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

[corney91]

...when you work out that your body's energy could sustain the UK for approximately 2.7 years :D

[darth_indy]

YKYAGW You post in this thread. :p

I warned you... *whips out titanium baseball bat named Otis* THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK

You're a masochist, you know that? ;)

I hereby declare myself the official LARTer of offenders in the category of "Posting the same frelling thing that everyone else has." *waves Otis* Any objections? Didn't think so.

*polishes Otis, wanders off*

[jenkinbr]

I warned you... *whips out titanium baseball bat named Otis* THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK

You're a masochist, you know that? ;)

I hereby declare myself the official LARTer of offenders in the category of "Posting the same frelling thing that everyone else has." *waves Otis* Any objections? Didn't think so.

*polishes Otis, wanders off*
...when you post in this thread.

Talsemgeest banned for cheating for the milestone.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you don't get the warranties for desktop machines because a) Some warranties are voided by installing a different OS, and b) Because you can fix a desktop machine yourself anyway.

[darth_indy]

...when you post in this thread.

Talsemgeest banned for cheating for the milestone.

Otis will be coming to visit you and Talsemgeest shortly... Please hold, your LARTing is important to us...

THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK THWACK

I think that's enough...

P.S. YKYAGW you know where Otis originally came from... anyone that can answer that right gets a "Get out of LART free" card.

[talsemgeest]

Ykyagw you don't get the warranties for desktop machines because a) Some warranties are voided by installing a different OS, and b) Because you can fix a desktop machine yourself anyway.
If you get a warranty on a desktop, you are not a geek. Real geeks build their desktop and get warranties on the parts.

[neu2buntu]

you know your a big time geek when you actually enjoy watching the text as you try to install from source(successfully...) [spellcheck]...lol as i did installing ardour with VST support..........(took me a full day to do this) the terminal is a lethal weapon in the wrong hands...ie my hands...lol...

[Kopachris]

If you get a warranty on a desktop, you are not a geek. Real geeks build their desktop and get warranties on the parts.
you don't get the warranties
Yes, building it yourself is geekier (and is my preferred choice), but maybe you'll want to get a brand-name computer (such as an Alienware) that you can't just get the parts for. (In Alienware's case, it would be the case.) Or you might want to get it as a base system that you can upgrade later. Again, building a computer myself is my preferred choice of action both because it's cheaper and because it's more fulfilling, but that would probably also be cliched enough to get me a LARTing from darth_indy, like the one you got.

[crazyness003]

You know you're a geek when you need to post in this thread just to belong.
hmmmmmm.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

If you get a warranty on a desktop, you are not a geek. Real geeks build their desktop and get warranties on the parts.

... and even those get violated!

[krzysz00]

Ykyagw your "If it ain't broke ..." statement goes like this
If it ain't broke there are two possibilities
a. You haven't messed enough with it yet
b. This is the stable one you don't mess with to the point of breakage or data loss, but close

[smartboyathome]

You know you're a geek when your whole existance is based on bashing <insert OS here>. ;)

[jimi_hendrix]

you make a shell script to build linux from scratch...

[Frak]

You know you're a geek when your whole existance is based on bashing <insert OS here>. ;)
That's not geek-ish, that's just sad. :(

[Kopachris]

you make a shell script to build linux from scratch...
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/

[darth_indy]

Again, building a computer myself is my preferred choice of action both because it's cheaper and because it's more fulfilling, but that would probably also be cliched enough to get me a LARTing from darth_indy, like the one you got.

Nah, building your own machine is actually productive :p I haven't done it yet myself - I use mostly laptops, so it's not cost-effective - but I'm working toward it.

[crazyness003]

you know you're a geek when you look at a segment of random numbers and actually make legitimate phrases out of them.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw the Halloween Documents (http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween1.html) read as a military intelligence report to you. It's fun to analyze Microsoft's own inside reports about OSS and find weaknesses in their views about OSS. >:D

[modmadmike]

when you read "The Manga guide to databases"
NOT GUILTY lol

[Chame_Wizard]

you freshly install Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex and updates everything.

[WelterPelter]

You sit down for a cosy evening of studying functional programming syntax.

[kaligus]

... and even those get violated!

YKYAGW all this talk of violation doesnt send you running for a law talking guy :D and is something you actually look forward to with pleasure and maybe even a warm beer :p

[GepettoBR]

YKYAGW you're not happy with KDE's instability or GNOME's lack of features and are resisting the urge to design your own WM from the ground up because you don't want to lose contact with your loved ones for yet another year.

[Kopachris]

YKYAGW all this talk of violation doesnt send you running for a law talking guy :D and is something you actually look forward to with pleasure and maybe even a warm beer :p
Kommst du aus Deutschland?

Ykyagw... sorry, I'm out of good material. :(

[mister_p_1998]

You're reading a book and look at your "Taskbar" to see what time it is then realise youre not on a computer!

Steve

[crazyness003]

you know you're a geek when you use terms like ykyagw, afaik, imho, etc...but not lol.
Instead, geeks say lawl and lawls.

[Kopachris]

You sit down for a cosy evening of studying functional programming syntax.
How about a nice cozy evening of watching the contents of your hard drive cat by? :popcorn:
It would make a good movie representation of a virus/static... :p

Hey, are the strings of seemingly every character (at least in ASCII) the placeholders for empty sectors?

Also, ykyagw you try to scroll on the desktop to switch workspaces, then you realize you're in Windows. (When are you going to implement multiple desktops, Microsoft? How much business work can you do with only one desktop? I mean, come on, Linux and Mac OS X now have multiple desktops.)

[cegpope]

Also, ykyagw you try to scroll on the desktop to switch workspaces, then you realize you're in Windows. (When are you going to implement multiple desktops, Microsoft? How much business work can you do with only one desktop? I mean, come on, Linux and Mac OS X now have multiple desktops.)

The XP Power Toy for this feature dates to at least 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

[jrg_dnn]

You know you are a geek when you
ssh mother
sudo -l
apt-get install peanutbutter jelly bread
sandwich

[Kopachris]

The XP Power Toy for this feature dates to at least 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx
So, why aren't any of those included by default? (The open a console window pointing to the current folder thing looks interesting. Someone should add that to Nautilus.)

[scragar]

So, why aren't any of those included by default? (The open a console window pointing to the current folder thing looks interesting. Someone should add that to Nautilus.)

It's in naut isn't it? I know it's a thunar feature, I figure naut has far more going on, so maybe it's just a plugin.

[GepettoBR]

So, why aren't any of those included by default? (The open a console window pointing to the current folder thing looks interesting. Someone should add that to Nautilus.)

I have that in Nautilus, but I think I got it in a separate package. If so, it's in the repos.

[Kopachris]

Thanks, the package is "nautilus-open-terminal" to anyone who's interested. This one's definitely making it into DOS...

[talsemgeest]

So, why aren't any of those included by default? (The open a console window pointing to the current folder thing looks interesting. Someone should add that to Nautilus.)
Probably because the normal windows user doesn't have the brain power to wrap their heads around having multiple desktops at once. ;)

[scragar]

YKYAGW you have had about 4 hours sleep in the past two days and you are spending the early hours of the morning writing version two of a script instead of catching up on your Zs :p

Guilty BTW.

[hatten]

When your GNOME panel looks like this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=54952&d=1199223854
...when you just must know what those numbers mean
...when you have beaten iwbtg and proudly wear a t-shirt where it says so
...when people in your vicinity asks what sudo is when you wear your favorite t-shirt (Linus Torvalds doesn't need sudo)
...when you cannot understand why everyone else also have to conquer the world, interfering with your plans
...when you had to reboot your computer of two reasons (updated and my USB plugs was ****** up) but you decided that both your torrents and your uptime was more important, waiting with rebooting for 48 hours...
...your case stays open (i know it has been said, but it is cool anyway)
...I'm gonna go to a friend for the first time tomorrow...but only because he has problems with his computer (i may get an old laptop AND get another friend to talk about linux with)
...When at startup your computer says it's kubuntu, in the login screen it is xubuntu and when finally logging on it is ubuntu :popcorn:
...when you read the whole thread and posts here;);)

[Mason Whitaker]

Install as many operating systems as you can just to see how many your laptop can handle...

