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

[steveneddy]

You watch this thread for weeks trying to get the 1000th post....

dang, just missed it.

Back to Tremulous.

[ryanVickers]

Just wondering if anyone had used this wireless parabolic reflector template to boost their wireless signal. It seems like it would work, but Im just looking for some feed back:

http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html

lol :p

[sci-fi guy]

Just wondering if anyone had used this wireless parabolic reflector template to boost their wireless signal. It seems like it would work, but Im just looking for some feed back:

http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html

http://xkcd.com/316/
I wish there was a "Post Anonymously" option.

[sci-fi guy]

I just checked, and yes it does. Great find :D

It doesn't import .wma files. Sound Converter does, but the output sucks on "high" quality. OggConvert is good, but it doesn't work in bulk.

OK, how can I make a custom Artist/album label in Amarok?

[silentabe939]

You know your a geek, when you wake up from a night of partying, and discover that not only did you format your hard drive but that you installed Linux.

God I hate myself sometimes.

[wolfen69]

just go with it.

[silentabe939]

i have been and i am loving linux its just that was like 70 gigs i will never see again

[silentabe939]

my really thing is wtf how was i drunk enough to black out but sober enough to install linux i mean maybe its a little too easy

[Anessen]

Don't drink and (format your) drive?

[silentabe939]

thank you.

[blithen]

Don't drink and (format your) drive?

LOL!! +1

[n3tfury]

lol @ drunk people on computers. pathetic.

[NullHead]

Don't drink and (format your) drive?

:lolflag:

[-grubby]

Don't drink and (format your) drive?

:lolflag:

[sajro]

You know you're a geek when:

You use a Mac or Windows system and forget you can't paste with a simple middle-click.

(this happened to me a couple days ago) You're absent from school (sick) and something weird happens (in this case, all the school's computers shut down (besides the old iMac G3s) and the lights flickered) to the school's tech. And then you come back and everyone thinks you hacked the school.

You enjoy tricking people like this: "Hey do you like to debate about math?" "NO! Why the heck would I like to math debate?" (If you don't get it say it out loud.)

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

Not funny ones, but true.

DUDE.... :o I've done every one of those. Multiple times.

you know you're a geek when your ISP drops out for 2 hours and you start panicking....(happened to me yesterday....I was pacing the floor and swearing loudly).

Me too. but in all fairness I had a concert the day after and needed to email my band director about the clothes needed.

You know all the stats of your schools computers. You want me to read them off?? I found them out even though they block it. You know youre a geek when blocks cant stop you.

Oh! ME ME ME! I changed the password from a user-level account with Control Panel blocked and the shortcuts/run command to the DOS prompt blocked! (Yeah, Windows is a joke.) The teacher couldn't get on for three days.

You carry a live CD to office cos your boss won't let you reformat your harddisk and install tux!

(That's actually true in my case!!)


I do that at school.


you have hard drives and ram modules laying around your room

your teacher asks you to fix his/her computer during class

every one you know asks for computer help

Guilty as charged.

[khurrum1990]

I don't know if this one has been said, but:

you know u r a geek when u spell "CONQUEROR" as "KONQUEROR"

you know u r a geek if ur girl friend comes to ur house and breaks ur monitor and u r busy crying over the screen rather than attending her.

[khurrum1990]

you know u r a geek when u kiss ur computer everyday saying: "who is a good computer? who is a good computer?" "YOU R" "yes u R"

[schauerlich]

When you convince your high school Computer Graphics teacher to let you dual boot an iMac with Ubuntu.

[khurrum1990]

you know u r a geek when u call your girl friend Linux

[Kingsley]

you know u r a geek when u call your girl friend Linux
Or when you call Linux your girlfriend. pwnt!

[-grubby]

You watch this thread for weeks trying to get the 1000th post....

dang, just missed it.

Back to Tremulous.

:lolflag:

[amingv]

>>This<< (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ballmer_peak.png) may shed some light in the issue.

[Omnios]

When you try Linux and refuse to give up even though it took a week to get it working.

Been there

if "geeky"
Print "Kudo's"
else if "I want to be geeky"
print 'Try again and be a bit of a geek"
else
GoTo 1

[NullHead]

>>This<< (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ballmer_peak.png) may shed some light in the issue.

