You know you're a geek when........

[Joeb454]

I'd do a base install in that case :)

And I have been known to say "lol" while laughing before. That was a few years ago though.

[flytripper]

please let me in on SHCROLA32.DLL

[tom66]

I swear, it's a real DLL, just like FKELIB.DLL

[jimi_hendrix]

u know ur a geek when u know who herman munster is (besides him being one of the tags on this thread)

[powerpleb]

You know you're a geek when........
Your idea of a fulfilling Friday night is a bag of Doritos, a second hand laptop and a stack of Linux distribution CDs.:popcorn:

[jimi_hendrix]

or when you here C# you dont think of the note

[BUSHYBOB]

You type SHCROLA32.DLL into google.

[jamieh]

You know your alphabet all the way from Q to M.

(Based on US keyboards anyway)

[darth_indy]

You know you're a geek when........
Your idea of a fulfilling Friday night is a bag of Doritos, a second hand laptop and a stack of Linux distribution CDs.:popcorn:

You know you're a geek when this actually did describe your weekend... well, except I added a pack of double-stuf Oreos, and some music on in the background. *grins* It was the best weekend EVAR.

[Joeb454]

or when you here C# you dont think of the note

You know your alphabet all the way from Q to M.

(Based on US keyboards anyway)

Guilty of both :p

[robotman5]

You know you're a geek when... you can't stop talking about computers


its true!! i bug my dad almost all the time about it:guitar:

[ad_267]

You type SHCROLA32.DLL into google.

The only result is this thread...

[PurposeOfReason]

You have a second partition just waiting for another distro to be installed so that you don't get bored and break what you already have. I have a gentoo and bsd partitions waiting for that reason. ;)

[talsemgeest]

The only result is this thread...
You test just to make sure.

[scragar]

You know your alphabet all the way from Q to M.

(Based on US keyboards anyway)

qwerty is used by more than the US, it's pretty common all over the world.

And yeah, I'm guilty of that, although I must confess I don't use the text on my keys anymore, so it's kinda all in procedural memory, I know how to tap each key, I just can't tell you where each key is(but I can press it without thinking) :P (I know the top line: qwerty-u-iop(pronounced qwerty, you, ee, op(as in operation or operator)) and the bottom line: zx-cv-bnm(zx is pretty hard to forget, cv is an abreviation, as is bnm so not hard to forget that one), I can also say the first part of the middle line without trouble, since asd is so common in games for controlls, I also do enough programming to know jkl is the end of the line(come on, who doesn't use ijk to represent increments etc), so the middle 3 are the ones I'd need to think about)

[GepettoBR]

Yeah, QWERTY is pretty common. My keyboard is Brazil ABNT2 and it's almost the same as the U.S. keyboard (it has an extra letter "Ç" after the L and some of the non-letter keys are shuffled around).

[eddVRS]

You're a geek when you think of your life as a "for" loop

for day = 0 to end
same 5h1t
next day

[hvc123]

When you are typing out a path in the Forums and you try to tab-complete it.

You understood the above ;P

HAHAAHA Done that a few times

[money2themax]

when you enjoy converting cars from gas to electric all in the name of science

[GepettoBR]

when you enjoy converting cars from gas to electric all in the name of science

Mechanical geekness, hell yeah!

[daytonageeks]

You know you're a GEEK when you think thew words to the old '80's disco song went...."Boot up and giggie" instead of "Get up and boogie"

[money2themax]

Mechanical geekness, hell yeah!
actually it's a group of ppl and i believe one of them is from Chile and we are taking 2 WV 2000 new beetle 2.0's ans converting them to electric tones of geekiness to go around we have a guy who used [still does] work for M$ [hes not a fan of Bill Gates] and a bunch of other ppl all in on this project

[GepettoBR]

actually it's a group of ppl and i believe one of them is from Chile and we are taking 2 WV 2000 new beetle 2.0's ans converting them to electric tones of geekiness to go around we have a guy who used [still does] work for M$ [hes not a fan of Bill Gates] and a bunch of other ppl all in on this project

Electric New Beetles? Wow, I hope VW catches on to your project! These have got to be worth more than ten points a piece!

[money2themax]

i'm helping set up some of the systems cuz i have knowledge about these systems form past experiences with computers, circuit boards, ect

[Ptero-4]

That's gonna be good for reducing the dependency on oil. Just don't install windoze in those cars, or you'll take OS crashes to a whole new level ;)

[money2themax]

That's gonna be good for reducing the dependency on oil. Just don't install windoze in those cars, or you'll take OS crashes to a whole new level ;)
never i'm a linux man through and through plus i'd need a 200TB HDD to put windows on there with basic features

[kaligus]

or when you here C# you dont think of the note

or you have a brain accident trying to figure out which half wins... music geek or computer geek... and end up deciding fortran solves both problems ;)

[kaligus]

You're a geek when you think of your life as a "for" loop

for day = 0 to end
same 5h1t
next day

shouldn't that be:
for (day = 0; day < death; day++)
same shift
?

[astroalex]

shouldn't that be:
for (day = 0; day < death; day++)
same shift
?

it should be

import time
for day in life:
time.sleep(60**2*18)
# random stuff goes here

[lisati]

That's gonna be good for reducing the dependency on oil. Just don't install windoze in those cars, or you'll take OS crashes to a whole new level ;)
I'm worried for my health now - the other week when I went for a checkup, the ECG machine was definitely running Windows XP - I hope I didn't catch a virus! Perhaps that's why my desktop, (mainly XP, switched off for nearly a week), had 4 BDSOD's today, and the wireless (which works perfectly on Ubuntu without mucking about with drivers) is losing its connection....

[eddVRS]

it should be

import time
for day in life:
time.sleep(60**2*18)
# random stuff goes here


This looks more elegant... I apologise for bringing VB to the forums...

[Joeb454]

This looks more elegant... I apologise for bringing VB to the forums...

And so you should ;)

[eddVRS]

I won't do it again...:-#

[Joeb454]

I won't do it again...:-#

:lolflag:

[GepettoBR]

I'm worried for my health now - the other week when I went for a checkup, the ECG machine was definitely running Windows XP - I hope I didn't catch a virus! Perhaps that's why my desktop, (mainly XP, switched off for nearly a week), had 4 BDSOD's today, and the wireless (which works perfectly on Ubuntu without mucking about with drivers) is losing its connection....

Nah, that's just because WZC is awful.

[eddVRS]

I've forgotten what a BSOD looks like :smug:
Anyone got a screen shot, might make a useful/funny screensaver?

[money2themax]

I've forgotten what a BSOD looks like :smug:
Anyone got a screen shot, might make a useful/funny screensaver?
...or wallpaper

[eddVRS]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Bsod.svg/800px-Bsod.svg.png

well... it's now been done. does that make me a geek?

[spupy]

I've forgotten what a BSOD looks like :smug:
Anyone got a screen shot, might make a useful/funny screensaver?

XScreenSaver has the BSOD screensaver - an assortment of 25 BSODs from various operating systems. The best is that they actually move, no static images! The linux BSOD it displays is a kernel panic of some sort, with "attempted to kill init", memory dumps, Xorg restarts, failing filesystem checks, all scrolling nicely. :D

[Ptero-4]

never i'm a linux man through and through plus i'd need a 200TB HDD to put windows on there with basic features

Actually I was referring to your M$ drone "friend", that you mentioned in your previous post.

[money2themax]

Actually I was referring to your M$ drone "friend", that you mentioned in your previous post.
he's not a fan he just needed a job to pay his family which is respectable

[eddVRS]

XScreenSaver has the BSOD screensaver - an assortment of 25 BSODs from various operating systems. The best is that they actually move, no static images! The linux BSOD it displays is a kernel panic of some sort, with "attempted to kill init", memory dumps, Xorg restarts, failing filesystem checks, all scrolling nicely. :D

that sounds beautiful... where do I sign?

[money2themax]

that sounds beautiful... where do I sign?
i had that screensaver on SuSE 10.1 so i know it exists

[darth_indy]

There's a package of extra screensavers in the repos, I can't remember what it's called, but I was able to install it with Synaptic on a fresh system.

