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

[Botbob89]

YGYAGW first thing you do when you get up is turn on your computer and update your sources

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

YGYAGW first thing you do when you get up is turn on your computer and update your sources
geeks don't turn on computer... unless it is brand new, or there was a major power failure :)

[jenkinbr]

geeks don't turn on computer... unless it is brand new, or there was a major power failure :)
+1

Mines been going for 6 days. (I just moved my computer to a different location) Before that, I had a few problems with Xorg, and had to reboot into recovery mode to fix them. Before that, I had her going since the last Ibex kernel update from 2.6.27-10 to -11

[Bodsda]

YKYAGW you have aliased apt-get install to 'i can haz'

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW you have aliased apt-get install to 'i can haz'
:lolflag: I'm gonna have to do that!!!

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you have aliased apt-get install to 'i can haz'

how can you do that?

[jenkinbr]

add the line

alias 'i can haz'=`sudo apt-get install`
to your ~/.bashrc file should do it.

[SlickRick]

add the line

alias 'i can haz'=`sudo apt-get install`
to your ~/.bashrc file should do it.

oh, I'm gonna have fun with this :D

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW you have aliased apt-get install to 'i can haz'
YKYAGW you write #!/bin/bash
echo "<inseart list of packages to install here>"; to the file '~/bin/cheezburger'. Then chmod it to 0744.

then, using the above, run 'i can haz' `cheezburger`

[dacorr]

I still prefer the term scientist

[lisati]

ykyagw .... when you find yourself talking back to the reporter on the TV correcting their choice of words or explanations.

[jenkinbr]

ykyagw .... when you find yourself talking back to the reporter on the TV correcting their choice of words or explanations.
Been there, done that.

[krzysz00]

<snip>

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).

<snip>
The underlined segment (now bolded) is almost indistinguishable from a link in current stylesheet . Make it more obvious that it's not a link.
YKYAGW you style-correct people's posts

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW yur .bashrc file now looks like dis
alias do_want='sudo apt-get install'
alias do_not_want='sudo apt-get remove'
alias i_can_haz='sudo apt-get install'
alias im_in_yur='cd'
alias kthxbai='exit'
alias invisbl='fg' #send job to foreground
alias visabl='echo'
alias caturday='date'
alias not_amuzed='killall'
alias oh_noez='reboot'
alias nomnomnom='rm'
alias rly='sudo'

If anyone haz suggestions on how I could improve it, plz feel free to mention them but those are the commands I mostly use. Apart from 'fg' but I couldn't have visabl and not have invisabl.

[gjoellee]

ykyagw...you write "You know you're a geek when as" "ykyagw"

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW yur .bashrc file now looks like dis
alias 'DO WANT'=`apt-get install`
alias 'DO NOT WANT'=`apt-get remove`
alias 'i can haz'=`apt-get install`
alias 'im in yur'=`cd`
alias 'kthxbai'=`exit`
alias 'invisbl'=`fg` #send job to foreground
alias 'visabl'=`echo`
alias 'caturday'=`date`
alias 'not amuzed'=`killall`
alias 'oh noez!!!1!!'=`reboot`
alias 'nom nom nom'=`rm`

If anyone haz suggestions on how I could improve it, plz feel free to mention them but those are the commands I mostly use. Apart from 'fg' but I couldn't have visabl and not have invisabl.
:lolflag:!!!!lol!!!1!!:lolflag:

that's awsome!!!

[SlickRick]

i edited the post to make them all work properly, all of em should work.
Best way to spend a half hour :P

[jenkinbr]

How did you try calling it at the command line(originals)?

I liked them better the other way. They looked better, even if they were syntactilly incorrect.

Oh well...

[GepettoBR]

geeks don't turn on computer... unless it is brand new, or there was a major power failure :)

I'm a green geek. I leave the PC on from when I get up to right before I go to bed (even if I'm not using it, the Folding@Home client is always running) but it's off during the night to save energy.

[GepettoBR]

YKYAGW yur .bashrc file now looks like dis
alias do_want='sudo apt-get install'
alias do_not_want='sudo apt-get remove'
alias i_can_haz='sudo apt-get install'
alias im_in_yur='cd'
alias kthxbai='exit'
alias invisbl='fg' #send job to foreground
alias visabl='echo'
alias caturday='date'
alias not_amuzed='killall'
alias oh_noez='reboot'
alias nomnomnom='rm'
alias rly='sudo'

If anyone haz suggestions on how I could improve it, plz feel free to mention them but those are the commands I mostly use. Apart from 'fg' but I couldn't have visabl and not have invisabl.

I tip my hat to you, and I have some suggestions:

alias longcat='less'
alias all_ur_base='cd /'
alias d00d='man'
alias lolcat='cat'
alias OC='sudo apt-get update'
alias srs_bsns='sudo su'

EDIT: Does alias accept wildcards? If so,
alias wat $1='$1 --help'
is also funneh.

[SlickRick]

How did you try calling it at the command line(originals)?

I liked them better the other way. They looked better, even if they were syntactilly incorrect.

Oh well...

at least they work now, that's a bit more important because a lot of people I know are into lolcats and if they ever see me using the shell, they'll be intrigued. At which point I could say 'I bet windows can't do that' ;)

YKYAGW you act smug at people because you can do awsum stufs wif computzorz
YKYAGW you make a thread dedicated to these aliases (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6924592#post6924592). Hopefully I'll get at least a few people interested.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I'm a green geek. I leave the PC on from when I get up to right before I go to bed (even if I'm not using it, the Folding@Home client is always running) but it's off during the night to save energy.

Well that's good!
In my country we use mostly replenishable energy. Only reason to save energy... probably to save money, cause the "economic crisis" is kicking my darn ****! :@
But I don't quite qualify as green geek no matter what! :)

[GepettoBR]

Well that's good!
In my country we use mostly replenishable energy. Only reason to save energy... probably to save money, cause the "economic crisis" is kicking my darn ****! :@
But I don't quite qualify as green geek no matter what! :)

Well, the greater part of Brazil's energy matrix is supplied by hydrothermal plants, but until we're 100% clean, every lightbulb is a polluting factor.

[scragar]

EDIT: Does alias accept wildcards? If so,
alias wat $1='$1 --help'
is also funneh.

No, but you could write a bash script to do that for you...

#!/bin/bash
$1 --help

[talsemgeest]

YKYAGW yur .bashrc file now looks like dis
alias do_want='sudo apt-get install'
alias do_not_want='sudo apt-get remove'
alias i_can_haz='sudo apt-get install'
alias im_in_yur='cd'
alias kthxbai='exit'
alias invisbl='fg' #send job to foreground
alias visabl='echo'
alias caturday='date'
alias not_amuzed='killall'
alias oh_noez='reboot'
alias nomnomnom='rm'
alias rly='sudo'

If anyone haz suggestions on how I could improve it, plz feel free to mention them but those are the commands I mostly use. Apart from 'fg' but I couldn't have visabl and not have invisabl.
Take a look at lolcode, that's sure to give you ideas...

[kpatz]

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.If he was a true geek, he would have asked you for your password before picking up your pencil. :D

On the aliases, I thought of one: alias please='sudo'

You know you're a geek when you assign ID codes to your crushes in school: HHC-83, MDC-89, etc.

You know you're a geek when you install Cygwin on your work PC so you can run bash scripts to help do your work.

[linuxdude96]

you know you are a geek when you have seen every single star trek episode ever made 10 times. and you know you are a geek when you read this!

[lisati]

you know you are a geek when you have seen every single star trek episode ever made 10 times. and you know you are a geek when you read this!

/me Wanders off, quietly muttering something incomprehensible about boldly going where no lawyer has gone before.

