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

[Junkieman]

Rockbox isn't Linux, it's a totally separate project. I think it's µClinux you're thinking of. However, I do have Rockbox on my Sansa.

Correct, it shares some code with iPodLinux (http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodLinux). Very much geek-friendly.

ykyagw...:28:79:6b:79:61:67:77:29:20:79:6f:75:20:6 b:6e:65:77:20:68:6f:77:20:74:6f:20:63:6f:6e:76:65: 72:74:20:74:68:69:73:20:74:65:78:74:20:74:68:65:20 :6d:6f:6d:65:6e:74:20:79:6f:75:20:73:61:77:20:69:7 4:21

[Marlonsm]

yktagw you actually want to understand all this stuff ;)

yktagw you actually do understand all this stuff ;)

[Vrekk]

YKYAGW... you get an invite for google wave and you drop what your doing (well i set down the hdd) on the spot to test it out.

[Maheriano]

YKYAGW... you get an invite for google wave and you drop what your doing (well i set down the hdd) on the spot to test it out.

...when you stop what you're doing to Google Google Wave and find out what it is.

[scragar]

YKYAGW... you get an invite for google wave and you drop what your doing (well i set down the hdd) on the spot to test it out.Share?

YKYAGW your first reaction after hearing about someone having an invite is to request an invite yourself. :p

[Kopachris]

ykyagw...:28:79:6b:79:61:67:77:29:20:79:6f:75:20:6 b:6e:65:77:20:68:6f:77:20:74:6f:20:63:6f:6e:76:65: 72:74:20:74:68:69:73:20:74:65:78:74:20:74:68:65:20 :6d:6f:6d:65:6e:74:20:79:6f:75:20:73:61:77:20:69:7 4:21
Do we really have to go through this again? BTW, you put "ykyagw" twice—once outside the code and once within.

[Vrekk]

Share?

YKYAGW your first reaction after hearing about someone having an invite is to request an invite yourself. :p

Lol Pm me your email address and Ill send a copy your way.

I still have 10 left if any of my fellow geeks want one.

[amingv]

Lol Pm me your email address and Ill send a copy your way.

I still have 10 left if any of my fellow geeks want one.

Can I have one?

[Vrekk]

Can I have one?
Yep just Pm me an email address. I still have some open

Btw it takes a while for google to get off there bums and send the invites and all I can do is "nominate" you or anyone else.

[Betialai]

You confuse the staff in Maplin (or whatever electronics/computer shops your country has)

Been there, done that. Not on purpose. They just didn't understand wth I was asking and resolved to tell me "That doesn't exist".

[Barrucadu]

I've also got a few invites (7 I think) left. PM me if you want any :P

[skotos]

you survive the Karmic upgrade!

EHEHEHEHEHEH

:lolflag:

[sodra]

You know your a geek when you know your name in Binary

01010011 01101111 01100100 01110010 01100001

[von Stalhein]

you survive the Karmic upgrade!

EHEHEHEHEHEH

:lolflag:

or you don't, and have spent the last 3 days trying to fix an issue with UUIDs to get to a normal boot rather than the recovery one.

hehehehehe Laughing on the outside, learning on the inside.

[end3rkid]

You know you're a geek when you are reading this thread.

[stderr]

You know you're a geek when you spend >= 5 minutes thinking of a witty line for "You know you're a geek when..."

4 minutes 59 seconds, I guess I'm clear...

[Vrekk]

YKYAGW you will do almost anything for a internet access
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/moving.png

[kyuubi777]

you like to think of the CPU/ram/swap/net/heat/spaces widgets at the top of the screen as if they are boost pressure/ oil/ etc. guages in a well tuned car

and you have boot races w/ your friends

[kyuubi777]

oh, and when CPU usage = 100% you refer to it as "redlining your processor"

[karimruan]

You know your a geek when you get ideas from this thread...

IOW, boot races.

[el_guazu]

Good one. ^^
Well, then here's another layout:
xyzt^
abcde
fghij
klmno
pqrsu
vw ≈

:p

If i am not wrong... is the layout for TI-89, titanium in my case, scientific calculator...


YKYAGW... Someone calls to the house looking for someone else, and you answer Error 404, and hung up...

[kyuubi777]

you do not address your family with tech issues unless they use the proper words pertaining to the hardware / software at hand

[yurx cherio]

When you are trying to use your mouse to kick a fly off your screen or to drag and drop a cup of coffee.

[Zoot7]

You know you're a geek when you gave your whole day fiddling with C code and are still thinking of ways to optimize it.

(Exactly what I did today and what I'm doing now)

[twright]

You know your a geek when you consider the ternary operator small (or phatic even) talk

[karimruan]

You know your a geek when you believe that network topologies can be used as a way to describe the personalities of your friends.

YKYAG when you try very hard to come up with a witty answer to this post, and post even when you have something as bad as the above!

[scragar]

Lol Pm me your email address and Ill send a copy your way.

I still have 10 left if any of my fellow geeks want one.

It turned up this morning, thanks.

[skotos]

you start swapping to the hdd...

[disorientedminds]

you ssh into your pc from across the country to turn the music up as loud as you can for an alarm clock for your wife.

you have an idea and make multiple aliases in chat to get a 2nd or 3rd opinion.

[mpcadel]

I swear the god, I always and some times in a stupid manner, try to find Ctrl+F whenever I am reading a book, to look for a word I want.
Me is a geek!

[fela]

oh, and when CPU usage = 100% you refer to it as "redlining your processor"

I refer to it as 'wasting cpu time'.

As in, Oi, stop running BOINC you're wasting my time! (I ommit the 'cpu').

[fela]

you ssh into your pc from across the country to turn the music up as loud as you can for an alarm clock for your wife.

Funnily enough, I'm as of now looking up what potential security issues there might be with opening up port 21 (SSH port) to the outside world. If you have really done this, can you tell me if you had to beef up the security or whatever? thanks!

you start swapping to the hdd...

and how is not having much memory being a geek? You can be a geek with 4GB (or more) of RAM, and you can be a geek with 8 meg (bonus points if you got ubuntu running on that though!).

[twright]

Funnily enough, I'm as of now looking up what potential security issues there might be with opening up port 21 (SSH port) to the outside world. If you have really done this, can you tell me if you had to beef up the security or whatever? thanks!

Well the S in SSH does stand for secure...

SSH is already designed to be secure but you could add an extra layer of protection by installing denyhosts (apt:deny-hosts) and set up a filewall (via ufw).

You know you are a geek when you read that statement and reply with 10 completely different and complex reasons why I am wrong...