[powerpleb]

You know your a geek when you sign your name with a :wq

[Joeb454]

You know your a geek when you sign your name with a :wq

Or if you go wrong at the start of a sheet of paper, you write :qa! and be done with it

[sci-fi guy]

You know you are a geek if you install Linux (bonus points if it's Gentoo) without using a monitor OR ssh.

[kaligus]

not sure if this is extra geek points or extra age points... either way

... When your NOT-a-geeky-cell-in-his-body-wanna-be-geek-really-badly father in law calls up after deciding to try a live CD (ubuntu) on his machine after having spent the last few months playing here...

he is frustrated because there is some moving dots that appear randomly over things...

you have no idea what he is ranting on about until he asks the light bulb question "why dont I get an hour glass or flashlight when I open my movies folder" (about 15000 files) and you realize the random moving dots you have been unable to get a clear picture of are the hourglass he is looking for and the "greyed out 'stuff'" is the flashlight he is looking for.

On the plus side for geekyness, he now has a vocabulary useful to actually describe his problems and I have a new translation installed such that when mother in law sets up a dual boot so she can play the games wife has been playing I wont break my head trying to figure out what she is on about :lolflag:

Bonus geek points for him when he realizes that he can do things when the throbber is showing (imagine the center of the moving dots as the point) AND!! that he has two screens he can drag stuff between or even leave in the middle.

[kaligus]

You know you are a geek if you install Linux (bonus points if it's Gentoo) without using a monitor OR ssh.

I Thought it made me insane when I had done so many SuSE 3-4-ish installs that I started doing it without a monitor... thanks for letting me know I am just geek-er-er (or something like that)

[scragar]

... when you mange to beat knetwalk(it's a game, check the repo's)
on: in:
Novice 20 moves
Normal 35 moves
Expert 50 moves
Master 100 moves(yeah, it's that much harder)

[coolen]

I was playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted the other day. My brother was watching me. He's into cars and stuff.

His biggest complaint about the game was that, in reality, putting nitros through a stock engine would blow it up.

My biggest complaint was a bug that caused the game to incorrectly detect a head-on collision when skirting a wall (very annoying when you're winning).


You know you're a geek when you're with a woman, and suddenly you realise that a complex function in your latest Python script could be accomplished by a relatively simple list comprehension.


You know you're a geek when you're looking at computers online, come across one with no operating system installed, and squeal with delight.


You know you're a geek when you start looking for a program to completely and seamlessly replace Explorer on your XP install...


That's all I have for now, and yes, this is autobiographical.

[PCessna]

You know you're a geek when it's too late.

grr, you took the words out of my mouth

[GepettoBR]

... when you mange to beat knetwalk(it's a game, check the repo's)
on: in:
Novice 20 moves
Normal 35 moves
Expert 50 moves
Master 100 moves(yeah, it's that much harder)

Which one, the KDE3 version or the KDE4 version?

[money2themax]

Which one, the KDE3 version or the KDE4 version?
i know it's KDE3 and i think it's also in KDE4

[scragar]

Which one, the KDE3 version or the KDE4 version?

I've only played the KDE3 one, so the KDE4 one could be very different, I'll try it some other time.

KDE4 version is identical, except it looks better, runs slower and can't import your old high scores. :( Me no like that particular upgrade :(

[GepettoBR]

KDE4 version is identical, except it looks better, runs slower and can't import your old high scores. :( Me no like that particular upgrade :(

You sound like you're describing Windows Vista's Spider Solitaire in comparison to XP's :)

[scragar]

You sound like you're describing Windows Vista's Spider Solitaire in comparison to XP's :)

I don't care, for such a simple game there's a noticeable(oh sure, barely even a fraction of a second, but I don't care, it's slower) delay between clicking, and something happening, it's annoying. Personally, I un-installed it and went back to the KDE3 version, with any luck I won't have to upgrade it.

[GepettoBR]

Hopefuly it's just slower because you're not running a KDE4 session, instead of an actual fault in the game's code.

On another note, what a fun game! I'll take a while to see if I can beat those records, though, because I don't instinctively know which click goes clockwise and which goes counterclockwise. I got Easy in 46 moves T_T

[scragar]

Hopefuly it's just slower because you're not running a KDE4 session, instead of an actual fault in the game's code.

On another note, what a fun game! I'll take a while to see if I can beat those records, though, because I don't instinctively know which click goes clockwise and which goes counterclockwise. I got Easy in 46 moves T_T

left click rotates anticlockwise (as in the top moves to the left)
right click rotates clockwise (so the top goes to the right)
middle click locks/unlocks the tile(so if you know it's right and don't want to accidentally change it - your not likely to use that much on Master :P)

for most of the difficulties(as in all but master) there's a wall all around it, so guessing the edges isn't hard, and from there you work inwards. for master it's much harder, since the game goes off the edges and back on, making no edges from which to work, for that you've pretty much gotta just go ahead and either guess, or pick a starting point(I recommend something pinned in on all sides or the server)

[money2themax]

left click rotates anticlockwise (as in the top moves to the left)
right click rotates clockwise (so the top goes to the right)

counter, counterclockwise not anti

[scragar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwise

I'm English, so it's anti.

[GepettoBR]

I'm Brazilian, so I can have it either way :)

[money2themax]

it sounds weird the other way i like counterclockwise but every wo/man to his/her own

[raul_]

When you vote 'Yes' here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=882103

[GepettoBR]

When you vote 'Yes' here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=882103

*clicks expecting a "Are you a geek" poll*

Hmm... USB coffee machines...

[Joeb454]

I always try and tab complete things outside a terminal.

Even in word processing situations, and IM :p

[sama_j]

The only reason you know it is raining is because the system tray tells you.

[Dr Small]

... you switch your keyboard layout around from the standard default to something like Dvorak, for meerly the challenge.

... Vim is your only text-editor.

... ls is your only file manager.

... scp is the only way you transfer files.

[scragar]

... you switch your keyboard layout around from the standard default to something like Dvorak, for meerly the challenge.
OK, never done that
... Vim is your only text-editor.watch out for the whole Vi/Emacs debate, some people won't be happy.
... ls is your only file manager.do more powerful front ends to ls count?
How about ones I wrote myself?
... scp is the only way you transfer files.
copy != move

[Dr Small]

watch out for the whole Vi/Emacs debate, some people won't be happy.

I can't help that. I was truly speaking from my heart, that Vim is the only text editor I have installed on my system.


do more powerful front ends to ls count?
How about ones I wrote myself?

Perhaps, but why would you need anything more than ls ? :)


copy != move

And your point is?

[raul_]

I can't help that. I was truly speaking from my heart, that Vim is the only text editor I have installed on my system.


Not even vi?

[Dr Small]

Not even vi?
No. I think it is symlinked back to vim.

[Joeb454]

You know you're a geek when you're LaRoza ;)

[LaRoza]

You know you're a geek when you're LaRoza ;)

Like it should be.

[Joeb454]

Like it should be.

:lolflag:

[coolen]

You walk outside, look at the sky, and think for a moment you see a dead pixel.

You start using "gorram" or "fracking" in general conversation.

You can identify any episode of Star Trek before the opening credits.

You start to get kind of weepy about the character you know dies in this one.

Speaking of which, you think it was stupid to kill off Data, since they'd already explained his aging in the series.

You can play the Super Mario theme music on the piano.

You assign a hotkey to open a terminal emulator.

You find yourself with an entire browser windows three dozen tabs strong containing nothing but ThinkGeek products.

You actually tried the recipe on the ThinkGeek blog.

You kept it down.

In your mind, pizza alone is already a pretty awesome night.

[talsemgeest]

You walk outside, look at the sky, and think for a moment you see a dead pixel.
*GASP* Its a bug in the matrix!

[sci-fi guy]

You find yourself with an entire browser windows three dozen tabs strong containing nothing but ThinkGeek products.

I have everything I want bookmarked. I delete them as I buy them. It's slow going.

