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

[talsemgeest]

You should have put it in tags.

[talsemgeest]

Today I heard a story of a business that had just gone bankrupt, and they had piles of unused stock going to waste. There were dozens of large monitors, tons of workstations, servers, rack-mounted parts, large industrial printers... So in comes a very large, dirty/sloppy looking man, says to the manager that he had bought th lot of it. He comes with a van, picks up everything *by the cables*, and basically throws it into his van. He drives off and it turns out he hadn't payed for any of it.

YKYAGW that story makes you cringe. I was almost pulling out my hair by the time I heard the end of it ;)

[GepettoBR]

Should I?

Yes, if you plan on replying to it. That much should be obvious.

[K.Y.A]

#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


I'm the same way!

You know you're a geek when you setup a second CRT monitor just to have 2 backgrounds in kde at once, and put that monitor in a drawer that can fold out..

[K.Y.A]

+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.

Everything in red applies to me. As for the fifth one down. . . sounds like a lot of geeks I know, but not me! :lolflag:

[Tuxsteris]

When you wear tux slipers and your toilet paper has basic printed on it:lolflag:

[harry2006]

Everything in red applies to me. As for the fifth one down. . . sounds like a lot of geeks I know, but not me! :lolflag:
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really funny!!!
I think all the points shud apply for anyone to consider him/herself a geek :-)

[Anxious Nut]

ykyagw somebody asks you where should we go to night you answer "to my computer"

[talsemgeest]

ykyagw somebody asks you where should we go to night you answer "to my computer"
"My PC or your's?"

[jms1989]

"My PC or your's?"
LOL


YKYAGW you hack a external hard drive to drive a dvd burner to load ubuntu onto your netbook instead of purchasing a real external dvd drive. :)

[privatejarhead]

...you change your facebook language to either pirate or upside down english. or is that just me?:neutral:

[KIAaze]

Or to Esperanto or Lojban? Or any programming language. Or Klingon, Quenya, Sindarin, etc. :biggrin:
Are any of those even available on facebook?

You know you're a geek when you started learning any of these languages by yourself.
You're a "natural born geek" if you are native speaker of any of these languages and a human.

Learning Japanese as a non-Japanese makes you an Otaku.

[Metallion]

You give Rockman 2 a go and notice all the slighest differences in timing with Megaman 2.

For the non gamers among us: Rockman 2 = Megaman 2's original Japanese version.

Learning Japanese as a non-Japanese makes you an Otaku.

I think they count as geeks. :) Otherwise we could start argueing that all the Linux related things here make you a guru.

[Kopachris]

I think they count as geeks. :) Otherwise we could start argueing that all the Linux related things here make you a guru.
I disagree. Learning Japanese does not necessarily make you a geek. There are plenty of non-geeks that know Japanese fluently (and aren't Japanese, or even Asian). On the other hand, learning a language so that you can read/use a geeky program/website/gadget does make you a geek.

[talsemgeest]

I disagree. Learning Japanese does not necessarily make you a geek. There are plenty of non-geeks that know Japanese fluently (and aren't Japanese, or even Asian). On the other hand, learning a language so that you can read/use a geeky program/website/gadget does make you a geek.
I think the most common geeky use of learning Japanese is to be able to understand Anime in it's native format.

[jms1989]

I think the most common geeky use of learning Japanese is to be able to understand Anime in it's native format.

That would be awesome!! :popcorn:

[lisati]

I think the most common geeky use of learning Japanese is to be able to understand Anime in it's native format.

Never really got into anime...... but it can be really awesome understanding a film that's not in your native language.

[macogw]

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)

You want to stop what you said in class for job control? You want to send SIGQUIT when writing?

[-=hazard=-]

Yes, if you plan on replying to it. That much should be obvious.

Doesn't the topic explain all? Or we should read 600+ posts?

[Kopachris]

I think the most common geeky use of learning Japanese is to be able to understand Anime in it's native format.
Liking anime doesn't make you a geek. I know several people who absolutely love anime and are very far from being geeks. But if you insist that anime is geeky, then yes, learning Japanese to understand anime is geeky.

[scragar]

I think we need another XKCD ref thanks to todays comic:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tech_support_cheat_sheet.png

Personally I don't use such a pathetic cheat sheet, I use a whole bunch of them called man-pages :p

[GepettoBR]

Doesn't the topic explain all? Or we should read 600+ posts?

No, the topic doesn't explain it all, and yes, ideally you'd read the whole thing. Even though that's not realistic, if you had just read any three randomly chosen pages, you'd see that we're not here to talk about Geek Squad employees and people who like to keep pens in their shirt pocket, but actual geeks.

[tarps87]

Ykyagw when your pocket folds out to reveal a build in laptop

[talsemgeest]

Liking anime doesn't make you a geek. I know several people who absolutely love anime and are very far from being geeks. But if you insist that anime is geeky, then yes, learning Japanese to understand anime is geeky.
Yes, but learning Japanese for the sole purpose of watching anime in it's native format would most likely make you a geek.

[-=hazard=-]

No, the topic doesn't explain it all, and yes, ideally you'd read the whole thing. Even though that's not realistic, if you had just read any three randomly chosen pages, you'd see that we're not here to talk about Geek Squad employees and people who like to keep pens in their shirt pocket, but actual geeks.

Ok dude, I'll read all this topic and then I'll answer you :D

Wait for me...

[Frak]

I think we need another XKCD ref thanks to todays comic:

Personally I don't use such a pathetic cheat sheet, I use a whole bunch of them called man-pages :p

^^+1this

[lisati]

Yes, but learning Japanese for the sole purpose of watching anime in it's native format would most likely make you a geek.

Ungeeky question: Does this idea apply to any show produced in any language that you don't know or just to anime in Japanese?

[charly17201]

Personally I don't use such a pathetic cheat sheet, I use a whole bunch of them called man-pages :p

Outstanding. I'll send this to the "official" geek at work in the morning, and tape it to my PC too. Unfortunately, I'm stuck using Windows at work.

[Kopachris]

Ungeeky question: Does this idea apply to any show produced in any language that you don't know or just to anime in Japanese?
Exactly my point. It doesn't. Learning German to watch 7 Zwerge or learning French to watch... whatever movies the French make does not automatically make you a geek, in my opinion. The same thing applies to music, books, and TV as well. If you learn French for the purpose of understanding, say, Carmen, that's more likely to mean that you appreciate fine art, rather than to mean that you're a geek.

[GepettoBR]

Exactly my point. It doesn't. Learning German to watch 7 Zwerge or learning French to watch... whatever movies the French make does not automatically make you a geek, in my opinion. The same thing applies to music, books, and TV as well. If you learn French for the purpose of understanding, say, Il Trovatore, that's more likely to mean that you appreciate fine art, rather than to mean that you're a geek.

Isn't Il Trovatore Italian?

Anyways, I agree with you. Liking Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard doesn't make me a geek. Neither does liking Akira Kurosawa. By extension, why should I be made a geek if I happen to like Hayao Miyazaki as well? He's a movie director just like the other three (and Japanese just like Kurosawa), but his movies are animations. I fail to see why this is geekier.

[Kopachris]

Isn't Il Trovatore Italian?

Anyways, I agree with you. Liking Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard doesn't make me a geek. Neither does liking Akira Kurosawa. By extension, why should I be made a geek if I happen to like Hayao Miyazaki as well? He's a movie director just like the other three (and Japanese just like Kurosawa), but his movies are animations. I fail to see why this is geekier.
Whoops, I meant Carmen. Nice catch. :)

[Windows Nerd]

Actually Lol'd at this thread...&^%*ing hilarious:lolflag:

[talsemgeest]

Ungeeky question: Does this idea apply to any show produced in any language that you don't know or just to anime in Japanese?

Exactly my point. It doesn't. Learning German to watch 7 Zwerge or learning French to watch... whatever movies the French make does not automatically make you a geek, in my opinion. The same thing applies to music, books, and TV as well. If you learn French for the purpose of understanding, say, Carmen, that's more likely to mean that you appreciate fine art, rather than to mean that you're a geek.

Well at the very least it makes you an anime geek ;)

[Metallion]

Wow my reply seems to have spawned a whole discussion here. Actually I didn't even mean that learning Japanese makes you a geek. On that part I agree that it only maked you a geek if it's for the sake of watching Anime or playing J-games.

The only thing I really wanted to say is that I think Otakus count as geeks.

[BslBryan]

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

That was the intended output. Do or do not, there is no try.

[scragar]

That was the intended output. Do or do not, there is no try.

There's a shell that actually says "there is no try" though, rather than just "command not found", which doesn't make sense given the quote.

[BslBryan]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/codergoodies/9e4a/

[tehwinrar]

this morning my stepmom typed "university of memphis" into the address bar to get to the memphis.edu website. I told her to just type in memphis.edu but it was too late and the page was loading (they have dial-up && AOL *shoots self*). After the page loaded she typed memphis.edu into the search bar on the page. My insides were cringing and I was involuntarily grinding my teeth as I watched her do all of this. Just a story to make you guys squirm. :)

[vrkalak]

You know your a 'geek' when:

Your live-in girlfriend of 5 years breaks up with you ... she finds you on X-Chat IRC, and tells you. Then, follows it up with an eMail of the conversation.

And she's in the next room!!

(This happened to me) :( (Oh, well)

[scragar]

I'm writing an IRC bot in PHP because I don't like most prebuilt bots.

It's pretty easy actually, the template can be found by googling, then you just need to break out a spanner and destroy the existing template to produce something faster, cleaner and more functional :p

The reason I chose PHP btw, is because I like the idea of being able to monitor it via my browser from anywhere, rather than having to break out putty or something similar as I would for a normal usage(Oh, and I'm gonna built my own client using AJAX when I'm done, PHP FTW!).