7 :P

[jimi_hendrix]

program quake 5 in asm...from scratch

[GepettoBR]

YKYAGW you decide to take a day off to organize your media collection, following a rigid naming and archiving scheme, and have such a great time doing it that you forget to have lunch.

[darth_indy]

...when you read the whole thread and posts here;);)

Otis greets you. *WHACK!* Just one though. The other YKYAGW's you posted make up for it. :P

YKYAGW you decide to take a day off to organize your media collection, following a rigid naming and archiving scheme, and have such a great time doing it that you forget to have lunch.

*raises hand* Guilty. I do that about once a month, because I collect music quickly and it gets a bit disorganized. If I don't have tags, album art, lyrics, and proper naming convention, the universe is somehow... wrong.

I'm gonna have a helluva time next week - an unorganized friend is giving me ~120GB of music. I'm determined to organize it if it KILLS me. And it probably will, since I will forget to eat all weekend.

[jimi_hendrix]

*cough* script *cough*

[GepettoBR]

*raises hand* Guilty. I do that about once a month, because I collect music quickly and it gets a bit disorganized. If I don't have tags, album art, lyrics, and proper naming convention, the universe is somehow... wrong.

I'm gonna have a helluva time next week - an unorganized friend is giving me ~120GB of music. I'm determined to organize it if it KILLS me. And it probably will, since I will forget to eat all weekend.
I just finished sorting a new batch from my also unorganized girlfriend, but it was only 30GB. Some stuff, like Woodstock, is nearly impossible to sort out the way I like, but I'll be damned if I don't get it.
*cough* script *cough*
Geekworthy, but sometimes there's nothing to go on. Sometimes you just have to get down and dirty and do things manually *shivers*

[darth_indy]

*cough* script *cough*

Yeah, or EasyTag is what I usually do - fix the tags then it autorenames files & folders. But if it's not organized at all... unless you write a script to move each specific file, it wouldn't work, and that's just not efficient.

[Kopachris]

I'm gonna have a helluva time next week - an unorganized friend is giving me ~120GB of music. I'm determined to organize it if it KILLS me. And it probably will, since I will forget to eat all weekend.
How much music do you HAVE?! :shock: I only have about 4.7GB, myself. I don't even listen to about half of it!

[yabbadabbadont]

How much music do you HAVE?! :shock: I only have about 4.7GB, myself. I don't even listen to about half of it!

You will notice that he didn't say in which format the music was stored... (OK, it is probably MP3, but still...) If it were in FLAC, then that would be somewhere between two to three hundred albums.

I have 121 albums in FLAC format, and they take up 40GB of space.

[GepettoBR]

Still, 4.7GB is a rather modest collection. I have around 80-90GB of music, and probably only 10% of it is in FLAC or APE, the rest being a mixture of mp3, ogg and aac, which are much smaller.

[Barrucadu]

I've currently got 36GB of music all in OGG format - if I find some music I like I just torrent the artist's entire discography.

Naturally, I spent ages organising it all, and can't bear to have disorganised music.

[scragar]

I've currently got 36GB of music all in OGG format - if I find some music I like I just torrent the artist's entire discography.

Naturally, I spent ages organising it all, and can't bear to have disorganised music.

Organised music? You're a strange one.

Having said that I've got a tiny amount of music, after a recent audiophile clean-up I'm down to about 30 songs :p

I had to get rid of the bad audio though, I'll rip them again from CD using a higher quality another time, when I want to listen to one of them.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I also have now quite rigid rules for sorting music.
Started off to eliminate duplicates. Thought I could sort it for quick searching the same time.
Also deleted most music I don't (and not going to) listen, what reduced my collection from 50 to 35 GBs.

I've got a tiny amount of music, after a recent audiophile clean-up I'm down to about 30 songs :p
Hmmm... I got longer playlists than that...

[GepettoBR]

I'm also quite thrilled that my music collection is larger than my previous hard drive could've stored, even if it were dedicated only to storage.

[card_ace]

You know your a geek when you walk in a computer lab and a line forms of people needing help

[hatten]

http://www.bbspot.com/archives/index_ms.html
When you lmao at reading those, i definitely think that Microsoft should add ads to their BSOD's!:popcorn:

[smartboyathome]

When your GNOME panel looks like this:

OMG! Finally someone else who uses swatch time! If only I could use it on E17. :(

Anyway, YKYAGW you like to work in base pi, e, or i. :P

[hatten]

OMG! Finally someone else who uses swatch time! If only I could use it on E17. :(

Anyway, YKYAGW you like to work in base pi, e, or i. :P

so one of those times is swatch, what is the other one and how can i add those to my panel?

[TheLaughingMan84]

You are a geek when u fear my nick.
Most of you wont get that lol.

[spupy]

YKYAG when you like your rubber flip-flops very much, because when you walk around with them they make squeaky noises and you sound like a walking cyberman.

[Fenris_rising]

YNYAGW you go one better and are building a fullsize Dalek prop. :-\"

regards

Fenris

[darth_indy]

How much music do you HAVE?! :shock: I only have about 4.7GB, myself. I don't even listen to about half of it!

I have ~6,500 songs in mp3 format in 36 GB, and his is mp3 as well. You do the math :P I'll probably weed out quite a bit, since he listens to a lot of rap and I never got into it, but it'll definitely enlarge my collection. I listen to about 1000 more often than the rest. Music=life. I can't stand silence.

I also download entire artist discographies when I like a song, or at least an album. It's fun when I rediscover songs from years ago.

[yabbadabbadont]

Unless you want to get this thread locked, all of you should probably stop talking about pirated music... especially those of you in the USA. Although some of the other jurisdictions allow it, the forum admins/mods tend to act with a heavy hand when the topic is brought to their attention. ;)

[scragar]

Unless you want to get this thread locked, all of you should probably stop talking about pirated music... especially those of you in the USA. Although some of the other jurisdictions allow it, the forum admins/mods tend to act with a heavy hand when the topic is brought to their attention. ;)

No-one has mentioned pirated music, most said is that they downloaded it, maybe it's free music, or pay for download, or maybe they already own a copy.

[HappyHenry]

You know you're a Geek when your vote for, Family Night," activity is, building a new desk top PC for the family room.
They laughed me out of the vote! I told them it was illegal to vote the Dad out but they didn't hear me, with all the laughing.

[[z]er0 HP]

probably been said but

....when you use linux.

Come on it's true, nobody whos not a geek uses linux

[spupy]

er0 HP;6656087']probably been said but

....when you use linux.

Come on it's true, nobody whos not a geek uses linux

Or perhaps it is: You know you use linux when you are a geek. I know for sure that I wasn't a geek before I started using linux. :)

[hatten]

When your friends say sudo to you instead of please:D

[scragar]

er0 HP;6656087']probably been said but

....when you use linux.

Come on it's true, nobody whos not a geek uses linux

I don't think my 5 year old nephew can be considered a geek.

Or my parents, brothers or sister. Heck, my sister commented yesterday that her internet didn't(or rather doesn't) "have google on it", by which she means that she doesn't use google, yahoo has something going for it with idiots.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

er0 HP;6656087']probably been said but

....when you use linux.

Come on it's true, nobody whos not a geek uses linux

Friends of the geeks? I got a few non-geek linux using fellows.

[GepettoBR]

No-one has mentioned pirated music, most said is that they downloaded it, maybe it's free music, or pay for download, or maybe they already own a copy.

