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

[jenkinbr]

When you try to explain to your parents what l33t speak is when you 40 years old and still living in a race car bed at there house with the best built computer.

Green: +2 geek points x2 4
Red: -50 geek points x2 -100
-96 geek points for you

[The Toxic Mite]

Green: +2 geek points x2 4
Red: -50 geek points x2 -100
-96 geek points for you

Fixed it for you :P

[jenkinbr]

Fixed it for you :P
Odd - the underline tag didn't work in my preview of the post.... Strange....

[rfi2004]

When you try to remember something you say: "I am accessing my registers" / "Accessing mainframe" and end with "I found the records" "Records loaded to main memory" ja ja!!!

When you try to fix in your memory a long phrase: "Buffering data":P

[The Toxic Mite]

When you try to remember something you say: "I am accessing my registers" / "Accessing mainframe" and end with "I found the records" "Records loaded to main memory" ja ja!!!

When you try to fix in your memory a long phrase: "Buffering data":P

:lolflag:

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you try to ssh into Mordor. (See siggy)

[Gannon8]

you know your a geek when you reply to this thread.

[jenkinbr]

you know your a geek when you reply to this thread.
:(

-500 geek points for you.

That phrase has been overused here.

[Generic_Guy]

Hrmmm, I wonder why...
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=121609&d=1247994241

[scragar]

Hrmmm, I wonder why...
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=121609&d=1247994241

It happened a while back, I added "no when you reply" as a tag, so someone added that one to cancel it out, not that people read the tags anyway.

[CRAY-4]

you know when your a geek when you live with your parents and they have control of the modem, so when they turn it off you hack into your neighbor's network:D
(thats pretty much me)

[amingv]

you know when your a geek when you live with your parents and they have control of the modem, so when they turn it off you hack into your neighbor's network:D
(thats pretty much me)

I would hack my own router so that when the off button is pressed only the front LEDs turn off. Simpler without the possible illegality. (But that's just me).

[Biochem]

I would hack my own router so that when the off button is pressed only the front LEDs turn off. Simpler without the possible illegality. (But that's just me).

Except that many cheap router don't have an On/Off switch, off = unplug. #-o

Maybe there is enough room to rig a couple on battery inside... :-k

[CRAY-4]

i have fios

so that means 10+ :D:D:DMBPS

[CRAY-4]

hey great idea, i could replace the green leds for infared leds, and reverse the switch

[amingv]

Except that many cheap router don't have an On/Off switch, off = unplug. #-o

Maybe there is enough room to rig a couple on battery inside... :-k

You could always "implement" your own "off/on" switch and convince your parents about the "convenience" of using it because it has been "proved" that the way the AC adapter "discharges" after unplugged (some still have current ~5 seconds after being unplugged which slowly wanes :shock:) could "damage" the router.
Though that would be downright lying.:---)

The battery idea could work, though it'd have to be very powerful to fit and still last ~5 minutes.

i have fios

so that means 10+ :D:D:DMBPS

Rub it in why-don't-cha! :(

Is that Mbps or MBps? Either way is pretty fast.

[Kopachris]

Rub it in why-don't-cha! :(

Is that Mbps or MBps? Either way is pretty fast.
I have cable internet - 10Mbps. It's expensive, though. The only thing keeping us from switching to DirecTV and DSL is the fact that DSL in our area is only 1.5Mbps. And I can't stand downloading a disk image at only 1.5Mbps. (The University of Utah's connection exceeds our own, so I can often download an Ubuntu image in 10-15 minutes.)

Ykyagw you're reading the Ubuntu Forums on a Linux-based laptop while eating Hot Pockets and drinking Mountain Dew (or another geeky soda/energy drink).

[tehwinrar]

Your best dreams involve some post-apocolyptic event with mutants and werewolves and your worst nightmares involve your code not compiling

[Teh Fail]

You know you're a geek when you're typing on a Dvorak koyboard.

You know you're a geek when you think that something in real life has lost its replay value.

You know you're a geek when you know what shell scripting is and how to do it.

You know you're a geek when you use the phrase "in real life" more than 1 time/Day.

[Joashi]

When you are running conky at start-up, with your own script.

I'm new to Linux, man I love the freedom! the install is something I must get used to...

[raronson]

You know you're a geek when pop-culture has convinced you that being one is something cool.

I personally hate the term. I always think of Geek Squad, or the guy at work who's a "computer genius" because he can reinstall Windows for people when their computers crash. The term was bearable before it came into pop-culture usuage and suddenly every hapless techno-know-not who knew how to work a web browser was one.

Only "Extreme, Xtreme, or some other variation of the word" is more annoying to me, with its poppy advertising connotative stink all over it.

Bleh...

Sorry for the poo-poo party :)

[OldGnome]

You know you're a geek when pop-culture has convinced you that being one is something cool.
I have always thought the term was less about "cool" and more about being able to laugh at myself.

Proud geek since 1979.

[GenericGuy]

YKYAGW: you are more concerned about the security of the DSL routers your local ISP sells (which are basically forced upon you) (by the gods, "cracking" 90% of them just requires you to have half a brain, and remember the magic words:admin 1234), than you going into a country full of swine flu

BTW what happened to all the tags? I never quite got some of them, but they sounded fun

[jenkinbr]

YKYAGW: you are more concerned about the security of the DSL routers your local ISP sells (which are basically forced upon you) (by the gods, "cracking" 90% of them just requires you to have half a brain, and remember the magic words:admin 1234), than you going into a country full of swine flu

BTW what happened to all the tags? I never quite got some of them, but they sounded fun
An admin ate the tags.

YKYAGW your solution to most computer problems does not involve reinstalling, but rather digging until you find the root of the issue and fixing it.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw instead of spending a year alone and in silence to gain enlightenment, you spend a year in the terminal.

[Dullstar]

You know you're a geek when you realize the faults of Windows.

By the way, I don't mind the word extreme. It's Xtreme that I have a problem with.

[Megrimn]

Ykyagw instead of spending a year alone and in silence to gain enlightenment, you spend a year in the terminal.

http://www.poster.net/terminal/terminal-the-terminal-international-9913755.jpg

[Kopachris]

http://www.poster.net/terminal/terminal-the-terminal-international-9913755.jpg
Wrong terminal.

[GepettoBR]

you know you're a linux geek when after beng forced to use a Windows workstation for a mere two minutes, you're at the verge of tears due to the lack of middle-click copy&paste.

[Dullstar]

You know you're a geek when you know all about computers but think you might get confused by the Windows interface next computer class.

[jenkinbr]

You know you're a geek when you know all about computers but think you might get confused by the Windows interface next computer class.

Me all the time.

Now, where is syaptic pack....I mean Add/Remove Programs again?

[sdlynx]

haha these are so great

partially cuz I actually do most of them XD

[scragar]

Me all the time.

Now, where is syaptic pack....I mean Add/Remove Programs again?

It's in the system menu.

Oh, hold on, windows doesn't have that... Erm...
I have no idea.

[lisati]

Now, where is syaptic pack....I mean Add/Remove Programs again?
Aargh! Someone kidnapped the control panel! (insert suitably timed pause of several seconds) Oh, that's right, I'm running Ubuntu.

Variant: Look for Start->All Programs->Synaptic package manager. Oh, (insert epithet of choice)!!! I'm running (insert Windows flavour of the moment).

[lisati]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7663058&postcount=10

[talsemgeest]

YKYAGW you use "fsck" as your default cuss word.

I do that way too often

[Generic_Guy]

You are most definitely a Linux geek when, whenever you're forced to use Windows, you have to call the 'neighborhood geek' to help you do anything more basic than opening Firefox because "I don't know where the package manager/usr folder/disk image burner is." And then later, after you're done with the Windows box, you get a call from him asking how to compile from source in Linux. :mrgreen:

It may have been done before, but I haven't seen it, so shut up. :P

[Dullstar]

No, you're not running a Windows flavour! Your running the Microsoft tribute of the moment!

Oh by the way, what is the proper screaming protocol when I see a website displayed in IE6 all wrong? Gonna have to use it again when school starts again unless the school actually bothered to upgrade (even IE7 is better than IE6, though Firefox is the BEST).

[Ashrael]

you find out your scanner has been termed "OBSOLETE" but still spend a year (on and off) sifting through code, figuring out how to get it working anyway, instead of buying a new one for 30 euro's..... I actually did this, and so made it usable again for all the community... And learned a whole lot about the scanning process in the process.