[talsemgeest]

Funnily enough, I'm as of now looking up what potential security issues there might be with opening up port 21 (SSH port) to the outside world. If you have really done this, can you tell me if you had to beef up the security or whatever? thanks!
Hmm, I thought 21 was FTP, and 22 was SSH? But as for exposing them, make sure you have a strong password, login as root disabled, and preferably set SSH to use a non-standard port, something over 1000.

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you decide to write a Python script to convert an iTunes xml playlist to m3u (for migration purposes—iTunes to VLC or Rythmbox or w/e) instead of just writing down the contents of your playlists and reconstructing them by hand.

Just a little side note: my playlists are all rather short and wouldn't be too difficult to reconstruct by hand, but I'd really like to make a script that can convert an iTunes playlist to m3u because there aren't any that work very well. In any case, the one that I tried uses absolute paths that won't be helpful for migrating to my Linux box—I need to be able to set it to use one of several common music folder organization schemes (e.g. I use Artist/Album).

[GepettoBR]

ykyagw your wife doesn't tell you she's pregnant: she tells you she's compiling a baby from source.

[scragar]

ykyagw your wife doesn't tell you she's pregnant: she tells you she's compiling a baby from source.

9 months to compile it? That's either some badly written code or a very slow machine.

[amingv]

9 months to compile it? That's either some badly written code or a very slow machine.

Oh no, it's actually compiled within some hours.
The rest is just debugging and patching all the way from alpha, beta and RC.

[GepettoBR]

9 months to compile it? That's either some badly written code or a very slow machine.

DNA computing is still on the horizontal part of the development curve.

[Dullstar]

Actually, it's a lot of code to compile as well. Half the time is spent writing it... 25 hours a day, 8 days a week! :lolflag::lolflag::lolflag::lolflag::lolflag::lolf lag::lolflag::lolflag:No free time for coders! MWA HA HA HA HA!

[KIAaze]

9 months to compile it? That's either some badly written code or a very slow machine.

I think the majority of it is the development part.
And 9 months of developments with a team of only 2 for such a complex project (self-learning AI that passes the Turing test!, self-healing capabilities, eventually capable of writing programs in other languages, ...) is pretty good IMO.

The compiling of the final version can happen suddenly and shouldn't last too long. Usually painful for one of the members of the development team.

(Or is it a final version? Since the binary can learn afterwards, is the subsequent teaching part of the development?)

[KIAaze]

First (potentially controversial) draft of the 4 essential freedoms (cf GPL) for geek babies:
(Applies to the binary itself, not its creators or users)


The freedom to do whatever you want, for any purpose, as long as this does not prevent other binaries from exercising their freedoms. (freedom 0)
The freedom to study how you work, and change yourself to make you do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the DNA code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to procreate so your source code lives on after you stop running. (freedom 2).
The freedom to improve yourself, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the DNA code is a precondition for this.

Disclaimer: This does not reflect my positions on cloning, genetics, transhumanism, etc, which are quite more complicated subjects. ;)

[Biochem]

First (potentially controversial) draft of the 4 essential freedoms (cf GPL) for geek babies:
(Applies to the binary itself, not its creators or users)

Disclaimer: This does not reflect my positions on cloning, genetics, transhumanism, etc, which are quite more complicated subjects. ;)

Well technically it is impossible to modify the geek babies DNA and the primary developers rarely give aways their product to others without at least some for or EULA. Therefor geek babies are always closed-source project.

[GepettoBR]

Well technically it is impossible to modify the geek babies DNA and the primary developers rarely give aways their product to others without at least some for or EULA. Therefor geek babies are always closed-source project.

You can publish the baby's genome for other people to make copies. That would make it open-source. The only real catch is that most geek-baby parents won't ever distribute the original binary, so it's a source-only distribution.

[kyuubi777]

You can publish the baby's genome for other people to make copies. That would make it open-source. The only real catch is that most geek-baby parents won't ever distribute the original binary, so it's a source-only distribution.

that was great!!

and, when you go through the cereal isle and spot a box that says fiber one on it but immediately think it says Ubuntu One.. and then start to ponder why it's Trix and not Tux... I abhor cereal and I'd definitely buy Tux cereal :D

[Seishuku]

Ykyagw your boyfriend asks if you'll ever try to change him, and you reply "No, boyfriends are closed source".

(true story)

[Genius2999]

you can count to 1023 on your fingers (useful if you've ever played french horn in an orchestra...)

you sit for hours watching the terminal as software compiles

you start conversations with 'ping' (or 220)

you confuse the staff in maplin (or whatever electronics/computer shops your country has)


That made me laugh...... LOL!

You know your a geek, when you try to close a thread on the forum with
killall -s SIGKILL thread

[fela]

Hmm, I thought 21 was FTP, and 22 was SSH? But as for exposing them, make sure you have a strong password, login as root disabled, and preferably set SSH to use a non-standard port, something over 1000.

Yes, 22 is the SSH default, 21 is FTP you're right. I've set SSH to use port 2222 (to get round the most basic script kiddies anyway). I'm gonna set a really strong password now.

[fela]

YKYAGW you confused the staff at the Apple store when you were 9 years old (I did!).

[Genius2999]

You know your a geek when you

sudo apt-get install sandwich

:')

[scragar]

Yes, 22 is the SSH default, 21 is FTP you're right. I've set SSH to use port 2222 (to get round the most basic script kiddies anyway). I'm gonna set a really strong password now.

There's a general rule for strong passwords, make up something that's similar, but not the same, tell it to a friend, then see if they can remember it. If they can't recall it the password is complex enough, if they remember half of it then it's a good start, and if they remember the whole thing you should put your bank details in a text file in the home folder and pm me your IP. (joking) :p

[talsemgeest]

Yes, 22 is the SSH default, 21 is FTP you're right. I've set SSH to use port 2222 (to get round the most basic script kiddies anyway). I'm gonna set a really strong password now.
I have done a similar thing, changing to 22334, and my very strong password. It is > 25 characters, no dictionary words, upper and lowercase, numbers and special charcters.

YKYAGW you are proud of your password.

[Barrucadu]

YKYAGW you and one (or more) of your friends always begin a conversation with the exchange “SYN” “SYNACK” and “ACK”.

[EvilPhoenix]

You know you're a geek when you work with both Windows and Linux, you help out on Ubuntu Forums with supporting people, and you help out on a Windows support forum.

Oh, and you REALLY know you're a geek when you start saying "ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US".

[simz]

All your base are belong to us!

Also, YKYAGW you feel the need to correct YKYAGW rules.