My Iron Maiden discography, in particular, is one that annoys me on this point: I have every album sitting here on my shelf, but the latest CDs are packed full of Sony DRM crap, so I had to download them via Bittorrent. Also, an older one that got scratched and won't read right (though my car cd player reads it fine).

You are a geek when u fear my nick.
Most of you wont get that lol.

I do not fear your "nick" and I disagree with your implied assumption that having read/heard of a Japanese cult manga makes you a geek. That said, Ghost in the Shell is one of the worst examples of a manga->anime adaptation in history, and the movie is just a hoax to troll the fans.

[jimi_hendrix]

I don't think my 5 year old nephew can be considered a geek.

Or my parents, brothers or sister. Heck, my sister commented yesterday that her internet didn't(or rather doesn't) "have google on it", by which she means that she doesn't use google, yahoo has something going for it with idiots.

they all use linux? how do they get around

[hajbal92]

When you ask your friend to make you a sandwich, and when he says no you say: sudo make me a sandwich...

[hajbal92]

it's decimal for the HEX: D313373D

which is leet speek for de-1337ed, as in to stop being elite.

WTB life XD

[hatten]

When you ask your friend to make you a sandwich, and when he says no you say: sudo make me a sandwich...

please, that one have been posted a lot of times, search the thread before posting.

When you enjoy installing Linux on peoples computers above everything else, i have made three installs this weekend, one on my friend and his mothers laptop, and it was they that came up with the idea!:popcorn: The third one was my lilbro just to get him away from the TV and stop having him begging to play monopoly with me:p

[hajbal92]

sorry i have read about 50 pages and i havent found it sorry.

[hatten]

sorry i have read about 50 pages and i havent found it sorry.
there is a search function, and i even posted it myself two pages ago! xD

[scragar]

they all use linux? how do they get around

I do all the tech support, which is sort of ok, it saves me a lot of time over if they did windows, but it also means I can't send them elsewhere if I can't be bothered to deal with them.

Oh, and my nephew has had his computer running linux for over a year, I've never had to "fix" it, my parents on the other hand need tech support around once a week, and it's always the same trivial problems.
mum - I just sent an email, how do I edit it?
me - You've sent it, you can't edit it.
mum - Yeah you can, if I save a text I can edit it
me - but once you've sent it you can't.
mum - Just tell me how to edit it.
me - ...
mum - Fine then, I'll work it out for myself.
me - ...
----- hang up, wait half an hour -----
mum - The computer's stopped working
me - Well, what a surprise, what did you do this time?
mum - Nothing, I just tried editing my email
me - Yeah....
They are stupid no matter what you do, my nephew knows what he is doing for the most part, he started off with just video's on his desktop, one click to play, now he's moved on a step, he's got a few games, and a panel, showing what's running. If he doesn't have any problems with that I might start letting him use the file manager, then I can organise his video's(which are all ripped from DVDs during my free time) better. For now though he doesn't need it, and he's happy without it.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you look at various objects and figure out how to make them with CSG. (Taken from the POV-Ray tutorial.)

[spupy]

Ykyagw you look at various objects and figure out how to make them with CSG. (Taken from the POV-Ray tutorial.)

YKYAGW you look at various pieces of technology and you can't stop thinking about how to re-implement this technology using SunSPOTs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_SPOT).

[Kopachris]

YKYAGW you look at various pieces of technology and you can't stop thinking about how to re-implement this technology using SunSPOTs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_SPOT).
Ykyagw you look at any digital device and think about how you could overclock it or get it to run a different OS (usually, but not limited to Linux). :p Those Sun SPOTs look intriguing. I hope they become mainstream someday. :)

[spupy]

Those Sun SPOTs look intriguing. I hope they become mainstream someday. :)

They are fun. I'm playing with couple of them right now. The devices are suited for prototyping, but even so they have many possibilities. I wonder if they can run Linux... ;)

[Kopachris]

Note to self: "sudo cat /dev/mem | less" causes page faults on shutdown (?)... Don't cat devices anymore...

[theApokalypsis]

you know you're a geek when... someone asks the temperature outside and you respond in kelvin.

[crazyness003]

you know you're a geek when someone asks if "you run linux" and you say "no, its gnu/linux"

[I got worms.]

This is my first post!

I'm joining the geek squad as #5082. :D

[scragar]

Note to self: "sudo cat /dev/mem | less" causes page faults on shutdown (?)... Don't cat devices anymore...

ROFL, v funneh :p

you know you're a geek when someone asks if "you run linux" and you say "no, its gnu/linux"
Yeah, it's not GNU/linux, it's linux. Only RMS calls it GNU/Linux, and he didn't make it, Linus did.

[crazyness003]

ROFL, v funneh :p


Yeah, it's not GNU/linux, it's linux. Only RMS calls it GNU/Linux, and he didn't make it, Linus did.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu/linux:
The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel), originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds). The rest of the system, including utilities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_utility) and libraries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_%28computer_science%29), usually comes from the GNU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU) operating system announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman). The GNU contribution is the basis for the alternative name GNU/Linux.[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu/linux#cite_note-lsag-5)GNU/Linux
Main article: GNU/Linux naming controversy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy)
The Free Software Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation) views Linux distributions which use GNU software as GNU variants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_variants) and they ask that such operating systems be referred to as GNU/Linux or a Linux-based GNU system.[72] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu/linux#cite_note-71) The media and common usage, however, refers to this family of operating systems simply as Linux, as do many large Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu) and SuSE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuSE) Linux). Some distributions use GNU/Linux (particularly notable is Debian GNU/Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian)), but the term's use outside of the enthusiast community is limited. The naming issue remains a source of confusion to many newcomers, and the naming remains controversial. Linus Torvalds is against the GNU/Linux naming, stating that Linux is not a GNU project. [73] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu/linux#cite_note-72)From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian:
Debian (pronounced /ˈdɛbiən/ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English)) is a computer operating system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system) composed of free and open source software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software). The primary form, Debian GNU/Linux, is a popular and influential Linux distribution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution).[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#cite_note-0)Linux is just the kernel. Everything else comes form the GNU Project. Hence GNU/Linux.
Also, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu/linux:
By the early 1990s, many of the programs required in an operating system (such as libraries, compilers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler), text editors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor), a Unix shell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell), and a windowing system) were completed, although low-level elements such as device drivers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver), daemons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29), and the kernel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computer_science%29) were stalled and incomplete.[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu/linux#cite_note-gnu_history-7) Linus Torvalds has said that if the GNU kernel had been available at the time (1991), he would not have decided to write his own.[9] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu/linux#cite_note-8)If a GNU Kernel had already been made by '91, it would have all been called GNU. Thats it and thank you.

[scragar]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu/linux:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian:
Linux is just the kernel. Everything else comes form the GNU Project. Hence GNU/Linux.
Also, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu/linux:
If a GNU Kernel had already been made by '91, it would have all been called GNU. Thats it and thank you.

All I'm saying is that Linus calls it Linux and would flip out if you ever called it GNU/Linux to him. I can understand GNU wanting to get some credit on the thing, but the kernel was made by Linus, the first few programs were ported by Linus, and the whole system at that time, GNU utilities included, was called Linux. The GNU/ part was added later by GNU advocates because Linux was popular while GNU was getting none of the credit. It was not called GNU/Linux then, and forgive me, but I am not going to call it GNU/Linux just because it hurts someone's feelings.

[PurposeOfReason]

you know you're a geek when... someone asks the temperature outside and you respond in kelvin.
That'd be more a chemist and we all know they are a different breed ;). A geek would use celsius as hardware is monitored on that scale.

[hatten]

That'd be more a chemist and we all know they are a different breed ;). A geek would use celsius as hardware is monitored on that scale.Isn't it geekier to have the applet in the panel displaying the time in kelvin?