But I am not speaking cli, klingon, C# or PHP with my friends! So maybe I am not a geek, but just someone who is to cheap to buy a new scanner? :o

[Kopachris]

Oh by the way, what is the proper screaming protocol when I see a website displayed in IE6 all wrong? Gonna have to use it again when school starts again unless the school actually bothered to upgrade (even IE7 is better than IE6, though Firefox is the BEST).
I'm lucky, my local schools found out years ago that Firefox is better than IE, so they have it installed on EVERY school computer. Too bad most kids don't realize it and still use IE instead.

[jenkinbr]

The IT department at my college INSISTS that users use Firefox.

YKYAGW you change the firefox icon to the blue 'e' in windows to get users to use firefox.

[raronson]

The IT department at my college INSISTS that users use Firefox.

YKYAGW you change the firefox icon to the blue 'e' in windows to get users to use firefox.

I see the point, but it does nothing for mindshare. Then again, I've heard people refer to their web browsers as "my internet", verbally illustrated, "When I open up my internet, I get all these windows popping up for stuff I've never even Googled."

Speaking of which, how many people have seen someone type a correctly formulated URL directly into Google and search for it?

[rapattack1]

All the neighbours bug you to fix their windoze pc's and they never ask you to dinner or to a club.

[p0cky84]

You know you're a geek when you start using the define: function in your searches.

[GepettoBR]

Speaking of which, how many people have seen someone type a correctly formulated URL directly into Google and search for it?

And then they click the AdSense link. -_-

[magh-87]

When you have three computers set up in your bedroom, one designated entirely to windows for school and games :(, one set free by ubuntu and one that dualboots both and your parents still expect you to fix their blunders on windows.

I've never touched vista, I stuck with XP and yet I'm expected to fix what they messed up.. and I usually do:)

[rapattack1]

Speaking of which, how many people have seen someone type a correctly formulated URL directly into Google and search for it?

Yep I know quote a few of those types.....damn annoying explaining repeatively to them not to do it.

I've never touched vista, I stuck with XP and yet I'm expected to fix what they messed up.. and I usually do

Me either(RE:Vista)

[scragar]

Speaking of which, how many people have seen someone type a correctly formulated URL directly into Google and search for it?

I've seen people typing "google.com" into the search box on firefox(which was set to google as the search engine).

[rapattack1]

:lolflag: **** you win

[Generic_Guy]

You know you're in the 'geek' usergroup when you're forced to use Windows, and go into withdrawal just by watching it boot because goddamnit, why should a computer take more than half a minute to boot!?
Guilty as charged. :)

[jenkinbr]

I see the point, but it does nothing for mindshare. Then again, I've heard people refer to their web browsers as "my internet", verbally illustrated, "When I open up my internet, I get all these windows popping up for stuff I've never even Googled."

Speaking of which, how many people have seen someone type a correctly formulated URL directly into Google and search for it?

Yep, I've even seen them type the http:// part in as well.

YKYAGW you cringe when someone uses improper teminology, such as "My Internet."

I've seen people typing "google.com" into the search box on firefox(which was set to google as the search engine).

:lolflag: Talk about reduntant :)

[scragar]

Yep, I've even seen them type the http:// part in as well.

YKYAGW you cringe when someone uses improper teminology, such as "My Internet."


One I saw in college was this, which was written on the top of the lesson plans:

www.college.ac.uk/subject/lesson/01

And I remember one computer illiterate member typing in:

www.college.ac.uk/subject/lesson/01.com

That was a little painful to watch.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

... I always think of Geek Squad, or the guy at work who's a "computer genius" because he can reinstall Windows for people when their computers crash. ...
You know you're a geek when you're man to call when those guys fail just plainly installing Windows, like when there's RAID or AHCI driver which need to be preloaded or slipstreamed into CD - which is always fun!

The IT department at my college INSISTS that users use Firefox.
Few pages back I mentioned that my university has Ubuntu on every machine and provides SSH access to our accounts (though not many actually are able to use it that way).
My account will only be up by autumn, but I can't wait already :D

[TELinux]

You have your own avatar on Ubuntu/system76 forums :D

[Kopachris]

You know you're in the 'geek' usergroup when you're forced to use Windows, and go into withdrawal just by watching it boot because goddamnit, why should a computer take more than half a minute to boot!?
Guilty as charged. :)
My dinosaur computer (which has Ubuntu 9.04 with ext4) boots faster than my Dad's new laptop (which has Windows 7). And that includes the time it takes me to hit Esc (to skip the mem test in the POST), type in my GRUB pass, and type in my Ubuntu username and pass.

[jms1989]

One I saw in college was this, which was written on the top of the lesson plans:

www.college.ac.uk/subject/lesson/01

And I remember one computer illiterate member typing in:

www.college.ac.uk/subject/lesson/01.com

That was a little painful to watch.

Well, that person must feel stupid when you told him/her the right way to type it. You did tell him, right?

YKYAGW you charge your portable devices from your tv's service port or game console's usb port. <-- I did that yesterday. :)

[tehwinrar]

Most of your knowledge came from wikipedia

You are convinced the government is after you (or at least somebody is, why else did those guys decide to "fix the power line?")

You spend the summer inside coding

You cant bare to spend a day without your computer

You have a bookmark folder for web comics

You often quote anime in conversations

[sdlynx]

Most of your knowledge came from wikipedia

You are convinced the government is after you (or at least somebody is, why else did those guys decide to "fix the power line?")

You spend the summer inside coding

You cant bare to spend a day without your computer

You have a bookmark folder for web comics

You often quote anime in conversations

all except the last two lolz

[Nburnes]

You get on your computer first thing after you wake up.

[lisati]

One I saw in college was this, which was written on the top of the lesson plans:

www.college.ac.uk/subject/lesson/01

And I remember one computer illiterate member typing in:

www.college.ac.uk/subject/lesson/01.com

That was a little painful to watch.

Another thing that's painful to look at is someone who is on a computer course asks for help with their wordprocessing homework which deals with formatting options, and you realise that they've pressed "enter" at the end of each line.

[talsemgeest]

You get on your computer first thing after you wake up.
2nd thing for me, it is too cold these days to use the computer without putting on clothes first...

[Dullstar]

You know you're a geek when you want a functional OS.
You REALLY know you're a geek when you switch OSes to solve the problem!
You REALLY, REALLY know you're a geek when you switch to Linux and are proud of it! :D

Linux is awesome. ;)

[Kopachris]

You often quote anime in conversations
You don't have to be a geek to like anime, and you don't need to like anime to be a geek.

[bjschuma]

You have a bookmark folder for web comics

I used to. Eventually I thought "why can't they be waiting on my desktop when I wake up?". Python is amazing for this.

[jenkinbr]

Another thing that's painful to look at is someone who is on a computer course asks for help with their wordprocessing homework which deals with formatting options, and you realise that they've pressed "enter" at the end of each line.

*screams in terror*

OH GOD, WHY!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[GepettoBR]

Another thing that's painful to look at is someone who is on a computer course asks for help with their wordprocessing homework which deals with formatting options, and you realise that they've pressed "enter" at the end of each line.

*screams in terror*

OH GOD, WHY!?!?!?!?!?!?!

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/richedit/upload/2k4a7a43d7f8.jpg

[gamesnepal]

You know you are a geek when everyone calls you up if they have problems in their computer.

[GenericGuy]

You know you are a geek when everyone calls you up if they have problems in their computer.

YKYAGW they don't have to call anymore, you just realize you have to tour your relative's houses fixing everything as soon as you get free time

[lisati]

*screams in terror*

OH GOD, WHY!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I blame typewriters.......

[Barrucadu]

Almost as bad are the people who centre things using the spacebar…

In a plaintext document with no capability for formatting, that is acceptable. In a word-processing package with a centre button, it's not.

[scragar]

Almost as bad are the people who centre things using the spacebar…

In a plaintext document with no capability for formatting, that is acceptable. In a word-processing package with a centre button, it's not.

Oh, pulease, I've seen people using space to get things right aligned, rather than using the indent increase button or tab, they use hundreds of spaces.

[Kopachris]

I blame typewriters.......
TV typewriters?

[ThaDoctor99]

You try to give something the pointer towards something
*location
or instead of go to hell you simply refer them to /dev/null
and of course you drink a whole lot of coke.
(no sorry pepsi)
:-)

I do not know wether they have been here before. I didn't read the whole post, bit long to swallow.

