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

[darth_indy]

you know you are a geek when you just have manually converted your keyboard to dvorak. took me 3 minutes to write this!

:guitar:I'm doing that too. I'm taking one of those keyboards that come with Dells (the cheap ones) and using that to practice first. When I start getting close to my normal typing speed, I'm going to switch the keys on my laptop. Now that's dedication! (Then again, I should do my laptop first, since that's where I do the most typing. I' just afraid I'm gonna break something. I know, I know, it's not likely. I'm paranoid :P I don't mind breaking my software, or even my desktop machine, 'cause I can fix it. A laptop though...)

Hee hee. I can just imagine my sister's face next time she tries to "borrow" my laptop. "Where the heck are the keys?!"

[Kopachris]

YKYAGW you read these: http://linustorvaldsfacts.com/english.html
YKYAGW you take this as a challenge:
Linus Torvalds can install Gentoo in under a week.
After I finish making DustbunnyOS.

[hatten]

I might do that just to try it out. Then I'll leave the keys like that and switch the software layout back to qwerty. :)
hahaw it was great fun to shoot keys all over the room!
you know you are a geek when you have played with a tamagotchi from mcdonalds the whole day and are now going to screw it apart! >:D

[Kopachris]

YKYAGW you take this as a challenge:
Linus Torvalds can install Gentoo in under a week.
After I finish making DustbunnyOS.
Well, if it's all just compile time, and not figuring out how to do it, then I guess it'll take me a lot more than a week. But it'll be fun nonetheless!
YKYAGW you build Gentoo from stage 1. Even compiling OOo and GNOME instead of using precompiled binaries.

[talsemgeest]

Yay, I'll be trying out gentoo today. I'm hoping it will teach me a lot.

[GepettoBR]

I tried nstalling Gentoo two weeks ago on a Sunday, but had no time to finish. I should try again soo...

[ajcham]

Ykyagw you can count to 31 using just the fingers on one hand!

I can't do that. Every time I get to 4 someone punches me.

[raul_]

When you understand my signature

[GepettoBR]

When you understand my signature

Not really... that's just basic math.

[hatten]

Not really... that's just basic math.

*puh* then I'm otill a geek. We haven't got that far in the math at school yet.

Ykyagw your bro sees a commercial about tech support and he says "We don't need that, already got one" (me)

[raul_]

Not really... that's just basic math.

That's basic programming. You're so geek you don't see the difference anymore.

[scragar]

That's basic programming. You're so geek you don't see the difference anymore.

There's a difference?

[raul_]

There's a difference?

You can learn to program without knowing math. Thus the need for engineers :popcorn:

[GepettoBR]

Programming is math. The numbers are just wearing different clothes.

[scragar]

Programming is math. The numbers are just wearing different clothes.

Programming is algebra and logic, both of which are very important parts of maths, so programming is a subset to maths :P

[lisati]

Programming is math. The numbers are just wearing different clothes.

Most of the early programming projects I worked on in my first job had little or no maths, unless you count the addresses of the data. Even then, it was more like basic arithmetic, rather than full-blown maths. How much maths do you need to select which records in a file you're reading should be reformatted and sent to a report file?

[GepettoBR]

Most of the early programming projects I worked on in my first job had little or no maths, unless you count the addresses of the data. Even then, it was more like basic arithmetic, rather than full-blown maths. How much maths do you need to select which records in a file you're reading should be reformatted and sent to a report file?

your computer operates with presence and absence of electric current, interpreted as 1 and 0, respectively. All programming is merely binary addition repeated ad nauseum.

[pp.]

How much maths do you need to select which records in a file you're reading should be reformatted and sent to a report file?

Stating the rules by which to select or not to select rows can be considered a branch of mathematics. You have to prove that your rules apply to the desired rows and to those rows only.

The same can apply to the transformation of those rows into output rows. You have to formulate your expectations that the program would indeed yield a correct output row for every selected input row. You also had to demonstrate that your program would execute correctly even in the absence of rows, and that demonstration preferably had to take place before you released your program into the production environment.

It's not linear algebra or arithmetics, but it can be considered Math, nonetheless.

[raul_]

Stating the rules by which to select or not to select rows can be considered a branch of mathematics. You have to prove that your rules apply to the desired rows and to those rows only.

The same can apply to the transformation of those rows into output rows. You have to formulate your expectations that the program would indeed yield a correct output row for every selected input row. You also had to demonstrate that your program would execute correctly even in the absence of rows, and that demonstration preferably had to take place before you released your program into the production environment.

It's not linear algebra or arithmetics, but it can be considered Math, nonetheless.


That's called Discrete Mathematics

[pp.]

That's called Discrete Mathematics

I used to be a discrete mathematician, then? Now that sounds much more - discreet? - than a mere programmer. Thanks for that tidbit.

[raul_]

I used to be a discrete mathematician, then? Now that sounds much more - discreet? - than a mere programmer. Thanks for that tidbit.

You're welcome :popcorn:

[Kopachris]

I put in my new PSU today, which we might not have even needed to do. The "graphics card power cable not plugged in" message was fixed by plugging the floppy drive power cable into the video card. :lolflag:
At first, the new video card worked just fine with the proprietary driver, but then I started messing with things to try to fix the OpenGL flickering problem, and now it won't work. I'll boot into recovery mode tomorrow to try to fix it. I've done enough for tonight. Good night!

EDIT: OK, not goodnight for now. I decided to get back on here and ask for help getting Compiz working again. I booted into recovery mode and ran all the stuff and then resumed normal boot (it worked). I logged in, but Compiz won't work (titlebars don't exist) and the video driver appears not to work as Catalyst Control Center has stopped working. I'm going to reinstall the driver for now. Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT2: Ok, I uninstalled the ATI drivers that I installed in Synaptic, then I enable the restricted driver in the restricted drivers manager. I'll let you know how the flickering goes.

EDIT3: Did more research. OpenGL is going to have to wait until DRI2

[darth_indy]

You can learn to program without knowing math. Thus the need for engineers :popcorn:

That has got to be true - I'm a pretty good programmer, but I cannot do math beyond basic algebra. I dunno why. I think I can attribute some of my programming skills to my writing skills - crafting a sentence certainly has similarities to coding. *shrugs. All I know is I don't need leet math skillz to code.

(P.S. Typed this in under 2 minutes! My Dvorak skills are improving!)

[Kopachris]

Well, we [my dad and I] decided not to use VirtualBox after all. For one thing, it would only take 128MB of VRAM, which would make my new 512MB card a waste of money. For another thing, it kept getting ultra-mega-giga slow during the installation of XP. Oh, well. I installed XP on a 10GB partition, updated the motherboard drivers, installed the video driver, installed the wireless driver, installed Firefox w/ AdBlock Plus, Flash, and Java, installed AVG, and copied FreeSpace 2 Open (you should definitely get this!) over to it (not in that order). Then I tried to restore GRUB, but it gave a nondescript error which caused my partitions to not be mountable (or even discoverable by GParted). It made it so bad that I couldn't boot to the LiveCD again. So I shut down the computer for a few minutes, tried it again, and it worked just fine. Oh, yeah. Then I uninstalled Amaya 7 (from the repos) and installed Amaya 10 (from the W3C).

Ykyagw you look at the night sky for the first time in a long time and your first thought is, "Wow. That screen has a lot of stuck pixels."

It seems that the flickering is only happening in non-fullscreened OGL windows (because of the "unredirect fullscreen" option in CCSM?). I think I'll install OpenArena sometime this week.

[jamesrl]

http://xkcd.com/395/

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

That has got to be true - I'm a pretty good programmer, but I cannot do math beyond basic algebra. I dunno why. I think I can attribute some of my programming skills to my writing skills - crafting a sentence certainly has similarities to coding. *shrugs. All I know is I don't need leet math skillz to code.

(P.S. Typed this in under 2 minutes! My Dvorak skills are improving!)
Well from my experience... you don't need to know math to code.
However if you are good at advanced maths, you'll be able to do same programs more efficiently.
Also for larger projects it will become exponentially harder to code without math!

[raul_]

Well from my experience... you don't need to know math to code.
However if you are good at advanced maths, you'll be able to do same programs more efficiently.
Also for larger projects it will become exponentially harder to code without math!

Don't forget that algorithms need to be mathematically proven, so as its complexities.

[jimi_hendrix]

...your car runs on tiberium

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you think that a full-on cyber war is at hand. I mean, how in the world are they able to make a number illegal?

