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

[FuturePilot]

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

You understood the above ;P

OMG! I've tried to do that so many times:lolflag:

[a12ctic]

When none of your electronics have their default official firmwires installed.

[Frak]

When you start to wish there was a Ctrl + Z on life.

When you start to hit imaginary Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to sign multiple documents.

When you start to auto complete telling your secretary to reschedule.

[LaRoza]

When you are in a bookstore and are excited to see an "Opera" book, and are disappointed it is about...opera.

When you look for computer acronyms in license plates.

When language reference manuals are what you read before going to bed.

(All me)

[BrokeBody]

Why everything here what everyone said has to be about computers?

I thought this is a topic about geeks in general, not only computer geeks?

What about non-computer geeks?

[Frak]

Why everything here what everyone said has to be about computers?

I thought this is a topic about geeks in general, not only computer geeks?

What about non-computer geeks?
OK, your a non-computer geek, but still Geek in general when you buy a lightsaber for $500

[Tyche]

i heard this one a long time ago, i mightr been mentioned hee
Your a geek when insted of looking outside the window to see the weather you go and find a weather forcast on google

Doesn't everybody?

oops.

Craig
Tyche

[ThinkBuntu]

You know you're a geek when Ubuntu seems too mainstream.

[FuturePilot]

When you have a ton of CDs with various Linux distros on them.

[Frak]

You know you're a geek when Ubuntu seems too mainstream.

When you have a ton of CDs with various Linux distros on them.

And when somebody else who you consider to be a Geek calls you a Geek.

But those two are very true, I have about 200 Linux CD's, and 50 DVD's.

[stepan2]

when substitute lol or omg in a physical conversation .
when people call you a geek.
when you fail gym

[LaRoza]

When you don't mind the MBR getting overwritten, because it is to easy to restore.

When you think in hex.

When you think of numbers as "int"s and "floats" and letters as "char"s.

When "null terminated character array" makes sense. (it is a string)

When:

x = x+1

makes sense, but should be written x++ or X+=1.

[Nekiruhs]

When you don't mind the MBR getting overwritten, because it is to easy to restore.

When you think in hex.

When you think of numbers as "int"s and "floats" and letters as "char"s.

When "null terminated character array" makes sense. (it is a string)

When:

x = x+1

makes sense, but should be written x++ or X+=1.

Don't forget ++x, the prefix operator is acted upon before calculation.:popcorn: So I guess I'm a geek?

Your a geek when you wish life had a sudo apt-get install -f

[Frak]

Don't forget ++x, the prefix operator is acted upon before calculation.:popcorn: So I guess I'm a geek?

Your a geek when you wish life had a sudo apt-get install -f
I thought it was

sudo apt-get -f install

[LaRoza]

Don't forget ++x, the prefix operator is acted upon before calculation.:popcorn: So I guess I'm a geek?
f

Or +(+x), in Python.

I usually use the postfix operator, unless I am assigning the result to another variable.

[a12ctic]

You put a decent amount of work towards making people think that youre not a nerd.

[ThinkBuntu]

when you fail gym
No, that means you dislike gym or are seriously out of shape and unwilling to try...

[Tyche]

You know you're a geek, when the warranty expires you say "cool, now I can take it apart".

You wait for the warranty to expire?

oops, again.

Craig
Tyche

[Tyche]

You know what HTTP, FTP, POP, RAM, ROM, USB, CPU, URL, WYSIWYG, ISP, MIME, ADSL, PPP, IDE, ISDN, ASCII, TCP/IP, and IRQ stand for..

Doesn't everybody?

ohmygosh. I'm still telling on myself. :lolflag:

Craig
Tyche

[LaRoza]

You know what HTTP, FTP, POP, RAM, ROM, USB, CPU, URL, WYSIWYG, ISP, MIME, ADSL, PPP, IDE, ISDN, ASCII, TCP/IP, and IRQ stand for..You know what HTTP, FTP, POP, RAM, ROM, USB, CPU, URL, WYSIWYG, ISP, MIME, ADSL, PPP, IDE, ISDN, ASCII, TCP/IP, and IRQ stand for..

And:

TIMTONTDOI
TIOOWTODI
OOP
JBOD
RAID

[lepz]

I got lots of words that really REALLY annoy me, geek and nerd are two of them. ;) and the next person that says "That Sucks" in last-fm I swear I'm gonna punch he's lights out. :lolflag:

[Celegorm]

When you find yourself spending several hours of your spare time doing mathematical proofs... for fun.

[jgrabham]

When you finished watching Star Trek and went upstairs to play on your Linux PC :]

[corney91]

When your answer to 1+1 is 'depends if they are strings or integers'

[LaRoza]

When your answer to 1+1 is 'depends if they are strings or integers'

I prefer "null terminated character array".

[Somenoob]

You know your a geek when you read another "You know you're a geek" thread

[smoker]

she tells you to clean your 'bits', and you take the cover off the pc :-)

[aks44]

... you hang out on a comp.* newsgroup

[antiemptyv]

When you find yourself spending several hours of your spare time doing mathematical proofs... for fun.

haha, actually im taking a break from one now to read this thread.

[roachk71]

You know you're a geek when you regularly configure and build custom kernels and think it's fun. ;-)

Brownie points if you also enjoy sharing how to do it with other users... :lolflag:

[Frak]

guilty

[~~Tito~~]

You know your a geek when you replace laughing with "lol" and mad with "wtf".

[jgrabham]

You know your a geek when you replace laughing with "lol" and mad with "wtf".

Eep

[~~Tito~~]

??? Is that a abreviation or "eeaaapp" like yeep.

[amadeus266]

Will the non-geek on this forum please raise your hand. :lolflag:

[~~Tito~~]

My hand is raised up-side down

[macogw]

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

You understood the above ;P

I do that! I tried to tab-complete the word "because" while IMing the other day, as if "because" was a bash command....oy

You make a belt full of bash commands
You wear a binary watch
You look for all kinds of things with Tux on them

^ me

[Nekiruhs]

I do that! I tried to tab-complete the word "because" while IMing the other day, as if "because" was a bash command....oy

You make a belt full of bash commands
You wear a binary watch
You look for all kinds of things with Tux on them

^ me
Handy cheatsheet with that belt you got there. I look for, and sadly buy, just about everything with tux, or a penguin that looks like him, on it. lol

[rajeev1204]

You fall into a gutter and blame microsoft for not securing the hole

[gl0wst1ckn1nja]

you carry your 80GB external HDD to school

you have 6GB of flash drives on your car keys

you have hard drives and ram modules laying around your room

you know more about computers/programming than your AP computer science teacher

your teacher asks you to fix his/her computer during class

every one you know asks for computer help

[gl0wst1ckn1nja]

when you can relate to this:

Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager
Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain,
ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what
made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of
the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.

I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain
for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms.
Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is
cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I
screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me...
Or feels threatened by me...
Or thinks I'm a smart ***...
Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.

And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through
the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is
sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is
found.
"This is it... this is where I belong..."
I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to
them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...

You bet your *** we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at
school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or
ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

+++The Mentor+++

[Sam Lars]

Great thread. I like how it spun off a couple of times into discussions in binary or about programming syntax.

