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

[scragar]

i usually try out differnt dirstros just for the hell of it. Slax is so far my fav live distro

I like slackware, but the package management is just a pain in the rear. Redhat has the most packages available as far as I can tell, but gentoo wins for having almost ANYTHING with the source available installable using portage.

I love gentoo for so many good reasons, it's fast, efficient, it has the full gnome installable, instead of the modified version ubuntu uses(no idea why they removed features)... The only bad thing I have to say about it is the demand on either prepairing a pen drive or having an internet connection, if you use wifi you'll need to plan ahead... :(

[SlickRick]

I haven't tried that many to be honest. I'll be sure to give gentoo a go. I've got plenty of time and virgin blood to try to set up and run it. :D

+1 on the package management. You can imagine how slax is worse in that aspect since it's a derivative

[modmadmike]

When you use a WD5000AAKS as a cup-holder!

[tarps87]

....you post into this thread!

Or when you subscribe to this thread

[jms1989]

... don't post repeated posts.

[Frak]

... don't post repeated posts.
repeated post is repeated

[jenkinbr]

Or when you subscribe to this thread

... don't post repeated posts.

repeated post is repeated

MAKE lT STOP!!!!!!!!!!

[hatten]

Please stop, you ruin the thread.

Done :)

[Hillshum]

You ordered an Ubuntu disk primarily for the stickers

[GepettoBR]

You ordered an Ubuntu disk primarily for the stickers

guilty

[Kopachris]

You ordered an Ubuntu disk primarily for the stickers
+1 :)
On a related subject, ykyagw you "order" Ubuntu stickers from System76 to replace the Windows sticker(s) on your computer(s). :p My Dinosaur now has an Apple sticker, an HIS sticker, an Ubuntu lozenge sticker, and a System76 Ubuntu sticker.

[SlickRick]

...when you agree to pee in a cup for a free pen drive

[modmadmike]

You ordered an Ubuntu disk primarily for the stickers

Guilty! and i placed one on one of my 5.25inch drive bays!

...when you agree to pee in a cup for a free pen drive
You can never have enough!

on another note:
YKYAGW:
you have an encrypted database on your pen drive with all your CD-keys.
your PC-case is always open to allow maximum cooling efficiency!
You kad a wallpaper from logfiles. (Here's mine: http://modmadmike.deviantart.com/art/codeverload-114121210)

[modmadmike]

DELETED: Double Post

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw bloodwine drink you!

[jenkinbr]

You kad a wallpaper from logfiles. (Here's mine: http://modmadmike.deviantart.com/art/codeverload-114121210)

Nice - I like it!

[Sunnz]

YKYAGW...

You are writing a solution to problem in front of a maths class, but it is all written in tex.

[SlickRick]

you mean hex?

[tarps87]

you mean hex?

I think he does mean tex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX)

What about the obvious one, YKYAGW you know what YKYAGW means

[SlickRick]

I think he does mean tex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX)

What about the obvious one, YKYAGW you know what YKYAGW means

more of a hordcore geek if you write in hex

[tommo12]

You know you're a geek when you are running Linux! :)

[tarps87]

more of a hordcore geek if you write in hex

for maths that is easy, except symbols. If you are converting characters into hex you will need to state what coding convention you are using ;)

You know you're a geek when you are running Linux! :)

No necessarily any more

[CylnZ]

1. when you fill out an online job application and cant think of a reference that isnt a screen name for people you know.

2. when you remember what l33t meant in the first place and why it's spelled that way.

3. you know how to solder an extra 48k module onto a trs-80 riser to get a mind blowing 96k of memory.

4. you know how to notch a 5-1/4 360k floppy to get 720k.

5. you understood and have done any of the above.

[GepettoBR]

3. you know how to solder an extra 48k module onto a trs-80 riser to get a mind blowing 96k of memory.

4. you know how to notch a 5-1/4 360k floppy to get 720k.

5. you understood and have done any of the above.

Old-school geekdom. Hells yeah.

[GeekGirl1]

From the same era as the TRS-80,

- You knew how to backup an Atari 2600 cartridge using an EPROM burner and 2716. For the really big games, a 2732.

As for coding, (char) guarantees 8 bits in any platform.

[Frak]

From the same era as the TRS-80,

- You knew how to backup an Atari 2600 cartridge using an EPROM burner and 2716. For the really big games, a 2732.

As for coding, (char) guarantees 8 bits in any platform.
*sixtyfour = len(char) * len(char)

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you use a Peltier chip to cool your CPU and keep your coffee warm at the same time. :P

[Sunnz]

for maths that is easy, except symbols. If you are converting characters into hex you will need to state what coding convention you are using ;)


And you do all that in tex...

:D

[The Toxic Mite]

... you know you can write a small operating system in Visual Basic.

[SlickRick]

... you know you can write a small operating system in Visual Basic.

does pong count as a small operating system? :D

[The Toxic Mite]

does pong count as a small operating system? :D

No, unfortunately

I don't think you can even create Pong on Visual Basic? :?

[amingv]

... you know you can write a small operating system in Visual Basic.

Private Sub Form_Load()
MsgBox "a small operating system"
End Sub


Easy as pie. Dunno if it can do much more than that though.

[The Toxic Mite]

Private Sub Form_Load()
MsgBox "a small operating system"
End Sub
Easy as pie. Dunno if it can do much more than that though.

You can do a little more than that - I know how to create windows just using a few panels!

[camper365]

You've only been President of your High School AV Club for four years.
You use the bold, italics, and underlines at once for emphasis.
You know the difference between a monolithic kernel and a microkernel.

[amingv]

You can do a little more than that - I know how to create windows just using a few panels!

Well, you may be right.
Heck, maybe some people can actually write decently functional code in VB. After all you can write FORTRAN in any language, right? :)

Ohh! Ohh! And screensavers, VB does a lot of those (maybe it's actually a screensaver tool disguised as a programming language?)

[SlickRick]

...when you somehow manage to cut your finger with your heat-sync

No, unfortunately

I don't think you can even create Pong on Visual Basic? :?

check out the second link in my sig. It's on the second page

[Kopachris]

You know the difference between a monolithic kernel and a microkernel.
Monolithic: all in one binary (Linux)
Microkernel: spread out over many binaries (Win32)
Ykyagw you can tell that the real trekkies are the ones who stayed in the theater for the credits of the new Star Trek movie -- and you're one of them. :)

[camper365]

<html>
<funny>You use HTML tags in responses to forums</funny>
</html>


int sarcasm(int degree)
{
cout << "You use C++ code in forum conversation\n";
int funniness=degree*3;
return funniness;
}

[skotos]

your laptop does not work and you won't worry about it: you will make it working, in fact, as soon as you will have enough spare time. 8)

[scragar]

int sarcasm(int degree)
{
cout << "You use C++ code in forum conversation\n";
int funniness=degree*3;
return funniness;
}

Fixed. Two problems with it, first you do nothing with the funniness variable, making it a complete waste, secondly you always return 0, making returning an INT a waste, combine the two and problem solved. :p

[Sunnz]

Ykyagw your check your e-mail first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

[GepettoBR]

Ykyagw your check your e-mail first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

Almost my case: I shower in the morning before checking my e-mail (though I turn on the PC before getting into the shower, to give F@H a few extra minutes) and I put the dogs in bed between checking my e-mail at night and going to bed myself.

[jimmyhacker]

you go to firefox/browser directory and type java browser.jar and gtkmozembed www.ubuntuforums.org

you use irssi for all conversations in your life.

you drink the water produced by bios,you eat hundreds of viruses and you try to reach Gnome Display Manager so you get in to CLI.(this can be done by doing ctrl+alt+F1)

you claim that you are the Developer on Sauerbraten Private Servers to leave spectate.

you change your names to most players at UrbanTerror servers(especially at Riyadh Graveyard")

You never get metasploit working....

THAT IS ME.im ***** g33k.

[Sunnz]

Almost my case: I shower in the morning before checking my e-mail (though I turn on the PC before getting into the shower, to give F@H a few extra minutes) and I put the dogs in bed between checking my e-mail at night and going to bed myself.

lol I was doing almost the same thing as well, except my PC is always on. These days I tend to have a "smartphone" in which I check my e-mail as soon as my eyes opens in the morning.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw your check your e-mail first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
Obligatory XKCD reference:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/morning_routine.png

[GepettoBR]

There's always an appropriate XKCD for everything.

[Sunnz]

Ykyagw you use xkcd reference.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

...and you try to reach Gnome Display Manager so you get in to CLI.(this can be done by doing ctrl+alt+F1)

Actually you don't have to (or at least I don't)
Just make it NOT TO start gdm (and start into tty1-6) and you'll have CLI right away.