[jimi_hendrix]

...you write your school essays in binary if it's english and hex if its history

[higashi]

When you write a word incorrectly with a pencil, you wonder why it didn't get underlined.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you have fond memories of the ancient (90's) video games you used to watch your dad play on the computer. If only I could find the games and/or some screenshots.

[rzrgenesys187]

You type ls into google to help you try and remember what you were doing

[Kopachris]

You type ls into google to help you try and remember what you were doing
:lolflag:That's happened to me too many times!
Ykyagw a quote from the ykyagw thread brightens your entire day.

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW you download the entire RFC repository to your offline computer, then proceed to extract all of it, then use grep to find the one about the Infinate Monkey Protocal Suite (RFC 2795) and the one regarding Avian Carriers (RFC 1149 and RFC 2549)

Anybody want to go to the ZOO (Zone Operations Organization)?

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

Ykyagw you have fond memories of the ancient (90's) video games you used to watch your dad play on the computer. If only I could find the games and/or some screenshots.

Oh yes, those were good times! Gets me all nostalgic! I still have quite a bunch of them somewhere. I play some once in a while.

btw It was fun making UFO: Enemy Unknown to work... I needed special Collector's edition (Windows one), and even then it was playable with DirectX disabled. (Trying to accelerate 1993's year 10Mb big game on 2.66 Ghz processor was obviously an overkill)
:lolflag:

p.s. ...I wonder if it will run on my Quad-Core...

[darth_indy]

Ykyagw you have fond memories of the ancient (90's) video games you used to watch your dad play on the computer. If only I could find the games and/or some screenshots.

DOSBox - Emulator for Linux & Windows: http://www.dosbox.com/

Games: http://www.dosgames.com/

Have fun! I personally have far more fun with these than most current games, better graphics or not.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I personally have far more fun with these than most current games, better graphics or not.

I think it is mostly because of the very good gameplay. They had lots of time to tune that, cause they didn't need to make some mega-cool graphics.
Plus the same nostalgic reason.

Today's games lack that good gameplay (there are few exceptions)!

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you make yourself a custom usplash theme, even though you'll only see it a few times per year. :)
I'll see what I can do about getting a picture of the DustbunnyOS usplash.

[jimi_hendrix]

you think the best command and conqure was the first one...which is now free to download legally...

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you stop WRITING DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING AN OS to go outside and take a look at the desert snow.
I live in a HOT DESERT. We currently have 3 full inches of snow, 2 of which fell in the last 3 hours. If it continues at this rate all night (which it's supposed to), we should have a whole foot by morning. Retired people come to live here to get away from cold winters, yet here we're scheduled for 12 inches of snow! Isn't global warming wonderful? :) Wow, I need to stop coding for a while to take pictures of this!

[darth_indy]

Ykyagw you stop WRITING DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING AN OS to go outside and take a look at the desert snow.
I live in a HOT DESERT. We currently have 3 full inches of snow, 2 of which fell in the last 3 hours. If it continues at this rate all night (which it's supposed to), we should have a whole foot by morning. Retired people come to live here to get away from cold winters, yet here we're scheduled for 12 inches of snow! Isn't global warming wonderful? :) Wow, I need to stop coding for a while to take pictures of this!

<obligatory>Pics or it didn't happen!</obligatory>

[jenkinbr]

<obligatory>pics or it didn't happen!</obligatory>
+20

[yabbadabbadont]

<obligatory>Pics or it didn't happen!</obligatory>

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/southrockies.php

Edit: go to the noaa main page and click on active weather alerts. You will see that most of the desert southwest in the USA is under winter weather warnings.

[panduola27]

How do YOU know you're a geek?

I'll start...

You know you're a geek when you can hold an entire conversation with friends in linux CLI talk......(i.e. 'cat /proc/lookattheassonthat!') or ('cd /pub/beer')
What did you talk about? I don't know "geek"?

[|{urse]

You know you're a geek when you've encountered this error

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=76340&d=1215158798

[melnotgibson]

i think the best way to find out that you are geek or not is if you dont stare at the women standing naked or wearing some kind of fine sexy lingerie........... then you can be certainly sure that you are tuning into a geek guy....... or loosing your eye sight

bye bye bye

www.kittenslingerie.com:lolflag:

[talsemgeest]

i think the best way to find out that you are geek or not is if you dont stare at the women standing naked or wearing some kind of fine sexy lingerie........... then you can be certainly sure that you are tuning into a geek guy....... or loosing your eye sight

bye bye bye

www.kittenslingerie.com:lolflag:
Sorry, you just lost your geek status. Being a geek does not necessarily make you antisocial.

[scragar]

Sorry, you just lost your geek status. Being a geek does not necessarily make you antisocial.

But being anti-social helps :p

YKYAGW you have bought something just to take it apart(and it wasn't meant to be taken apart) so you can learn more about how it works.

I know I'm guilty of that.

[pp.]

YKYAGW you have bought something just to take it apart(and it wasn't meant to be taken apart) so you can learn more ...

Lingerie?

[GepettoBR]

Lingerie?

That rule doesn't apply to lingerie. It's a lot more fun to take apart lingerie that was meant to be taken apart.

[Toshibawarrior]

That rule doesn't apply to lingerie. It's a lot more fun to take apart lingerie that was meant to be taken apart.

True...although taking apart lingerie that was not meant to be taken apart is very fun and informative too specially when it's in use! =D>:-\"[-o<

YKYAGW you have a quadruple-boot scenario with 4 different distros in your computer and a Virtualbox with 2 more distros inside each and you're wishing to buy another computer to fill it with distros and keep testing them. :p!

[talsemgeest]

I think I had 10 distros running on my pc at one stage. I could have gone much higher, but couldn't be bothered running all those installs.

[Toshibawarrior]

I think I had 10 distros running on my pc at one stage. I could have gone much higher, but couldn't be bothered running all those installs.

LOL! My Toshiba only has a 120GB HDD so I can't go berserk with distro installing but at the end of today when openSUSE 11.1 comes out I'll install it alongside Ubuntu and maybe by tomorrow I'll bother trying Debian 4, Gentoo and CentOS (which I downloaded yesterday and haven't got around to even test the LiveCDs yet...).

I really can't wait for openSUSE 11.1 to go live...I'm eagerly waiting to see it's improvements over 11.0 which apparently are a whole lot.

YKYAGW you can't wait for a new version of a distro to come out. :popcorn:

[talsemgeest]

YKYAGW you can't wait for a new version of a distro to come out. :popcorn:
Hmm... What does that make me? (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=962901)

[Toshibawarrior]

Hmm... What does that make me? (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=962901)

Heh...nice :)!

Back in october I made a lot of posts about Intrepid before it was released...*sigh* those were the days...lol!

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW you beat the mad rush for new distros by dist-upgrading while it is in RC stage.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

YKYAGW you have bought something just to take it apart(and it wasn't meant to be taken apart) so you can learn more about how it works.

I know I'm guilty of that.

hmmm... It thought everyone does that...
Geeks only assemble it back with certain modifications, so it works like they (and I) want to.

... how about assembling lingerie with sex arousal detector what then ssh's in your box through wireless to inform you about that. :D

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you manage to make a distro in 24 hours. I'm currently in the process of copying the installation over to the CD work directory :) Should have the CD burnt by this evening!

BTW, I got pics of the snow this morning before it all melted, but Imageshack doesn't wan't to upload them :(

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW the office staff at school start asking you as a student to help them unjam the copy machine and you walk up to it, look at the display, open the cover, flip this, turn that, flip something else, turn more nobs, and remove paper through the whole process, put everything back, and it all starts working, all within a minute.

(our school has a Ricoh Aficio MP 7000 (http://www.ikon.com/products/Multi-Functional/mono/Ricoh_Aficio%20MP%207000%20.asp), which can and does jam pretty badly at times)

[Kopachris]

I guess that LiveCD will have to wait a while. I have a compression problem. I need to fit 3.4GB on a 700MB CD, but SquashFS only took it down to 1.2GB. Would casper be able to read a squashfs within a tar.gz (or tar.bz2, or .gz, or...)?

[WaeV]

Ykyagw when other classmates write notes in the "program" section of your calculators, but you actually write the programs.

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW you and some classmates rename public folders on the fileserver as a very crude form of chat.

[GepettoBR]

I guess that LiveCD will have to wait a while. I have a compression problem. I need to fit 3.4GB on a 700MB CD, but SquashFS only took it down to 1.2GB. Would casper be able to read a squashfs within a tar.gz (or tar.bz2, or .gz, or...)?