[kaligus]

You know you're a geek when you're with a woman, and suddenly you realise that a complex function in your latest Python script could be accomplished by a relatively simple list comprehension.
**person/partner** half of our fellow geeks are of the other gender or preference ;)


You know you're a geek when you're looking at computers online, come across one with no operating system installed, and squeal with delight.

nooooo, when you do the same in the middle big-annoyingly-biased-computer-store-with-pushy-salespersons main retail location in your area when the place is packed.

Extra points if you cry when the sales person tells you it costs extra to remove the software it really came with. (yes I have been there)


You know you're a geek when you start looking for a program to completely and seamlessly replace Explorer on your XP install...

bonus points if you find one that works, doesn't break something else, and feels like {insert favorite file browser here}.

:guitar:

[powerpleb]

The only reason you know it is raining is because the system tray tells you.

lol

[eddVRS]

you have a VNC client on your phone- so that you really can access a PC anywhere you are :D

[money2themax]

**person/partner** half of our fellow geeks are of the other gender or preference ;)


nooooo, when you do the same in the middle big-annoyingly-biased-computer-store-with-pushy-salespersons main retail location in your area when the place is packed.

Extra points if you cry when the sales person tells you it costs extra to remove the software it really came with. (yes I have been there)


bonus points if you find one that works, doesn't break something else, and feels like {insert favorite file browser here}.

:guitar:

yup i asked if i could get a laptop with no OS installed and the guy @ HP said "i has to leave working or not at all" umm just cuz it doesn't have an OS doesn't mean it's not "working"

Favorite browser: Nautilus

[talsemgeest]

Hahahaha.... Now I'm free to claim post #3333!!!

[Toshibawarrior]

Hahahaha.... Now I'm free to claim post #3333!!!

You know you're a geek when you clain a certain post number...LOL!!!:popcorn:

[scragar]

You know you're a geek when you clain a certain post number...LOL!!!:popcorn:

don't know what you mean. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5306076&postcount=4000)

[Toshibawarrior]

LOL, and did you noticed you have an infinite number of posts? 888 ? :p! I'm a geek too!

[scragar]

888's far from infinite, unless you put your head on it's side, then yeah, it's a stack of infinite posts, wonder how much server space that'd take up :P

[eddVRS]

Probably about |∞| that much.

[talsemgeest]

That would be a lot of servers... Somewhere in the region of ∞ I suppose.

[eddVRS]

I wonder how much that would cost- startup and maintenance?

ps I love that quote from the Lord our Go..err.. I mean Linus

[coolen]

**person/partner** half of our fellow geeks are of the other gender or preference ;)

Trust me, no one knows that better than I. This is the only one that's happened to me recently, though.

nooooo, when you do the same in the middle big-annoyingly-biased-computer-store-with-pushy-salespersons main retail location in your area when the place is packed.

Extra points if you cry when the sales person tells you it costs extra to remove the software it really came with. (yes I have been there)

I did a little dance when I came across a laptop with an option to downgrade to XP. Does that count?


bonus points if you find one that works, doesn't break something else, and feels like {insert favorite file browser here}.

:guitar:

I can find file managers easy enough, but explorer is also responsible for the toolbar and desktop...I can get a replacement toolbar (although I'm not fond of docks), but nothing for the desktop :(

[talsemgeest]

ps I love that quote from the Lord our Go..err.. I mean Linus
Its one of those things that we should think about more often. He is brilliant... ;)

[eddVRS]

wouldn't be here with out him... some may speculate that I'd actually be doing some work

[desertboy]

When you ask for condoms in a chemist as a wrapper for your input/output module.

[jimi_hendrix]

you know your a geek when you can answer the question on this sign

http://www.no-clutter.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=56&pos=267

[scragar]

you know your a geek when you can answer the question on this sign

http://www.no-clutter.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=56&pos=267

you'd think red wouldn't be a popular colour, judging by the number of people wearing it who die on teh show.

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you ask the computer salesman if he doesn't sell any laptops without Windows pre-installed, he answers that they don't have Macs and by the end of the conversation you've given him a LiveCD and he can't wait to get home and try it out.

[scragar]

You know you're a geek when you ask the computer salesman if he doesn't sell any laptops without Windows pre-installed, he answers that they don't have Macs and by the end of the conversation you've given him a LiveCD and he can't wait to get home and try it out.

I've had lot's of similar experiences, biggest pain I've had was trying to return a "video tutorial" for some program or other(don't ask) because the "video" was an exe, trying to explain to them that the program was available on both windows and linux, but this video was windows only was possibly the longest convo I've had in a long time.

There has to be a shift in the word PC so people realise it's not just windows.

[money2themax]

You know you're a geek when you ask the computer salesman if he doesn't sell any laptops without Windows pre-installed, he answers that they don't have Macs...
lol they don't sell MACs

[Toshibawarrior]

I think you know you're a geek when all you can think about when being in front of a shiny new computer is..."Damn, how would Linux run in this puppy?"

[talsemgeest]

I think you know you're a geek when all you can think about when being in front of a shiny new computer is..."Damn, how would Linux run in this puppy?"
Or even more, what am I going to do to make Linux run on it?

[scragar]

I think you know you're a geek when all you can think about when being in front of a shiny new computer is..."Damn, how would Linux run in this puppy?"

or more geeky:
"just think how many points a cluster of these would earn me on boinc"

[Ptero-4]

I think you know you're a geek when all you can think about when being in front of a shiny new computer is..."Damn, how would Linux run in this puppy?"

I'm sure you did that this all the Toshibas that fell in your hands (And yes, I'm posting from one. An A205-S5804. The only annoyance is the rtl8187b wifi which works only with either ndiswrapper on x86 or 2.6.27rc2 on x64).


You can identify any episode of Star Trek before the opening credits.


This is not geeky, it's trekky nerdiness (this is exactly the type of stuff that gives geeks the bad reputation).


bonus points if you find one that works, doesn't break something else, and feels like {insert favorite file browser here}.
:guitar:

Actually I kinda like the XP explorer. This is because I like spatial browsing and it gives me what I like (It does spatial nice, does CD/DVD burning built-in and archiving built-in SHOWING THE ARCHIVE AS FOLDER WITH ICON VIEW (not list view-only like file-roller, xarchiver and squeeze, and konqueror doesn't do CD/DVD burning)).


ps I love that quote from the Lord our Go..err.. I mean Linus

Did you mean this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=80773&stc=1&d=1218248494

[Toshibawarrior]

I'm sure you did that this all the Toshibas that fell in your hands (And yes, I'm posting from one. An A205-S5804. The only annoyance is the rtl8187b wifi which works only with either ndiswrapper on x86 or 2.6.27rc2 on x64).

Yes, I do that with all the Toshibas, Apple's, HP's, Dell's, Gateways and all other PCs I find on my way on ANY store...For example I was at Wal-Mart today and I saw a Dell XPS priced at $1,174.99, with all the goods, Core2Duo, 3GB RAM, etcetcetc, and the dreaded Windows Vista pre-installed, but when I skimmed through the specs i could just think..."I really want to see how Compiz-Fusion runs with this graphics card and RAM..." LOL

And yes, I have a few annoyances with my Toshiba too...For example I haven't got around to fix the dual-extend-monitor thing (it just clones it), I'm stuck with propietary drivers for my Atheros Wi-Fi card, and even worst, this thing has Intel integrated graphics with supposedly 256mb of shared memory...but i don't even know how much memory Ubuntu sees/uses...in Vista it was a whopping full 256mbs, but I don't know if Ubuntu is using it all...:( Any help with this will be very appreciated...I made a post in the correct section of the forums, but no one replied:(...