:lolflag::lolflag:

[Frak]

Whenever drinking, it is at the responsibility of the person to stay away from computers, for various reasons, such as
*Posting as a troll
*Defacing Wikipedia
*Posting "Y0u jST G0t PWND" on a Paula Dean fan site
*And finally, reformatting your hard drive

Only YOU can prevent random dumb acts, that really don't hurt anybody, but really make you look like an *******.

[FuturePilot]

Don't drink and (format your) drive?

Hahaha, that's quotable material :lolflag:

[igknighted]

Whenever drinking, it is at the responsibility of the person to stay away from computers, for various reasons, such as
*Posting as a troll
*Defacing Wikipedia
*Posting "Y0u jST G0t PWND" on a Paula Dean fan site
*And finally, reformatting your hard drive

Only YOU can prevent random dumb acts, that really don't hurt anybody, but really make you look like an *******.

Also, refrain from attempting to use a Dvorak keyboard for the first time when drunk...

...yes, I tried that last year

[Lostincyberspace]

Oh you don't speak gibberish. :lol:

[khurrum1990]

you know u r a geek when u get a Linux tattoo on ur back.

[schauerlich]

When you sudo rm -rf -v / a spare linux box you have lying around so you can watch it cannibalize itself, file by file.

I'm currently reinstalling.

[steveneddy]

When you sudo rm -rf -v / a spare linux box you have lying around so you can watch it cannibalize itself, file by file.

I'm currently reinstalling.

ROTF LMAO

I was looking for an old box so I could try that myself!

[khurrum1990]

you know u r a geek when u don't enjoy sitting on a computer without Linux

[schauerlich]

ROTF LMAO

I was looking for an old box so I could try that myself!

Xubuntu is back on and working fine. But that was so much more fun than just reformatting... :)

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you hear about LFS and instantly decide that you and some friends form school are going to make your own Linux OS called Dustbunny OS... and you're only 14.
You know you're a geek when you have never restarted your computer and it has been running perfectly for 6 months.
You know you're a geek when you have all 3 major operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) united in your bedroom.
You know you're a geek when you have to restart your computer 50 times a day.
You know you're a geek when most of the power bill is because of your computers.

[Kopachris]

When you sudo rm -rf -v / a spare linux box you have lying around so you can watch it cannibalize itself, file by file.

I'm currently reinstalling.

I gotta try that!!!!
Maybe when I'm done with OSX...

[ryanVickers]

You know you're a geek when you hear about LFS and instantly decide that you and some friends form school are going to make your own Linux OS called Dustbunny OS... and you're only 14.
You know you're a geek when you have never restarted your computer and it has been running perfectly for 6 months.
You know you're a geek when you have all 3 major operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) united in your bedroom.
You know you're a geek when you have to restart your computer 50 times a day.
You know you're a geek when most of the power bill is because of your computers.

lol my record up time was something like ~367 hours.. :p

I DO have all 3, and I don't own a mac... not and easy thing to do... :p (PS they are in my bedroom too )

and my 450watt power supply isn't doing the environment any good either...
:lolflag:

[Frak]

I gotta try that!!!!
Maybe when I'm done with OSX...
Do it with the BASH shell within Mac ;)

[inversekinetix]

.....when your online identity becomes more important to you than your IRL one.

[stomponthis]

you compare a diaphragm to a firewall

[markp1989]

When you sudo rm -rf -v / a spare linux box you have lying around so you can watch it cannibalize itself, file by file.

I'm currently reinstalling.

lol i done that in a virtual machine because it sounded fun

[mysticrider92]

You know you're a geek when you have all 3 major operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) united in your bedroom.

Plenty of people do that to test Boot Camp (on their Macs). It is not all that geeky...

Now if there are no traces of Windows on your hard drive, and you are triple booting Linux or Unix distros, that is geeky. Sadly, I am still working on the removing all traces of Windows, but I haven't booted it in a few weeks.

[yabbadabbadont]

you compare a diaphragm to a firewall

Hopefully it comes pre-configured with all ports closed by default... :twisted:

[stomponthis]

You keep refreshing this thread....

OH HELP ME PLEASE!

[yabbadabbadont]

You keep refreshing this thread....

OH HELP ME PLEASE!