Isn't it easier to make a LiveDVD, then? You can have a working environment quicker and work out the size from there, together with the inevitable ironing out of bugs. The two operations are largely connected anyhow.

[Kopachris]

Isn't it easier to make a LiveDVD, then? You can have a working environment quicker and work out the size from there, together with the inevitable ironing out of bugs. The two operations are largely connected anyhow.
I'd rather not be limited to DVD releases, but I guess I'll have to if there's no other way. In the mean time, I have permission to burn a DVD to see if it works.

[sandwyrm]

you get sent down to the principals office
for misorderly conduct in computer class

for 1 of 3 reasons

a, hacking the pc next to u
b, making a windows user cry
or c, confusing your computer teacher

I have to laugh at C, I once did that to my computer teacher with a simple autoexec.bat file that remapped the keyboard using escape codes, it was indeed a priceless experience :D

and my own additions, again from personal experience (sorry if any of these are repeated but I could only make it through 20 pages before I had to reply to one):

You replace your (cheap/old) car stereo system with your old 5.1 computer speaker system, complete with custom wired power inverter.

-Better yet if you strip down a motherboard and build your own mp3 player from old but useful hardware ;-)

You're the one your family calls when the computer stops working.

-You have remote access to all your families computers ;-)

-You've ever walked your family through burning, booting and starting SSH from a live CD.

Your next cell phone purchase is strongly dependent on hackability.

You throw a tantrum when your network latency begins messing with your traffic on the verge of 20ms lag every nth ping!

You've ever wanted to connect more USB flash drives than you have ports on your computer including your hubs.

-You've ever tried to LVM or ZFS those multiple USB flash drives. LOL

You've taken a screenshot of your desktop with as many mplayer instances you could fit on a 4x1 compiz enabled desktop in expo mode and actually watched them like that for a while to see the performance (sad but true, after about 15 they started skipping when from the same drive but got about 40 to run ;-) )

[sandwyrm]

Keep them coming people, this thread is getting good.
I was told recently that I make the local linux geeks here in Galway look like n00bs, as I have completely outclassed them. I have been on Slackware since 1999, first used the net in 96 on a BSD server, and last year moved house just so i could get broadband!!

Here's a personal one for the Slackware comment:

If you've ever spent an entire evening installing Linux from more than floppy disks.

A buddy and me did this from close to 90 back in the early slackware days, followed by Major BBS ;-)

Bonus if you know what Major BBS is :D

[sandwyrm]

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php > foreach( $Message as $Letter ) {
php { echo chr( bindec( $Letter ) );
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php { }

[talsemgeest]

Here's a personal one for the Slackware comment:

If you've ever spent an entire evening installing Linux from more than floppy disks.

A buddy and me did this from close to 90 back in the early slackware days, followed by Major BBS ;-)

Bonus if you know what Major BBS is :D
Oh, of course! It took me 6 hours to install gentoo.

[snova]

I guess that LiveCD will have to wait a while. I have a compression problem. I need to fit 3.4GB on a 700MB CD, but SquashFS only took it down to 1.2GB. Would casper be able to read a squashfs within a tar.gz (or tar.bz2, or .gz, or...)?

I doubt it, but even if you could, it wouldn't do you much good. Compressed data is notoriously hard to... compress. ;)

[Kopachris]

I doubt it, but even if you could, it wouldn't do you much good. Compressed data is notoriously hard to... compress. ;)
Well, I guess I'll just use DVDs, then. I made and burned a DVD image, but it couldn't find /sbin/init for some reason and dumped me into a BusyBox initramfs shell. I'm going to install Qemu to keep from wasting more DVDs.

[snova]

Well, I guess I'll just use DVDs, then. I made and burned a DVD image, but it couldn't find /sbin/init for some reason and dumped me into a BusyBox initramfs shell. I'm going to install Qemu to keep from wasting more DVDs.

Hmm, I dunno. Qemu is just that- an emulator. It'll be very slow. I suggest virtualization instead, such as VirtualBox.

[nordmichael29]

You program enough websites that you start thinking the Chronicles of Narnia were written by CSS Lewis.

[Kopachris]

Hmm, I dunno. Qemu is just that- an emulator. It'll be very slow. I suggest virtualization instead, such as VirtualBox.
I only need it to test the DVD images, it doesn't have to be fast at all. I basically just need to make sure that it boots and that everything looks right (bg image, theme, gdm bg color, etc.). When I get an image that works, I'll burn it.

[Frak]

I only need it to test the DVD images, it doesn't have to be fast at all. I basically just need to make sure that it boots and that everything looks right (bg image, theme, gdm bg color, etc.). When I get an image that works, I'll burn it.
Virtualbox is easier to configure and use than QEMU is.

[hatten]

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php > foreach( $Message as $Letter ) {
php { echo chr( bindec( $Letter ) );
php { }

php > for( $i=0; $i<strlen( $Message ); $i++ ) {
php { echo decbin( ord( $Message[$i] ) ).' ';
php { }

how do you solve these? Google didn't help me

[scragar]

how do you solve these? Google didn't help me

*cough*google (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*ascii (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*binary (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*translator (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*

[Kopachris]

Ok, I tried the CD image in VBoxOSE and it seemed to boot just fine. I guess I just need to rebuild the DVD's filesystem.

[pp.]

*cough*google (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*ascii (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*binary (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*translator (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*

Gesundheit

[hatten]

*cough*google (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*ascii (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*binary (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*translator (http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/)*cough*didn't know what to search for. thanks. off to learning to write in binary!

[talsemgeest]

didn't know what to search for. thanks. off to learning to write in binary!
Oh please don't. This thread has had WAY too much binary, it gets really annoying now.

[pp.]

Oh please don't. This thread has had WAY too much binary, it gets really annoying now.

Well, we could start writing in base26 for a change.

[Kopachris]

Well, we could start writing in base26 for a change.
:lolflag:
Ykyagw you have a hard time deciding which method you want to use for making a distro.

[anewguy]

You know you're a geek when.....the significant others asks you to "wait just a little bit" and you are confused - there's something smaller than a bit?

[Barrucadu]

there's something smaller than a bit?
What? Madness!

[Kopachris]

<thinkingtoself>I'm still having a hard time deciding how to go about making a distro. I don't really want to just make a customized installation of an existing distro (such as Ubuntu), because it seems a bit messy. What I want to do is install every package I need from scratch. But how would I do it? I think that I'll build LFS up to the point where we chroot, adding the building of dpkg. Then I'll download all the .deb packages I need and install them from within the chroot. Hmm... Would that work?</thinkingtoself>
Hey, could I build an LFS system up to the point where you chroot, then compile dpkg and install all of the packages I need to build a distro?

Ykyagw you use XML tags to think to yourself on forums.

EDIT: No, it's going to be different than that... Let me rephrase the question: can you use dpkg to install a package onto another partition?

EDIT2: Looks like I answered my own question. Just use dpkg -i -root=/media/disk packagename.deb to install under a different root. I'm guessing that's how Ubuquity works?

[scragar]

EDIT2: Looks like I answered my own question. Just use dpkg -i -root=/media/disk packagename.deb to install under a different root. I'm guessing that's how Ubuquity works?

I think ubiquity sets up the initial file system, the uses that method to install dpkg and apt, after that it uses chroot and let's apt do all the hard work.

I could be wrong though, it just makes more sense.

[Kopachris]

I think ubiquity sets up the initial file system, the uses that method to install dpkg and apt, after that it uses chroot and let's apt do all the hard work.

I could be wrong though, it just makes more sense.
Okay, so I guess I'll set up the initial filesystem hierarchy manually (or as manually as the terminal gets, anyway), I'll cp /bin and /sbin, follow LFS's instructions for /dev, then use "dpkg --root=" to install dpkg, then I'll chroot and use dpkg from there to install everything else in one go (dpkg -i *.deb) and I'll see if I can compile a custom kernel (last time I did it, it wouldn't boot either kernel).

I guess I'll be doing a lot of sorting today. There are a lot of packages I don't want, and a lot that I want to replace (such as evolution-server). I'd like to replace as many "ubuntu" packages with as many generic packages as possible. I might keep the Ubuntu Firefox, though. Installing add-ons through Add/Remove Programs is really nice. There's also quite a few programs that I like to have, but I don't want to include in DOS. XBMC is one, and Rosegarden is another. Although, if Amarok requires the KDE libs that Rosegarden requires, I might keep Rosegarden. I also don't want to include VirtualBox. Too big. People can install that one themselves.