...when your trombone teacher asks you, the computer expert, "what the hell is gmail?":D

Gonna install ubuntu on my mothers computer this evening:)

[PurposeOfReason]

Isn't it geekier to have the applet in the panel displaying the time in kelvin?

...when your trombone teacher asks you, the computer expert, "what the hell is gmail?":D

Gonna install ubuntu on my mothers computer this evening:)
Not really considering all kelvin is is C+273. That and kelvin only is useful for taking the scale on the point of absolute zero which has never been hit and if you live in an area with temps that low, I'm betting you already know how cold outside it is, "darn cold".

[WatchingThePain]

..when you induce problems on your system just to see if you can fix them.

[scragar]

..when you induce problems on your system just to see if you can fix them.

I've never done that, other than that time I uninstalled gnome et al, but that was easy to fix, just install them. Oh, and that time I reconfigured everything, and got left without the internet, a working display or a functioning keyboard map... I didn't like that one :p

Oh, and I uninstalled my panels, I did that, left myself with terminals and alt+F2, I didn't reinstall them :p I was happy typing firefox when I wanted to get online, or using gnomines to play a game. It's all really easy when you get used to it.

[crazyness003]

All I'm saying is that Linus calls it Linux and would flip out if you ever called it GNU/Linux to him. I can understand GNU wanting to get some credit on the thing, but the kernel was made by Linus, the first few programs were ported by Linus, and the whole system at that time, GNU utilities included, was called Linux. The GNU/ part was added later by GNU advocates because Linux was popular while GNU was getting none of the credit. It was not called GNU/Linux then, and forgive me, but I am not going to call it GNU/Linux just because it hurts someone's feelings.
Its just respectful. "Linux" sounds cooler anyway, compared to "GNU/Linux". Plus, I like the penguin more than the Gnu. But like I said, its more of a respect thing. Stallman spent a lot of energy to make this happen. Im not dissing Linus in anyway, but he dosnt like Ubuntu anyway. But then again, ultimately: No Body Cares.

You know you're a geek when you hear a start-up sound-effect and can tell which platformit belongs to.

[hatten]

Its just respectful. "Linux" sounds cooler anyway, compared to "GNU/Linux". Plus, I like the penguin more than the Gnu. But like I said, its more of a respect thing. Stallman spent a lot of energy to make this happen. Im not dissing Linus in anyway, but he dosnt like Ubuntu anyway. But then again, ultimately: Nobody Cares.yes i do:popcorn:

Why doesn't Linus like Ubuntu? I read on wikipedia he preferred KDE but...:-k

[scragar]

yes i do:popcorn:

Why doesn't Linus like Ubuntu? I read on wikipedia he preferred KDE but...:-k

ubuntu is not exactly a linuxy distro, it has all the key marks, but it lacks a lot of what makes linux distro's what they are.

If you want to see the difference install knopix, or gentoo, or slackware.

There's nothing major that makes them different, but there are a lot of small things, they do add up.

[jimi_hendrix]

YKYAGW you play so much left 4 dead that you hear zombie screams when you close your eyes and you cant get the music out of your head

[hatten]

When you realize that your mum won't give you her password, but i can still access her computer as she never locks it, so i set up remote desktop viewer and then i lock the screen because I'm used to always doing that when leaving my own comp==no access :(

[GepettoBR]

YKYAGW your first impression of this (http://www.makelinux.net/home/) is that it's cool, but then you realize that there are a few flaws in the criteria used to organize the different software, and think of rewriting it to fix that.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you constantly think about reorganizing/redoing things to make them better. Languages are a good place to start...

[hatten]

just got myself a good laugh, just installed ubuntu on my mothers comp and did show her how to shut it down. Now she wanted me to turn off my computer and points to the upper right corner and says, press that button now..wait you haven't got a button there!
lmao:popcorn:

when you get sad that your uptime is lost every time your mom forces you to shut down the comp:(

[smartboyathome]

when you get sad that your uptime is lost every time your mom forces you to shut down the comp:(

... when you know that uptime is saved when you hibernate your computer instead of shutting it down. ;)

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw the release of the latest Star Trek movie is more important to you than getting your driver's license. ;)

[smartboyathome]

Ykyagw the release of the latest Star Trek movie is more important to you than getting your driver's license. ;)

... when you didn't know people still drove cars instead of using google earth to travel to where you want to go. :P

[hatten]

... when you know that uptime is saved when you hibernate your computer instead of shutting it down. ;)

thought it didn't do that, thanks!:p

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you get the flu, and it makes you think about making a computer virus that gives computers the exact same symptoms.

Don't worry, I won't do it. For one, I don't know how. Even if I did make it, I'd have it delete every copy of itself on the next boot.

EDIT: Mom was wrong. It's just a bad cold, not a mild flu. I wish my body ran on Linux...

[hatten]

you get mad at your lilbro because he tried to boot windows so he could play some games, he thougt he got to the windows login screen but it was in fact my xubuntu login screen that after 30 seconds automatically boots to a ****** account, ho cauldn't understand why it suddenly jumped from windows to linux!

He killed my uptime!](*,):x

[GepettoBR]

ykyagw you care about your ptime. I don't, but I consider myself a geek anyhow.

[gmjs]

You know you're a geek when you can't read a PDF document without checking which application was used to create it first.

[Hagablog]

You @reply in real life

[talsemgeest]

YKYAGW you can type like this:

http://freakymartin.com/nitro/fishki01/47a0b442d523615_comp.jpg

[hatten]

YKYAGW you can type like this:

http://freakymartin.com/nitro/fishki01/47a0b442d523615_comp.jpg
that's not possible on my keyboard =(
http://www.deltaco.eu/images/products/TB-92.jpg
when you can bring a picture of your keyboard within a few seconds without taking your own.

[Hagablog]

http://freakymartin.com/nitro/fishki01/47a0b442d523615_comp.jpg

You look at this and remark on how un-ergonomic that keyboard is

[Hagablog]

You think you can buy Linux at a garden centre.

[GepettoBR]

You think you can buy Linux at a garden centre.

wat

[GammaRay256]

You need to use scientific notation to count the number of Firefox tabs you have open.

[crazyness003]

when you take the time to see what os the server is runing thats hosting the page you're viewing.
Hooray Domain Details for FF!

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you argue with your physics teacher about wording. I mean, seriously, saying "light has mass" is like saying "cable is internet". You can get internet through your cable company, but they aren't the same.

[GepettoBR]

Ykyagw you argue with your physics teacher about wording. I mean, seriously, saying "light has mass" is like saying "cable is internet". You can get internet through your cable company, but they aren't the same.

Actually, you're both right. If you take light as a wave, then it's correct to say that it "carries" mass. But if you see it as a stream of photons, then it "has" mass because it's made of particles. And as Erwin Schrödinger would tell you, light is both a wave and a stream of photons at the same time.

[Kopachris]

Actually, you're both right. If you take light as a wave, then it's correct to say that it "carries" mass. But if you see it as a stream of photons, then it "has" mass because it's made of particles. And as Erwin Schrödinger would tell you, light is both a wave and a stream of photons at the same time.
I know, he explained it and I agreed, but it's a lot more complicated than a simple "light has mass". It's those kinds of oversimplifications that really bug me.

[crazyness003]

YKYAG when you agree to the above statement. I also agree with GepettoBR. Its both at the same time. Even though we've never actually proven it. All of it is theoretical.

[GepettoBR]

Yes, oversimplification annoy the Hell out of me too. Unfortunately, most people won't understand the full explanation, so it has to be dumbed down, and then explained properly to the people who can actually understand the subject.

YKYAGW you're one of these people.

[R2D2!]

YKYAGW you'd lıke to have a battery ındıcator for your own body, for example when you exercıse (yes, some geeks do exercıse)... Er, I thınk that's what hunger ıs, so never mınd.