[Kopachris]

/me Wanders off, quietly muttering something incomprehensible about boldly going where no lawyer has gone before.
Hey, when they goin' to Boldlygo? They ain't never been to Boldlygo.

[shark1997]

You know when you are a geek when::

You fail a math test because you wrote in binary

You use the "shutdown -h now" coomand instead of clicking on the Shutdown button

You try to figure out how to compile the Window$ kernel

You umount a Usb drive instead of pulling it out

You give yourself 100gb swap space to go faster

You are on the computer 17 hours in a day

You try to put Ubuntu on your cell phone

You correct a teacher in computer science

You buy a 64bit heart when your 32bit one dies

You overclock your flashlight

You call 911 when your kernel doesnt compile

[jenkinbr]

You umount a Usb drive instead of pulling it out

You give yourself 100gb swap space to go faster

You try to put Ubuntu on your cell phone

The USB one: I've lost/corrupted plenty of data doing that. I ALWAYS unmount and wait for it to stop blinking.

100GB swap: Like that will make anything go faster...

Cell Phone: I wish...
But some phones will!

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you install μClinux onto your psp just for the hell of it and even though you can't do much with it

[scphan]

you sudo shutdown -h now instead of clicking on the menu and then shutdown because it makes you feel l33t

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you understand these jokes and actually laugh at them
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91105&highlight=jail&page=2

[jenkinbr]

LOL

We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity -- so UP yours, Microsoft!
is my favorite.

[rocketflame]

When you understood all of the above

[GepettoBR]

When you understood all of the above

http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/do-not-want-dog.jpg

[sisco311]

YKYAGW you understand these jokes and actually laugh at them
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91105&highlight=jail&page=2

"Hey baby! Wanna root?"
y
unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;spray ;umount;eject;sleep

[Marlonsm]

You've read all 529 pages of this thread just to know each ones are true about you.

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW you add 'ykyagw' to the thread tags.

then again, maybe not, but it's there now. ;)

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you spend so much time on the computer, turn away for a second, turn back and start typing on the Scotish smoked mackarel fillets you were just eating. :D

Not too geeky but wanted to share in the laugh

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

...when after watching a movie, you search for it in wikipedia for more info, but end up reading absolutely non-related articles for 3 hours!

[Kopachris]

...when after watching a movie, you search for it in wikipedia for more info, but end up reading absolutely non-related articles for 3 hours!
Guilty as charged!

Ykyagw making a Linux Distro is higher on your priorities list than getting your driver's license.

[crazyness003]

ykyag when you look at a banquet hall and immediately visualize the number of lan boxes fit for a massive geek-festive lan party!

[jms1989]

Wow you guys are a trip.

Here mine...

You pout or cry when your new pc is starting to collect dust on its internals before its a month old.

You try to install linux on your parents pc because you can prove it can run faster and better then the bloat they call windows.

You try to convert your entire family to linux so you can ssh in to administer them from your own box(s). :)

You are your job's electronics expert even though you work in retail or similar work.

[talsemgeest]

You pout or cry when your new pc is starting to collect dust on its internals before its a month old.

Nah, that's just when I whip out my can of compressed air... ;)

You try to install linux on your parents pc because you can prove it can run faster and better then the bloat they call windows.

Nah, that was easy. I just used remastersys to create a custom ubuntu cd which was themed to look like windows xp, which they were used to. That made the switch a lot easier for them.

You try to convert your entire family to linux so you can ssh in to administer them from your own box(s). :)

Done and done ;)

[vividia]

You try to convert your entire family to linux so you can ssh in to administer them from your own box(s). :)


Guilty as charged!

[lisati]

...when after watching a movie, you search for it in wikipedia for more info, but end up reading absolutely non-related articles for 3 hours!

...or get similarly distracted while double-checking an answer you're about to give to a noob's request for help

[RomanSB]

You have to help the 'technical support' figure out what they're doing

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

You have to help the 'technical support' figure out what they're doing

That's a classic! I've always wondered what monkeys sit on the other side (at MS or my ISP "tech support").
They probably deal (or they think they do) with dump people with trivial problems. But when a moderately smart person calls with actual problem... they're in trouble!

[crazyness003]

I especially enjoy it when they agree with what you told them, but suggesst a totally random solution.
ex:
me: the motherboard is fried.
ts: Are you sure?
me: yeah, im not getting a read on my wifi in any OS and when I tried the card in another mobo, it worked.
ts: I guess you're right. The motherboard is at fault. Unplug your computer and hold down the power button for 5 seconds.
me:....
ts: now, bust out your hoodoo hex bag, and say this incantation WORD FOR WORD.
me: <hang up>

[jenkinbr]

You have to help the 'technical support' figure out what they're doing

/me is guilty.

I especially enjoy it when they agree with what you told them, but suggesst a totally random solution.
ex:
me: the motherboard is fried.
ts: Are you sure?
me: yeah, im not getting a read on my wifi in any OS and when I tried the card in another mobo, it worked.
ts: I guess you're right. The motherboard is at fault. Unplug your computer and hold down the power button for 5 seconds.
me:....
ts: now, bust out your hoodoo hex bag, and say this incantation WORD FOR WORD.
me: <hang up>

:lolflag:

[GepettoBR]

That's a classic! I've always wondered what monkeys sit on the other side (at MS or my ISP "tech support").
They probably deal (or they think they do) with dump people with trivial problems. But when a moderately smart person calls with actual problem... they're in trouble!

I love tech support, especially for my ISP.

"Okay, so what version of Windows are you running?"
"None. I run Linux."
"Well, that's your problem, our modems only support Windows."
"The modem is connected to a router. The LAN works. The problem is with your network or your modem, not with me."
"One moment please"
*talks to someone else for a few minutes*
"Yes, I'm sorry. Apparently our lines are down in your area for maitenance, they should be back in a few hours."

If I ever go on a murderous rampage, this will be one of the reasons.

[jenkinbr]

"Well, that's your problem, our [modems | other hardware] only support Windows."

I hate that line.

[GepettoBR]

I hate that line.

Especially since the only thing a broadband modem has to support is ethernet cables :roll:

[crazyness003]

I hate that line.
My warranty was "voided" because I got rid of Vista and installed Ubuntu.
Tech support even asked me to "install the vista" once. I laughed.
I wanna meet one of them tech support monkeys one day and say:
Hey, I appreciate what you do for all the non-geeks, but seriously, you're a disgrace to our kind. If you dont know something, and get cornered, at least say RTFM. You will just be ignored. But when you try all sorts of stuff you have written on the flowcharts, its just too hard to resist.
Anyway. I remembered something. In a country I frequently visit in Europe, they call geeks "Hakera", reffering to Hackers. I find that funneh.

[misterhead]

Ykyagw...

...you are reading through the posts on this thread and see one that starts with "Ykyagw" and don't even think twice about what it means.

or

...you are reading through the posts on this thread and think, "Well that's not really THAT geeky, is it?".

or

...you are reading through the posts on this thread... PERIOD

[crazyness003]

ykyakw you dream in binary.

[GepettoBR]

you are reading through the posts on this thread... PERIOD

http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/do-not-want-dog.jpg

Must there be one of these for every ten pages?

[Jay_Rock]

Your I geek when you can use the CLI for more then five minutes to get things done.

PS. I know you geeks have a photo of a server room or bad pc part on you phone. It got there when you were going to email it so tech support person.

[crazyness003]

ykyagw warranty means another roadblock on the path of freedom.

[s.fox]

you read through the previous 5311 replies to this thread.

[applecake]

you read the previous 5312 posts, and forgot to read the last one..

[talsemgeest]

you read through the previous 5311 replies to this thread.
Eek.

[scragar]

Your I geek when you can use the CLI for more then five minutes to get things done.