You know your WEP code by heart in hex but not in ASCII.
You can read binary faster than ASCII.
You actually have written a script to help with homework.
In your head you see people getting grayed out like windows in Compiz.
Someone says "Isn't it nice when Windows remembers your passwords for you?" you just say yes, because you don't want to have to explain that it's IE that remembers the passwords, not Windows, but you don't use either... etc.
You wear a "got linux?" shirt and you settle for just getting people around you to understand what an OS is.
You see a typo in a book and you think, "syntax error."
You use a $120 graphing calculator to figure tip at a restaurant.
You have homework to do but you're playing around with some new app.
You sit in class not paying attention but thinking about how you can write that script or fix that problem on your computer.
While everyone else is blaming everything on Bush, you're blaming it all on Microsoft.
Could I slip a Live CD into one/all of the computers at the store and see how long it takes them to figure it out?
Discards outside the sysadmin's office make you get all excited.
You leave your computer on just for the uptime.
You leave your computer on because it's always ripping/dowloading/uploading/etc.
The first thing you notice anywhere is the computers.
If your computer is working right you get restless for experimentation.

[bchaffin72]

Your shorthand for writing uses most of the C operators and symbols, and your zeros always have a diagonal line so no one could dare mistake them for a letter.

[Frak]

Great thread. I like how it spun off a couple of times into discussions in binary or about programming syntax.

You know your WEP code by heart in hex but not in ASCII.
You can read binary faster than ASCII.
You actually have written a script to help with homework.
In your head you see people getting grayed out like windows in Compiz.
Someone says "Isn't it nice when Windows remembers your passwords for you?" you just say yes, because you don't want to have to explain that it's IE that remembers the passwords, not Windows, but you don't use either... etc.
You wear a "got linux?" shirt and you settle for just getting people around you to understand what an OS is.
You see a typo in a book and you think, "syntax error."
You use a $120 graphing calculator to figure tip at a restaurant.
You have homework to do but you're playing around with some new app.
You sit in class not paying attention but thinking about how you can write that script or fix that problem on your computer.
While everyone else is blaming everything on Bush, you're blaming it all on Microsoft.
Could I slip a Live CD into one/all of the computers at the store and see how long it takes them to figure it out?
Discards outside the sysadmin's office make you get all excited.
You leave your computer on just for the uptime.
You leave your computer on because it's always ripping/dowloading/uploading/etc.
The first thing you notice anywhere is the computers.
If your computer is working right you get restless for experimentation.


Unfortunately, I'm am guilty to all of those :)

[blithen]

you enjoy customising your distros and reading news about Linux more than playing xbox/Ps2 games.

you can't resist five minutes without thinking and/or talking about Linux (or using it)

That's me. But replace linux with ubuntu 8D!

[blithen]

you carry your 80GB external HDD to school

you have 6GB of flash drives on your car keys

you have hard drives and ram modules laying around your room

you know more about computers/programming than your AP computer science teacher

your teacher asks you to fix his/her computer during class

every one you know asks for computer help

/Sigh
I do everything on that list except the 1st and 4th one >_>

[iPower]

you try to double click the remote controll
all your windows using friends calls you for help
you have more than one computer
you never call people
you only know people by their nicknames not their real names
you have computerparts all over your room/appartment/house

[hbalagh]

when you think linux is sexy

[blithen]

when you think linux is sexy

It is! I look at linux script, and I fall in love @.@

[aks44]

Your shorthand for writing uses most of the C operators and symbols, and your zeros always have a diagonal line so no one could dare mistake them for a letter.

Hey!! I didn't allow you to read my mind!!

/me puts his tinfoil hat on.

[macogw]

Your shorthand for writing uses most of the C operators and symbols, and your zeros always have a diagonal line so no one could dare mistake them for a letter.

i dont do the 0 thing, but C operands...yeah, sometimes. != is a very convenient thing to write/type...its much more annoying to try to get...ok i cant find it on US international keyboard with AltGr, but the = with a slash through it

[steveneddy]

Sometimes I can't have a conversation with regular mortals because all that is going through my brain is if the update is ready for the new Compiz-Fusion yet.

Or how many beans I can get on the forums tonight.

Put the baby to sleep earlier and earlier just to get more time on my laptop. Is it wrong to put a baby to bed at 3 in the afternoon?

[reacocard]

Hey!! I didn't allow you to read my mind!!

/me puts his tinfoil hat on.

Oh come on, tin-foil is so 20th-century, these are much better: http://www.stopabductions.com/

[Arwen]

It starts getting freaky when :
someone asks you how many people approximately can attend the concert and you answer "about 512",
your baby brother starts counting 00,01,10,11.. because of severe brainwashing ;-),
when your best friend's name is sth like heavenz2145,
when "grep name" is the only way to make you call the person named "name"
when you feel sick and type dmesg to check up
when you don't wan to go out with your friends because you've kust got your ubuntu cd and want to try it out..
when your launcher for sudo poff is named "Finally disconnect and get a life"
when your cds/dvds of linux/unix distros than music or movies cds/dvds
when you go on an island for vacations,take your laptop with you and complain about not having wi-fi spot
when you know all of your hardware specifications by hardware and be surprised to hear your friend doesn't know his graphic card memory.
when you say "Linux is an a[p]titude" and really think is a joke.

[Haegin]

When you buy a pair of converse all-stars with the intent to cover them in pseudo-code just to confuse people.
When a mugger attacks you and you tell him he won't be able to get past your damage reduction.
When you start referring to a certain part of your (or a male friends) anatomy as a "+3 spear".
When you need to be reminded that some close friends cant get online when they are not at uni (damn dial up!) and that phoning is a better idea than emailing.
When you start saying RL even in real conversation.
When you decide it would be a good idea to write a program for your morning routine so you can get up later and another for the evening routine so you don't interrupt important coding or gaming for supper.
When you consider how hard it would be to write a bot to talk to your friends online for you.
When you put off sex for online gaming (and your partner doesn't mind because she is gaming too).
When your non-geek partner starts telling geek jokes (geekitus is contagious).
When you would rather install a program on Linux than on Windows because you know the errors will be solvable and that you might learn something.
When you stay inside gaming so long people wonder if you are an albino.
When you worry that freshers week (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientation_week) coincides with the next Ubuntu release.

[hbalagh]

You talk with your friends online like this

echo 'Hey how ya doing';
instead of just Hey how ya doing...

Or you feel the need to use <br /> tags instead of just hitting enter

You find yourself “adding quotes” around things for no reason

You ask a question and automatically type ?> instead of just ?

you write notes to four friends like this

<?php
$to = 'Jeni';
$from = 'Heather';
echo date("F j, Y");
echo "<br /><br />Dear $to, <br />";
echo "How are you doing these days? <br />";
echo "<br />With Love,<br /> $from";
?>

if($coding >= $good_sex)
{
$you = 'nerd';
}

[steven8]

You know you're a geek when........you start eyeing other people's pocket protectors with envy.

[hbalagh]

You know you're a geek when........you start eyeing other people's pocket protectors with envy.

lol thats pretty bad

[steven8]

lol thats pretty bad

:popcorn:

[blithen]

When you know what

3.14159265

is.

[popch]

When you know what

3.14159265

is.

Why should running around in circles make me a geek?

[blithen]

'Cause...pi is good for you? xp

[Warren Watts]

The case of your computer stays open.
I can identify with that one....I haven't had a computer with a cover on the case in at least 15 years!

A few others:
When you work as a broadband tech support agent, sitting in front of a computer for 40 hours a week, and STILL spend 40 hours a week in front of your OWN computer at home.

When a NIC/video card/soundcard/SCSI card/hard drive/keyboard/mouse/monitor fails in(on) one of your computers, and you have at least two or three spares of each lying around within 20 feet of your working computers.