:popcorn:

[money2themax]

you understood "V For Vendetta"

my favorite part was this [the very last line to be more precise]

Creedy: Defiant to the end, huh? You won't cry like him, will you? You're not afraid of death. You're like me.
V: The only thing that you and I have in common, Mr. Creedy, is we're both about to die.
Creedy: How do you imagine that's gonna happen?
V: With my hands around your neck.
Creedy: ********. Whatchya gonna do, huh? We've swept this place. You've got nothing. Nothing but your bloody knives and your fancy karate gimmicks. We have guns.
V: No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer be standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.
Creedy: That's impossible. Kill him.
[the fingermen open fire on V, but he still stands after their clips are empty]
V: My turn.
[V proceeds to kill all fingermen with his knives before they manage to reload]
Creedy: [desperately shooting at the approaching V] Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?
V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

[oupsemma]

... you launch a new OS , and it's named albatrOS , from Monthy Python :oops:

[huxterby]

Re: You know you're a geek when........

You class Pop-Tarts as an essential hacking tool.

[GepettoBR]

... you launch a new OS , and it's named albatrOS , from Monthy Python :oops:

And you only include apps written in python.

[lukjad007]

You don't limit yourself to one language.

[ad_267]

And you only include apps written in python.

And the operating system is written in Python.

Although I don't think that's really possible. Would be cool though.

[Frak]

And the operating system is written in Python.

Although I don't think that's really possible.
It's possible, just be difficult. The drivers would have to be written in something else though.

[money2themax]

It's possible, just be difficult. The drivers would have to be written in something else though.
really but then it wouldn't be all in python [we should try to do that as a little project for fun make it like a mini OS like DSL]

[scragar]

really but then it wouldn't be all in python [we should try to do that as a little project for fun make it like a mini OS like DSL]

I don't think it'd be nearly as efficient.

[money2themax]

I don't think it'd be nearly as efficient.
so it'd be fun i like little useless toys i have a million of them mainly they are for gags and practical jokes like my vista installer that "installs Vista Ultimate using only a 24kb installer"

[scragar]

my vista installer that "installs Vista Ultimate using only a 24kb installer"

erm... OK, that's impossible, unless it's some sort of network install. Personaly I recon it's just a message that say's:
"sorry, your computer doesn't have a super new 8core 16Ghz Machine with 20GB of ram and a 12TiB HD, please upgrade and try again"

[money2themax]

erm... OK, that's impossible, unless it's some sort of network install. Personaly I recon it's just a message that say's:
"sorry, your computer doesn't have a super new 8core 16Ghz Machine with 20GB of ram and a 12TiB HD, please upgrade and try again"
i know it's a gag
but i like your idea more thats ungodly funny

[damis648]

You might to check out this prank. (http://www.rjlsoftware.com/download/vista.zip)
It's just a windows execuatble that you can download and it would simulate a vista installation. Its pretty funnyand realistic... in the end it shows a Mac OS X desktop! But click a few times and it tells you its a prank... :popcorn::popcorn:

[scragar]

i know it's a gag
but i like your idea more thats ungodly funny

hmn, that actualy gives me an idea for a script...

You know when a windows user complains that ubuntu doesn't work with a particular device or whatever, after installing ubuntu, rather than checking first. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a small program that could upload your hardware info to check it against a big database of hardware, and let you know how things will run. It'd be kinda bad for software, but it's a pretty cool start. I'm actualy gonna start writing that, just as soon as I find a way to get windows to spew it's hardware info into a text file...


You might to check out this prank. (http://www.rjlsoftware.com/download/vista.zip)
It's just a windows execuatble that you can download and it would simulate a vista installation. Its pretty funnyand realistic... in the end it shows a Mac OS X desktop! But click a few times and it tells you its a prank... :popcorn::popcorn:
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/vista/ <-- hmn, nice, wonder if it runs in wine...

[damis648]

hmn, that actualy gives me an idea for a script...

You know when a windows user complains that ubuntu doesn't work with a particular device or whatever, after installing ubuntu, rather than checking first. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a small program that could upload your hardware info to check it against a big database of hardware, and let you know how things will run. It'd be kinda bad for software, but it's a pretty cool start. I'm actualy gonna start writing that, just as soon as I find a way to get windows to spew it's hardware info into a text file...



http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/vista/ <-- hmn, nice, wonder if it runs in wine...

Try it! Thats where i got my link from...

[scragar]

Thats where i got my link from...
I know, I checked the site for links to it(how powerful are the linux tools for things like that? scanning the whole site for links took like 2 minutes tops).

I don't think it'd work well in wine though, since it doesn't have a start menu or whatever...

[spupy]

You might to check out this prank. (http://www.rjlsoftware.com/download/vista.zip)
It's just a windows execuatble that you can download and it would simulate a vista installation. Its pretty funnyand realistic... in the end it shows a Mac OS X desktop! But click a few times and it tells you its a prank... :popcorn::popcorn:

My laptop is "Vista capable". But "Vista" could not detect my resolution properly. OS X could, though! :D

[scragar]

My laptop is "Vista capable". But "Vista" could not detect my resolution properly. OS X could, though! :D

you've got a computer with a super new 8core 16Ghz processor, 20GB of RAM and a 12TiB HD?

aren't you afraid that with vista they'll strip rights to your video card at any time thanks to their fantastic DRM ideas? You know the ones where unless the card is closed source they won't let it run correctly, because you know, people copy things through their video cards don't ya know.

[Toshibawarrior]

you've got a computer with a super new 8core 16Ghz processor, 20GB of RAM and a 12TiB HD?

You forgot to add a 5GB DDR4 3GHz speed nVidia UltraMegaHyperGForce SLI X2 with optional Special-Hi-Def-Graphics Processor (for a measly $799.99 + tax) just to add the stupid effects that Aero provides...ugh!

:popcorn:

[scragar]

You forgot to add a 5GB DDR4 3GHz speed nVidia UltraMegaHyperGForce SLI X2 with optional Special-Hi-Def-Graphics Processor (for a measly $799.99 + tax) just to add the stupid effects that Aero provides...ugh!

:popcorn:

w0w, you got a cheap option huh? I got 13GB DDR5(experimental) 8GHz speed RADEON SuperSpecialAwesome MegaHyperCard X2 with required Special-Hi-Def-Graphics Processor (and all for just $799.99 + tax per month for the rest of my life)

[Toshibawarrior]

w0w, you got a cheap option huh? I got 13GB DDR5(experimental) 8GHz speed RADEON SuperSpecialAwesome MegaHyperCard X2 with required Special-Hi-Def-Graphics Processor (and all for just $799.99 + tax per month for the rest of my life)

LOL! We're here joking about this stuff, and M$ is probably plotting the way of making contracts with other companies to develop such technologies and keep pressing on their customers due to system requirements...M$ is ONLY centered on $$$ they don't give a damn about product quality nor do they care about their customers!:???::-$

Why can't people open their eyes like we did!!! WHY?! [-o<

[damis648]

Why can't people open their eyes like we did!!! WHY?! [-o<

[-o< It hurts me inside. ;)

[Toshibawarrior]

[-o< It hurts me inside. ;)

Right on brother!...It hurts to see so many people blinded by M$'s flashy commercial campaigns! ... *sigh* we need to stop that right now! ... ;):)

[Inane_Asylum]

You're looking everywhere in your house for your keys, and keep thinking to yourself "Ctrl+f, Ctrl+f, Ctrl+f..."

[sci-fi guy]

You know you are a geek when your parents get a $450 waste of mone^W^W^Wbookshelf, and you very much want to turn it into a beowulf cluster rack.

[klange]

- You use bash in Windows.
- You have all of your machines set up with the same, colored, bash prompt.

That's all I've got for today.

[GepettoBR]

LOL! We're here joking about this stuff, and M$ is probably plotting the way of making contracts with other companies to develop such technologies and keep pressing on their customers due to system requirements...M$ is ONLY centered on $$$ they don't give a damn about product quality nor do they care about their customers!:???::-$

Why can't people open their eyes like we did!!! WHY?! [-o<

The plus side to this is that since each new version of Windows requires so much more from the hardware to do the exact same things as the previous one (and even more for any "new" features, even though people had been using them via third-party applications for years without having to upgrade their hardware) it's a push on the hardware manufacturers to produce better pieces. And GNU/Linux users benefit more from this than Windows users, since we don't experience a tripling in system requirements with every new release of any of our distros, therefore having more and more surplus with each new upgrade, or just continuing to use our modest Pentium 1 128MB RAM machines with more speed than a Dual Core 2GB DDR2 computer running Vista, or even XP in some cases.