Huh? You mean I don't have to use the command line?

Seriously, currently just using the command line, w3m for web, Postfix+Fetchmail for emails, finch for MSN+IRC, vim for text editing, rtorrent for torrents... I'm going to start X in a while to watch a DVD, but then I think I'm going to drop back to the command line, I should check my RSS feeds while I've got access to it as well, I need a command line RSSfeed reader, and ideas?

[jenkinbr]

you read through the previous 5311 replies to this thread.

you read the previous 5312 posts, and forgot to read the last one..

Please, for the love of GEEKDOM, come up with something unique!!!

Lines like that have been grossly overused in this thread...

[darth_indy]

Please, for the love of GEEKDOM, come up with something unique!!!

Lines like that have been grossly overused in this thread...

Indeed. Don't make me take out the baseball bat again.

YKYAGW you have to edit a piece of art for a Photoshop class, and the first thing you think of is M.C. Escher:

<shameless plug>
http://darth-indy.deviantart.com/art/M-C-Escher-Out-of-Bounds-1-117082050
http://darth-indy.deviantart.com/art/M-C-Escher-Out-of-Bounds-2-117082194
</shameless plug>

[Chame_Wizard]

When you a buy a new PSP Silver Slim&Lite and USB connecting isn't working well.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

In a country I frequently visit in Europe, they call geeks "Hakera", reffering to Hackers. I find that funneh.

I'm pretty sure it is the same here... :D
Our national word for either geek or nerd is considered offensive, so people tend to call us hackers.
Besides I tend to hack stuff up :D

[Mulenmar]

1. You optimize the Win98 on a CyrixMII-133 w/32MB RAM and make it able to do most things (Word, Paint, etc) as fast as your grandfather's 400-Mhz AMD-K6-2 w/256MB RAM

2. You replace the WinXP on your laptop with a heavily optimized Win98...and shrink it to 60MB.

3. You install Ubuntu on your old Dell Latitude C600 w/Pent3Coppermine laptop and make it able to do things XP could barely dream of...in as much memory as Win98.

4. You cry yourself to sleep because the 3com Ethernet adaptor permanently burned out from downloading gigs of Ubuntu packages. (Now that's just sad.)

5. You feel like laughing when you ask someone what kind of computer they have and they say, "I dunno...a Windows XP?"

[SlickRick]

5. You feel like laughing when you ask someone what kind of computer they have and they say, "I dunno...a Windows XP?"

That last one is a common one. We had to do a survey thing at college to see which is the most popular OS. Out of one hundred people asked, 3 answered firefox,two gave the middle finger and about 20 said "ummm...I dunno...it looks like that" and pointed at the computer in front of them running XP. But at least I found another person using Linux on that survey :lolflag:

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

5. You feel like laughing when you ask someone what kind of computer they have and they say, "I dunno...a Windows XP?"

This will never cease to make me laugh!

Also my discussions with a bit more techy persons are fun (though not as much)
He: So what kind of computer do you have?
Me: I dunno, pretty decent I guess...
He: What kind of video card you have? (meaning he asks for MB's of VRAM)
Me: Well... <telling model names, clock rates, bus-width>... oh yes it is 512MB btw ...GDDR5!
He: Errr... Ok!

He never asks for rest of components (dunno why?)

[talsemgeest]

YKYAGW one of your gadgets dies, and you say mentally "Haha, I accept your challenge!"

[Kopachris]

YKYAGW one of your gadgets dies, and you say mentally "Haha, I accept your challenge!"
Ykyagw some trivial piece of hardware dies and you consider fixing it instead of buying a new one. Anyone know where I can get a chip for an rt73-based wifi card?

[smartboyathome]

Ykyagw you buy all your computer parts recycled because you like to fix old computers.
Ykya(bigger)gw you volunteer to help out at a PC recycling center because you like taking stuff apart.

[crazyness003]

ykyag when you refuse money from a firend when they ask you to fix their compy, since its comparable to watching a movie, or going to the carnival; you just have a good time doing it.

[scragar]

ykyag when you refuse money from a firend when they ask you to fix their compy, since its comparable to watching a movie, or going to the carnival; you just have a good time doing it.

Or you get to steal that extra stick of ram he has floating around inside the machine, I mean he won't know what's happened to it... :p

I do love fixing boxes though, I get to keep up my god complex by having people need me to help them and I get an excuse to void a warranty or two, what's not to love?

[physeetcosmo]

Every Weird Al song is known by heart. This is the music one listens to when one is writing code, reading electronic datasheets, and/or looking at logic waveform simulations.

When the most exciting part of your day is when you finally finish all the work and get a spectacular feature setup between one's client and server computers; ex SSH Samba shares, remote desktop, remote netboot etc etc (you fill in the blanks).

When your 'bedtime' reading is an O'Reilly book or IEEE Spectrum!! :)

.....Geeks will soon rule the world. Remember the difference between geeks and nerds: geeks get work done ;)

[hatten]

When your 'bedtime' reading is an O'Reilly book or IEEE Spectrum!! :) my bedtime books are either O'really ;) books, manuals (for windows 98 xD) or the newspaper "illustrated science"

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

my bedtime books are either O'really ;) books, manuals (for windows 98 xD) or the newspaper "illustrated science"
I don't do windows manuals. But I enjoy the "illusrated science", pity though I ran out of money so I failed ordering it for this year.
I do also read various API manuals and references and similar stuff.

[jenkinbr]

... you read RFC's

[yabbadabbadont]

... you read RFC's

No, that just means you are curious. True geeks write RFC's. ;)

[viergeame]

-it confuses you when someone you know says they couldn't build a computer if their life depended on it.

-you think of colors by their codes rather than their names.

-you carry an Ubuntu CD with you everywhere you go.

-you actually used that CD you carry with you everywhere.

-you have ever made a new Ubuntu disk when reformatting rather than going to the trouble to look for the old one.

-when someone asks for computer advice you refuse to help them unless they install linux first.

-you have linux on your cell phone.

-the first thing you do when you take a new laptop out of the box is get out your Ubuntu disk.

-you can't remember for sure who the president of the country is, but you can give the complete history of linux without thinking.

-you've ever said considered saying no to sex in favor of playing with linux. (bonus points if you actually did play with linux instead.)

-you've ever lost a relationship because you spend too much time on the computer.

-you have extra computers just lying around the house because you swear you might find a use for them some day, even though some of them are over a decade old.

I'm sure I could think of more, but that's what came to me...

[scragar]

-it confuses you when someone you know says they couldn't build a computer if their life depended on it.
That's not confusing, I can't do anything with cars, some people have no idea about computers, it's not a big deal really.
-you think of colors by their codes rather than their names.
They have names?
-you carry an Ubuntu CD with you everywhere you go.

-you actually used that CD you carry with you everywhere.
I do that with 2 CDs and a pen drive :p One CD has Ibex on it, the other gutsy(because of drivers, don't worry about it), the pen drive has a few precompiled programs I use that don't come on either disk by default.
-you have ever made a new Ubuntu disk when reformatting rather than going to the trouble to look for the old one.Does making two so you can lend one out and keep one count?
-when someone asks for computer advice you refuse to help them unless they install linux first.I tried that, it just made more work for me :(

-the first thing you do when you take a new laptop out of the box is get out your Ubuntu disk.You mean you don't have the disk first?

-you can't remember for sure who the president of the country is, but you can give the complete history of linux without thinking.Prime minister, not president here. Same idea though.

[s.fox]

Please, for the love of GEEKDOM, come up with something unique!!!

Lines like that have been grossly overused in this thread...

