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

[RedPandaFox]

You know your a geek when you get excited for having post #3500 :lolflag:

[schauerlich]

http://paste.ubuntu.com/39000/


:D

[Ptero-4]

When you raise skinny elephants in real life.

I know what´s raising skinny elephants in the Linux context. But what did you mean by doing it in real life?

[talsemgeest]

I know what´s raising skinny elephants in the Linux context. But what did you mean by doing it in real life?
I suppose it is just that just because it is some obscure thing about linux you do it in real life as well.

[eddVRS]

http://paste.ubuntu.com/39000/


:D

What is this? :confused:

[talsemgeest]

That is a question that I would like answered as well. Off to google I go...

[eddVRS]

Looks like it can be used for sharing large amounts of text in a nice tidy way.

[scragar]

What is this? :confused:

it's paste number 39000, looks like it was taken as some sort of goal.

[eddVRS]

oh dear (at me)... I'll race you to 40000...

[SakJur]

When you're supposed to buy a coke from a shop 100 yards away, you call them and ask for home delivery and tell them: "Enter the corridor, go down the stairs to the left and the third computer to right is my current location"

[piousp]

When you're supposed to buy a coke from a shop 100 yards away, you call them and ask for home delivery and tell them: "Enter the corridor, go down the stairs to the left and the third computer to right is my current location"

Oh my...

[Joeb454]

When you're supposed to buy a coke from a shop 100 yards away, you call them and ask for home delivery and tell them: "Enter the corridor, go down the stairs to the left and the third computer to right is my current location"

Sounds reasonable to me

[jimi_hendrix]

Sounds reasonable to me

me too...only thing is you know your a geek^2 when you buy in bluck size to save 10 cents

you know your a geek when you are reading looking for something in a newspaper you try to ctrl + f it

[jimi_hendrix]

When you're supposed to buy a coke from a shop 100 yards away, you call them and ask for home delivery and tell them: "Enter the corridor, go down the stairs to the left and the third computer to right is my current location"

geeks only drink mountain dew

[sci-fi guy]

geeks only drink mountain dew

I disagree. (http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/bawls/)

My uptime (not my computer's) is 4 days.

[xouns]

You say something stupid and look for the delete button
Something goes wrong and you look for Ctrl-Z

You fall down and press Esc-Enter (after looong hours of THPS2/ 3)
I also saw numbers flying out of cars, after playing GTA2 for hours a day. I wasn't the only one...

[SuperSonic4]

Everything you need is arranged in a circular pattern at arms length from your super comfortable, spinny chair

[scragar]

Everything you need is arranged in a circular pattern at arms length from your super comfortable, spinny chair

you have that set-up to such an extent that you have to crawl to get out of your little circle.

[jimi_hendrix]

You fall down and press Esc-Enter (after looong hours of THPS2/ 3)


THPS2/3? and what does esc-enter do?

[xouns]

THPS2/3? and what does esc-enter do?

Retry. Esc brings up the menu, enter enables the "restart" option. It has grown naturally to me in-game, after sometime I saw my pinky look for the esc button while falling...

[jimi_hendrix]

wow...and thp?

[scragar]

wow...and thp?

thps = tony hawks pro skater, right?

[jimi_hendrix]

you know your a geek when you use classes for nouns, functions/methods for verbs, and variables for adjectives in your daily talk

[raul_]

you know your a geek when you use classes for nouns, functions/methods for verbs, and variables for adjectives in your daily talk

wow, i never thought of things that way

[Toshibawarrior]

You know you're a geek when you try really hard to make a python script to re-configure your wife's OS "N.A.G. OS X" and you find it too hard and then you rather compile your own OS and put it in her...Just to find that the leftovers of N.A.G. OS X rendered your freshly made OS useless due to system requirements and incompatibilities...

:popcorn:

[talsemgeest]

you have that set-up to such an extent that you have to crawl to get out of your little circle.
Or have motorized shelves that move when you want to leave...

[Joeb454]

Or have motorized shelves that move when you want to leave...

That's much cooler :)

[talsemgeest]

That's much cooler :)
And yet shows your geekiness in that you need motorized shelves around your computer.

[eddVRS]

And yet shows your geekiness in that you need motorized shelves around your computer.

Surely a true geek would be running more than one rig?

[talsemgeest]

Surely a true geek would be running more than one rig?
Could be running a whole beowulf cluster hidden away somewhere, but is only using the one computer as a frontend. That sounds pretty geeky to me...

[eddVRS]

add one to your geek log. Like your style <cough>geek</cough>:)

[RedPandaFox]

You know your a geek when you say "sudo" before a sentence when someone wont do as you say

[talsemgeest]

You know your a geek when you say "sudo" before a sentence when someone wont do as you say
sudo call me a geek

[schauerlich]

sudo call me a geek
Password:

[sci-fi guy]

password:

42

[RedPandaFox]

My friends teacher wouldnt show her an excel macro so she was like "sudo excel macro now"

[schauerlich]

42

Sorry, try again.
Password:

[eddVRS]

Passwrod: .Two10

[talsemgeest]

sudo give me the password:)

[sci-fi guy]

Sorry, try again.
Password:

***********

[scragar]

***********

wrong, sudo doesn't show the password, so it's this:
**********

[schauerlich]

wrong, sudo doesn't show the password, so it's this:
**********

Sorry, try again.
Password:

[corney91]

Sorry, try again.
Password:

hunter2? :)

[Lorelei-]

you read Linux related jokes, understand them and find them funny and then repost them on other non-Linux forums and can't understand why people don't get the joke.

[talsemgeest]

Sorry, try again.
Password:
linux
linustorvalds
markshuttleworth

[schauerlich]

hunter2? :)

You know you're a geek when you understand that reference. :)

[arranmc182]

You know you're a geek when you tell people about your network setup hoping them to go WOW and all they do is give you a funny look

[corney91]

You know you're a geek when you understand that reference. :)

Or you're bothered enough to google it, although that is a lower stage of geekdom :p

[scragar]

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/6082/dontgiveyourpasspn0.jpg

I knew the reference, I just had to check it though :P

PS: 34 pages with the phrase "password is hunter2" exactly, thought it'd be more than that...

[Joeb454]

Sorry, try again.
Password:

Password:

I typed the right password, but it doesn't show, because I'm running Linux

[spupy]

hunter2? :)

*******??? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??





Also, you are geek when, ... um... bash.org?

[darth_indy]

You're a geek when you don't need a reason to be.

TH15 THR34D 15 PWND!!1!

*Ahem* Sorry bout that.

[talsemgeest]

...you use your webcam as a mirror.

[sci-fi guy]

You know you are a geek when you set a large tarp outside your house to see when it shows up on Google Maps.

[Toshibawarrior]

You set your computer desk outside until you can see yourself on Google Maps/Earth AND your iPhone's GPS...(keep waiting, ain't gonna happen anytime soon)... :p!

[qstraza]

1. when you say LOL (serious lol) instead of laughing.
2. when you turn a mouse really fast if someone comes behind your back instead of physically turning around

[Joeb454]

Also, you are geek when, ... um... bash.org?

Last I checked bash.org was down

[Glucklich]

1. when you say LOL (serious lol) instead of laughing.

Oh yeah, definitely a great way to tell if one is a geek.

[Toshibawarrior]

1. when you say LOL (serious lol) instead of laughing.


Been done dozens of times here on this thread...but I know it's almost impossible to read all these pages... :p!

[talsemgeest]

Been done dozens of times here on this thread...but I know it's almost impossible to read all these pages... :p!
There is always the search function. I always use it before posting something new on this thread.

[qstraza]

blabla sorry k?;>
it justed poped in to my head and i wrote it...

[kvarley]

You know you're a geek when you are 14 and can confuse adults by talking tech...

[raul_]

...When you think about something you usually do, and then post it here

[talsemgeest]

You know you're a geek when you are 14 and can confuse adults by talking tech...
You know you're a geek when you can confuse the school sysadmins.

You also know you're an even bigger geek when you know you're local computer store better than the employees.

I needed some things, and my friend was going up to the mall anyway, so I gave him a list of the things I needed and some money. Soon enough I got a call from the computer store saying that they didn't have one of the items on the list. I knew they had it so I said "OK, do you see the box of IDE cables on the floor in front of you? Good, walk over to it and look to your left, on the second shelf from the bottom, that should be where it is." Then he said
"No no, sorry we don't have any of - Oh wait, there it is!"