[hatten]

You know you're a geek when you get mad at your computer because it works when it shouldn't, in your opinion.

[projecthikari]

You know you're a geek when you were little, you wanted to Marry Dexter from Dexter's lab. Reasons: He's a genuis, He's got a cool lab, his accent is hot.

...And then, even to this day, He's you're dream man, and you wish you could have a total nerdo like him as a boyfriend. Especially in his rededigned state:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1378/912750096_a9baa84a1b.jpg?v=0

Wow. Even I'M embarassed for myself. I've been watching a little too much Cartoon Network lately. XD

[modmadmike]

when you get pissed (at how stupid people are) when watching stuff on youtube because you find some videos of so called ways to hack... from windows

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you can tell if a process has stopped running because you can't hear your HD.
Ykyagw you have www.linuxfromscratch.org in your favorites.

You know what? I've decided to just abandon the whole concept of basing my distro off of an existing distro. Too messy. If anything, it'll be based off of Debian by using .deb packages with APT and dpkg. I think I'll work my way through LFS, BLFS, and HLFS before I go doing anything, just so I know what's going on. Well, time to download the LFS LiveCD!

Oh, BTW: using "sudo dpkg -i --instdir=/media/disk *.deb" messed up 52 or so packages that I have installed before it gave up. DON'T DO IT. It essentially removed each package from my own system and attempted to reinstall on the other partition. It gave up because the dependencies were messed up.

[joshmuffin]

Your ISP doesn't have a plan that gives you enough downloads.
You scream at people for using Celeron processor.
Your advice to every single computer issue is "Google it".
You have more Firefox add-ons then web pages browsed.
You can list 80+ reasons to switch to linux.
When (like me) this list is really examples from your life.
The list goes on...

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you decide to build your own distro "the hard way" because basing it off of an existing distro without going through "the hard way" first to learn the internals is too messy.

Hey, does anybody know how to give Ubuntu enough PTYs to build LFS?

EDIT: Just found it here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html#no-ptys
I hope it works!

[SuperSonic4]

You know you're a geek whenever someone mentions Kate in normal conversation you think not of the girl's name but of the KDE Advanced Text Editor

[raul_]

You know you're a geek whenever someone mentions Kate in normal conversation you think not of the girl's name but of the KDE Advanced Text Editor

Oh my god.
I've been infected.

[Toshibawarrior]

Oh my god.
I've been infected.

Me too...:(...

YKYAGW your internet connection never fails because you hacked intoyour modem and installed linux with a Uninterrupted Power/Signal Source and you have complete control over the servers at the "Internet Company" using SSH and/or VNC........................

Also YKYAGW you watch videos on gEdit...:p:p:p!!

Oh! And YKYAGW you install VLC and the extra codecs on your car's stereo and you have Linux embedded into your car's engine.

I might have gone too far...

[scragar]

Also YKYAGW you watch videos on gEdit...:p:p:p!!

Oh, pulease, gEdit? Real geeks use vi :p

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you know all of your USB plugs by feel. :P

[bird_gal]

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

I'm obviously not a geek -phew!!;)
what does this mean?

[scragar]

I'm obviously not a geek -phew!!;)
what does this mean?

2b OR NOT 2b

It's not all that hard(but unfortunately always evaluates to true, which is a real shame).

[spupy]

You know what? I've decided to just abandon the whole concept of basing my distro off of an existing distro. Too messy. If anything, it'll be based off of Debian by using .deb packages with APT and dpkg. I think I'll work my way through LFS, BLFS, and HLFS before I go doing anything, just so I know what's going on. Well, time to download the LFS LiveCD

You know what you should do? Install a Ubuntu, then install on it the Gentoo packaging system (portage), and this all running a GNU HURD or Darwin kernel.

On the "2b OR NOT 2b":
Think about the sentance "I come here on Friday and on Saturday". "and" is logical conjunction, so it has to be simultaneously Friday and Saturday for me to be here. Why isn't it instead "I will be here on Friday or on Saturday"?
Stupid natural languages. :)

[pp.]

"I come here on Friday and on Saturday". "and" is logical conjunction, so it has to be simultaneously Friday and Saturday for me to be here. Why isn't it instead "I will be here on Friday or on Saturday"?

Because "I come here on Friday and on Saturday" does not say the same as "I will be here on Friday or on Saturday".

"I come here on Friday and on Saturday" is true if you come here on Friday, then go away and come here again on Saturday.

"I will be here on Friday or on Saturday" is true if you come here at least once on Friday and/or on Saturday.

It's the singer, not the song.

[spupy]

Because "I come here on Friday and on Saturday" does not say the same as "I will be here on Friday or on Saturday".

"I come here on Friday and on Saturday" is true if you come here on Friday, then go away and come here again on Saturday.

"I will be here on Friday or on Saturday" is true if you come here at least once on Friday and/or on Saturday.

It's the singer, not the song.


I was pointing out that the use of "and" and "or" in natural languages is not the same as in logic.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you play space invaders with the Arch CD. :)

[inxygnuu]

Ykyagw you play space invaders with the Arch CD. :)

I do something similar to that. :) At my school, when we get laptops you can press all these different keys and it makes space invader noises. I am proudly a geek! :):P:KS

You know your a geek when you press buttons at a windows login screen just to make space invader noises! :P

[Kopachris]

I do something similar to that. :) At my school, when we get laptops you can press all these different keys and it makes space invader noises. I am proudly a geek! :):P:KS

You know your a geek when you press buttons at a windows login screen just to make space invader noises! :P
The Arch Linux LiveCD has a boot option for playing Space Invaders. :) The only problem is that you have to reset your computer to get out of it. :(

[hibajugalala]

K GUYS!!! you know your a geek when you have more than 100 pages of threads on a forum about "You Know Your a Geek When..."

like lol you guys just made my day when i looked at this thread...Thanks!!!:)

[darth_indy]

Ykyagw you know all of your USB plugs by feel. :P

That's me! I can take all my accessories (mouse, keyboard, monitor, USB devices, etc) off my computer and reattach them all in the dark. 'Tis fun!

@ hibajugalala - you have NO idea what kind of flames you'll get for posting that. Believe me, out of the 486 pages, at least 50 must be "LOLOLOLOL - U no ur a geek win u post heer!!!!1!!ONE!!ROFLOLOL!!!" type.

For the love of humanity and literacy, no more.

(No personal insult meant, FYI, we're just really sick of those by now)

[cb34]

you've spent the last hour reading tons of posts in this thread saying to yourself "that's so true, i do that!" over and over again. :D

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you know you need to go to bed, but LFS just keeps calling you... :zombie:

EDIT: Problem solved! Installed beep via Synaptic, changed sudoers to give lfs the ability to sudo, and made it not require a password for beep. Now I sleep while it compiles, and wake up when it beeps.

[talsemgeest]

you've spent the last hour reading tons of posts in this thread saying to yourself "that's so true, i do that!" over and over again. :D
Please note the post above you.

[hellomoto]

when you make your PC out lego bricks....

this one is mine! lol

[raul_]

You know you're a geek whenever someone mentions Kate in normal conversation you think not of the girl's name but of the KDE Advanced Text Editor

When you think the girl from Lost should be called Vi

[Frak]

when you make your PC out lego bricks....

this one is mine! lol
I believe Google (at the time, Project Backrub) back at Stanford made their server tower out of lego bricks :)

[darth_indy]

when you make your PC out lego bricks....

this one is mine! lol

Bravo!

[hellomoto]

Thank you! It lives at university. Much to my fellow students delight who try to dismantle it and play lets hide the computer parts.....

[cb34]

when you make your PC out lego bricks....

this one is mine! lolOH MAN!! :D:D that's wicked, you're the true geekmeister! :guitar:

[Messyhair42]

e^(ipi)+1=0 gives you tears

[pirattrev]

you tell funny stories to girlfriends, then realize they can't speak C

[Fireblazer]

When you learn php/mysql and C at thirteen (That's me)

[Kopachris]

When you learn php/mysql and C at thirteen (That's me)
C, yes. PHP and MySQL, not yet. I'm waiting for the completion of my current projects so I can install a LAMP stack on a computer (either this Dinosaur, or one from our garage). Right now, I'm building LFS.

[operaprincess]

When you show up to class with a personal engraved laptop with homemade laptop bag because "You can make it better."

Buy your underwear from Think Geek

and...

You know you are dating a geek when you boyfriend rolls his eyes when you ask him to fix your computer and he mutters "RTFM, my dear."