[spupy]

I think I might be repeating myself, but anyway:

...when you share files with your friends by using netcat.

[Ptero-4]

You forgot to add a 5GB DDR4 3GHz speed nVidia UltraMegaHyperGForce SLI X2 with optional Special-Hi-Def-Graphics Processor (for a measly $799.99 + tax) just to add the stupid effects that Aero provides...ugh!

:popcorn:

That won´t work M$ hates NVidia.

[scragar]

That won´t work M$ hates NVidia.

really? Then why id Nvidia so popular? If M$ hated them it'd be a pretty broke company right now, right?

[sci-fi guy]

really? Then why is Nvidia so popular? If M$ hated them it'd be a pretty broke company right now, right?

Probably because:
They make high-end hardware that the gamers need.
There's not much MS can do to lock NVidia out of the OS without locking out all the other video card makers, too. Maybe they can refuse to sign the drivers, but gamers are savvy enough to ignore the warning.


I assume the fact that ATI and NVidia make Linux drivers does not help their relations with MS, and NVidia may have a more 'shove it where the sun don't shine' attitude in response to MS's negotiations on the subject.

[schauerlich]

- You use bash in Windows.
- You have all of your machines set up with the same, colored, bash prompt.

That's all I've got for today.

1) Does ssh'ing into my server count?
2) Yes I do.

[talsemgeest]

really? Then why id Nvidia so popular? If M$ hated them it'd be a pretty broke company right now, right?
Hey, they make good hardware and M$ would be following their trait of stupid things if they blocked NVidia. It would just be bad business for them if they blocked Nvidia and everyone with a Nvidia card had to go to Linux. Hey, that gives me an idea...

[scragar]

you recognise the quote:
"...I run a Vista simulator."
"Virtual Server?" the Boss asks.
"Nah, I just turned on all the flashy c*** in XP, changed the background image, took some memory out of my box and clocked down the CPU. Then broke Media player. Works like a charm."

[sci-fi guy]

you recognise the quote:

It's by Simon Travaglia (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/09/bofh_episode_6/).

[scragar]

It's by Simon Travaglia (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/09/bofh_episode_6/).

very well done, took me much longer than that to find it(I started searching after http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5557700&postcount=3365 - took me almost a day to get a link(and the exact quote), although I think I've been asleep for more than a good portion of that(what can I say, it's the weekend.))

[kaligus]

very well done, took me much longer than that to find it(I started searching after http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5557700&postcount=3365 - took me almost a day to get a link(and the exact quote), although I think I've been asleep for more than a good portion of that(what can I say, it's the weekend.))

:oops: I knew who upon seeing it, but not where, and too late to search as someone else beat me... bofh rocks the known universe on a bad day, on a good day even parallel universes are worried.

[scragar]

yeayh, I started reading some of the stories again when I was looking for said quote on vista(dunno why I started with the 2k stories, they were a bit early, still).

My only complaint is the spelling, you know when there's a word spelt wrong, but it's a real word so a spell checker doesn't help? I love the speed he whips them out at though, for such good stories I can live with a few errors here and there.

[Ptero-4]

Yeah. Those stories are good. Like how easy is to "simulate" vista by turning on all the CF effects, taking out RAM and underclocking the CPU.

[darth_indy]

I've loved the BOFH from waaay back when.

You know you're a geek when you copy each and every BOFH article (from the very first to last Friday's) into an Open Office file, format it perfectly, and get it ready to publish on Lulu for your very own bound copy of the complete BOFH collection.

It's 713 pages (so far) at trade paperback size (6"x9") with 8pt font. FYI. And completely hilarious and wonderful to read.

[oupsemma]

...when you give your children evocative first-names , such as Beatrix , Kaella , Alixe . You hesitated about Linus for a boy , but prefered Maemo ....

[spupy]

...when you do an act of geekery and come to this thread to brag about it!

[lisati]

...when you do an act of geekery and come to this thread to brag about it!

Example: the lady of the house asked me to make a cuppa for her a few minutes ago. I'd just been reading a thread about mainframes, and while was making it (the cuppa), I found myself muttering JCL for am IBM system I haven't used for over 20 years.

[yabbadabbadont]

Example: the lady of the house asked me to make a cuppa for her a few minutes ago. I'd just been reading a thread about mainframes, and while was making it (the cuppa), I found myself muttering JCL for am IBM system I haven't used for over 20 years.

Or you are the person with whom lisati was discussing said mainframe... and you pull out a textbook on IBM 360/370 assembler just to see if the two of you were remembering correctly. :lol:

[spupy]

Or you are the person with whom lisati was discussing said mainframe... and you pull out a textbook on IBM 360/370 assembler just to see if the two of you were remembering correctly. :lol:

Daamn, I guess I am not geek enough, because I have no idea what you two are talking about. (without reading in wikipedia of course ;) )

[kaligus]

Example: the lady of the house asked me to make a cuppa for her a few minutes ago. I'd just been reading a thread about mainframes, and while was making it (the cuppa), I found myself muttering JCL for am IBM system I haven't used for over 20 years.

20 years? I don't think I have seen JCL in 30 years :( though I do still mumble about Harris Vulcmess (and an aptly named OS that was)

[lisati]

20 years? I don't think I have seen JCL in 30 years :( though I do still mumble about Harris Vulcmess (and an aptly named OS that was)

I thought I'd forgotten JCL but was surprised how quickly a handful of lines came back......

[kaligus]

I thought I'd forgotten JCL but was surprised how quickly a handful of lines came back......

you know your a geek when you can remember thousands of less than fully useful items about hundreds of computers long dead, but can't remember your partners birthday/ring size/clothing sizes/etc.

You know your an "old" geek when you can't remember the same stuff about yourself without the help of technology!

[lisati]

you know your a geek when you can remember thousands of less than fully useful items about hundreds of computers long dead, but can't remember your partners birthday/ring size/clothing sizes/etc.

You know your an "old" geek when you can't remember the same stuff about yourself without the help of technology!

:lolflag:

[MONODA]

you unsubcribed to this thread a long time ago...

[eddVRS]

When you see this and are not surprised...

Linux is taking over (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Top500_OS.png)
You mean there are alternative operating systems? Not just Windows?

[GepettoBR]

When you see this and are not surprised...

Linux is taking over (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Top500_OS.png)

That doesn't mean much. Linux will only be "taking over" when it has a significant share in personal computers, which it's far from having.

[scratman]

This makes you laugh so loud you disturb people!!!
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sandwich.png

[RedPandaFox]

This makes you laugh so loud you disturb people!!!
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sandwich.png

Ok, yeah, well.... I'm not meant to be on here at work, but when I laughed at that my boss came over :( -sigh-

[Kopachris]

When you enjoy making up fictional alien races to every last detail.
When you've done the above more than 5 times.
When you use POV-Ray to make the textures for the Celestia solar systems for said alien races.
When your English folder has a consonants chart doodled on to it to help with making more fictional languages.
When you know more about programming than your high-school C++ teacher.
When you're excited about getting your chemistry, physics, and C++ textbooks.
When the most creative thing you've done with GarageBand is take a bunch of video game midis and make a medly out of them. And then you listen to it while you program.
When you wish your monitor hadn't died so you could take home the code from your C++ class to make it better! Stupid Dell Trinitron...
When you're surprised they're just now coming out with commercials for a WiFi printer.
When you laugh at the Popular Mechanics article about how to run your TV through your computer (we've been doing it for as long as I can remember).
When you haven't had an Intel processor since the Pentium III.
When you really want a picoTux.