[Lavaeagle]

@scragar so was that a joke or something?

You know your a geek when you hate anime geeks.

[scragar]

@scragar so was that a joke or something?

No, I know PHP better than any other language, and for a bot that's supposed to be easily expanded on with anything you want I figured PHP would be the better choice of the languages I know:
include "irc_core.php";

$bot = new IRCBot('irc.ubuntu.com');
if( ! $bot->connected){
echo 'Unable to connect to host. Bot said: "', $bot->errors, '"';
exit;
}
$bot->setNick('ScraBot');
$bot->setRealName("Scragar's Bot");
$bot->setHostname('banna.pie');
if( ! $bot->login ){
echo "Bot was unable to send login information.";
exit;
}

$bot->join('#ubuntu');

$bot->loop();// doesn't need to be run,
// but the easiest way of running main content.


Want to add another feature? Then just build upon the core:

class IRCBot2 extends IRCBot{
private function CommandProcessor($data){

parent::CommandProcessor($data);// test generics(PING, nickserve, etc.)

if($data['message'] == 'ScraBot quit' &&// I'm telling the bot to quit
$data['senderNick'] == 'scragar' &&// it's me
$data['senderIdentified']){// and I've told Nickserve that.
$this->disconnect('Requested by scragar.');
$this->quit();
}
if( preg_match('/^ScraBot logs (on|off)$/', $data['message']) &&
// We want to turn logs on or off.
$data['senderNick'] == 'scragar' &&// it's me
$data['senderIdentified']){// and I've told Nickserve that.
$logMode = (strrchr($data['message'], 'f') === FALSE);// turn on or off
if($logMode == $this->storeLogs)
$this->PM('scragar', 'Logs are already '.($logMode)?'on':'off');
else
$this->storeLogs = $logMode;
}
}
}
I know loads of languages offer those features, but I just love the simplicity PHP offers it with.

[stuman]

You post a reply in a "You know you're a geek when..." thread.

How about...

You're reading the "You know you're a geek when..." thread.

[scragar]

How about...

You're reading the "You know you're a geek when..." thread.

How about STOP REPEATING THAT!

[stuman]

You install Linux on any used computer that comes your way just to see if you can make it work.

True story..

new notebook...put soft briefcase down in the garage to run off to daughter's track meet. wife beats me home and runs into it, breaking the screen. computer is "Acer", and won't boot Windows with an external monitor. That computer is now a network server, running Ubuntu 8.04 server install without a monitor, sharing 3/4 Terrabyte encrypted external drive and printers on my home wireless network, running VMWare Server to host multiple VM's of other O/S's.

[stuman]

How about STOP REPEATING THAT!

Sorry. Haven't read the whole thread. Notice the "version" i'm allegedly using...I haven't been here in a while.

[stuman]

You're +3 SD's from the mean...

To the right, I presume... ;o)

[Gen2ly]

You think about building your own server.

[talsemgeest]

You think about building your own server.
...You have built your own server. And it has about ten different functions.

[Frak]

You've created a ticketing system that is able to instantly alert the user at the station of the need of a tech, indicating the ticket issue time and location to travel using Google Maps. OS agnostic.

I recieved a $5,000 bonus at the end of the year for making that, and just recently got a PROMOTION.

Woooooo!

[RoboRutt]

...You have built your own server. And it has about ten different functions.

Or you build 10 servers, each with one function ;)

[lisati]

You think about building your own server.

Actually doing something with idea strikes me as more geeky than just thinking about it.....

Q: What's procrastination?
A: I'll tell you tomorrow
Q: What's apathy?
A: I don't know & I don't care....

[Kopachris]

Or you build 10 servers, each with one function ;)
What servers could I make use of?


Web server
Database server
Mail server
FTP server (public/company)
FTP server (self)

Dang, only five, unless you count the 20-odd servers I'd like to have as a renderfarm (with both Luxrender and a REYES renderer). :P

[tarps87]

How about STOP REPEATING THAT!

You're reading the "You know you're a geek when..." thread. :P

What servers could I make use of?


Web server
Database server
Mail server
FTP server (public/company)
FTP server (self)

Dang, only five, unless you count the 20-odd servers I'd like to have as a renderfarm (with both Luxrender and a REYES renderer). :P

Apt cacher?
Samba server?
Cvs server?

Don't know if you need them but there's three I have running, now you just need two more

[Groucho Marxist]

... You can identify the year a Looney Tunes cartoon was made just by looking at the background.

... You know exactly what reference material superhero movies are derived from.

... You engage in a five hour discussion with a parent as to who would win in an all-out war between Star Wars and Star Trek factions.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw the output of "cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/audio" is music to your ears. :popcorn:

[GepettoBR]

Ykyagw the output of "cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/audio" is music to your ears. :popcorn:

:lolflag:

[Sycron]

:lolflag:

lol

[Elisavan]

You spend hours reading this thread, just to laugh at how many apply to you

When the universe comes to a grinding halt when your ISP goes down/no Wi-Fi available in your current location.
if you know how to say those things in code...

When you have dreams in game-scapes and universes, and often wake up wondering if you actually lvl-d in-game or if that was just last night's dream...

plan out in detail a computer for your car to play music and access internet, that would be legally executable while you drive.

you resort to programming terms when the equivalent 'normal english' term escapes you...

you've surfed the 'net on a company cashier intended purely for being a till...

often think in languages other than your native tongue (including programming languages)...

if you intend to post more than once, just for the **** of it...

you have learned more than one language for fun/the challenge of it...

[Bucky Ball]

It's impossible for me to be a Greek. I was born in the UK.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

plan out in detail a computer for your car to play music and access internet, that would be legally executable while you drive.

This one fits me exactly!
I've indeed planned a computer to put in my car (which I don't even have, yet).
It will run specially configured Linux kernel from solid state drive (cause electromechanical/optical disk drive are sensitive to vibration inherent in a car).
I'm also devised a special kind of display, which in fact will be an old laptop screen with video chipset soldered in, to accept VGA input (or if it fails, I will have to write a driver for it).
Hopefully I'll get enough money for touchscreen, that would make the whole thing even cooler!
It will also have numerous USB ports on the front to attach more USB Flash drives and some input devices.
And while I was writing this I thought of remote on IR or Bluetooth (or both). Haven't done much research on those but it seems fairly simple.


ykyag when you have a habit to dismantle (mostly old and/or redundant) stuff, rewire, solder and (where possible) reprogram to make it work your way, probably with whole different purpose the original device(s) were for.

[gjoellee]

...you go home from school/work because your ram consumption is too high

[uylug]

Hmm ... maybe:

You know you're a geek, when you stop sleeping, because you can't sleep, when there is still something left to code.

:lolflag:

[Kopachris]

ykyag when you have a habit to dismantle (mostly old and/or redundant) stuff, rewire, solder and (where possible) reprogram to make it work your way, probably with whole different purpose the original device(s) were for.
Just took apart an old fridge magnet that looks like a computer and says "You've got mail!" when you push the keyboard. Took it entirely out of its little case, then hooked the speaker wires to a loopback cable plugged into my PowerBook with Amadeus II's spectrum analyzer (speaking of which, anyone know of a good, free something like that for Linux?). I don't think I could reprogram this little electronic trinket, though. :P

I did, however, hack this little handheld Family Feud game for my mom once. The problem was that it couldn't save whether you had the audio on or off (because it was one of those cheap electronic toys), and her workplace didn't allow noisy games (it would wake the kids she's supposed to be watching sleep). I cracked it open and easily replaced the speaker with an LED I had lying around. Worked like a charm. :)

[Niko Johnson]

You know you're a geek when the only pranks you know involve a computer You know you're a geek when own a shirt that says "theres no place like 127.0.0.1" You know you're a geek when you reply to this thread

[jms1989]

please stop repeating that. its very annoying.

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when the only pranks you know involve a computer You know you're a geek when own a shirt that says "theres no place like 127.0.0.1" You know you're a geek when you reply to this thread

Please, stop saying the same things over and over people. =/

Also, 127.0.0.1 is NOT home. It's Localhost.

[talsemgeest]

Please, stop saying the same things over and over people. =/

Also, 127.0.0.1 is NOT home. It's Localhost.
I'm even starting to get tired of the rebuttals of the repeated posts... ;)

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I got a problem with my server box
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7874700

in short: It is a Debian Lenny Server which fails to boot on first (sometimes first few) boot-ups, but boots OK afterwards.
Had this quick idea of HDD being too cold, but really I'm clueless.

Has anyone had something similar?

[Kopachris]

I got a problem with my server box
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7874700

in short: It is a Debian Lenny Server which fails to boot on first (sometimes first few) boot-ups, but boots OK afterwards.
Had this quick idea of HDD being too cold, but really I'm clueless.

Has anyone had something similar?
This really isn't the place for discussions such as this. But your plea here did work. :P I took a look at it. Check your User CP.

[GepettoBR]

I'm even starting to get tired of the rebuttals of the repeated posts... ;)

And I'm tired of making them. =(

[dwasifar]

You know you're a geek when you log on to a support-forum thread just to respond to someone you haven't seen in a while.

[tehwinrar]

Also, 127.0.0.1 is NOT home. It's Localhost.

I've always said "there's no place like localhost" why would I say "there's no place like home" 99% of the time they mean basically the same thing anyway

[GepettoBR]

I've always said "there's no place like localhost" why would I say "there's no place like home" 99% of the time they mean basically the same thing anyway

I'd respond to this, but there's no punctuation and I don't feel like doing your thinking for you. :)

[dwasifar]

I'd respond to this, but there's no punctuation and I don't feel like doing your thinking for you. :)

I can help:

I've always said "there's no place." Like, localhost, why? Would I say "there's no place like?" Home 99% of the time; they mean "basically." The same thing, anyway!