Bah! A true geek would never ask for help... ;)

[MONODA]

Youre home row keys are W-A-S-D and you keep youre fingers there whenever you use ur computer ot of habit. (LOL i do this all the time)

[khurrum1990]

you know u r a geek if u start drinking as soon as ur OS crashes

[sci-fi guy]

Youre home row keys are W-A-S-D and you keep youre fingers there whenever you use ur computer ot of habit. (LOL i do this all the time)

True geeks don't have W-A-S-D in one place on their keyboard. I have ,-A-O-E

[MalfunctioningMartian]

You call Linux GNU/Linux.
You cringe when someone TYPES LIKE THIS,

[rbprogrammer]

you know u r a geek if u start drinking as soon as ur OS crashes
well, then i guess i would never drink when running linux
but then get rushed to the hospital when i run windows.

all i want to do is run CoD4 on windows and not get a BSOD. is that so much to ask for??

[joe.turion64x2]

you know u r a geek if u start drinking as soon as ur OS crashes
Using Windows is not that geeky.

[khurrum1990]

I meant if Linux crashes though very rare but does happen.

[Frak]

You know you're a geek if you try to replace your Linux Kernel with a XNU kernel and recompile your system for it.

[el_ricardo]

you know your a geek when you try to press CTRL+Z in real life situations (eg you just cut yourself shaving)

[Kopachris]

lol i done that in a virtual machine because it sounded fun
That would probably be the only good use of Virtual PC on a ppc mac...

[Frak]

That would probably be the only good use of Virtual PC on a ppc mac...
Virtual PC for PPC mac sucked in terms of speed.

[ryanVickers]

...when you laugh your ******* *** off for literally 30 minutes over the concept of a chat history file called "dia.log"

[-grubby]

...when you laugh your ******* *** off for literally 30 minutes over the concept of a chat history file called "dia.log"

:lolflag::lolflag:

[Tex_Johnson]

If you have a Chiller for your Computer room...
you turn off the Chiller in the winter to save on the heating bill.

you spend more time shopping for a "Comfortable Computer chair" than you do your running shoes...

you wear out your chairs faster than your sneakers!

If you have ever been thrown out of a Computer store giving free computer repair advice.

Ohh... and when asked... my Home Address is: 127.0.0.1


:)

[Tex_Johnson]

Youd be a geek if you (like me) can quote lines from movies that are somewhat geeky (spaceballs, Monty Pyton films, Star Wars, Star Trek) and do it with the same voice and inflection, into a group of people and only other geeks in that group actually get why its funny.

"Sir, Im having trouble with the Radar, Sir."


or if you use .wav files from any of the above movies as your ringtones.

New Text Message?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail... " Pfffwwwtp!!! Message for you Sir!"

Sad thing is.. only half of the geeks I work with get it.

[yabbadabbadont]

or if you use .wav files from any of the above movies as your ringtones.

New Text Message?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail... " Pfffwwwtp!!! Message for you Sir!"

Sad thing is.. only half of the geeks I work with get it.

Infidels! Do you blow your nose at them? Perhaps fart in their general direction? :lol:

[99bluefoxx]

Youre home row keys are W-A-S-D and you keep youre fingers there whenever you use ur computer ot of habit. (LOL i do this all the time)
lol, you know your a WOW geek when you position your fingers at those keys and the number row as well, even if you havent played for monhes[i wonder what happened to my guild, i was DCed in the middle of a instance, and im theyr GM, lol]

[amingv]

-You get annoyed when someone uses the '+' sign on a calculator to get the result.
-Throwing away a damaged computer part is as sinful as getting rid of a sick child.
-You have more screwdrivers than pencils, and oddly enough have a hard time finding one.
-When you press the windows key in your keyboard, nothing happens. //TODO: Find a purpose for that key
-In your notes you write comments as //Something or #Something.
-You have, unconsciously and after a night of no sleep reading C++ guides, said "I can't hear you, please cout louder" to a faint shadow that tried to speak to you.
-The only thing that has stopped you from owning a mainframe is your shy budget.
-Most corporate IT people who know you don't like you (and you don't ever know what you did to them).
-Computer's are not just electronics, you would NEVER compare a computer to a TV set or a car, except to explain some concept to mortals.
-Your definition of code does not match that of the general public.
-You use free (as in beer) or beer-free when you talk about free stuff, even if it's not FLOSS related.
-You always capitalize GNU/Linux correctly, even though you only capitalize your own name in official documents.
-You enjoy making hand gestures/movements from movie.getRandom(), and sometimes expect they will yield some effect.
-("1" != 1) and yet (10==2).
-You know that *you == "John Smith" and &you == 1234 Avondale Rd.
-If you can't find the way around a problem in your computer, you try speaking to her.
-To ask permission to talk (from your GF, mother or superiors), you ask "CAN HAS STDIO?"

