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Hello John,
JL> Dell Tech support was just plain dumb!@ They didnt know what the
JL> problem was ... and their solutions were pitiful. Much time wasted
JL> pursuing dumb solutions.
I worked for http://www.regalasset.com/acval100f1.gif . Even though I
was never known by my name, obvious because they just called me the
quant guy or our black box system designer. I was like a fireman on
call 24/7 - not to do my intended job "modeling" but rather to: run
coaxial cable up elevator shafts, mount satellite dishes on high rise
roofs, run cabling under computer flooring, build new computers,
repair old computers, replace 4 headed stb video cards by the case,
replace back breaking 300 pound battery backups, call and curse out
every vendor that ever sold anything that was ever trading related,
cause we bought it all, assembled trading desk, programmed trading
desk phones, repaired printers, ordered food and desert, empowered
with the "magic card" to purchase every electronic device that man has
ever devised, perform analysis upon it by using and abusing it until
it either broke or we kept it.
I have flown all over the continent with full authority to seek and
destroy every hair brain trading idea any so called "guru" of any
stature "meaning phd or mensa member" has ever dreamed up. my job was
to act dumb ask question's and rip off any idea's and or code I could
wine dine or bribe out of someone. Report back with the goods, program
it, destroy it or trade it, that's the motto. better be good cause we
don't paper trade. never say these word's in our presence understand?
never, maybe, would have, could have, wish, did you see, what the
hell, why did you, elliott, gann , fib, buy options, on and on, but on
the other hand the one word i was allowed to say should be burned in
the mind's of all who came and went there through the years "reboot".
why did they have to disturb my supposedly full time occupation, to
hear me say the the one word that fixed 90 percent of all their
staff's problems? i now know it was my pleasant accent they just liked
to hear.
when I got in this business, it was to become a trader, to this day I
am not a trader. I do know an awful lot about the business of
trading and am told by others that the one thing they envy is not my
models or systems. but my knowledge of being able to basically be
self sufficient "for the most part" as far as the hardware demands of
this business.
There was a time when "remember the magic card" i bought only name
brand products, even back when they were just another clone with a
full page ad in computer shopper magazine like all the rest - talking
about dell. prior to this it was compaq the new kid on the block dare
we not buy an ibm? you have got to be nuts buying something other
than ibm! well in retrospect and millions of dollars latter, guess
what today's clone is tomorrows dell. who's to say i could not become
a manufacturer of computers. you do not get what you pay twice for
that's it in a nut shell. you are paying someone for your ignorance
and money can not buy experience.
although supposedly blessed with this "talent" i reflect and dream of
the day i didn't even know how to turn on a monitor. what a life that
might have been, maybe i would have had the time to become a trader. i
no more a trader that i will ever be, i am a hardware maintainer and a
software junkie of the lowest form. but any trader who has ever
successfully lived thru and understands what i am talking about
probably would not ever go back to purchasing off the shelf it's just
too fulfilling knowing every aspect of your tool's you use.
passionate about hardware ain't i?
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Have a Great Day, Mark
http://www.markbrown.com
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