[GepettoBR]

I can help:

I've always said "there's no place." Like, localhost, why? Would I say "there's no place like?" Home 99% of the time; they mean "basically." The same thing, anyway!

Oh wise Dwasifar, how I've missed you!

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

This really isn't the place for discussions such as this. But your plea here did work. :P I took a look at it. Check your User CP.

Thanks!
And I know it's sort of offtopic... but this isn't the first one here, and there was also "ykyagw you discuss your hardware problems in ykyagw thread" few hundred pages back. Not in mood to search who said it though.

and so...
YKYAG when you use another "ykyag" post for excuse.
YKYAG when you also use it as a defence if someone disputes your geekiness. :)

well these are obvious, but I don't recall these being said before (at least not in last 30 pages or so).

[hatten]

$ wget www.google.com/*

yuyagw you lmao at that.

[modmadmike]

YKYAGW:
-You compiled XMMS in Karmic (involves packages only found in the Debian repositoy).
-You have two sound cards- one hooked up to a FM transmitter kit you built (and xmms constantly outputting to it) and one attached directly to your Marantz 2265B receiver.
-Your dad (who workes for the state in I.T) tells you that you should start your own business even though your still 17.
-Your desktop costs more than an average car.
-You can't decide whether you love or hate pulse-audio.

[moster]

YOU are geek when running linux.

If you are not aware of this then you are even more geek then you think

If you reply to this post saying that is not truth, you are so geek that you are delusional.

:D

[modmadmike]

YOU are geek when running linux.

If you are not aware of this then you are even more geek then you think

If you reply to this post saying that is not truth, you are so geek that you are delusional.

:D

O rly?
but what about the children in Africa with XO laptops which run Linux XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD

[moster]

O rly?
but what about the children in Africa with XO laptops which run Linux XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD

Well, you just put yourself in THIRD (hard-core) category :D

[Kopachris]

O rly?
but what about the children in Africa with XO laptops which run Linux XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD
And what about all the parents and grandparents that we've converted to Ubuntu when they barely know how to use a computer? :P

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

YOU are geek when running linux.

If you are not aware of this then you are even more geek then you think

If you reply to this post saying that is not truth, you are so geek that you are delusional.

:D

To properly respond to this one all I can say....

All generalisations are false (,including this one)!

[jms1989]

one cannot be a geek just by using linux, otherwise everyone would be a geek for using a cell phone, tivo, dvd player or blue ray, stereo receiver, to name a few.

To be considered a geek, one has to do something ordinary people are unable to conceive. Like making a computer talk in another room from your pc or laptop.

Simply using linux cannot and will not make you a geek. More like a strange person that dares to use something different from ordinary people. :)

Btw, being strange is just you being a human and stepping out from the standard dull human life. ;)

[sliketymo]

How do YOU know you're a geek?

I'll start...

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

Your fav tune is that old Phil Collins classic "sususudero!"

[KIAaze]

Your fav tune is that old Phil Collins classic "sususudero!"

:lolflag:
One of the best here since a while.
I actually had to google it to know which song you meant.
But now I know and I cannot listen to it anymore without thinking of sudo. ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQBT89MFnS8
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1908

On a 1997 episode of VH1 Storytellers, Collins said: "This is one of those examples of trying out commands. You know, sometimes you can use the command, other times you're in big trouble, because what you write doesn't mean anything, or worse it means something dangerous. So I set up this GNU/Linux PC, and I got some GNU/Linux compatible electronic music instruments, and I started to type into the console, and this word came out, which was "sus-sussudo." It just literally came out, at the time... that was back when I could hack, so I kind of knew I had to find something else for that word, then I went back and tried to find another word that parsed as well as "sussudo," and I couldn't find one, so I went back to "sussudo." Then I thought OK, let's give it a meaning, what is it? substitute user do or superuser do. The song code was written during class in school. It's happening with my daughter now, she's 8 years old and she loves using sudo at school, but she won't tell the sysadmin, like IRL the sysadmin knows her but they don't talk about it... how do they know? 'I know she hacks me, I know she hacks me, doesn't know my name, doesn't know I'm logged in, but I know she hacks me'... So that's what the song is about, so "sussudio" became a name for this hacker, and since it's become a name for a host. My older daughter's got a host called Sussudio, and I'm sure there are children all over the world with hosts named Sussudio, so I apologize for that." (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

Ok, well, it may not be a good adaptation, but I don't know... I just had to find a way to hack something into it. :-\"

[SuperSonic4]

When you derive the formula for exponential decay on the condensation on the bus window

[themarker0]

When your board you scream,. "sdlkjfhadfhjfhjlasdfdfjhlsdfdfsfdsdfkhdfkasdfgsafa sd fsadf asd dS"

[yabbadabbadont]

When you're bored you scream,. "sdlkjfhadfhjfhjlasdfdfjhlsdfdfsfdsdfkhdfkasdfgsafa sd fsadf asd dS"

When you correct the spelling and grammar of another person's posts.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you wish you had a UPS in case of thunderstorm, even though you don't have anything important running -- you just want to preserve the uptime you've been working on (13d 10h 22m since the last kernel update forced me to restart).

[Frak]

Ykyagw you wish you had a UPS in case of thunderstorm, even though you don't have anything important running -- you just want to preserve the uptime you've been working on (13d 10h 22m since the last kernel update forced me to restart).
http://www.ksplice.com/

[Kopachris]

http://www.ksplice.com/
Hmm... I may wish to look into that, thanks. :)

Ykyagw you hack your brain in any one of numerous physical and mental ways. For me, this involves using the left hemisphere of my brain to strengthen the right by analyzing creative things like art and music to better use my creativity (which is rather lacking). It's hard to explain. I'd have to write a rather long essay to explain it thoroughly.

[moster]

one cannot be a geek just by using linux, otherwise everyone would be a geek for using a cell phone, tivo, dvd player or blue ray, stereo receiver, to name a few.

To be considered a geek, one has to do something ordinary people are unable to conceive. Like making a computer talk in another room from your pc or laptop.

Simply using linux cannot and will not make you a geek. More like a strange person that dares to use something different from ordinary people. :)

Btw, being strange is just you being a human and stepping out from the standard dull human life. ;)
Well, when you (and most of us here) are in 1% of some population... that alone make you geek :D
I mean, if it is not your job... if you are not running server... What you are really doing on linux when 99% of people are using something else.

For example imagine president candidate that has 1% of all the votes. I mean, who would that be? I would say it would be some extremist.

Not to insult anybody.. I am on linux right now.. but let admit truth. Linux is geek OS from the begining :D

edit:
It all remind me of a man who drive car in opposite direction on highway and say "Wow, so many crazy people!"

[talsemgeest]

Well, when you (and most of us here) are in 1% of some population... that alone make you geek :D
I mean, if it is not your job... if you are not running server... What you are really doing on linux when 99% of people are using something else.

For example imagine president candidate that has 1% of all the votes. I mean, who would that be? I would say it would be some extremist.

Not to insult anybody.. I am on linux right now.. but let admit truth. Linux is geek OS from the begining :D

edit:
It all remind me of a man who drive car in opposite direction on highway and say "Wow, so many crazy people!"
The only thing being in the top 1% does is make you better than the other 99%, not a geek. Also, I am guessing you mean running Linux on your Desktop/Laptop/PC/Mac/etc... As a lot more than 1% of people use Linux every day in their Cell Phones, cars, websites that they access...

[Kopachris]

The only thing being in the top 1% does is make you better than the other 99%, not a geek. Also, I am guessing you mean running Linux on your Desktop/Laptop/PC/Mac/etc... As a lot more than 1% of people use Linux every day in their Cell Phones, cars, websites that they access...
Okay, how about this: installing Linux on your own computer because it's a hobby OS makes you a geek. Installing Linux on your own computer for some non-geeky reason, having someone else install Linux on your computer, and merely using Linux do not make you a geek.

[brendan2121]

when you wish life had a google bar.

When you wish your glasses had adblock (i'd freakin' use glasses just for that!)

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

ok thats me

[brendan2121]

Lol, nice one



Thats almost creepy 8-[

When you wish you could have a pet penguin running around in the house
i wish
:confused:

[brendan2121]

...it's Friday night at 8 p.m. and you are online responding to a "You know you're a geek when..." thread.
its one over here

[talsemgeest]

its one over here
Wow, I never realised that it was an admin who posted the first "...when you reply to this thread" remark.

Also, YKYAGW you have added the YKYAGW's thread to your calander.

[brendan2121]

You sit inside petting your computer saying "precious, my precious".
but smegull promised:popcorn:
smegull lied

[stinkeye]

When you laugh at computer experts on the radio telling listeners to reinstall windows to solve its general sluggishness.

[Megrimn]

when you laugh at computer experts on the radio telling listeners to reinstall windows to solve its general sluggishness.

lol :D

[azebuski]

You silently laugh when you hear people talking about computers. "I have like 39 viruses or something, but my friend is going to burn me a copy of Norton AV so I'll be ok." or...

"I went to this website and it said I had to install something to view the page, so I clicked on OK. Now my computer is really slow and keeps popping up windows. It's probably because of a bad power cord. I'm going to get a new power cord."
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You can't figure out why Windows users spend spend $599 for image editing software.
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You show someone how to view a PDF and you are then considered a "computer genius" and asked endless questions from everyone.
-----
You are looking to buy a Netbook and the salesman warns you, "This doesn't come with Windows. It uses something called Linux. I dunno man, this Linux is junk with no support. If you want a real machine go with this model, it comes with Windows so you can send email and look at pictures."

