I’m looking for some board somewhere I can ask questions and read about IT-related questions. I’ve got a lot of questions that would be better addressed at a more specific board.
I’ve always found the people at The Tech Guy Forums to be helpful.
I’ve only gone to them asking about spyware removal, but any time I go my question gets answered quickly and professionally, any time of day.
It seems that their board is a lot like ours - be nice, give a complete rundown of the situation, follow their advice as given and report back. Idiots get the boot.
“IT” is a huge space. Sorta like wanting to read about “Science.”
Do you mean you want info on maintaining your home PC? setting up & maintaining a couple of home PCs connected to a router & the internet? Setting up a home server or two for files or video? Running the infrastructure for a small business with 3 servers, tape backup, 15 desktops, & 4 laptops?
Doing any/all of the above in Windows? Or unix/Linux? Or MacOS?
Then there’s programming, which is a whole 'nother kettle of fish.
Then there’s web site design, development, operations, & maintenance. Actually, that’s 4 areas of expertise with overlap only at the lowish end of the complexity spectrum.
Oh yeah, and database design, programming, and administration. 3 more areas.
And last, but not least, just being a “power user” of ordinary office apps. We field a fair number of “How do I do … in Excel?” questions.
There are websites & messageboards for each of the above, and damn near nobody could read & really get the value from all of them.
If you can tell us the kinds of things you’d want to learn or read about, we could point you in a better direction. Not trying to be a snark, just pointing out that a) the question may be bigger than you thought when you asked it, and b) we (or at least I) can’t read minds real well tonight.
This site is nice and rounded, kind of. Lots of different topics. I get on mainly for PHP and database stuff, but it is pretty busy.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough.
I’m currently studying Computer Science at my University, and I am looking for people talking about careers in IT. Yes, I know it’s a broad topic, but I’d like to get to some place where I make a decision about my future career choice with a lot of opinions.
Is there a collection of such people talking about such things?
I’ll give you an example. I’m looking for a good part-time job while I’m studying. Since I haven’t really nailed down which path I’d like to take, I would prefer to be in a situation where I got advice from all around.
I realize that it is broad, but surely there are places one can go to get a pretty broad slice that is focused more on technology.
I would think that a place like Slashdot would be good except they don’t have a forum. They are focused on “news for nerds” and that involves a lot of tech. I’d love to have a gathering of such people but in forum-form.