Erm, like I read through the other 1000's of posts to see if that had been done? :lolflag:

[talsemgeest]

-you think of colors by their codes rather than their names.
Almost a reversal of this?
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/color_codes.png

Erm, like I read through the other 1000's of posts to see if that had been done? :lolflag:
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7197/searchx.jpgHmm, maybe this helps? ;)

[s.fox]

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7197/searchx.jpgHmm, maybe this helps? ;)

The search functionality is hopeless. If I try to find any threads in this forum I tend to use google. :lolflag:

[talsemgeest]

The search functionality is hopeless. If I try to find any threads in this forum I tend to use google. :lolflag:
Haha, true :)

Still, for that particular post, there is always the tag telling you not to... ;)

[Jonadab]

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')

Once, when I was in college, I held a conversation with my roommate in DOS. (This was before Linux was so well known.) Thing is, we didn't do this on purpose. It just sort of... happened, and then afterward we realized what we'd just done.

[Jonadab]

You have used words like "lol", "leet" and "omg" in daily speech

You think the above is ridiculous, because real geeks don't speak that teenage 1337 gorp. Real geeks make fun of that stuff, whilst simultaneously using terms like "grok", "binmode", and "userspace" in casual conversation, the irony of this dichotomy notwithstanding.

You know you're a geek when you enter the Konami Code in every new game you buy. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
One word: XYZZY.

And how about these:

You categorically refuse to use any software that doesn't support regular expressions.
Someone posts an IP address on a forum, and you know what the canonical subnet mask for it would be.
You have strong opinions about the relative merits of various programming language families.
Off the top of your head you can name twenty different Linux distributions (by different vendors -- Ubuntu and Kubuntu do NOT count separately), and you've used most of them.
You won't use a text editor that isn't fully scriptable, and you have several megabytes of customizations that you can't live without.
You think grouping-symbol matching is a basic feature and don't understand why OpenOffice.org still doesn't have it.
You can name at least one feature from VMS that you'd really like to have in Linux.
You mainly use the word "Linux" to refer to the kernel, the above item being a good example.
You know what gopher protocol is, because you used to use it.
You have implemented either the client or server side of at least one major application-layer network protocol (http, ftp, pop3, smtp, anything like that).
You have more than thirty different passwords in your head, and at least a third of them are mixed case and/or include punctuation AND more than fifteen characters long.
One of your medium-term goals is to understand Unicode better.
You can ill afford the space on your desk, but you still prefer your big CRT over a similar-sized flat panel display, because you like to be able to zoom in on your desktop with Ctrl-Alt-+ and have it look decent.
You did sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/compiz* because it was the easiest way to stop Compiz from restarting itself so you could get your preferred window manager running (in my case, sawfish).
You consistently always chmod -x /usr/bin/nautilus because you don't want it consuming system resources. You haven't actually USED a graphical file manager since you discovered tab completion over a decade ago.
You've worked with at least four different RDBMSes and have informed opinions about their relative merits.

[crazyness003]

...when you bump this thread just to get others to keep posting funny stuff about geeks.

[jms1989]

all you think about is linux and hate MS to its core.

playing with ram disks are more fun then playing with your actual disks. (Ever wrote 500MB to a ram disk in a less than half a second at 1.3GB/s? :P)

you dream of things to do in linux in your sleep.

[jenkinbr]

...your dreams consist of terminal prompts, and nightmares are made up of kernal corruption and mistyped dd commands...

[conal]

You have tried to download your baby's bedtime milk from the internet.

sudo apt-get cowandgateformula will not work,

If this happens to you are far too tired. You should probably switch the computer off and tend to your children...

[Sephoroth]

You should probably switch the computer off and tend to your children...

...When you successfully do this by recompiling the kernel with lactose support enabled....

[jenkinbr]

...When you successfully do this by recompiling the kernel with lactose support enabled....
:lolflag:

[GepettoBR]

...your dreams consist of terminal prompts, and nightmares are made up of kernal corruption and mistyped dd commands...

If my dreams were terminal prompts, my nightmares would be DOS shells.

[kyalee]

YKYAKW you decide to learn Perl and PHP at the same time

...and you can never decide which one to play with on any given day because they're both so much fun.

[Penguin Guy]

You go to Alt+F4 a boring conversation, then relaise you can't.

[GepettoBR]

You go to Alt+F4 a boring conversation, then relaise you can't.

If you can, you're Linus Torvalds.

[Kopachris]

If my dreams were terminal prompts, my nightmares would be DOS shells.
I once had a nightmare that my mom switched from Ubuntu back to Windows XP. O.O

[dtoronto]

you know you're a geek when you start reading the Ubuntu forums for leisure reading.

[lisati]

you know you're a geek when you start reading the Ubuntu forums for leisure reading.

Count me in.....

[jezzele]

when ...

morse code looks like the start of a good application :p

[eddski]

you find yourself looking for scifi backgrounds
you find yourself thinking people that use M$ products are PEBKAC's
you wear a T-shirt that says"there's no place like 127.0.0.1"

[scragar]

you find yourself looking for scifi backgrounds
you find yourself thinking people that use M$ products are PEBKAC's
you wear a T-shirt that says"there's no place like 127.0.0.1"

We've covered this a few times before, 127.0.0.1 is LOCALHOST, NOT HOME. home is represented by the ~

Anyway, most M$ products are vulnerable to PEBKACs, something to do with appealing to the idiots without an understanding of how the user thinks.

[Penguin Guy]

you know you're a geek when you start reading the Ubuntu forums for leisure reading.
Oops.

[s.fox]

you participate in threads like this one :D

[Paconator]

you know you're a geek when you start reading the Ubuntu forums for leisure reading.
hahahahahaha So True.

You know that youre a Geek, when you are the only guy near that uses Ubuntu, and try to show the light to everybody else.

[smartboyathome]

you participate in threads like this one :D

This is said every few pages. Can people stop repeating it? :(

[hatten]

This is said every few pages. Can people stop repeating it? :(

I think we have to add it to the topic if people are gonna notice it!

YKYAGW you dont use a DE (Musca ftw)

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

You know that youre a Geek, when you are the only guy near that uses Ubuntu, and try to show the light to everybody else.

Definitely sounds like me. But I have three converts... well two really, third is my mum whom I gave my computer with Ubuntu already on it.

Other two are my buddies, who even decided themselves that they want Ubuntu. It was still me who showed Ubuntu and told a lot of fun things you can do with it.


ok now...
you're a geek when you set up your server box to save radio stream into files at certain time, cause you don't want to miss your favourite radio program... what happens to air in early morning while you're sleeping. (I haven't done this yet, but I will as soon as I set my firewall up.)

[crazyness003]

...when you open the start menu, then look for System and try to run synaptic...then it hits you. ZOHNOESWINDOZE!

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

...when you open the start menu, then look for System and try to run synaptic...then it hits you. ZOHNOESWINDOZE!
a variation would also be
when you try typing "aptitude" or "apt-get" in cmd...

[scragar]

a variation would also be
when you try typing "aptitude" or "apt-get" in cmd...

Is it wrong that I've aliased it?
alias want='sudo apt-get -y --reinstall install'
# install or reinstall specified packages
alias dontwant='sudo apt-get --purge autoremove'
# get rid of specified packages and dependencies
alias search='apt-cache search'
# find packages
alias showpkg='apt-cache showpkg'
# find packages
I've also got my own little package which I'm trying to improve, called apt-fetch which is a simple perl script to download all the .deb files apt-get would use in several threads(so if one download is taking forever you can still download the rest of the packages while you wait on it :p), it can even install the packages when it's done. If you wanted it can also install as it downloads, but I really don't trust that, it has a real temper if it hits any sort of dependency problem(so the package downloaded before it's dependencies). When I've cleaned it up and fixed it I'll make it public here as well, for anyone that wants it :p

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

Is it wrong that I've aliased it?
Why would it be wrong?