[Kopachris]

You can't figure out why Windows users spend spend $599 for image editing software.

Because Photoshop is waaaaaay better than GIMP (no offense). There are quite a few things that Photoshop does totally differently than GIMP, and in many cases, Photoshop's way is more desirable. The GIMP is kind of thrown together with this and that (for instance, some options in the filter menu are Python scripts while others are hard-coded), while Photoshop is nice and clean and professional until you start installing addons. GIMP is great for small stuff, but it's no where near as professional as Photoshop. If you want professional FOSS, check out Blender.

You are looking to buy a Netbook and the salesman warns you, "This doesn't come with Windows. It uses something called Linux. I dunno man, this Linux is junk with no support. If you want a real machine go with this model, it comes with Windows so you can send email and look at pictures."lulz :popcorn:

[Frak]

You can't figure out why Windows users spend spend $599 for image editing software.

Because Photoshop is waaaaaay better than GIMP (no offense).

110% correct.

[moster]

You can't figure out why Windows users spend spend $599 for image editing software.

I personally do not know any photoshop user that actually PAID photoshop. But nearly everybody use it for some kind of amateur picture editing.

Please do not post now "I paid". Because I know there are more then few in this behemoth forum.

Point is, photoshop is pirated just like windows. If not even more and Gimp is more then enough for brighten picture or something like that.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

I personally do not know any photoshop user that actually PAID photoshop. But nearly everybody use it for some kind of amateur picture editing.

Please do not post now "I paid". Because I know there are more then few in this behemoth forum.

Point is, photoshop is pirated just like windows. If not even more and Gimp is more then enough for brighten picture or something like that.

Exactly what I thought. I had a PS copy around, and was quite hesitant at first to go GIMP. But I did eventually, and really if you not doing super-pro works on PS, there is pretty much no use of it.
Many free image viewers (both on Windows and Linux) can do brightness, contrast, saturation and stuff without being resource hogger.
And GIMP would cover closely everything else.

[Kopachris]

I personally do not know any photoshop user that actually PAID photoshop. But nearly everybody use it for some kind of amateur picture editing.

Please do not post now "I paid". Because I know there are more then few in this behemoth forum.

Point is, photoshop is pirated just like windows. If not even more and Gimp is more then enough for brighten picture or something like that.
Sure, GIMP can do simple stuff like brighten, change color balance, etc., but comparing GIMP and Photoshop is really like comparing apples and oranges. They're totally different.

[callumacrae]

you know your a geek when you think linux is just dead sexy

It is :)

You know you're a geek when you've sat here for an hour reading this whole topic.

You know you're a geek when you hear someone ask someone else something about computers and you answer them.

~Callum

[OdinHammer]

you know your a geek when you can answer computer questions without even having had paid full attention to the question you were being asked.

[Joeb454]

YKYAGW you can read something on the screen backwards, while typing it...all at a reasonable speed (I keep doing it to friends on IM - it annoys them :twisted:)

[Metallion]

when you can stand being in my company for more than 10 seconds.

[linux.convert]

you know ur a geek wh...ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD...

[GepettoBR]

you know ur a geek wh...ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD...

what is this I don't even ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

[Frak]

you know ur a geek wh...ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD...

what is this I don't even ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

You guys are ner...ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

[Vrekk]

hmm who would win, Brain slugs or .... ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

[Kopachris]

C-c-c-combo breaker! :twisted:

[Frak]

C-c-c-combo breaker! :twisted:
We had such a streak goi...ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

[GenericGuy]

lol, you weak minde...ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

[yabbadabbadont]

What the Hell are all of you talki
http://omploader.org/vMmI1NQ/397.gif
...ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

[jenkinbr]

Wtf???

[GepettoBR]

Wtf???

That's the almighty Hypnotoad. But don't worry, Candlejack will rescALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTO

[modmadmike]

http://www.opera.com/ << WTF!? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET OPERA FROM APPLE!!!! lol

EDIT: Lets sue apple for stealing Opera's DNS name!!!!

EDIT2: issue resolved but there is still an apple logo for the site lol

[modmadmike]

http://www.opera.com/ << WTF!? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET OPERA FROM APPLE!!!! lol

EDIT: Lets sue apple for stealing Opera's DNS name!!!!

EDIT2: issue resolved but there is still an apple logo for the site lol

This it what i was refering too:
[IMG]http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs25/f/2009/251/1/5/Opera_com_equals_apple_com__by_modmadmike.png

[scragar]

This it what i was refering too:
http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs25/f/2009/251/1/5/Opera_com_equals_apple_com__by_modmadmike.png

You've got the little |> on the URL bar, you changed it manually...?

[modmadmike]

You've got the little |> on the URL bar, you changed it manually...?

nope it was like that i followed the link from wikipedia

[modmadmike]

You've got the little |> on the URL bar, you changed it manually...?

http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs29/f/2009/251/8/0/Opera_com_equals_apple_com_2_by_modmadmike.png
More proof - look at the bottom which shows what the link was to.

[Penguin Guy]

You know you're a geek when you need an application to tell you what the weather is like just outside your house.

Weather on your Desktop

Lets admit it, we spend hours in front of our computers not aware of the most basic things in life such as weather. Now, at least we will know what the weather is like outside by just looking at our desktop.

[Maheriano]

You know you're a geek when you're so into some computer task that you can't break away from it so you take the laptop onto the toilet with you.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you're so into some computer task that you can't break away from it so you take the laptop onto the toilet with you.
Or bring the laptop for reading material. :)

[yabbadabbadont]

Or bring the laptop for reading material. :)

reading material... uh huh, sure. ;)

[Kopachris]

reading material... uh huh, sure. ;)
Yeah: Slashdot, Lifehacker, Ubuntu Forums, something from faqs.org, or if nothing else, StumbleUpon Wikipedia.

[moster]

reading material... uh huh, sure. ;)

examine better word? ;)

(carefully examine "material")

[hatten]

examine better word? ;)

(carefully examine "material")
Isn't examine materia better ;) =D

[moster]

Isn't examine materia better ;) =D

Yeah, that "materia" need so much "focus" that it is almost painful. I said almost painful because it must be taken HARD and examined till last bit without mercy! It can take it.

[GepettoBR]

*steals your materia*

[hatten]

*steals your materia*
You need my root password to do that!

[GepettoBR]

sudo steals your materia

[xaliqen]

You spend all night experimenting with video encodes for your PS3, when you could just transcode through a streamer.

[TUTUCA]

Hilarious :)

[Udayakiran]

When your multi-boot menu has a scroll bar.

When you have a collection of all variants of all operating systems that you can install on your computer.

When you proudly mention that to every person you meet and expect them to applaud.

[lisati]

You need my root password to do that!

<possible pun-based reply censored>

[moster]

When you bookmarks in firefox need at least 1 min too scroll down.

[lisati]

When you bookmarks in firefox need at least 1 min too scroll down.

Is that all it takes normally? :)

[moster]

Is that all it takes normally? :)

haha, I do not know, you tell me :)

[privatejarhead]

Sure, GIMP can do simple stuff like brighten, change color balance, etc., but comparing GIMP and Photoshop is really like comparing apples and oranges. They're totally different.

sorry to burst your bubble, but apples and oranges are now considered to be very similar....:p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_and_oranges#.22Scientific.22_criticism


you know youre a geek when you look up criticisms on common sayings

[Motorhead Kaze]

...when you make an effort post the 666th reply... but remember that this is the PAGE number and you're still posting on the 665th page. Wait...is that being a geek or having a Ziggy moment? (Shazbat!)

[Linux000]

WHen you think you post on the 666 page just to annoy the post above you.

And when you move cases around on your "new" computer just so you can use the hardware, and have spare cases and computer parts lying around to do that.

[Linux000]

I win. Bookmarks Toolbar.
I win, I have it in the toolbar of all the browsers on all my OSes, Win7, Ubuntu, XP, Firefox, Chrome, Safari.

[Motorhead Kaze]

...when you make a "top ten" list of all the "you know you are a geek when" posts from this thread and post it on your blog. One of my favorites is the punchline at the bottom of page 664 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=86237&page=664).

...and when you edit your post to say, "I am the first to post on page 666."

[xaliqen]

You open synaptic and type "sudo apt-get install" in the quick search bar, before you realize what you're doing.

[GepettoBR]

You open synaptic and type "sudo apt-get install" in the quick search bar, before you realize what you're doing.

:lolflag:

...when you make a "top ten" list of all the "you know you are a geek when" posts from this thread and post it on your blog. One of my favorites is the punchline at the bottom of page 664 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=86237&page=664).

...and when you edit your post to say, "I am the first to post on page 666."

Link please?

[Frak]

Potato

[hatten]

“If only you and DEAD people knows HEX, how many people knows HEX?”

How many know the answer to that riddle? =D



You know you’re a geek if your children have names obtained with a random password generator!

[Barrucadu]

YKYAGW doing something like this seems like a really good idea:

./prod.sed:
#!/bin/sed -f
{

s/^PING \([a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]*\) \([()0-9\.]*\) .*$/PROD \1 \2/

s/^.*(\([0-9\.]*\)):.*=\(.*\)$/\1 prodded you back (\2)/

}

ping google.com | ./prod.sed

[GepettoBR]

“If only you and DEAD people knows HEX, how many people knows HEX?”

How many know the answer to that riddle? =D



You know you’re a geek if your children have names obtained with a random password generator!

57006 people know HEX.

And don't you dare mock my little Ae16V5df79OIi@UO157Tv18! He's a smarter child than any of yours will ever be!

