In our latest interview session, we present Tracer76 and prtuc2. Fellow user TempestKing conducts the Q&A.
Tracer76
Name: Devin
Aliases: Tracer76. Tracer, DJ
Age: 31 but feel like oh 108 some days LOL
Gender: Male
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Current System:
OS: Windows XP, Vista and RedHat Fadura core 7.2
Video Card: XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Fatality (256 MB) X2 in SLI
Sound Card: Creaticve X-FI Fatality
Motherboard: MSI K9N4 SLI (MS-7325)
CPU: AMD Athlon AM2 Duel core 3800+
HDD: 3 X500 Gig WD SATA 7200RPM
Optical drives: 2 X MSI DVD R/W drives
RAM: Corsair XMS2 CM2X1024-6400 2Gigs
Case: CoolMaster Stacker 830
Dream System:
Keep every thing but the video, CPU and motherboard.
Up the Video to a 8800GTX in SLI
CPU to a 6000+ AM2 by AMD
And the Ram to another 2gigs or so.
Motherboard: Either a Asus or Gigabyte as long as it works and does not blow up, oh wait now I know what happened to that K5.
Occupation:
IT Security Engineer with Cisco
Favorite Type of Music?
Rap, Techno, R&B. Trance, Club, ok everything but country music.
Favorite Game?
CS:S and Battlefield 2142 I like these both equally
TP Over / Under? Over
What is your most treasured possession?
My family other items if lost or stolen does not bother me but when it comes to my family no one better mess with them. I can always replace a car, home, PCs ect.. but I can not replace my family. I don’t class family as a possession at all but they do mean more to me then anything else that can be bought.
Your favorite color: Black and dark blue
Who is your favorite Eggxpert?
I like them all and really. I can not pick or choose, they all are great people and good to know.
What is the air speed velocity of a swallow?
Humm is it this :
LOL 
What is your #1 Geeky obsession?
PCs and only PCs I have more parts for them then I know what to do with at times.
Favorite Food?
Italian and Mexican yummmmmmm fooood
What is your favorite place to visit?
Canada to see family and god is it a large family it takes me about a month to see all of them. This includes to stay over.
List 3 Places you want to travel to... Russia, Norway and Northern Japan
Any plans for taking over the world?
Ummm yes opps did I say that. but shhhhhhh no one knows that yet. LOL
What is your favorite quote?
Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself By FDR
What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
Humm can we say what it is, JK…. Ok beer and beer and umm oh yeah beer, LOL
Favorite Book?
True Crime books like COP and The boys from New Jersey. COP has to do with Watts riots and is written by a LAPD officer also is very graphic in detail. The other book deals with the MOB and how they beat the Feds several times.
What is your area of Tech expertise?
I would have to say networking. I have built PCs and played with some C++ but that really does not appeal to me at times. I like to trace people on the network and mess with them at times epically in the office .
One of my favorite commands on a Cisco router is...
Erase, restart, reload
What is your “good deed” of the year?
Giving back to the community of where I grew up, sending loaded backpacks to kids and families that can not afford supplies for school. And helping out my parents when they need it.
What is your favorite thing about Eggxpert?
I would have to say how helpful the community can be. There are so many points of view here, and with all the help we all do learn from each other as well.
What is the one thing you want to see happen to Eggxpert?
Well that is a very good question, I will have to get back to you on that one. There are a lot of good things here but there always room for improvement. I just have to figure out how to phrase it so that some people here are not offended I hate walking on eggshells.
prtuc2
Name: Gary
Aliases: prtuc2
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Current System:CPU: Q6600
Mobo: intel bad axe 2
Ram: G.skill 2GB + Patriot 2GB
Video: EVGA 8800gts 320mb superclocked
heatsink: thermalright ultima 90 w/ silverstone case 120mm fan
HDD: WD 750GB AAKS
Optical drive: sony Dru-830A
Case: Antec 900
Monitor: BenQ 20.1
Dream System: Same as above, pretty happy my system.
Occupation: student
Favorite Type of Music? country music, classic music, chinese music
Favorite Game? final fantasy 7 (PS1)
TP Over / Under? sometimes under and sometimes over.
What is your most treasured possession? my pc system
Your favorite color: blue
Who is your favorite Eggxpert? I like a lot of them, so to sum it up all the people who contribute and show their knowledge for their statement.
What is the air speed velocity of a swallow? 45mph guessing
What is your #1 Geeky obsession? my pc system once again
Favorite Food? A lot, but just to name some pho and chinese food.
What is your favorite place to visit? manhattan, new york
List 3 Places you want to travel to... 1. japan, 2. austria , 3. new zealand
Any plans for taking over the world? nope I am a kind of person without too much ambition
What is your favorite quote? "e=mc2"
What is your favorite guilty pleasure? ops I did it again
Favorite Book? golden compass
What is your area of Tech expertise? probably cpu and ram.
What is your “good deed” of the year? Try to make it out alive in college.
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Thank you, TK, tracer and prtuc for participating!