But it is not relevant to what I said... I thought cmd the Windows command prompt, and it is obvious that fetching APT packaged from cmd won't work :)

I've also got my own little package which I'm trying to improve, called apt-fetch which is a simple perl script to download all the .deb files apt-get would use in several threads(so if one download is taking forever you can still download the rest of the packages while you wait on it :p), it can even install the packages when it's done. If you wanted it can also install as it downloads, but I really don't trust that, it has a real temper if it hits any sort of dependency problem(so the package downloaded before it's dependencies). When I've cleaned it up and fixed it I'll make it public here as well, for anyone that wants it :p

Interesting thing, however I still hardly can see the point of it.
Threading downloads doesn't really boost things up (there is still only one internet connection). And being asynchronous only helps if one package download stalls for some reason (never happened to me though).

However I can see improvement if it could determine dependency tree for packages being downloaded, and start installing those whose dependencies can be satisfied already, while the rest are still being downloaded. That would really speed things up.

[scragar]

Interesting thing, however I still hardly can see the point of it.
Threading downloads doesn't really boost things up (there is still only one internet connection). And being asynchronous only helps if one package download stalls for some reason (never happened to me though).

However I can see improvement if it could determine dependency tree for packages being downloaded, and start installing those whose dependencies can be satisfied already, while the rest are still being downloaded. That would really speed things up.

It's not the same, you'll find that the servers for the packages very rarely give you good speeds, so having multiple connections to multiple servers does download a fair bit faster(for reference I've only tested it with a few programs, I can build the dependencies for gnome-core(45 packages) in around 1/3 of the time, and if you don't mind a risk of dependency issues it can install them as it goes).

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

It's not the same, you'll find that the servers for the packages very rarely give you good speeds, so having multiple connections to multiple servers does download a fair bit faster(for reference I've only tested it with a few programs, I can build the dependencies for gnome-core(45 packages) in around 1/3 of the time, and if you don't mind a risk of dependency issues it can install them as it goes).
Fair enough. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have really a boost on speed, cause my "broadband" isn't exactly top of the game. And from local repos I get close to my max speed. But it could make a difference on faster connections and multiple servers.
But really if you could make it take care of those dependencies, on-the-fly installing would be quite an advantage. Although I start to doubt that perl is really up for that... hmm.

[scragar]

Fair enough. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have really a boost on speed, cause my "broadband" isn't exactly top of the game. And from local repos I get close to my max speed. But it could make a difference on faster connections and multiple servers.
But really if you could make it take care of those dependencies, on-the-fly installing would be quite an advantage. Although I start to doubt that perl is really up for that... hmm.

I have a few small dependency problems to work out before I consider that a working feature, but it's close, I just need to find an efficient method of testing dependency issues without having to worry about dpkg's annoying lock...

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I have a few small dependency problems to work out before I consider that a working feature, but it's close, I just need to find an efficient method of testing dependency issues without having to worry about dpkg's annoying lock...

All right then! Keep us posted!

[scragar]

All right then! Keep us posted!

Here's what it sort of looks like right now(It looks a bit different when it's actually running and not copy/pasted, but it's close enough):
$ apt-fetch
apt-fetch v0.0.1
Created by scragar 2009
Usage: apt-fetch [options] packages
Options:
-h This help text.
-V Version information
-a Don't wait for confirmation
-v=0-3 0=silent, 1=normal, 2=verbose, 3=debug
(DEBUG is ugly, don't use it unless you need it)
-s=n Set the download status update interval in seconds
-i Install once all downloads are complete
-ii Install each package as downloaded
(WARNING: may cause errors and broken dependencies)
$ apt-fetch apt-build
Must be run as root to gain apt privileges
$ sudo apt-fetch apt-build
Having apt check package lists.
Need to download 4824kB of archives.
Need 16.9MB of free space for install.
28 files to download across 4 threads

Continue?[Y/n] n
Cleaning up
$ sudo apt-fetch -a apt-build
Having apt check package lists.
Need to download 4824kB of archives.
Need 16.9MB of free space for install.
28 files to download across 4 threads

Downloading: 27/28
Download complete
Please run apt-get normally to install the downloaded packages
Cleaning up
$ sudo apt-fetch -i apt-build
Having apt check package lists.
Need to download 0kB of archives.
Need 16.9MB of free space for install.
0 files to download across 4 threads

No downloading needed.

Ready to install.
Continue? [Y/n]
Defering to apt...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
......

Apt exited cleanly.
$
And with that I'm going to bed.

[csc2ya]

you wander around your college classes & people start coming to you for tech advice rather than the freakin IT building help desk!! when your dang major IS NOT "IT" related!!
GAH!!

When I was in primary school, my dad (who worked at the school) used to come and get me out of class when he needed help with the computers (Archimedes Computers running riscos) as I knew more about them than he did. He was the IT administrator though (although he didn't set them up. A previous person had done that)

[csc2ya]

You add this to the bottom of your bashrc file (Extra points if you know what it does without looking at the image):

dir='/usr/share/cowsay/cows/'
file=`/bin/ls -1 "$dir" | sort --random-sort | head -1`
cow=$(echo "$file" | sed -e "s/\.cow//")
/usr/games/fortune -a | cowsay -f $cow
uname -a

(If you don't know what that does, look at the image of mine at http://csc2ya.co.uk/terminal.png)

[vegetarianshrimp]

Your home page in firefox is about:config

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

Your home page in firefox is about:config

Gee! Thanks for that!
And it says it may void warranty! Yeah! (Not that I have any really)
Time to break something! And then try to bring it back!

[jenkinbr]

you know you're a geek when you start reading the Ubuntu forums for leisure reading.
Guilty;)
you participate in threads like this one :D
http://firefighterclosecalls.com/images/600px-Stop_sign.gif
This is said every few pages. Can people stop repeating it? :(
+20000053894539!
Gee! Thanks for that!
And it says it may void warranty! Yeah! (Not that I have any really)
Time to break something! And then try to bring it back!
I still don't get the warranty bit...:confused:

[scragar]

You know mentioning how often things are repeated is starting to get annoying as well.

[crazyness003]

...when you just walk into your garage and it's like a repository for old computer parts. I just scored two 128 mb DIMM modules for an old computer i'm repairing for a friend. They were just there.
Epic Win!

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I still don't get the warranty bit...:confused:
Will this clear things up?

[jenkinbr]

Will this clear things up?
That's not what I meant, actually.

I don't get WHY it says that. I've known that it was there for a long time (since hardy)

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

That's not what I meant, actually.

I don't get WHY it says that. I've known that it was there for a long time (since hardy)

Oh... well I guess devs think it is just funny!!!
No real warranty involved!

EDIT:
Or maybe to scare off those who are afraid voiding warranty, like non-tech guys.
And attract techies to do some experiments... probably exposing some bug or something else.

[jwbrase]

You hear girls talking about modelling and wonder if they use Blender...

[Kopachris]

That's not what I meant, actually.

I don't get WHY it says that. I've known that it was there for a long time (since hardy)
If you mess stuff up in about:config, and your computer stops working, it's your fault and your warranty probably won't cover it. Basically. Pretty much the same thing as installing Linux on your computer and thus not being able to get your screen hinge repaired under warranty. Us geeks, we don't care too much about warranties. After using this PowerBook G4 for two years, I am the warranty, not that I need it much (I do need to open it up and blow out the fans, though).

[SlickRick]

when I go to about:config I get a different joke

[GepettoBR]

Haha, I like Rick's warning better... I get the warranty one.

about:robots and about:mozilla are also slightly amusing.

[crazyness003]

about:kitchensink

I think you need Mr. Tech Toolkit installed tho.