[kyuubi777]

you complain about the fact that the hardware to support keyboard is inherently too big and you wish you could make your laptop smaller and just complete everything speech based

[tarps87]

ykyagw your wife doesn't tell you she's pregnant: she tells you she's compiling a baby from source.

You can publish the baby's genome for other people to make copies. That would make it open-source. The only real catch is that most geek-baby parents won't ever distribute the original binary, so it's a source-only distribution.

:lolflag:

There's a general rule for strong passwords, make up something that's similar, but not the same, tell it to a friend, then see if they can remember it. If they can't recall it the password is complex enough, if they remember half of it then it's a good start, and if they remember the whole thing you should put your bank details in a text file in the home folder and pm me your IP. (joking) :p

My IP is 127.0.0.1

YKYAGW you always do things the long way just because you can e.g. setting up wine for a PIC complier and a Linux PIC flash program instead of using the PC next to you running xp

[Kopachris]

There's a general rule for strong passwords, make up something that's similar, but not the same, tell it to a friend, then see if they can remember it. If they can't recall it the password is complex enough, if they remember half of it then it's a good start, and if they remember the whole thing you should put your bank details in a text file in the home folder and pm me your IP. (joking) :razz:

My IP is 127.0.0.1
Ykyagw you get the reference (if there is supposed to be one?). :)
Yes, it refers to localhost, but the reference I'm talking about is to a chat log of someone who gave his IP as 127.0.0.1 to a wannabe "hacker", who then proceeded to wipe out his own HD. tarps might not have actually intended the reference, but his statement made me think of the chat log in any case.

[SirBismuth]

All your base are belong to us!

Also, YKYAGW you feel the need to correct YKYAGW rules.

chmod -R ./base +belong us

Or something like that, can't remember exactly what's on the t-shirt! :D

B

[KIAaze]

That would be:
chown -R $USER:$USERS_GROUP ./base
Or more radically:
mv ./base /base
sudo chown -R root:root /base
sudo chmod -R 700 /base
(and change root password + remove sudo permissions for all other users, so you are really the only one with access to it. hehe. (excluding any disk removal or live CD usage for the moment, otherwise encryption may be necessary to completely secure the base.) :) )

And finally:
set BOMB=1

[SirBismuth]

What KIAaze said

Ah yes, that's it, I like to give people a chance so I don't

set BOMB=1

immediately, but should it be

sudo set BOMB=1

or does it not need elevated privileges?

B

[talsemgeest]

YKYAGW you have too many audio devices to figure out which one you are actually hearing.
Just happened to me, a song came on that I didn't like, tried rhythmbox, totem, before remembering that I had turned on my mp3 player.

[BenAshton24]

YKYAGW it's 4:33 AM, but that segfault is gonna be gone before you even think about taking a nap :P

[Hillshum]

Ah yes, that's it, I like to give people a chance so I don't

set BOMB=1

immediately, but should it be

sudo set BOMB=1

or does it not need elevated privileges?

B

Depends on what you're trying to blow up. If you've already chowned ./base properly, you don't need root

[searchfgold6789]

You know you're a geek when you can quote every line of dialogue in Spaceballs and know every movie or book the movie is spoofing in a given scene.

Oh dear. I never thought I was that bad.

[The Toxic Mite]

YKYAGW you are still using Ubuntu 4.10

[Hillshum]

YKYAGW you are still using Ubuntu 4.10

Wouldn't a real geek be jumping on new releases ASAP?

[Genius2999]

You know your a geek when you introduce your wife as mylady@home.wife

[doas777]

YKYAGW you really really really want to know the punchline to this joke:
"Your Mothers research methodology is sooo flawed that ..."

[Genius2999]

You know your a geek when you have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven

[scragar]

"Your Mothers research methodology is sooo flawed that ..."

She mistook a Bose-Einstein condensate for a Quark-Gluon plasma.

(Links for the ill-informed: BEC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate) QGP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%E2%80%93gluon_plasma) (Sorry they go to wikipedia, but I'm unsure of a better place to send people if they have no idea at all on the differences between the two(Which are really major differences))).

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

Wouldn't a real geek be jumping on new releases ASAP?

Not necessarily.
My main rig is up to date, however I use my good old Dapper Drake LiveCD rather often.
Then there is Damn Small Linux, of which I only use old version, cause I hate JWM which is default environment for new versions.

[svbh07]

ykyagw you're assigned to write several forms of text as homework for language class and all of them end up being about computers, software, math or physics.
Only two more to go :P.

And instead of firing up your VM to use MS Office or just using OpenOffice, you write all of them in LaTeX. Then go through the trouble of converting them to a format acceptable by the teacher.

Yep, I just found the wonders of LaTeX and am teaching myself.

[EvilPhoenix]

You know you're a geek when... you buy a new quad-core processor, build the computer around it, and use it only to load up Ubuntu to code open-source software.

[Gwasanaethau]

…Yep, I just found the wonders of LaTeX and am teaching myself.

Hahaha, me too! ;)

[Kopachris]

And instead of firing up your VM to use MS Office or just using OpenOffice, you write all of them in LaTeX. Then go through the trouble of converting them to a format acceptable by the teacher.

Yep, I just found the wonders of LaTeX and am teaching myself.
Heh, ditto. :p Though, I'm using LyX instead of straight LaTeX.

[Barrucadu]

And instead of firing up your VM to use MS Office or just using OpenOffice, you write all of them in LaTeX. Then go through the trouble of converting them to a format acceptable by the teacher.

Insist that the teacher accept PDF files :p

[phillw]

Doesnt seem to hard if I understand you correctly. I move around/install something new for my fathers company pretty often so i do that alot.

Anyway, you know youre a geek when you drag your laptop with you all the time (I do). Leaving it at home would feel like leaving someone you love for a long time.


Or that you may need it to repair someone elses computer ;-)

Oh, and guilty of the pet name, also ....

phillw@piglet:~

Phill.

[Zoot7]

You know you're a geek when the number of OS's installed on your PC is in double figures.

[GepettoBR]

Oh, and guilty of the pet name, also ....

phillw@piglet:~

Phill.

My main PC is Thanatos. My little brother named his laptop Hypnos. Ergo, my little brother is awesome and well-set on the right path.

[scragar]

My main PC is Thanatos. My little brother named his laptop Hypnos. Ergo, my little brother is awesome and well-set on the right path.

Main box is sbox, router is srout, torrent box is stor, laptops are slaptos(scragar's laptop, toshiba) and slapdel(scragar's laptop, dell).

The dell was a gift, it's rude to turn it down when it actually works.

