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What's New at Xtreme Computer? Read on and you'll see.

First and foremost I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Murray and I have been the XC Tech (XCTech) for Xtreme Computer online since 2002 when I setup the domain name. (If you need to know, my first formal training was in 1982 covering IBM, Digital and NEC equipment and patch programming.)

This is a Self Help and IT Coached / Assisted Help Community. If you need a technician to help visit the service link and click on the Help Desk.

Search is your best friend when you are looking for articles that I published over 2 years ago.

XtremeComputer.Com Community at a Glance:

About the Community: This is where you will find some local announcements like some of the Technical Challenges I'll be making online as well as workshops that you might be interested in.

Do IT Yourself: This is a Self Help Section covering some of the items I have seen that most computer users should know. It ranges from beginner help to advanced server help for those Weekend IT Admin types.

Computer Buying Guide: This is so I can help you get the computer that I don't have to fix later. It's important to know how to buy a computer and how to buy a computer is based on its components not the keyboard, mouse and monitor. Learn as I go over what you should know. Bring your aspirins or just by a brand name and skip reading what technicians do.

Computer Boot Camp: This is my new form of training. I developed this after I figured I repeat myself on average 5 times each week. In Boot Camp you wouldn't ask the DI the same question every day would you? (Not if you had any sense) So if you email me a question and I don't respond to it in 5 days it means I've answer it. This section also offers some workshops that you might like if you're looking to learn Microsoft products and are not a member of TechNet or MSDN. It's fun, trust me and my old DI would endorse this 100%.

Application Developers: This is for the App People that are just starting or have been doing it since 1982 or is that 1984? Anyway, I've had a few apps in my time and like it enough that I'll be setting up some application servers to test market apps. If you're a developer and don't trust a sole with your app then you might feel good here because we don't either. I also publish apps that have security issues which might be why you are here via search results.

Web Development: This section is only going to cover a few of the classical things that really make a developer a developer and a Template based developer a developer with a cookie cutter. It covers typical website issues and design. Not much I can say because I haven't changed my design root in over 10 years. Find your design and keep it yours. No Office Staff pictures from Photo bucket.

Security Topics: This is a good section for those that are interested in Network and Computer security. Now, I will tell you up front I will not discuss my specifics or my background but I will use examples I find online and they will be active examples. In short, I use poorly secured sites as examples in my articles. Are you in one? (no names, just IPs and Ports)

Technicians Zone: This is when I need to ask or discuss issues with other technicians. You might be from Florida and have the same question or be from a local shop here in town. When you're the tech and you have a question who's your mentor? I have a few but it's not always their field of expertise. Technicians Zone is for IT Professionals with a Programming and Tool bag/box carrying background.

Xtreme Computer Builds! Yes, XtremeComputer.Com will be bring back the extreme computer build worksheets and pages soon. After seeing what many are calling Xtreme Computers I think it's time to set the record straight and get a few heavy duty workstations and gamer systems published. It's more than just water cooling and over-clocking in designing any xtreme computer. It's power, speed and the ability to run 24/7 years on end burning up power supplies and trashing hard drives running the old spindle motors.

Enjoy your stay!

Murray W.