You know you are an even bigger geek when you are proud of that.

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you can confuse the school sysadmins.

You also know you're an even bigger geek when you know you're local computer store better than the employees.

I needed some things, and my friend was going up to the mall anyway, so I gave him a list of the things I needed and some money. Soon enough I got a call from the computer store saying that they didn't have one of the items on the list. I knew they had it so I said "OK, do you see the box of IDE cables on the floor in front of you? Good, walk over to it and look to your left, on the second shelf from the bottom, that should be where it is." Then he said
"No no, sorry we don't have any of - Oh wait, there it is!"

You know you are an even bigger geek when you are proud of that.

+2 internets to you, good sir.

[RedPandaFox]

2. when you turn a mouse really fast if someone comes behind your back instead of physically turning around

I do that when I'm not where neer a PC... I keep looking for the mouse

[sci-fi guy]

You know you are a geek when you see this (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Whoops!.aspx) and your first thought is "Why are they using IE6?"

[raul_]

you know you are a geek when you see this (http://thedailywtf.com/articles/whoops!.aspx) and your first thought is "why are they using ie6?"

lol

[scragar]

You know you are a geek when you see this (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Whoops!.aspx) and your first thought is "Why are they using IE6?"

actualy my first thought was "urg, windows, bet the rubbish is badly coded and won't be available for anyone other than the windows users, because god forbid people want a choice in what their computer does," after that I noticed the IE6 thing, but that was more because you pointed it out, I can't tell IE7's icon from IE5/6's without actualy trying to spot it, I just see IE and think "ooh, I get to spend the next 30 minutes getting working code that took 2 minutes to write working on IE"

Not that I'm against windows or anything :P(I just hate a few things about it, number 1 is that everyone assumes you use it, number 2 is the lack of standards, and number 3 is the big lack of stable software, what can I say)

[raul_]

actualy my first thought was "urg, windows, bet the rubbish is badly coded and won't be available for anyone other than the windows users, because god forbid people want a choice in what their computer does," after that I noticed the IE6 thing, but that was more because you pointed it out, I can't tell IE7's icon from IE5/6's without actualy trying to spot it, I just see IE and think "ooh, I get to spend the next 30 minutes getting working code that took 2 minutes to write working on IE"

Not that I'm against windows or anything :P(I just hate a few things about it, number 1 is that everyone assumes you use it, number 2 is the lack of standards, and number 3 is the big lack of stable software, what can I say)

So you didn't notice the porn site? :)

[scragar]

So you didn't notice the porn site? :)

I noticed, it just wasn't one of the first things I noticed, I wouldn't have noticed it at all if it wasn't fir the red arrow.

[money2themax]

this made me fall over

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Connect-Over-What!.aspx

"Temperature on the outer layer of the sun: 6,000° C (http://www.solarviews.com/eng/sun.htm) (11,000° F). Temperature of Nick's video card: 4,294,967,295° C (2,386,092,923° F). Yeah, I agree with this thing's diagnosis — replacing the fan might be a good start."

[MentalNotes]

* While walking down the street you see graffiti that says F.T.P. and the first thing that you think of is File Transfer Protocol. If you don't know what it really means, please don't ask :)
* You can have a 30 minute conversation on the minutiae of the GPL with a (long suffering) friend.
* Before using someone else's Windows box you have to spend at least 10 minutes tweaking it before you can begin to use it and even then you REALLY, REALLY miss virtual desktops.

All of these have happened to me :)

[eddVRS]

to ask your friends a question, you have to preceed it with a !

:blush due to lack of friends emoticon:

[scragar]

you ask someone a question but using the lisp -p notation.

someone asks a question using the worse OR and you reply true, since 1 or the other is correct("are you at work or at home?" "true").

people think your strange when you answer a question with a double negative as if the negatives cancelled each other out ( one from one of my nephews school friends(most obvious I can think off): "Can't you not?" ).

You find an old USB stick with a CD attached containing the driver for USB1.1 on windows 98 and consider installing a virtualbox to play around with it.



Oh, and you answer questions with "can I" assuming they are asking on a hypotherical basis, not as if they wanted your blessing/permission to do it.

[Joeb454]

That's what XOR's are for, people should say

"Are you at work XOR at home?" "at home"

[dead_end]

You know you're a geek when:
...you spent about 30 minutes writing a single post on this forums.
...you're building a fusion reactor to prove:
E=mcmaterial2 a.k.a. K(x)=K4(x)*K3(ϒ) where ϒ is a photon, K(σ)={length=0, width, volume, speed, mass, charge, "valence" and other electronic properties in atoms, spin, strangeness, charm, bottomness}, and cmaterial is the velocity of light in a material in which a matter-energy reaction takes place, thus giving a possible use of "dilithium" from Star Trek in a matter-antimatter reaction. If "dilithium" has properties that cause light to go faster than it does in a vacuum, exponentially so when stimulated by an electromagnetic field, then that would yield a greater energy output, thus opening the possibility for warp-speed travel. We still haven't found any material like that yet, but the vacuum in "velocity of light in a vacuum" is not a true vacuum, and scientists have gotten light to go faster with quantum tunneling.


You know your a geek when you understood this.

I'm hoping that i'm not the only one :)

[reffu]

Geek
Your computer is boring when it works
Super Geek
If your computer works you sit staring at it till it doesn't
(I've done this)

[Sam Lars]

You use AutoCAD as a WYSIWYG, and you are familiar with the term WYSIWYG.

[sci-fi guy]

People think your strange when you answer a question with a double negative as if the negatives canceled each other out ( one from one of my nephews school friends(most obvious I can think off): "Can't you not?" ).

You mean double negatives don't cancel? :oops:

[talsemgeest]

You know your a geek when you understood this.

I'm hoping that i'm not the only one :)
Nope, I understood it and enjoyed it greatly.

[spupy]

* While walking down the street you see graffiti that says F.T.P. and the first thing that you think of is File Transfer Protocol. If you don't know what it really means, please don't ask :)
* You can have a 30 minute conversation on the minutiae of the GPL with a (long suffering) friend.
* Before using someone else's Windows box you have to spend at least 10 minutes tweaking it before you can begin to use it and even then you REALLY, REALLY miss virtual desktops.

All of these have happened to me :)

You know you're a geek when you have an avatar like yours! :P

[Shippou]

... and you are familiar with the term WYSIWYG.

I use this all the time... :lol: And I'm somewhat frustrated when people don't know its meaning... (most of them don't). I have to keep saying "What You See Is What You Get."

Also, you know when you're a geek when you think of a word and try to find all of its anagrams as a pastime (I do this.:))

You know also that you are a geek when you think of compiling your own OS kernel or writing one. (Sorry for Gentoo users.)

[Barrucadu]

You know you're a geek if every time you use Windows you think "Wtf? No workspaces?", and then feel uncomfortable for not being able to organise your windows properly.

[scragar]

when using windows you have 5 or 6 windows open, but find it impossible to place them next to each other without them overlapping, because ofcourse no-one wants to see multiple windows at once.
In the same way as above you miss "on top", which combined with the stupid way windows handles scrolling and focus mens you can't multitask if the windows overlap.
And, as if that wasn't enough you also run into problems with trying to add applets to the panel(all I want is a simple system monitor like ubuntu has, why are there no choices?)
Then you get told it's impossible to remove the panel(why? I get along fine on ubuntu without an applicaion/place/system menu, I use gnomeDo, which is set to the super+space combo, very easy to launch).


Oh, and you use the super+U combo for something using root perms, I have it set to launch a terminal using sudo -i


1 last one for now:
when you feel the antivirus XKCD comic (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/voting_machines.png) is representative of windows as a whole(honestly, if their security model wasn't: "trust everything except.." by default I wouldn't be complaining)

[d2globalinc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DWzuIreDGA

Pretty much enough said...

LoL! and then starting an ongoing help / info post here to get others doing the same thing! - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=884161

:P

:guitar:

[eddVRS]

you think about conversations (face-to-face, with real people (eek)) involving options, as if loops in your head


"What do you want to do?

if response == "go to the pub":
"Ok, first round is on you"
book.taxi
elif response == "Cinema":
"so, what do you want to see?"
book.tickets
else:
"You sure you don't want to go to the pub?"