All me, except for the last one (people don't appreciate lolcode).

[99bluefoxx]

...when you laugh your ******* *** off for literally 30 minutes over the concept of a chat history file called "dia.log"
i indeed LOLed

-Throwing away a damaged computer part is as sinful as getting rid of a sick child.
-You have more screwdrivers than pencils, and oddly enough have a hard time finding one.
-To ask permission to talk (from your GF, mother or superiors), you ask "CAN HAS STDIO?"
-Your definition of code does not match that of the general public.
yes, yes, yes and[guess what:] yes, i do all these
:lol:

[LaRoza]

-Throwing away a damaged computer part is as sinful as getting rid of a sick child.
-You have more screwdrivers than pencils, and oddly enough have a hard time finding one.
-Your definition of code does not match that of the general public.


Also, definition of language and std's are different.

[vikramsharma]

When you want to use ctrl+f or command+f to search for a string in a book or any kind of paper based document. Using commands like mv, cp instead of move and copy. Having distrowatch.com as your homepage. Losing a friend to an arguement over which platfomr is better Mac, Windows or Linux (could also be for which Linux distro is better).

PS. I am Sorry if I repeated any of the stuff already mentioned,

[LaRoza]

PS. I am Sorry if I repeated any of the stuff already mentioned,

You didn't read the entire thread before posting?

You know you are geek when you follow computer science algorithms when doing things in real life, like sorting or search for things. Binary searches are quite fast, by the way.

[ohmyiv]

01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01111001 01110000 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001

...or when you can read that with out looking it up...

[GepettoBR]

01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01111001 01110000 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001

...or when you can read that with out looking it up...

/me is lazy. What does that say?

[Kopachris]

Virtual PC for PPC mac sucked in terms of speed.
Tell me about it... Virtual PC is why I have a Mac. Virtual PC sucked so bad, my dad bought a new laptop and gave this PowerBook G4 to me. Since VPC is so suckish, I took a 2 year old box out of our garage and reloaded it. It has a hardware problem and keeps locking up, so now I'm saving up to upgrade it. For $400 I can get a 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2 GB of RAM, a new motherboard, and a PCI cooling fan. I'll then get another hard drive out of the garage, install Windows XP (for games and programming) on one and Ubuntu on the other. Right now, the only thing that box is good for is hooking up the monitor to my PowerBook.

You know you're a geek when you can open up a binary file and see how a program works. Without decompiling or disassembling it.
You know you're a geek when you take a Linux Fundamentals class and you know more than the teacher.

[anthonie]

You know you're a geek when you keep wondering when you will finally get root access to your own brain.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when there are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when 7B 30 78 32 42 7C 7C 21 30 78 32 42 7D is funny.

[corney91]

You know you're a geek when there are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

...When there are 10 types of people in the world - those that understand trinary, those that don't, and those that confuse it with binary:)

[Kopachris]

...When there are 10 types of people in the world - those that understand trinary, those that don't, and those that confuse it with binary:)

11000 11010 11000 01020
1113 1213 1201 1310 0200 1201 1202 1233 1311 1310 0200 1313 1311 1321 1202 1321 1310 1303 0333

[fatality_uk]

Your SlashDot / TheRegister RSS feeds hasn't updated itself and you start stressing that a) They have been hacked b) They have been bought by MS and shut down

[ryanVickers]

I wouldn't think anything else!! :p

[jms1989]

You know you're a geek when you litterally cry or become depressed when Linux fails to boot.

You know you're a geek when the internet stops working and you had nothing to do with it.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you put your computer back in its original packaging and take it out and reload it, just so that it felt new. (I've been thinking of doing that...)

[corney91]

When you find these (http://www.geek24.com/g/2006/06/13/absolutely-hilarious-computer-quotes) funny

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you're loading your backpack for the school day, and you just printed something to take but haven't collected it from the printer yet, and you close your backpack thinking you just grabbed the paper off the screen and put it in already. Just happened to me...

When your cell phone runs Windows, and you want to switch it to Ubuntu, but you can't because your dad won't buy you a new phone if you mess it up.