[unicycletim]

I was rather tempted, after reading all 580 pages, to post things such as the ykyagw "post to this thread" and "127.0.0.1 sweet 127.0.0.1" and "sudo make me a sandwich" and "when you read this" but that would have been silly.

anyway
YKYAGW
you are learning Quenya
you change the default language in facebook and google to Pirate
you actually cannot remeber what the windows startup tone is (was me till last night when i remembered it:()
you watch videos in ASCII
And then tell non-geeks about it, and they're like "whats that?"
you shamelessly post links to Linux or anti-windows websites/articles on facebook, despite having almost no geek friends on it

And to the people learning to type Dvork, i recomend leaving the keys as they are, and using something like ktouch till you can blunder along reasonably, and you'll pick up speed

I'd also reccomend using Dvorak if you can't touchtype, with the keys still in the same place. it forces you to not look.

[SlickRick]

you change the default language in facebook and google to Pirate


how j00 do dat. Iz dere othr speakz I mey use?

[amingv]

how j00 do dat. Iz dere othr speakz I mey use?

www.google.com>Preferences>Interface Language(Display Google tips and messages in:)>Pirate

www.facebook.com>Settings>Account Settings>Language>English (Pirate)


In google you also can choose Bork, Bork, Bork!, Elmer Fudd, Hacker and Klingon.

YKYAGW when you know ninjas are HEAPS better :)

[Kopachris]

YKYAGW when you know ninjas are HEAPS better :)
Yeah, but Ninja-Pirates pwn all! :p

The drive is made by a company called Kington, but whenever I look at the name, I keep seeing Klingon. I guess it's some sort of geek dyslexia.(At least I think it was the real Wil Wheaton...)
Ykyagw you get geek dyslexia. (That's me!)

[Megrimn]

You know you are a geek when...

...crashing your computer doesn't scare you anymore.

[SlickRick]

Ykyagw you get geek dyslexia. (That's me!)

i got that. One of my RAM sticks is by a company named Kingston. I'm not even in to star trek.

You know you are a geek when...

...crashing your computer doesn't scare you anymore.

are you kidding. I have nightmares of my computer crashing. I'm surprised how I used to take a BSOD for granted.

[Megrimn]

...crashing your computer doesn't scare you anymore.

Lemme fix dat.

Either your computer crashing doesn't scare you at all or it scares you so much you would wet yourself uncontrollably. I suppose it depends on whether or not you have backed up your system.

[jenkinbr]

www.google.com>Preferences>Interface Language(Display Google tips and messages in:)>Pirate

www.facebook.com>Settings>Account Settings>Language>English (Pirate)


In google you also can choose Bork, Bork, Bork!, Elmer Fudd, Hacker and Klingon.

YKYAGW when you know ninjas are HEAPS better :)
ZOMGTEHAWESOMENESS!!!! and it works - just did it to facebook!

[heroidi]

You know you're a geek when.
You have a school picnic and all the school will be there except you because you're having LoCo team Meetings...

[SlickRick]

ZOMGTEHAWESOMENESS!!!! and it works - just did it to facebook!

+1 and h4x0r for g00g1e

[amingv]

You know you're a geek when.
You have a school picnic and all the school will be there except you because you're having LoCo team Meetings...

...while wondering why they never make a LAN party, or a "Install Linux" Fest.

[heroidi]

I'm leading the meeting and we made a installfest last week this week we'll talk about our linux expreiences i'll spend a long time talking :P...

[BslBryan]

Ykyagw Lbh haqrefgnaq guvf zrffntr. :-)

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw Lbh haqrefgnaq guvf zrffntr. :-)
Oh, come on. ROT13 is so last millennium.

[amingv]

Ykyagw Lbh haqrefgnaq guvf zrffntr. :-)

Gbb rnfl.

You know a very good friend that will decypher this md5 hash without you actually cracking it:

e206a54e97690cce50cc872dd70ee896

You'd wish people consulted that friend more often and let you be for a day or two.

You think the above jumble of characters makes perfect sense.

[scragar]

You know, regarding the crashing thing, I don't fear crashes, I haven't had a crash in over 2 months, why would I fear something that happens so rarely?

I suppose you could say I fear the results a cash could have, but the risk is so small I consider it neglegable.

[BslBryan]

Gbb rnfl.
Cerpvfryl jul lbh ner n trrx.

[SlickRick]

jhg?

[BslBryan]

...Bayl trrxf pbairefr va Ebg13/xabj jung vg vf. Vg fubhyq or gbb rnfl sbe nyy bs hf.

[R2D2!]

Qbrf guvf nccyl nf inyvq EBG13?

Ry irybm zhepvŕyntb uvaqh́ pbzv́n sryvm pneqvyyb l xvjv. Yn pvtḧrãn gbpnon ry fnkbsb́a qrgeńf qry cnyradhr qr cnwn.

—Ilhuıtemoc δ

[Kopachris]

Okay, speaking in ROT13 is just as bad as speaking in binary. Please leave it out of this thread. It gets old and annoying very quickly. :mad:

[R2D2!]

But anyway, ıs my above message valıd ROT13?

—Ilhuıtemoc δ

[BslBryan]

Yeah, it was. Also, that was the first time I've ever seen Spanish in ROT13. Han ohran. :-)

Anyway, Kopachris is right.

Ykyagw your primary machine outperforms the Cray-1.

[Sunnz]

How can geeks talk about encryption without mentioning AES at all!!

Try this one:

05 ad ad 49 20 be 47 4e 0c e0 69 a6 29 51 a8 7b
85 16 78 65 d9 52 d8 87 e2 f9 7b fe 00 6a 09 58

Or in base64 equivalent of the above hex:

Ba2tSSC+R04M4GmmKVGoe4UWeGXZUtiH4vl7/gBqCVg=

It is just encrypted with the basic version of AES-256, there are no CBC or salt applied, just taking a key which is just the sha1 hash of an empty string. :D

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

You know you are a geek when...

...crashing your computer doesn't scare you anymore.
are you kidding. I have nightmares of my computer crashing. I'm surprised how I used to take a BSOD for granted.
Lemme fix dat.

Either your computer crashing doesn't scare you at all or it scares you so much you would wet yourself uncontrollably. I suppose it depends on whether or not you have backed up your system.

When...
...crashing computer doesn't scare you
because you expect it to crash = lose geek points (unless you do kernel hacks or software debugging)
because you look forward to fix it = gain geek points
because your system never crashes = ... let's be honest system doesn't crash only when there isn't one.

...crashing computer scares you a LOT
because you will have to fix it = points stay intact
because you will have to call a friend to fix it = lose geek points
because you haven't made backups = points stay intact (make that backup damn it!)
because you will have to buy new system [components] = gain idiot points (unless you had it really crashed because of cool device you soldered into your box, but it fried the whole system)


feel free to add more! :)

[SlickRick]

...scared of crash because you are unnaturally obsessed with uptime

[GepettoBR]

....scared of crash because the machine has been on for weeks calculating the number of neutrons in the Universe.

[scragar]

(unless you had it really crashed because of cool device you soldered into your box, but it fried the whole system)


I loled.

My sisters boyfriends computer fried recently, I don't get it, I knew the heatsink wasn't good enough(but it was a temp measure for 4 days till I could get a replacement), so I put three warnings on the thing and they still let it overheat(when CPU temp hit 50% recommended max = message, 70% = beep and message, 100% = constant beep and try to go on standby(thus reducing CPU usage, duh)), apparantly it started beeping, then just cut off, oh, I wonder why that could be :(

I fear other peoples computers crashing because I'll have to fix it, but my own computer rarely crashes, last time it crashed was when I tried to run PSX with a modified bios file that wasn't exactly bug free :p

YKYAGW you start answering your phone "No, I can't fix your computer, I'm busy today.", bonus points if the other person answers "Oh, OK" :p

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW you start answering your phone "No, I can't fix your computer, I'm busy today.", bonus points if the other person answers "Oh, OK" :p

I answer with "ahoy, ahoy" or more recently with "wut?"

[amingv]

When...
...crashing computer doesn't scare you
because you expect it to crash = lose geek points (unless you do kernel hacks or software debugging)
because you look forward to fix it = gain geek points
because your system never crashes = ... let's be honest system doesn't crash only when there isn't one.

...crashing computer scares you a LOT
because you will have to fix it = points stay intact
because you will have to call a friend to fix it = lose geek points
because you haven't made backups = points stay intact (make that backup damn it!)
because you will have to buy new system [components] = gain idiot points (unless you had it really crashed because of cool device you soldered into your box, but it fried the whole system)


feel free to add more! :)

15 minutes could save you up to 15% in car insurance.

You like it, because it justifies a complete overhaulin'

[GepettoBR]

15 minutes could save you up to 15% in car insurance.