When the kitchen table always seems to have at least one computer on it at all times.

When you memorized pi to 15 decimal places at the age of 12, and 29 years later you can still recite it, but you struggle to remember your own seven digit telephone number.

When you remote SSH to your Linux server at home from work ten times a day, just to check the apache and login logs to see who has been accessing your computer and why.

[gl0wst1ckn1nja]

when your friends ask you if you can change their grades at school.

when you fix your teachers laptop and she says the schools IT people couldnt figure it out.

when even though you love the games that are only for windows but still refuse to go back.

when the teachers computer breaks and he asks to use yours because he/she knows you always have it.

when you connect to a "foreign" wireless network you always run a "whois" command to figure out what type of server it is and what OS its running.

when you have converted countless people to linux, namely ubuntu.

when you have a t-shirt that has a "2333 glider" on it and people ask you what it is.

when complete strangers comment your shirt that says "Linux Rules, windows sucks, i hate it" and you know they probably still use windows.

when you laugh when someone tells you they still use internet explorer.

when you have injected a DoS attack on your schools server, and gotten away with it because you were smart enough to use their own computers with the "teacher" account.

when your ap computer science teacher knows it was you that crashed it.

when your ap computer science teacher is so chill that he doesnt rat you out.

[macogw]

today while having a midnight meal with a friend from LUG:

me: the underpants gnomes' cousins are stealing things in my office
him: you need a mouse trap...er....a gnome trap
me: it can be a symlink to /dev/null

[n.aggel]

when you pick your keyboard more carefully than your wife!

[Haegin]

When you feel utterly embarrassed when your supervisor at the PC repair shop you work at refers to IE as "the big blue E" on the phone to customers.

[Sam Lars]

You have a heated argument about when it is acceptable to use "Star Power" while playing someone on Guitar Hero.
You get frustrated whenever someone makes a positive comment about Windows, even if you know its true (or because you know its true).
People take their computers somewhere to be fixed, but you're frustrated because you wish you could have fixed it yourself.

[FuturePilot]

When you get a new computer and have trouble installing Ubuntu on it, but don't give up and after 2 long days you finally get it working.:)

[katasuka]

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

You understood the above ;P
I find myself doing that ALL the time :-\

You talk about torrents or Open Source Software to friends like you are selling Amway.
I also find myself doing this... talking on and on to even total strangers about linux and open source

Malfunctioning computers, or poorly factored code cause you genuine physical and emotional pain.
Happens to me, I literally get sick when using Windows. Hence why I only use Linux now, it doesn't make me sick

A nice looking women sits up next to you and says Hi.

You reply with...So what kinda O/S do you have.
LMFAO that is so something i would do... if i wasnt married (yes im married)

You call your real life friends by their online nicks instead of their names.
yep

You talk to your real life friends over IRC more often then in person.
i talk to my real life friends on irc about as much as i talk to them in person. sad thing is sometimes i talk to them on irc even when they are just in the next room of the house

You wanna ./configure make && make install a Linux government at /home/user[tab-complete]
id love that

you enjoy customising your distros and reading news about Linux more than playing xbox/Ps2 games.

you can't resist five minutes without thinking and/or talking about Linux (or using it)
me me me me

Well since im on my lunch break and have to go back to work *sigh* I only got to read to post #20 ... I'll read more when i get home tonight :-P

[blithen]

When you get a new computer and have trouble installing Ubuntu on it, but don't give up and after 2 long days you finally get it working.:)
What was the problem? xP

[southernman]

What was the problem? xP
YUP... your a geek alright! ;) rofl

[FuturePilot]

First I couldn't even get the CD to boot, then I finally got it installed but had no sound. Compiled the latest alsa drivers with a Realtek patch. Finally got sound after hours of searching for a solution and trying tons of different things. Nvidia drivers in the repos don't support my card, used Envy to get it working. 2 days really. But it was so worth it. I was not going to use Vista. I was so excited when I finally got everything working.\\:D/

....when you try to compile something in the forum's text editor.:lolflag:

[kshezeppelin1]

when finished with a live conversation all ur friend has to say is WHAT!?
YOUR answer to whats my prob with WINDoZE is that the person is using windows!
nfg this is the greatest evea

[picpak]

We all know that when I pour ketchup on a burger bun I try to make the Debian logo. Yesterday I tried to make the Ubuntu logo. It looked like a lollypop.

[katasuka]

when finished with a live conversation all ur friend has to say is WHAT!?
happens to me all the time

[FuturePilot]

When you write a program for your TI calculator that makes it look like it's booting Linux when you turn it on.

[Visti]

You know you're a geek when, you still get flashback from episodes from MUDs (http://www.mudconnector.com) you played. "Duck! Incoming freakin' dragons!"

[~~Tito~~]

You know yor a geek when you say ./configure for a homework paper, or make install to a teacher so you can get the information for the whole year :p.

[~~Tito~~]

Also,

You know your a geek whe you make ayou know your a geek thread and almost half the forum answers.

[gecko94]

you own 4 playstation 3's but own no games for them and have created a beowulf cluster running linux, bought cedega and sit at it playing the newest windows games not made by microsoft just to show off to your friend the capabilities of linux and open source... until the ps3's overheat.

[forrestcupp]

You don't have one of those computer house management systems where you can turn on your lights and TV from your computer because you're on the computer too much to care about the TV and lights.

[rharriso]

You have your bithday in hex tattoed to your left arm

[Haegin]

When you see the word "stout" and think of standard output.

[jrusso2]

When you want to build Linux from Scratch.

[Interestedinthepenguin]

you have to have conky

...you wish that CSS stylesheets could be applied to real life

...computers add excitement to your life.

...you're playing video games, and you (accidently) refer to 'equip' and 'unequip' as 'install' and 'uninstall'

For girls: ...your calendar is marked with 'm' tags

[suziequzie]

You and your live in boyfriend have separate bedrooms because there's not enough room for him and his comics to mix with you and your SF books.

Yes, I call that wall my library.

[dentaku65]

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
in looping mode on the console
:-)

[rolando2424]

(I had to put the picture in a attachment, or it would break the layout...)

[yabbadabbadont]

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
in looping mode on the console
:-)
To add a dash of Gentoo:

You run "emerge -e world" continuously in the winter in order to keep the computer room warm.

:D

[Omnios]

When someone tell you you should use windows because its better and you tell them there nutz.

Yup actual conversation.

[Nano Geek]

(I had to put the picture in a attachment, or it would break the layout...)You mean that's not normal?

[SOULRiDER]

To add a dash of Gentoo:
You run "emerge -e world" continuously in the winter in order to keep the computer room warm.
:D

Have you been spying on me? :P

[yabbadabbadont]

Have you been spying on me? :p

Yes! <insert evil genius laugh>

[PurposeOfReason]

When you get girls by showing them how cool a terminal can be.
While I have done that, the compiz fire effect works better. She'd just draw stuff.

-You've OC'ed anything
-Conky actually means something to you
-those "pretty effects" were worth those hours
-you have dual monitors ;)
-you've used/tried more than ten OS's

EDIT
-you've crashed X but were still able to get onto the internet. :D

[blithen]

While I have done that, the compiz fire effect works better. She'd just draw stuff.

-You've OC'ed anything
-Conky actually means something to you
-those "pretty effects" were worth those hours
-you have dual monitors ;)
-you've used/tried more than ten OS's

EDIT
-you've crashed X but were still able to get onto the internet. :D

W3m FTW!!