[TidusBlade]

When your blood boils because sombody used sucks and linux in the same sentence.

[corney91]

When your blood boils because sombody used sucks and linux in the same sentence.

With no or an even amount of negatives included.

...When you correct such minor technicalities:)

[LaRoza]

When you find these (http://www.geek24.com/g/2006/06/13/absolutely-hilarious-computer-quotes) funny


"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."


Thanks for the link. Very funny indeed.

[sci-fi guy]

When your blood boils because sombody used sucks and linux in the same sentence.

"It sucks that Linux is not more popular than Windows."
Why would that upset you? ;-)

[Kopachris]

"It sucks that Linux is not more popular than Windows."
Why would that upset you? ;-)
lol, it would upset my dad. He's been with Windows since Windows 1.0. He gets mad at be when I do "Windows sucks" jokes.
You know you're a geek when you can't afford Mac OS X Leopard, so you hack OS X Tiger to make it look like Leopard.
You know you're a geek when you have 4 boxes hooked together under your bed as your own mini-supercomputer.
You know you're a geek when your computer-tech teacher doesn't understand most of what you're talking about.
You know you're a geek when your Linux Fundamentals teacher doesn't understand most of what you're talking about.
You know you're a geek when you understand everything in Weird Al's songs "White and Nerdy" and "All About the Pentiums".

[reportingsjr]

Like...if you know that KB has lost the bleeps, lost the sweeps and lost the creeps.

The what, the what and the what? (hehe)

You're writing a paper and expect words spelled incorrectly to be underlined.

[LaRoza]

Like...if you know that KB has lost the bleeps, lost the sweeps and lost the creeps.

"Yes, we know. Sir!"

[adam.tropics]

You'll know you're a geek when your RSS feeds get opened before your Christmas gifts.

[Presto123]

When you respond to a thread in a Linux forum that's in binary.

[khurrum1990]

You know u r a geek when u pray to God to give u your source code so u can make changes in yourself.

Then God replies:"Sorry, u weren't born with an open source license agreement".

[LaRoza]

You know u r a geek when u pray to God to give u your source code so u can make changes in yourself.

Then God replies:"Sorry, u weren't born with an open source license agreement".

I doubt He'd want us messing with our EEPROM's.

[sci-fi guy]

You'll know you're a geek when your RSS feeds get opened before your Christmas gifts.

Not so big of a deal. If you are normally up before your family anyways there is not much else to do.


Heh,
You might be a geek if you can't think of anything better to do early Christmas morning than check RSS feeds, emails, and Slashdot. Or if you plan to test a game's Easter egg that activates if your system's date is 12/25.

[MalfunctioningMartian]

You know you're a geek when you doodle with ASCII art on GEdit.

[Smatt454]

You know you are geek when you read forum posts in revese order (dont know about others i do that :P)
I just doing that...and i thought i was crazy o_0

[iris-n]

when you realize you know more computer languages than human(non-geek)-spoken languages.

When you start comparing computer languages with human-spoken languages.

[-grubby]

when you refresh this page repeatedly looking for new replies

[LaRoza]

when you refresh this page repeatedly looking for new replies

I do that, and I am not a geek.

[bufsabre666]

when you need to read these comments to reaffirm your geekness

[GepettoBR]

when you need to read these comments to reaffirm your geekness

When you don't need to read these comments to reaffirm your geekness, because you can feel it in your soul (which you call your BIOS)

[ravirdv]

When you don't need to read these comments to reaffirm your geekness, because you can feel it in your soul (which you call your BIOS)

soul is definitely not BIOS, basic input-output system is something different :lolflag: u know wat i mean

[Saint Angeles]

... you wonder, what would happen if EVERYBODY thanked me for this post?

[jeffus_il]

You know you're a geek when:
You think your brain has limited CPU capacity,
You think you are running out of memory,
You hibernate at night instead of just plain shutting down.

[bharadwaj]

you know you are geek when you finally find a place like matrix and yourself as neo in it ;)

[Kopachris]

you know you are geek when you finally find a place like matrix and yourself as neo in it ;)
That's kinda creepy... I just finished watching the Matrix trilogy last night, and now you make a post about it. Weird...