You like it, because it justifies a complete overhaulin'

I saved 15% on my car insurance by switching to Geico.

[SlickRick]

If you live in the UK you could switch to admiral. It's the closest you'll get to being insured by a pirate :p

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you make up sayings/phrases/idioms because they sound like math stuff. For example, I was just contemplating the fact that 2^4=4^2, and jokingly said "four to the twoth", at which point I made up the phrase "bored to the tooth", which I don't think is in use yet. (It it? No results on Google...)
Bonus points if you later think about why the phrase would make sense. In my example, people often eat when they get bored. Therefore, bored to the tooth.

[heroidi]

You're afraid of system crashes when you are to lazy to fix it...

[jenkinbr]

You're afraid of system crashes when you are to lazy to fix it...
That's geeky???

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you sign your name (everywhere, even on paper) with "~~~~".

[SlickRick]

when you come back after college and say to yourself:
"Ahhhh, ~/ sweet ~/"

[jenkinbr]

when you come back after college and say to yourself:
"Ahhhh, ~/ sweet ~/"
I was gonna yell at you, then I realized that you said it correctly.

Still, an overused line though...

[hatten]

I was gonna yell at you, then I realized that you said it correctly.
i laughed =D

[darth_indy]

when you come back after college and say to yourself:
"Ahhhh, ~/ sweet ~/"

/me points to signature.

Been there, seen that ;)

[MetroidJunkie2008]

You say sudo right before telling someone to do something.

You actually criticize the 3D graphics of real life.

Your idea of a booze party is staying up all night, using Wine to play some Windows game.

You compare medical scientists trying to figure out a cure for the swine flu to Nortan Anti-virus.

When you ask where a water fountain is, you say "Do you know where the dihydration monoxide dispenser is?"

You brag about the technical specs of your computer the way most people do about their cars.

You asked a mechanic if you could get Linux installed on your car's motherboard.

You have an electric car just so you can attempt to put an OS on it.

You actually took the time to read all of these.

[SlickRick]

You say sudo right before telling someone to do something.

You compare medical scientists trying to figure out a cure for the swine flu to Nortan Anti-virus.


1. there's an xkcd reference there

2. you mean microsoft is doing the scientists "favors" so they could keep their jobs but not actually solve anything?

[jenkinbr]

When you ask where a water fountain is, you say "Do you know where the dihydration monoxide dispenser is?"

YKYAGW you Laugh at this page: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html, especially this section: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html#DANGERS

[Harpie Queen]

You count down to the new year in binary, you always carry around a usb, even when you are going camping, you always carry something you can bot ubuntu from, you translate your phone number into binary, you read/write in this thread.

[GepettoBR]

When you ask where a water fountain is, you say "Do you know where the dihydration monoxide dispenser is?"

You mean dihydrogen monoxide, or hydrogen hydroxide. There's no such thing as "dihydration", though there is dehydration - but drinking water prevents that. :)

[tarps87]

...you always carry around a usb, even when you are going camping...

You'll never guess what I was doing last week ;) and yes I did take my pen-drives. One with Puppy Linux for gparted on with DSL, another one to install Ubuntu remix with and the fourth one with free dos on and the latest version of my netbooks bios just incase it looses it again.
Oh and a mains power inverter to plug into my car cigarette lighter so I can charge the netbook

[Kopachris]

Oh and a mains power inverter to plug into my car cigarette lighter so I can charge the netbook
Ykyagw you always take a power inverter with you in the car whenever you go on a long trip, so you can plug your laptop in.
Actually, it was more prevalent for us to keep the power inverter on the truck (as in semi, not pickup) when Dad went owner-operator. We kept the laptop on all day with MS Streets and Trips (one of their few excellent products, well worth the money) open and the GPS plugged in. (I also did a little programming while I was navigating. :p) When we do go camping, however, we usually take the inverter with us, but not always.

[tuxsheadache]

You'll never guess what I was doing last week ;) and yes I did take my pen-drives. One with Puppy Linux for gparted on with DSL, another one to install Ubuntu remix with and the fourth one with free dos on and the latest version of my netbooks bios just incase it looses it again.
Oh and a mains power inverter to plug into my car cigarette lighter so I can charge the netbook

I took a pendrive, phone, mp3 player and psp with me this weekend. Sounds like normal stuff, but I was doing the UK national 3 peak challenge (climbing ben nevis, snowdon, and scarfell pike, all within 24 hours (including travelling time betweenmountains)). I was prepared!

[jenkinbr]

I took a pendrive, phone, mp3 player and psp with me this weekend. Sounds like normal stuff, but I was doing the UK national 3 peak challenge (climbing ben nevis, snowdon, and scarfell pike, all within 24 hours (including travelling time betweenmountains)). I was prepared!
That's all fine and dandy, but did you use them???

[tuxsheadache]

That's all fine and dandy, but did you use them???

Yes, pendrive was backup, mobile i made calls with, mp3 for music, but I was disappointed that the tallest spot in the UK had no wifi :(

[GepettoBR]

And the PSP?

[tuxsheadache]

And the PSP?

Incase I needed a sonic break...

[cubeist]

You mean dihydrogen monoxide, or hydrogen hydroxide. There's no such thing as "dihydration", though there is dehydration - but drinking water prevents that. :)

YKYAGW you correct someone for their usage of dihydration / dihydrogen!

:P

[darth_indy]

Fun Weekend Amusement: Someone drinks out of a glass of water, you stare at them horrified. Say, "Didn't you know that's dihydrogen monoxide? It's fatal if inhaled!" And wait to see if they get it or run away screaming.

[anilolita]

you know youre a geek when u have a pocket protector.
:]
and especially if u dont get offended when youre called a geek. AND if u know all the words to white and nerdy. except for me. im the exception of that last one. ;P

[SlickRick]

you know youre a geek when u have a pocket protector.
:]
and especially if u dont get offended when youre called a geek. AND if u know all the words to white and nerdy. except for me. im the exception of that last one. ;P

Pocket protectors are for NERDS. Get it right, nerdy nerd. The song is white and NERDY, so how does knowing the words make you a geek? NERD

EMPHASIS!!!!I@M HOLDING DOWN BOTH SHIF BUTTONS AND BAKSPAE DOESN@T WORK BEAUSE OF IT

[rwslippey]

When it annoys you at home much of your money (taxes) is wasted on Windows. (Gov't computers)

[tarps87]

I took a pendrive, phone, mp3 player and psp with me this weekend. Sounds like normal stuff, but I was doing the UK national 3 peak challenge (climbing ben nevis, snowdon, and scarfell pike, all within 24 hours (including travelling time betweenmountains)). I was prepared!

Yes, pendrive was backup, mobile i made calls with, mp3 for music, but I was disappointed that the tallest spot in the UK had no wifi :(

Imagine if you left the pen drive on the top :)

[SlickRick]

Imagine if you left the pen drive on the top :)

Imagine finding it there. I'd brobably think god(ceiling cat) is calling out to me, saying that I don't have enough pen drives.

[jenkinbr]

When it annoys you at home much of your money (taxes) is wasted on Windows. (Gov't computers)
Thanks for pissing me off with that tidbit of information...

grrrr, stupid gov'mnt pirate dingwads that don't know what poop is.....

[GepettoBR]

imagine finding it there. I'd brobably think god(ceiling cat) is calling out to me, saying that i don't have enough pen drives.

+1

[smitty96]

YKYAGW..... You posted this message from a terminal. And you computer's internet connection is blocked, so you had to SSH into your brother's Ubuntu Server, login, and use w3m from there, and you did all of this with no cursor. And you understand everything I just said, and you've done it yourself. More than once.

[BslBryan]

Proof I am a geek, then. :-) What's wrong with accepting that terminal browsers are cool? :lol:

[GepettoBR]

YKYAGW..... You posted this message from a terminal. And you computer's internet connection is blocked, so you had to SSH into your brother's Ubuntu Server, login, and use w3m from there, and you did all of this with no cursor. And you understand everything I just said, and you've done it yourself. More than once.

From a virtual machine.

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW..... You posted this message from a terminal. And you computer's internet connection is blocked, so you had to SSH into your brother's Ubuntu Server, login, and use w3m from there, and you did all of this with no cursor. And you understand everything I just said, and you've done it yourself. More than once.

Sure do understand you there! - doing it now, just like the pretty graphics. Haven't had the net blocked on my machine, though.

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[Sunnz]

YKYAGW..... You posted this message from a terminal. And you computer's internet connection is blocked, so you had to SSH into your brother's Ubuntu Server, login, and use w3m from there, and you did all of this with no cursor. And you understand everything I just said, and you've done it yourself. More than once.

Bonus geek point if you were using wget!! :D If you can do it in C, that's even better.