[qstraza]

haha else statement ha :p

I see thisif response == "go to the pub":
and i say to myself, strings cannot be compared with ==, must use equals:p

^java tough;>

[scragar]

you think about conversations (face-to-face, with real people (eek)) involving options, as if loops in your head


"What do you want to do?

if response == "go to the pub":
"Ok, first round is on you"
book.taxi
elif response == "Cinema":
"so, what do you want to see?"
book.tickets
else:
"You sure you don't want to go to the pub?"


a true geek would be using a switch statement.

[qstraza]

hahah :p nice one;>

[eddVRS]

a true geek would be using a switch statement.

Ok, so it's clear I need to catch up... not quite fluent yet

[scragar]

Ok, so it's clear I need to catch up... not quite fluent yet

actually, just found out python doesn't have a switch statement exactly(anyone want to answer why on that I'll be interested on a reasoning), so yeah, forget I said anything.



(honestly though, no switch? I thought python was supposed to be good)

[Shippou]

you think about conversations (face-to-face, with real people (eek)) involving options, as if loops in your head


"What do you want to do?

if response == "go to the pub":
"Ok, first round is on you"
book.taxi
elif response == "Cinema":
"so, what do you want to see?"
book.tickets
else:
"You sure you don't want to go to the pub?"


a true geek would be using a switch statement.


No. A true geek uses a ternary statement.


//This is a C version.
#include <stdio.h>
void book(char[] args);

int main (void) {
char response[10000000]; //I think this is enough; I'm lazy to implement a linked list. ;)

gets (response);
(strcmp(response, "go to the pub")) ? book(taxi):(strcmp(response, "Cinema") ? book(tickets):book(nothing));
return (0);
}
//function book(char[] args):
void book (char[] args) {
if (strcmp(args, taxi)) printf ("Ok, first round is on you");
else if (strcmp(args, tickets)) printf ("so, what do you want to see?");
else printf ("You sure you don't want to go to the pub?");
}



I think this compiles with no errors (assuming all the required libraried are installed and also build-essential

[scragar]

No. A true geek uses a ternary statement.


//This is a C version.
#include <stdio.h>
void book(char[] args);

int main (void) {
char response[10000000]; //I think this is enough; I'm lazy to implement a linked list. ;)

gets (response);
(strcmp(response, "go to the pub")) ? book(taxi):(strcmp(response, "Cinema") ? book(tickets):book(nothing));
return (0);
}
//function book(char[] args):
void book (char[] args) {
if (strcmp(args, taxi)) printf ("Ok, first round is on you");
else if (strcmp(args, tickets)) printf ("so, what do you want to see?");
else printf ("You sure you don't want to go to the pub?");
}



I think this compiles with no errors (assuming all the required libraried are installed and also build-essential

ternary = silly to use for 3 options, if it was 2 options, then yeah, I'd agree, but after a single comparison it's always better to use switch.
<script type='text/javascript'>
// wrapper function used only to boost performance
(function(){
var response = "Where shall we go today?";
while(1){// infinate loop :p
switch(prompt(response, 'Pub').toLower()){
case 'pub':
alert("Ok, first round is on you");
document.write('<h2>Gone to Pub, Back later</h2>');
return;
case 'cinema':
alert("So, what do you want to see?");
window.location.href = "http://myvue.com/";
return;
default:
response = "You sure you don't want to go to the pub?";
break;
};
};
})();// call wrapper function :p
</script>

[Shippou]

ternary = silly to use for 3 options, if it was 2 options, then yeah, I'd agree, but after a single comparison it's always better to use switch.


But then the code is more compact and I think faster.

My opinion only.

EDIT: Faster to run, considering the number of clock cycles used.

[scragar]

But then the code is more compact and I think faster.

My opinion only.

it's not faster(atleast not given that it reads the same thing from memory multiple times), or easier to read. It may be quicker to write, but let's be honest, you write it like that now, and in a week when you need to update the module what happens? You spend the first 20 minutes reading the chunk and editing in another option, and the time after to edit it will take you about twice as long, and then, eventually you'll only wind up rewriting it to a chunk of ifs or a switch then anyway.

[Shippou]

it's not faster(atleast not given that it reads the same thing from memory multiple times), or easier to read. It may be quicker to write, but let's be honest, you write it like that now, and in a week when you need to update the module what happens? You spend the first 20 minutes reading the chunk and editing in another option, and the time after to edit it will take you about twice as long, and then, eventually you'll only wind up rewriting it to a chunk of ifs or a switch then anyway.

You have a point there that I missed. :) That's why ternary is not recommended because of its "complex" syntax (I think it is complex, but not so. Once you get the hang of it, you would not get lost. ;))

And one more geek thing: instead of using if-else or switch, I prompt to use ternary in executing code branches (such as multiple functions) assuming that this would work like a switch or if-else statement. To my frustration, however (this is in C) it would not work.

I also used a ternary inside of a printf in our machine problem. This one is in C again, number conversions.

printf ("%d", (input[0]==1) ? 1:0);

I hope I remember it right.

[scragar]

You have a point there that I missed. :) That's why ternary is not recommended because of its "complex" syntax (I think it is complex, but not so. Once you get the hang of it, you would not get lost. ;))

And one more geek thing: instead of using if-else or switch, I prompt to use ternary in executing code branches (such as multiple functions) assuming that this would work like a switch or if-else statement. To my frustration, however (this is in C) it would not work.

I also used a ternary inside of a printf in our machine problem. This one is in C again, number conversions.

printf ("%d", (input[0]==1) ? 1:0);

I hope I remember it right.

I've not learnt C or C++/whatever yet, I'm currently mastering the final few lessons perl has to offer, then I'll move on to C++ or java...

I know there are a few problems with things in PHP as well, for example consider this works:
$tmp = split('AbreakBbreakC', 'break');
print join($tmp, '-');
while this:print join(split('AbreakBbreakC', 'break'), '-');
throws an error, another fun thing:$bar = 'tmp';
$foo = 'bar';
$$foo = 'meap';
var_dump($$foo);// string(4) meap

$bar = new Array(1, 2, 3);
$foo = 'bar';
$$foo[0] = 4; // doesn't stick for some reason
var_dump($$foo);// Array([1] => int(1), [2] => int(2), [3] => int(3) )

[snova]

Just thought I'd post this- I thought it up a few days ago.
You know you're a geek when you understand the significance of 0x80cd.
I do. And I wish I didn't.

I'll clarify that if anybody is curious, but I'm not around really often, so be patient.

[scragar]

Just thought I'd post this- I thought it up a few days ago.
You know you're a geek when you understand the significance of 0x80cd.
I do. And I wish I didn't.

I'll clarify that if anybody is curious, but I'm not around really often, so be patient.

I know what the number is in dec ( 32973 ), but not what it's significance is. fill me in please.

[Barrucadu]

I googled for it and found quite a few pointers to the kernel - did you have problems?

[Paradoxfox93]

You begin attempts at philosophical metaphors with "Life is like a writing a computer program..."

[scragar]

You begin attempts at philosophical metaphors with "Life is like a writing a computer program..."

You never know what's going to go wrong.
It takes a whole lot of time and effort for something that people mostly just want to complain about.
Take a holiday for a week and you spend more time finding out what you were doing when you left than you spent having fun(I know a few people like that, few days before a holiday and they have 0 comments in some pretty hacky code, then they ask me about it afterwards)?

[snova]

First point: I have no idea why 0x80cd would appear in links to the kernel (were you even replying to me?).

Second point: when you converted it to decimal, did you decode it as little endian?

Third point: It's not a number. Converting to decimal is a step backwards.

I do like to savor a mystery, though. I'd like to wait for somebody to figure it out... OK, I'll tell.

First of all, this is encoded in little endian. You have to swap around the bytes to get CD and 80 in the order they'd appear in memory. This number is what you would type in assembly code:

dw 0x80cd

because the assembler will move it around for you. But that would be messing it up, so I reversed it a second time manually- which made it more confusing (which is an unexpected benefit in the context of confusing people who read this).

Secondly, take "assembly" as a hint, and go one level lower. You get:
Machine code. *shudder*
Disassembled, the result is:

int 0x80

Which is a system call on Linux.