—Ilhuıtemoc δ

[crazyness003]

YKYAGW you'd lıke to have a battery ındıcator for your own body, for example when you exercıse (yes, some geeks do exercıse)... Er, I thınk that's what hunger ıs, so never mınd.

—Ilhuıtemoc δ
YKYAG when you're explaining something to someone else and you get an epiphany in the process.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

YKYAGW you'd lıke to have a battery ındıcator for your own body, for example when you exercıse (yes, some geeks do exercıse)... Er, I thınk that's what hunger ıs, so never mınd.

—Ilhuıtemoc δ

hmm I know I'm a geek, yet I do exercise a quite a bit. I visit gym and do some weightlifting quite regularly... at least used to, but am going to resume.

In fact that's one of very few reasons I leave the house along others like:

To go to bar and drink beer
To go fix someone's PC (if they pay for home visits :) )

[Grukmuck]

you know your a geek when you take something apart to see if you can put it back together if the warranty is still valid or not.

you know your a geek when you use your laptop as a heat source when its cold in the house instead of using a blanket.

you know your a geek when you get really excited when you explain how you get your wireless internet working in ubuntu to your gf and you know darn well she doesnt care and is completely lost when you say "ubuntu".

you know your a geek when you change the theme on your gf's laptop only because you know you will use it every once and a while and want it to look "cool" when you do.

you know your a geek when you get exited about getting a "new" computer even though its more that 5 years old.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

you know your a geek when you get exited about getting a "new" computer even though its more that 5 years old.

btw I bought supposedly non-working 1.6Ghz Celeron machine without RAM and HDD for Ls 5 (aka £7 or 9$)

Added 512MB old DDRs lying around and some HDD, now it is going to be my server box. (Not finished the OS... putting LFS on it)

[Trail]

...when you visit google, and without thinking you start typing "select * from...".

Well, I just did.

[SkonesMickLoud]

When you attempt to tab complete handwriting.

[cael_shadowhunter]

lost of my mates would say ur a geek if u install any linux system (outdated ubuntu=easier than any Microsoft/Mac system)

[cael_shadowhunter]

how can any1 forget alt-f4???

[scragar]

how can any1 forget alt-f4???

ALT+F4 is old news, geeks ALT+F2 and type:xkill or go to a terminal and type:ps -A | grep [PROCESSNAME]
kill PID

Of course a true geek would be running this from a terminal in the first place, so ctrl+C would be faster and easier.

[GepettoBR]

True geeks don't need to kill programs. True geeks compile their own modified versions of every program they use, and these modified programs kill themselves when they're done working.

In other words, true geeks are Orwellian governors.

[Barrucadu]

ALT+F4 is old news, geeks ALT+F2 and type:xkill or go to a terminal and type:ps -A | grep [PROCESSNAME]
kill PID

Of course a true geek would be running this from a terminal in the first place, so ctrl+C would be faster and easier.

A true geek would do this:
archangel $ cat bin/killproc
#!/bin/bash

ps -A |\
grep $1 |\
sed "s/ ? .*//" |\
xargs kill -9

If a process is misbehaving and I don't know the name, but can guess, I can kill it.

[oupsemma]

YKYAG when you're totally excited because Debian Lenny is due for release on Valentine's! Both worlds meeting!

[HavocXphere]

When you get annoyed that "sentence fragment...2nd sentence fragment...3rd etc" isn't an acceptable sentence structure in formal english.

[hatten]

You don't say that you will get a new computer, you say that you will get another =D

[s1ightcrazed]

You read this entire thread and think.... "is that all?"

[hatten]

You make a heart to put inside your computer case for valentines day <3

[mechanic]

YKYAG when you're totally excited because Debian Lenny is due for release on Valentine's! Both worlds meeting!

YKYAG when you set your post counter to zero, and everyone else wonders how you *did* that.

[scragar]

A true geek would do this:
archangel $ cat bin/killproc
#!/bin/bash

ps -A |\
grep $1 |\
sed "s/ ? .*//" |\
xargs kill -9

If a process is misbehaving and I don't know the name, but can guess, I can kill it.

How does that differ from using pkill? A true geek reuses code, not rewrites it.

[spupy]

When you stay at your computer, starting at a terminal, watching the command:
watch -n 1 'date +%s'
43 more minutes...

[jenkinbr]

Dude, give up.

Just go here: http://coolepochcountdown.com/

[hatten]

When you stay at your computer, starting at a terminal, watching the command:
watch -n 1 'date +%s'
43 more minutes...
Hey that's already past for me =P

[Rohen]

someone in your family asks you to fix "Microsoft" and you immediately feel the urge to explain the wrongness of that statement.

[GepettoBR]

someone in your family asks you to fix "Microsoft" and you immediately feel the urge to explain the wrongness of that statement.

I'd love to fix Microsoft.

[solwic]

Almost, I always say 127.0.0.1 :p

I think you know you're a geek when you actually know what 127.0.0.1 is.

:(

[gletob]

I think you know you're a geek when you actually know what 127.0.0.1 is.

:(

Home sweet home.

When you know how to decipher the industry standards for disk size and convert them to Actual filesystem measured Gigabytes within 20 seconds and no calculator.

[darth_indy]

Home sweet home.

When you know how to decipher the industry standards for disk size and convert them to Actual filesystem measured Gigabytes within 20 seconds and no calculator.

YKYAGW you know the difference between Gigabytes and Gibibytes - and that what is proclaimed on the box as 500 GB really is 500 GB! 500 GiB is an entirely different matter...

I found this out fairly recently, actually. Gigabyte is used as a synonym for gibibyte, but technically gigabyte = 10^9 = 1,000,000,000 while gibibyte = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824.

But it sure is fun to say you have a 1 tebibyte disk. And wait for people to correct you (What can I say? I'm a troublemaker!).

[jenkinbr]

Home sweet home.

When you know how to decipher the industry standards for disk size and convert them to Actual filesystem measured Gigabytes within 20 seconds and no calculator.
That would actually be localhost, sweet localhost

[scragar]

That would actually be localhost, sweet localhost

Didn't I make this point first?

[spupy]

But it sure is fun to say you have a 1 tebibyte disk. And wait for people to correct you (What can I say? I'm a troublemaker!).

You are a geek when you have no one to correct about "giga" vs "gibi", because all your friends are geeks too and they already know about SI-vs-binary.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you have a nightmare about your mom switching back to Windows after you switched her to Ubuntu. I had a dream about that a couple nights ago...

[crazyness003]

...when you find out the jukebox you have runs a customized version of linux...and are excited about it.

[hatten]

You are excited as hell because you got your hands on Linus Torvalds biography!:popcorn: After reading it 24/7 in school I'm now seen as an even bigger geek.:D

[scragar]

I got two phone calls today, one from my sister complaining that the computer is acting "funny". I told her I'll deal with it tomorrow.
Then I got a phone call from my sister again, my half brother "fixed" it, but now it's running slow.

What do you say to someone who runs windows and complains that the computers slow when she runs anti-virii etc, and complains about viruses when she doesn't?

[GepettoBR]

I got two phone calls today, one from my sister complaining that the computer is acting "funny". I told her I'll deal with it tomorrow.
Then I got a phone call from my sister again, my half brother "fixed" it, but now it's running slow.

What do you say to someone who runs windows and complains that the computers slow when she runs anti-virii etc, and complains about viruses when she doesn't?

You say "don't run Windows", obviously.

[scragar]

You say "don't run Windows", obviously.