[scragar]

When you enjoy making up fictional alien races to every last detail.
When you've done the above more than 5 times.not quite alien races, but do races of creatures for fantasy role play count? I've created entire worlds with these creatures in because I didn't like the DnD elf, dward, halfling and human gouping, there should be more than just 4 stereotypical races that should be more than just "oh, he's a dwarf, so he's scotish, likes to drink and uses axes or hammers"...
When you know more about programming than your high-school C++ teacher.
When you're excited about getting your chemistry, physics, and C++ textbooks.yes and yes, although honestly knowing more than my college teachers wasn't hard.
When you wish your monitor hadn't died so you could take home the code from your C++ class to make it better! Stupid Dell Trinitron...you've only got 1 monitor? what kind of geek are you?
When you're surprised they're just now coming out with commercials for a WiFi printer.I've never seen those ads, sounds intresting though.
When you laugh at the Popular Mechanics article about how to run your TV through your computer (we've been doing it for as long as I can remember).what's a TV? and be quite, I'm trying to watch the latest episode of A Town Called Eureka(for the yanks out there that's just Eureka where you come from)
When you haven't had an Intel processor since the Pentium III.spot on, although the fact my pentium 3 ran faster than a friends pentium D running XP had nothing to do with me keeping it around for a while :P
When you really want a picoTux.
Actualy no, I don't want one of them, although it would be nice to have I doubt I would do anything with it, which would be a waste.

[RedPandaFox]

When you wish your monitor hadn't died so you could take home the code from your C++ class to make it better! Stupid Dell Trinitron...

you've only got 1 monitor? what kind of geek are you?


Quite true. Only one monitor? Tisk tisk, In my old house, there were 6 duel monitor setups and only four of us living there :P We all hated the house, but loved the Internet connection. :)

[scragar]

Quite true. Only one monitor? Tisk tisk, In my old house, there were 6 duel monitor setups and only four of us living there :P We all hated the house, but loved the Internet connection. :)

3 monitors here, 1 person. Quite horrific to consider the idea of not having a spare monitor(I've only got 1 spare, but I've got 2 boxes set up, 1 windows for if I ever need something on windows that can't be in wine(I got annoyed with vBoxes), the others the one on 24/7 running ubuntu), having said that though, if the ubuntu monitor broke I think I'd steal the windows monitor first, since it's in the same room and almost never used, while the spare is under the stairs and would require a bit of effort to get it out.

[talsemgeest]

Quite true. Only one monitor? Tisk tisk, In my old house, there were 6 duel monitor setups and only four of us living there :P We all hated the house, but loved the Internet connection. :)
I'm afraid I'm just on one monitor as well. I have another monitor spare sitting in the corner of my room, but really don't want to put it in dual monitor configuration because a 10 year old 12 inch beige crt beast doesn't go to well with a 19 inch black high-gloss samsung lcd...

[bartos]

You deliberately void warranties.- Usually on the way home from the store as the wife drives.:lolflag:

The computer is a mistress in the wifes eyes.

[lisati]

the computer is a mistress in the wifes eyes.

+1 :)

[scragar]

you play Area 51 for 5 hours, then go downstairs, hear a bang and instantly look for aliens and a shotgun(since EVERY explosion in that game is imediatly followed by hordes of aliens bursting through a new hole in the wall, either that, or it's someone chucking a grenade at your feet and it's now too late to do anything, so you wind up looking for aliens anyway).

Your able to play Area 51 for 5 hours, at 4AM.

Your boss no longer accepts "insomnia caused by the time differentiation between 2 locations on a curved semi solid object and interaction between entities existing at these points" as an excuse for being in work later, pointing out that chatting so someone on the other side of the world till 4AM is not a valid excuse for sleeping in.

[pvalley1967]

When you can read the GPL from start to finish with out looking at the written text

[kaligus]

This makes you laugh so loud you disturb people!!!
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sandwich.png

... you wonder if this also works on 1) bosses 2) pets 3) parents 4) neighbors... etc.

+1 for you knowing it wont work on politicians because they have no higher authority. (and have probably already made that sandwich into 10K$ toilet seat).

[sci-fi guy]

...it wont work on politicians because they have no higher authority.

God. But He's always logged in as root, so he doesn't need sudo.

[eddVRS]

...when of all the users on the forums, the only user location you understand is sci-fi guys

"Location: London, United Kingdom" <- ey?! where?! you wha...?!
"Location: /earth/na/usa/ca/visalia" <- yeah, gotcha

[Ptero-4]

When you enjoy making up fictional alien races to every last detail.
When you've done the above more than 5 times.
When you really want a picoTux.

It´s not geeky anymore since yahoo published their "spore creature creator" program. Now lots of kids are gonna be making and trading alien races like they did pokemon years ago.

Also a Q. What´s a picoTux?

[scragar]

Also a Q. What´s a picoTux?

http://www.picotux.com/

[talsemgeest]

...when of all the users on the forums, the only user location you understand is sci-fi guys

"Location: London, United Kingdom" <- ey?! where?! you wha...?!
"Location: /earth/na/usa/ca/visalia" <- yeah, gotcha
Not even mine?

[antirem]

You know you're a geek when when you post in the "You know you're a geek when" thread

[spupy]

... when you know the fine thin line between being a nerd and being a geek.

[lisati]

Not even mine?

Sol 3? What the......? (Just teasing!)

[bartos]

The only question at Christmas time is "Does it come with wires?"

[Ptero-4]

http://www.picotux.com/

Good. And what exactly do you normally use that for (see en eth port, a small thing next to it that may be the power port and a VGA port at the other side of it)?

[scragar]

Good. And what exactly do you normally use that for (see en eth port, a small thing next to it that may be the power port and a VGA port at the other side of it)?

well I can't think of any practical uses, I suspect it's more of just a bragging point of some kind.

[money2themax]

well I can't think of any practical uses, I suspect it's more of just a bragging point of some kind.
the cheapest one is like $100+ USD thats a little too pricey for my taste

[yabbadabbadont]

well I can't think of any practical uses, I suspect it's more of just a bragging point of some kind.

Pocket firewall maybe? But that would require two network connectors...

Maybe a really tiny webserver?

[scragar]

Pocket firewall maybe? But that would require two network connectors...

Maybe a really tiny webserver?

not powerful enough to run lighttp, so unless you've got a mini version of that I don't think so. Besides, you can buy a second hand P3 for like £5 if you want that sort of stuff, far cheaper.

[sci-fi guy]

not powerful enough to run lighttp, so unless you've got a mini version of that I don't think so. Besides, you can buy a second hand P3 for like £5 if you want that sort of stuff, far cheaper.

P3s use alot more power though...

As for the Firewall idea, it could work if you can get TCP through the serial port... Couldn't it?

[CaptainMo]

[QUOTE=bonzodog;467633]How do YOU know you're a geek?

When you don't know the genders of your five best friends
because you never bothered to ask.

When you need to count things and just don't feel right
without starting at zero.

There is nobody to talk to during break because your job
has nothing to do with computers and nobody understands
what you are taking about, but they know enough not to ask.

If you actually read every bit of this thread this far.
:-?

[sci-fi guy]

If you actually read every bit of this thread this far.
:-?

-100 points

[scragar]

urg, are people still repeating that?

[CaptainMo]

urg, are people still repeating that?

OK, I confess, I skipped ahead...:)

[yabbadabbadont]

If you create solutions to the "Beginning Programmers Challenge" thread problems, just for a little light entertainment.

If you do the same for the "Advanced Programmers Challenge" thread for real entertainment.

[talsemgeest]

OK, I confess, I skipped ahead...:)
Ha, I knew it! :)

Anyway, I want the advice of the geeks. My school is giving me an old computer, not sure of the specs yet but it is about 4 years old, amd cpu with about 30GB HDD. I'm thinking about sticking ubuntu server on it and running it headless just for fun, is there anything cool you guys (and girls) can think of to put on it or do with it?

[Kopachris]

Not even mine?
You live on Mars?:)

Ha, I knew it! :)

Anyway, I want the advice of the geeks. My school is giving me an old computer, not sure of the specs yet but it is about 4 years old, amd cpu with about 30GB HDD. I'm thinking about sticking ubuntu server on it and running it headless just for fun, is there anything cool you guys (and girls) can think of to put on it or do with it?
Connect it to another computer through the ethernet port and write a program to utilize that connection for multi-threading. Dunno what the program would do, maybe calculate the trajectory of a bouncing ball or something. But, hey! Two-node beowulf cluster!