[GepettoBR]

Main box is sbox, router is srout, torrent box is stor, laptops are slaptos(scragar's laptop, toshiba) and slapdel(scragar's laptop, dell).

The dell was a gift, it's rude to turn it down when it actually works.

Your laptop is called "slap Dell"*. Way to be subtle. :lolflag:

*The second "l" is implied, of course.

[scragar]

Your laptop is called "slap Dell"*. Way to be subtle. :lolflag:

*The second "l" is implied, of course.

Actually that's just because I had the toshiba first and named it slaptos since I had an eee pc at the time as well(named slap(scragar laptop, not slap), since I didn't anticipate getting anything else), it made sense to keep the name short, so s, 3 letter identifier(except the router, which I never log into) and a further identifier if needed, sort of made sense.

[kyuubi777]

whenever you are on facebook you imagine they stole the logo design from fedora

[Gwasanaethau]

Heh, ditto. :p Though, I'm using LyX instead of straight LaTeX.

Actually, as you mention it, I'm actually using XeTeX as I need the multi-language and ttf stuff.

[powerpleb]

whenever you are on facebook you imagine they stole the logo design from fedora

They did, didn't they! The thieving *******.

[Windows Nerd]

whenever you are on facebook you imagine they stole the logo design from fedora
Oh my god you are totally right...

You know you're a geek when, through practice, you can check your Facebook, 3 Emails, and several blogs in less than half an hour (I can, sadly).

[talsemgeest]

Oh my god you are totally right...

You know you're a geek when, through practice, you can check your Facebook, 3 Emails, and several blogs in less than half an hour (I can, sadly).
Haha, I do that in less than 3 minutes. Plus, I usually do it about 5 times an hour...

[rootless]

I knew I was a geek when I stayed up for two days straight reading about C, fell asleep dreaming about C, and woke up able to think only in STDIN, STDO, and STDERR.

Also, I attempt to tab complete EVERYTHING, and once had a nightmare about shell scripting that I tried to popd out of.

[EvilPhoenix]

You know you're a geek when...

you can write a sshd_config file from scratch, put it in the correct location, and make ssh still work on your computer. Sadly, I can configure sshd in my sleep... :P

[hatten]

You know you're a(n antisocial geek) when you don't have facebook and only use your blogs for non-social stuff.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a(n antisocial geek) when you don't have facebook and only use your blogs for non-social stuff.
That's me! For the social stuff, I use various forums.

[Gwasanaethau]

Going back to the VERY FIRST post:
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')

Shouldn't that be:
cd /pub
read beer
and later, if you've had too much, I guess you could end up with:
echo beer
;):lol:

[HeadHunter00]

You know when you're a geek when you talk about geeky stuff like me.:p

[Kopachris]

Going back to the VERY FIRST post:


Shouldn't that be:
cd /pub
read beerand later, if you've had too much, I guess you could end up with:
echo beer;):lol:
I think it should be more like:

cd /pub
cat beer > /dev/stomach
Which could eventually end up with:

cat /dev/stomach > /pub/floor
:lol:

Also, ykyagw you feel like you need to take a shower after using Windows for more than a few minutes. (I've gotten to the point where I'd rather use a pen and paper.)

[talsemgeest]

I think it should be more like:

cd /pub
cat beer > /dev/stomach
Which could eventually end up with:

cat /dev/stomach > /pub/floor
:lol:

Also, ykyagw you feel like you need to take a shower after using Windows for more than a few minutes. (I've gotten to the point where I'd rather use a pen and paper.)
Or, if you want to get every last drop down: dd if=beer of=/dev/stomach

[Junkieman]

I knew I was a geek when I stayed up for two days straight reading about C, fell asleep dreaming about C, and woke up able to think only in STDIN, STDO, and STDERR.

Hahaha! Same, back when writing DOS apps + games in whopping mode 13h chunky graphics. I dreamed in palette rotation, and mov and jmp. I miss making games :)

[warfacegod]

You know you're a(n antisocial geek) when you don't have facebook and only use your blogs for non-social stuff.

Geeks do social stuff?

[warfacegod]

Shouldn't all the terminal beer stuff be slurred?

[talsemgeest]

Geeks do social stuff?
Yes, see post about difference between geeks and nerds.

[HeadHunter00]

you are in love with your pc.

[Kopachris]

you are in love with your pc.
We should write a song about it. ;)

[talsemgeest]

We should write a song about it. ;)
And then release it into Creative Commons.

[SirBismuth]

And then release it into Creative Commons.

Maybe a remix/rewrite of the "Pentium" song by Wierd Al Yankovic? :D

Not sure if he would like it being released into Creative Commons, though.

B

[Junkieman]

YKYAGW your morning news includes slashdot (http://slashdot.org) :mrgreen:

[GepettoBR]

We should write a song about it. ;)

Like this one? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy9f8ILbyS0)

[Kopachris]

Maybe a remix/rewrite of the "Pentium" song by Wierd Al Yankovic? :D

Not sure if he would like it being released into Creative Commons, though.

B

Like this one? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy9f8ILbyS0)
No, actually, I was thinking of a parody of "I'm in Love With my Car" by Queen. :)

And yes, my morning news does include Slashdot.

[garikaib]

When u run lspci or systeminfo the first time you boot into your new computer

[EvilPhoenix]

YKYAGW...

you have your desktop set up to accept SSH connections from your laptop for the sole reason of not increasing your laptop's internet bandwidth usage in a University setting :P

[SlickRick]

when you make an ascii acorn for your squirrel


https://files.one.ubuntu.com/06f1b733-48df-4689-899e-e030e1d68387


...and put it in conky for easy access ;)

[powerpleb]

YKYAGW you actually understood the last 3 posts.

[phillipi]

You've ever gotten MUD (multi user dungeon) commands and Linux commands confused.
You made aliases for both to solve the problem

Done this one, I aliased "ls" to "i" because I kept trying to see my folder contents with check inventory command for T2T MUD

[vrkalak]

When your elderly grand-father, tells you that for Christmas ... he'd like a new Fedora.

And you give him a laptop with a Linux OS installed. :P

[Vrekk]

When u run lspci or systeminfo the first time you boot into your new computer

You don't already know that?

[lisati]

When your elderly grand-father, tells you that for Christmas ... he'd like a new Fedora.

And you give him a laptop with a Linux OS installed. :P

:lolflag: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_%28hat%29)

[Kopachris]

When your elderly grand-father, tells you that for Christmas ... he'd like a new Fedora.

And you give him a laptop with a Linux OS installed. :P
:lolflag: I'd like a new Fedora for Christmas. :D

[GepettoBR]

:lolflag: I'd like a new Fedora for Christmas. :D

Me too.