It's got 512 ram and a 2.7Ghtz CPU, it should be plenty fast, the problem is that it's always using the page file because she loads HUGE pages in IE7 (I installed firefox, set it as default, then she's using IE again the next day, one link from MSN, she clicks OK to a box she didn't read, and now IE is the default browser again :(), and with a firewall, antivirus, spybot etc, she's running so slow her pretty quick computer is running slower than my old Pent 3 ever did.
Honestly I'm going to install kubuntu to a partition, then see if she notices :p

[GepettoBR]

It's got 512 ram and a 2.7Ghtz CPU, it should be plenty fast, the problem is that it's always using the page file because she loads HUGE pages in IE7 (I installed firefox, set it as default, then she's using IE again the next day, one link from MSN, she clicks OK to a box she didn't read, and now IE is the default browser again :(), and with a firewall, antivirus, spybot etc, she's running so slow her pretty quick computer is running slower than my old Pent 3 ever did.
Honestly I'm going to install kubuntu to a partition, then see if she notices :p

If you theme it right, she'll think you installed Vista. You can say that it's Windows 7 and se how long it takes her to find out it isn't. I remember seeing a video about two Australian guys who went around with a KDE4 laptop (didn't say what distro) and told people is was the Windows 7 beta, then asked them to compare it to Vista. All the ones that were shown said it was easier to use.


My brother just came home from school and is rather pleased with himself for having made an IRL XKCD joke. He dropped his pencil and asked his geek friend to pick it up. He said no, and my brother responded with "sudo pick up my pencil". The kid picked up his pencil. I'm so proud.

[krzysz00]

ykyagw instead of updating the [insert linux distro] as soon as it installs, you remaster the live cd so the latest packages are included

[jenkinbr]

Didn't I make this point first?

Yes, you did, but how many pages ago was that?

I was responding to something on that page.

[484]

...when you want to write <= and >= and != in your math notes.
...when it annoys you that your math teacher uses = instead of == for a question of equality.

Yes, YES, with a rage burning like the fire of one thousand suns.

[GepettoBR]

A few dozen pages ago, there was talk about how to remove spaces from filenames. I found a post with thread search but it was full of slashes and I didn't understand how to use it. I can use pyrename and such, but is there a simple way to recursively rename all files in a certain directory (and subdirectories thereof) in order to replace all spaces with underscores?

[hatten]

"Bulk Rename"?
At least for removing from music files, but i thunk it works for more than that. Get it with synaptic

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you get exited about burning .001337mol of candle wax in chemistry. We burned a birthday candle for exactly five minutes, and the mass lost equaled 0.001337 moles of C20H42. :popcorn:

[crazyness003]

Ykyagw you get exited about burning .001337mol of candle wax in chemistry. We burned a birthday candle for exactly five minutes, and the mass lost equaled 0.001337 moles of C20H42. :popcorn:
Nice! Did the wax actually burn (or combust) or did it just melt away and the experiment flawed?

You know you're a geek when you laugh everytime you watch a windows commercial. Its just funneh.

Kinda like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

[Kopachris]

Nice! Did the wax actually burn (or combust) or did it just melt away and the experiment flawed?

You know you're a geek when you laugh everytime you watch a windows commercial. Its just funneh.

Kinda like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
Yep, it actually burned! We mounted the candle on a piece of aluminum foil, and measured the mass of the candle and aluminum foil before and after. Plus, I didn't see any wax spill over the edge, anyway. ;) Most of the questions in the lab packet referred (how come Iceweasel's spell check isn't working?) to things that I have researched before. It was such things as "how would a flame behave in zero-g?" and "is it the wax or the wick burning?" and "if the wax is burning, what purpose does the wick serve?". :)


I just installed Debian Lenny today. What a pain in the a** to set up my Linksys WUSB54GC card (which I am half-convinced is overheating). (Actually, once I finally found out how to do it (there are a lot of false instructions floating around), it wasn't actually that hard. It was as if I had eaten an Altoid (a slap to the cerebellum!)). I still can't get Compiz going (might not be using the right ATI driver?), but oh, well; I'm just using this as a drydock for the construction of my own distro.

[crazyness003]

Yep, it actually burned! We mounted the candle on a piece of aluminum foil, and measured the mass of the candle and aluminum foil before and after. Plus, I didn't see any wax spill over the edge, anyway. ;) Most of the questions in the lab packet referred (how come Iceweasel's spell check isn't working?) to things that I have researched before. It was such things as "how would a flame behave in zero-g?" and "is it the wax or the wick burning?" and "if the wax is burning, what purpose does the wick serve?". :)


I just installed Debian Lenny today. What a pain in the a** to set up my Linksys WUSB54GC card (which I am half-convinced is overheating). (Actually, once I finally found out how to do it (there are a lot of false instructions floating around), it wasn't actually that hard. It was as if I had eaten an Altoid (a slap to the cerebellum!)). I still can't get Compiz going (might not be using the right ATI driver?), but oh, well; I'm just using this as a drydock for the construction of my own distro.

shwiggy!

Oh and flame looks teh roxor in 0G, esp if you burn cobalt-salt

[Kopachris]

shwiggy!

Oh and flame looks teh roxor in 0G, esp if you burn cobalt-salt
Someone did an experiment and found out that flames burn hotter in 0g, too. It's because the minute air currents on the station are less turbulent. Aside from that, there's also no buoyancy to take hot air away from the flame.

[feelshift]

You know you're a geek when you are annoyed because your notes aren't syntax highlighted. ;)

[krzysz00]

ykyagw you're actually ticked off about the (as an example) the HD people defining KB as 10^3 when they can make slightly friggin hard drives and have KB defined as 2^10 the way it should be.
2. You wish English (or any language) used parentheses in the programmers sense so this sentence (possibly substituting curly brackets for parentheses for distinction):
a or b near c.Which was intended to mean:
a near c or b near c.Could simply be rewritten like:
{a or b} near c3. You notice a slight mod. to the last quote would yield valid shell code.

[bgs100]

You know you're a geek when you dream about compiling (or running, for python n' such) some code without getting errors from real life

[krzysz00]

ykyagw you (sadly) missed 1234567890 day, so you decide to wait for 9876543210 day.

[raul_]

ykyagw you (sadly) missed 1234567890 day, so you decide to wait for 9876543210 day.

You always have the Fibonacci series (12358....)

[crazyness003]

You always have the Fibonacci series (12358....)
good point!

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you wish you could get food with gnutella. :popcorn:

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you feel absolutely no shame about torturing a poor Vista computer with a fork bomb. I dropped "%0|%0" in the shell, and it cried out for mercy, but I wouldn't stop... :twisted:

(Also, BUMP!)

[GepettoBR]

Bad Kopachris! Bad boy!

[jenkinbr]

Sheer torture.

(googles 'Fork Bomb terminal') to learn more. I know what they are, but I want to learn more...

[hatten]

note: dangerous command ahead, don't execute if you don't want a crashed or frozen system!!

i ran :(){ :|:& };: in the terminal at my other computer (archlinux), after working for a while it spat out several lines of "-bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" I switched to tty2 and killed the process with "killall" ^^

not even forkbobmbs can stop me!

@jenkinbr, can you use *googles fork bomb terminal* to indicate that you are doing something?, i thought for a few minutes before realizing what you meant.

YKYAGWY complains at people for using ('s instead of *'s
You laugh yourself to sleep after reading a chapter or two in a windows 98 manual

[darth_indy]

You laugh yourself to sleep after reading a chapter or two in a windows 98 manual

I read part of a Windows ME manual recently. Really, should be nominated for Best Comedy Book Evar.

[tuxsheadache]

I read part of a Windows ME manual recently. Really, should be nominated for Best Comedy Book Evar.

Install XP and watch itself boast how awesome it is when it's installing... laugh a minute!

[jenkinbr]

Been There, Done Thet

"With Windows XP, it is now easier then ever to ..." blah blah blah :P:P:P!

[GammaRay256]

Been There, Done Thet

"With Windows XP, it is now easier then ever to ..." blah blah blah :P:P:P!

I find it's funny that Microsoft constantly says:
"Windows Vista makes it easier, safer, and more entertaining blah blah blah."