[hatten]

Sure do understand you there! - doing it now, just like the pretty graphics. Haven't had the net blocked on my machine, though.

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Nano, omfg! That's the least geeky of all terminal text editors ever! Shame on you!

[The Toxic Mite]

Proof I am a geek, then. :-) What's wrong with accepting that terminal browsers are cool? :lol:

Cool!!!

What one's that?

[tarps87]

Sure do understand you there! - doing it now, just like the pretty graphics. Haven't had the net blocked on my machine, though.

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Nano, omfg! That's the least geeky of all terminal text editors ever! Shame on you!

Why not use tail, grep, cat and pipes. Who needs text editors :)

[scragar]

Why not use tail, grep, cat and pipes. Who needs text editors :)
Or sed :p

[scragar]

YKYAGW..... You posted this message from a terminal.
*cough* never done that...
Or sed :p~ $ ./forum.pl
URL: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=86237

info: forum type : 1
base URL : http://ubuntuforums.org
thread id : 86237
total posts: 5867
reply uri : newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=467905

You know you're a geek when........ show last 1
#5867 tarps87 Re: You know you're a geek when........
Quote: jenkinbr #5863
Sure do understand you there! - doing it now, just like the pretty graphics.
Haven't had the net blocked on my machine, though.

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Quote: hatten #5865
Nano, omfg! That's the least geeky of all terminal text editors ever! Shame
on you!
Why not use tail, grep, cat and pipes. Who needs text editors :)

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#5865 hatten Re: You know you're a geek when........
Quote: jenkinbr #5863
Sure do understand you there! - doing it now, just like the pretty graphics.
Haven't had the net blocked on my machine, though.

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Nano, omfg! That's the least geeky of all terminal text editors ever! Shame on
you!

You know you're a geek when........ quote last 1
You must log in first.
Username: scragar
Password:
Login done.
use !! on it's own line to end typing, or !? to retype the previous line.

Why not use tail, grep, cat and pipes. Who needs text edi
tors :)
Or sed :p
!!

You know you're a geek when........ quit
~ $
:p

[BslBryan]

Cool!!!

What one's that?
elinks.

[jenkinbr]

Just because I don't have time to learn vi or vim doesn't mean you should bash me.

For a basic edit, nano worked fine. Why go fancy for something simple???

[GepettoBR]

Just because I don't have time to learn vi or vim doesn't mean you should bash me.

For a basic edit, nano worked fine. Why go fancy for something simple???

Exactly. Isn't the keep-it-simple approach the very reason to post from the Terminal?

[hatten]

Just because I don't have time to learn vi or vim doesn't mean you should bash me.

For a basic edit, nano worked fine. Why go fancy for something simple???
sorry if you took it like bashing, it was meant as a joke. Not that i thought vim was hard to learn, i know how to save, quit and change modes. But i do have a printed vim cheatsheet in case i would need anything else, i do all my homeworks and stuff in vim, and only adding pictures and headings in OOo.

[smitty96]

Originally Posted by smitty96 View Post
YKYAGW..... You posted this message from a terminal. And you computer's internet connection is blocked, so you had to SSH into your brother's Ubuntu Server, login, and use w3m from there, and you did all of this with no cursor. And you understand everything I just said, and you've done it yourself. More than once.
From a virtual machine. No!!!! Linux is awesome, why would you want to run it from a different OS!?!?

[GepettoBR]

No!!!! Linux is awesome, why would you want to run it from a different OS!?!?

Why do you assume it isn't a different distro?

[scragar]

Why do you assume it isn't a different distro?

Or the same distro and running it in a virtual machine is done so safe experimenting can be performed, like seeing just how many things you can delete before you break something...

[corney91]

Or the same distro and running it in a virtual machine is done so safe experimenting can be performed, like seeing just how many things you can delete before you break something...

YKYAGW this is your favourite pastime :p

[jenkinbr]

Or the same distro and running it in a virtual machine is done so safe experimenting can be performed, like seeing just how many things you can delete before you break something...
I've actually ran that one command the announcment says we shouldn't run - you know - the rm one - in a vm just for fun.

[BslBryan]

Yeah, I did something like that. I made a tarbomb and filled half of my partition's space, just to try it.

[H2SO_four]

Thats awesome :)

[hatten]

When i were reinstalling linux a while ago i rm'd the system first, it was damn fun =D

[jenkinbr]

When i were reinstalling linux a while ago i rm'd the system first, it was damn fun =D
I do that as well, I just unmount my /home partition first :)

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

When i were reinstalling linux a while ago i rm'd the system first, it was damn fun =D

I sometimes do badblocks -w -t random /dev/hda1 to random-fill my partition while scanning for bad blocks at the same time...
A little bit useful than rm'ing the partition and very good to actually delete data... and VERY VERY BAD when you realise you had some needed files with no backups...

[jenkinbr]

I sometimes do badblocks -w -t random /dev/hda1 to random-fill my partition while scanning for bad blocks at the same time...
A little bit useful than rm'ing the partition and very good to actually delete data... and VERY VERY BAD when you realise you had some needed files with no backups...
No backups?

Geeks don't NOT make backups, they are too essential in life.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

No backups?

Geeks don't NOT make backups, they are too essential in life.

Well I meant you usually never backup *ALL* your files...

And yeah, life taught me to do backups... after carelessy losing 11GBs worth of photos.
I have now two-level backup with redundant copies.

[jenkinbr]

Well I meant you usually never backup *ALL* your files...

And yeah, life taught me to do backups... after carelessy losing 11GBs worth of photos.
I have now two-level backup with redundant copies.
Well, true.

Currently, all most my software is in the repos, so I only really worry about a few config files and my home directories.

[BslBryan]

BOT...

Ykyagw you paid $6000 for your computer and $500 for your car.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

BOT...

Ykyagw you paid $6000 for your computer and $500 for your car.
Woah! 6k dollars???
That must be some scientific workstation then!

I put together my rig from nearly most powerful (consumer-level) parts there is (actually were a year ago :) ) for some 450 pounds.

[darth_indy]

Woah! 6k dollars???
That must be some scientific workstation then!

I put together my rig from nearly most powerful (consumer-level) parts there is (actually were a year ago :) ) for some 450 pounds.

I've priced out building my ultimate dream machine (Basically, state-of-the-art-and-then-some for everything) and I've not gone over $3000. ;-)

To *actually* build a machine I'd use for everything I do (A lot of graphics and video editing, for example) I'd budget $1000 just so I don't have to skimp at all. Plus, if I buy slightly less new that the latest and greatest, it's a good price point, and it's not obsolete for a few years.

[smitty96]

Why do you assume it isn't a different distro? Hmm. I never thought of that. But that just pointlessly complicates things, even if it is fun. My computer is pretty limited on RAM, and is pretty bad altogether, so I can't do fancy stuff like compiz or VM.

Geeks don't NOT make backups, they are too essential in life.I can't make backups, I have literally no hard drive space. I could use my bro's server, which has an external terrrabyte hard drive, but he's only here 3 days a week, and he takes his hard drive with him.
Or the same distro and running it in a virtual machine is done so safe experimenting can be performed, like seeing just how many things you can delete before you break something...I've SSHd into my bro's server and then into my machine several times at once. It's fun, but it gets really slow, especially since both computers are slow to start with... ;)

[jenkinbr]

I can't make backups, I have literally no hard drive space. I could use my bro's server, which has an external terrrabyte hard drive, but he's only here 3 days a week, and he takes his hard drive with him.

Go buy an external hard drive. It's what I did, and it works for me.

At the very least, dvd's work well up to a point.

[learningcurb]

Proof I am a geek, then. :-) What's wrong with accepting that terminal browsers are cool? :lol:

is that snownews + elinks?

[GepettoBR]

Go buy an external hard drive. It's what I did, and it works for me.

At the very least, dvd's work well up to a point.

I'm in the uncomfortable zone where I have way too much data for DVD backups but no external hard drive. and it'll be a while until I can get one since I'm going to Macchu Picchu in October and am saving up to buy a Digital SLR Camera.

[Kopachris]

I've priced out my ultimate dream machine at about $5,000 from TigerDirect, w/ next day shipping. As for backups, I regularly sync my Dinosaur and my PowerBook, then use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bootable backup of my PowerBook on an external HD. I had to hack my PowerBook's firmware to get the USB HD bootable, but then it'll work exactly the same as a backup to restore it, just from the external drive to the internal drive instead. I don't really keep anything important on my Dinosaur, so I don't back it up except for the regular document syncing.

[The Toxic Mite]

... you are contemplating about transferring your laptop innards into a desktop case which you built out of Lego. ;)

My laptop case is tattered, basically. ;p

[smitty96]

Go buy an external hard drive. It's what I did, and it works for me.