[Mornedhel]

You try to give something the pointer towards something
*location
or instead of go to hell you simply refer them to /dev/null
and of course you drink a whole lot of coke.
(no sorry pepsi)
:-)

I do not know wether they have been here before. I didn't read the whole post, bit long to swallow.

"Send your criticisms to /dev/null" is the actual quote, I believe.

Also, the geek's drink of choice is anything loaded with caffeine.

[apb2390]

When you find reading computer specs in siggys interesting :P

[seanshoots]

When you buy a PS3 just to put Ubuntu on it.

[GepettoBR]

Oh, pulease, I've seen people using space to get things right aligned, rather than using the indent increase button or tab, they use hundreds of spaces.

And then you have to watch them micromanage the spaces due to the adaptive character spacing. Huge facepalm.

[lisati]

TV typewriters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vuDMInQMYQ

[Generic_Guy]

Wait, what? There's someone else named Generic Guy?
Err...

[scragar]

And then you have to watch them micromanage the spaces due to the adaptive character spacing. Huge facepalm.

Please, I'm trying to block that out.

[GepettoBR]

Wait, what? There's someone else named Generic Guy?
Err...

Well, you know... it's a generic name.

[jenkinbr]

Almost as bad are the people who centre things using the spacebar…

In a plaintext document with no capability for formatting, that is acceptable. In a word-processing package with a centre button, it's not.

Oh, PEASE!!!! I've fixed way too many web pages that were formatted using &nbsp; HTML entities rather then <? style="text-align: center;"> </?> code.

Oh, pulease, I've seen people using space to get things right aligned, rather than using the indent increase button or tab, they use hundreds of spaces.

Hhhmm, lets insert a right-align tab-stop at the right margin. Can't be that hard, can it?

And then you have to watch them micromanage the spaces due to the adaptive character spacing. Huge facepalm.

Can I cry yet?




YKYAGW when any of the above quotes makes you want to cry, punch something, or scream in terror.

[hatten]

When Magnum Java is your favourite ice-cream =D

[tehwinrar]

Almost as bad are the people who centre things using the spacebar…

In a plaintext document with no capability for formatting, that is acceptable. In a word-processing package with a centre button, it's not.

Oh, PEASE!!!! I've fixed way too many web pages that were formatted using &nbsp; HTML entities rather then <? style="text-align: center;"> </?> code.



Oh, pulease, I've seen people using space to get things right aligned, rather than using the indent increase button or tab, they use hundreds of spaces.
Hhhmm, lets insert a right-align tab-stop at the right margin. Can't be that hard, can it?



And then you have to watch them micromanage the spaces due to the adaptive character spacing. Huge facepalm.

Can I cry yet?




YKYAGW when any of the above quotes makes you want to cry, punch something, or scream in terror.

Great, now I'm going to have nightmares for a week.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you don't use "ttyl" anymore because it looks too close to "tty1", and there could be some confusion among the people you talk to.

[tarps87]

Ykyagw you see someone go to pick up something, miss and you think to yourself their IO isn't very good.

[Dullstar]

[thread title] you love your hard drive too much to go to the cloud.

Really, doesn't anyone realize why the cloud's a bad idea?

*ding!* (goes to start a topic in cafe)

[jms1989]

[thread title] you love your hard drive too much to go to the cloud.

Really, doesn't anyone realize why the cloud's a bad idea?

*ding!* (goes to start a topic in cafe)

I'd have to agree with you. The only thing the cloud can be good for is collaborating online. I much prefer to have all my documents, music, movies, pictures, etc stored locally. Heck, you could start you own cloud locally buy building a server with multiple terabytes of storage.

[Kopachris]

[thread title] you love your hard drive too much to go to the cloud.

Really, doesn't anyone realize why the cloud's a bad idea?

*ding!* (goes to start a topic in cafe)
I also think the cloud is a bad idea (except for collaboration). I mean, what happens if you go somewhere without internet (like camping)? Having everything in the cloud severely limits the mobility of your laptop.

[Mornedhel]

Guys, he started the cloud thread already.

[lisati]

[thread title] you love your hard drive too much to go to the cloud.

Really, doesn't anyone realize why the cloud's a bad idea?

*ding!* (goes to start a topic in cafe)

I'd have to agree with you. The only thing the cloud can be good for is collaborating online. I much prefer to have all my documents, music, movies, pictures, etc stored locally. Heck, you could start you own cloud locally buy building a server with multiple terabytes of storage.

I also think the cloud is a bad idea (except for collaboration). I mean, what happens if you go somewhere without internet (like camping)? Having everything in the cloud severely limits the mobility of your laptop.

I agree: why should I have to spend a sizable chunk of my time uploading video footage I want to edit, troubleshooting my ADSL connection when it has a momentary lapse, reuploading the video footage when I discover it has become corrupted, tending to another momentary connection problem, trying to access the file(s) in order to do the editing, move the file(s) when I discover that my choice of host is about to close down, (insert repetitions of foregoing ad nauseum), and finally get to a point where I can actually work on the video, only to discover that I've been working with the wrong video files in the first place???????? And that's before I even figure in taking time to tend to domestic duties.....

[jenkinbr]

I agree: why should I have to spend a sizable chunk of my time uploading video footage I want to edit, troubleshooting my ADSL connection when it has a momentary lapse, reuploading the video footage when I discover it has become corrupted, tending to another momentary connection problem, trying to access the file(s) in order to do the editing, move the file(s) when I discover that my choice of host is about to close down, (insert repetitions of foregoing ad nauseum), and finally get to a point where I can actually work on the video, only to discover that I've been working with the wrong video files in the first place???????? And that's before I even figure in taking time to tend to domestic duties.....
well put :)

[HH60Gunner]

When back in the day of dial-up your ISP has contacted you to inform you they are going to charge you $1000 for over-using their bandwidth from your constant music and movie queues on mIRC. Then eventually they settle with you just upgrading your data package.

[HH60Gunner]

When a co-worker or friend asks you what's wrong with their computer and you reply with "a short between the seat and the keyboard" or "theirs a screw loose on the keyboard". Then they ask you how to fix it.

[The Toxic Mite]

... you SSH into one of your own virtual machines

[tarps87]

[thread title] you love your hard drive too much to go to the cloud.

Really, doesn't anyone realize why the cloud's a bad idea?

*ding!* (goes to start a topic in cafe)

+1

[Mornedhel]

Is this a imaginative spam bot?

Rather than being imaginative, it might just have copied another post. That would raise the odds of it being on-topic and in an understandable language.

[Sockerdrickan]

This is the beginning of IRL terminators, my fellow members.

[Maheriano]

When the light switch is right next to you but you'd rather turn it off with your desktop and X10 because it's cooler.

When your desktop's right behind you but you'd rather SSH into it from your laptop to turn off the light because it's too far.

[Hillshum]

I agree: why should I have to spend a sizable chunk of my time uploading video footage I want to edit, troubleshooting my ADSL connection when it has a momentary lapse, reuploading the video footage when I discover it has become corrupted, tending to another momentary connection problem, trying to access the file(s) in order to do the editing, move the file(s) when I discover that my choice of host is about to close down, (insert repetitions of foregoing ad nauseum), and finally get to a point where I can actually work on the video, only to discover that I've been working with the wrong video files in the first place???????? And that's before I even figure in taking time to tend to domestic duties.....

I agree with your overall point, that the cloud just isn't ready to handle a lot of what we do, but I have to say that that really isn't an issue with things like email.

As far as collaborating, that's true and it's often easier to use the cloud when it's just yourself.

The other thing I have to say is that dependence on the cloud (or anything else really) is a bad idea, but if one is prepared to do everything locally (think Google Gears) that's not as much as an issue

[jenkinbr]

When a co-worker or friend asks you what's wrong with their computer and you reply with "a short between the seat and the keyboard" or "theirs a screw loose on the keyboard". Then they ask you how to fix it.
:)

Great BFOH excuses :)

[cjv8888]

YKYAGW:

You are changing the names of the whole family to
Davbuntu, Jessbuntu, Johbuntu etc etc.

[Katalog]

You're wife buys you a watch that tells time in binary for your birthday.

[modmadmike]

Your running Karmic Aplha 3 as your main OS. Guilty
You like the fact that Linux has a small market share. Guilty
Your GRUB menu.lst has over 27 entries. Guilty

[Dullstar]

For all you who are posting opinions here about the cloud, try the thread I started in the cafe.