[FuturePilot]

When you start downloading things on a regular basis with wget

[yabbadabbadont]

W3b FTW!!

Don't you mean w3m? If so, you've just lost your "geek" status. :D

(I prefer links or elinks for console browsing)

[yabbadabbadont]

When you start downloading things on a regular basis with wget

Real geeks use curl. :p :lol:

[p_quarles]

1) When you deal with a phishing scam by running a whois query on the linked web site, and then firing off a quick e-mail to the "abuse" address listed by the ISP.

2) When you overhear a co-worker claim to be a "geek" because she brought a trackball to work, and you have to fight the urge to find out if she knows what an IDE (either sense) is.

[yabbadabbadont]

When you still think it is funny to tell new guys to go into the server room and empty the bit bucket. (that never gets old :D)

[p_quarles]

When you still think it is funny to tell new guys to go into the server room and empty the bit bucket. (that never gets old :D)
Funnier yet to remind them to lock the firewall on the way out.

[viergeame]

...your friends stopped asking to use your computer because they can't figure out how to work it.

...you've snuggled up to your laptop for warmth. (Doing that right now.

...your friends won't leave you alone with their computer for fear you will "put that Linux thing" on it.

...you type in Dvorak.

...your teachers asked you computer questions, when you were in 1st grade.

...you've taken over a conversation in a store between a customer and the store's "tech support".

...you sometimes ask computer store employees questions you know the answers to, just to test them.

...you can't get online just to check your email, you have to check several forums and news sites too.

[Irihapeti]

... you announce your intention to cut the lawns and you realise you just said that you'll boot up the lawnmower.

[p_quarles]

... you announce your intention to cut the lawns and you realise you just said that you'll boot up the lawnmower.
You need to have the correct repositories in your /etc/apt.sources.list. Otherwise you'll get:
sudo apt-get install the_lawnmower
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package the_lawnmower
Hope this helps.


http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Laughing/lol-057.gif

[str8line]

Look at my post pic.....I think it speaks for itself....and yes it is real.

[GSF1200S]

You know youre a geek when your room is a mess, but your Linux desktop is organized perfectly.

[Haegin]

When you filter messages from various linux devel mailing lists into a system of folders in your mailbox and then set up a search folder which opens on startup so you are never behind with the important things in life.

[Dr Small]

... you have a big fat notebook lying on your desk with known errors listed in it, and how to solve them at bootup.

... you still use old floppies to store text files on, and no body around you has a clue what a floppy is these days.

... you have the seconds on for your system clock, so you can know *exactly* what time it is.

... you have your coffee machine in front of your computer, and then use "eject && eject -t" as a crontab script at 6:30 AM to turn your coffee machine on.

... you go to a Vista Computer at your local computer store and can have Vista froze in 30 seconds.

.., you mention Linux and people turn and walk away.

... you find it very hard to carry a normal conversation with a person, without all the technical stuff to go along with it.

... you buy your friend a birthday present, and it consists of 5 different operating systems.

... you type "uptime" before "shutdown 0".

... you talk to the computer tech's at the computer store, and they have no idea what you are talking about.

... you say "sudo" in place of "please" in every day language.

... you solve most of your problems in your sleep.

... you talk more about your system than your children.

... you rip your system apart and rebuild it for fun.

... you have an "ubuntu", "GNU / LINUX", and "Debian" sticker on the bumper of your car.

[viergeame]

... you have your coffee machine in front of your computer, and then use "eject && eject -t" as a crontab script at 6:30 AM to turn your coffee machine on.


That is such a great idea. Now if only I could find a similar tactic for my espresso machine.

[Beamerboy]

When you include hand written style sheets with hand written letters.

Paladine

[gmjs]

You know you're a geek when you forego sleeping for two days because your latest programming project has just got to the exciting bit (it's the third 'exciting bit' so far) and you cannot sleep until it's working how you want it to!

[michaelh]

You know you're a geek when:
You ask a woman if she wants to "cd bedroom && touch babies".

[CC_machine]

when youve hacked a longer antenna(bonus points for multiple antennas) onto your wireless router and/or laptop card.

when you've coded your own driver for some hardware that doesnt work.

when you believe your 7900GTX is obsolete.

when you notice your friend's laptop has an ATi sticker on it and hate them for it.

when you carry a Linux LiveCD at all times.

when your graphic card's onboard ram is greater than your system ram.

when you know Linus Torvald's birthday.

when you tell your wife she's become "hardcoded into your kernel"

when you believe you've managed to install Linux into your brain.

[p_quarles]

. . . when you consider your USB thumb drive with the portable apps suite to be part of your clothing.

[Nekiruhs]

. . . when you consider your USB thumb drive with the portable apps suite to be part of your clothing.
... I feel so naked and exposed without it though!

[Dr Small]

... When you ask "whatis" questions, instead of wikipedia.

[nowshining]

you know you are a geek when it's hard to speak about anything but computers.

You know your a geek when you start naming everything 01110011100111 and so forth.

You know your a geek when you forget the REAL WORLD is not the Same as the virtual world..

You know your a geek when you think the real world / virtual world is one in the same..

You know your a geek when all you DREAM about is computers...

You know your a geek when the most scariest story has to do with you losing your internet/computer access...

You know your a geek when the computer haunts you...

You know your a geek when you think that the computer is alive..

You know your a geek when you think that the computer is a GOD...

You know your a geek when you have to Touch up everything that comes your way thru the computer/photoshop to make it look better...

You know your a geek when Everything has to be done thru/with a computer or you will NOT accept it.

You know your a geek when start kissing your computer monitor/box..

You know your a geek when you marry your computer...

You know your a geek when you try and do the nasty with your computer...

You know your a geek when you haven't slept in days..

You know your a geek when you call your computer a him/her/he/she...

You know your a geek when you start a group calling for computer rights..

You know your a geek when you try to find out if your computer is male/female...

You know your a geek when you wonder if your computer is straight or not or both....

You know your a geek when you haven't slept at all and don't even know what sleep is..

You know your a geek when you cannot discern the real world from the cyberone..

You know your a geek when you forget that you are human and not a virtual character.

You know your a geek when your ideal of running away and hiding is to join a cyber runaway village..

You know your a geek when you cannot think of no more you know your a geek when answers.

You know your a geek when you Tell all there is in the known universe you know you are a geek answers..

You know your a geek when you surf the net in the middle of the night and FEEL like you're the only one.

You know your a geek when you surf the FORUMS in the middle of the night and FEEL like you're the only one.

You know your a geek when all your friends are also geeks.

You know your a geek when you forget totally who you are..

You know your a geek when when you slowly morph into a robotic person..

You know your a geek when your Brain has nothing in it but thoughts upon thoughts upon thoughts which are all computer related and nothing else..

You know your a geek when you hack a way to get FREE dialup internet (well a cheap geek anyways)...

You know your a geek when you hack a way to get FREE HIGHSPEED internet (well a cheap geek anyways)...

You know your a geek when all the technological appliances fail and you think the world has ended/ending....

You know your a geek when all the technological appliances fail and using paper and pen/pencil is the toughest/hardest thing to do/use...

You know your a geek when You have freckles and wear glasses...

You know your a geek when You KNOW the word geek..

You know your a geek when you can SPEAK geek speak...

You know your a geek when you forget that the REST of the WORLD OUTSIDE of a computer EXISTS...