[Toshibawarrior]

Ha, I knew it! :)

Anyway, I want the advice of the geeks. My school is giving me an old computer, not sure of the specs yet but it is about 4 years old, amd cpu with about 30GB HDD. I'm thinking about sticking ubuntu server on it and running it headless just for fun, is there anything cool you guys (and girls) can think of to put on it or do with it?

The server idea is cool. Although you could use any of the very-small-distros available like PuppyLinux, DSL, Arch Linux and so on...

I have an old HP Pavilion with a whopping 15GB HDD, 64mb RAM and a 16mb video card...and I still don't know what to with it since I don't have a monitor for it...*sigh*...

:popcorn:

[scragar]

I had a pentium 3 and it ran quite well with ubuntu dapper and, later, gutsy I had to boost the ram though to get it running better, but still. It came with a 40GB HD(which I'm still using to this day, it was my first linux computer and the HD is still running linux(what is it about linux that makes a 40GB hd look massive? My freind has a 100GB HD(running windows XP) and continualy complains about having to delete stuff to make space...), although now it's a hardy-ibex dualboot...), which isn't much bigger than the 30GB one you have, I'd recomend installing something like Xubuntu or fluxubuntu You can get a fair bit of performance out of it, the box has to be good for something, even if it's just as a spare box or used as a firewall/router box.

[sci-fi guy]

My school is giving me an old computer, not sure of the specs yet but it is about 4 years old, amd cpu with about 30GB HDD. I'm thinking about sticking ubuntu server on it and running it headless just for fun, is there anything cool you guys (and girls) can think of to put on it or do with it?

I'm running a Compaq iPaq (??? MHz, 256 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD) that I am using to learn how to set up various server software (Apache, mail server...) without screwing up my laptop.

[talsemgeest]

I'm running a Compaq iPaq (??? MHz, 256 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD) that I am using to learn how to set up various server software (Apache, mail server...) without screwing up my laptop.
Pretty much what I am planning to do. I don't have room for another monitor, so I will be using a combination of webmin and ssh to use it once it is set up. But Kopachris' suggestion does sound good, if I can figure out how to make a two node beowulf cluster work it would be pretty cool...

[emperortux]

You use fsck as profanity.

[spupy]

I had a pentium 3 and it ran quite well with ubuntu dapper and, later, gutsy I had to boost the ram though to get it running better, but still. It came with a 40GB HD(which I'm still using to this day, it was my first linux computer and the HD is still running linux(what is it about linux that makes a 40GB hd look massive? My freind has a 100GB HD(running windows XP) and continualy complains about having to delete stuff to make space...), although now it's a hardy-ibex dualboot...), which isn't much bigger than the 30GB one you have,...

You are a geek when you can nest 3 levels of brackets in normal text just as if you were writing code and still make sense.

...or when you can read the mentioned 3 levels nested text with no problem.

[spupy]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4200477&postcount=1337

What a post - WASTED! :(

[raul_]

When you have a signature like sci-fi guy above

[sci-fi guy]

You know you are a geek when you intentionally disable your ability to connect to your wifi by installing Debian without a Desktop Environment and then spend the rest of the weekend trying to get it working again without installing KDE or Gnome.

---Typing while attached to Ethernet

[scragar]

You are a geek when you can nest 3 levels of brackets in normal text just as if you were writing code and still make sense.

...or when you can read the mentioned 3 levels nested text with no problem.

I never notice I'm doing that, guess it's just too easy for me to fall into the coding habits.

[Ptero-4]

You know you are a geek when you intentionally disable your ability to connect to your wifi by installing Debian without a Desktop Environment and then spend the rest of the weekend trying to get it working again without installing KDE or Gnome.

---Typing while attached to Ethernet

It´s actually quite simple to do (assuming that it gets detected nativelly, by madwifi or ndiswrapper).
type:
iwconfig
to see the device name for your wifi, then
sudo iwconfig wifidev ESSID essid name
to set it to your ESSID
and finally
sudo dhclient
to connect to it.
That´s it, you got your wifi running.

[money2themax]

really that didn't work for me on my lappy

[mike1234]

You know you're a geek when a person with a degree in Engineering wants you to take a "look" at his computer to see what's wrong with it.

M.

[money2themax]

You know you're a geek when a person with a degree in Engineering wants you to take a "look" at his computer to see what's wrong with it.

M.
w00t that happened to me i feel accomplished now:lolflag:

[sci-fi guy]

It´s actually quite simple to do (assuming that it gets detected nativelly, by madwifi or ndiswrapper).
It hadn't been, although I got the driver installed and working. Then I saw your post.

sudo iwconfig wifidev ESSID essid name
Don't forget 'key s:passphrase' on the end of that.

[scragar]

when you start writing a script to automaticly bump the bump thread.

[ad_267]

You know you're a geek when a person with a degree in Engineering wants you to take a "look" at his computer to see what's wrong with it.

M.

You know you're a geek when you're doing an engineering degree but you know more about computers than your friend taking computer science.

[talsemgeest]

You know you're a geek when you're doing an engineering degree but you know more about computers than your friend taking computer science.
Thats easy. I'm doing I.T. but am the best in the class, better than everyone in the year above and at least as good as those in the year above that.

[eddVRS]

...when you know what this counts down to...
http://www.electromagnetic.net/detach.php
...and it concerns you...
:sad:

[spupy]

...when you know what this counts down to...
http://www.electromagnetic.net/detach.php
...and it concerns you...
:sad:

So, what is it? Countdown to the next season of LOST? :):confused:

[scragar]

...when you know what this counts down to...
http://www.electromagnetic.net/detach.php
...and it concerns you...
:sad:

I'm not superstitious. Next fri 13th doesn't bother me.
You know your a geek when you didn't know that and either wrote a script to find it, or worked it out in your head.

[lisati]

I'm not superstitious. Next fri 13th doesn't bother me.
You know your a geek when you didn't know that and either wrote a script to find it, or worked it out in your head.

Techno-geek: someone who writes a variety of scripts and programs in differing languages, and eventually comes to the conclusion that it's just a date.
Psycho-geek: someone whose internal script says that Friday 13th is unlucky, and makes it so.

[bigyoy]

you click the "Reply to Thread" button more than 5 times a day, or does that just mean you have nothing better to do?

[eddVRS]

Originally Posted by eddVRS
...when you know what this counts down to...
http://www.electromagnetic.net/detach.php
...and it concerns you...

on a serious note, is this likely to be a problem? Or have smimilar results as the noneventful millenium bug

[GepettoBR]

The UNIX millenium bug is still a few years to go.

[scragar]

doesn't XP have the same bug?

[GepettoBR]

Yes, but that has already gone by. The UNIX millenium bug date still hasn't come, because UNIX-like systems save time data in a different format.

Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

[scragar]

http://maul.deepsky.com/~merovech/2038.html

apparantly windows 2000 just freezes, I'm assuming since XP isn't much better it'll suffer the same flaw, right?

[fiddler616]

You know you're a geek when you think up Python code to improve the performance of household appliances/light-switches, and then sadly realize that you're in the real world.

[corney91]

You know you're a geek when you think up Python code to improve the performance of household appliances/light-switches, and then sadly realize that you're in the real world.

When you read this and think how cool it would be to be in the Matrix:)

(Please, noone post another XKCD comic in this thread as a response to that...)

'...When you've read enough XKCD comics in this thread and elsewhere' is another one I suppose :p (but I believe that has been said before as well, or at least thought by most people :p)

[talsemgeest]

...when you install linux on the school computers and test the network defences, get caught by the sys-admin and get a free computer out of it.

[victor.zamanian]

When you are typing out a path in the Forums and you try to tab-complete it.

You understood the above ;P

Both of them, best so far, BY far.

[Sam Lars]

When the professor says you won't be getting into subatomic chemistry or the creation of the elements past uranium, you're immediately disappointed; even though you know you're just in "general chemistry." But not to worry, you'll be taking quantum physics later. :)
The first thing you do when you connect to an AP somewhere is check their internet connection speed.