[scragar]

Your GRUB menu.lst has over 27 entries. Guilty

Well, that's not really a good comparison, I've not got many, but i do edit my entries as needed.

For example I've got root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a28eabe1-9088-4e13-9d6f-6f082b79e17e ro
initrd /kernel26.img
Which I edit from time to time for failsafe:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a28eabe1-9088-4e13-9d6f-6f082b79e17e ro
initrd /kernel26-safe.img
Or command line only:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a28eabe1-9088-4e13-9d6f-6f082b79e17e ro 3
initrd /kernel26.img
or even my previous kernel build:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a28eabe1-9088-4e13-9d6f-6f082b79e17e ro
initrd /kernel26-old.img

Surely that counts for something...

[Barrucadu]

Your GRUB menu.lst has over 27 entries. Guilty

I'm curious why you would need 27 entries.

[GepettoBR]

Your GRUB menu.lst has over 27 entries. Guilty

That's a lot. I have a dedicated GRUB partition that chainloads all my other OSes, plus commands for halting and rebooting, and all my other GRUBs have an entry for chainloading this one. Does that award me geek points?

I wish I knew how to get a GRUB entry for booting from CD or USB in case I forget to plug them in time for the BIOS to boot them.

[Den-den]

As a brand new spanking member I'll kick off with the first post, here it goes:

...when:
- You purchase a new laptop and install Linux ASAP. You perform the installation more than once a day, and the next day just to be sure.
- Labels like 'Designed for Microsoft Windows XP' annoy you to bits! Sometimes even to bytes!
- Your favourite linux distro CDs are in an easy to reach location, usually you don't have to get up from your chair to get it.
- You're annoyed you have to use IE at your work.
- There is a small number of friends you can share your geeky thought and they will understand you.
- You wish your mobile phone ran Ubuntu.
- You can't wait for a decent version of Android mobile phone to be released.
- Any kind of paid services/software you avoid by miles.
- Your girlfriend thinkg you're unfaithful to her with your computer.
- 'Ubuntu' becomes a swearword for her.
- She always complains about the computer noise during the night.
- She purchases a vibrator.
- The first time you saw 'cube' or 'sphere' you thought: 1. I want one of those! 2. Windows can't do that, HA!
- You started wearing glasses.
- You spend 17 hours of your day staring at a monitor, and 8 hours sleeping ;)

So much for now...
Thx, Denis

[Barrucadu]

- You spend 17 hours of your day staring at a monitor, and 8 hours sleeping ;)

You live to a 25-hour day?

[Den-den]

You live to a 25-hour day?
That was a test if you read everything above.
Well done - you did ;)

[scragar]

Or you sleep with your eyes open watching the monitor...

[jms1989]

you have keyboard shortcuts mapped to you favorite apps as well as some global shortcuts.

I have mapped my multimedia key on the keyboard to open amarok, evolution, nautilus, and the calculator. Theres shortcuts to maximize, minimize, move, and close window. I can start amarok and have it to autoplay my playlist using one key. :) There's many more but I don't want to post 'em all. There's too many. :) I know so many shortcuts but my family can't grasp the simple cut, copy, paste, select all, undo, save, find, bold, print, and even close a app with a mere ALT+F4. I try to teach them but apparently they don't understand that its faster and your hand doesn't have to leave the keyboard.

Play and charge your ipod or portable player through your computer using a male to male 1/4" plugs and a hacked usb extension cable to deliver only your needed 5v 500ma power for charging. :)

your room has so many wires and cables connecting things together, your parents are scared you might burn down the house. I try to assure them that I unplug anything that might catch on fire.

[alexandari]

You know you`r a geek when before you go to the next page of the book you`r reading you say cat pagenumber** -.-"

[scragar]

You have a dedicated file for bash aliases because there are so many it's otherwise hard to manage.
"lsl"="ls -l"


"dvd"="vlc -f --no-video-title-show dvd:///dev/sr0"

"p+"="sudo pacman -S"
"p++"="sudo pacman -Syu"
"p-"="sudo pacman -Rd"
"p--"="sudo pacman -Rs"
"y+"="sudo yaourt"


"apache"="sudo /etc/init.d/httpd"
"mysql"="sudo /etc/init.d/mysql"


"pgtk"="php -c/etc/php/php-gtk.ini"
"g+sdl"="gcc -g -Wall -I/usr/include/SDL -lSDL"

"screenlock"="boinc-wrapper 2; gnome-screensave-command -l"

[Dullstar]

You know you're a geek when your Ubuntu installation has every desktop environment you know of.

[Den-den]

When you hear 'female' you think of a cable.

[tatterdemalion]

You know you're a geek when your Ubuntu installation has every desktop environment you know of.

Or a newbie if the only environment you heard of is Gnome :)

[Barrucadu]

You have a dedicated file for bash aliases because there are so many it's otherwise hard to manage.

22:33:44 % grep "alias " .zsh_aliases | wc -l
85
22:33:58 % grep function .zsh_functions | wc -l
20

:popcorn:

edit: Hang on, you have aliases for pacman (and yaourt), and init.d scripts?

[scragar]

22:33:44 % grep "alias " .zsh_aliases | wc -l
85
22:33:58 % grep function .zsh_functions | wc -l
20

:popcorn:

edit: Hang on, you have aliases for pacman (and yaourt), and init.d scripts?

Hey, I'm logged in as root more often that I'd like to admit, I tried to change this by adding loads of root privileges to my aliases file, but only wound up adding more to the list of things I do as root than less(Oh, and I run arch linux on my main machine now, I just love the extra speed).

[PhoHammer]

I wish I knew how to get a GRUB entry for booting from CD or USB in case I forget to plug them in time for the BIOS to boot them.

Now that's an idea! It's the worst when the cd you want is also in a case...

[Barrucadu]

(Oh, and I run arch linux on my main machine now, I just love the extra speed).

My point was that Arch doesn't have /etc/init.d scripts - unless you have symlinked it to /etc/rc.d, or even just shared the file between Ubuntu (or whatever distro you were running) and Arch.

GRUB-CD booting: http://cutecomputer.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/boot-cdrom-through-grub/
I haven't tested it though…

[scragar]

My point was that Arch doesn't have /etc/init.d scripts - unless you have symlinked it to /etc/rc.d, or even just shared the file between Ubuntu (or whatever distro you were running) and Arch.

GRUB-CD booting: http://cutecomputer.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/boot-cdrom-through-grub/
I haven't tested it though…

I remember init.d(from my time on ubuntu) I don't remember rc.d so I set up a few links, avoids me getting confused.

[B.E]

You know you're a geek when...
You want to tell people things and you explain it with codes:
if (ReadNews==True) then
Me=strcpy("Know");

[PhoHammer]

My point was that Arch doesn't have /etc/init.d scripts - unless you have symlinked it to /etc/rc.d, or even just shared the file between Ubuntu (or whatever distro you were running) and Arch.

GRUB-CD booting: http://cutecomputer.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/boot-cdrom-through-grub/
I haven't tested it though…

I think I'll hold of on that set of directions for now, given it includes this line:

Step 5: I hope you need not to run grub-install again. If necessary you can do.
:popcorn:

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

your room has so many wires and cables connecting things together, your parents are scared you might burn down the house. I try to assure them that I unplug anything that might catch on fire.

I hear ya! I got wires everywhere. Even while few things could be run wireless... I don't trust wireless.
Anyway, the thing about wires I hate the most - even when you rewired everything just seconds ago, wires somehow always manage to bundle up in huge mess.

ykyag when you buy a crimping tool, connectors and loads of UTP cable - just in case you suddenly needed to wire up a network.

[jms1989]

I hear ya! I got wires everywhere. Even while few things could be run wireless... I don't trust wireless.
Anyway, the thing about wires I hate the most - even when you rewired everything just seconds ago, wires somehow always manage to bundle up in huge mess.

ykyag when you buy a crimping tool, connectors and loads of UTP cable - just in case you suddenly needed to wire up a network.

lol. I make it a habit to just roll the wire up in a circle like shape then unroll it the same way to avoid loops and kinks. Just like you would with a water hose or air hose.

I did that about 6 to 8 months ago. Bought 500ft to start a network but used only about half of it. :D I actually bought a extra pack of connectors because I thought the cable kit wouldn't have enough but it turned out to have 50 in it and I wound up with 50 extras. :P


YKYAGW you can wire a complete network without wire diagrams and charts.