Fellow geeks, I ask for your help: can anyone link me to that old XKCD where the kid starts by trying to fix a simple bug on his computer and things get gradually worse over time, until he is somehow stranded at sea?

[amingv]

Me too.

Fellow geeks, I ask for your help: can anyone link me to that old XKCD where the kid starts by trying to fix a simple bug on his computer and things get gradually worse over time, until he is somehow stranded at sea?

You mean Success (http://xkcd.com/349/)?

[Nohtanhoj]

You mean Success (http://xkcd.com/349/)?

This is how my 9.10 upgrade went with my NC20.... Right now I have a useless collection of silicon. =D

You know you're a geek when you can program in more languages than you can speak.

(+40 ring of linguistics FTW)

[konnorrigby]

You know you're a geek when you post on this thread. lol :P

[talsemgeest]

You know you're a geek when you post on this thread. lol :P
:(

[Junkieman]

You know you're a geek when some of your girlfriends' names end with .jpg :-\"

[GepettoBR]

You mean Success (http://xkcd.com/349/)?

Thank you, that's exactly it!

[Junkieman]

You mean Success (http://xkcd.com/349/)?

That's so true :lolflag:

[Kyugetsuki]

1. you are using ubuntu
2. you develop in gtk++.
3. you know the difference of sudo and gksudo
4. you are often the 'advisor' in the forums...

complete all four and you are. (well, iam not...)

[scragar]

1. you are using ubuntuNot really geeky, it's one of the more generic distros in existence.
2. you develop in gtk++.GTK is long winded, QT is less typing. Geeks are lazy.
3. you know the difference of sudo and gksudoOr that gksu is less typing and identical to gksudo
4. you are often the 'advisor' in the forums...Yeah, helped way more people than times I've been helped, but then my problems have needed far more skilled help than those I've offered help for.

[Puzzled Guy]

You know you're a geek if you have an Ubuntu-Windows dual boot system and, yet, haven't booted in Windows for months!

[Gwasanaethau]

You know you're a geek if you have an Ubuntu-Windows dual boot system and, yet, haven't booted in Windows for months!

Hahaha, so true!

[drpjkurian]

You know you are a geek when you start helping others out of their problems

[a!man_96]

:D:D:D
Such an interesting topic..!

[Kopachris]

Ykyagw you build your own wireless router in an effort to better understand them. (One of the things I want to do someday.)

[a!man_96]

You build your own HD tv and it's crashed!:KS

[Vrekk]

You know you're a geek if you have an Ubuntu-Windows dual boot system and, yet, haven't booted in Windows for months!

For me I broke the windows part of my menu.lst file and didn't notice for 2 months.

Instead of fixing the file I just expanded my /home :D

[powerpleb]

You know you're a geek when some of your girlfriends' names end with .jpg :-\"

:lolflag::lolflag::lolflag:

[powerpleb]

I am Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gumbigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre AndrT Charton-Haymoss Ivanovicci Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the third.

You know you're a geek right?

[sqrooup]

....you have a barrel of biscuits next to your PC!

[sarlaccpit]

When you take every question literally and answer every question with full explainations despite it being a yes/no question.

[sqrooup]

....your username sounds geeky

[Junkieman]

....you have a barrel of biscuits next to your PC!
But they're so tastee! Especially shortbread! =P~

[sqrooup]

You sent love and kisses to your girlfriend....



....via Facebook!

[Megrimn]

you keep checking this thread.

[sqrooup]

You met your girlfriend....



....on Facebook!

[FozzIT]

You're about to run your car into a tree and you hope the Shields will hold....:o

[Marvin666]

You beat the mods in suggesting where to move a thread.

[GepettoBR]

You beet the mods in suggesting where to move a thread.

I prefer radishing the mods, myself...

[talsemgeest]

You met your girlfriend....



....on Facebook!
I would say IRC would be geekier (or perhaps even Launchpad :P)

[Marvin666]

Typo corrected. Spell check should know what word I want there...

[ATK]

You install Linux on any used computer that comes your way just to see if you can make it work.
lol, i did this with all 4 of my computers

[Marvin666]

You know your a geek when you accidentally number your biology homework in binary.
Heh, 1-10. More like 1-1010.

[ATK]

when you tell jokes just to confuse the people around you like"there are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who do not"

[amingv]

when you tell jokes just to confuse the people around you like"there are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who do not"

That joke doesn't work as well when spoken as it does when written.

YKYAGW you don't need to be joking in order to confuse people around you. :)

[Junkieman]

You know you're a geek when you eat your own dog food!

[lisati]

You know you're a geek when you eat your own dog food!

YKYAG when you understand "144!" in reply to the above. (or am I getting old?)

[Junkieman]

YKYAG when you understand "144!" in reply to the above. (or am I getting old?)
NOPe, not that old ;)

[Menolly]

You go to check out at an electronics store and end up holding up the line because you can't stop talking geek with the cashier.

Instead of counting down from 10 when you're angry, you count down in binary.

[Junkieman]

You know you're a geek when you think intelligence is *hot* - bonus if their glasses compliments their intelligence :p

[scragar]

YKYAG when you understand "144!" in reply to the above. (or am I getting old?)

144 is a dozen dozen, or one gross.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you eat your own dog food!
Explanation needed. Why does eating dog food make you a geek?

[Junkieman]

Explanation needed. Why does eating dog food make you a geek?
"Eating your own dogfood", not eating dogfood! Lol! It is a metaphor used by programmers. It means using the applications your write yourself.

[steve19137]

you know your a geek when you rush to help the teacher with finding internet explorer (stupid schools cant do ubuntu).

you know your a geek when you look a someone in the hall and say, "Oh, they use windows" or "Oh, they use mac"

you know our a geek when your friends come to you for (free) tech advice, not the geek squad.

im a freshman, so all these things are very real to me :)

[Maheriano]

Explanation needed. Why does eating dog food make you a geek?

Try it out and see. Be sure to report back.

[amingv]

YKYAGW you start packing every bit of copper and arctic silver you can get:

http://comicjk.com/Pics/Comic304.gif

[Kopachris]

"Eating your own dogfood", not eating dogfood! Lol! It is a metaphor used by programmers. It means using the applications your write yourself.
I've never needed to use that metaphor before. Probably because I program for myself anyway*.

A real geek doesn't make dog food.


*And not very well, I might add.

[Marvin666]

You know your a geek if at the beginning of computer applications, you ask the teacher how to change workspaces.

[R2D2!]