At the very least, dvd's work well up to a point.I can't buy an external, since I literally have 4 dollars in my wallet, and I don't have a DVD burner. I don't really have any important files though, so I don't really care. Although it would be a pain to copy all 829 songs onto my hard drive from my iPod.

[Linux000]

... you are contemplating about transferring your laptop innards into a desktop case which you built out of Lego. ;)

I have a spare laptop...
You know your a geek when you relate to any of the comments on this fourm

[modmadmike]

when you get the Nvidia 180 driver working in 9.04 server (PAIN IN THE @%%). when the internet goes down at your house at 1am and you whip out your USB 727 CMDA modem and hook it up your desktop, configure masquerading to your ethernet port, hook up your router's WAN port to it and then connect to this network with your laptop and confirm that you now have internet!!!! (guilty as charged! lol)

[Linux000]

when you get the Nvidia 180 driver working in 9.04 server (PAIN IN THE @%%). when the internet goes down at your house at 1am and you whip out your USB 727 CMDA modem and hook it up your desktop, configure masquerading to your ethernet port, hook up your router's WAN port to it and then connect to this network with your laptop and confirm that you now have internet!!!! (guilty as charged! lol)

You know your a geek when you know how to do that and what it means.

[GepettoBR]

I can't buy an external, since I literally have 4 dollars in my wallet, and I don't have a DVD burner. I don't really have any important files though, so I don't really care. Although it would be a pain to copy all 829 songs onto my hard drive from my iPod.

"All" 829 songs?

Rhythmbox reports 14342 songs right now, and I have a few concert DVDs laying around that I haven't gotten to rip the audio tracks from yet. :D

[H2SO_four]

"All" 829 songs?

Rhythmbox reports 14342 songs right now, and I have a few concert DVDs laying around that I haven't gotten to rip the audio tracks from yet. :D

we should change the thread title to you know you're a pirate when... ;)

[modmadmike]

we should change the thread title to you know you're a pirate when... ;)

Hey I have 2332 songs and I got them by copying them from my friends (MUHAHAHAHAHA...).
YKYAGW: you ssh into a freinds PC, then cp all their songs to your pc muahahaha lol

[modmadmike]

Hey I have 2332 songs and I got them by copying them from my friends (MUHAHAHAHAHA...).
YKYAGW: you ssh into a freinds PC, then cp all their songs to your pc muahahaha lol

YKYAPW** lol

[H2SO_four]

ykyapw** lol

+1 :)

[Vrekk]

Hey I have 2332 songs and I got them by copying them from my friends (MUHAHAHAHAHA...).
YKYAGW: you ssh into a freinds PC, then cp all their songs to your pc muahahaha lol

So much fun "copying" music like that.

[H2SO_four]

Reminds me of the torrent analogy... Say 800 of your closest friends all have a file you want, they each send you a piece of it... so on and so forth.

[darth_indy]

we should change the thread title to you know you're a pirate when... ;)

*grins* But, hey, it's possible to have that much legit and free. Depends on how much indie and classical you like, though ;)

Seriously, though, there's a lot of good free stuff out there. For example,


Amazon.com offers over 500 free mp3s (http://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=334897011&pf_rd_p=469729471&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=678551011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1QQ2XWN5P9DRXYWQ49Y4). They even have a Linux downloader!
Last.fm has free mp3s (http://www.last.fm/music/+free-music-downloads), including songs from popular artists.
Look for the SXSW torrents (http://hewgill.com/sxsw/). Thousands of songs, perfectly legit and free; a lot are indie but some of them are well-known, or are now (They range back to 2005). Some really great stuff on there.
Free Albums Galore (http://freealbums.blogsome.com/). The name says it all.
The same with Legal Torrents (http://beta.legaltorrents.com/music).
Most definitely not free as in Libre, but this site lists all the free iTunes downloads (http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/).
If none of that sounds good to you, you can always Google "Free legal music" - and remember, just like with Linux vs. Windows, what's free isn't worse, it's different.

[hatten]

freetrance.net must be one of the best free-music sites, a must if you like trance.
ykyagw you are excited to get your dual-screen setup working, but are too lazy to do it.

[tarps87]

... you are contemplating about transferring your laptop innards into a desktop case which you built out of Lego. ;)

My laptop case is tattered, basically. ;p

#-o

Go buy an external hard drive. It's what I did, and it works for me.

At the very least, dvd's work well up to a point.

How about

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda1

[talsemgeest]

#-o



How about

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda1
YKYAGW that command actually does something useful...

[tarps87]

... you are contemplating about transferring your laptop innards into a desktop case which you built out of Lego. ;)

My laptop case is tattered, basically. ;p

Your too slow

http://www.marutan.net/comp/v3/index.php

There is also a tower, server and camera

[SlickRick]

*grins* But, hey, it's possible to have that much legit and free. Depends on how much indie and classical you like, though ;)

Seriously, though, there's a lot of good free stuff out there. For example,


Amazon.com offers over 500 free mp3s (http://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=334897011&pf_rd_p=469729471&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=678551011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1QQ2XWN5P9DRXYWQ49Y4). They even have a Linux downloader!
Last.fm has free mp3s (http://www.last.fm/music/+free-music-downloads), including songs from popular artists.
Look for the SXSW torrents (http://hewgill.com/sxsw/). Thousands of songs, perfectly legit and free; a lot are indie but some of them are well-known, or are now (They range back to 2005). Some really great stuff on there.
Free Albums Galore (http://freealbums.blogsome.com/). The name says it all.
The same with Legal Torrents (http://beta.legaltorrents.com/music).
Most definitely not free as in Libre, but this site lists all the free iTunes downloads (http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/).
If none of that sounds good to you, you can always Google "Free legal music" - and remember, just like with Linux vs. Windows, what's free isn't worse, it's different.


+1
you forgot to mention jamendo (jamendo.com) or you just didn't know about it.
I'm trying to go on a sorta pirating diet. I already cut out pirating software (I think most of linux users have) and now I'm doing it with music by listening to free artists and if there's a song or album I want to listen to that's mainstream then I just use spotify.
Gonna be hard with films though :P

[darth_indy]

+1
you forgot to mention jamendo (jamendo.com) or you just didn't know about it.
I'm trying to go on a sorta pirating diet. I already cut out pirating software (I think most of linux users have) and now I'm doing it with music by listening to free artists and if there's a song or album I want to listen to that's mainstream then I just use spotify.
Gonna be hard with films though :P

Oh, I did forget about Jamendo. It's been a while since I used it. I'll have to check Spotify out too.

I also noticed that about using Linux - it's caused me to want expensive software less. I still use Adobe CS4 (Dreamweaver, Flash, and Photoshop), but everything else I use in Windows or Linux is FOSS, or at least free as in beer ;). Firefox, Thunderbird, Songbird, Pidgin (I share profiles between the dual-boot OSes, it makes it so easy!), Audacity, VLC, Calibre, Deluge, FileZilla, Blender, Scribus... everything works so well, there's no need to pay for tools.

[jms1989]

you successfully get an audio stream to play from your main machine to your media pc via pulseaudio. Now I need to get a simultaneous stream to play on both sets of speakers. The stream is a little buggy but plays ok for the most part.

[H2SO_four]

*grins* But, hey, it's possible to have that much legit and free. Depends on how much indie and classical you like, though ;)

Seriously, though, there's a lot of good free stuff out there. For example,


Amazon.com offers over 500 free mp3s (http://www.amazon.com/b/?&node=334897011&pf_rd_p=469729471&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=678551011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1QQ2XWN5P9DRXYWQ49Y4). They even have a Linux downloader!
Last.fm has free mp3s (http://www.last.fm/music/+free-music-downloads), including songs from popular artists.
Look for the SXSW torrents (http://hewgill.com/sxsw/). Thousands of songs, perfectly legit and free; a lot are indie but some of them are well-known, or are now (They range back to 2005). Some really great stuff on there.
Free Albums Galore (http://freealbums.blogsome.com/). The name says it all.
The same with Legal Torrents (http://beta.legaltorrents.com/music).
Most definitely not free as in Libre, but this site lists all the free iTunes downloads (http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/).
If none of that sounds good to you, you can always Google "Free legal music" - and remember, just like with Linux vs. Windows, what's free isn't worse, it's different.


I wasn't passing judgement ;) I also have a substantial collection of Classical works, among other things.

[Kopachris]

I'm really picky when it comes to music. iTunes reports exactly 700 songs, 2.3 days, 4.34GB. I only listen to about half of it. About 586MB is classical, 167MB is just midis I put in GarageBand and exported to aiff, about 560MB is classic rock that I actually listen to, about 166MB of Wierd Al. The rest is the soundtracks of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and Star Wars 3, the audio ripped off of Happy Feet with FFMpeg, and stuff I don't listen to. Oh, yeah, and a few short binaural beat tracks.