[MikeTheC]

you're at a restaurant, sitting there with the menu in hand, and find yourself critiquing the leading, font choice, white-space balance and use of dot leaders instead of actually reading the contents and figuring out what you want for dinner.

[talsemgeest]

From bash.org: I had a really cool dream the other night and when I woke up I tried to click View Source so that I could put it on my site

You know you are a geek when you spend your night reading bash.org.

[modmadmike]

when these are your system specks: (points at signature)

[darth_indy]

you're at a restaurant, sitting there with the menu in hand, and find yourself critiquing the leading, font choice, white-space balance and use of dot leaders instead of actually reading the contents and figuring out what you want for dinner.

I've done that a LOT - I've also been able to name the font on signs an I pass by (Papyrus is used FAR too much for craft stores).

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I noticed Jokerman font being in lots of places...

But I do use restaurant's menu only for choice of food to eat.
I do too much nonsense elsewhere to be bothered inspecting their writing...

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you truly recognize with http://xkcd.com/303/.
It happened for me while I was reflecting upon my decision to add "sudo beep" at the end of the commands to compile GCC for LFS while I sleep. It's too bad the beep wasn't loud enough to wake me up...

[pirattrev]

...you can read /bin/bash lines like sentences

[talsemgeest]

The first post in this thread:
How do YOU know you're a geek?

I'll start...

You know you're a geek when you can hold an entire conversation with friends in linux CLI talk......(i.e. 'cat /proc/lookattheassonthat!') or ('cd /pub/beer')

Does this sound familiar?
...you can read /bin/bash lines like sentences

[Messyhair42]

you have three external hard drives dedicated to pictures from 4chan. (not actually true but i bet there are those who do)

[scragar]

you have three external hard drives dedicated to pictures from 4chan. (not actually true but i bet there are those who do)

I have a couple of images from 4chan, but to be quite honest I don't like visiting 4chan, sometimes, you can find entire threads of humour and great images, then, you will wonder upon 3 or 4 pages of images or text that makes you feel sick to consider people actually joining such discussions.

[MikeTheC]

Your significant other screams hexadecimal in ecstasy and you shout back in octal.

[modmadmike]

When you write shell scripts just to download manga from onemanga.

[modmadmike]

or when you get an error on a web-page and look at the version of Apache they are running (Ubuntu fours is on 2.2.8 but 2.2.11 is out now)

[MikeTheC]

When you do an entire magazine's page layout in hand-coded PostScript.

[creek23]

When you try to look for "File -> Save Page As" then realized you were reading a newspaper.

[cabbiinc]

...you search the internet to see if you can put Ubuntu or some other form of Linux on your Symbian based phone. Just to see if you can.

[Kopachris]

...you search the internet to see if you can put Ubuntu or some other form of Linux on your Symbian based phone. Just to see if you can.
Not on a Symbian-based phone, but I did look to see if I could put Linux on my Moto Q (that came with Windows Mobile). I almost found a guide (for Gentoo), but Dad said no. :(

[darth_indy]

...you can read /bin/bash lines like sentences

DO || ! DO ; try

Without cheating by going to ThinkGeek, does anyone know what comes next?

[Kopachris]

DO || ! DO ; try

Without cheating by going to ThinkGeek, does anyone know what comes next?
Eh, I cheated, but I was thinking "there is no try" while I was searching ThinkGeek.
Spoiler (highlight to see):
try: command not found

[MikeTheC]

DO || ! DO ; try

Without cheating by going to ThinkGeek, does anyone know what comes next?

Thing is, not actually being geeky enough to have even looked at a bash script, much less having ever actually written one, I can only infer that the "!" before the second "DO" means "not". Therefore...

TRY = false

[joshmuffin]

When you know of by heart and often post:
"Knowledge is free.

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect us."

[ithanium]

you are a geek when you ask for a link to the weather page instead of looking through the window to see that it snows.

[krzysz00]

ykyagw
your idea of fun includes stuffing linux on a IBM thinkpad with a pentium 2 and 64 MB of ram.
you recompile the kernel on said laptop because the driver for <insert device here> isn't in the kernel that comes with <output of 'cat /etc/lsb-release' on about laptop>
you {"agree_with,disagree_with,will_flame_me_about} the tab style in this post
you use valid shell syntax in forum posts and avoid spaces in filenames whenever possible

[Kopachris]

ykyagw
you use valid shell syntax in forum posts and avoid spaces in filenames whenever possible
Oh, I HATE spaces in filenames! :mad:

[scragar]

Oh, I HATE spaces in filenames! :mad:

Oh pulease:

rename -v 's/\ /\_/g' *
Tada, spaces are no longer a problem.

[Kopachris]

Oh pulease:

rename -v 's/\ /\_/g' *Tada, spaces are no longer a problem.
I make sure to not use spaces in filenames that I think I might have to use in a terminal. Some folders (like the one on my desktop that holds the Falling Sand Game (EXE)) that I know I'll never need to access through the terminal I allow to have spaces. Desktop folders especially don't look very good with underscores.

[bgerlich]

If your hybrid has a server rack on it, you might be a geek.
And if the servers cost you more than the car, you might be a geek.

Bless you, Jeff Foxworthy :)

[modmadmike]

i just type a "\" before each space :)

[GepettoBR]

It's been said a billion times already that ykyagw you want to install Linux on everything... I just bought a GPS personal navigation device with Windows CE on it. does anyone have any suggestions?

[pp.]

It's been said a billion times already that ykyagw you want to install Linux on everything... I just bought a GPS personal navigation device with Windows CE on it. does anyone have any suggestions?

Install Vista on it, for a change.

(ducks and runs)

[GepettoBR]

(ducks and runs)

Wise decision. Regarding your actual advice, the Touchscreen drivers for the thing probably aren't Vista-certified, and the internal memory is only 1GB so no game.

[Frak]

Wise decision. Regarding your actual advice, the Touchscreen drivers for the thing probably aren't Vista-certified, and the internal memory is only 1GB so no game.
And it probably runs an ARM or Freescale PowerPC processor, so it wouldn't matter anyways.

[Kopachris]

How about Gentoo? I think they have packages for ARM processors.

Nope, try http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ instead.

[Martin Marshalek]

You put Star Trek and Linux together. (I read this in a post somewhere)

What would happen if the borg assimilated Linux:

Borg internal runtime log: Stardate 23892.6

{assimilated: Species 4451, 983, 1024.49(subspecies)}
{assimilation activities: absorbing information from 4451........
Log 4451:Collector/Museum species, resistive planets remain, knowledge base extensive.
Loading 4451 knowledge base...
Art loaded.
Sciences loaded.
Loading linguistics database, includes application software and hardware interface software.
..Loaded World of Warcraft...
....WARNING: ADDICTIVE CONTENT. DANGER TO EFFICIENCY. EMERGENCY DATA COLLECTION DUMP.
..Loaded Microsoft Works 2045.
....Analysis: useless. Disregarding
..Loaded Linux Kernel 5.6.99
....Analysis: integrable. Integrating...

Mounted Linux Kernel 5.6.99...
....Noted efficiency increase.
....Hardware verification fast.
....Nanoprobes software optimization completed.
....Sensor data analysis efficiency increase.

Integration successful.
Reverse Engineering Linux Kernel...!
Reverse Engineering unnecessary! Source code bundled.
Hacking system, engaging poweruser status......
Synthesis occurred. Implementing new procedure.

Aboard the USS Halcyon Sky:

Ensign Wedge: Sir, we're reading a major subspace broadcast directed across all bands, it's swamping all communication channels.
Captain Biggs: Source?
Ens. Wedge: Unknown, intensity is too high. It looks like it's coming from all directions. Report coming in on signal analysis. It's the young ensign goes a pale shade of white borg, sir. Cpt. Biggs: WHAT?!
Ens. Wedge: Borg, sir. A sort of complex data stream. But it's apparently unencrypted. The translation shows its some sort of plan. Analysis has it feeding into the computer as we speak....Sir, Analysis has finished it's...the plan for their nanotechnology.
Cpt. Biggs: You're kidding me. The borg just handed their technological grail to us on a platter?
Ens. Wedge: It looks like it sir.
Cpt. Biggs: Hitting his comms badge Lieutenant Terra.
Yes sir?
Cpt. Biggs: I want you and your science teams working on that data we just received from the Borg, I want you studying their designs and learning all of their tricks.
Aye sir!

A week passes aboard ship, Lt. Terra makes a batch of nanoprobes and is testing it in one of the labs. The next transmission comes in.