Before somebody accuses me of obtaining the original number via an assembler/hex editor; I did, in fact, piece it together from the Intel manuals. The reasoning behind this temporary madness might be revealed if I bother with posting my idea (hint: overlapping instructions *scream*).

I can also do addition like this, but I forgot the opcode- I think it might be 0x0566 (remember to swap them around) when the destination is EAX and the value to be added is an immediate 32 bit value (appended to the end).

(Is this healthy?)

You begin attempts at philosophical metaphors with "Life is like a writing a computer program..."

... you find yourself looking for an undo button.

[talsemgeest]

You know you're a geek when you can't understand what you say.
You are even more of a geek if you can understand what you say, and yet no one else can.

[kumaran83]

I become geek when I installed iphone theme in my Pocket PC hik.. hik...

Hey if you can give a try to iphone theme at http://www.iphonethemeforpocketpc.com/

Now my pockt PC functions like a iphone

[Toshibawarrior]

You know you're a geek when you even got a PocketPC in the first place :)! I used to have an iPaq, and I loved it, but I had to sell it to pay off my laptop :(!

[Sam Lars]

You see no problem with going into the computer lab, logging on, and then opening up your laptop in front of it, and using them both.
The first and only thing you do with IE is visit getfirefox.com
You wish you knew the administrator password to every computer you go to. So you can get past the stupid "you have to be an administrator to use your USB device," etc. (and to improve their group policy, etc.)

[scragar]

You see no problem with going into the computer lab, logging on, and then opening up your laptop in front of it, and using them both.Huh? That's geeky, I thought that was normal.
The first and only thing you do with IE is visit getfirefox.comdoes http://mozilla.com/firefox/all.html count? I've got that memorised so downloading is as fast as possible :P
You wish you knew the administrator password to every computer you go to. So you can get past the stupid "you have to be an administrator to use your USB device," etc. (and to improve their group policy, etc.)
or try the standard admin passwords/use EBCD to find it out :D

[talsemgeest]

You wish you knew the administrator password to every computer you go to. So you can get past the stupid "you have to be an administrator to use your USB device," etc. (and to improve their group policy, etc.)
I don't need to know the admin password for my school computers, if you plug in a flash drive, it pops up with the "Enter administrator password to install this device", but if you just ignore it you can go to "My computer" and it is allready installed. Stupid windows...

[scragar]

I don't need to know the admin password for my school computers, if you plug in a flash drive, it pops up with the "Enter administrator password to install this device", but if you just ignore it you can go to "My computer" and it is allready installed. Stupid windows...

lol, I had fun with my school computers oh so long ago, you could give yourself any privileges and space you wanted, just by editing a text file in your home directory and logging out/in again, they never caught on to the fact that some people had 20gigs worth of stuff when everyone other than the teachers had a limit in MB, and the teachers had a 1GB limit :P

[talsemgeest]

lol, I had fun with my school computers oh so long ago, you could give yourself any privileges and space you wanted, just by editing a text file in your home directory and logging out/in again, they never caught on to the fact that some people had 20gigs worth of stuff when everyone other than the teachers had a limit in MB, and the teachers had a 1GB limit :P
Ah, that would have been fun. But our sysadmin is really good, he has blocked almost everything. Still a few bugs though...

[scragar]

Ah, that would have been fun. But our sysadmin is really good, he has blocked almost everything. Still a few bugs though...

This is windows we are talking about right? The OS that's the subject of such bad humour? (http://cpuoftheheart.com/?comic=54)

if windows XP was a boat with 99 holes Vista's a boat with 7 new ones and 10 plugged up, but you need to unplug them to use the engine or row it.

[schauerlich]

You know you're a geek when you test something's existence by whether it tab completes when you start typing its name.

[talsemgeest]

This is windows we are talking about right? The OS that's the subject of such bad humour? (http://cpuoftheheart.com/?comic=54)

if windows XP was a boat with 99 holes Vista's a boat with 7 new ones and 10 plugged up, but you need to unplug them to use the engine or row it.
Yeah, but it is more like hacking something that isn't there. Exes blocked, batch files blocked, all setting files hidden, search disbled, extremely limited access to the network, I'm sure you have got the picture.

Still one cool little thing I discovered though. The teachers get software to change all the students screens to displaying what is on their screen. Once they do that, after a few key presses I have control of their system.

[winbutu]

You know you're a geek when..

You have used words like "lol", "leet" and "omg" in daily speech
You miss the F1 button under math classes
You say lol instead of laughing.. or you write :D, :P in essays at school
You try yo get into the BIOS of your car
You scream "Just ******* google it" when somebody asks a simple question in the class
You accuse everybody running faster than your self of using speed hack
You've got The Flu and are trying to do a virus check
Somebody asks you about your address, you give them: 192.12.0.140
You are seriously considering asking your doctor how much you can overclock your brain
At Macdonalds, you're ordering a 160MB hamburger
You wish you've ordered your house through Microsoft, it would be so easy to just take the backdoor in..


OMG................ -.- Im...a...nerd?

[richardh9936]

You know you're a geek when - you buy a new Asus eee-pc from Taiwan because it has Linux on it - and then re-build it as Ubuntu.... before the official release.

gasp.

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when one of these license plates is yours:

http://autozine.com.br/fotos/placas-de-carros-de-geeks-nerds-fanboys-e-simpatizantes

[spupy]

Normal person:
"There are problems ahead of me. Life is hard. But I can take it! I just need to think positive!"

Geek:
"There are problems ahead of me. Life is hard. But I can take it! I just need to reverse the polarity!"




You get extra points if you know that phrase from another well-known sci-fi series besides Star Trek.

[Prefix100]

Normal person:
"There are problems ahead of me. Life is hard. But I can take it! I just need to think positive!"

Geek:
"There are problems ahead of me. Life is hard. But I can take it! I just need to reverse the polarity!"




You get extra points if you know that phrase from another well-known sci-fi serial besides Star Trek.

Doctor Who :) John Pertwee used to say it a lot.

[RedPandaFox]

You know you're a geek when - you buy a new Asus eee-pc from Taiwan because it has Linux on it - and then re-build it as Ubuntu.... before the official release.

gasp.

/sigh
Been there done that


You know your a geek when instead of sighing in real life you say "slash sigh"

[talsemgeest]

/sigh
Been there done that


You know your a geek when instead of sighing in real life you say "slash sigh"
I just say sigh. Does that count?

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you've cited the Civilopedia as reference in at least three high school History assignments

[modmadmike]

You know your a geek when...
You own a wacom intous3 tablet but cant draw (guilty but i hope to eventually be able to draw manga's)
You compile scrips to do everything for you.
You have over 4 gigs of ram (soon to be guilty)
You have more than 1 internet card in the same pc (i got 3 for SSHing to my laptops)
You Forced people to use linux (i'm guilty)
You would rather use the Terminal than a gui (partially Guilty)
When watching anime you constantly change the subtitle settings (Yea I do)
You consider your brain to be out of disk space and deleting things because you know to much (me)
You googled your Screen name and got over 200 results that are all from different web sites and are all you (i got 339 so far lol)

[mkrahmeh]

you know your a geek when you..

check these forums as frequent as your email..
post in this thread..

but am totally convinced that am not a geek :-P

[pp.]

Normal person:
"There are problems ahead of me. Life is hard. But I can take it! I just need to think positive!"

Geek:
"There are problems ahead of me. Life is hard. But I can take it! I just need to reverse the polarity!"

Horse:
"I will work harder"

[Prefix100]

Horse:
"I will work harder"

Napoleon is always right.

[modmadmike]

Oh and when you have a Nico nico douga account and your not Japanese or even speak it (Truly me lol)

[Wootyeah]

You know you're a geek when you play World of Warcraft...

On Linux

And listen to gregorian chants on your Ipod.

[modmadmike]

You know you're a geek when you play World of Warcraft...

On Linux

And listen to gregorian chants on your Ipod.

I play WoW on linux (Trust me my friend is the only reason)

[liquidfunk]

Same!!

[JillSwift]

...you get almost every reference in 3631 posts, and those you didn't get you knew where to look to learn, and did. =o.0=

[scragar]

you've reloaded the link to google chrome more than 5 times since the comic first got emailed around.

http://www.google.com/chrome

scans of the comic may be found here, for those of you who are interested.
http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

[maximino]

..... you have a 'liger' as a pet.