... you are contemplating about transferring your laptop innards into a desktop case which you built out of Lego. :wink:

My laptop case is tattered, basically. ;p
Hmm... I bet I could take apart my PowerBook and strap the pieces to the wall by my bed...

[jenkinbr]

when you use the EM-SPACE unicode character to                circumvent the UbuntuForums space                     filter.

[sim-value]

YKYAGW...

you remember that we already had the "when your read all the posts in this thread" one ... :D

[monkeyslayer56]

1. When you get annoyed at the fact they use Windows at school.
2. You look at the hardware and software of school computers and price how much each computer costs. (Dell Optiplex, 512 MB RAM, Pentium 4, 80 GB HD, about 3000$ of software + 800$ hardware = about 4000$)
3. When you tell your friends how much RAM and what kind of processor and what clock speed the processor is of the video game systems they own.

Not funny ones, but true.

that is definetly me. most of the time after i finish people are like "ya i have no idea what u just said"

[monkeyslayer56]

You confuse the staff in Maplin (or whatever electronics/computer shops your country has)
sad to say but i think ive done that a time or two

[philcamlin]

when you overclock your toaster

[jenkinbr]

when you overclock your toaster
Seriously, now. Overclocking toasters???

[SlickRick]

when you overclock your toaster

that's worse than when someone said they typed their sudo password into their microwave

you couldn't actually overclock a toaster since it doesn't have a processor. Electricity simply runs through some coils and heat is produced until the timer triggered to stops and shuts of the supply.
Unless you have one of those new fangled future toasters that also tell you the time. However, overclocking a digital timer would be st00pid.

[philcamlin]

you tell the teacher to sudo the classs to get control :popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

[jenkinbr]

you tell the teacher to sudo the classs to get control :popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:
sudo class behave :lolflag:

[amingv]

that's worse than when someone said they typed their sudo password into their microwave

you couldn't actually overclock a toaster since it doesn't have a processor. Electricity simply runs through some coils and heat is produced until the timer triggered to stops and shuts of the supply.
Unless you have one of those new fangled future toasters that also tell you the time. However, overclocking a digital timer would be st00pid.

Plugging my toaster to a 220v line suddenly stopped feeling like a good idea. :(

[jms1989]

Plugging my toaster to a 220v line suddenly stopped feeling like a good idea. :(

Well look at it this way, it could be toasted in half the time but you may burn out the heating coils.

[spamking2000]

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

..... you flame someone for joking about overclocking a toaster.

[amingv]

Well look at it this way, it could be toasted in half the time but you may burn out the heating coils.

Then it DOES work like a processor :).
Maybe overclock your toaster with water cooling/liquid helium?

[jms1989]

Then it DOES work like a processor :).
Maybe overclock your toaster with water cooling/liquid helium?

but if you did that and it worked, you would basically be taking the extra heat away and void the whole purpose.

Hmm, liquid helium? Would that work on a computer? I bet that could allow you to seriously overclock your cpu, ram, and video card. :)

[philcamlin]

lmao huge discussion over overclocking a toaster :D

i think i did good :P

your a geek when you build a pc in a toaster and mod the heat sink to cook the toast

[jms1989]

lmao huge discussion over overclocking a toaster :D

i think i did good :P

yep, sure did.


your a geek when you build a pc in a toaster and mod the heat sink to cook the toast

sounds like an effective way to cool your pc and warm up some toast. :p

[amingv]

but if you did that and it worked, you would basically be taking the extra heat away and void the whole purpose.

Hmm, liquid helium? Would that work on a computer? I bet that could allow you to seriously overclock your cpu, ram, and video card. :)

Yes, but the toaster'd be overclocked nevertheless. :)
In any case I'd eat a frozen toast if it means I get to play with liquid helium and high tension electricity.

Liquid helium would work on a processor, in theory; ...I think (or at least I like to think; it'd be pretty awesome if it's possible)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUc6znC848o
(That's nitrogen, though)

[BlazeFire247]

.....You have a brand new computer and you replace the built-in operating system with a terminal

[SlickRick]

lmao huge discussion over overclocking a toaster :D

i think i did good :P

your a geek when you build a pc in a toaster and mod the heat sink to cook the toast

throw anything on me and I will argue it...or at least try ):P

[tarps87]

throw anything on me and I will argue it...or at least try ):P

Black is not white

Note: if you do prove it you will be run over on the next zebra crossing

[SlickRick]

Black is not white

Note: if you do prove it you will be run over on the next zebra crossing

that's ok cause I don't go on zebra crossings. I just cross wherever.
Black is not white because black is the lack of colours and white contains all of the colours in the visable light spectrum

[jms1989]

haha, good one.

you see someone spawn off a argument about household appliances and you participate in it.

[GepettoBR]

that's ok cause I don't go on zebra crossings. I just cross wherever.
Black is not white because black is the lack of colours and white contains all of the colours in the visable light spectrum

"Visible".

Also, due to the way our eyes work, any single color can be perceived as white if it has an intense enough luminosity, and any color below our perception threshold will be perceived as black.

[jenkinbr]

...when you overclock your { refrigerator | microwave | oven | bathtub | toilet | air_conditioner }

[Kopachris]

Black is not white

Note: if you do prove it you will be run over on the next zebra crossing
But black is white! Black and white are both both the absence of color and the mixture of all colors. Black color is white light, and black light is white color. Therefore, black is white.

[jenkinbr]

/me begins wondering what white looks like in the dark...

[SlickRick]

...when you overclock your { refrigerator | microwave | oven | bathtub | toilet | air_conditioner }

:lolflag:

What have you been eating to need that much flushing power?
I'm sorry for the silly joke but it made me laugh very much.

can we just have a thread about things to overclock and various outcomes that would ensue

[smitty96]

YKYAGW: You're lmao after reading this thread, mainly because you're the only person in your entire school that would understand half the things we say here. Including my computer teacher, the only things we do is Typing Master(bleh) Microsoft Office(double bleh) and Windows Movie Maker(triple bleh)

[SlickRick]

YKYAGW: You're lmao after reading this thread, mainly because you're the only person in your entire school that would understand half the things we say here. Including my computer teacher, the only things we do is Typing Master(bleh) Microsoft Office(double bleh) and Windows Movie Maker(triple bleh)

if you were a true geek, then you would bring your own software/OS and see how much fun you can have before you get caught

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I'm in the uncomfortable zone where I have way too much data for DVD backups but no external hard drive. and it'll be a while until I can get one since I'm going to Macchu Picchu in October and am saving up to buy a Digital SLR Camera.

Make few redundant copies of your backup DVDs... they're really cheap.

Also now that I think it would probably a quite good idea hash cheksums for backup files, and check them once in a while...
Which combined with redundant copies gives you basically RAID1 with DVDs.

you successfully get an audio stream to play from your main machine to your media pc via pulseaudio. Now I need to get a simultaneous stream to play on both sets of speakers. The stream is a little buggy but plays ok for the most part.

I was always thinking to build 10.2 audio system at my place... don't have all the speakers on the spot yet.
Only shame that Linux audio driver for Audigy kind of stinks. Well it works, but it just works. Creative's Windows driver is far more better, but then again... I have no idea how to set up that fancy audio stream processing on Windows.
I thought about feeding from (or routing to) an linux box to remux there and send to Windows media PC... only it's helluva latency :(

when you overclock your toaster
Seriously, now. Overclocking toasters???
I did that once! It overheated and died...
Maybe overclock your toaster with water cooling/liquid helium?
but if you did that and it worked, you would basically be taking the extra heat away and void the whole purpose.
I was going to say this too... guess I was a bit late :)

Hmm, liquid helium? Would that work on a computer? I bet that could allow you to seriously overclock your cpu, ram, and video card. :)
It probably would! Although liquid helium is REALLY REALLY fancy stuff!
Liquid nitrogen is more likely candidate and there were few experiment I can recall. Like clocking old P3 up to 5Ghz... but I'm sure guys have done more crazy things lately.

p.s. sorry for BIG post... Damn, I just made it bigger with PS. And now again! Damn!

[amingv]

It probably would! Although liquid helium is REALLY REALLY fancy stuff!
Liquid nitrogen is more likely candidate and there were few experiment I can recall. Like clocking old P3 up to 5Ghz... but I'm sure guys have done more crazy things lately.

I just had this whacky idea of using a car a/c compressor (which seems a lot more doable for real-life purposes).
You'd need to find a way to deal with possible humidity and probabbly couldn't overclock it as much as with helium/nitrogen, but hey, maybe it'd work.
I have never seen this around, has anyone tried it? Could it actually be done? (<--Car/refrigeration inept)

[GepettoBR]

RAID1 with DVDs.