You know your a geek if at the beginning of computer applications, you ask the teacher how to change workspaces.

Well, being a geek, the only reason to ask is to make fool of your teacher :popcorn:

—Ilhuıtemoc

[CompyTheInsane]

You know you're a geek when you use CSS instead of HTML 3.2's <font> tag, and <body>'s deprecated attributes to set a web page's background color/ bg image/font/font color in Computer Applications assignments that involve writing web pages when no HTML 4/CSS is taught in the class.

[Marvin666]

My computer apps just turned out to be microsoft office stuff, and proper typing. Needless to say, I dropped the class a few weeks into it. Now I have shop. Also sucks, but not as bad...

[BenAshton24]

You know you're a geek when you use CSS instead of HTML 3.2's <font> tag, and <body>'s deprecated attributes to set a web page's background color/ bg image/font/font color in Computer Applications assignments that involve writing web pages when no HTML 4/CSS is taught in the class.

I just started my IT course a few days ago and was horrified when the teacher opened up some ancient looking program called EZPad or something complete with the HTML 3.2 doctype at the top of the sample code. I stayed calm presuming that this would be rectified within seconds; It wasn't and the teacher proceeded to type on that blasphemy against standards. By the time he entered a font tag with the attribute "size=20" I pretty much lost all hope.

YKYAGW your little finger (or "digitus minimus" as you refer to it) hurts from holding countless cups of tea | coffee for extended periods of time.

[othiena]

...you prefer to use floppy disks(and i am not even 18 yet) instead of flash drives of cd/dvd's.

[Junkieman]

Try it out and see. Be sure to report back.
Much better response ;D

[jms1989]

...you prefer to use floppy disks(and i am not even 18 yet) instead of flash drives of cd/dvd's.

Dude, floppies are not geeky, we used them in the 90's and high capacity flash drive are the rave now. Adapt or die like the rest.

Now, if you had several terabytes of solid state drives in raid 5, then that would be a bit geeky.

YKYAGW you have at least 5 working computers in a 10x8 bedroom.

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

...you prefer to use floppy disks(and i am not even 18 yet) instead of flash drives of cd/dvd's.

As jms1989 said, it's geekier (and generally smarter) to keep up with techs.
I can imagine though that funny nostalgic feeling with using those, and indeed I have a 10-pack of blank 3.5inch floppies and a pair of 5.25inch ones.
However my only use of them within last decade was to boot up a legacy PC to install DOS or Win9x.

btw
You REALLY know you're a geek if you wire and solder EEPROMs for use as storage space for your own designed embedded computer. (This is what I intend to do when I get all the hardware, but it is hard to find)

[EvilPhoenix]

YKYAGW you can convert raw HTML code in your mind, and visualize exactly how the web page will come out, and get it accurate about 95% of the time. :P

[lisati]

...you prefer to use floppy disks(and i am not even 18 yet) instead of flash drives of cd/dvd's.

It'd be interesting to get hold of a really old PC that used 8-inch floppies and get it working. Other than a couple of antiquated network controllers at work in the early to mid 1980s and that probably should have been museums, the last (and only) time I remember seeing a PC that used that size was probably around 1988, the 5.25" size was more common then, soon to be replaced by the 3.5" size that would be more familiar to many forum users.

[sqrooup]

....you get asked why floppies are so called (even though their cases are so stiff), and you tell them about the 5 1/2" versions!

[scragar]

....you get asked why floppies are so called (even though their cases are so stiff), and you tell them about the 5 1/2" versions!

Or point out that the plastic protective case around the disk is pretty solid, but not the disk(interestingly the plastic case is only slightly larger than the disk itself).

[Marvin666]

You know your a geek when you made a notebook out of a floppy disk, and filled it full of formulas and charts.

[User3k]

You know you're a geek when you have a floppy disk debate. :popcorn:

[sixrodriguez]

still fond reading comic books....
:popcorn:

[Junkieman]

....you get asked why floppies are so called (even though their cases are so stiff), and you tell them about the 5 1/2" versions!
It explains why modern PC's don't have /dev/fdX's, or A & B drives ;)

[paintba||er]

...you exclaim "LITTLE ENDIANNESS!" :D

[Kopachris]

It explains why modern PC's don't have /dev/fdX's, or A & B drives ;)
Eh, some still have an fd0 (or A:\). I only gave up mine because my new video card needed its power cable, which I only had one of. I was disappointed about a week later, when I found a bunch of Windows 3.1 and MSDOS floppies from my dad's college days. :( Being the geek that I am, I wanted to try them out just for kicks. :p

[lo_ol]

You see 1 and 0's in allmost everything for example: when you're having sex or dreams. Because, sometimes you wish you never want to wake-up when having a sex in your dream and sometimes you wish you'd had sex with your girl. lools...

[chillyomi]

:KS You know ur a geek when you talk to someone and what they heard was 010101110001010111010101010

[talsemgeest]

:KS You know ur a geek when you talk to someone and what they heard was 010101110001010111010101010
Nah, I think a real geek would know that binary speech is a highly inefficient method of communication ;)

[EvilPhoenix]

YKYAGW you can rewrite the data on the EEPROM of a wifi card so that it dies in 5 seconds.

[Junkieman]

YKYAGW you can rewrite the data on the EEPROM of a wifi card so that it dies in 5 seconds.
Hahaha :D

YKYAGW you love installing alternative firmwares on phones, iPods and cameras just because it excites you! -- Oh the same goes for VM's!

[ragip]

you know you're a geek when you see a beautiful blonde with beautiful legs open and say "look it is a macbook pro on her lap!!"

happened yesterday :)

[EvilPhoenix]

lolol @ previous post.

YKYAGW you and your girlfriend keep referencing Java terms in normal daily speech.

[sqrooup]

....you can quote, ad nauseum, scenes from Star Wars / Star Trek (all of them) / Doctor Who (including Torchwood, and Sarah Jane Adventures) / Blackadder / Father Ted (even to the point of swearing like Father Jack) / Family Guy / Futurama / The Simpsons etc.

[NO_oB]

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:lolflag:

[SlickRick]

...when learning a new programming language, instead of making a "hello world" application as your first exercise, you make a calculator.

[jman6495]

- when you decide to play a video game , but get bored of completing it six times , so you rewrite half the game with new levels , explosions , guns ect ...

-when your math teacher asks you a question using numbers more than 4096 and you tell him the number is incompatible cause you are only 32 bit.

-when you make an API for your toaster to twitter .