[Dullstar]

You know you're a geek when someones says their motherboard is being fried and you try and come up with an explanation.

[magh-87]

You know you're a geek when someone [a family member of friend] complains about how their PC is running and they know you're the tech guy, so they always come to you.

*I know, it's been said 93840923 times but it still holds true.

[tarps87]

You know you're a geek when someones says their motherboard is being fried and you try and come up with an explanation.

They said they don't like penguins so you put their motherboard in a deep fat fryer

[tuskenraider]

ykyag when you buy a crimping tool, connectors and loads of UTP cable - just in case you suddenly needed to wire up a network.

why are network cables sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much money????

i went to purchase a long network cable from the local staples 25 feet or longer... staples wanted a dollar(american) a foot. thats right 25 foot cable 25bucks.. I was shocked! so i looked at the 100 it was $54. I then went to the local computer shop, 100 foot cable 35 dollars 25 foot 20 dollars. I then went to the house got on the internet purchased a 100 foot cable for $3 dollars.
A few days later I purchased a box of cat5 cable 750feet, crimpers and such. That mess stays in the trunk of my car, the group of friends i have like to throw lan parties and with out fail someone doesnt bring a cable or thiers is to short or broken.

Also, who keeps a cat5 cable that has the clip broken? i mean why? Drives me flippin nuts... my friend would come to the lan party and then complain about not having connectivity. yeah i took it from him and threw it in the trash. GAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! LOL :mad: :mad:

Also, YKYAGW you throw a lan party, people show up, plug in play games have internet via wired and wireless, and are able to stream music and tv to the television via tversity and xbox360 with out so much as a hiccup and that makes you very very proud.

*inserts feather into cap. :popcorn:

Tusken

[master_script_maker]

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

for 1 of 3 reasons

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

hahaha all three for me ;)

[lisati]

why are network cables sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much money????

True!

I managed to pick up a couple of new cables recently for $NZ2 each (at a shop well known locally for having such prices). Ordinarily cables of similar length at other shops would be $10 or more.

[talsemgeest]

True!

I managed to pick up a couple of new cables recently for $NZ2 each (at a shop well known locally for having such prices). Ordinarily cables of similar length at other shops would be $10 or more.
Heh, was that an inadvertant stab at Auckland prices? ;)

[tuskenraider]

Heh, was that an inadvertant stab at Auckland prices? ;)

does someone need to inadvertantly stab at Aucklands prices??


so... in order to get one of my fav threads back going... ill envoke THESE TWO widely used comments!!!!! muwahahaha

YKYAGW you read all 6000+ posts and find them all funny.
YKYAGW you can add /count/ write messages in binary / machine code ect...


i guess i should duck and wait for the bashing.LOL

tusken
p.s YKYAGW you bump the YKYAGW thread. lol

[hatten]

ykyagw when you get proud of your mother when she realizes that ubuntu pwns windows. =D She is not at all computer technical.

[spx3]

...you use mutt as your mail client... cmus as your music player... lynx as your browser... finch as your im and you watch movies with mplayer framebuffer - all that of course in cli... and you don't even miss the graphical interfaces as it all runs so fast using just a fraction of your ram... (not the mplayer stuff though... it can be quite hogging) :popcorn:


good thread!

s/lynx/firefox+vimperator/
s/cmus/mocp/
s/mplayer/vlc+mplayer/

why don't you post your mutt config ? :P

short answer: when you're using mocp,mutt,vimperator,vim+NERDtree,wmii

[furuno]

You're posting in this thread about you know you're a geek when...

[talsemgeest]

You're posting in this thread about you know you're a geek when...
:(

[GepettoBR]

You're posting in this thread about you know you're a geek when...

http://www.drgblz.com/uploaded_images/ohthehughgrantity-769189.jpg

[Katalog]

...you use mutt as your mail client... cmus as your music player... lynx as your browser... finch as your im and you watch movies with mplayer framebuffer - all that of course in cli... and you don't even miss the graphical interfaces as it all runs so fast using just a fraction of your ram... (not the mplayer stuff though... it can be quite hogging)

s/lynx/firefox+vimperator/
s/cmus/mocp/
s/mplayer/vlc+mplayer/

why don't you post your mutt config ? :P

short answer: when you're using mocp,mutt,vimperator,vim+NERDtree,wmii

Now that it is truly geeky. And to think I thought I was so l33t when I used to use MOC as my music player and finally figured out how to configure the weather and RSS in conky when I was using Openbox. I am truly weak.... :(

[lisati]

Heh, was that an inadvertant stab at Auckland prices? ;)

Just another friendly Aucklander? (I'm an ex-Aucklander)

[jenkinbr]

...when you harvest the magnets out of dead hard drives because they are useful around the shop...

[Kopachris]

...when you harvest the magnets out of dead hard drives because they are useful around the shop...
I would if I wasn't already using all my hard drives (they aren't dead yet). :)

[hetx]

When you know the world will end January 19, 2038 at 03:14:08 GMT

[scragar]

When you know the world will end January 19, 2038 at 03:14:08 GMT

Only if you're still running a 32 bit OS or don't upgrade before then.

[tehwinrar]

You almost cry because your parents have a text file on their desktop with all their passwords

Instead of turning the tv to mute you unplug the audio cables

You prefer playing pokemon on an emulator because you can crank the speed to 200+%

[scragar]

You prefer playing pokemon on an emulator because you can crank the speed to 200+%

Or 5000+% :p

Not that the game is really playable at that speed, but boy do battles go fast :p

[Kopachris]

When you know the world will end January 19, 2038 at 03:14:08 GMT

Only if you're still running a 32 bit OS or don't upgrade before then.
Yeah, seriously. Who'll be using a 32 bit computer (or even a 64 bit computer for that matter) in 2038? We'll probably have 16-core, 128 bit, 15GHz computers by then, the way things are going now.

[GepettoBR]

Yeah, seriously. Who'll be using a 32 bit computer (or even a 64 bit computer for that matter) in 2038? We'll probably have 16-core, 128 bit, 15GHz computers by then, the way things are going now.

16-core? I think we'll be way past that in 30 years.

Also, quantum computers.

[scragar]

Also, quantum computers.

I don't know if that's a good idea or not, with quantum uncertainty you'd never be completely sure if you're computer will crash, turn into a dolphin and scream "I want my cookies" at you in Russian or convert the DVD like you wanted to...

And yeah, I do know that's not how it works.

[Barrucadu]

Yeah, seriously. Who'll be using a 32 bit computer (or even a 64 bit computer for that matter) in 2038? We'll probably have 16-core, 128 bit, 15GHz computers by then, the way things are going now.

I don't see us going past 4GHz, maybe 5GHz. It's far easier/cheaper to add more cores/processors than to get to that speed, and that also provides the benefit of making threaded things run better. So there isn't really an incentive to go insanely fast.

[Kopachris]

16-core? I think we'll be way past that in 30 years.

Also, quantum computers.
I was estimating lightly. I wanted to take into account the rising difficulty of adding that one more core each time, as well as how long it took us to get from 1 core to 4. I think you might be right though, since the number of cores always doubles, rather than adding one at a time. (Most of the time, anyway.) I don't think quantum computers will be viable for a lot longer than 30 years.

I don't see us going past 4GHz, maybe 5GHz. It's far easier/cheaper to add more cores/processors than to get to that speed, and that also provides the benefit of making threaded things run better. So there isn't really an incentive to go insanely fast.
Ah, but cooling technology is getting better all the time. A Phenom II was overclocked to 6GHz using liquid nitrogen. I expect high-quality Peltier chips to come on the market for CPU cooling in a few years, and just get better and better after that (better enough to beat liquid N2).

[GepettoBR]

I was estimating lightly. I wanted to take into account the rising difficulty of adding that one more core each time, as well as how long it took us to get from 1 core to 4. I think you might be right though, since the number of cores always doubles, rather than adding one at a time. (Most of the time, anyway.) I don't think quantum computers will be viable for a lot longer than 30 years.

Maybe not as PCs, but I think we'll almost certainly have a few supercomputers using quantum entanglement. And there already are 8-core PC CPUs, though they're awful expensive, so even if we stop soon, it'll be after 16. I think, though, that what'll make the most difference in CPUs in the near future is neither the clock speed nor the number of cores, but the size of the L1, L2 and L3 cache. Because you just reach a certain point where RAM speed will be the bottleneck, and I think that point is pretty close. The CPU memory is way faster than RAM.