Notice how they say safer, to me, that's implying that it's still not safe, just a little safer than before ;).

Anyways, you know you're a geek when you criticize Microsoft for everything, even word usage :).

[crazyness003]

ykyag when you refuse to have a company host your website unless they run it on a linux server

[Frak]

ykyag when you setup a cluster in your own home. I'm running with 4 PowerMac G4's (though, the lack of the ability to be "headless" without a VGA terminator is p*$%ing me off).

[krzysz00]

Guys, I have no cash now, is the dump a good source for parts.

int main()
{
main();
return 0;
}

Segnamtation Fault

[Kopachris]

ykyag when you setup a cluster in your own home. I'm running with 4 PowerMac G4's (though, the lack of the ability to be "headless" without a VGA terminator is p*$%ing me off).
Ykyagw you build a fusion reactor in your own home.
(Still working on design, I also need a lot of cash...)

[mechanic]

...the sight of a decent new version (Kubuntu Jaunty alpha 5) makes you go weak at the knees with the thought of all that customising pleasure to come!

[RalGrad]

you use your uptime instead of a normal clock for cooking tea.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

you use your uptime instead of a normal clock for cooking tea.
or you code a tea daemon to do this for you!

and RalGrad, Welcome to Ubuntu Forums!

[GepettoBR]

how does one "cook" tea?

[Kopachris]

how does one "cook" tea?
I just put the bag in a cup of water and microwave it for a couple minutes.

[raul_]

I just put the bag in a cup of water and microwave it for a couple minutes.

You're supposed to heat the water first and then put the bag in the cup and let it rest.

[qbit-]

When you don't find your pickpocket and, for a second, you visualize in your mind the tracker's screen in which you write "pickpocket"...
but you are really a geek when this thing happens so often that you don't worry about it. :shock:

[qbit-]

My brother (not a geek) just suggests me this phrase:
you know you are a geek when you like to lose your time reading phrases in a funny post of ubuntuforums.org :-#

[GepettoBR]

I just put the bag in a cup of water and microwave it for a couple minutes.

Ah, yes. That would be cooking. But I believe the correct way of preparing tea is by heating the water before infusing the leaves (or teabag in your case).

[Kopachris]

Ah, yes. That would be cooking. But I believe the correct way of preparing tea is by heating the water before infusing the leaves (or teabag in your case).
Eh, it still works just fine for the once-a-year-or-so that I drink tea.

[gjoellee]

You can use Windows Vista without crashing it!

[GepettoBR]

You can use Windows Vista without crashing it!

That doesn't take being a geek, that takes being a robot from the future.

[talsemgeest]

YKYAGW you can hack windows while drunk.

Then again, maybe that's not something to brag about...

[scragar]

You can use Windows Vista without crashing it!

Huh? I thought the geeky thing is to crash windows because it can't keep up with you(although that doesn't take much :p).

[crazyness003]

you know you're not part of the collective when you hack windows...then you realized you just did it for the 4000th time....so lame.

ykyagw you get angry when people ALWAYS use MS word for everything and send you attachments in .docx (proprietary garbage)

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

You can use Windows Vista without crashing it!

or going to other extreme...

you crash everything... if it (whatever it is) doesn't by itself, you stress it until it does! Just because you can, and have fun!
but then again, a no-brainer all-button presser maniac could do the same...

[darth_indy]

YKYAGW you crash stuff on purpose - that's the key!

Or your download virii on purpose in a VM to see it kill the VM. Hee hee. Fun.

[SpyterM4N]

There is a big difference between knowing when you are a geek, and knowing you are a jackass ^_^ but its all in good fun anyway.

[darth_indy]

There is a big difference between knowing when you are a geek, and knowing you are a jackass ^_^ but its all in good fun anyway.

True... Modified: YKYAGW you crash your stuff on purpose.

[crazyness003]

...whenever you hear/see "Super User", you automatically think of sudo.
I opened an online bank account, and it asked me who the Super User should be.

[okamishadow]

When you commit a mistake [cooking, in the school, writing a paper or something... anything] and your brain told you "ctrl+Z and try again"... later you realize you're in the world... :biggrin:

[crazyness003]

When you commit a mistake [cooking, in the school, writing a paper or something... anything] and your brain told you "ctrl+Z and try again"... later you realize you're in the world... :biggrin:
:lolflag:

[Eisenwinter]

True... Modified: YKYAGW you crash your stuff on purpose.
How does that make you a geek? I don't crash my systems on purpose.

[hatten]

How does that make you a geek? I don't crash my systems on purpose.
modified: YKYAGW you crash your stuff on purpose so that you can fix it.

[darth_indy]

modified: YKYAGW you crash your stuff on purpose so that you can fix it.

Thanks. Re-remodification accepted. I must need more caffeine :)

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you publish bugfixes for YKYAGW comments. :roll:

[renkinjutsu]

when you open up the system monitor the moment you hear a change in pitch in your cpu/fan and you like to check how much RAM is being used and also kill evolution-data-server whenever you see it running =[

[scphan]

when you take apart your pc every month to clean it including the ram, vid card, sound card, card fans, etc. to give it a permance boost

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

when you take apart your pc every month to clean it including the ram, vid card, sound card, card fans, etc. to give it a permance boost

And I thought it was a standard procedure...

[crazyness003]

And I thought it was a standard procedure...
ykyag when you code a script to do this for you automatically...but then realize nanobots aren't as widespread as you initially thought

[SpenceMakesSense]

When you've threatened to plant viruses on someones computer online. Then ACTUALLY do it :D

[RhysGM]

You completely wipe your hard drive of Windows and then install Linux and spend a week getting everything working, the way it always did in XP.

[GepettoBR]

You completely wipe your hard drive of Windows and then install Linux and spend a week getting everything working, the way it always did in XP.

And feel damn great about it.

[r1ch]

... you feel that guilty and extremely secret moment of joy when you're asked to put aside the java work for a day and do something in COBOL...

...aaah the secret pleasure denied to us by all this fancy modern stuff!

[scragar]

... you feel that guilty and extremely secret moment of joy when you're asked to put aside the java work for a day and do something in COBOL...

...aaah the secret pleasure denied to us by all this fancy modern stuff!

COBOL? Bah, tell me when you return to BASIC.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

COBOL? Bah, tell me when you return to BASIC.

I could be guilty with this one! :D
I do some BASIC once i while. And it is still language I know best... though I am learning C++ now, and it is radically different.

[10nitro]

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

Having parts left over is proof you made it better.

I consider myself a "nurd."
The word geek implies someone who is socially inept.
No, it doesn't. Also, the correct spelling is "nerd". Please read a dictionary before posting pointless comments like this.

"nurd" is an archaic spelling common the mid-60s.

DORK: socially inept
NERD: Someone who specializes in a particular field, but is not necessarily an intelligent/mentally rounded.
GEEK: Passionate about knowledge, learning.

Often people point out that there is a distinction between intelligence an knowledge. Nerd is the knowledge side, geek is the intelligence side.
Nerd is generally used in a semi-derogatory sense.

However, the definitions of the 3 terms have swapped over time.

Many claim that the word "nerd" first appeared in Dr. Seuss' 1950 If I Ran the Zoo. The term in actuality, predates the book.
The word nerd seems to have developed at Renselaer Polytechnic Institute (http://www.rpi.edu/) (RPI).

The earliest known reference to nerd is the name "Snerd" in joke in a 1945 issue of the RPI magazine Running Light. It is clear from the joke that the term meant socially inept, the current definition of "dork".

In 1952 the RPI's magazine became Bachelor (http://web.archive.org/web/20071116093411/http://www.drkenner.com/html/rpi_bachelor.htm), which was a geek magazine up until 1967, when it became a hippie magazine.