[jman6495]

- you try and recompile the Windows NT Source Code and replace every instance of the word windows with "crap"

[Kopachris]

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:lolflag:
We've had far more than enough of that here. :evil:

...when learning a new programming language, instead of making a "hello world" application as your first exercise, you make a calculator.
I've actually done that... :)

- when you decide to play a video game , but get bored of completing it six times , so you rewrite half the game with new levels , explosions , guns ect ...

-when your math teacher asks you a question using numbers more than 4096 and you tell him the number is incompatible cause you are only 32 bit.

-when you make an API for your toaster to twitter .
4095 uses only 12 bits (111111111111) (assuming unsigned int). A 32-bit unsigned integer goes up to 2^33-1, or 4294967295. :evil:

[CompyTheInsane]

You know you're a geek when you write code/shell scripts/terminal output to justify taking the last place trophy in the Last Place Trophy thread

[sqrooup]

You know you're a geek when you write code or shell scripts to justify taking the last place trophy in the Last Place Trophy thread

.... you use the YKYAGW thread to take said trophy!

[ragip]

you know you are a geek when you find yourself browsing through "the IT crowd" episodes, even you've watched them all (multiple times) :D

[el_guazu]

you know you are a geek when you find yourself browsing through "the IT crowd" episodes, even you've watched them all (multiple times) :D

I just found this show... i begun to watch first season...

YKYAGW want to be as PhD Sheldon Cooper... but still get sarcasm... ;)

[jollyjollyroger]

OH NO!!!
goodbye friends, im officially a geek :(
what about when you want to punch another human being because he's avidly arguing for Mr Gates software?
or is that just angry teen?

[Marvin666]

You know your a geek when you spent your study hall converting number to binary, and when you checked them at home, they were right!
Biggest one I tired : 10000 = 10011100010000

[EvilPhoenix]

YKYAGW you try to run Linux commands in MS-DOS, because you forgot how MS-DOS works.

[Junkieman]

YKYAGW you try to run Linux commands in MS-DOS, because you forgot how MS-DOS works.
I do this at work when I have to use a Win command prompt :p Hahaha!

YKYAGW your xmas present to yourself is a terrabyte external drive :D

[fromthehill]

YKYAGW you try to run Linux commands in MS-DOS, because you forgot how MS-DOS works.
ifconfig, ls, cp, sudo
aaaaaaargh stupid piece of sh*t work ***DAMMIT :P

[Sissy13]

On a slightly related note...

YKYAGW you try to copy and paste by highlighting and using the center mouse button... in Windows. Then you get really frustrated when it doesn't work.

[GepettoBR]

On a slightly related note...

YKYAGW you try to copy and paste by highlighting and using the center mouse button... in Windows. Then you get really frustrated when it doesn't work.

I HATE that, it would make life so much easier at work... does anyone know of a way to add that functionality to Windows XP?

[CompyTheInsane]

You know you're a geek when you try to press ALT+F2 to pull up the Run dialog on Windows until you realize that you're on Windows

[jms1989]

On a slightly related note...

YKYAGW you try to copy and paste by highlighting and using the center mouse button... in Windows. Then you get really frustrated when it doesn't work.

I find myself doing that even though I know it wont work.

[Sissy13]

You know you're a geek when you try to press ALT+F2 to pull up the Run dialog on Windows until you realize that you're on Windows

I've done that, too.

Or when the screen freezes in Windows, you try to restart X using Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, and are extremely confused for a few moments when that produces no results.

[scragar]

I've done that, too.

Or when the screen freezes in Windows, you try to restart X using Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, and are extremely confused for a few moments when that produces no results.

Ctrl+Alt+F1

I'll use a tty, restart X from that... Noooooo, it doesn't work on winders!

[twright]

Ctrl+Alt+F1

I'll use a tty, restart X from that... Noooooo, it doesn't work on winders!

You know your a geek when the mere thought of anyone using tty1 annoys you - 6 is closer!

[jms1989]

You know your a geek when the mere thought of anyone using tty1 annoys you - 6 is closer!

What's wrong with tty1? tty2-6 works just as well and if the system spits out some log output, it will be printed on the current tty.

[scragar]

You know your a geek when the mere thought of anyone using tty1 annoys you - 6 is closer!

I always use 1 first, then 2, then 3... Why would you want to work down from 7? It's not like you're going to just flick between the two, you've got stuff to type in which mean moving your fingers anyway, so actually reaching to the middle of the keyboard for F6 is going to waste you time.

[Kopachris]

On a slightly related note...

YKYAGW you try to copy and paste by highlighting and using the center mouse button... in Windows. Then you get really frustrated when it doesn't work.
That, plus scrolling the mouse on the desktop to change workspaces (oh wait, Windows doesn't have multiple workspaces built in!).

[Junkieman]

I HATE that, it would make life so much easier at work... does anyone know of a way to add that functionality to Windows XP?
I use Console2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/), its not exactly terminal but it's a big step up from command line! Next get win32 unix utils (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) and add the path to your PATH enviroment variable, and home feels a little bit closer already ;)

[Jekshadow]

YKYAGW you take a computer with 8x2.8ghz processors and 32GB RAM and install Xen instead of Crysis.
YKYAGW you are up at 2:50AM reading the Ubuntu forums and keep thinking to yourself, "Dammit, I have to stop reading the forums and finish up that Python library"


I have done both.

[talsemgeest]

YKYAGW you take a computer with 8x2.8ghz processors and 32GB RAM and install Xen instead of Crysis.

Hmm, sounds more like common sense to me, since Crysis would never use all of the system resources, yet xen has the capability to make use of all of it.

Plus, Crysis would involve installing Windows ;)

[kristine12]

Your are a geek when you are relating the things (complicated things) that you know on your daily life.

[Friqenstein]

...you start, or reply, to a "You know you're a geek when" thread. :lolflag:

[scragar]

...you start, or reply, to a "You know you're a geek when" thread. :lolflag:

Would someone else fill this guy in, I'm a bit bored explaining how that's repeated about 150 times already every 4 or 5 pages.

[talsemgeest]

...you start, or reply, to a "You know you're a geek when" thread. :lolflag:
Every time someone says this a kitten dies. :(

[SlickRick]

...when you believe the best way to show someone how much you love them is with a pie-chart.

[tarps87]

Every time someone says this a kitten dies. :(

WKYAGW ...

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[Kopachris]

Every time someone says this a kitten dies. :(

WKYAGW ...

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Okay, talsemgeest, you were kind of asking for it that time. But seriously, must every newcomer to this thread post the same thing?