YKYAGW this idea crosses your mind at all.

[jenkinbr]

:lolflag:

What have you been eating to need that much flushing power?

I don't know, but I came across an overclocked toilet today.

If I hadn't already taken a crap, it would have scared the crap out of me.

/offtopic

[tarps87]

I don't know, but I came across an overclocked toilet today.

If I hadn't already taken a crap, it would have scared the crap out of me.

/offtopic

How about an over clocked food blender? Oh wait it's already been done on Top Gear using a V8

[sim-value]

Plugging my toaster to a 220v line suddenly stopped feeling like a good idea. :(
?!

In europe 220-240 V is standard ?

[tarps87]

?!

In europe 220-240 V is standard ?

YKYAGW you don't move the switch on the back of the power supply to 116V to see what happens on 240V (Smoke comes out and it stops working, not that I've tried it :-\")

[bakie]

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

haha second that :D, and the you start overclocking and the warranties are not valid anymore :)

[amingv]

?!

In europe 220-240 V is standard ?

Don't think that would save my toaster, though :(.

Why would you need such voltage on a regular basis, anyway? I never did understand Europe for this.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

In europe 220-240 V is standard ?Why would you need such voltage on a regular basis, anyway? I never did understand Europe for this.

I on other hand never understood America (and others?) for their voltage... :)
But I guess it comes down to amper and voltage ratios, so basically all devices uses more or less same amount of electricity (Watts) regardless what line they're on. (as long as they tolerate/are made for those voltages)

And yes... we run pretty much everything on 220V. And I never found that strange or anything...

[GepettoBR]

Here in Brazil we use 100-120V lines in the South and Southeast and 200-240V in the North and Northeast. I've never been to the Midwest so I have no idea what they use over there. Most of my gadgets are bivoltage, though (is that the right word in English?) and I have an adapter I always keep handy when travelling.

[SlickRick]

...when you take a career guidance test at college and this is your result of top 20 careers to take:


Computer Hardware Engineer
Engineer: Energy
ROV Pilot
Engineer: Chemical
Engineer: Fire
Computer Service Technician
Engineer: Nuclear
Telecoms Technician
Engineer: Electronics
Engineer: Telecommunications
Engineer: Gas
Engineer: Broadcast
Engineer: Mineral & Mining
Airline Pilot: Civil
Engineer: Land-based
Engineer: Mechanical
Engineer: Building Services
Engineer: Electrical
Engineer: Control & Instrumental
Surveyor: Minerals & Waste Management

[modmadmike]

When your (extremely) paranoid about your systems security.

[cmay]

maybe when you wake up in the morning and try finding the makefile for the coffee.
(make coffee ) i done that one morning but i a not a geek

[talsemgeest]

...when you take a career guidance test at college and this is your result of top 20 careers to take:


Computer Hardware Engineer
Engineer: Energy
ROV Pilot
Engineer: Chemical
Engineer: Fire
Computer Service Technician
Engineer: Nuclear
Telecoms Technician
Engineer: Electronics
Engineer: Telecommunications
Engineer: Gas
Engineer: Broadcast
Engineer: Mineral & Mining
Airline Pilot: Civil
Engineer: Land-based
Engineer: Mechanical
Engineer: Building Services
Engineer: Electrical
Engineer: Control & Instrumental
Surveyor: Minerals & Waste Management

I did one of those career tests. There was not a single suggested career that didn't have the word "Computer" in it.

[scragar]

:( You know that whole crash post of earlier? Guess who's stupid landlord cut the power and ruined my first hard drive, including both of my operating systems, all saved passwords for MSN, skype, websites etc. I'm currently seeing what I can save using a live CD. Should take 5 hours to do a full scan :(

[modmadmike]

:( You know that whole crash post of earlier? Guess who's stupid landlord cut the power and ruined my first hard drive, including both of my operating systems, all saved passwords for MSN, skype, websites etc. I'm currently seeing what I can save using a live CD. Should take 5 hours to do a full scan :(

dd it to a healthy disk before it stops working completely!!!!!!!!!!

[UbuKunubi]

You design and etch and populate you own working motherboard

[scragar]

dd it to a healthy disk before it stops working completely!!!!!!!!!!

I've already got my essentials off first, my home folders, I need to see what else I can recover now. Odds are I'll need a complete reinstall. And this time I'm going to do a real backup.

[modmadmike]

You design and etch and populate you own working motherboard
Could do it but... WAY TOOOOOOOOOO LAZY lol:D

[UbuKunubi]

Could do it but... WAY TOOOOOOOOOO LAZY lol:D

Really! cool. What PCB package would you use?

[modmadmike]

Really! cool. What PCB package would you use?

I used to use PCB123 (on *****$T@ nooooo) but If I was devoted enough to make one then I would instead use GIMP and make the paths by hand, print them to transfer paper and then use an acid bath to carve the traces into the copper ;)

[smitty96]

if you were a true geek, then you would bring your own software/OS and see how much fun you can have before you get caught That's the thing though, my classmates would start yelling "he's hacking!" like when I opened up a command prompt. I can't believe what Windows does to people... They didn't even know what a command prompt was!

[lisati]

Guess who's stupid landlord cut the power and ruined my first hard drive,<snip>
For the sake of the relationship with your landlord I hope it was a genuine bona fide accident, and that it wasn't something that you had some warning about..... :(

[flyinglinuxmonkey]

You're excited to go home and program sheet music (Lilypond through emacs).

[SlickRick]

That's the thing though, my classmates would start yelling "he's hacking!" like when I opened up a command prompt. I can't believe what Windows does to people... They didn't even know what a command prompt was!

That's the challenge. If people are that stupid to me, I just say one of two things:

1. Don't you want me to find out the admin password and unblock facebook?
2. If you don't shut up, I'll hack your computer and delete all of your game saves/porn.

Good thing that I'm in a computer course at college, so people do actually know what the command propt is and how to use it :popcorn:

[scragar]

For the sake of the relationship with your landlord I hope it was a genuine bona fide accident, and that it wasn't something that you had some warning about..... :(

Nah, works like this, I live upstairs, he lives downstairs, apparently his cable box wasn't turning on, so he, erm, turned of the mains power and back on again... He didn't warn me because he was only going to turn it off for a few seconds, which sort of makes sense, but given that i've just tested to see if I can recover my install, and had a nice failure, now i have to install an old release of ubuntu and either upgrade it twice, or download the iso. What a mess.

[lisati]

Nah, works like this, I live upstairs, he lives downstairs, apparently his cable box wasn't turning on, so he, erm, turned of the mains power and back on again... He didn't warn me because he was only going to turn it off for a few seconds, which sort of makes sense, but given that i've just tested to see if I can recover my install, and had a nice failure, now i have to install an old release of ubuntu and either upgrade it twice, or download the iso. What a mess.
Annoying as your situation is, it's good that it wasn't due to something that could have gotten you kicked out!

[Sunnz]

Good thing that I'm in a computer course at college, so people do actually know what the command propt is and how to use it :popcorn:

I've seen several geeks in the computer course who appears to log into computers as usual at a graphical login screen as usual, but once they are in the whole screen is just blackness, until they start typing vi mycode.c ...

I personally uses a Windows theme and BSOD screensaver for my school account, confuses the hell out of everyone. :D

Nah, works like this, I live upstairs, he lives downstairs, apparently his cable box wasn't turning on, so he, erm, turned of the mains power and back on again... He didn't warn me because he was only going to turn it off for a few seconds, which sort of makes sense, but given that i've just tested to see if I can recover my install, and had a nice failure, now i have to install an old release of ubuntu and either upgrade it twice, or download the iso. What a mess.

Might be worth while to look into getting a UPS.

[UbuKunubi]

I used to use PCB123 (on *****$T@ nooooo) but If I was devoted enough to make one then I would instead use GIMP and make the paths by hand, print them to transfer paper and then use an acid bath to carve the traces into the copper ;)

mmm, acid baths - I'm working on a desktop CNC machine to use a waterjet to mill away the copper rather than sloshing things about in chemicals. I guess its simply exchanging dangerous pressures instead of dangerous chemicals, but it is a lot faster (factor of x8 faster).

[tarps87]

...when you take a career guidance test at college and this is your result of top 20 careers to take...

I took one several years ago and got carpet fitter or light self stacker (I answered the question "Do you like lifting heavy boxes?" as I don't mind):confused:

Luck I didn't listen to it :)

I used to use PCB123 (on *****$T@ nooooo) but If I was devoted enough to make one then I would instead use GIMP and make the paths by hand, print them to transfer paper and then use an acid bath to carve the traces into the copper ;)

You want a milling machine it looks better until you cut the tracks to thin

mmm, acid baths - I'm working on a desktop CNC machine to use a waterjet to mill away the copper rather than sloshing things about in chemicals. I guess its simply exchanging dangerous pressures instead of dangerous chemicals, but it is a lot faster (factor of x8 faster).