In the fall of '63, the word tool, both as a noun and as a verb, was in widespread usage, with supertool commonly used to refer to the pocket-protector, side-rule-on-the-belt types. By the second semester, I remember starting to hear nerd as an alternative to supertool. A year (or less) later, and no one was referred to as a tool.


While Schmidt used a modern spelling in his email, period issues of Bachelor show that the spelling of the time was "nurd". The first instance of the term appearing in the Bachelor is in 1964 when a character named Nurdly appeared in a parody of West Side Story. After that the term "nurd" appeared several times, not as a name.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070211050132/http://www.drkenner.com/assets/images/14-1_Homecoming_65_rear_cover_100dpi_gray_250x323_com p60.jpg

In 1965 a Bachelor writer named Jack Gleb wrote a James Bond parody called "The Wedge: The Simplest of Tools". The main character, the Wedge, belonged to the species "Homo nurdus etraordinaire". Notice Gleb's use of "u" in nerd, conformance with the norm. Also, note that this started the use of the term without a negative connotation, however, it would remain negative in most uses for some time.

In 1966 he wrote a sequel titled "The Man from N.E.R.D." Around this time Bachelor writers began to consistently use "nerd" as a description of themselves. MIT's Voodoo magazine was using "nurd", this likely evolved into "gnurd", a term used at MIT, with obvious relation to the GNU project.

At an unknown time at RPI, "knurd" referred to someone who was new to college life; fresh out of high school. Despite what some may think, it has entirely different origins than "nerd", though both originated at RPI. Some claim "knurd" is derived from "drunk" spelled backwords.

At some point "knurd" began to mean "geek" in a positive sense. Orally, this likely merged with "nurd", assisting the transition from socially inept to the modern meaning of "geek".

Prior to this, "geek" seems to have held its modern meaning. However, once "nerd" took a (slightly) positive meaning, "geek" took a more negative one. Somehow this resulted in the two words having inverted definitions. Nerd continued to grow a positive connotation until the late-80s (around the time of Revenge of the nerds).

By the early-90s, however, the meanings of the two again began to swap, taking on their modern meanings and connotations.

... That's how I know I'm a geek.

[GepettoBR]

... That's how I know I'm a geek.

No argument from me... :D

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you're mobo fries and you make your own to replace it (using the same circuitry). (I want to try that some day... (Saw it on Blake Holsey High a while back, wanted to try it ever since)).

[lisati]

The word geek implies someone who is socially inept.

Social ineptness isn't monopolised by geeks. Sometimes it's a symptom or byproduct of other stuff like Asperger's Syndrome (yay!)

[empthollow]

you make jokes that no avg person will understand like this -

Windows is doing the same thing over and over and GETTING different results

[pbpersson]

you know you are a geek when your dogs/cats are named:

Fedora
Mandriva
Ubuntu
Mepis

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW instead of laughing you say "lol"
I don't do it but it's really annoying when some people at college do it
Alternatively, some people just say "that's so funny" which isn't geeky but equally annoying.

[GepettoBR]

YKYAGW you buy this t-shirt:
http://fc71.deviantart.com/fs44/f/2009/074/0/0/Pink_Freud_by_Calibre_Not_Output.jpg

I did and I'm damn proud of it, though I think it would be even cooler if it didn't say "Pink Freud". Then it'd also serve as a geek detector: if someone reacts to it, they're a geek.

[SlickRick]

:D I reacted before I could make out what it said

[GepettoBR]

:D I reacted before I could make out what it said

See, that's why nothing should be written. Congratulations on passing the Pink Freud geek test.

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you distract yourself from writing an essay about HCI with math assignment

[LouisZepher]

...Pink Freud...
Ah, yes. The man responsible for the Matilda Mother complex...

[GepettoBR]

Ah, yes. The man responsible for the Matilda Mother complex...

:lolflag:

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you answer the phone with "ahoy ahoy"

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

YKYAGW you answer the phone with "ahoy ahoy"
hmm... does "aye aye matey" also count?

I do that, but I fail to see how it is geeky...

[talsemgeest]

You definitely know you're a geek when you get scared when a mod temporarily closes the YKYAGW thread.

Also, ykya IRC geek when you use "/me" in RL conversation.

[scragar]

You definitely know you're a geek when you get scared when a mod temporarily closes the YKYAGW thread.

Also, ykya IRC geek when you use "/me" in RL conversation.

Someone closed the thread?

[talsemgeest]

Someone closed the thread?
Yeah, just so one of the mods could do some housework. Nothing too major I hope...

[SlickRick]

Also, ykya IRC geek when you use "/me" in RL conversation.

someone I know sometimes says "forward slash cry" to signify disappointment

Also, YKYAGW you use lolspeak in real life.This was probly mentioned b4 but I can actually hold long conversations with people using lolspeak and doing a high-pitched, cat-like voice too.

[darth_indy]

Also, ykya IRC geek when you use "/me" in RL conversation.

I've actually caught myself, when writing essays and such, using "/me" as a shortcut for typing in my name.

[GepettoBR]

I've actually caught myself, when writing essays and such, using "/me" as a shortcut for typing in my name.

I do that a lot.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I've actually caught myself, when writing essays and such, using "/me" as a shortcut for typing in my name.
In addition of me using "/me" both in text and speech, I do another thing - bit specific to me.
I sometimes talk about myself in 3rd person, referring to myself as "LM" (or also "slash me")... like "Let's go to LM to drink beer!" instead of "Let's go to my place to drink beer!"

"LM" is a part of my nickname... and it doesn't stand for anything really if anyone wonders :)

so you know you're a geek... or simply insane... (or both) when you do something like that above.

[phantom3113]

You know you're a geek when you get a shiny new appliance or whatnot and look for the man pages instead of the intstructions. :D http://xkcd.com/293/

[LouisZepher]

/title you're the 5245th person to post in this such a tread, and you still think you're being witty and original...

[bendib]

When you seriously think about upgrading the BIOS on your cat
When you wish there was a menu bar at the top of every room.
When you look for ctrl z when you say something you didn't mean to.
you look for /usr/share/themes to change your face
You look for the mouse on your schooldesk
You cry when your laptop battery dies
You go to fries screaming GATES IS SATAN! STEVE BALLMER IS THE ANTICHRIST!
You use the web on your phone more than calling
You try to avoid taking out the trash by dropping garbage in the trash while holding down the shift key on your phone
When you wake up you could swear you see linux boot messages scrolling down your eyes and then "Welcome to Fedora core 5"

[SlickRick]

I get that last one, It's perfectly normal because when you look at something a lot and if you don't get enough sleep then it seems to appear in front of you when in a state of not thinking much I.E. when waking up

YKYAGW you write this at the risk of missing your bus to college

I don't know if I actually made sense just now because I've just woken up

[vlearner]

YKYAGW you buy this t-shirt:

I did and I'm damn proud of it, though I think it would be even cooler if it didn't say "Pink Freud". Then it'd also serve as a geek detector: if someone reacts to it, they're a geek.

lol epic, would be a cool Geek Detector without "Pink Freud" :D

YKYAGW when you wish you could google to search for your lost door key :D

[_noob_]

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

You reply with...So what kinda O/S do you have.
In all honesty I have actually done this on MANY occasions.... It's sad but I am who I wish to be :)


your definition of "leisure" sums up in two words: linux and anime.

OH GOD GIVE ME TEH LINUX AND GIVE ME TEH ANIME!!! Please. ;)

You tell random strangers "Why linux is better then windows" without proper provocation.

[furcino]

You store your spare capacitors and resistors in a Darth Weider-head container.
(And I am not even that much into star wars...)

You're thinking about getting a tatoo that writes your name out in binary ascii.
(I even made designs... but decided not to)

You install various linux distributions into each of your usb disks.
(I have like 4 of them and managed to squeeze a linux dist even into a 500MB one.)

You try to find a meaning of the time-traveling binary from Futurama for more than half an hour.