[scragar]

..... you have a 'liger' as a pet.

tigon's as well.

[lswest]

...you get almost every reference in 3631 posts, and those you didn't get you knew where to look to learn, and did. =o.0=

guilty lol :P

you're a geek when:

You speak to friends in code, or randomly write/summarize a conversation using a for loop (guilty :P)

You carry around a notebook (like...paper and pen style :P) for when you think of good code for a program (which you then promptly write down) (again, guilty)

You install a beta OS just to have fun fixing the issues that will (undoubtedly) arise.

You speak like I do :P

You get tired of counting in math and use for loops or a computer program instead of a calculator

You introduce yourself using your screen name in real life, then take a moment to realize your mistake.

You have no problem falling asleep with a very loud fan whirring in the background.

You often don't decide to turn off your computer right away at night since it's doing something, but instead set up a delayed shutdown (without needing a calculator to work out the seconds).

I am guilty of all of the above, and I'm proud to call myself a geek! :P

[scragar]

guilty lol :P

you're a geek when:

You speak to friends in code, or randomly write/summarize a conversation using a for loop (guilty :P)
does using uncommon lexicons and foreign words count?

You carry around a notebook (like...paper and pen style :P) for when you think of good code for a program (which you then promptly write down) (again, guilty)
I write psuedocode, but I never actually wrote in any program language on paper.

You install a beta OS just to have fun fixing the issues that will (undoubtedly) arise.
I do install beta os's about a month before they are released, just so I can get in any notes before it's too late.

You speak like I do :P
Never heard you talk, so that doesn't count.

You get tired of counting in math and use for loops or a computer program instead of a calculator
loops = bad for such things, for calculations it's far better to call the application again rather than having it continualy looping for something, that honestly should take only minimal power.

You introduce yourself using your screen name in real life, then take a moment to realize your mistake.
it's not a mistake.
I am guilty of all of the above, and I'm proud to call myself a geek! :P
guilty enough.

[lswest]

Sure, we'll let uncommon lexicons count too :P

By speak I meant my diction (word choice)

Yeah, I write down algorithms in the notepad, unless it's a small segment of code that I need to remember, then I'll write out the full.

I occasionally use loops, it depends on how much time I intend to waste :P Coded an entire calculator program once lol

[Swenghk]

You know your a geek if you've graduated high-school and are still a virgin...Or your just a nerd.

[Toshibawarrior]

You know you're a geek when...

-You have many flash drives with different lightweight Linux distros on them. (I wanna do that!)
-You carry your laptop to work and finish downloading your torrents there because the WLAN/LAN is faster.
-You make a script that does your homework :P (I wish this could be true).
-You know what a "liger" is...(I KNOW!!! ;))
-Your cellphone has more apps than your computer.
-You don't remember how the sunlight feels on your face.
-You check your e-mail every 10 minutes...
-You wish the was a "CTRL+F" in paper books :P!
-Your computer's processor is faster than your car.

:popcorn:

[Swenghk]

I love ligers!

[scragar]

You know you're a geek when...

-You have many flash drives with different lightweight Linux distros on them. (I wanna do that!)
I've got an 8GB one with a couple of liveCD style distro's on(when booting from USB it's kinda like grub(except it's lilo))

-You carry your laptop to work and finish downloading your torrents there because the WLAN/LAN is faster.no laptop, but I do have an external HD that get's a bit of usage...
-You make a script that does your homework :P (I wish this could be true).I did do back in high school, it was so easy(except that I needed to copy the problems in manualy back then, now I've got scanning software to do that for me).
-You know what a "liger" is...(I KNOW!!! ;))
I think everyone knows, it's not hard to guess anyway.
-Your cellphone has more apps than your computer.
no, but then I don't turn my phone on unless I need it(I'm a very private person, if someone wants me they've got my email, I don't respond to such a rude invention as a phone, I have one only for emergencies)
-You don't remember how the sunlight feels on your face.
I don't like the sun too much, gives my headaches(about an hour in too much sun makes me throw up, it's all rather fun, and a big reason for my intrests in academics, since I couldn't exactly join in most sports)
-You check your e-mail every 10 minutes...checkgmail does it for me every 3 mins.
-You wish the was a "CTRL+F" in paper books :P!
I get ebooks for that very reason.
-Your computer's processor is faster than your car.
don't own a car, never needed to(I live about 5 mins from work, all my family is in the same town, or the next town over and I'm a geek, so I don't go out much)

:popcorn:
I agree :P

[Swenghk]

you know your a geek when you asked your girlfriend if she could install newer packages...She's gettin' rusty

[mudguts]

you can do more with your smart phone and a T9 keyboard then most people can with their computers.

i.e. update your blog, check your gmail, buy movie tickets and order a pizza

[Toshibawarrior]

I've got an 8GB one with a couple of liveCD style distro's on(when booting from USB it's kinda like grub(except it's lilo))

Awesome :p!


checkgmail does it for me every 3 mins.

I use cgmail (which is basically the same) and I set it for checking emails every 5 mins :p!



you know your a geek when you asked your girlfriend if she could install newer packages...She's gettin' rusty

LOL!!! That's geeky...But even geekier is talking about computers and linux on your first date...The geekiest would be that she likes it and agrees for a second date :p!

[Toshibawarrior]

you can do more with your smart phone and a T9 keyboard then most people can with their computers.

i.e. update your blog, check your gmail, buy movie tickets and order a pizza

That's an easy one! I do it on my laptop all the time!

I simply open up the terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal)

And then type:

sudo ord <insert pizza place's name here> large-pizza
Option pepperoni-onions-extra.cheese

dlvr-to <Your home address here>

pay-by PayPal <username><password>

End ord

And I have a shortcut made through Java on my cellphone which is activated by entering #0100187im0hungry8872#* and the pizza gets to my front door in 10 mins! Cool huh?! :p

*sigh* If life could really be this cool and easy...

[talsemgeest]

You noticed that this was (for some) the 365th page.

[jimi_hendrix]

I did do back in high school, it was so easy(except that I needed to copy the problems in manualy back then, now I've got scanning software to do that for me).


can u elaborate on what that did...sounds like something i need

[scragar]

can u elaborate on what that did...sounds like something i need

scan it like you normally would, then run tesseract over the image(converty to tiff first, also in the repo's it's called tesseract-ocr ):

tesseract input.tif output.txt -l eng

will produce a nice text file of it's contents , then have your program interprit it (tesseract is good, but it's terrible at multi line maths (so be warned)).

[jimi_hendrix]

no i ment the homework helper :)

[scragar]

oh, I don't know if I've still got it, I'll take a look and see what I can dig up(I've not needed it since college where it didn't always work on the work we got given( nothing to be done, work was just more in english and less in notations in college :( )).

I'll look when I get home from work.

[jimi_hendrix]

thanks

[scragar]

I can't find it anywhere, it's perfectly possible I deleted it in one of my monthly cleanups. I've got a couple of sites I used to scan for it, but it's not looking good I'm afraid.

[jimi_hendrix]

can i get the algorithm?

[scragar]

if I remember correctly it was mostly just a javascript page with an eval, some function deffinitions and a few variables for contsants, with a check first fo algebra detection, which would attempt to rearange it as much as possible to see if it's possible to solve any of the variables, then substitue them back over and over again.

I suppose I could rewrite it, but when I origionaly wrote it I based it off the homework problems I was reciving at the time(and I slowly evolved it as required), so I don't think rewriting it will be as easy as it was to write it origionaly.

[jimi_hendrix]

ill write it my self...thanks for the idea

[Rorke]

You spend time reading this as a break between Stats homework and hacking some mp3 files!

<sigh>

Also I referred to my ZX Spectrum programming in a Math's class yesterday (OK - I'm an old geek, mature student)

[DrMelon]

You come out of a bad relationship, go home, and type this in the terminal:

sudo apt-get mygirlfriendback

and then find that you can't.

[Toshibawarrior]

You come out of a bad relationship, go home, and type this in the terminal:

sudo apt-get mygirlfriendback

and then find that you can't.

No, you won't get your girlfriend back that way. If you use that command you'll get the same problems (of your girlfriend) back.

You'll need to input:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get mygirlfriendback ./reconfigure
Option use-new-settings
sudo apt-get girlfriend-modules-good
make
make install

and then run:

reconfigured-girlfriend

It should work after that ;)!