You know your a geek when Time passes you by...

You know your are a geek when You get rid of all your REAL LIFE pets for Virtual ones..

You know you are a geek when Death comes knocking at your door and you tell HIM to HOLD ON while you check your email/surf the net/post a post/browse a forum...

You know you are a geek when Death has to DRAG you AWAY from the COMPUTER....

You know your a geek when you think Heaven is computers....

You know your a geek when what tortures you the most is losing access to the internet..

You know your a geek when what tortures you the most is losing access to a computer..

You know your a geek when you think that Nothing Outside of a computer exists except you..

You know your a geek when you get rid of all things in your life except for computers...

You know your a geek when your life partner is computer controlled...

You know your a geek when you'd rather do cyberp0rn than do it real life..

You know your a geek when your life partner says to you they are leaving you forever and a year later you look up and yell for them and then wonder where they went..

You know your a geek when everything is the world is drowned out except for your eyes to the computer..

You know your a geek when you haven't blinked in days..

You know your a geek when looking at anything else than a computer monitor/screen is blurry...

You know your a geek when your room is full of trash and junk all over the place and the bed is junked up.

You know your a geek when you never go outside.

You know your a geek when your the whitest person on earth.

You know your a geek when you never have felt the weather outside your room..

You know your a geek when you are signed onto the internet forever..

You know your a geek when you forget who you are in real life and start calling yourself the nickname you give on forums..

You know your a geek when you have been typing on a laptop since the very first second you were thought of.

You know your a geek when you used to be fat, haven't got outside, didn't exercise but only sat at the computer all day/night..

You know your a geek when everything can be compared to computers..

You know your a geek when you bow down to your computer in a DREAM...

You know your a geek when all you spend your money on are computer products - no food nor drink no clothes, etc....

You know you REALLY ARE A GEEK when you know all the above/below..and POST IT.....

You know you are a geek when you have visited all the websites in the world..

You know you are a geek when you ignore Food/drink for hours and days on end...

You know your a geek when the world comes to an end and your still on the computer and don't know that the world has ended..

You know your a geek when you will only eat virtual food..

You know your a geek when you will only use/eat/drink'/live in cyberspace...

You know your a geek when you think that computers are the most technological thing in the universe..

You know your a geek when know you haven't died yet...

[FuturePilot]

When you know your xorg.conf like the back of your hand.

[Billy_McBong]

You know your a geek when when you slowly morph into a robotic person..

i wanna morph into a robotic person:(

you know your a geek when you read nowshining's giant post

[nowshining]

yes added more and MORE TO COME.. as soon as I can think of them..lolz.. :)

[p_quarles]

. . . when you stock up on compressed air once a month

[BOBSONATOR]

You know youre a geek when your room is a mess, but your Linux desktop is organized perfectly.

are you stalking me lol?

[nowshining]

are you stalking me lol?



now that was / is funny... :lolflag:

[MadMac]

You feel really, really bad when you give away old computers you have no use for.

[bobbocanfly]

...you cringe when you walk past a house and see a yellowing CRT monitor and big yellow/white speakers in the window

Happened to me today

[hessiess]

. . . when you stock up on compressed air once a month

i own a compressor:lolflag:

[Frak]

When you install Mac OS X within Linux on a P4 without rebooting.

[red_Marvin]

Me:

When you hate to throw away old and obsolete, but hey! still working computer parts.

When you read Dr Small's post and start thinking of exactly what would be needed to create a lan coffee machine.

You have a pice of old ram on the same keyring as the flash memory just for fun.

When you think the fact that -e^(iπ) = 1 is wonderful.

When you wish your keyboard had greek and math letters on them and/or thinks it has too few keys altogether.

[Haegin]

You read books on programming, algorithms, computer design and networking as bedtime reading
You consider your collection of O Reilly pocket reference books essential for work when you work at [insert place where your love to code is repressed]
Family members/friends tell you about a computer problem they are having and instead of replying you just fix it remotely then call out "Fixed" without looking up
Friends email you instead of phoning you as they know it will be faster
Fellow geek friends get your attention by running a DOS attack (or similar) against your PC because they know you use it in a similar way to a doorbell.

[Dr Small]

... you visit DefCon anual meetings just to meet more geeks.

[viergeame]

... you won't even throw away computer parts that don't work.
... you manage to find uses for parts that don't work. (paper weights, keychains, door-stops...)
... it hurts your eyes to try to focus on anything further away than your monitor.
... you've ever considered one of the advantages of a laptop to be that you don't even have to leave the computer to use the bathroom. (Yes, I've known someone who has done this.)
... your holiday gifts to friends and family are computer parts.
... you've ever considered/taken a job at a computer store just for the employee discount.
... you wear out a few keyboards a year.
... you always have a spare near your desk so you don't have to stop what you're doing when the one you're using bites the dust.
... you've worn out a mouse. (I didn't realise this could happen until it did.)
... you've refused to get up to let the dog out because you didn't want to miss anything on IRC.
... you haven't slept in days and you need to be at work in three hours, but you are too busy debugging your latest program to even bother with a nap.
... you wish you could make your whole house have that awesome smell of new computer parts.
... you could probably wallpaper your room with all the anti-static bags you have lying around.
... you don't have to order pizza anymore, they know you want your dinner delivered at 9.
... your mom started coming to LAN parties because it is the only way she can spend time with you.
... you spend more a week on caffiene than most people spend on food.
... you're concerned with the amount of blood in your caffiene stream.
... your fingers are callused from typing.
... you know from experience exactly how many USB devices it takes to crash your computer.
... you buy outlet strips in bulk.
... you have a computer in every room of the house.
... you have a microwave and fridge within reach of your desk.
... you know exactly how much caffiene is deadly.
... your friends and family call you when they need new computer parts because your floor has a better selection than the local store.
... you've lost muscle mass in your legs because you never leave your chair.
... you buy your computer birthday gifts.
... a major part of your computer dies and you actually mourn it and consider giving it a proper funeral.

[nowshining]

now viergeame (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=248410) those are mighty awesome ones.. :)

[iPower]

im on my 5th keyboard and 6th mouse :P

[LaRoza]

... you won't even throw away computer parts that don't work.
... you haven't slept in days and you need to be at work in three hours, but you are too busy debugging your latest program to even bother with a nap.
.

They can be fixed.

Debugging has kept me up into the wee hours into the morning...

[rolando2424]

... you hear a news report on the TV about a back robbery shootout and you complain that the sound is not "realistic enough".

[Nekiruhs]

<stupid>I dint no how to spelll geak, and now I r 1 ! </stupid>

[edd07]

...you crave a command-line in your IM client :(

[viergeame]

now viergeame (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=248410) those are mighty awesome ones.. :)

They come to me in my sleep.

[viergeame]

This is a mark of a truly hardcore geek.

[yabbadabbadont]

This is a mark of a truly hardcore geek.

Assuming that the photo is real (it looks like it is), then those are the marks of a (presumably) self-mutilating idiot... :roll:

[stuh84]

"... you've ever considered one of the advantages of a laptop to be that you don't even have to leave the computer to use the bathroom. (Yes, I've known someone who has done this.)"

This makes me feel really bad.....as I actually fire up a DIFFERENT laptop for going in the toilet/bathroom, as I don't want to ruin my Macbook Pro.......oh god I feel so bad

[doublearon]

you buy the ubuntu hodie.

[Shoot3r101]

you know you're a geek when you go to fix a car and you tell them they need more RAM!