[money2themax]

you can take apart a Western Digital 120GB Passport with one hand

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdWKNQHLTmw

[R_T_H]

You are disappointed because there is no Linux distro small enough to be put on your graphical calculator

[bufsabre666]

You are disappointed because there is no Linux distro small enough to be put on your graphical calculator

we should consault texas instruments and try to get them to make mirage open source, then well see how long it take =P

[money2themax]

we should consault texas instruments and try to get them to make mirage open source, then well see how long it take =P

what are you gonna run on it ultra micro linux it would need to be 64k i don't think its windows embeded i think the run off of UNIX cuze thats what UNIX was made for in the first place

[Martje_001]

You're a geek when:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647847

[GepettoBR]

soul is definitely not BIOS, basic input-output system is something different :lolflag: u know wat i mean

You know you're a geek when you appreciate the humor in that.

[ohmyiv]

You're a geek when:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647847

01101100 01101111 01101100

[schauerlich]

You know you're a geek when you got RAM for Christmas - and it was your favorite gift.

[sci-fi guy]

You know you're a geek when you got RAM for Christmas - and it was your favorite gift.

Stargate: Atlantis -- Season 3
Go figure, I haven't seen any episodes since halfway through season 1, and I would have preferred SG-1 or Star Trek: TNG

[LaRoza]

You know you're a geek when you got RAM for Christmas - and it was your favorite gift.

I would have liked that, 1 DIMM of PC2-4200 would have been nice.

(I already have 2.5 GB, so it would just be a luxury)

[money2themax]

I would have liked that, 1 DIMM of PC2-4200 would have been nice.

(I already have 2.5 GB, so it would just be a luxury)

I NEED Extra RAM i'm running windows under win4lin and i've only got 1GB i can house up to 4GB

[LaRoza]

I NEED Extra RAM i'm running windows under win4lin and i've only got 1GB i can house up to 4GB

If you have a 32 bit OS, only go up to 3 GB otherwise you are wasting RAM. A 64 bit OS can use 4 GB.

[money2themax]

If you have a 32 bit OS, only go up to 3 GB otherwise you are wasting RAM. A 64 bit OS can use 4 GB.
i'm running 32 but i have an Athlon 64 and i have both versions of this OS x86 and x64

[LaRoza]

i'm running 32 but i have an Athlon 64 and i have both versions of this OS x86 and x64

Use the 64 bit then.

[money2themax]

isn't that gonna make some progs not work? and i got win4lin running. can i just upgrade of is it a new installation?

[Frak]

isn't that gonna make some progs not work? and i got win4lin running. can i just upgrade of is it a new installation?
Almost all of my programs for x86 are compiled for 64 also. All the other issues have been sorted out.

[money2themax]

Almost all of my programs for x86 are compiled for 64 also. All the other issues have been sorted out.

can i do an upgrade or is it a fresh install only?

[sci-fi guy]

can i do an upgrade or is it a fresh install only?

Fresh install. But you can transfer the contents of your /home folder to save your settings

[money2themax]

Fresh install. But you can transfer the contents of your /home folder to save your settings

Crap umm...r u sure?

[sci-fi guy]

Pretty much. I may be wrong about this (upgrade vs. install), but I doubt it. The /home folder thing I am very confident about.

[133794m3r]

You know you're a geek when you find it much easier to count 01, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111.... Wait that's a nerd. You also know that you're Nerd when You scream in Klingonese. You also know that you're a geek whenever you wake one morning and you now have three HDD in your floor but there's five computer in the room. You also know that you're a geek when you've used this classic pick up line.
"If I'm Sine^2 and you're Cosine^2, then let's get together and become 1."~ a MIT Student. (believe that he was a junior. Bachelors going after he was)

[vincentvee]

I got a flash drive, and it was my favorite gift....it even beats the ride on mower and the quarter acre block of ground my wife gave me to build our new house on

You know you're a geek when you got RAM for Christmas - and it was your favorite gift.

[Salazar420]

You ask the mailman what protocol he used?

[money2themax]

You also know that you're a geek whenever you wake one morning and you now have three HDD in your floor but there's five computer in the room.
hey that sounds like my room ^.^

[LaRoza]

You ask the mailman what protocol he used?

I should try that...

[money2themax]

I should try that...

:lolflag:Tell us what he says when you do:lolflag:

[sci-fi guy]

You might be a geek if the concept of camping (and all that it entails) makes you slightly queasy.