[jimi_hendrix]

No, you won't get your girlfriend back that way. If you use that command you'll get the same problems (of your girlfriend) back.

You'll need to input:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get mygirlfriendback ./reconfigure
Option use-new-settings
sudo apt-get girlfriend-modules-good
make
make install

and then run:

reconfigured-girlfriend

It should work after that ;)!

you know your a geek when someone bugs you you type sudo apt-get remove <name_here>

[ad_267]

You know you're a geek when you use LaTeX to write up all of your assignments and reports.

You're really a geek if you use TeX to write them up.

[niccholaspage]

You know your a geek when the first thing you do on a new Windows PC is open Internet Explorer and go to getfirefox.com.

[scragar]

already covered, and it's more geeky to go directly to mozilla.org/firefox
:P

[jimi_hendrix]

opera or google chrome are geekier

[schauerlich]

opera or google chrome are geekier

/me uses Opera on Ubuntu and is testing Chrome on Windows.

WebKit ftw.

[modmadmike]

You know your a geek when after installing a LAMP server in virtualbox, you wish you could spend more time with no GUI.
When typing any of your ip address into another computer you get more than a "IT WORKS!"
When watching it takes a thief you decide that you will put computer controlled locks on everything and when you leave the house the windows close by a motor and the doors lock and to top it off your PC wishes you luck IN JAPANESE lol

[GepettoBR]

You know your a geek when after installing a LAMP server in virtualbox, you wish you could spend more time with no GUI.
When typing any of your ip address into another computer you get more than a "IT WORKS!"
When watching it takes a thief you decide that you will put computer controlled locks on everything and when you leave the house the windows close by a motor and the doors lock and to top it off your PC wishes you luck IN JAPANESE lol

You're really a hardcore anime geek,aren't you? The question here is, do you speak Japanese yourself?

[modmadmike]

Im learning it does that count?

[RedPandaFox]

Most of the geeks I know wont watch any anime in English, it HAS to be in Japanese... (myself included)

[modmadmike]

Most of the geeks I know wont watch any anime in English, it HAS to be in Japanese... (myself included)

I watch em subbed.

[RedPandaFox]

Same, 'coz 99% of the time the English voice overs suck it royally

[scragar]

dragonball in japanese = 100,000,000 times better than english, even if you can't understand what they say it's so much better being able to hear the meaning in their voices(for example son goku as a child has difficulty speaking correctly and a really curious voice, yet in english he sounds like some sort of naruto/rock lee cross :( ).

no subs > subs > nothing > dubs
:p

[RedPandaFox]

dragonball in japanese = 100,000,000 times better than english, even if you can't understand what they say it's so much better being able to hear the meaning in their voices(for example son goku as a child has difficulty speaking correctly and a really curious voice, yet in english he sounds like some sort of naruto/rock lee cross :( ).

no subs > subs > nothing > dubs
:p

Death Note in English really suck, where as in Jap it sounds so much better!

[scragar]

I dunno, I always felt deathnote was a little overdramatic, I mean what's with the big swoosh arm movements when writing someones name. I also didn't really like the fact that the whole thing diviated from being about light to being about L, and in the end N (oh, sure, they had to keep light in it, but the focus of the story shifted dramaticly), don't get me wrong, this isn't just about the anime, it happens in the manga as well(although less severe).

[RedPandaFox]

Yeah, I noticed that in Sainkoku Monogatari too.
As in it happens in other amines as well, completely changing the focus.

[HarrisonBP]

you're one of the dorks replying to this thread.

[HarrisonBP]

Oh, crap, I just replied to this thread :(

[talsemgeest]

you're one of the dorks replying to this thread.
Please, we prefer the term geek!

[RedPandaFox]

You know your a fool when you call geeks dorks.

[talsemgeest]

You know your a fool when you call geeks dorks.
Very true

[ken_do_san]

Simple solution to your problem, turn of the messenger client in Window$ (npt the msn one either) jsut he one you get to through control panel > sysetm admin > services.

It's used to send messages to other people on the same network as in an office or school.

They're just scripts written to use the messenger service to advertise product, gotta love how easy it is to advertise with M$.

[Rorke]

You know you're a geek when you spend all weekend writing an application to visit your profile - so you look popular! LOL

[Liviu-Theodor]

Actually it is the first or smallest Lychrel number... so close.

Forgive my ignorance, what is an Lychrel number?

[Billsputters]

Your friends announce they are getting married on the 1st January 2010.

You smurk to yourself as yoy realise they are getting married in SYN

[corney91]

Forgive my ignorance, what is an Lychrel number?

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

You know you're a geek when you navigate wikipedia by typing the full URL:)

[GepettoBR]

dragonball in japanese = 100,000,000 times better than english, even if you can't understand what they say it's so much better being able to hear the meaning in their voices(for example son goku as a child has difficulty speaking correctly and a really curious voice, yet in english he sounds like some sort of naruto/rock lee cross :( ).

no subs > subs > nothing > dubs
:p

Not to mention Goku curiously spitting copious amounts of water when he's punched in the stomach thanks to the fantastic censoring job done by Cartoon Network.

I can speak Japanese very poorly, but I gave up (for now, at least) on learning to read/write. I'd rather dedicate myself more to learning German and Spanish for the time being.

You know you're a geek when one of your great goals in life is to speak a ton of languages.

[scragar]

my goal is to learn tons of programing languages, I couldn't care less about verbal languages, with the exception of japanese(and honeslt, who doesn't want to learn japanese)

[Toshibawarrior]

I don't... It'd be cool, but Japanese is highly overrated...like manga and anime...So I guess I must not be a true geek... :(:(

[scragar]

I don't think of manga/anime as geeky, since I know a fair number of non-geeky people who like it, and a few geeks who don't.

The one thing I love about anime is the whole different culture, over there swearing isn't a set of censored words, it's simply a different emphesis to the sentence as a whole(the nature of the sentence(polite, offensive, whatever) changes the meaning of a word from polite to offensive, so what you really would say(WTF for example), is what they say, none of this "what the frump" style rubbish), nudity isn't censored(although mentions of sex are kept to an absolute minimum, rather than over here where nudity is banned, but it's OK to drop sexual inuendo in the middle of a kids TV show, nice...), but everything they do either fits the story and characters, or is done entirely for a cheap laugh.

[Toshibawarrior]

Yeah I know anime...The only anime shows I liked were DragonBall/Z/GT...

My friends used to live to watch anime at night and get money to buy manga...They didn't even care about computers! Just the stupid manga...And whenever I wanted to talk about something useful (like Linux, or music) they wanted to talk about last night's anime...or about the anime they downloaded and watched on their hacked PSPs...ugh! I came to hate that situation so much, that i ended up hating anime and manga altogether...:(

I haven't talked to those guys for a long while now...I guess that if they don't like Linux they're not true friends :p. I think you'll agree with me on this one scragar ;)!!!

[scragar]

actualy out of 3 friends I've only got 1 that uses linux, one of my friends is too much of a windows fanboi to even try a liveCD(but he always complains that windows takes almost 2 minutes to boot and that all his malware scans keep slowing down his comp, go figure), the other just doesn't have a computer, so I couldn't convery him even if I wanted. :P

Can I recomend you watch Ghost Hound, it's really good, even if you don't like anime that much(I think it suits anime a lot more than any other way you could use to repesent it, it's just a shame that the series is so short).

[Toshibawarrior]

:) I'll see what I can do ;). I don't watch that much TV/series anymore...I ended my reign of series-watching after Cartoon Network ended DragonBall GT...after that i haven't watched a show on tv or my computer for long periods of times.

I just watch "24" and "House M.D." because I like action ("24"), and I like Jennifer Morrison (who appears in "House":p)

I'll see what I can find about that Ghost Hound (although it sounds horribly familiar, i think that was one of the shows I started to hate...)

;)

[scragar]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Ghost_Hound_Wiki_-_characters.jpg
They look familiar? Big guy at the top is Taro, Miyako s the girl on the left, Makoto is the emo kid in the middle, and Masayuki is the new kid on the bottom right(although another kid joins in later, Michio, who for some reason likes to wear PJs when he leaves his body, go figure on that...)

it's a really good story.