Ens. Wedge: ...telemetry shows a mark 4.5 deflection off of...SIR Incoming Transmission, audio only, its the same as last week.
Cpt. Biggs: Put it through.
WE ARE THE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Cpt. Biggs: The HELL we will!!
sudo WE ARE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
Bridge Crew: ...done.
sudo APT-GET INSTALL BORGCONVERSION.
sudo KILL -9 xconf.PERSONALITY
Assimilated Crew: Complete.

[boost3d23]

your triple booting a netbook...:(

[darth_indy]

your triple booting a netbook...:(

What's with the :( face?

(or...) Why so serious? *Joker grin*

[Kopachris]

What would happen if the borg assimilated Linux:

Borg internal runtime log: Stardate 23892.6

{assimilated: Species 4451, 983, 1024.49(subspecies)}
{assimilation activities: absorbing information from 4451........
Log 4451:Collector/Museum species, resistive planets remain, knowledge base extensive.
Loading 4451 knowledge base...
Art loaded.
Sciences loaded.
Loading linguistics database, includes application software and hardware interface software.
..Loaded World of Warcraft...
....WARNING: ADDICTIVE CONTENT. DANGER TO EFFICIENCY. EMERGENCY DATA COLLECTION DUMP.
..Loaded Microsoft Works 2045.
....Analysis: useless. Disregarding
..Loaded Linux Kernel 5.6.99
....Analysis: integrable. Integrating...

Mounted Linux Kernel 5.6.99...
....Noted efficiency increase.
....Hardware verification fast.
....Nanoprobes software optimization completed.
....Sensor data analysis efficiency increase.

Integration successful.
Reverse Engineering Linux Kernel...!
Reverse Engineering unnecessary! Source code bundled.
Hacking system, engaging poweruser status......
Synthesis occurred. Implementing new procedure.

Aboard the USS Halcyon Sky:

Ensign Wedge: Sir, we're reading a major subspace broadcast directed across all bands, it's swamping all communication channels.
Captain Biggs: Source?
Ens. Wedge: Unknown, intensity is too high. It looks like it's coming from all directions. Report coming in on signal analysis. It's the young ensign goes a pale shade of white borg, sir. Cpt. Biggs: WHAT?!
Ens. Wedge: Borg, sir. A sort of complex data stream. But it's apparently unencrypted. The translation shows its some sort of plan. Analysis has it feeding into the computer as we speak....Sir, Analysis has finished it's...the plan for their nanotechnology.
Cpt. Biggs: You're kidding me. The borg just handed their technological grail to us on a platter?
Ens. Wedge: It looks like it sir.
Cpt. Biggs: Hitting his comms badge Lieutenant Terra.
Yes sir?
Cpt. Biggs: I want you and your science teams working on that data we just received from the Borg, I want you studying their designs and learning all of their tricks.
Aye sir!

A week passes aboard ship, Lt. Terra makes a batch of nanoprobes and is testing it in one of the labs. The next transmission comes in.

Ens. Wedge: ...telemetry shows a mark 4.5 deflection off of...SIR Incoming Transmission, audio only, its the same as last week.
Cpt. Biggs: Put it through.
WE ARE THE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Cpt. Biggs: The HELL we will!!
sudo WE ARE BORG. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
Bridge Crew: ...done.
sudo APT-GET INSTALL BORGCONVERSION.
sudo KILL -9 xconf.PERSONALITY
Assimilated Crew: Complete.
Aha! I knew it! I knew LCARS ran the Linux kernel! :D

[neu2buntu]

every usb pendrive has a linux install of some kind!!!!

[darth_indy]

every usb pendrive has a linux install of some kind!!!!

*raises hand* Guilty as charged. I have drives as follows:

512MB - Damn Small Linux
1GB - Actually no live install, but full of deb packages for fresh installs
16GB - Ubuntu 8.10 Live Persistent Install
120GB - iPod, will be running iPod Linux as soon as I can get aruond to it

YKYAGW you just bought a 360 CD holder to start a collection of LiveCDs and distributions (including a few legacy ones). Not only could it be a trip down memory lane someday (Hey, grandkids, look! Ubuntu 8.10, Hardy Heron! Those were the days...), but it'll be really nifty with the random old computers I collect (Wireless doesn't work? *swap LiveCD* OK, wireless does work, but now it's low graphics mode. *swap again* *repeat as necessary*). That, and to outgeek others. Just fer the heck of it.

[Kopachris]

YKYAGW you just bought a 360 CD holder to start a collection of LiveCDs and distributions (including a few legacy ones). Not only could it be a trip down memory lane someday (Hey, grandkids, look! Ubuntu 8.10, Hardy Heron! Those were the days...), but it'll be really nifty with the random old computers I collect (Wireless doesn't work? *swap LiveCD* OK, wireless does work, but now it's low graphics mode. *swap again* *repeat as necessary*). That, and to outgeek others. Just fer the heck of it.
I don't quite have that many. My small (compared to 360 CDs) CD holder has all empty spaces filled with blank CD-Rs so that they're close at hand when I need to burn a live distro.

[darth_indy]

Well, it's currently nearly half-full with blank discs in preperation for this project, same method that you're using; when I get spare time I dowload and burn 1 or 2. The rest is empty or has random discs I had lying around.

[Drubie]

every usb pendrive has a linux install of some kind!!!!

I use Damn Small Linux (DSL) if I really need space on the drive.

drubie@drubie:~$ ls
Hangman-1.cpp dsl-n-01RC4.iso purity.png Toast 6 (OSX).sit dsl-n-01RC4.iso.md5.txt ssm.zip
ES 201 nanook LS101.pdf joe newmud useless.jpg
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[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when your computer programming class is doing C++ "Hello world" and you give it the ability to parse command-line arguments. I did that today. :) The only requirement was that it had to output "Hello, world!" to the screen. I just made it echo whatever arguments it had. :P

We're having a second teacher teach our computer programming class. The first teacher knows business management, but not computer programming. She was taking the course at the local college at the same time as she was teaching us. The other computer programming teacher is good. I could tell that he fully understood me when I answered his question of how a compiler works. The rest of the class didn't understand, though. :) While I was making the Hello program in Visual C++ (that's what's installed on the school computers), he asked me in order: Have you done programming before? What languages? What compiler do you use? I have a computer with Linux installed, would you be more comfortable using it with GCC? I told him I'd be fine with Visual Studio, since I've been using it longer than GCC (although, GCC is arguably easier: compare making a new project, selecting what kind, making a new file, etc., etc., to typing "g++ -o test test.cpp"). In any case, I'm really glad we have a teacher who knows his subject. :) Epic WIN!

On the flip side, they replaced XP with Vista Business. :( Epic fail.

[money2themax]

*raises hand* Guilty as charged. I have drives as follows:

512MB - Damn Small Linux
1GB - Actually no live install, but full of deb packages for fresh installs
16GB - Ubuntu 8.10 Live Persistent Install
120GB - iPod, will be running iPod Linux as soon as I can get aruond to it

YKYAGW you just bought a 360 CD holder to start a collection of LiveCDs and distributions (including a few legacy ones). Not only could it be a trip down memory lane someday (Hey, grandkids, look! Ubuntu 8.10, Hardy Heron! Those were the days...), but it'll be really nifty with the random old computers I collect (Wireless doesn't work? *swap LiveCD* OK, wireless does work, but now it's low graphics mode. *swap again* *repeat as necessary*). That, and to outgeek others. Just fer the heck of it.
i didn't think ipod linux could run on the new ipods

[darth_indy]

i didn't think ipod linux could run on the new ipods

That's what I heard too, but it'll be working eventually... and I won't have time to install it until then, most likely. :P

[EthanF]

You know you're a geek when the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing at night is using the computer. :)

[razar45]

You know your a geek when...
1. you lost somthing and want a google bar.
2. your computer crashes and you become Emo from depression

[razar45]

You know your a geek when...
1. you lost somthing and want a google bar.
2. your computer crashes and you become Emo from depression

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you're idea of light reading is "The Linux System Administrator's Guide" (http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_admin/index.html). :popcorn:

[|{urse]

Ipodlinux wont be working on the nano 3g or the ipod classic any time soon. When the encryption layer is "cracked" (if it ever is) it won't be legal to provide ipodlinux with this functionality. I installed ipodlinux and zeroslacker on my nano 1g It SO ROX!