[bharadwaj]

That's kinda creepy... I just finished watching the Matrix trilogy last night, and now you make a post about it. Weird...
How can you just say that i love the whole trilogy of it

[MalfunctioningMartian]

You spend most of a camping trip in you bunk reading a thick Science Fiction book.

[Salazar420]

:lolflag:Tell us what he says when you do:lolflag:

lol... indeed, please do.

[other guy]

You know your a geek, or is that a nerd.
When you remember the famous Linus and Andrew debate. Then understand each point's merit. The bonus is, not using google to find out what this debate was.

[Keith_Beef]

You can count to 1023 on your fingers (useful if you've ever played french horn in an orchestra...))
Yup. Taught my seven year old son to count to 31 on one hand... he was rather astounded by that...

You sit for hours watching the terminal as software compiles)
Don't do that any more... not since about 1996, when compiling kernel 2.0.36 took for ever on a 486. Now, I barely have time to go to the fridge for a beer, and the code's done compiling!

You start conversations with 'ping' (or 220))
HEY! Cloth-ears! seems to work as a WOL.

You confuse the staff in Maplin (or whatever electronics/computer shops your country has)
It isn't really tricky to confuse holiday-camp staff with tech questions. Hidey-hi! Ted can't hear you! PING!PING!PING, cloth-ears!

Beef.

[yabbadabbadont]

You start conversations with 'ping' (or 220)

Or you start it with:

SYN
SYN
ENQ

[money2themax]

you know your a geek when you can recite the dialog of all 6 episodes of starwars

[sci-fi guy]

you know your a geek when you can recite the dialog of all 6 episodes of starwars

Anybody could do that. Doing it from memory alone would be impressive.

[money2themax]

Anybody could do that. Doing it from memory alone would be impressive.
thats what i meant

[sci-fi guy]

thats what i meant

I know. ;-)

[Salazar420]

...you'd rather sit and check up on understanding microprocessors than go take the **** you've needed to take for the last ten minutes(fifteen is typically when the line is drawn, literally -- only jesting about the literals).

...you theorize about life, the afterlife, and the neverlife, (whatever that may be -- chose your perspective), perhaps even compulsively, yet believe that "God" was a man among the ranks of novelists. (They do, after all, create "worlds;" i.e. God was of the rank of novelists, yet I cannot seem to keep from pondering life and the supposed "afterlife").

...Looking back on the latter, I suppose I should have wrote it in a non-dyslexic manner (should have wrote it the other way around).

...feel the need to either: a., justify whatever you say; b., feel the need to describe everything again in laymens terms, despite not feeling the need to check for acknowledgement or comprehension.

P.S. I know religion is a touchy subject universally, so I'd just like to say that my opinions are in no way meant to anger or displease anyone, and are potentially fake beliefs I've set up for the thread... lalala... late.

[snakeeyes]

you know u r a geek if u think Linux is ur best friend.

[allforcarrie]

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

/end thread



or you type /end thread.

[Frak]

You know every admin command to any quake game.

!listplayers
!kick 29 decon (its tremulous)
!showbans -10
!ban 4 0 Decon, appeal at url here, duration PERM
!removeban 3
or
!adjustban 3 1s

or the ever powerful

!listplayers
/!slap 7 0
or
/!slap 7 400 (instant kill)

latter because you are EXTREMELY bored. :lolflag:

[compiledkernel]

You actually play Quake via ttyquake (Gotta love Textmode quake).

[s0ury]

When you think this thread is hilarious and you proceed to copy/paste your favorites into a text document and then attach it for others.

ahaahahahahhaha
exacrtly what i'm doing at this moment :D

[pelicanghost]

-When you own a Klingon-English dictionary, your friend tries to find a Vulcan-English one.

-whenever you sit down, your hands automatically go to the mouse/wasd configuration.

-When discussing Linux, you try to express the value you hold for intellectual property, then wonder if you have to trash all your music just to prove a point.

[LaRoza]

-whenever you sit down, your hands automatically go to the mouse/wasd configuration.


http://www.x-tremegeek.com/templates/SearchDetail.asp?productID=13201

[MalfunctioningMartian]

When your GNOME panel looks like this:

[ryanVickers]

Your forgetting the temperature monitors for your city, your friends city, your 2 cores, they're speed, load in text each, and the CPU and case fan speeds :D

[Overbyte]

When the first toy you had was emacs.