[aspiredfang]

...you wake up in the middle of the night craving a quick byte

...your alarm clock is the same as your system startup sound

...you stare at windows through the working day and wish to be out in the open (source)

...a thumb war means fragging your friend 50 times in Unreal

[sqrooup]

.... you are outside, "enjoying" the great outdoors, so you use you mobile to check up on friends on Facebook!

[User3k]

.... you are outside, "enjoying" the great outdoors, so you use you mobile to check up on friends on Facebook!

And when you are outside and think the graphics on your computer look better then the real world graphics.

[Maheriano]

...when you believe the best way to show someone how much you love them is with a pie-chart.

I use URL to XKCD comics instead. I have the good ones bookmarked!

[lisati]

Does using login/logout sounds in videos count?

[scragar]

I use URL to XKCD comics instead. I have the good ones bookmarked!

Fail for not knowing them all off the top of your head.

[tm222]

You know your a geek when you know what "specs" are! ;)

[lisati]

You know your a geek when you know what "specs" are! ;)
And when you use Google to learn about them.

[sqrooup]

.... you see an ad for some techie stuff; it has a picture of the techie stuff, and a near naked woman, and you are thinking "wow, look at the techie stuff!"

[sithclone]

you group your IM contacts between those who ask for tech support and those who don't (i.e. geeks and non-geeks) and then write a cron job to block those who do ask during certain times of the day.

your only experience with windows has been inside a VM.

you dare modify the windows registry without backing it up because either A. you're that confident in what you are doing or B. if you do screw it up, it's just another reason to install Linux.

missionaries come to your door and they're the ones who leave converted (to Linux of course).

you know what comes next in the sequence:
White/Orange
Orange
White/Green
...

you explain to people the advantages of using RPN.

you're at the store and see a box with “10 PC” on it and your thought process is as follows:
“How did they fit ten computers in that box?
I wonder if you can put Linux on them?
Oh... it's a ten piece dinnerware set.”

you tell people the answer to everything is 42, but the runner up was Linux.

[AlexanderAzimov]

(If it has not been said yet)

When you obsessivly read Mr.Poppers penguins. just because you think thats what it would be like to have Tux in your home and not in your one's an zeros.

When you get mad at your math teacher for him/her saying that their is not Arithmetic in programming.

[Marvin666]

You spent your whole study hall calculating and writing out all the 2 powers. I got to the 72nd power, with no help from a calculator.

[CompyTheInsane]

When the first thing that you do when you're outside is code.

[scragar]

When the first thing that you do when you're outside is code.

YKYAGW you started coding inside and had to be dragged outside.

YKYAGW your first reaction to realising you're outside is to go back inside.

[BenAshton24]

You spent your whole study hall calculating and writing out all the 2 powers. I got to the 72nd power, with no help from a calculator.

Thanks, you just gave me something to do in socials tomorrow :)

YKYAGW You adjust your sleeping pattern over weekends allowing yourself to have practically no sleep during weekdays and still feel like you've had a full 9 hours (It's currently 1:08 AM).

You invent your own short-hand method because pitman's just didn't cut it.

You have so many sticky notes on your desktop that you don't actually remember what your wallpaper is.

You're knowledge of useful programming websites parallels your social inadequacy.

You read for fun.

You can spell "incorporating", "cemetery", and "broccoli".

Ben.

[tarps87]

You spent your whole study hall calculating and writing out all the 2 powers. I got to the 72nd power, with no help from a calculator.

YKYAGW You write a program to do this and then compile it on you brain, which is running Linux :)

[twright]

YKYAGW You write a program to do this and then compile it on you brain, which is running Linux :)

YKYAGW you are already thinking of the fastest way to optimize the this (SSE vectors btw.).

[JohnLM_the_Ghost]

you know what comes next in the sequence:
White/Orange
Orange
White/Green
...
Blue, if I recall right.

YKYAGW You adjust your sleeping pattern over weekends allowing yourself to have practically no sleep during weekdays and still feel like you've had a full 9 hours (It's currently 1:08 AM).
I got rather funny sleeping pattern... I usually sleep twice a day 4 hours each. Once around 4pm an then around 4am. (pattern is skewed when necessary).
Pros: I am up for workday and most of night's partying time. And I got far less problems with jet lag than most.
Cons: 2x4h isn't exactly 8 hours straight. And people are unable to reach me neither in morning neither in afternoon (but most are used to this)

but I don't really see how this is geeky.

[SlickRick]

I got rather funny sleeping pattern... I usually sleep twice a day 4 hours each. Once around 4pm an then around 4am. (pattern is skewed when necessary).
Pros: I am up for workday and most of night's partying time. And I got far less problems with jet lag than most.
Cons: 2x4h isn't exactly 8 hours straight. And people are unable to reach me neither in morning neither in afternoon (but most are used to this)

but I don't really see how this is geeky.

i don't think having a weird sleeping pattern is geeky. It just means that you're not conforming.

Mine is strange because I have two weekends. I go to college monday, tuesday, friday and have to wake up at 06:30. So on sunday, monday, thursday I go to sleep at about 00:00-02:00 depending on my mood. On the other days or nights rather I go to bed at 04:00 and wake up 15:00 despite my efforts to get up earlier. This results in roughly 8 and a half hours on average per day but doesn't feel like it because as mentioned it's not straight sleep. Plus, energy drinks and the occasional all-nighter throws this out of balance.
The x-mas break should be a great opportunity to change my pattern to something which makes me feel more rested.


YKYAGW having a lengthy discussion with your mates on the origins of the universe and quantum physics is a regular occurrence during your lunch break.(we're computer geeks but math and science are right up there too :P)

[hatten]

Google for everyman/uberman if you wanna sleep less. I'm currently sleeping ~5 hours a day and feel great!

Ykyagw you see it as a challenge to install Arch on an i586 netbook with no cd and special kernel/everything.

[egravede]

YKWYAGW you debate whether a super computer AI end of the world scenario or a zombie apocalypse is worse....

[SuperSonic4]

YKYAGW you do complex maths in the snow

[pricetech]

you know what comes next in the sequence:
White/Orange
Orange
White/Green
...



Blue, or Blue / White, depending on the wire. Followed by White / Blue, Green / White, White / Brown, Brown / White.

You Know You're a Geek When you know both why this is designated as the "B" standard and why the blue pair is in the middle.

[pricetech]

You know you're an Old geek when you know what the color sequences:
Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate
and
White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet
mean.

[Gwasanaethau]

And when you are outside and think the graphics on your computer look better then the real world graphics.

Or you see some kind of compression artefact or dodgy texturing on a (real) cloud or at the corner of a (real) wall…

[m4tic]

You know you're a geek when you start playing the, ''you know you're a geek when....'' game