[Toshibawarrior]

I knew it looked familiar...to corroborate my doubts I checked Wikipedia and I'm right...that's one of the shows I hated...

I also don't like shows/movies that have to do something with ghosts...:(

](*,)

[scragar]

it's not to do with ghosts as such, it's OBEs, out of body experiences. I can understand if you don't like it though.


I think FMA(full metal alchemist) would make for a really good RPG though, I mean altelier iris plays similar to how I think FMA would, and that was a really good game.

[blackepyon]

You find it more natural to count 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 than 1,2,3,4,5,6..


too true

[talsemgeest]

You know you're a geek when you navigate wikipedia by typing the full URL:)

Yay, I do that :)

[talsemgeest]

Oops, double post...

[modmadmike]

In my opinion the biggest geek of all time in any anime was Lain from "Serial Experiments Lain" :lolflag:

[money2themax]

In my opinion the biggest geek of all time in any anime was Lain from "Serial Experiments Lain" :lolflag:
i've been trying to find a place that sells that series.

[modmadmike]

i've been trying to find a place that sells that series.
I cant find it either I had to watch it from veoh, Amazon and ebay might have it, but i think i found a store in my mall that sells almost every anime but I forgot the name because I could not afford the $100 price on almost all of their stuff :(.

[LaRoza]

i've been trying to find a place that sells that series.

$50: http://www.amazon.com/Serial-Experiments-Lain-Boxed-Signature/dp/B00067Z2X2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1220495680&sr=8-4

(Just searched, I don't know anything about it)

[scragar]

$50: http://www.amazon.com/Serial-Experiments-Lain-Boxed-Signature/dp/B00067Z2X2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1220495680&sr=8-4

(Just searched, I don't know anything about it)

w0w, amazing, an anime that's cheaper in the UK than in the US, I feel like my whole world if falling apart!

[money2themax]

$50: http://www.amazon.com/Serial-Experiments-Lain-Boxed-Signature/dp/B00067Z2X2/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1220495680&sr=8-4

(Just searched, I don't know anything about it)
thank you LaRoza now i can watch it

[RedPandaFox]

You know your a geek when you refresh a forum every 30 seconds to look for new content... :(

[Liviu-Theodor]

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

You know you're a geek when you navigate wikipedia by typing the full URL:)

I understood what is a Lychrel number now, but the algorhytm is not finite, in case of Lychrel numbers. How can you be sure a certain number is a Lychrel number? I saw 196 still persisted to not produce a palindrom after more than 2.5 million steps, but the algorhytm theorethically could go on to infinitum.

[corney91]

I understood what is a Lychrel number now, but the algorhytm is not finite, in case of Lychrel numbers. How can you be sure a certain number is a Lychrel number? I saw 196 still persisted to not produce a palindrom after more than 2.5 million steps, but the algorhytm theorethically could go on to infinitum.

I suppose that's the fun of it :popcorn:

[Liviu-Theodor]

I understood what is a Lychrel number now, but the algorhytm is not finite, in case of Lychrel numbers. How can you be sure a certain number is a Lychrel number? I saw 196 still persisted to not produce a palindrom after more than 2.5 million steps, but the algorhytm theorethically could go on to infinitum.

I reply to myself :) : I could say also a number is a non-Lychrel number of rank (or order) n, where n is the number of steps required to produce a palindrom.

[Joeb454]

You know your a geek when you refresh a forum every 30 seconds to look for new content... :(

30 seconds?!?!!?!


That's a long time...

[corney91]

30 seconds?!?!!?!


That's a long time...

Well, some of us have such a strong willpower compared to most :p

[darth_indy]

YOu know you're a geek when you're taking an "Introductions to Windows" class (as a required part of your frikking degree... don't get me started) and you have the entire semester's work finished after the first hour of the first day of the class, then you pull out your trusty flash drive and reboot into DSL for the last hour.

P.S. The teacher for this BASIC WINDOWS class thinks that renaming a ".docx" file to ".doc" makes it work in Office 2003.

[RedPandaFox]

30 seconds?!?!!?!


That's a long time...

Well, some of us have such a strong willpower compared to most :p

Problem is thats when my boss is watching, I refresh the bump thread every time it finishes loading

[Liviu-Theodor]

YOu know you're a geek when you're taking an "Introductions to Windows" class (as a required part of your frikking degree... don't get me started) and you have the entire semester's work finished after the first hour of the first day of the class, then you pull out your trusty flash drive and reboot into DSL for the last hour.

P.S. The teacher for this BASIC WINDOWS class thinks that renaming a ".docx" file to ".doc" makes it work in Office 2003.

I agree. I tooked a course of "Initiating in the computers' use" last year (after 17 years from my first contact with a computer) and that gave me an insomnia for a whole week! Of course, I finished the exercises long before the teacher gave them to us (even deprived of sleep and thinking anywhere else). This course was part of a training with three courses, for my new workplace, though.

[RedPandaFox]

I agree. I tooked a course of "Initiating in the computers' use" last year (after 17 years from my first contact with a computer) and that gave me an insomnia for a whole week! Of course, I finished the exercises long before the teacher gave them to us (even deprived of sleep and thinking anywhere else). This course was part of a training with three courses, for my new workplace, though.

I finished my computing course before we were told we had it, I saw it in the activity's and did it when I was bored, then when it came assessment I had to teach the teacher about Excel and Word because she only knew basic stuff, she was amazed you can DRAW tables not just set them...

[sci-fi guy]

You know you are a geek if it brings a tear to your eye when you see a user with a good password (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols).

I had thought such creatures were a myth.

[Liviu-Theodor]

I finished my computing course before we were told we had it, I saw it in the activity's and did it when I was bored, then when it came assessment I had to teach the teacher about Excel and Word because she only knew basic stuff, she was amazed you can DRAW tables not just set them...

Some say a good teacher is the one who's pupils know more than he/she. I suspect that is not the case there. It should have been with the roles reversed.

[RedPandaFox]

Some say a good teacher is the one who's pupils know more than he/she. I suspect that is not the case there. It should have been with the roles reversed.

I blame it on her being English (holds breath for attack from Brits)



(dont hurt me, my girlfriends a pom)

[pp.]

You know you are a geek if it brings a tear to your eye when you see a user with a good password (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols).

I had thought such creatures were a myth.

How come, then, that you know their passwords? Social engineering or cracking?

[sci-fi guy]

How come, then, that you know their passwords? Social engineering or cracking?

They are coworkers. Everyone's password gets stuffed into a nice, pretty excel file. No fault of the user here.

[pp.]

They are coworkers. Everyone's password gets stuffed into a nice, pretty excel file.

Why not just paste them to the monitor's bezel?

[sci-fi guy]

Why not just paste them to the monitor's bezel?

The excel file does have the virtue of being password-protected. And since I am part of tech support, I get to know that password.

[darth_indy]

You know you are a geek if it brings a tear to your eye when you see a user with a good password (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols).

I had thought such creatures were a myth.

Yes, I saw one once. But it got away.

Everyone else? Birthdate, dictionary word, or "password" is usual. do know a user that chose a number/letter password, but when booting into her computer from safe mode, "Administrator" had no password. I suppose that's default, but STILL.... stupid Windows.

[sci-fi guy]

You know you are a geek when you celebrate every time your workplace throws out old machines. Today I got:
Apple IIc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc)
Apple IIe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe)
GRidCase 1530 (http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=1054&st=1)
ARM TS30PH (can't find a link)
Mac SE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE)
Mac Classic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic)

[Biochem]

You know you are a geek when you celebrate every time your workplace throws out old machines. Today I got:

Mac Classic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Classic)

Ho my god... my father's first portable computer!!! (Can't say laptop, can I??),
All those years playing lawn mower and learning apl.

Thank god for miniaturization I can see myself carrying this humongous carrying case on my bicycle.

[starcannon]

You know your a geek when you understand that a drill is a required piece of equipment when cleaning your gaming rig.

[other guy]

When you say. Eff Four! Your pets stop in their tracks.

[jimi_hendrix]

your notes for class/workplace/jotting down stuff start to resemble code blocks (kinda happened to me)

[god0fgod]

You know you're a geek when someone says "You're a geek".

[jvincent08]

When you get excited when a new kernel comes out, just so you have an excuse to recompile, even if it doesn't fix or improve anything on your system.

