I'm sitting here at school, blazing a path of victory through the A+ course. I'm currently working through something called LabSims, which is a simulation that allows you to hook a computer up in a virtual environment. In the tutorial videos, the man was explaining how to hook up a computer, and referenced the male and female ends of a cable, and I just thought it was interesting how the terminology for these connectors came about..

The A+ course itself is actually quite easy. It's a self-paced course, and it's a lot of reading. The book itself is the 7th edition, and is about 1300 page long. It's not that the book is long, but the content is very dry, and I came into this course knowing a ton about computers and the industry already..

And that is why I'm sitting here blogging as opposed to reading.

Good thing it's friday. Friday. Gotta get down on friday.

SilentCrono

United States1420 Posts

May 13 2011 17:55 GMT

Looking forward to the weeeeeeeekend! partying partying yea! fun fun fun fun...

tofucake

Hyrule19022 Posts

May 13 2011 18:13 GMT

You see....when a male connector and a female connector fall in love, the male connector inserts his thing into the female connector, and then bits start zooming all over.

DivinO

United States4796 Posts

May 13 2011 18:21 GMT

On May 14 2011 03:13 tofucake wrote:
You see....when a male connector and a female connector fall in love, the male connector inserts his thing into the female connector, and then bits start zooming all over.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOFUCAKE!

tofucake

Hyrule19022 Posts

May 13 2011 18:22 GMT

It's only my birthday in Korea

10 hours until it is for real!

But ty

Gahlo

United States35121 Posts

May 13 2011 18:29 GMT

On May 14 2011 02:39 HackBenjamin wrote:
The A+ course itself is actually quite easy. It's a self-paced course, and it's a lot of reading. The book itself is the 7th edition, and is about 1300 page long. It's not that the book is long, but the content is very dry, and I came into this course knowing a ton about computers and the industry already..

Oh man you are so right. Reading that book is a horror and almost makes me hate computers. Then I put it down for an hour and it wears off. =D

Gatsbi

United States1134 Posts

May 13 2011 18:32 GMT

There's also hermaphroditic connectors too!

True story

LaSt)ChAnCe

United States2179 Posts

May 13 2011 19:12 GMT

not to be a dick... but why would you take a course for the A+, since you said you have experience and knowledge... and the test is super easy

Sight-

184 Posts

May 13 2011 19:26 GMT

How did the terminology come about?

101toss

3232 Posts

May 13 2011 19:37 GMT

#10

Can two male connectors fall in love?

tofucake

Hyrule19022 Posts

May 13 2011 19:39 GMT

#11

On May 14 2011 04:37 101toss wrote:

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Can two male connectors fall in love?

No. They can be joined at the hip though.

HackBenjamin

Canada1094 Posts

May 13 2011 19:39 GMT

#12

On May 14 2011 04:12 LaSt)ChAnCe wrote:
not to be a dick... but why would you take a course for the A+, since you said you have experience and knowledge... and the test is super easy

It's intergrated into my Network Engineering course, don't really have a choice

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

May 13 2011 19:47 GMT

#13

Oh god the A+ course is fucking boring as hell.

"herp derp VGA cables herp derp this is binary herp derp types of networks herp derp"

I took it in...my Junior year in high school, IIRC, as part of a computer engineering course.

...My teacher was pretty cool though and was like "I know you all know this crap already, pass the test and you can do w/e you want in the class" so we just played Brood War. Hahaha.