[jms1989]

you laugh a people who still use the forum defaults. The thread is on page 167, we haven't got to pg666. :) I use the 40 p/page option. Go here (http://ubuntuforums.org/profile.php?do=editoptions) and change the default to 40 posts per page or greater. You've got the bandwidth, so use it.

[Frak]

you laugh a people who still use the forum defaults. The thread is on page 167, we haven't got to pg666. :) I use the 40 p/page option. Go here (http://ubuntuforums.org/profile.php?do=editoptions) and change the default to 40 posts per page or greater. You've got the bandwidth, so use it.
You sir have earned +9001 internetz.

[talsemgeest]

you laugh a people who still use the forum defaults. The thread is on page 167, we haven't got to pg666. :) I use the 40 p/page option. Go here (http://ubuntuforums.org/profile.php?do=editoptions) and change the default to 40 posts per page or greater. You've got the bandwidth, so use it.
Just because we have doesn't mean the forum has. There is a reason 10 ppp is the default.

[lisati]

“if only you and dead people knows hex, how many people knows hex?”

how many know the answer to that riddle? =d


07734! Lol!

[Kopachris]

“If only you and DEAD people knows HEX, how many people knows HEX?”

How many know the answer to that riddle? =D
0xDEAE people know hex, duh! Isn't it obvious? :)

[hatten]

57006 people know HEX.

And don't you dare mock my little Ae16V5df79OIi@UO157Tv18! He's a smarter child than any of yours will ever be!
haha, and correct!

[Tamalin]

You know your a geek when one of your favorite jokes is:
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't."

[scragar]

You know your a geek when one of your favorite jokes is:
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't."

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who know any non-zero integer can be a base(although base 1 is a pain in the rear end).

[modmadmike]

Ykyagw your viewing this page on android in virtualbox :P.

[KIAaze]

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who know any non-zero integer can be a base(although base 1 is a pain in the rear end).

Good point.
The answer is always 10, except in 10 cases. :lolflag:

But are you sure only non-zero integers are allowed? : http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/bases.html
I'm not sure about the exact rules for positional systems (in the case of the complex "i", what does it mean to have i-1 symbols?).

[GepettoBR]

For example, one can say that there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand trinary, those who don't and those who sort of understand it but mix it up with binary. Expand ad infinitum.

[scragar]

Good point.
The answer is always 10, except in 10 cases. :lolflag:

But are you sure only non-zero integers are allowed? : http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/bases.html
I'm not sure about the exact rules for positional systems (in the case of the complex "i", what does it mean to have i-1 symbols?).

Well fractions can be used, but it's hard to explain how to use them, if your base is 1/2 you can still write all the numbers you normally can, just like with base 2, however it takes a lot more work to do so and I hope you've set aside a week to explain this to anyone good knowledge of number theory.

i = sqrt(-1)

i is an imaginary number, on the number line normal numbers go from left to right, -1 on the left, -2 to the left of that, -1.3 goes between them...
i on the other hand goes up that scale, so i is above 0, i-1 is above -1, 2i+3 is two steps of i above 3 and so on. I don't think it's physically possible to have i-1 numbers, but in theory it's all perfectly good.

[community nerd]

You know your a geek when people change their email passwords to iguessyougotme!

[fela]

You know your a geek when you start thinking of the world in pixels;
when you can quote word for word every single xkcd comic;
when you like listening to still alive, backwards;
when you get excited at the prospect of reconfiguring a linux server;
when your linux desktop actually looks nice (believe me it's possible :D);
when you listen to music out of a home made speaker that used to be a harddisk;

etc etc.

But the clearest warning that you are a geek is when people start calling you one.

[fela]

I've stopped being able to use the mouse, well I always hesitate before using the mouse because I'm so used to using the CLI with no mouse instead. Does that make me a geek? Also I always think of what I do on the computer as text-based, I never ever think of anything graphical. I load things up with the keyboard, close things with the keyboard, in fact do everything with the keyboard. I might aswell unplug my mouse except when gaming.

[community nerd]

You knw your a geek when you have more than 19 beans.

[fela]

When you run your computer components outside of your case because you get a nice feeling just from seeing computer components, like a 'geekasm' :lol:.

[community nerd]

you know your a geek when you have your specs as a signature.

[fela]

Isn't this spam?

Shouldn't a mod delete it?

[fela]

you know your a geek when you have your specs as a signature.

And when you call yourself the community nerd.

[Kopachris]

You knw your a geek when you have more than 19 beans.
Not necessarily. Beans are equal to the amount of posts in non-Community Cafe forums (I think). You could just ask for help a bunch of times. Asking for help doesn't necessarily make you a geek. Asking for help writing your own driver like a real man (bonus points if you get the reference) makes you a geek.

[Motorhead Kaze]

Kopacris: "Asking for help writing your own driver like a real man makes you a geek."

AWESOME! Laughing because I was just mumbling that trying another distro of Linux might not be the challenge I am looking for... rather maybe I should just learn how to write my own drivers instead of bitching that I don't have one for my scanner. The two challenges are unrelated, I just have too much free time right now.

GepettoBR: Trinary? Sudo apt-get install wtf? Amazing the things I have never heard of. Sorry I was late on this: http://qaxeqaixaci.blogspot.com/

[Motorhead Kaze]

...you feel all warm and fuzzy inside when reading a thread like this.

[Kopachris]

GepettoBR: Trinary? Sudo apt-get install wtf? Amazing the things I have never heard of. Sorry I was late on this: http://qaxeqaixaci.blogspot.com/


Unary: base 1
Binary: base 2 (i.e. 10bin = 2dec)
Trinary (sometimes "ternary"): base 3 (i.e. 10tri = 3dec)
Quaternary: base 4
Senary: base 6
Octal: base 8 (i.e. 10oct = 8dec)
Nonary: base 9
Decimal: base 10
Undecimal (?): base 11
Duodecimal: base 12
Hexadecimal: base 16
Vigesimal: base 20

ad infinitum...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix

[GepettoBR]

Kopacris: "Asking for help writing your own driver like a real man makes you a geek."

AWESOME! Laughing because I was just mumbling that trying another distro of Linux might not be the challenge I am looking for... rather maybe I should just learn how to write my own drivers instead of bitching that I don't have one for my scanner. The two challenges are unrelated, I just have too much free time right now.

GepettoBR: Trinary? Sudo apt-get install wtf? Amazing the things I have never heard of. Sorry I was late on this: http://qaxeqaixaci.blogspot.com/

Any numeric base is game. :lolflag:

And thanks for the link... and I'm sorry for your kitchen sink issues.

[SlickRick]

when your linux desktop actually looks nice (believe me it's possible :D);


People often stare onto my desktop and their faces literally drop with aww, although I don't think it's anything special with regards to looks. I think making a linux desktop look good is quite easy because of the freedom you have. The real challenge would be making a windows desktop look even presentable sicne of the only customization you can do is change the wallpaper, select a different panel (from two or three choices) and add some widgets(or whatever they're called).



You know you’re a geek if your children have names obtained with a random password generator!
MEGA:lolflag:Z at that


YKYAGW you carry all of this in your laptop bag:

Laptop (obviously)
PSP (with GO!Cam)
Mini-USB adapter
USB mouse
Headphones
4 Pen drives
Bluetooth dongle
USB wifi dongle (even though I do have integrated wifi)
At least one linux Live CD
16 piece screwdriver set
PS/2 to usb adapter
Bus ticket :P

[GepettoBR]

Unary: base 1
Binary: base 2 (i.e. 10bin = 2dec)
Trinary (sometimes "ternary"): base 3 (i.e. 10tri = 3dec)
Quaternary: base 4
Senary: base 6
Octal: base 8 (i.e. 10oct = 8dec)
Nonary: base 9
Decimal: base 10
Undecimal (?): base 11
Duodecimal: base 12
Hexadecimal: base 16
Vigesimal: base 20

ad infinitum...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix

Your little chart has reminded me of a joke:

Why do geeks mistake Halloween for Christmas?
Because 31oct = 25dec

[moster]

You know you’re a geek if your children have names obtained with a random password generator!

Those geeks that have normal relationship and children are candy as* geeks :D


p.s. I guess you are one of them ;) :D

[Barrucadu]

YKYAGW you decide to teach yourself lambda calculus for fun :)

1 + 2 = (λmnfx.m f(n f x)) (λfx.fx) (λfx.f(fx))
= (λnfx.(λfx.fx) f(n f x)) (λfx.f(fx))
= (λnfx.(λx.f(n f x) x)) (λfx.f(fx))
= (λnfx.f(n f x)) (λfx.f(fx))
= (λfx.f((λfx.f(fx)) f x))
= (λfx.f((λx.f(fx)) x))
= (λfx.f(f(fx)))
= λfx.f(f(fx))
= 3

…and when you consider a language that was more or less pure lambda calculus would be fun. I'm thinking it would have two operators in addition to the maths:

> = output (> = stdout, >file, output to file 'file')
< = input (< = stdin, <file, input from file 'file')

Would such a thing be Turing-complete? I don't know. It'd be like a more stripped down version of Lisp. But very fun to try and do anything with.

[scragar]

Maybe one of you geeks knows a way to get superglue out of a pair of pants, I've only had them a couple of days, first day I wear them I get superglue on them trying to get it on a broken clip, and now I've got this crummpled up chunk of them where the superglue has really quickly solidified and stuck it all together.

While you're at it how the hell do I get it off my finger tips?
(For reference the tube split while I was opening it, I've never got it all over before :()

[yabbadabbadont]

acetone (nail polish remover)

[scragar]

acetone (nail polish remover)

I was going to try that, but I don't have any around and I'm a little unsure if it will cause any damage to the fabric.
I think I've got some turpentine around somewhere, but again, scared it will cause damage.

