Tyler Brown's Blog The Adventures of a Linux User

On November 1st, 2007, as I have learned in McInTEC History 101, was the day in which the McInTEC community was born. Now, Today, happens to be November 1st, 2008, a year later, and I have been a part of the McInTEC community since January 2008. 

Since I have become part of the community, McInTEC has grown tremendously. When I became part of the community, they had already gotton a Ventrilo server, had an interactive stream page, and still had their channel on Wyldryde. Now, at the start of November, the stream page is stil as amazing, we still have a Ventrilo server, but we have since in the past couple months, the amazing staff at McInTEC has created an IRC network of their own. Nothing has shown the independence of McInTEC as creating our own IRC network has. 

Although those things make McInTEC great, McInTEC would be NOTHING without the amazing people in which I have met, especially the staff, and without their hard work, McInTEC would not be where it it Today, and below, I will mention four of the staff members that stand out in my head.

Jason - The Commander in Chief of McInTEC, head of operations, CEO, founder, etc, is the very person who started this community, and has been able to group people Together. Very energic most of the time, his tendence to have fun is what attracted quite a few people to this great community, and without him, McInTEC wouldn't exist. Jason also works hard for what he has, and what you see on the stream, including what you can't see, including his Quad-core PC, which helps Jason with a lot of what he does for the community.

Scootz - Scootz has done a lot for the McInTEC community, whether its creating a script for the IRC Bot, helping with the live page, there is no doubt that this guy is amazing at what we does. When many need help with some programming or designing a webpage, they will look up to Scootz. Scootz also runs the community Unreal Tournament server. For all the work Scootz has done for the community, Jason recently has awarded him with a brand new Jason-built PC. Thanks Scootz for all you've done, and keep it up! 

Batty - Batty happens to be one of the most intelligent, and possibly random people I have met online. Whether its his amazing setup for cooling, or his many CRT monitors, or his love for old hardware/software, Batty is amazing. Whenever I want to do something crazy or do a mod to my setup, I always refer to Batty. One of the many things people probably love about Batty, if they could look up to him for hardware knowledge, and is probably one of the most amazing geeks they've ever met.

JazzGuru - JazzGuru is also another very intelligent, amazing person I have met. One of the thins that stands out to my about JazzGuru, is just like Batty, his opinions stand out, and also believes older hardware can still be useful. JazzGuru, despite many other people I have met online, is quite open to trying different operating systems and/or software if available to him, and although after running lets say Leopard, is perfectly fine running OS X Tiger (something I wouldn't be able to do with XP after using Vista). 

Something I have not included in all of these, is the fact they all help make the IRC network and community great, and do a lot of work to keep it up and running, along with TXBRad, Justin (umpc), Will, Aeiz. I would also love to give mention to non-staff members such as jasperdett, cooldude, JurassicJon, cb14, and many others. 

I will end this blog post with saying, the McInTEC community has helped me a lot when needed, great people, great IRC network, and overall, great community. I will give you the three most important links you should know to help you become a part of this amazing community, and maybe a couple extra links as well;

• McInTEC Website (mcintec.net)
• Live Page (live.mcintec.net)
• IRC Network (irc.mcintec.net)
• McInTEC youtube Channel