[chousho]

...rather than get entrenched in a movie, you can't help but think of the obvious wrongs when a computer scene comes up (I'm looking at you, Die Hard).

...you watch Numb3rs and try to find holes in the script, or are intimately familiar with the algorithms mentioned (or worse yet, suggested them first before the actor).

...you understand that "fsck'ing yourself" isn't anything to be ashamed about.


...you know the digital logic surrounding all of the classic gaming consoles, and have constructed "upgraded" versions.


...you program from a C64.

...GUIs are for wimps.

[jimi_hendrix]

...rather than get entrenched in a movie, you can't help but think of the obvious wrongs when a computer scene comes up (I'm looking at you, Die Hard).


which movie...what did they do wrong?

Mad fan + geek == has to know

[jvincent08]

...rather than get entrenched in a movie, you can't help but think of the obvious wrongs when a computer scene comes up (I'm looking at you, Die Hard).
I do that every time... silently, to myself, of course.

[modmadmike]

You know you are a geek if it brings a tear to your eye when you see a user with a good password (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols).

I had thought such creatures were a myth.

In my old school all the passwords were the first two letters of your first name then the first two letters of your last plus a number from 01-30. And To make it even easier you could get into the accounts Net drive just by going into Network\Vol5\"enter user name here" and I did such and put a file saying hello into my one of friends drive and he got all upset and asked for a password change and the teacher asked why so he gave my name out and my parents flighted with the school that it was their (the schools) fault and that they could get the feds on them because they didn't secure their network.

My new school thinks they are secure by disabling command prompt, disabling task manager and disabling access to C:/ (which is still accessible by Firefox) But i know that you can still run batch files and exe files so =I made an exe in visual basic that lists all the running processes and then gives you a prompt so you can kill one suck as syncron-eyes. However I never used that exe file bad or hacked the network but I did bring my Eee pc and I recently found one open wifi network so I could see all of the servers from samba :lolflag:

[jvincent08]

In my old school all the passwords were the first two letters of your first name then the first two letters of your last plus a number from 01-30. And To make it even easier you could get into the accounts Net drive just by going into Network\Vol5\"enter user name here" and I did such and put a file saying hello into my one of friends drive and he got all upset and asked for a password change and the teacher asked why so he gave my name out and my parents flighted with the school that it was their (the schools) fault and that they could get the feds on them because they didn't secure their network.

My new school thinks they are secure by disabling command prompt, disabling task manager and disabling access to C:/ (which is still accessible by Firefox) But i know that you can still run batch files and exe files so =I made an exe in visual basic that lists all the running processes and then gives you a prompt so you can kill one suck as syncron-eyes. However I never used that exe file bad or hacked the network but I did bring my Eee pc and I recently found one open wifi network so I could see all of the servers from samba :lolflag:

Dude.. I wish my school ran Windows. I'd have a ball screwing everything up! :D

[modmadmike]

Dude.. I wish my school ran Windows. I'd have a ball screwing everything up! :D

And I wish mine ran linux :)

[jvincent08]

And I wish mine ran linux :)

I'm kind of on the fence.. Linux would save the school SO much money (they're using Mac laptops right now, which they claim to be spending 1,000 bucks a pop on), but on the other hand, it really is a lot of fun to mess with Windows crap.

[jimi_hendrix]

Dude.. I wish my school ran Windows. I'd have a ball screwing everything up! :D

hehe mine does but its a catholic school so i wouldnt mess around with it *looks up* and im not malicious like that...apparently before i got there though some kid hacked his grades and changed them

I'm kind of on the fence.. Linux would save the school SO much money (they're using Mac laptops right now, which they claim to be spending 1,000 bucks a pop on), but on the other hand, it really is a lot of fun to mess with Windows crap.

*shivers* i HATE macs

[jvincent08]

*shivers* i HATE macs

The hardware is certainly over priced, but as far as the OS itself goes, it's no Linux, but it's a hell of a lot better than Windows, don't you think?

[sci-fi guy]

The hardware is certainly over priced, but as far as the OS itself goes, it's no Linux, but it's a hell of a lot better than Windows, don't you think?

Last I checked, their Mac Pro was competitively with building your own system. But otherwise, you are correct.

[RedPandaFox]

1) When one of my friends left school, he ran a file on every PC at once saying "This network has a fatal virus, this computer will melt if not fixed"
2) Another friend left and she ran a VB to make all the CD/DVD drives open and closed untill the admin went to every one and disabled it.
3) When I left I put a Ubuntu live CD all the computers in the senior students IT room and rebooted
4) When another friend left, he sent printing to all the teachers printers saying "Mr Tymchook is watching you" (Mr Tymchook was a former IT teacher who was imbroyled in a fight with the other staff)

Now when any of my friends sign out, they lock the IT rooms and Library PCs.
The teachers thought it was funny until it was there turn to fix the problems :)

[scragar]

and who doesn't hack the default settings to set IEs home page to www.crashIE.com :P (or at the very least change the launcher to open the page)

And no-one even bother trying to deny that you replace various key images for fun(who doesn't enjoy renaming the cursors so the wait icon's actualy the normal icon, but the normal icon is the hand, while the hand is now the wait icon, oh how much pain you can cause(with people waiting for things that will never happen, or or just never knowing if it's loading or not :p))

[LaRoza]

and who doesn't hack the default settings to set IEs home page to www.crashIE.com :P (or at the very least change the launcher to open the page)

And no-one even bother trying to deny that you replace various key images for fun(who doesn't enjoy renaming the cursors so the wait icon's actualy the normal icon, but the normal icon is the hand, while the hand is now the wait icon, oh how much pain you can cause(with people waiting for things that will never happen, or or just never knowing if it's loading or not :p))

Or set a screenshot as a background...

[modmadmike]

1) When one of my friends left school, he ran a file on every PC at once saying "This network has a fatal virus, this computer will melt if not fixed"
2) Another friend left and she ran a VB to make all the CD/DVD drives open and closed untill the admin went to every one and disabled it.
3) When I left I put a Ubuntu live CD all the computers in the senior students IT room and rebooted
4) When another friend left, he sent printing to all the teachers printers saying "Mr Tymchook is watching you" (Mr Tymchook was a former IT teacher who was imbroyled in a fight with the other staff)

Now when any of my friends sign out, they lock the IT rooms and Library PCs.
The teachers thought it was funny until it was there turn to fix the problems :)

sounds fun lol:lol:

[modmadmike]

and who doesn't hack the default settings to set IEs home page to www.crashIE.com :P (or at the very least change the launcher to open the page)

And no-one even bother trying to deny that you replace various key images for fun(who doesn't enjoy renaming the cursors so the wait icon's actualy the normal icon, but the normal icon is the hand, while the hand is now the wait icon, oh how much pain you can cause(with people waiting for things that will never happen, or or just never knowing if it's loading or not :p))

my school has Firefox on all there machines plus IE

[RedPandaFox]

my school has Firefox on all there machines plus IE

Lucky you, we had IE and it wasn't possible to install anything we wernt meant to according to the IT teachers, there theory was, "if you can get past the security we have set, you can install what you want" (as in games so Halo was installed in the senior IT rooms for a while)

[sci-fi guy]

Lucky you, we had IE and it wasn't possible to install anything we wernt meant to according to the IT teachers, there theory was, "if you can get past the security we have set, you can install what you want" (as in games so Halo was installed in the senior IT rooms for a while)

FirefoxPortable (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable). Or LiveCDs.

[talsemgeest]

FirefoxPortable (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable). Or LiveCDs.
Neither works for me. Executables blocked, and bios + boot order are both password protected. When I really want to get past it I open the case and reset the cmos, which always does the trick.

[RedPandaFox]

Neither works for me. Executables blocked, and bios + boot order are both password protected. When I really want to get past it I open the case and reset the cmos, which always does the trick.

They always had bios protected at our school, but they still insisted on leaving boot priority DVD-USB-HDD
:lolflag:

[money2themax]

Neither works for me. Executables blocked, and bios + boot order are both password protected. When I really want to get past it I open the case and reset the cmos, which always does the trick.
we have imacs and the pcs now have case locks on'em cuz i got caught cracking open one the cases yeah the administration didn't take that too lightly

[sci-fi guy]

we have imacs...

Bleh. Opening eMacs is enough of a pain. I don't look forward to getting one of those to fix.