I'll buy some nail polish remover or something later on, try it out.

[fela]

Unary: base 1

What's the point of that? You'd only ever be able to count up to 1...

[kuamudhan]

You find yourself contributing to this thread...

[Kopachris]

YKYAGW you carry all of this in your laptop bag:

Laptop (obviously)
PSP (with GO!Cam)
Mini-USB adapter
USB mouse
Headphones
4 Pen drives
Bluetooth dongle
USB wifi dongle (even though I do have integrated wifi)
At least one linux Live CD
16 piece screwdriver set
PS/2 to usb adapter
Bus ticket :P




Laptop
A/C Adapter
B-Tooth mouse
Mousepad
A spiral notebook (I write a lot in these)
Pen, Sharpie
Mp3 player
Headphones
CDs (as needed)
SD adapters
Various cables, as needed

[jenkinbr]

What's the point of that? You'd only ever be able to count up to 1...

naw, you can count pretty high in base 1


Decimal Unary
1 1
2 11
3 111
4 1111
5 11111
6 111111
7 1111111
8 11111111
9 111111111
10 1111111111
...
100 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
...
1000 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

I rest my case.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

YKYAGW you carry all of this in your laptop bag:

Laptop (obviously)
PSP (with GO!Cam)
Mini-USB adapter
USB mouse
Headphones
4 Pen drives
Bluetooth dongle
USB wifi dongle (even though I do have integrated wifi)
At least one linux Live CD
16 piece screwdriver set
PS/2 to usb adapter
Bus ticket :P


I don't have Laptop bag... but I have a toolbox containing:

20 different screwdrivers
Soldering Iron
Tin and the orange stuff I always forget name of
Wire stripping tool
Network cable crimping tool
Bunch of spare 8P8C (aka RJ45) connectors and twisted pair cable
more tools...


You know you're a hardware geek when you have the above and those are not for work.

Among other things I have bunch of Linux LiveCDs in my briefcase. But I don't carry it around often.

naw, you can count pretty high in base 1


Decimal Unary
1 1
2 11
3 111
4 1111
5 11111
6 111111
7 1111111
8 11111111
9 111111111
10 1111111111
...
100 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
...
1000 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

I rest my case.

Digits are always less than base... meaning it will be like

0dec = 0un
1dec = 00un
3dec = 0000un (or 000un if you use nil for zero)

but in reality I doubt you will use any of decimal digit symbols, but dots or lines for that.

[hatten]

Those geeks that have normal relationship and children are candy as* geeks :D


p.s. I guess you are one of them ;) :D
Not the slightest, neither mum nor dad are geeks :(
Just think the convenience of knowing C++ when you are 5 =D

YKYAGW you order your netbook from thailand, just to make sure you get the right one. http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html They are shipped on monday =D
YKYAGW when you and the president of the company selling the netbooks have exchanged 33 e-mails with eachother

In my bag i will have, just in case:

Netbook
Batteries
battery charger
Headphones
In-ear Earphones
out-ear earphone
ipod
mp3-player
USB sticks
cables, at least 4 different
notebook
pen
screwdriver
SD>USB adapter
CD's

Hmm, either i have to get a big bag or less things...

[Barrucadu]

What's the point of that? You'd only ever be able to count up to 1...

Tally marks are a good example of unary :)

Well, other than crossing through four lines to make the number five. That's not a key feature of unary per se.

[bezoar]

I was going to try that, but I don't have any around and I'm a little unsure if it will cause any damage to the fabric.
I think I've got some turpentine around somewhere, but again, scared it will cause damage.

I'll buy some nail polish remover or something later on, try it out.

You have a glom of super glue in your new pants and you are worried about hurting the fabric with nail polish remover? Can anything, really, now hurt them now? I would just figure, after the super glue incident, that they were working in the yard pants. If the acetone works, then all the better. :confused: but happy.

[Maheriano]

...you're building a new workbench in your basement with your dad and he keeps telling you that you need it at waist height for using power tools but you insist you need it at chest height for working on computers.

I built a corner work desk about 10 feet long with 6 accessible outlets and 2 hanging lights all for working on computers! And of course it's all at chest height for ease of use!

[lisati]

Not the slightest, neither mum nor dad are geeks :(
Just think the convenience of knowing C++ when you are 5 =D

YKYAGW you order your netbook from thailand, just to make sure you get the right one. http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html They are shipped on monday =D
YKYAGW when you and the president of the company selling the netbooks have exchanged 33 e-mails with eachother

In my bag i will have, just in case:

Netbook
Batteries
battery charger
Headphones
In-ear Earphones
out-ear earphone
ipod
mp3-player
USB sticks
cables, at least 4 different
notebook
pen
screwdriver
SD>USB adapter
CD's

Hmm, either i have to get a big bag or less things...

Included in the trinkets in my laptop bag are:

A cable & adapter for hooking up to the phone line for dial-up even though I've never used it with Ubuntu
1xA/V cable, 3.5mm sterero plug to 2xfemale RCA connectors
1xstereo RCA-RCA a/v able
a surge protector
1 s-video cable
a CD with (mostly) b&w Christian clipart
1xUbuntu Live CD
1xKubuntu 64-bit Live CD
1xHome grown Vista recovery DVD (made with preinstalled software)
3 pens
2xflash drives
Paperwork from when I had some repairs done to the keyboard

I suppose that I should also put the American-NZ adapter plug that I bought for a trip to Samoa that never happened.

[GepettoBR]

Ykyagw you have a customized Bash prompt.

Ykyagw you entertain yourself by repeatedly typing echo "$(fortune) In bed." | cowsay into your Terminal.

Exhibit A:
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=128846&stc=1&d=1253145611

[jrusso2]

When you spend your Saturday night compiling in Gentoo or updating Arch Linux instead of going out and having fun or dating.

[Kopachris]

When you spend your Saturday night compiling in Gentoo or updating Arch Linux instead of going out and having fun or dating.
Wait, compiling Gentoo and updating Arch isn't fun? :confused:

[Vrekk]

When you spend your Saturday night compiling in Gentoo or updating Arch Linux instead of going out and having fun or dating.

Updating Arch and GENTOO is fun! It makes me look a lot smarted then I really am when I watch code compile!

[modmadmike]

Updating Arch and GENTOO is fun! It makes me look a lot smarted then I really am when I watch code compile!

i did a verbose cp of the main directories under / to my portable HDD in school (with my laptop) from tty2 and everyone thought i was hacking cause of the text flying by lol

[modmadmike]

Ykyagw you have a customized Bash prompt.

Ykyagw you entertain yourself by repeatedly typing echo "$(fortune) In bed." | cowsay into your Terminal.

Exhibit A:
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=128846&stc=1&d=1253145611

YKYAGW you use physical ttys rather than xterminals.

$ echo "$(fortune) In bed." | cowsay
_________________________________________
/ There is no hunting like the hunting of \
| man, and those who have hunted armed |
| men long enough and liked it, never |
| care for anything else thereafter. |
| |
\ -- Ernest Hemingway In bed. /
-----------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||





Laptop case:

Ti-84SE graphing calculator
EeePC 901 with ubuntu Karmic Alpha 4
Toshiba U305-S5077 with ubuntu 9.04
Sharp Zarus 5600(poodle) with open zarus
Wacom Bambo Tablet
4GB flash drive
16gb miicroSDHC with reader
WD 320GB Pasport
3 ring binder
Pens
LG Versa
Verizon USB727

[jkjensen]

You know your a geek when your best friend resides at the address of:
http://ubuntuforums.org

Especially if under his name you see the word... "Moderator" :P

[hatten]

My bash prompt pwns yours!
╔═[hatten@tukumon]═[07:22:13 Thu Sep 17]═[~]
╚═══[$]>

just tell me if you want the PS1

[GepettoBR]

My bash prompt pwns yours!
╔═[hatten@tukumon]═[07:22:13 Thu Sep 17]═[~]
╚═══[$]>

just tell me if you want the PS1

Cool. I'd like to see it. But does your prompt look at you in disbelief when you screw up a command?
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=128875&stc=1&d=1253178874

I've also aliased 'echo "$(fortune) In bed." | cowsay' to 'iamcow'. :)

[scragar]

Cool. I'd like to see it. But does your prompt look at you in disbelief when you screw up a command?
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=128875&stc=1&d=1253178874

I've also aliased 'echo "$(fortune) In bed." | cowsay' to 'iamcow'. :)

Hey, I like that, how's that work?

[moster]

Hey, I like that, how's that work?

If you must ask, you are not geek enough. So it is not for you :D

[KIAaze]

My bash prompt pwns yours!
╔═[hatten@tukumon]═[07:22:13 Thu Sep 17]═[~]
╚═══[$]>

just tell me if you want the PS1
I want it!
But I want the one from GepettoBR even more. :)
I suppose it somehow uses "$?".