YKYAGW you're diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder and your first thought is "Awesome, I multiboot". Bonus points if you manage to install GRUB 2 to your own MBR.

[hetx]

ykyagw

you have already considered the 2038 problem and dismissed it.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I don't see us going past 4GHz, maybe 5GHz. It's far easier/cheaper to add more cores/processors than to get to that speed, and that also provides the benefit of making threaded things run better. So there isn't really an incentive to go insanely fast.

I must agree. Considering the structure of current CPUs, it is very unlikely to increase clock rates by much. At least not for consumer-level equipment.
And as most algorithms can be adapted to parallel computing, increasing number of cores seems way more likely. In addition I can see a GPU unit taking more and more work away from CPU.
There's already scientific workstations with GPUs as their main processing units (somewhat beats names of CPUs and GPUs), which loosely are undefined-number core processors.
Also general-purpose programming for GPUs are emerging already.

... I think, though, that what'll make the most difference in CPUs in the near future is neither the clock speed nor the number of cores, but the size of the L1, L2 and L3 cache. Because you just reach a certain point where RAM speed will be the bottleneck, and I think that point is pretty close. The CPU memory is way faster than RAM.

With data to process also increasing consistently following Moore's law larger memory and cache sizes will definitely emerge in years to come.
I don't see any doubts about this one.

[Kopachris]

With data to process also increasing consistently following Moore's law larger memory and cache sizes will definitely emerge in years to come.
I don't see any doubts about this one.
According to Moore's Law, consumer processors will have the equivalent of 134217728 (that's 4 * 2 ^ 25) cores by 2038. In a similar way of putting it, unless processors get physically much bigger, we're supposed to have transistors that are 11 picometers, or 1/10 the size of your average hydrogen atom. If that's the case, we'll definitely need to have quantum computing by then. Even DNA computing would be too big.

Ykyagw you make a crop circle in the shape of the Ubuntu logo.
Ykyagw you make a Python program to run through every possible locker combo (all 64000, or 40^3) and compare it to an md5 hash you made earlier because you keep forgetting you high school locker combo.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

According to Moore's Law, consumer processors will have the equivalent of 134217728 (that's 4 * 2 ^ 25) cores by 2038. In a similar way of putting it, unless processors get physically much bigger, we're supposed to have transistors that are 11 picometers, or 1/10 the size of your average hydrogen atom. If that's the case, we'll definitely need to have quantum computing by then. Even DNA computing would be too big.

If you noted I never said cores increasing by Moore's Law, but amounts of data to process. And you know last year 500 GB HDDs were top of the game, this year I see HDDs of several TBs.

Though have to admit Moore's law faces a serious clash with law of physics. :) I'd put my money on physics one!

[scragar]

this year I see HDDs of several TBs.

/me has two of them for some reason :p

[GepettoBR]

/me has two of them for some reason :p

The total storage capacity of my "largest" PC is only 750GB, in one 250GB HD and one 500GB HD. I have assorted memory cards and pendrives, but I don't think I can get up to 1TB, unless I hook up my iPod and a few old laptop HDs I have lying around. But I have enough space for my data, and they're only 40GB each at 5400RPM, so I don't really have the incentive to do that. I could try to RAID them to increase the effective drive speed...

[Tclarkie]

Yeah, seriously. Who'll be using a 32 bit computer (or even a 64 bit computer for that matter) in 2038? We'll probably have 16-core, 128 bit, 15GHz computers by then, the way things are going now.


At least!!

[GepettoBR]

ykyagw you manage to combine Ubuntu, Hello Kitty and the work of H.P. Lovecraft into a wallpaper (http://sunfox.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/ubuntu-hello-cthulhu.png).

[scragar]

You know your a geek when you've filled all of your ram in a few seconds(I'm not going to say how to do it, since it's really hard to stop, but it's on a terminal, and involves backquotes and the yes command).

Here's a clue if you do work it out, if you run top the infinite loop of stored memory makes it pretty easy to spot(It takes a fair bit of CPU power), or using ps (It's going to be using 50+% of your ram at least, which makes it very easy to spot):
ps -eo pid,pmem,cmd | grep [s]h
(naturally it all depends on what your shell normally is, I run bash, but it could be dash(the ubuntu default), or something else entirely).

[apb2390]

YKYAGW:
Your IP Address looks like this:
2^128-1: 340282366920938463463374607431768211455

IPv6 ftw XD

[vrkalak]

I was recently chatting with some on-line friends in one of the DeviantART chatrooms.

I mentioned that I had completely deleted my MSWindows Vista OS and had installed Ubuntu 9.04 as my one and only OS. I informed them that it was easy to install and customize, as I am not a computer geek.

They informed me that, if I was using Linux ... I was a geek!! :P

[hypercube]

You read pages and pages of this thread to see how many of the characteristics you have and hoping it is most of them.

[GepettoBR]

You read pages and pages of this thread to see how many of the characteristics you have and hoping it is most of them.

:cry:

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw the AppleCare Service and Support Guide that came with your PowerBook G4 42 months ago remains unopened, despite the laptop in question being heavily used and "fiddled" with.

[jms1989]

ykyagw you install gparted and ubuntu netbook remix on a couple flash drives in preparation for a netbook delivery. Bonus if you combined them into one flash disk. :)

I'm getting a MSI Wind U123-003US with a 2GB ram upgrade.

[Luca_turicci]

+You know you're a geek when you've read 642 pages of a thread named "You know you're a geek when..."
+You're a geek when you prefer to stay home testing Karmic Koala than being with your gf/bf,
+You're a geek when you can count up to 31 with one single hand.
+when you know the answer to life, the universe and everything.
+If you're friends are trying to convince their gf to do oral sex and you, instead, are trying to convince yours to install ubuntu on her PC, you're a geek... a Virgin Geek.
+When you memorize your IP.
+When 80-90% of the books you've read were in PDF.
+When you have 10 email addresses and actually use them.
+(personal experience) when you play guitar and plug it to your laptop cause there's no better sound proccessor.
+if you have NEVER bought any software.
+if you keep telling people how great linux is everytime you get the chance.
+If you know how to make kaspersky work for free.

You're a geek just for being at this forum...

[talsemgeest]

+You know you're a geek when you've read 642 pages of a thread named "You know you're a geek when..."
+You're a geek when you prefer to stay home testing Karmic Koala than being with your gf/bf,
+You're a geek when you can count up to 31 with one single hand.
+when you know the answer to life, the universe and everything.
+If you're friends are trying to convince their gf to do oral sex and you, instead, are trying to convince yours to install ubuntu on her PC, you're a geek... a Virgin Geek.
+When you memorize your IP.
+When 80-90% of the books you've read were in PDF.
+When you have 10 email addresses and actually use them.
+(personal experience) when you play guitar and plug it to your laptop cause there's no better sound proccessor.
+if you have NEVER bought any software.
+if you keep telling people how great linux is everytime you get the chance.
+If you know how to make kaspersky work for free.

You're a geek just for being at this forum...
You are lucky the others made up for the first and last ones... ;)

[scragar]

You are lucky the others made up for the first and last ones... ;)

TBH most of them were repeats, he's just lucky they're good repeats, not the same as the first one which appears way too often.

[talsemgeest]

TBH most of them were repeats, he's just lucky they're good repeats, not the same as the first one which appears way too often.
Haha, well put.

[Barrucadu]

TBH most of them were repeats, he's just lucky they're good repeats, not the same as the first one which appears way too often.

Yes, we shall let him live… for now.

[GepettoBR]

Also, two of those should be "you know you're a pirate when..."

[Luca_turicci]

yeah, let's let him live... xD

Sorry if I repeated some, it's hard to figure out something new after 643 pages.
and i guess i'm a pirate geek lol.

BTW. you're also a geek when you stay awake all night tweaking your pc, and trying to triple boot ubuntu, win7 and osx...

[scragar]

+You know you're a geek when you've read 642 pages of a thread named "You know you're a geek when..."
+You're a geek when you prefer to stay home testing Karmic Koala than being with your gf/bf,
+You're a geek when you can count up to 31 with one single hand.
+when you know the answer to life, the universe and everything.
+If you're friends are trying to convince their gf to do oral sex and you, instead, are trying to convince yours to install ubuntu on her PC, you're a geek... a Virgin Geek.
+When you memorize your IP.
+When 80-90% of the books you've read were in PDF.
+When you have 10 email addresses and actually use them.
+(personal experience) when you play guitar and plug it to your laptop cause there's no better sound proccessor.
+if you have NEVER bought any software.
+if you keep telling people how great linux is everytime you get the chance.
+If you know how to make kaspersky work for free.

