible.

Would you agree with that?

 

---pete---

[AdvancedSetup]

Hi Pete,

 

Yes absolutely as long as that was the objective and you all agree that you're attempting to provide PROS/CONS as to a reason for selecting a specific piece of software and NOT just because for some unknown reason you just love it. That should be the stated objective though and not just fly by posts USE LINUX, USE MAC, USE WINDOWS, or FireFox, IE, etc...

 

As Mike says, he wants to go with VBulletin (which I may disagree with, but I won't push UBBT down his throat, but if he wants I would gladly review options, reasons for selecting UBBT over VBulletin, if not then I'll drop it as I don't gain anything financially from it.)

 

Thanks for the Welcome Pete.

[RandyL]

Hi AdvancedSetup;

Sure is great to have you here. Impressive credentials. I like your style already.

RandyL

[DSTM]

Hi AdvancedSetup,Welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.Great to have you on board, and your Technical help will be much appreciated.

[AdvancedSetup]

Thanks for the Welcome guys.

 

Not many posts here to help with though at the moment. Seems that most of the recent ones are from around the Holidays and many seem to be from the one time posters that never seem to find there way back to the forum.

 

Will stop by now and then though to see what's up.

 

NT

[petef]

As Mike says' date=' he wants to go with VBulletin (which I may disagree with, but I won't push UBBT down his throat, but if he wants I would gladly review options, reasons for selecting UBBT over VBulletin, if not then I'll drop it as I don't gain anything financially from it.)[/quote']

I'm not familiar with UBBT.

Can you provide a link to a UBBT forum that you feel is setup very well?

 

I've used many forums over the years and so far, vBulletin seems the

best, but for my own personal knowledge, I'm always interested in checking

out something that might be better.

 

What do you feel UBBT has over vBulletin?

 

---pete---

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Hello and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help Advanced

 

Thank you for joining.

 

I have PM'd you so please look at the top of the page regarding notification of new messages.

[AdvancedSetup]

I've used many forums over the years and so far, vBulletin seems the

best, but for my own personal knowledge, I'm always interested in checking

out something that might be better.

 

What do you feel UBBT has over vBulletin?

 

---pete---

Well you can look at these posts for more information which probably sums it up.

Version 7.3 is in beta right now and has a ton of new features

 

Here is a list of the current 7.2.2 features

http://www.ubbcentral.com/features.php

 

7.3 Change Log

http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/196552

 

 

The Spotlight forum has links to sites that are running UBBT

 

UBB Threads Commnity

http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php

 

Community Spotlight

http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/41/page/1

 

 

VBulletin was based off of UBB many years ago. It is a rewrite now days though

http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/

 

In 2004 VBulletin was at version 3.0 now almost 4 years later it is at 3.6x

(not a solid indicator, but a potential indicator that development is slow)

 

 

What does UBB have to offer me?

http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/204379

 

UBB - IPB - vB ?

http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=190082

 

Pre-Sales Questions

http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/40

 

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