[Frak]

Assuming that the photo is real (it looks like it is), then those are the marks of a (presumably) self-mutilating idiot... :roll:
obviously photoshop

[LowSky]

you know you're a geek when...

you can type faster than you can write
you havent seen the sun in weeks
your 33 and still live at home and you mom still calls you her special boy
Warhammer vs Warhammer 40K is a constant squable among your friends
Star Wars vs Star Trek is a constant squable among your firends
the only exercise you get is building a new computer
You know what D6+D10 damage means
You think Neil Gaiman is the new JRR Tolkien
You actually use keyboard shortcuts that are not built in buttons (ie: CTRL+ALT+E opens VMware)
You read Linus Torvalds book about linux

[viergeame]

obviously photoshop

Actually it really is real. The person had that done professionally. They eventually healed into sort of neat looking scars.

[Depressed Man]

you know you're a geek when...

you can type faster than you can write


I think that makes anyone that grew up with computers a geek then.

[Luke771]

U c4n r34d th|5 4t teh s4m3 sp33d 4s r3g00l4r 3ng!i5h

[ukripper]

When you feel like invisible to the world.

[forrestcupp]

"... you've ever considered one of the advantages of a laptop to be that you don't even have to leave the computer to use the bathroom. (Yes, I've known someone who has done this.)"

This makes me feel really bad.....as I actually fire up a DIFFERENT laptop for going in the toilet/bathroom, as I don't want to ruin my Macbook Pro.......oh god I feel so bad

Why bother with that when you can just have a desktop in front of your toilet?

[rolando2424]

You know that Aeris dies.

You know who is Aeris.

You know where she's from (the game, not the place in the game).

YOU KNOW WHO KILLED HER!! (And you managed to kill him)

You enter in super saiyan mode every time you hear Aerith. (And you know what is super saiyan).

[sci-fi guy]

Why bother with that when you can just have a desktop in front of your toilet?

You mean "Why bother when you can make your AOL CD Throne (http://stupidco.com/aol_throne_finished.html) into a toilet and never have to leave your room?".

Also, I like to add to the list...

You know you are a geek when you take your (Ubuntu) laptop to class to read a thread on identifying at what point you are a geek for 2+ hours straight (if laughter is good for you, I am approaching perfection at this point), during the entire course of the class as well as the immediately following comp. club meeting and missing the bus home.

You are a geek if the Innergeek Test (http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html) says so. (32.74162%-Total Geek)

[Nano Geek]

Your signature is in 1's and 0's. :)

[starcraft.man]

You know you're a geek when you derived your username on a forum from a 9 year old cult classic game that you still obsess over, for the simple reason that on the day of sign up you were drawing a complete blank on creativity.

Hmmm, sounds familiar... :)

[sci-fi guy]

Ditto. (see avatar) You use WINE, Virtual Machine, or dual-boot to play?

[starcraft.man]

Ditto. (see avatar) You use WINE, Virtual Machine, or dual-boot to play?

Haven't played just lately (been a bit busy), when I do though it's usually just in Windows. That's about the only thing I keep the partition for now (gaming that is, I play other games too :)).

[sci-fi guy]

0. You start all your lists with zero
1. You can count to 31 on one hand.
2. You have build a mini nuclear reactor to power your weak computer.
3. You have a full-blown anti-matter reactor for your normal one.
4.You caused the Northeast Blackout of 2003 attempting to turn on you big system. It didn't get enough juice to turn on the LEDs, much less boot.
5. Your computer is used to heat the surrounding cities during the winter.
6. You gave yourself a Borg-like implant to plug video output ports into your eye socket, so that you can have nearly infinite screen resolution.
7. You dual-boot Linux on the dominate partition of your brain. (about 90% of the total capacity ;))

[p_quarles]

3. You have a full-blown anti-matter reactor for your normal one.
Don't be silly. Real geeks use Tylium reactors. :D

[Beamerboy]

...you add your blog to your estate in your last will and testimony so your family can inherit your traffic.
...you add your MMORPG "toons", your MMORPG "bank toons" and your multiple MMORPG GUI Skins to your will.
...you give all your money to your children in your will, but only on the condition that they never use AOL.
...say EHLO as a general greeting...

Paladine

[sci-fi guy]

It (Tylium) is being used to try powering THE BIG ONE. I learned my lesson about using the public power grid back in 2003. Along with vacuum energy, Tylium is enough to finally light all the LEDs plus the monitors. But a few dozen more need to be built before one can be reasonably safe trying to turn it on.

[sci-fi guy]

...Linus Torvalds is in awe of your geekhood.

[blackhowling]

when you know the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

[rolando2424]

when you know the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

And your posting on it (check this thread's page :lolflag: )

[sci-fi guy]

You understand (0x2b||!0x2b) and find it funny.

This is post #0x2A. Anybody care to go for #0x1A4?

[Haegin]

You want afk on your tombstone (or brb if you believe in reincarnation)

[sci-fi guy]

You want afk on your tombstone (or brb if you believe in reincarnation)

and/or OMG.

[Billy_McBong]

or
bash: life: command not found

[joe.turion64x2]

The reasons (uncovered as far as I have read) I think makes someone a geek are:

You like to write, even the simplest letter, in LaTeX, instead of OpenOffice.org or, arghh, Word. Ahh, and it must be done in the right way: first compile to DVI and then convert the DVI to PDF.

When you get any 'suitable' electronic device you wonder if Linux can be installed on it. That happened to me when I received my LG MP4 (4GB).

You don't like to throw away old/faulty hardware. The former could still be of service, and the other can always be taken apart.

You like to collect the processor boxes of all the machines you have built.

When I remember more things, I will post.

Thanks.
Joe.

[Dr Small]

You don't like to throw away old/faulty hardware. The former could still be of service, and the other can always be taken apart.

You like to collect the processor boxes of all the machines you have built.

That is me all over :p I still have my CPU, PSU and MB Boxes that they came in, and am storing the old/faulty hardware in them :p :D

Dr Small

[ukripper]

When talk about human evolution started from unix

[joe.turion64x2]

That is me all over :p I still have my CPU, PSU and MB Boxes that they came in, and am storing the old/faulty hardware in them :p :D

Dr Small
Hey!!! That is exactly what I use my boxes for. I believe it is the safest place to hid anything but they only hold old hardware. No one at home wonders what all of those AMD boxes stand for.

[eph1973]

You know when you are a geek when you can recite the speech by Henry V about Saint Crispin's Day (we few, we happy few, we band of brothers, etc) from Shakespeare's Henry V in Klingon.

[davahmet]

10. Your favorite word processor is still emacs.
9. You want to use regular expressions to search the phone book.
8. Your wife says she wants pearls for her birthday and you try to convince her that she'd like PHP better.
7. You argue that a carton of a dozen eggs should have 18 since hex is more efficient.
6. You catch yourself reading license plates as hexidecimal opcode.
5. You can't have a 5-minute conversation with friends without someone quoting Monty Python.
4. Your life's ambition is to receive a 2 AM phone call from Linus where he only says "Brilliant!"
3. You still don't understand why "Serenity" did not win best picture.
2. Your wife tells you in no uncertain terms that you absolutely may NOT replace the dining room table with divs and css.
1. You have inserted "alias ChuckNorrisSays='sudo'" in your .bashrc.

[davahmet]

and yet more....