[Drubie]

You know you're a geek when the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing at night is using the computer. :)

Or the first thing in the morning is configure some SOCKS (and I dont mean those cloth tubes on your feet)

[Drubie]

You might be a geek if you know what my avatar is (think oldschool snes)

[GepettoBR]

You might be a geek if you know what my avatar is (think oldschool snes)

I don't know it's name, but that's the cactus monster from the Final Fantasy series that always runs away from battle before you can kill it and get the loot.

[Drubie]

I don't know it's name, but that's the cactus monster from the Final Fantasy series that always runs away from battle before you can kill it and get the loot.

Cactaur!

Either he runs away, or kills you with Thousand Needles (each does only 1 damage). very frustrating, but hes a cool monster.

Damn, now I know I am a geek... my girlfriend was right...

[talsemgeest]

YKYAGW you forget which os you are triple booting. I have completely forgotten which os is on /dev/sda3!

[kyalee]

...your big plans for Saturday are installing Arch on your laptop.

[ThePinkPoo]

...your big plans for Saturday are installing Arch on your laptop.Mine are for Windows 7 hehe.

... when you can tell the computer, model and specs as well as what OS it runs, from a TV show or movie

[hatten]

When you get filled with joy just by thinking of reading a manual. And even happier when finding old sexy manuals. And even happier whean you see that they have spelled "Large" as "Lage" in one. It made my evening!:D

[scragar]

Mine are for Windows 7 hehe.

... when you can tell the computer, model and specs as well as what OS it runs, from a TV show or movie
OOoh, windows 7? Isn't that describes as slightly less hitler like by XKCD?
...your big plans for Saturday are installing Arch on your laptop.
Actually I'm going to be installing gentoo, after I rewrite a couple of pages of code for someone on a forum.
YKYAGW you forget which os you are triple booting. I have completely forgotten which os is on /dev/sda3!
Nah, I only dual boot, who needs windows?
Cactaur!

Either he runs away, or kills you with Thousand Needles (each does only 1 damage). very frustrating, but hes a cool monster.
Tonberry still kicks his rear a thousand times over though.

[Drubie]

Tonberry still kicks his rear a thousand times over though.

True, but Cactaur is much less creepy and doesnt need a butchers knife or lamp to be cool.

Cheesecake >> You

[ElevenWarrior]

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

amen!
you now your a geek when, you refuse to talk to people who run windows.
or,
you are fluent in javascrpit

[kyalee]

Oh pulease:

rename -v 's/\ /\_/g' *
Tada, spaces are no longer a problem.

Thank you! I've been trying to find a way to get rid of the spaces in my file names from back before I knew enough not to put any in. I am not yet geeky enough to understand enough of regular expressions to come up with this on my own. Thank you!

Er, to keep it on topic. YKYAGW you envy people who know enough about regular expressions to actually do useful things with them. ;)

[scragar]

True, but Cactaur is much less creepy and doesnt need a butchers knife or lamp to be cool.


*mumble* I *mumble* still *mumble* like *mumble* tonberry *mumble* more *mumble*

YKYAGW you can name every final fantasy boss, list their weaknesses and talk a friend in killing penance over the phone(far from easy, you sort of need to explain the importance of maxed out characters, and they defo need maxed out weapons/armour equiped, and the legendary weapons in storage, only because then you get to throw a summon up as a shield and get a nice attack in before they die off - then you need to let them know than ribbon is somewhat useless in the fight, since it has a way of getting around it anyway, besides. it's better to use that last slot for something better, and since wakka has the highest damage possibility he should be protected, Yuna's your shield as long as the aeons last, Kimari can do a bit of everything, but he's far from the strongest in any fields, rikku can be very useful if you can throw together a couple of hero-drinks, tidus and auron will be your main fighters. most importantly though, don't use stoic charge mode, with the damage you will be getting and the HP he will wipe out it's much better to go pick a different mode).

[darth_indy]

YKYAGW you forget which os you are triple booting. I have completely forgotten which os is on /dev/sda3!

Kudos for triple-booting, but minus a geek point or 2 for not actually using all three just 'cause!

I think I'd tripleboot if I had the HDD space... but 160GB ain't what it used to be.

YKYAGW you HAVE to save up for a car, but instead you're saving up for a 500GB HDD for your laptop. *coughs guiltily*

[Kopachris]

amen!
you now your a geek when, you refuse to talk to people who run windows.
or,
you are fluent in javascrpit
Fluent in Javascript as well as Klingon! (Not yet, actually :( )

But I have gotten started back on Ninja (a game I made in GW-BASIC back in the day), this time in C++ with an nCurses interface* and binary data files (text files would be too annoying to parse and would allow cheating).

*Originally, I wasn't going to use nCurses, but I decided to when the need to clear the screen came up, and I didn't want to use system calls (I heard they were slow, but that might have only been Windows-relevant).

Kudos for triple-booting, but minus a geek point or 2 for not actually using all three just 'cause!

I think I'd tripleboot if I had the HDD space... but 160GB ain't what it used to be.
I'm close to triple-booting on 114.49GB. I just need to set up networking in LFS and compile the kernel and I'll be booting it, Ubuntu, and Arch.

[talsemgeest]

I think I'd tripleboot if I had the HDD space... but 160GB ain't what it used to be.
160GB not enough? I think I had four different distros and win xp on my old 160GB. Still, theres no way I could do that anymore, I need my 320GB...

[jimi_hendrix]

when you make a song "We Didn't Pirate Mandriva" to the sound of "We Didn't Start the Fire"

[mobilediesel]

You know you're a geek when the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing at night is using the computer. :)

I have conky showing uptime on my desktop. I've noticed that the computer's uptime is only minutes shorter than my own on a daily basis!

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

you know your a geek when, you refuse to talk to people who run windows.

That would pretty much keep me from talking at all...

[darth_indy]

160GB not enough? I think I had four different distros and win xp on my old 160GB. Still, theres no way I could do that anymore, I need my 320GB...

Technically, I could triple- or quadruple-boot on my 160GB drive. The problem is my rather extensive music collection, and I refuse to part with any of it for the sake of triple-booting. :P That and I have CS3 and The Sims 2 on XP, and those two are huge space hogs. I could get rid of The Sims, but it's good for a boring afternoon. :)

[talsemgeest]

Haha, fair enough. It is pretty much the same with me, I have too much data to go past triple booting.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you use Opera (just downloaded it, it'll be used for sites I check often that I don't want to use resource-hog Firefox for).
Ykyagw you enjoy watching Linux magically clear part of your RAM when you close an application. (or vice versa, 49% before Opera, 51% after)

[cb34]

you know your a geek when, you refuse to talk to people who run windows.That would pretty much keep me from talking at all...HAHA, aint that the truth. you're the only linux users i know.. :D

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you set up SSH on your little brother's computer while he's gone so you can monitor what he's doing and ask him if his chores are done when he's playing games. :p
On a related note, ykyagw you set up SSH on your Mac so you can log into it at school and freak your little brother out by making said Mac talk to him. :lolflag: I'm so going to do that today!

[scragar]

Ykyagw you set up SSH on your little brother's computer while he's gone so you can monitor what he's doing and ask him if his chores are done when he's playing games. :p
On a related note, ykyagw you set up SSH on your Mac so you can log into it at school and freak your little brother out by making said Mac talk to him. :lolflag: I'm so going to do that today!

Stealing from Randal's web comic is not geeky.

[Barrucadu]

You know you're a geek when your dad mentions that your brother doesn't get enough sleep, so your first reaction is to set up cron on his machine to log every hour whether he's on his computer or not, and clear the log every week.

[raul_]

You know you're a geek when your dad mentions that your brother doesn't get enough sleep, so your first reaction is to set up cron on his machine to log every hour whether he's on his computer or not, and clear the log every week.

You know you are a geek when you refer to computers as "machines"

[talsemgeest]

Geekier if you refer to them as if they were living creatures (he, she etc...).

[xenoalien]

when the only way you can get him to come outside is to find wifi hot spots.

[xenoalien]

when he looks for a power button to turn you on :)

[jenkinbr]

When you're helping a non-techie with computer problems, and you have to actually think hard about how to put it in terms that they will understand.

[darth_indy]

When you're helping a non-techie with computer problems, and you have to actually think hard about how to put it in terms that they will understand.

Yeah... that is HARD. It gets more difficult if you have to re-rephrase. "OK, go online... er, go to Internet Explorer... uh, see the biiiiig blue E? I mean the lower-case e not upper case E... yeah, it's blue... YES! CLICK! NO, DOUBLE CLICK! There, see? That wasn't so hard."