You're a geek just for being at this forum...

I've coloured those that I KNOW are repeats red, I do hope you don't mind. :p

Oh, and I know I've read all the pages, but I can't be expected to remember all of them, so naturally I should admit that I may have missed a repeat or two.

[Maheriano]

You know you're a geek when someone gives you an old computer and you can't rest until you find a use for it.

[scragar]

You know you're a geek when someone gives you an old computer and you can't rest until you find a use for it.

Install linux on it, it's not old anymore :p

I rescued a really cool PC that rans '95, I installed linux on it, and all of a sudden I've got a great PC for playing about on.

[Spencer Caplan]

You offer to speed up friends' computers. (Not to be nice, but because you find it to be fun.)

[tuskenraider]

YKYAGW you have the backup of the settings for someone elses wireless network on your home server. LOL

.... also
when you have friends that call you at 3am because "the facebook site" just quit and they cant update thier status.

sigh... me yesterday....err this morning... which ever it is. lol

tusken

[Yucko]

When trying to register a VOIP number with your ISP, keep starting the registration-procedure over and over again until you get option to claim the number xxx-x501337 8)

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you say this prayer (http://calibre-not-output.deviantart.com/art/Geek-s-Prayer-133495084) every night before going to bed.

[rhcm123]

You know you're a geek when you say this prayer (http://calibre-not-output.deviantart.com/art/Geek-s-Prayer-133495084) every night before going to bed.

lol WUT

[Frak]

you know you're a geek when you say this prayer (http://calibre-not-output.deviantart.com/art/geek-s-prayer-133495084) every night before going to bed.
+9001

[tarps87]

I'm off a week and you're still not at 10000 [-(

6435

[talsemgeest]

I'm off a week and you're still not at 10000 [-(

6435
Wrong thread ;)

[tarps87]

Wrong thread ;)

That's where it is, I realised after that I had posted in the wrong thread just couldn't remember which thread I did post it in #-o

[talsemgeest]

That's where it is, I realised after that I had posted in the wrong thread just couldn't remember which thread I did post it in #-o
Still, I cant see why we havent had 10000 YKYAGW's yet :P

[tarps87]

YKYAGW you post the 10000th YKYAGW :)
(and a few before that)

[tarps87]

YKYAGW when you have posted 363+ YKYAGW's

GepettoBR 363
Kopachris 363

[scragar]

YKYAGW when you have posted 363+ YKYAGW's

GepettoBR 363
Kopachris 363

Hey, I think even 300 is an achievement:
GepettoBR 363
Kopachris 363
scragar 308 :p

[Kopachris]

YKYAGW when you have posted 363+ YKYAGW's

GepettoBR 363
Kopachris 363
Really? I'm up to 363 now, am I? :popcorn: Ykyagw you've read the entire Jargon File.

[GepettoBR]

Hey, I think even 300 is an achievement:
GepettoBR 363
Kopachris 363
scragar 308 :p

Wow, I have more posts in this thread than Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gumbigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre AndrT Charton-Haymoss Ivanovicci Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the third. That's quite an achievement. :)

[scragar]

Wow, I have more posts in this thread than Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gumbigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre AndrT Charton-Haymoss Ivanovicci Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the third. That's quite an achievement. :)

Vash the stampede. :p

[Maheriano]

You know you're a geek when:

1. You consider yourself multilingual even though the only verbal language you know is English.
2. You saved a dot matrix printer from recycling because......well.....you're not really sure.
3. As you're finding ways that you're a geek, you overhear one of your coworkers ask another coworker if there is a C# compiler on any of the Linux servers and you bust out laughing.

[rbishop]

You can read threw this and laugh and nod at just about every single post, thinking how much that sounds like you or is you.

You jumped for joy when you got your gmail invite.....
You jumped for joy when you got your Google Voice invite....

[Barrucadu]

You can read threw this and laugh and nod at just about every single post, thinking how much that sounds like you or is you.

:(

If you'd truly read through every post, you'd know that we don't like it when people say that. Now you die :P

YKYAGW you decide to rewrite a perfectly good program because you're bored (currently writing a mpc clone using netcat).

[rednano12]

YKYAGW you attempt to get a wave invite through your mind.

You believe that Star Wars should be a required subject in school, and are confused at how somebody doesn't know the relationship between Luke and Anakin.

[epsolon77]

YKYAGW you attempt to get a wave invite through your mind.

You believe that Star Wars should be a required subject in school, and are confused at how somebody doesn't know the relationship between Luke and Anakin.

My 5 year old son has made me proud and now understands the relationship between Anakin, Vader and Luke. My boy... He even knows their lightsaber colors. Wait....Does this make me a geek?

[hatten]

My 5 year old son has made me proud and now understands the relationship between Anakin, Vader and Luke. My boy... He even knows their lightsaber colors. Wait....Does this make me a geek?
nope, nerd

[Kopachris]

:(

If you'd truly read through every post, you'd know that we don't like it when people say that. Now you die :P

YKYAGW you decide to rewrite a perfectly good program because you're bored (currently writing a mpc clone using netcat).
I've thought of rewriting binutils in Python just for fun.
Ykyagw you get excited about getting TKD from Amazon tomorrow. :P

[talsemgeest]

My 5 year old son has made me proud and now understands the relationship between Anakin, Vader and Luke. My boy... He even knows their lightsaber colors. Wait....Does this make me a geek?
Ah, they grow up so fast...

[Wogie]

...you've managed to TRI-boot your ipod! (ipod OS, Rockbox, Ipodlinux) \\:D/

[crazyness003]

... Ykyagw you're diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and your first thought is "awesome, i multiboot". Bonus points if you manage to install grub 2 to your own mbr.

awesome!

[bjschuma]

You believe that Star Wars should be a required subject in school, and are confused at how somebody doesn't know the relationship between Luke and Anakin.

YKYAGW you know that Luke is Anakin's uncle.

[crazyness003]

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!

Luke is Anakin's godparents (both of them)

[epsolon77]

Ah, they grow up so fast...

Yes they do grow up fast. He can already select Ubuntu from the startup list, use aptitude to try out new games. I'm getting him started YOUNG. Now THAT makes me a geek right?

[Frak]

Yes they do grow up fast. He can already select Ubuntu from the startup list, use aptitude to try out new games. I'm getting him started YOUNG. Now THAT makes me a geek right?
Too bad he'll have to leave the house when he's... nine...

[crazyness003]

Too bad he'll have to leave the house when he's... nine...
#nodding in approval#

You know you're a geek when you have completely memorized the installation process of windows and ubuntu to a point where you can give troubleshooting tips while doing something other than being on a computer, like....being on a computer doing something other than look-up installation processes (and screenshots).
Instead I play BF2

[Maheriano]

YKYAGW you know that Luke is Anakin's uncle.
Is there some super nerd Easter egg in the movie I don't know about? Anakin's his father. Maybe you were just messing with me.

[bjschuma]

Is there some super nerd Easter egg in the movie I don't know about? Anakin's his father. Maybe you were just messing with me.

In the Expanded Universe, Leia and Han name one of their kids Anakin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anakin_Solo).

[fubarmonkey]

When you keep wondering how to get into System Restore after making a huge, life altering mistake.

[talsemgeest]

When you keep wondering how to get into System Restore after making a huge, life altering mistake.
No, that makes you someone who uses windows...

[epsolon77]

No, that makes you someone who uses windows...

Now be gentle. Windows users can be geeks too. I think that the fact that he is posting on a Linux forum is a bold step in a better direction for geekdom.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you reminisce about the good ol' days when all you programmed in was TI-BASIC on your calculator.

Oh, btw, tlhIngan mu'ghom jIghaj. :D

[fubarmonkey]

Using Windows doesn't make me any less of a geek. I use Linux primarily, but I think the joke fits even outside of Linux. I could have just as easily rephrased it as "When you try to recover from backup after a life altering mistake."

---

When you try to find the source code for your girlfriend and try to fix that horrible recursive loop in the nagging() function.

[tarps87]

Ykyagw when you see a post about migrating machines and think that could be done using dd and ssh, then set about tiring it because it sound so fun

[darthenstein]

You wish you've ordered your house through Microsoft, it would be so easy to just take the backdoor in..