-You insist on naming your first child Linus. Your wife argues that this is not a good name for a girl.
-You want to name your second child Tux. Again, your wife argues that this is not a good name for a girl. You secretly ponder if your wife is really a Microsoft troll.
-At the hospital, you try to convince the maternity ward nurse to write "alias Tux='Elizabeth' on your second daughter's birth certificate.
-At the divorce hearing, you tell the judge that your marriage license was moved to GPL-3, therefore your wife may not claim exclusive ownership of assets. The judge disagrees. You accuse the judge of being a Microsoft fanboy.
-You are outraged that the court decision is written with Word 2007 and demand that it should comply with ISO standards or suffer rejection.
-When the judge asks what you are ranting about, you reply "RTFM Judge!"
-The judge cites you for contempt and you threaten to "Chuckify" him with a roundhouse kick.
-The court balif (obviously another Microsoft fanboy) takes you away in handcuffs. You mutter about handcuffs being like patent infringement.
-When your new cellmate (these fanboys are everywhere it seems) tells you to shut up or get a shiv in the ribs, you demand that your cellmate stop spreading FUD.
-You ask the surgeon in the prison hospital if he could install some "cool technology implants while working under the hood."
-Cellmate 2.0 tells you "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" At last, you have found an ally.

[LaRoza]

You press :q to exit every app you use.

All your papers begin with i

[reckless2k2]

you know you're a geek when you think this shirt is funny:

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/Linux/-/pv_design_details/pg_12/id_6682685/opt_/fpt_DH_____B______a__AB__P___D/c_666/

#rm -rf /windows

[sci-fi guy]

you know you're a geek when you think this shirt is funny:

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/Linux/-/pv_design_details/pg_12/id_6682685/opt_/fpt_DH_____B______a__AB__P___D/c_666/

#rm -rf /windows

Forget that. Try Thinkgeek's (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/) shirts. And for the LOTR fan... (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/9080/)

[FuturePilot]

You always start your papers with
#! /bin/bash

[eph1973]

`/0|_| |<|\|0\X/ `/0|_|'|23 4 633|< 1f `/0|_| <4|\| |234d +|-|15 (0|2 1f `/0|_| +`/ρ3d 1+)

[Haegin]

If the ideas of the union that this picture conjures up makes you sick.
http://hjmills.co.uk/tux_windows.jpg

[geekygeekneedinghelp]

lol, i do talk about half those things:
Malfunctioning computers ... cause you genuine physical and emotional pain. - Pathogenix
You talk about torrents or Open Source Software to friends like you are selling Amway. - poofyhairguy
You know you're a geek when it's too late. - linbetwin
You use "zeroth" as the first position in a queue or other sequence of arbitrary size. - Pathogenix; I'm used to "zeroth" floor in England...

[cwrann]

You talk about torrents or Open Source Software to friends like you are selling Amway.

I caught myself doing this at a wedding this weekend.

Heres another one:

You harass your wife for not getting all of the World war hulk/ initiative/ endangered species tie-ins at the comic shop and you have a very stern sit down with her about not getting the turner variant of DD 100.

[joe.turion64x2]

i wanna morph into a robotic person:(

you know your a geek when you read nowshining's giant post
Sometimes I wondered the convenience for me to have integrated USB :guitar:

[forrestcupp]

You put on a Captain Kirk outfit just to sit and post on the forums.

[sci-fi guy]

You put on a Captain Kirk outfit just to sit and post on the forums.

One would think a geek would wear Scotty's outfit.

[eph1973]

You put on a Captain Kirk outfit just to sit and post on the forums.

One would think a geek would wear Scotty's outfit.

Captain, that is illogical. A geek would dress up as Mr. Spock, complete with pointy ears and eye shadow.

[badbadputer]

You find it more natural to count 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 than 1,2,3,4,5,6..
The most physical part of your day is gowing up and down the stairs, getting more coke
Your chair has over time grown into a perfect replica of your ***
Somebody yells at you, and you're desperately looking for the "mute"-button

not that much of a puter whiz of the sense, but I try the 'mute' all the time at work with a co-worker, damn things broken...! Also, I find myself sending emails and then looking up at the person for a response cause they're one desk over!

[sci-fi guy]

Captain, that is illogical. A geek would dress up as Mr. Spock, complete with pointy ears and eye shadow.

Touché. But Scotty has more fun in his tinkering.

[eph1973]

you can count to 1023 using your hands in binary.

[Kingsley]

You type "!=" when the forum topic has nothing to do with programming.

[sci-fi guy]

You type "!=" when the forum topic has nothing to do with programming.

That post does != qualify for this thread. Post it somewhere else ;):^o;)

[Jouke74]

You know when you're a geek when the only succesful dates you have made were in adventure games....

:lolflag:

[forrestcupp]

You know when you're a geek when the only succesful dates you have made were in adventure games....

:lolflag:

Especially when they are single player adventure games and your successful date was with an NPC.

[Kzap333]

So everytime im working on some sort of text document or anything I always hit control-s to save it every two minutes. Sometimes when Im writing something on paper I have this weird feeling that I have to hit control-s...but it isnt there.
I do that all the time at school tha's just weird.

When you forgot your computer password ages ago and you just put your fingers on the key board and they know the keys. You know what I mean?

[towerofpower256]

You know you're a geek when the sound of computer fans relax you.

You know you're a geek when you would rather talk about networks than talk about girls.

It's sad but I relate to both of them :)

[newbie2]

ok... geeks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek) or nerds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd).... do the test and post the result here.....if u dare... :tongue: :

http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nt2.php

[LaRoza]

ok... geeks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek) or nerds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd).... do the test and post the result here.....if u dare... :tongue: :

http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nt2.php

My score: Uber-Dorky Nerd God

Lot of green in my scores!

[newbie2]

My score: Uber-Dorky Nerd God

Lot of green in my scores!

u can also post it 'more visual' (http://www.userbase.be/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15641) ;)

[p_quarles]

That's a great quiz. Not sure where the "cool" part comes from, though. :(

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/2452cbbdae0b4613.png

[vambo]

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/1cbad860775120ee.png
Oh well, whatever that means :confused:

[sci-fi guy]

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/302464aba2a77abc.png

[p_quarles]

Just copy the URL for the image only, and use the "image" button to post it.

[rolando2424]

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/5a4e3a40ddc2906e.png

I hope that's not as bad as it seems :)

[stchman]

You know you are a geek when you think vi is the ultimate text editor.

[an93l]

i did this not knowing i would get such a score

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/7f449d122fd99941.png

[DoctorMO]

Bah: http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/d93ece9f0d297844.png

All I get was Nerd/Dork King when I'm a geek not a nerd;

[CodeDragon]

When moving, or going to a LAN party, you put your computer in the front seat of your car and buckle it in.
... and hold it back during stops.

Edit: I had to add this:

When, on the first day of class, you send the entire time explaining how you would tell a robot how to drive down the street. Indicative of the major you decided to take, and it's an exercise in algorithms. (btw, we (the class) destroyed the car several times in several different ways and never even got out of the parking space.)

[Frak]

Great quiz

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/27aeb2aecca9adcf.png

[reacocard]

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/aa233fc4b02d6c13.png

[Kopachris]

When your bean count is so high that you hide it so that other geeks don't get jealous.
When you have a "bean" count at all.
When you install a new operating system every week because your old ones get boring that quickly.
When your mom has to force you to go outside and play with your friends.
When you're concerned that it took more than 3 seconds to load that last web page.
When it takes less than 5 second to boot up your computer.
When it takes half and hour to boot up your computer.
When you reuse old coffee grounds over and over and over because you "don't have enough time" to go to work so that you can buy more coffee.
When you find it more natural to count in hexadecimal.
When you write a todo list in assembly code.