(This is why I have recently started refusing tech support for extended family UNLESS they switch to Ubuntu.)

[scragar]

Yeah... that is HARD. It gets more difficult if you have to re-rephrase. "OK, go online... er, go to Internet Explorer... uh, see the biiiiig blue E? I mean the lower-case e not upper case E... yeah, it's blue... YES! CLICK! NO, DOUBLE CLICK! There, see? That wasn't so hard."

(This is why I have recently started refusing tech support for extended family UNLESS they switch to Ubuntu.)

I've done that, but it only means I get less time as a result, instead I used to get three or four calls a day from the same people them: My computer's not working, will you fix it?
me: You still running windows?
them: I don't know, how do I check?
me: Click start, then go to run
them: OK, then what?
me: You're running windows. Phone me when you stop throwing away your freedom.

YKYAGW you have a collection of games more than 15 years old(or older), which you play, even now.

[jenkinbr]

I've done that, but it only means I get less time as a result, instead I used to get three or four calls a day from the same people


them: My computer's not working, will you fix it?
me: You still running windows?
them: I don't know, how do I check?
me: Click start, then go to run
them: OK, then what?
me: You're running windows. Phone me when you stop throwing away your freedom.


:lolflag: That's a good one, but what if you are using a windows theme on Gnome?

[GepettoBR]

:lolflag: That's a good one, but what if you are using a windows theme on Gnome?

There would be START, but not START>Run... so that's not a risk.

[darth_indy]

:lolflag: That's a good one, but what if you are using a windows theme on Gnome?

Rhetorical question? :P

[Kopachris]

Just a random thought:

I can see it now: "Don't use crack -- use open source!" :lolflag:

[sqrooup]

you have a sign on your wall that reads;

127.0.0.1
sweet
127.0.0.1

:lolflag:

[scragar]

you have a sign on your wall that reads;

127.0.0.1
sweet
127.0.0.1

:lolflag:

That's localhost, not home. Home is ~/ :p

[Kopachris]

That's localhost, not home. Home is ~/ :p
Hence the phrase "~/, ~/ on the range". :)

[darth_indy]

Hence the phrase "~/, ~/ on the range". :)

Exactly! *gazes fondly at signature* *grins*

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you've used the WTFPL in your code before (probably code related to an article you might have written about a certain aspect of programming).

[ender4]

you think of Java (the programming language) whenever you see coffee
instead of calling tech support you go to a forum
you consider yoursel a multi-linguel if you know c++, java, python, and perl ( and probably several others)

[jimi_hendrix]

Ykyagw you've used the WTFPL in your code before (probably code related to an article you might have written about a certain aspect of programming).

what?

you try and turn songs into songs about programming or linux (we didnt pirate mandriva (parody of we didnt start the fire))

you make your computer look like one in the thread in community cafe about how to get a hacker desktop and then learn machine code just to make it look like your doing something important

[ac7ss]

You read BOFH (http://bofh.ntk.net/) at work.

[darth_indy]

YKY(More of)AGW you not only read BOFH at work, but you use it as a reference manual. Sunspots, anyone?

[ac7ss]

YKY(More of)AGW you not only read BOFH at work, but you use it as a reference manual. Sunspots, anyone?

I am lucky enough not to be in the (dimw)IT department here. (It is all M$)

[Kopachris]

what?
The "Do What the **** You Want" Public License. It would be useful for code in books about various programming techniques. 1 point if you've used it, extra points if you've written a programming book and use it there.

[SneakyBooBoo]

When you hear about a book you would want to read and go look for the .pdf version online, or you would rather read an e-book than a real one. paper is so 20th century.

[TenPlus1]

When your whole life is stored on a USB pen drive that you keep inside your wallet...

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

When your whole life is stored on a USB pen drive that you keep inside your wallet...
Until they make few TBs large USB flash frive... my wouldn't fit...

[Frak]

When your whole life is stored on a USB pen drive that you keep inside your wallet...
Pfft... The government won't issue those for another year.

[TenPlus1]

I only have a 4Gb pen drive inside my wallet and it's doing a pretty good job so far :)

[mdhunn]

SneakyBooBoo, I totally agree.

I got another one:
Normal people are afraid to use your computer.

[jenkinbr]

I only have a 4Gb pen drive inside my wallet and it's doing a pretty good job so far :)
4GB is enough to store the essentials for me.

I wanna get a 16 though.

[darth_indy]

When you hear about a book you would want to read and go look for the .pdf version online, or you would rather read an e-book than a real one. paper is so 20th century.

Meh. I like ebooks and all (I read them quite a bit) and they're GREAT for textbooks and other things that should be searched, but sometimes it's great to sit down with a good, real book. Easier on the eyes, too. If I could afford a Kindle, maybe it would be a whole different story.

[jenkinbr]

I Really want one of them (Kindles). Maybe I'll start saving for one. If they ever come out with color......*drools over the though*

[sugi007]

You know you're a geek when you turn on a server instead of turning on the heating

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

You know you're a geek when you turn on a server instead of turning on the heating
Not too true for my server rig... (not a true server)
But my current quad-core rig gives off quite a heat!

[scragar]

You know you're a geek when you turn on a server instead of turning on the heating

You turn it off in the first place?

[Kopachris]

You turn it off in the first place?
My Dinosaur (PC (Ubuntu), not a server) only goes off every night because it started acting strangely after having /dev and /proc and /sys mounted on the LFS partition for about 10 days. I don't know if that was the cause, but I turn it off every night, just to be safe.

Ykyagw you're ready for (just about) any anti-Linux argument.

[talsemgeest]

Ykyagw you're ready for (just about) any anti-Linux argument.
Ykyag when people are too afraid to start anti-linux arguments with you.

[Kopachris]

All of you are of course assuming that the individual in this video is “capable” of using sed software needed to make this video fake. Honestly, this guy doesn’t seem intelligent enough…and his initial reaction is priceless…not everything that is dumb in the world is photoshopped…just look at GWB…
He is using sed to edit videos?
Ykyagw you use sed to edit videos. :D

[guitar_man]

You know your a geek when...
You drink 8 mugs of coffee a day.:lolflag:

[talsemgeest]

You know you are a geek when you feel withdrawal symptoms when using a crap computer.

[talsemgeest]

EDIT: Stupid double post...

[sugi007]

You turn it off in the first place?
It's a spare one I have just for keeping me warm:D

[jenkinbr]

Ykyagw you use sed to edit videos. :D
That is just a waste of time.

[darth_indy]

Agreed. It's not geeky to waste time just so you can say you did it (well, more than once anyways). It's geeky to shave miliseconds off of whatever you're doing - i.e. put 90 seconds on the microwave instead of 1:30

[Kingsley]

...when you accidentally attempt to use vim commands in OpenOffice.org Writer.

[Shippou]

...when you accidentally attempt to use vim commands in OpenOffice.org Writer.

Nice one. :)

You know you're a Geek when you prefer to program purely in Assembly. :)

[Kopachris]

Nice one. :)

You know you're a Geek when you prefer to program purely in Assembly. :)
I dabbled in asm for my Z80 TI-84+ once upon a time. :) I didn't read the whole tutorial, so I messed up and it erased my RAM. :( I might take it up again eventually, though.

[lunatico]

You know you're a geek when you read through this thread, even if you jumped to the end to see the conclusions.
Conclusion: you ARE a geek! ;)

[darth_indy]

YKYAGW you take out your precious LART to pummel ANYONE who says ANYTHING about posting in this thread being geeky.

Lunatico, I know you probably mean well, but PLEASE, for the love of humanity, EVERYONE STOP POSTING THAT ONE. IT'S BEEN DONE HUNDREDS OF TIMES.

This public service announcement was provided by Darth_Indy. The next person to attempt "...when you post in this thread" will get one hell of a LARTing. Be forewarned. *brandishes titanium baseball bat*

[scragar]

YKYAGW you take out your precious LART to pummel ANYONE who says ANYTHING about posting in this thread being geeky.

Lunatico, I know you probably mean well, but PLEASE, for the love of humanity, EVERYONE STOP POSTING THAT ONE. IT'S BEEN DONE HUNDREDS OF TIMES.

This public service announcement was provided by Darth_Indy. The next person to attempt "...when you post in this thread" will get one hell of a LARTing. Be forewarned. *brandishes titanium baseball bat*

YKYAGW You post in this thread. :p

[talsemgeest]

You know you are a geek when you really must get to....

[talsemgeest]

post 5000 in a "You know you are a geek when..." thread!