1 Million Subscriber Giveaway Winner Announcement & Recruiting Season
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,634 words · ~8 min read
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Normally, we don't do a dedicated video to announce the winners of our
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giveaways. And today is no exception.
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Because while this video will include the winners of our million subscriber
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giveaway, it will also include a special announcement that kind of goes along
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with that whole, you know, wow, we're growing a lot theme. It's recruitment
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time at Lionus Media Group. We need at least one full-time person for the
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glamorous position of benchmarking and script writing monkey. So stay tuned to
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see some behind the scenes of building the winner's custom gaming rig here and
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the details of the job offer. And if you're not already subscribed, get on
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that because we're going to have a video of the PowerUp 3.0, a smartphone
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controlled Bluetooth paper airplane coming very soon.
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Corsair gaming RGB keyboards feature precision Cherry MXR RGB key switches
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for 16.8 million color per key backlighting for virtually unlimited
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customization. Click now to learn more. So, the winners of the gaming laptop and
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the Surface Pro 3 were Anto Wayne B and
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Fediger. Anyway, they've already got their prizes, but the winner of the
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custom PC never got back to us. So, we redrew and
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Terminator is the big winner this time.
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To go along with our Core i7 4770K CPU,
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we've got a Define R4 white case with a Newton, 1000watt matching white power
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supply from Fractal, an H90 CPU cooler,
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16 gigs of Vengeance Pro DDR3 RAM, and a 480 gig Neutron GTX SSD from Corsair, a
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Z97X UD5H and painted R9290 graphics
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card from Gigabyte. and a badass Myar
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mouse and Nova touch TKL Toer keyboard
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from Cooler Master CM Storm as it were.
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So huge thanks to Josh from Fractal Design, Rick from Corsair, Leo from
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Gigabyte, and Raj from Cooler Master for the sweet components that the winner is
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going to get in their build. Now, this rig really started with the paint job,
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and I had a lot of fun with this. So, we removed the window, masked out the key
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areas where you don't want to get any paint, like the front USB ports, and
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then I thoughtfully applied paint in the
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most artful, tasteful way, you know, the
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way a true artist would. And then, you know, I thought, well, how about some
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black? And then, uh, maybe some, you know, green and then maybe some more
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green. And then when I was done applying it artfully and then I kind of went to
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town the way that Lionus would. And the end result is what you're looking at
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right now. now and it's pretty polarizing. Some people in the office
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hate it and others in the office are like, "Yeah, it looks pretty cool." But
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the the people who said that are pretty new here and I think maybe they were
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just sucking up. Now, I promised to build the winner's PC personally. So, to
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prove that I actually did it. We set up a time-lapse camera and I did just that.
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Nothing too complicated happened here other than me forgetting to install the
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rear fan as exhaust and having to redo that. And then also the bit where I
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discovered that the CPU cooler, which has actually been sitting on a shelf for
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almost two years now, I think over a year for sure, was missing a piece of
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mounting hardware that someone must have taken from it for another cooler at some
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point or something. In fact, we were even so organized. There's a label on it
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that says there's a piece missing, but I didn't see that before I started. So
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then we had to go steal a piece from another one, and then it's going to cause a problem in the future. Anyway,
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that's that's how it is at Linus Media Group. Once the build was done, I had
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everyone from the team here sign the side window except Taran because he's on
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the injury reserve right now. Which
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leads us to the second and perhaps even more important part of this video. Pay
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very close attention to this information if you are interested in a job here at
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Linus Media Group. So, the job is to work daily with Lionus, Luke, and the
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rest of the LMG crew to benchmark and analyze the latest PC hardware and
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really anything else that falls into our Labs. You are to write notes and scripts
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for Linus Tech Tips episodes and fastest possible episodes. Work on, you know,
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reviewing the hardware behind the scenes. You have to understand it is not
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going to be glamorous. It's going to be really hard work. It won't pay a lot,
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especially at the beginning. And we're not even talking about potential for
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on-screen appearances at this time. It would be purely off camera to start. As
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far as skills and experience go, we'd be looking for deep familiarity with
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benchmarking and troubleshooting PC hardware. So, you better know how to use
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Fraps, Future Mark products, SSD benchmarking applications like ASSD and
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Anvil, etc. Networking and other general software skills are both also major
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pluses. You should be very skilled at Google Fu, so internet research, and
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then presenting conclusions in a concise and entertaining manner. And in line
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with that, a solid foundation in English writing is mandatory. If you weren't an
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A student with solid essay writing skills, it will be very, very, very
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tough to get this position. A great sense of humor is a plus. It'll be part
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of your job, and you need one to work here anyway. You really do. and solid
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organizational skills, the ability to follow detailed instructions, and the
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ability to work independently without distracting yourself and other team
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members are all necessary. Prominent
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members of Linus TechTips forum with a long history of being helpful towards
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others will be a consideration and any
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trolling and negativity towards other members will work against you and don't
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bother deleting anything because we can see that stuff. So, so don't even don't
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even bother. Some optional skills, camera work and editing software skills
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are a plus, and any maker and web or
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mobile coding skills are a plus, but neither of those other things are
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mandatory. So, how to apply? Resume and
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short cover letter to Linus techtips@gmail.com. The subject line
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should be exactly as follows. LMG
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expansion 2014 job application colon
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your name. Based on past experience, we will receive anywhere from 300 to a
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Dislike it if you disliked it. Leave a comment letting me know what you think
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of the giveaway rig. Do you like my tasteful, artful paint design thing that
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I got going on here? I want to hear from you. Also, guys, check out the link in
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