Even better.
I have use a laser cutter to make sings and bits but it was the wrong frequency to cut metal :(

[scragar]

Might be worth while to look into getting a UPS.
I did look into one, they were too expensive though, I've no idea where I can buy a cheap one from. Any ideas(from England, so if anyone has an idea, let me know)?

[modmadmike]

I took one several years ago and got carpet fitter or light self stacker (I answered the question "Do you like lifting heavy boxes?" as I don't mind):confused:

Luck I didn't listen to it :)



You want a milling machine it looks better until you cut the tracks to thin



Even better.
I have use a laser cutter to make sings and bits but it was the wrong frequency to cut metal :(
I wanted one but they are wayyyyyyyy to expensive, If I have enough free time I might make one as a project for school (Muhhahahaha), I always wanted to build a 3D printer but even building one is too expensive (Think super high end servos that are acurate enough to do this kind of work and very exact build dimensions (Cut 0.1mm off and it will print the objects improperly)) also basicly you need a milling machine to make another milling machine let alone a 3D printer lol.

[modmadmike]

I did look into one, they were too expensive though, I've no idea where I can buy a cheap one from. Any ideas(from England, so if anyone has an idea, let me know)?

Im thinking of getting (or building) a 12volt PSU and then hooking that up directly to a homebrew 12voly UPS. Anyone know were to get a 700+ watt (58.4+ amps) 12volt ATX2.0 power supply?

[jenkinbr]

Nah, works like this, I live upstairs, he lives downstairs, apparently his cable box wasn't turning on, so he, erm, turned off the mains power and back on again... He didn't warn me because he was only going to turn it off for a few seconds, which sort of makes sense, but given that i've just tested to see if I can recover my install, and had a nice failure, now i have to install an old release of ubuntu and either upgrade it twice, or download the iso. What a mess.

Brilliant - what's wrong with unplugging and plugging the box back in?

Or shutting off the power to the room affected, not the whole house.

*mutter brilliant /mutter*

[Linux000]

You know your a nerd when you try to modify your computer and take parts off of it.

[Vrekk]

I did look into one, they were too expensive though, I've no idea where I can buy a cheap one from. Any ideas(from England, so if anyone has an idea, let me know)?

I got my UPS at a Good Will store for about $10. Its battery life is around 20 minutes but hey, it is enough time for me to save what I'm doing and do a proper shutdown.

[SlickRick]

You know your a nerd when you try to modify your computer and take parts off of it.

I know you're a noob to this game but 1) this thread is for geeks, not nerds and 2) you're gonna have to be more specific on the parts taken out, put in, modified, etc.

I always found funny the notion of taking a gadget apart, putting it back together and it still works. Anyone been able to do that? I would love to know

[hatten]

I know you're a noob to this game but 1) this thread is for geeks, not nerds and 2) you're gonna have to be more specific on the parts taken out, put in, modified, etc.

I always found funny the notion of taking a gadget apart, putting it back together and it still works. Anyone been able to do that? I would love to know
i always succeed with the first steps, but when trying to get it working i often fails, if i put it back together that is.

[Vrekk]

I always found funny the notion of taking a gadget apart, putting it back together and it still works. Anyone been able to do that? I would love to know

I was almost always able to make it work again, but normally it would take me 3 hours to take it apart and about 3 months to put it back together working.

[Vrekk]

YKYAGW.......... In your Boredom/Free time you make a shell script that Cleans your desktop. (etc moves Pictures to ~/Pictures)

Ya my desktop gets VERY messy VERY fast.

[jenkinbr]

I always found funny the notion of taking a gadget apart, putting it back together and it still works. Anyone been able to do that? I would love to know

I've successfully done this many times.

[UbuKunubi]

Im thinking of getting (or building) a 12volt PSU and then hooking that up directly to a homebrew 12voly UPS. Anyone know were to get a 700+ watt (58.4+ amps) 12volt ATX2.0 power supply?

Im also in the UK, and have found a lot of info via google.
It appears that its not quite as difficult as it first seems to make one, I plan to take baby-steps.
The first goal to overcome is driving the stepper motors with the parallel port.
I do have a python program which performs edge-detection upon a photo of a PCB, and then turns the edges into co-ordinates, and im working on a goal of 10 pixels per mm, so it appears, so far, to be achieveable.

If you IM me I'll pass on my skype details (I use 3G mobile internet, so voice is a no go for a while)

All the best,
ubu

[UbuKunubi]

I know you're a noob to this game but 1) this thread is for geeks, not nerds and 2) you're gonna have to be more specific on the parts taken out, put in, modified, etc.

I always found funny the notion of taking a gadget apart, putting it back together and it still works. Anyone been able to do that? I would love to know

I'm a little hazy on this.
Whats the difference between a nerd and a geek?

Personally I prefer to try to encourage people to learn about things, rather than disparage them. :-)

Ubu

[jenkinbr]

I'm a little hazy on this.
Whats the difference between a nerd and a geek?

Personally I prefer to try to encourage people to learn about things, rather than disparage them. :-)

Ubu
the major difference between a nerd and a geek is that geeks use their geekiness to get work done, while nerds use their nerdiness to show off. Other than that, I don't think there is much of a difference.

[SlickRick]

what I meant with my previous post oabout taking a gadget apart and putting it back together is that it's funny when you have bits left-over and it still works. I forgot to include that.

[jenkinbr]

what I meant with my previous post oabout taking a gadget apart and putting it back together is that it's funny when you have bits left-over and it still works. I forgot to include that.
...Not only did some of the stuff I take apart and put back together with parts left over work, sometimes thay worked BETTER than before!

[jibberling]

- your built up RAGE from not being able to make a home network or accomplish many other useful tasks is released by getting Linux, not spending a lot more money for new os that needs new hardware to get just the same old thing when you can get it better for free.
- you seriously consider learning any language + hardware designs to become a power user whether or not any of your hardware works much better than it did before you had linux.
- you stake out a pc your friend personalizes at (insert public computer lab) because you changed everything(even registry) to be extremely inefficient/backwards and want to see the anguish.
- (previously mentioned) want to control & tweak every aspect of your car preferably with a computer or homemade circuit board i.e. lighting schemes, engine gas air mixture, spark timing.
- you read the car manual before the car breaks, haha
- after you find your answer in a book, you keep reading, and forget you wanted just one answer
- leisure reading is a best sellling/rated text book or technology digest.
- read windows registry books because you know you'll jsut have to deal with it one day anyway.
- register Ubuntu forums

[hatten]

- you read the car manual before the car breaks, hahaeven if it isn't your car =D

[scragar]

even if it isn't your car =D

:oops: I've done that :oops:
I can't even drive :p

[darth_indy]

I'm a little hazy on this.
Whats the difference between a nerd and a geek?

Personally I prefer to try to encourage people to learn about things, rather than disparage them. :-)

Ubu

There's quite a big difference, depending on who you talk to. To me, geek is a compliment, while nerd is an insult.

Geeks are the ones that keep the world running, and continue learning about technology. They do have their own little obsessions - Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. - but they don't let it interfere too much with an actual, real social life. They put their knowledge and skills to good use.

Nerds are the ones that are far closer to the stereotype, antisocial, sci-fi obsessed guy. They are often the ones that make the geeks look bad - the ones that are the ultra-obsessed Linux zealot and think you can't be a real geek if you don't know how to build your own motherboard, starting with sand and making your own silicone. Of course, they don't tell you that THEY can't do it either, but they still act superior.

Or, you could go with the easy definition:

http://api.ning.com/files/toGgTvcdfxFRJ4tYsNBhO9IWH5QL0yxmMFt2kxxhySjHgFFhjW D6mriQz7oVWWPW9lW8RRzo8tsyEVd3YN3FmfNzIHznLv8W/GeeksNerds.jpg

[The Sam]

...you can count to 1023 on your fingers.

[Kopachris]

what I meant with my previous post oabout taking a gadget apart and putting it back together is that it's funny when you have bits left-over and it still works. I forgot to include that.
The place where my mom works on nightwatch doesn't allow devices that make noise (might wake up the kids she's supposed to be watching), but they do allow you to bring little electronic games. She bought a little cheap Family Feud game, but it would make noise when you turned it on and you couldn't save whether the sound was turned on or off. I took it apart, snipped out the speaker, and replaced it with an LED. :) It works perfectly.

[GepettoBR]

...you can count to 1023 on your fingers.

I love doing that, but people always snicker when I hit 4, 128 and 132.

[scragar]

I love doing that, but people always snicker when I hit 4, 128 and 132.

And 6, 386... etc :p