[Toshibawarrior]

The first thing you do when you connect to an AP somewhere is check their internet connection speed.

I do that! I believe it's the correct and wise thing to do...am I wrong? :p

[Sam Lars]

I think it's perfectly reasonable.
And then either:
A. You become envious of their super-awesome-fast connection
B. You scoff because you have your own super-awesome-fast connection that pwns theirs

Also... if you regularly check in at http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm to see how the Internet is doing.

[GepettoBR]

I think it's perfectly reasonable.
And then either:
A. You become envious of their super-awesome-fast connection
B. You scoff because you have your own super-awesome-fast connection that pwns theirs

Also... if you regularly check in at http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm to see how the Internet is doing.

I live in South America and find it very hard to believe that we're better off than Europe in Internet speeds. No way.

[Sam Lars]

It's based on response time and packet loss... so it's not really speed-wise. You can have a fast connection with low response time and vice versa, it's more about health than throughput...

[jimi_hendrix]

you know your a geek when you know that :) and when you understand it (like me)

[GepettoBR]

It's based on response time and packet loss... so it's not really speed-wise. You can have a fast connection with low response time and vice versa, it's more about health than throughput...

Still, the cablings here tend to be very old, and I live in a big city. How do they collect the data for that?

[Ptero-4]

...when you know what this counts down to...
http://www.electromagnetic.net/detach.php
...and it concerns you...
:sad:
Is that a countdown to the UNIX date format bug?

[money2themax]

The UNIX millenium bug is still a few years to go.
yeah well it won't be a problem cuz we'll fix it years before it ever gets to be a real problem unlike microsoft

[GepettoBR]

yeah well it won't be a problem cuz we'll fix it years before it ever gets to be a real problem unlike microsoft

"Fixing it" is a matter of migrating to 64-bit OSes and apps. The problem lies with embedded gadgets, like PDAs, that don't get replaced as often as computers - there'll still be a lot of those running faulty clocks by 01/19/2038...

[mike1234]

on a serious note, is this likely to be a problem? Or have smimilar results as the noneventful millenium bug

Oh God here we go again (Y2K). The last big panic was a total farce. I know a lot of Windows boxes that had ancient versions of Windows installed and did absolutely "nothing". Bunch of programmers made a killing with Cobol though! Besides I'll be dead by then.

M.

[money2themax]

"Fixing it" is a matter of migrating to 64-bit OSes and apps. The problem lies with embedded gadgets, like PDAs, that don't get replaced as often as computers - there'll still be a lot of those running faulty clocks by 01/19/2038...
well that will make it paramount for users to upgrade their PDAs and other electronics

[sci-fi guy]

well that will make it paramount for users to upgrade their PDAs and other electronics

I don't know of any 64-bit PDAs. But how long do such devices last, anyway? 10 years at the most (have a working palm 7 years old)? So we need to get all the manufacturers onto 64-bit processors within 20 years. Running Ubuntu Netbook remix.

[talsemgeest]

I don't know of any 64-bit PDAs. But how long do such devices last, anyway? 10 years at the most (have a working palm 7 years old)? So we need to get all the manufacturers onto 64-bit processors within 20 years. Running Ubuntu Netbook remix.
I don't know what everyone is fussing about. I am guessing that all that is going to happen when the time comes is that the date resets, giving some computers the wrong date. It is not exactly going to blow up every computer with the bug now is it?

[scragar]

I don't know what everyone is fussing about. I am guessing that all that is going to happen when the time comes is that the date resets, giving some computers the wrong date. It is not exactly going to blow up every computer with the bug now is it?

no, but it will mess with your date planner, time settings and a fair bit more, nothing like what people imagined for y2k, but then, people are idiots.

[scragar]

ooh, was planning to go shopping this afternoon, look what I found: http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=793624 -- a 2GB stick for £20, wonder if I'll be able to keep one of my current 512 sticks to get 2.5GB, or will that cause an error?

[talsemgeest]

ooh, was planning to go shopping this afternoon, look what I found: http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=793624 -- a 2GB stick for £20, wonder if I'll be able to keep one of my current 512 sticks to get 2.5GB, or will that cause an error?
Should work as far as I know, but I have never tried it. Worth a go I suppose.

[scragar]

Should work as far as I know, but I have never tried it. Worth a go I suppose.

I've never tried it either, I'd assume it would work, but that ram stick is a different speed and from a different maker, so I'm unwilling to assume it would work perfectly(hard to believe that I've never mixed ram from different sources before, even given the number of computers I've taken apart...), still, 2 of those is cheaper than 4GB anywhere else I know of locally, and I will be upgrading to 4GB at some point in the future, better now than later I guess :P.

[Kopachris]

I'll definitely be running a 64-bit OS by 2038. I'm not even sure x86 will be around anymore by then. But I might end up being the hacker grandpa who has ASIMO in his basement... (On second thought, no not quite old enough)

Found this on Wikipedia:

It includes a graphics engine upgrade as well as compatibility with Windows Vista (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista), having been hailed by Microsoft as the most important technological milestone in the series to date
Sure enough, getting something compatible with Vista is a technological milestone! :D

[money2themax]

no, but it will mess with your date planner, time settings and a fair bit more, nothing like what people imagined for y2k, but then, people are idiots.
wasn't it mainly Americans that were super worried everyone else was like "ooh upgrade" no offense to anyone

[Toshibawarrior]

I'll definitely be running a 64-bit OS by 2038. I'm not even sure x86 will be around anymore by then. But I might end up being the hacker grandpa who has ASIMO in his basement... (On second thought, no not quite old enough)

Found this on Wikipedia:

Sure enough, getting something compatible with Vista is a technological milestone! :D

Absolutely correct! I never could get my flash drive working in Vista...Got it working in 12 seconds in Ubuntu...

Vista plainly sucks!!!

[talsemgeest]

Absolutely correct! I never could get my flash drive working in Vista...Got it working in 12 seconds in Ubuntu...

Vista plainly sucks!!!
Agreed, deleting it from my system felt so good.

[Toshibawarrior]

Agreed, deleting it from my system felt so good.

Right on! Erasing it and installing only Ubuntu was the most satisfying experience I could have on a computer :p!!!

[money2themax]

Agreed, deleting it from my system felt so good.
almost like riding your body of a horrible toxin

[GepettoBR]

I think there will be plenty of computers around here in Brazil that will suffer from this bug. Many public offices here still run Windows 95... The Federal Government did have a plan to promote the use of Open Source operating systems (mainly FreeBSD) but not much was done, especially after the fiasco with the Federal Police's website safety certificate: no one tried to contact the Mozilla Foundation (or anyone else besides Microsoft, really) to get it authenticated so only people running Internet Explorer can request passports and some other stuff online. Totally thoughtless.

"Hey, let's get rid of Windows to stimulate national software development, then make it impossible for anything other than a Microsoft product to access vital public services!"

That's why I snicker when people say Bush is bad. He is the lesser evil as far as his compatriots are concerned. Lula must be way more popular in the Middle East, though.

/rant

[talsemgeest]

almost like riding your body of a horrible toxin
Yeah, that sounds about right. Windows is the toxin that kills all that is good.

[RedPandaFox]

I think there will be plenty of computers around here in Brazil that will suffer from this bug. Many public offices here still run Windows 95... The Federal Government did have a plan to promote the use of Open Source operating systems (mainly FreeBSD) but not much was done, especially after the fiasco with the Federal Police's website safety certificate: no one tried to contact the Mozilla Foundation (or anyone else besides Microsoft, really) to get it authenticated so only people running Internet Explorer can request passports and some other stuff online. Totally thoughtless.

"Hey, let's get rid of Windows to stimulate national software development, then make it impossible for anything other than a Microsoft product to access vital public services!"

That's why I snicker when people say Bush is bad. He is the lesser evil as far as his compatriots are concerned. Lula must be way more popular in the Middle East, though.

/rant

So.... they are hoping... to INCREASE security with Windows? :confused:

[talsemgeest]

So.... they are hoping... to INCREASE security with Windows? :confused:
And that leaves me to take post #3500. Yay!