[s.fox]

you are considering installing Skype for your shower.

[GepettoBR]

about:kitchensink

I think you need Mr. Tech Toolkit installed tho.

I didn't get anything on that page, so probably yes.

about:internets on Google Chrome loads that old Windows 95/98 pipes screensaver.

[jenkinbr]

Google is all for funneh quirks, I'd expect them to have hidden lolgems.

[crazyness003]

Google is all for funneh quirks, I'd expect them to have hidden lolgems.
their themes for gmail have hidden easter eggs. There was a website that lists them all, but i forgot where.

anyway: YKYAGW random people you havent even met before come to you for computer advice. (happened to me yesterday. Someone told them about my ... hobby)

[bertolo]

You know you're a geek when you can't remember the last time you had sex with a girl (without paying)

[SlickRick]

i think that last one is taking it too far

YKYAGW you notice that bertolo has 2^7 posts

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you can't remember the last time you had sex with a girl (without paying)

Isn't this a SFW forum?

Also, true geeks have a code of honor. We don't pay for this sort of thing.

[yabbadabbadont]

Isn't this a SFW forum?

Also, true geeks have a code of honor. We don't pay for this sort of thing.

Besides, it is very easy to remember a single isolated event...

[linux newb]

hah lol when you go get the auto pager addon for firefox( for those who dont know this allows you to automatically load the next page at the bottom of the screen so you can view multiple pages as one and cut out the split second of hitting next and before you know it, you kill a like 45 mins laughing and enjoying reading this thread.

when general maintenance consists of checking your water level givin it a topup with a sirenge while thkning "now i shall commence the proccess of increasing the subjects blood pressure.

when you look at your computer and see almost every human quality except being able to feel

when you give your computer a name like "RADIOUS MAXIMUS" because you have a sweet water cooling system that consists of 5 rads, 2 doubles mounted to the side, one double on the bottom in the inside, one double on the top on the outside and a single on the exhaust for maximus cooling, with 2 pumps runnun the show,

you feel like airbrushing RADIOUS MAXIMUS to the sideof your case

you think about your computer when your gettin lucky with your gf, AND IT TURNS YOU ON!!!

when you got the cooler master haf as a case

when you can just stare at your computer fer like 20 minutes and really feel a love for it

you pray and make sacrifices to the computer gods( sing in a foriegn language and prance around a pile of burning old dinosaur computers

when you can start that fire by rubbing to video cards together

when the first place you hit after the bank on payday is the computer store, or the internet to get some new things for your rig

[GepettoBR]

you think about your computer when your gettin lucky with your gf, AND IT TURNS YOU ON!!!

The Geek is strong with this one.


YKYAGW you have the appropriate Star Wars quote for every occasion.

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you can translate anything into lolspeak and your title on your class's facebook group is lolcat interpreter

[linux newb]

lol another one you look act speak annd feel like jp the head programmer on grandmas boy lol trying to blend into a wall then asking yourself, how did he see me?, and go back to blending with the wall ahaha love that movie

[linux newb]

when you re-energize yourself after a night of techin with mana energy potion (that just came out its a new enrgy drink) anybody ever try the game sacrifice? then go tech somemore

[jetole]

sed -e 's/^you.know.you're/You are/gi;'

[scragar]

sed -e 's/^you.know.you're/You are/gi;'

I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to post a regexp replace for something :p

[Barrucadu]

YKYAGW you become bored and end up editing config files for fun.

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you organise your desktop icons into folders and put the command terminal under games

[GepettoBR]

YKYAGW you organise your desktop icons into folders and put the command terminal under games

Isn't that where it belongs?

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

YKYAGW you organise your desktop icons into folders and put the command terminal under games
Too far for me to put it... I put Terminal either on panel or REALLY BIG launcher on desktop.
Besides it quite qualifies for all categories... game, system tool/util, general purpose app and others

[Barrucadu]

YKYAGW you organise your desktop icons into folders and put the command terminal under games

I don't have any desktop icons, or panel. I do, however have a shortcut for launching a terminal which I've become incredibly fast at pressing. Does that count? :p

[Sephoroth]

I don't have any desktop icons, or panel. I do, however have a shortcut for launching a terminal which I've become incredibly fast at pressing. Does that count? :p

Easier than the "Menu" key? XD

[scragar]

Easier than the "Menu" key? XD

Erm, I don't use a gui much(unless I wanna watch a video), so I don't press anything for a terminal. Do I win?

[GepettoBR]

Erm, I don't use a gui much(unless I wanna watch a video), so I don't press anything for a terminal. Do I win?

You press the Power button. (Cue brag about uptime)

[crazyness003]

I don't have any desktop icons, or panel. I do, however have a shortcut for launching a terminal which I've become incredibly fast at pressing. Does that count? :p
mine is "ctrl+~"

but i guess since geppy wants an uptime bragging war:...i'll pass.

[Barrucadu]

Easier than the "Menu" key? XD

Ah, I use that as the compose key. My terminal shortcut is C-Super

YKYAGW you find shortcuts like "C-z ." and "C-z ," an intuitive way to change workspaces.

[Zoot7]

You know you're a geek when you've a hysterical laughing fit at lolcode.

[talsemgeest]

You know you're a geek when you've a hysterical laughing fit at lolcode.
Well, you are an even bigger geek if you can actually write a useful program in lolcode.

[s.fox]

Well, you are an even bigger geek if you can actually write a useful program in lolcode.

Not that I have ever done that ;)
It wasn't useful at all :D

[Kopachris]

Ah, I use that as the compose key. My terminal shortcut is C-Super

YKYAGW you find shortcuts like "C-z ." and "C-z ," an intuitive way to change workspaces.
ctrl-⌘-arrow to switch workspaces
alt-⌘-arrow to move windows to other workspaces

[GepettoBR]

YKYAGW you've mused about how directories are nothing more than a different way of storing filename prefixes, and that led you to study how filesystems work.

[Barrucadu]

YKYAGW you've mused about how directories are nothing more than a different way of storing filename prefixes, and that led you to study how filesystems work.

I haven't studied how they work, but I have had a few interesting thought experiments as to how they could work. I should really begin writing my ideas down, one day they could be useful.

[scragar]

I haven't studied how they work, but I have had a few interesting thought experiments as to how they could work. I should really begin writing my ideas down, one day they could be useful.

Or you could be really embarrassed when you learn how it really works :p

[GepettoBR]

Or you could be really embarrassed when you learn how it really works :p

Either way, it's fun.

[crazyness003]

Either way, it's fun.
enlighten us

[jeffdp78]

You know you're a geek when ...your /directory is not a folder!

---

[GepettoBR]

enlighten us

I meant it's fun learning about filesystems. You don't expect me to post a class here, do you? Google is your friend.

[jms1989]

You're more comfortable working with linux than windows. I find that to be the case with me, while I like windows solely for itunes and games, I don't like using it for everyday use. I'll miss my terminals.

Linux is much more fun to play with than windows is as long as the hardware cooperates. I enjoy playing with my computer and actually doing things that make since to me. Windows dives me nuts if I try to do something beyond web browsing.

[scragar]

Linux is much more fun to play with than windows is as long as the hardware cooperates. I enjoy playing with my computer and actually doing things that make since to me. Windows dives me nuts if I try to do something beyond web browsing.

YKYAGW you enjoy trying to get naughty hardware to behave :p

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you enjoy trying to get naughty hardware to behave :p

YKYAGW you laugh at THAT

[crazyness003]

YKYAGW you enjoy trying to get naughty hardware to behave :p
No, YKYMINTGW you laugh a that.