Here's what I once did: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=563687

My current prompt is pretty standard:
PS1="\[\e[0;1;33;41m\][\#][\w]\$ \[\e[m\] "

Looks like this with yellow writing on red background (mostly added to make the prompts more visible, not necessarily beautiful):
[1][~]$ echo hello
hello
[2][~]$ echo bye
bye
[3][~]$

"\#" shows the command number. Often goes into the hundreds. ^^

YKYAGW you post here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=679762 ?

edit:
My current command checking method:
alias checkcmd='totalnotify.sh "SUCCESS" || totalnotify.sh "FAILURE" '
Usage:
command && checkcmd

Updated totalnotify.sh script:
#!/bin/bash
# different notifying methods

EMAIL="USER@FOOBAR"

say_func()
{
if which festival &> /dev/null; then
echo $* | festival --tts
fi
}

messagebox_func()
{
if which zenity &> /dev/null; then
zenity --info --text="$*"
fi
}

cowsay_func()
{
if which cowsay &> /dev/null; then
echo "$*" | cowsay
fi
}

notify_knotify_func()
{
if which knotify &> /dev/null; then
dcop knotify default notify eventname appname "$*" '' '' 2 0
fi
}

notify_zenity_func()
{
if which zenity &> /dev/null; then
zenity --notification --text "$*"
fi
}

notify_notifysend_func()
{
if which notify-send &> /dev/null; then
notify-send "$*"
fi
}

mailme_func()
{
if which mail &> /dev/null; then
echo "$@" | mail -s "$1" $EMAIL
fi
}

# choose which methods you prefer here
echo "$*"
#say_func "$*" &
#messagebox_func "$*" &
#cowsay_func "$*" &
#notify_knotify_func "$*" &
#notify_zenity_func "$*" &
notify_notifysend_func "$*" &
#mailme_func "$*" &

[jms1989]

That's pretty good, I mostly leave mine as the default but I customize it with some color and a cleared prompt that gives me my computers uptime, as well as some alias for ssh connections so if I type "compaq" it logs me into my server. :)

I don't do anything special to it but I have my scroll lock key bound to gnome-terminal so its a keystroke away. :P

[dsevastakis]

when you get mad at someone you say "sudo kill 'target'"

[GepettoBR]

Hey, I like that, how's that work?

I'll give you the relevant snippet of my PS1 and you can have fun figuring it out yourself. Not that it's that hard once you've seen how it's done.

\`if [ \$? = 0 ]; then echo \[\e[33m\]^_^\[\e[0m\]; else echo \[\e[31m\]O_O\[\e[0m\]; fi\`

If you use just that as your PS1 your prompt will be just the ^_^ or O_O depending on your previous command.


EDIT: @KIAaze: My PS1 is a bit of a mess since I used both \e and tput to color it (this is because I changed it around on several occasions and am a notoriously sloppy code maintainer) so you'll probably want to give it a revision before adapting it to your own needs:
PS1="\n\[$(tput setaf 2)\][\d, \t]\n\[$(tput setaf 6)\][\u@\h]\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[$(tput setaf 4)\][\w]\[$(tput sgr 0)\]\n\`if [ \$? = 0 ]; then echo \[\e[33m\]^_^\[\e[0m\]; else echo \[\e[31m\]O_O\[\e[0m\]; fi\` \[$(tput setaf 5)\](\#)\[$(tput sgr0)\] \$ "

[scragar]

/me facepalms

I had a very similar example working already, but I couldn't get it to work exactly like your code, so I gave up. Looks like that was a mistake.

[KIAaze]

Hey, I like that, how's that work?
For the face prompt telling you if you failed:
PS1='\[\e[0;1;33;41m\][`_ret=$?; if test $_ret -ne 0; then echo "0_0->ret=$_ret"; set ?=$_ret; unset _ret; else echo "^_^"; fi`][\#][\w]\$ \[\e[m\] '

Just add it to your ~/.bashrc
The part in bold is the essential part.
cf also here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3746/whats-in-your-bashrc

For the "iamcow" command, I would guess something like this:
alias iamcow='fortune | cowsay'
"cowsay" itself is available in the official repositories.

But I haven't been able to reproduce hatten's prompt yet.
I found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4403915
But it didn't work for me. Maybe some character encoding problem.
Bashstyle-NG (http://www.nanolx.org/newsnanolx/10-bashstyle-ng) also didn't help, altough it seems pretty interesting.

YKYAGW you write a program and/or build a spreadsheet table to find the cheapest travel routes.
(on a side note: the easyjet website is horrible to find indirect flights :/ )

edit: oops, I posted a little bit late. ^^

[GepettoBR]

For the face prompt telling you if you failed:
\[\e[0;1;33;41m\][`_ret=$?; if test $_ret -ne 0; then echo "0_0->ret=$_ret"; set ?=$_ret; unset _ret; else echo "^_^"; fi`][\#][\w]\$ \[\e[m\]

Just add it to your ~/.bashrc
The part in bold is the essential part.
cf also here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3746/whats-in-your-bashrc

For the "iamcow" command, I would guess something like this:
alias iamcow='fortune | cowsay'
"cowsay" itself is available in the official repositories.

But I haven't been able to reproduce hatten's prompt yet.
I found this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4403915
But it didn't work for me. Maybe some character encoding problem.
Bashstyle-NG (http://www.nanolx.org/newsnanolx/10-bashstyle-ng) also didn't help, altough it seems pretty interesting.

YKYAGW you write a program and/or build a spreadsheet table to find the cheapest travel routes.
(on a side note: the easyjet website is horrible to find indirect flights :/ )

edit: oops, I posted a little bit late. ^^

Hmm, that's a different solution from mine...

But the cowsay alias you used lacks the all-important "In bed." and is thus not so cool. You want toalias iamcow='echo "$(fortune) In bed." | cowsay'for full comedic impact.

For bypassing character coding issues, you can use \xxx where xxx is the Unicode number of the character you want to input. That should fix whatever problem you're having.

[Maheriano]

...these are your girlfriend's best qualities:

- she has the first 25 Spiderman comics
- she has the first Superman comic
- she's a huge Star Trek nerd

[KIAaze]

For bypassing character coding issues, you can use \xxx where xxx is the Unicode number of the character you want to input. That should fix whatever problem you're having.

Yes, but I haven't been able to get the box characters so far. :(
Things like echo -e "\042" work, but the box characters seem to require more than 3 characters in octal.
ex: "┌" seems to be 250C in hex (I used this (http://www.zegelin.com/computers_files/ref/ACSII.htm) to convert), which gives me 22414 in oct!
Unicode is 9484 and \xxx seems to use octal instead of unicode.

Midnight commander works in the terminal, so there must be some kind of way to display box characters.

edit:
octal and hex are ok apparently:
[^_^][13][~]$ echo -e "\0141"
a
[^_^][14][~]$ echo -e "\x61"
a

So what's the unicode prefix?

[Barrucadu]

edit:
octal and hex are ok apparently:
[^_^][13][~]$ echo -e "\0141"
a
[^_^][14][~]$ echo -e "\x61"
a

So what's the unicode prefix?

Trial and error is your friend ;)

It seems to be "\u".

[Renée Jade]

You confuse people by referring to the first one as the "zeroth one".

It's 2:30am and your up reading LINUX forums and shell scripting howtos.

You're secretly excited when your computer malfunctions coz it gives you an excuse to spend hours reading forms and howtos :P

Your comments are met by blank stares from non-computer people at least five times a day... on the days that you actually leave your room.


Haha. I love this thread. I'm only a new geek (well, always been a maths geek, discovered computers this year :D), but I feel like I've discovered what I was born to be.

[GepettoBR]

You confuse people by referring to the first one as the "zeroth one".
We're right, they're wrong. And confused.
Your comments are met by blank stares from non-computer people at least five times a day... on the days that you actually leave your room.
I got the most indescribable look today from the girl sitting behind me while I was playing with my prophetic cow terminal in Administrative Law class. I think she doesn't believe what she saw.

[Renée Jade]

LOL. I can hardly believe what I saw. Unfortunately I can't dumbfound people quite so stylishly yet. Although being a girl who does physics, maths and comp.sci. and runs LINUX is enough to cause arithmetic errors in most people's brains :P... Then they want to ask me about it. Shortly after that they usually walk off. Haha.

[Barrucadu]

Haha. I love this thread. I'm only a new geek (well, always been a maths geek, discovered computers this year :D), but I feel like I've discovered what I was born to be.

What a coincidence. I'm a computer geek who's moving into the maths geek area.

edit:

Although being a girl who does physics, maths and comp.sci. and runs LINUX is enough to cause arithmetic errors in most people's brains :P

Damn, Australia is too far away :p

[Renée Jade]

What a coincidence. I'm a computer geek who's moving into the maths geek area.

Mathematics ftw! I love programming with an unholy passion - but it will always be mathematics' little bro to me...

[Maheriano]

if canReadThis(user)
{
user == geek;
}
else
{
this.canReadThis(user);
}

[Barrucadu]

if canReadThis(user)
{
user == geek;
}
else
{
this.canReadThis(user);
}

I can't quite figure out what the else condition is meant to do.

[Renée Jade]

I'm pretty sure it does nothing.

if canReadThis(user)
{
user == geek; //invalid expression
}
else
{
false;
}

?

I don't get it.

Maybe

boolean isGeek(user)
{
if canReadThis(user)
{
printf("GEEK! :D \n");
return true;
}

printf("Not geek :( \n");
return false;
}

would work better :P

[modmadmike]

Hmm, that's a different solution from mine...

But the cowsay alias you used lacks the all-important "In bed." and is thus not so cool. You want toalias iamcow='echo "$(fortune) In bed." | cowsay'for full comedic impact.

For bypassing character coding issues, you can use \xxx where xxx is the Unicode number of the character you want to input. That should fix whatever problem you're having.

Thu Sep 17 17:18:52 modmadmike@modmadmike-server:/home/modmadmike:~$ iamcow
___________________________________
/ "... an experienced, industrious, \
| ambitious, and often quite often |
| picturesque liar." |
| |
\ -- Mark Twain In bed. /
-----------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
Thu Sep 17 17:19:05 modmadmike@modmadmike-server:/home/modmadmike:~$

[ingramproductions]

ls -A /home/single/women

[Barrucadu]

Maybe

boolean isGeek(user)
{
if canReadThis(user)
{
printf("GEEK! :D \n");
return true;
}

printf("Not geek :( \n");
return false;
}

would work better :P

Or even:

(define (geek? user)
(if (can-read-this? user)
#t
#f))

(if (geek? user)
(display "Geek.")
(display "Not geek."))