Yes!

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you make links to bash commands in Klingon (e.g. "ln /usr/bin/watch /usr/bin/taH").

(Sorry I'm kind of obsessed with Klingon lately. I'm a huge trekkie and I just got a Klingon Dictionary.)

[mess110]

When you look at the time and you see its 13:37 and you think: HELL YEAH!

[epsolon77]

ykyagw you go to your kids back to school night and have a half an hour discussion on why the school has not gone Linux.

You know the computer lab teacher is a geek when the conversation is only ended when your wife literally drags you out of the lab.

You know your hopelessly a geek when try to get a peek at what hardware the school has in their "equipment closet"

[epsolon77]

Sorry and one more.

You know your son is a geek when you need to lecture him at back to school night on how he is NOT to fix any of the computers at school.

[Kopachris]

Sorry and one more.

You know your son is a geek when you need to lecture him at back to school night on how he is NOT to fix any of the computers at school.
Just so you know, you can edit your own posts. I wish the computer teachers at my school were geeks. :P Most of them don't know hardly anything about computers. :( There is one lab that's filled with new iMacs and a couple Mac Pro servers in the back, though. :)

[scragar]

Just so you know, you can edit your own posts. I wish the computer teachers at my school were geeks. :P Most of them don't know hardly anything about computers. :( There is one lab that's filled with new iMacs and a couple Mac Pro servers in the back, though. :)

Dude, you're lucky, we were forced to use IE as a browser because the teachers thought firefox was a virus :(

And I once got in trouble for googling a virus name, apparantly that's dangerous :confused:

[tarps87]

ykyagw you go to your kids back to school night and have a half an hour discussion on why the school has not gone Linux.

You know the computer lab teacher is a geek when the conversation is only ended when your wife literally drags you out of the lab.

You know your hopelessly a geek when try to get a peek at what hardware the school has in their "equipment closet"

I done one better, I've got the technicians to sell me some of there hardware, mainly 100mbs network card for £1 (this was before the schools started using gb cards).
They wouldn't let be have a laptop with a broken screen, would have been a nice server.

Dude, you're lucky, we were forced to use IE as a browser because the teachers thought firefox was a virus :(

And I once got in trouble for googling a virus name, apparantly that's dangerous :confused:

I think it's the fear of having to do something that get them.
At my secondary school were we told they had discovered how to remove a certain virus, when I we into the computer rooms they all had that familiar blue screen, no not the BSOD but the install screen #-o

[epsolon77]

Just so you know, you can edit your own posts. I wish the computer teachers at my school were geeks. :P Most of them don't know hardly anything about computers. :( There is one lab that's filled with new iMacs and a couple Mac Pro servers in the back, though. :)

Yes yes I know I can edit my posts:frown: I am working in two servers and trying to configure a third, I didn't realize I wasn't signed in and that the edit button was missing. I'm just distracted....OO hey shiny object!

[Frak]

When you look at the time and you see its 13:37 and you think: HELL YEAH!
In America they'd tell you to buy a new clock.

[LowSky]

In America they'd tell you to buy a new clock.

the US military runs on 24 hour clocks, of course your then a geek with military funding... which means you probably control some kind of missile defense system or unnamed warplane, which unfortunately runs on windows Vista...lol

[GepettoBR]

I never did get why the Yankees haven't adopted the metric system yet.

[LowSky]

I never did get why the Yankees haven't adopted the metric system yet.

because its sounds so much better when Derek Jeter hits a home run 450 feet instead of 137 meters... sorry bad humor...

[GepettoBR]

But... it's feet. It's like measuring volume in fistfuls or flat areas in snow angels. It makes absolutely no sense.

[-=hazard=-]

This pc geek thing make no sense. People that (don't know how to use pc) call some one else (that know how to use a pc) a geek, are those persons who @ work have to use a damn pc but when they for example get a table of program crash (@ windwos of course) they immediately call for the IT to fix that (a simple restart of the program is required). I took a simple example but there are a lot of them.
Anyway I know a lot of people that can be called "geeks" but the also have a normal life, a wife, a work, a car, go for a beer, and they do what normal people do... So this geek thing is a little absurd. On this days PC-s are used everywhere, people work with them, knowing how to use a pc is even a minimal request from work-dealers. I'm sorry for them who don't now how to work on it :)

[GepettoBR]

This pc geek thing make no sense. People that (don't know how to use pc) call some one else (that know how to use a pc) a geek, are those persons who @ work have to use a damn pc but when they for example get a table of program crash (@ windwos of course) they immediately call for the IT to fix that (a simple restart of the program is required). I took a simple example but there are a lot of them.
Anyway I know a lot of people that can be called "geeks" but the also have a normal life, a wife, a work, a car, go for a beer, and they do what normal people do... So this geek thing is a little absurd. On this days PC-s are used everywhere, people work with them, knowing how to use a pc is even a minimal request from work-dealers. I'm sorry for them who don't now how to work on it :)

Have you even read this thread?

[Kopachris]

In America they'd tell you to buy a new clock.
Took me a minute to figure out what you meant. I've set every clock I get to 24-hour time (I don't like to say "military time" because it's not limited to military usage) since 2nd grade. Just makes more sense than AM and PM.

[Anxious Nut]

@ whom are above me, I see you've completely changed the topic!! here these are good

You know you're a geek when somebody holds your hand and you say ... Auto eth0 connection established.

You know you're a geek when somebody tells you a riddle and asks for an answer, and you say .. processing, and then he pokes you, and you say "wait or Force Quit"!!

You know you're a geek when you feel so sick and you go to the doctor, he asks you, "what's the problem?" and you say, definitely not a virus, using linux!

[Kopachris]

@ whom are above me, I see you've completely changed the topic!! here these are good

You know you're a geek when somebody holds your hand and you say ... Auto eth0 connection established.
lulz :P

Been mentioned before, but applies to my current train of thought:
Ykyagw you count C, C++, Fortran, COBOL, Lisp, Perl, Python, and Pascal as foreign languages when someone asks if you are bilingual.

[ChaseChase]

....when you're girlfriend doesn't even notice your latest big flashy ****-off synthesizer.

[SacValleyDweller]

Your thoughts use typing short hand, like IIRC.

You wish you could CTRL Z what you said in class a minute ago.

You miss CTRL C and CTRL V when you go to write something by hand.

(dunno if this is the right kind of geeky)
You like obscure foods and beverages, like Moxie Original (http://www.sodaking.com/product_info.php/products_id/309)

[Lavaeagle]

Have you even read this thread?

Hahah my words exactly.

You know you're a geek when you tell yourself just 1 more thing and then I'll go to bed.

You know you're a geek when you so many wires around you the Amazon jungle looks like a playground.

You know you're a geek when you start to forget how to speak correctly.

You know you're a geek when your room is so decked out with computers it makes Snoop Doggs ride look like an old 90's datsun.

[talsemgeest]

You know you're a geek when you tell yourself just 1 more thing and then I'll go to bed.

:lolflag: Sounds like StumbleUpon to me ;)

[BslBryan]

Ykyagw you laugh at the output of the command
$DO || ! $DO ; try

[scragar]

Ykyagw you laugh at the output of the command
$DO || ! $DO ; try

[scragar @ localbox ~/ ]
$ $DO || ! $DO ; try
bash: try: command not found
I know what you mean, but the output does depend on your shell.

[scragar]

You know you're a geek when you tell yourself just 1 more thing and then I'll go to bed.

That can be annoying once you've done this for a couple of days straight :p

[sawmaster]

You stay up really late on your computer (especially if it's running linux).

[Maheriano]

...you want to set up your media centre but jacked the power supply for your car computer.
...you want to set up your car computer but you're waiting on a torrent download on your desktop computer.
...you stare at the 0.0% download tally on your desktop computer trying to mentally will seeders to get online.

[-=hazard=-]

Have you even read this thread?

Should I?

[Frak]

YKYAGW you wish Photoshop/Gimp had AutoCAD terminal-like controls.

Oh, I wish I could @30"<270 this.

[gjoellee]

.....when you draw your body like this?!


<head></head>
arm{ }arm
arm-align: right; ;left :align-arm
} <body></body> }
<footer></footer>

[gjoellee]

.....when you draw your body like this?!:

EDIT: Whooops, double post and the Ubuntuforums does not support that many spaces...