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW you have an inforative speech semi-prepared, then your speech instructor asks you personally to choose a topic other than computers. You then proceed to think about what else you can do, try talking to the instructor about it, only to waste 15 more minutes, and in the end, choose to go with what you've already semi-prepared.

I had this dilema today. I'm going to do a speech on the following:
"To inform my audiance about Linux, and some advantages and disadvantages of using it on your computer."

(if you're interested, it did get approved, after I gave my purpose (above), central idea, and main points.)

[Penguin Guy]

When you do this:
~$ Hello
bash: Hello: command not found
~$ *sighs*
bash: *sighs*: command not found

[jenkinbr]

When you do this:
~$ Hello
bash: Hello: command not found
~$ *sighs*
bash: *sighs*: command not found

:lolflag:

Are you sure *sighs* produces that output though? I think those wildcards might through it off...

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you have an inforative speech semi-prepared, then your speech instructor asks you personally to choose a topic other than computers. You then proceed to think about what else you can do, try talking to the instructor about it, only to waste 15 more minutes, and in the end, choose to go with what you've already semi-prepared.

I had this dilema today. I'm going to do a speech on the following:
"To inform my audiance about Linux, and some advantages and disadvantages of using it on your computer."

(if you're interested, it did get approved, after I gave my purpose (above), central idea, and main points.)

I had to do something similar at college but no matter how much I practised, I couldn't get anyone interested in linux.

[0per4t0r]

When you have a placemat that says "There's no place like 127.0.0.1"

[GammaRay256]

When people say "Windows" and "I'm having a problem with my computer" in the same sentence, you reply "You don't have to repeat yourself!"

[GepettoBR]

When you have a placemat that says "There's no place like 127.0.0.1"

Haven't we been over this?

127.0.0.1 isn't home, it's localhost.
~/ is home.

[scragar]

Haven't we been over this?

127.0.0.1 isn't home, it's localhost.
~/ is home.

Too many times unfortunately, this is at least the fourth time :(

[other guy]

You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

[yabbadabbadont]

You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

You realize that this poster couldn't have used a very strong password... ;)

[other guy]

You realize that this poster couldn't have used a very strong password... ;)

1337 is not strong enough against microwave haxorz? :popcorn:

[hatten]

:lolflag:

Are you sure *sighs* produces that output though? I think those wildcards might through it off...
╔═[hatten@tukumon]═[09:22:59 Thu Apr 16]═[~]
╚═══[$]> *sighs*
bash: *sighs*: command not found
╔═[hatten@tukumon]═[10:02:56 Thu Apr 16]═[~]
╚═══[$]> it does

[crazyness003]

..when someone calls someone else a nerd, and you reply,: no im a geek, get it right!

[talsemgeest]

..when someone calls someone else a nerd, and you reply,: no im a geek, get it right!
Wow, I have done that too many times to count...

[SlickRick]

Wow, I have done that too many times to count...

+1

I then proceed to explaining the difference in the form of a long dribbling rant and then call them a n00b. However, since I'm doing an I.T. course, you really have to go an extra bit to be called either ;)

[0per4t0r]

When someone tells you to get a life, you reply, "What is this so-called life you speak of?"

[kpatz]

:lolflag:

Are you sure *sighs* produces that output though? I think those wildcards might through it off...
Only if you have a file with "sighs" in the name in your $PWD.
kpatz@zuul:~$ *sighs*
-bash: *sighs*: command not found
kpatz@zuul:~$ touch isighsalot
kpatz@zuul:~$ *sighs*
-bash: isighsalot: command not found
kpatz@zuul:~$

YNYKGW you use Linux shell variables in your messages, such as $HOME, or $PWD above.

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

There's no place like localhost?

I prefer "There's no place like ~" ;)

[scragar]

There's no place like localhost?

I prefer "There's no place like ~" ;)

That's the fifth time that has been pointed out in this thread. Can everyone agree to stop posting localhost when they mean ~, and to stop talking about it when someone screws it up? It's starting to get rather annoying.

[yabbadabbadont]

That's the fifth time that has been pointed out in this thread. Can everyone agree to stop posting localhost when they mean ~, and to stop talking about it when someone screws it up? It's starting to get rather annoying.

If it bothers you so much, why don't you just go ~

:D

[ssdt]

when you are getting into trouble with the computer. Then you can learn more about it.

[kpatz]

That's the fifth time that has been pointed out in this thread. Can everyone agree to stop posting localhost when they mean ~, and to stop talking about it when someone screws it up? It's starting to get rather annoying.Sure... I'll make sure to check all 5,446 posts in this thread before replying next time... :P

[SlickRick]

I had a funny one in my head today but then got distracted by conky and forgot it.:p

[GepettoBR]

I had a funny one in my head today but then got distracted by conky and forgot it.:p

A perfectly justifiable reason, I say.

[pewterbot9]

the only real friends you have, are all in cyberspace...and you're dating avatars.

[crazyness003]

the only real friends you have, are all in cyberspace...and you're dating avatars.
...when you really dont have friends, since you understand the difference between a friend and an acquaintance.

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you see someone in a movie use a computer and desperately try to work out what OS or application they're using

[Yvan300]

You know you're a geek when you begin compiling your linux kernel at the age of 15 :)

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you begin compiling your linux kernel at the age of 15 :)
I'm one up on you. 14 was when I compiled my first kernel.

[jzalomon]

...when you install the UBUNTU system as many times as you can...just for fun re-install again..cause you forgot a wallpaper!!
then go to sleep and dream about it...

[skotos]

When the people around you never stop asking you questions, suggestions and appointments to check/clean/reinstall/ their computers/laptops/network... and make you feel as stressed about it as a doctor who cannot stop being a doctor even at his brother's home. Then, you are probably a geek, but you would not like the others knew about it

[jms1989]

you dream of owning a smart home operated by linux. :P

[0per4t0r]

You know you're a geek when you knew that you were a geek all along :o

[Essar Allen]

You reach for the 'ctrl' + 'z' keys when you mess up while drawing a picture without even thinking about it.

[Essar Allen]

You catch yourself thinking:
sudo apt-get install girlfriend

[pewterbot9]

...when you really dont have friends, since you understand the difference between a friend and an acquaintance.

True dat!

[crazyness003]

True dat!
I have a million acquaintances, friendly albeit; but I normally dont have time to do whatever it is friends do. It was either at school or at work that I would team up with someone for mutually beneficial production. After that, it was home to teh Linux box....so...

YKYAG when your only real friend is your Linux box, and your ex-* is that windows machine you jsut cant get rid of (or dual personality box)

[lisati]

YNYAG when you notice the ethernet cable coming out of one of the appliances at one of the local cafes.

[jms1989]

YNYAG when you notice the ethernet cable coming out of one of the appliances at one of the local cafes.

Heh, I do that all the time no matter the location. I kinda visually "inspect" the wiring. Following the routes the wires take is more fun than talking.;)

[crazyness003]

I do something similar...only it involves me scouting my surroundings for decent sniper positions and making sure no one is there O_O.

Other than that, I'm normal.

YKYAG when you noticed this:
YNYAG when you ...
Wrong Know, No?

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

you know you're a geek when after having loads of fun with Ubuntu, you realised in the end that it is too simple for you and already lacks that "romantic" feeling of a new system.
So you went for Gentoo! (also different desktop enviroment is a bonus)

...when you really dont have friends, since you understand the difference between a friend and an acquaintance.

I have hundreds of acquaintances... so much that I hardly remember their names (I mix them up constantly).
Yet I have half a dozen of really good friends. Although we don't meet much anymore (some are really not in my country now) but still they are ready to do anything for me, and also I am ready to do anything for them.
btw One of them became father recently! He and his GF informed me that I might be a potential candidate for being godfather for their little daughter. I just can't wait!