[jms1989]

haha, I wish I can run that on my life program. :P

YKYAGW you type out your smilies instead of clicking a icon.

[GepettoBR]

haha, I wish I can run that on my life program. :P

YKYAGW you type out your smilies instead of clicking a icon.

That's geeky? Wow, I've been a geek longer than I thought.

[Vrekk]

YKYAGW you type out your smilies instead of clicking a icon.

I dont click on anything. CLI baby

/ Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to \
| do a logical right shift? A: 33. 1 to |
| hold the bits and 32 to push the |
\ register. /
---------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||

[Thu Sep 17, 17:07:13]
[brett@brett-netbook][~]
^_^ (10) $

BTW I copied you

[GepettoBR]

I dont click on anything. CLI baby

/ Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to \
| do a logical right shift? A: 33. 1 to |
| hold the bits and 32 to push the |
\ register. /
---------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||

[Thu Sep 17, 17:07:13]
[brett@brett-netbook][~]
^_^ (10) $

BTW I copied you

I see you did. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. :lolflag:

[jms1989]

That's geeky? Wow, I've been a geek longer than I thought.

I think it's geeky since most people just go for the things to click. They don't think they can type a semicolon and a close parenthesis make a smiley.

[scragar]

I think it's geeky since most people just go for the things to click. They don't think they can type a semicolon and a close parenthesis make a smiley.

There is only one smiley. :p

[KIAaze]

Trial and error is your friend ;)

It seems to be "\u".
Well, trial and error has only given me "errors" so far:

[1][~]$ echo -e "\x61"
a
[2][~]$ echo -e "\u61"
\u61
[3][~]$ echo -e "\u97"
\u97
[4][~]$ echo -e "\u97"
\u97
[5][~]$ echo -e "\u9484"
\u9484
[6][~]$ echo -e "\u+9484"
\u+9484
[7][~]$ echo -e "\u+97"
\u+97


It really seems to be some kind of encoding support issue. The bashrc I mentioned earlier (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4403915) works under Kubuntu 9.04/KDE4 now:

┌─(kiaaze@kiaaze-desktop Fri, 18 Sep 09)─────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───(/home/kiaaze)─┐
└─(03:51 $)─> echo $PS1
\[\033[0;38;5;12m\]┌─(\[\033[0;38;5;130m\]\u@\h $(date "+%a, %d %b %y")\[\033[0;38;5;12m\])─${fill}─(\[\033[0;38;5;130m\]$newPWD\[\033[0;38;5;12m\])─┐\n\[\033[0;38;5;12m\]└─(\[\033[0;38;5;130m\]$(date "+%H:%M") $\[\033[0;38;5;12m\])─>\[\033[0;38;5;7m\]
┌─(kiaaze@kiaaze-desktop Fri, 18 Sep 09)─────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───(/home/kiaaze)─┐
└─(03:51 $)─> echo ┌
┌
┌─(kiaaze@kiaaze-desktop Fri, 18 Sep 09)─────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───(/home/kiaaze)─┐
└─(03:52 $)─>

I was on another PC with OpenSUSE 10.3/KDE3 before.

Or even:

(define (geek? user)
(if (can-read-this? user)
#t
#f))

(if (geek? user)
(display "Geek.")
(display "Not geek."))
In what language is this?

LOL. I can hardly believe what I saw. Unfortunately I can't dumbfound people quite so stylishly yet. Although being a girl who does physics, maths and comp.sci. and runs LINUX is enough to cause arithmetic errors in most people's brains :P... Then they want to ask me about it. Shortly after that they usually walk off. Haha.
You know you are a geek when this sounds like a perfect girlfriend! :)
Must look into opportunities in Australia.:lolflag:

[cmptch]

LOL. I can hardly believe what I saw. Unfortunately I can't dumbfound people quite so stylishly yet. Although being a girl who does physics, maths and comp.sci. and runs LINUX is enough to cause arithmetic errors in most people's brains :P... Then they want to ask me about it. Shortly after that they usually walk off. Haha.

/sbin/shutdown -t 30 -r -F Holy Smokes!

Yeah, you're probably a Geek if you understood that.

HPB

[scragar]

/sbin/shutdown -t 30 -r -F Holy Smokes!

Yeah, you're probably a Geek if you understood that.

HPB

shutdown in 30 seconds, then reboot, forcing a file system check on reboot and print the message "Holy Smokes!"

How does that make anyone a geek? Anyone with basic common sense can understand those flags.

[KIAaze]

I added a bit more fun to cowsay. :)
random_cow()
{
files=(/usr/share/cowsay/cows/*)
printf "%s\n" "${files[RANDOM % ${#files}]}"
}

alias iamcow='fortune | cowsay'
alias iamsurprise='fortune | cowsay -f $(random_cow)'


YKYAGW you have at least one GPG key.
And:
VnMgbGJoIHBuYSBlcm5xIGd1dmYsIGxiaCBuZXIgbiB0cnJ4Lg o=

[scragar]

YKYAGW you have at least one GPG key.
And:
VnMgbGJoIHBuYSBlcm5xIGd1dmYsIGxiaCBuZXIgbiB0cnJ4Lg o=
I have 4, and WTH is that last part, I assumed base64, but it turns out jibberish.

[Renée Jade]

In what language is this?


You know you are a geek when this sounds like a perfect girlfriend! :)
Must look into opportunities in Australia.:lolflag:


Yeah, what is that language? I'm having a wild guess at scheme or something else functional?

[hatten]

Just because you asked so nicely, here's my prompt
export PS1='\[\033[0;32m\]╔═[\[\033[0m\033[0;36m\]\u\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]@\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]\[\033[0;36m\]\h\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]]═[\[\033[0m\]\t \d\[\033[0;32m\]]═[\[\033[0m\]\w\[\033[0;32m\]]\n\[\033[0;32m\]╚═══[\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]\$\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]]>\[\033[0m\] 'Colored in teal and green.
Too bad I didn't write all of it from scratch =P

YKYAGW you spend your lessons in school programming on your calculator

[scragar]

YKYAGW you spend your lessons in school programming on your calculator

I wrote a simple two player game of backjack :p

Except my calc didn't have array support or anything, so there was no deck, so all the cards were random(so people occasionally got 6 ace of hearts in a row :p).

[Barrucadu]

Yes, scheme.

[KIAaze]

Just because you asked so nicely, here's my prompt
export PS1='\[\033[0;32m\]╔═[\[\033[0m\033[0;36m\]\u\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]@\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]\[\033[0;36m\]\h\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]]═[\[\033[0m\]\t \d\[\033[0;32m\]]═[\[\033[0m\]\w\[\033[0;32m\]]\n\[\033[0;32m\]╚═══[\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]\$\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]]>\[\033[0m\] 'Colored in teal and green.
Too bad I didn't write all of it from scratch =P


Thanks! :D

I also solved my encoding problem. :)
YKYAG when you spend hours trying to find out obscure commands to do something, while there is a perfectly easy way to do it through the GUI.:lolflag:

"Settings->Encoding->utf8"
"Settings->Save as default"
Works for konsole+yakuake.
Was not necessary for xterm by the way.
I also had to reduce the filling length by 1 for some reason (for the other prompt).

Only CLI solution I found:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 konsole

KDE4 makes all this obsolete.

YKYAGW you spend your lessons in school programming on your calculator
Ah yes, I used to do that. First TI-82, then TI-89. :)
Some of my programs have been lost forever, others backed up in some unknown location.
I'll have to upload them on the net some day. Unfortunately, I never got to create programs in assembly language. Got the link cable too late.

edit: I encountered the encoding issue again, this time under Kubuntu after separating the contents of my .bashrc between .bashrc and .bash_profile (+.bash_prompt+.bash_aliases).
This time it was caused by an "export LANG=C" in ".bash_profile", just in case somebody else has the same problem. ;)

[fela]

naw, you can count pretty high in base 1


Decimal Unary
1 1
2 11
3 111
4 1111
5 11111
6 111111
7 1111111
8 11111111
9 111111111
10 1111111111
...
100 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
...
1000 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

I rest my case.

How could that be. The way I see it, each column is the last column times the base. Ie, 10 in base 10 is the number 10 (base 10 as that's how we speak), because the last column is 1 (units), so the second column is 1x10, which is 10. Then if you have 100, that's 10 times 10, which is 100.

So in base 1, wouldn't it always be multiplying itself by 1 for each column, therefore never getting past the number 1?

EDIT: I'm stupid.

[GepettoBR]

How could that be. The way I see it, each column is the last column times the base. Ie, 10 in base 10 is the number 10 (base 10 as that's how we speak), because the last column is 1 (units), so the second column is 1x10, which is 10. Then if you have 100, that's 10 times 10, which is 100.

So in base 1, wouldn't it always be multiplying itself by 1 for each column, therefore never getting past the number 1?

EDIT: I'm stupid.

That's a trick for easily converting any number in any base to base ten. the actual reasoning is this: you add a new number to the second row when you've reached {base} numbers in the first row. You add a number to the first row, and so on and so forth - just think of it like opening a new slot because you ran out of unique digits, because really that's what it is.

[Renée Jade]

That's a trick for easily converting any number in any base to base ten. the actual reasoning is this: you add a new number to the second row when you've reached {base} numbers in the first row. You add a number to the first row, and so on and so forth - just think of it like opening a new slot because you ran out of unique digits, because really that's what it is.

Learn to read hex and then you'll really get it.

You know you're a geek when you DON'T know assembly, yet you spend Friday afternoon deciphering compiler output so as to better understand how the call stack works :P