[Cozza]

"When you find it more natural to count in hexadecimal."

Crikey!!! I did a module at University involving this. It was so boring!

[Kopachris]

Just took the test:
http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/f7ddf12a1a80b09f.png

You know you're a nerd when you try to put a picture on a poster using an <img src="" /> tag.
When you have a headache from staring at the screen so long and you ignore it. (Guilty right now ;) )

[derekr44]

Alas...

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/adbdad18590f21cb.png

My wife was right...

[eph1973]

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/2a27dd59a2a433eb.png

[FuturePilot]

When you start thinking about how to tweak conky some more.
(yes I just discovered conky, now I have to get a hang of conkyrc:p)

[ukripper]

When you start thinking about how to tweak conky some more.
(yes I just discovered conky, now I have to get a hang of conkyrc:p)

Conky is wicked never ending customisation for me....I change colours to match it with my desktop wallpaper every other day...

[nickburns]

Not that I was surprised....




http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/6053243bd65ad637.png

[markp1989]

you take this test and post it on the ubuntu forum

http://www.nerdtests.com/images/badge/nt2/999f2eb6afe9a005.png

[amadeus266]

I can't post the image but nerdtests.com called me a cool technology geek.:guitar:

[Slimshady]

You know you are a geek when there are more than 40 sites and forums you are registered to, and you end up having a file just for accounts information

You know you are a geek when you use windows command prompt for actions you can do with the grapical interface.

you know you are a geek when you hate microsoft
you know you are a geek when you use AMD + Linux + Firefox (:))

[n3tfury]

..you make a thread about it.

[LaRoza]

...You are the 472 poster in said thread.

[Haegin]

you know you are a geek when you use AMD + Linux + Firefox (:))


My non-geek girlfriend does that.

Surely a true geek uses links because he/she knows it will be faster than booting X, a WM and firefox?

[Overbyte]

You know you are a geek when there are more than 40 sites and forums you are registered to, and you end up having a file just for accounts information

Oh darn, you got me :)

You're a geek when getting quoted in forums like these makes you feel important and all-knowing...
You're a geek when all your friends contact you with their Windows problem...
You're a geek when you have a high level at World of Warcraft...
You're a geek when your password looks like an MD5 hash...
You're a geek when you hang out at Temporary Inbox (http://www.temporaryinbox.com/), SourceForge, Digg, and Slashdot...
You're a geek when you memorize every Linux distro ever made...
You're a geek when you call your computer "box"...
You're a geek when you're worried the color of your shirt doesn't match your girlfriend's iBook...
You're a geek if you really can't wait for Starcraft 2...

...and...

You're a geek when you harbor secret dreams of your very own data center with a liquid nitrogen-cooled server rack and patched through a single-mode optic fiber straight to your country's Internet exchange 8-)

BBSpot (http://www.bbspot.com/) <- your source of entertainment :lolflag:

[LaRoza]

You're a geek when you harbor secret dreams of your very own data center with a liquid nitrogen-cooled server rack and patched through a single-mode optic fiber straight to your country's Internet exchange 8-)


You're making me drool...

[Slimshady]

My non-geek girlfriend does that.

Surely a true geek uses links because he/she knows it will be faster than booting X, a WM and firefox?

You know you are a geek when you keep saying "my girlfriend" in forums.... :)

[jgrabham]

When you physically punch a PC because mickysofts crap is screwing up again...

:] (I never do that at school *looks inocent*)

[Frak]

You're making me drool...
As I

[FuturePilot]

You have dreams about upgrading to Gutsy...:-\"

[Frak]

You have dreams about upgrading to Gutsy...:-\"
YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY ENTERING INTO MY DREAMS, YOU HEAR ME!!!!

:lolflag:

[sci-fi guy]

You have dreams about upgrading to Gutsy...:-\"

Just upgrade now. It has become quite stable. I personally dream of Hardy Heron, Windows having a 5% market share, etc.

And before you ask. I did not enter your dreams. I wrote them and downloaded them to you in your sleep, so that makes them my dreams. You are lucky I licensed them under the GPL, or else I could sue you for redistribution w/out permission.

[Frak]

Just upgrade now. It has become quite stable. I personally dream of Hardy Heron, Windows having a 5% market share, etc.

And before you ask. I did not enter your dreams. I wrote them and downloaded them to you in your sleep, so that makes them my dreams. You are lucky I licensed them under the GPL, or else I could sue you for redistribution w/out permission.
Thank you very much for being so generous :)

:lolflag:

[FuturePilot]

YOU HAVE NO AUTHORITY ENTERING INTO MY DREAMS, YOU HEAR ME!!!!

:lolflag:

ROFL:lolflag:

[RAV TUX]

When you carry on discussions in forums about whether Google Trends, DW, Distropedia (http://distropedia.com/) or LinuxTracker.org (http://linuxtracker.org/) are better indicators of the top distros.

[Boomy]

When you're reading an article about a "novel" idea, and you pronounce it "novell".

Or you think about a new idea for a lottery ticket that players instead of choosing numbers they either shade in boxes, or leave them blank, and you think about the odds of winning in terms of binary. I think people would think they have better odds in this fashion and it would sell alot of tickets, so if anyone ever implements this, hook me up with some beer or something. ;)

[max.diems]

You've been arrested for wearing a das blinkenlights name tag.

[Drezliok]

You play a RPG and think you have an awesome name [Dekthor] and not even realize that when unscrambled it's "The Dork"

[Overbyte]

You're a geek when the first thing you do after installing a Linux distro is getting Beryl and Emerald to work so everyone can see your kewl themes from gnome-look :D

[Puck7]

... you are bored, and you come here to read something new about Ubuntu.

[nilord]

You're a geek when you reply to this post. :lolflag:

You're a geek when you know what makes a person a geek.:lol:

[LaRoza]

Actually, you are a geek if you don't know what makes one a geek. I though somethings I did were completely logical and normal, but others thought it geeky, and they were IT majors...

[murt]

you answer this thread.

[High Camp]

You have a new thought and reach for the crtl key to start a new one (I.E. firefox tabs).

[Greg Shallard]

When your using old cd drives as dvd stands on your desk!

[Dr Small]

You have a new thought and reach for the crtl key to start a new one (I.E. firefox tabs).
I do that all the time :p

[kr0n05 I I]

You notice that your friend's bedroom looks really cool and you ask him for a theme file.

[tdrusk]

The other day my Calculus teacher was writing on a smartboard. He always uses the undo button at the top to fix his mistakes and such.

He was showing us how to do something on the white board and reached up to hit undo only to realize it wasn't there :). Of course the whole class caught it.

Not exactly geeky, but related to the firefox tabs above.

I always want to use ctrl+f to find stuff in books.

[p_quarles]

When you say something stupid/awkward in a social situation, and you try to press ctrl-alt-backspace.

[dmacdonald111]

You know you're a geek when;

You boot up your computer hoping that ubuntu will have an update (and get really dissappointed when there isn't one)
You have more wires in your house than the national telephone exchange
People ask you why you have so many computers and parts lying around that don't work and you respond with "They might come in handy"
The first thing you say to people when you see them is "I have just the cooooolest new effect on linux"
Your family ask you to have a look at their xp machine and when they return, they have linux.