[kpatz]

you dream of owning a smart home operated by linux. :P... or never mind dreaming, you're actually working toward that goal!You catch yourself thinking:
sudo apt-get install girlfriend
You realize that package is a resource hog, right? And if you do a sudo apt-get upgrade later on, the girlfriend package may be upgraded to the wife package, which includes the mother-in-law package, which is worse than Vista running in wine. ;)

[talsemgeest]

you know you're a geek when after having loads of fun with Ubuntu, you realised in the end that it is too simple for you and already lacks that "romantic" feeling of a new system.
So you went for Gentoo! (also different desktop enviroment is a bonus)

Yeah, I know the feeling, I gave gentoo a try just for the amount of effort it would take to get it up and running...

[jenkinbr]

...when you install the UBUNTU system as many times as you can...just for fun re-install again..cause you forgot a wallpaper!!
then go to sleep and dream about it...

That's called a waste of time....
...time better spent doing actual work.

You catch yourself thinking:
sudo apt-get install girlfriend

I actually found myself doing that one day...

The surprising thing is that it actually worked, although I attribute that fact to a lot more than thinking about apt and girlfriends...

[krzysz00]

#include<stdio.h>

void bump(void)
{
printf("BUMP!\n");
}

int main()
{
while(1)
{
bump();
}
return 0;
}

[alex_o]

you nice all your user processes :P

[hatten]

you surf the ubuntuforums drinking ubuntu cola!

[GepettoBR]

Where might one come across such an exotic-sounding beverage?

[SlickRick]

I do something similar...only it involves me scouting my surroundings for decent sniper positions and making sure no one is there O_O.

Other than that, I'm normal.

YKYAG when you noticed this:

Wrong Know, No?

YNYAG when you notice the ethernet cable coming out of one of the appliances at one of the local cafes.

Where might one come across such an exotic-sounding beverage?

+1

I always though as ubuntu being a type of coffee seeing as it's the theme of the forums.
I shall now dedicate myself to tracking down some of ubuntu coffee if such a thing exists. :p

[Godly]

When you dream of writing commands, being on this forum, while streaming music, messing with the cube, and playing COD WAW all at the same time. There aren't enough hours in the day!!

[scragar]

When you dream of writing commands, being on this forum, while streaming music, messing with the cube, and playing COD WAW all at the same time. There aren't enough hours in the day!!

Unless you use the Uberman sleep schedule, 2.5 hours sleep a day FTW!

[SlickRick]

...when you look up where you can get ubuntu cola and find a shop around Greenwich, where you just happen to be going tomorrow as a university introduction day thing...
I'm gonna have to be a rebel and break-off from the group to find this elusive shop :D

[comorbid]

When the other kids in your '95 high school English class strongarm you into helping them surf the internet on the classroom Macs…

…because the regular teacher couldn't make it, so she unhooked the mouses and took them home with her when she left the previous day, in an attempt to prevent the students from goofing off in class by playing games and/or surfing the internet…

…and you manage to do it when you realize that the keyboard shortcuts aren't all that different?

[hatten]

Where might one come across such an exotic-sounding beverage?
http://www.ubuntu-trading.com/

I don't really like cola, but it was cool to just bump into it in the local store :D

[gjoellee]

....you can't two two things at the same time because you don't have a dual core brain.

[GepettoBR]

I have to share this with you people.

I was bored to tears today in the bus in the middle of a traffic jam because the rain and wind last night had dropped a huge tree on the street.

So I decided to go through my cellphone's message log, and most of the older messages had been sent to my ex-girlfriend (who obviously wasn't my ex at the time). Amidst all the "i love you"s and "good night"s and similar lovey-dovey ********, I found this

"Hey, it looks like that ext2 driver for Windows you use supports 64-bit XP now."

and this

"Of course Tux would win a race against Pac-Man, don't be silly."

Gosh, that made me miss her :lolflag:

[WIGGMPk]

You catch yourself thinking:
sudo apt-get install girlfriend

Or you catch yourself thinking

sudo apt-get remove --purge girlfriend*

[slayr007]

when u own a binary watch and understand it
(i don't):lolflag:

[Vrekk]

....when you are strongly considering taking a personal day to install linux on an old computer. Yep thats me

[Barrucadu]

Last night I dreamt of C.

A few of us at the Arch forums are hacking a new browser called 'uzbl' (pronounced 'usable'), and I was working on spawning another thread, which would create a FIFO, wait for data to arrive, and perform actions. I kept getting segfaults and other problems, and after about an hour I gave up and went to bed. Evidently, going to bed immediately after being stuck on a coding problem influences dreams. I woke up with the solution for the bugs, which I implemented, tested, and it worked perfectly :D

[SlickRick]

...when you tell yourself that you need a laugh, so you read up on Conflicker

I'm not laughing at what it's doing, just that the customers for all these corporations don't seem to get a clue.

[csc2ya]

You try to install Windows XP on an ipod video, just to see whether it works.

(It doesn't....messed it up so badly that itunes couldn't restore it. Had to take it back to the shop and play dumb to get a replacement)

[Kopachris]

You try to install Windows XP on an ipod video, just to see whether it works.

(It doesn't....messed it up so badly that itunes couldn't restore it. Had to take it back to the shop and play dumb to get a replacement)
Umm... A geek would know that you can't put Windows XP on an ARM platform without totally rewriting the assembly code for the entire OS.

[Dr.Dixie]

...you keep your 20-22 inch boat anchor CRT because it can do more pixels than any other monitor on the market under 400 bucks.

...you say, "F3!" when you want someone to "pause".


!Dr.Dixie!

[Eisenwinter]

You dream that you can use regex matches and replacements in real-life. (actually happened to me last night)

[csc2ya]

When typing any of your ip address into another computer you get more than a "IT WORKS!"

Been there, done that. Got bored the other day, and noticed it in the repos.

[csc2ya]

I assigned my Meta key to fire up a terminal window.
Because of this, and all finger traffic it subsequently got, the windows logo has long since worn off.
Now that's truely windows free ;)

Do you mean that pressing only the windows key opens the terminal? If so, how do you do that?

Gnome will only allow me to use the windows key as a modifier key.

[Kopachris]

...you keep your 20-22 inch boat anchor CRT because it can do more pixels than any other monitor on the market under 400 bucks.
Been there. :)


...you say, "F3!" when you want someone to "pause".


!Dr.Dixie!
F3 is mute for me (17" Al PowerBook G4). Pause for me is always space.

[Cam42]

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

You reply with...So what kinda O/S do you have.

I've done this.


When you're tempted to install linux on every computer you use. Even public ones.

[Cam42]

....when you are strongly considering taking a personal day to install linux on an old computer. Yep thats me

Done this too.

[SlickRick]

Do you mean that pressing only the windows key opens the terminal? If so, how do you do that?

Gnome will only allow me to use the windows key as a modifier key.

+1

i wanna know how to do that. Right now I have a terminal screenlet in the empty space that awant leaves to do quick xkill commands and stuff.

[carrige]

Umm... A geek would know that you can't put Windows XP on an ARM platform without totally rewriting the assembly code for the entire OS.
I think he meant installing XP to the iPod, as an external hard drive for use with a PC - not to boot up the OS on the actual iPod (THAT would be awesome. Clickwheel would get kinda annoying though).

[Spiritous]

When you post on ubuntuforums...

[talsemgeest]

When you post on ubuntuforums...
/ignore spiritous...

[darth_indy]

YKYAGW you're excited that 64-bit Jaunty is MUCH more stable on your system than 32-bit Intrepid (And Intrepid was nearly flawless)!

I also find it ironic the 64-bit alpha of Adobe Flash works smoother than the 32-bit final version - and with no crashes.