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[money2themax]

When your GNOME panel looks like this:
how'd you do that?

you know your a geek when you think this is funny
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/zombie.html

[ryanVickers]

:lolflag: wow that looks ... interesting... :rolleyes:

[LaRoza]

...when your are upset your new webcam works out of the box in Linux.

I wanted to tinker!

[zhimsel]

When you are typing out a path in the Forums and you try to tab-complete it.
Not just in the Forums... EVERYWHERE!!! such as SFTP ='[

You try not to use public computers because you don't want to see all the problems with the way they are administered- cause you will see them.

(plus you miss the extra screen).
I can't stand them!

You use "zeroth" as the first position in a queue or other sequence of arbitrary size.
I always start with zero =]

You sit for hours watching the terminal as software compiles
I thought that was just me...

Oh, and you know you're a geek when you speak properly in IM's...

[compiledkernel]

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[ryanVickers]

...when someone asks you to sit down and you reply with "bah! sitting's for non-borg people..." :p

[snakeeyes]

you know u r a geek when watching the terminal while the latest kernel is compiled is actually fun for u.

[pelicanghost]

1. You have your own Wikipedia article, started and maintained by you.
2. Your room is set at 58 degrees F, just to be another cooling unit for your computer.
3. Contemplating the existence of man requires that you play ____________ for hours on end or really loudly.
4. You have not seen the sun in eight days.
5. You started a flame war over whether or not Patrick Stewart is really French
6. You can endure anything they throw at you, for you can feel at your core, that it is your destiny to rule where Gates once stood.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

7.You didn't build your PC, but you did enough with it that no one can tell the difference.
8. You have not seen the BIOS in eight days.

[ryanVickers]

...when your email notifier breaks, your first action is not the thought to fix it, not to simply use another, but for your finger to fly to your hotkey for running vim so you can start making your own right away :D

[money2themax]

now this may sound weird but...you know your a geek when the bullies, jocks, and teachers come to you for computer help

[MONODA]

... your cell phone ring tone and your computer startup sound is linus saying linux and you are fascinated by it every time.
youve written a script before
you know what a script is
and youre only 10....
youve tried all of the conky.rc files in the "post your conky.rc file" thread

[ryanVickers]

now this may sound weird but...you know your a geek when the bullies, jocks, and teachers come to you for computer help

nope doesn't sound weird at all! :D

[Nekiruhs]

whenever you sit down, your hands automatically go to the mouse/wasd configuration.

Got me there. I play too many FPS's.

[Bllasae]

You know you're a geek when you sit down backwards, and can complete every maintenance program for Windows without looking.

[money2themax]

You know you're a geek when you sit down backwards, and can complete every maintenance program for Windows without looking.
hey i gotta try that:lolflag:

nope doesn't sound weird at all! :D
that actually happend to me

[Ripfox]

You wear glasses with tape in the middle and you have a pocket protector and you live on a college campus and are engaged in battle with the "cool" jock fraternity and there are hilarious outcomes.

[steveneddy]

You keep coming back to this thread to see if anyone is geekier than you, and if they are, how will you out geek them?

:popcorn:

[Bllasae]

hey i gotta try that:lolflag:

I probably could, but it would be interesting to see :popcorn:.

[Lostincyberspace]

When you see food and want it to spin around for you when double click it.

[baskus]

Dont know if this one has been mentioned yet because I didn't read through all of them but here goes. You know you are a geek when.... (hardware geek anyway) you can undo both of the monitor cable retainer screw thingies at the same time with one hand while not looking at the connector! :) I just noticed I could do this the other day and suddenly realized I spend way too much time monkeying around with computers... but I love it so I wont quit! :D

Cheers!
Stew2

I'd say:
You know you're a geek when you have stopped screwing those connectors in place since you will probably disconnect them soon anyway... :)

[twin_57103]

...when you keep a spare monitor, keyboard, and at least one mouse, so you can repair other peoples' computers without disconnecting your own.

...when you buy a larger computer desk so that you can work on -and run - multiple computers at once. Case in point - I am repairing one computer while posting this and my laptop is standing by if needed.

...when you have rebuilt a computer at least 5 times since you last changed the oil in your car (seen on a computer store gift card)

...you can 10-key left-handed

[mysticrider92]

7.You didn't build your PC, but you did enough with it that no one can tell the difference.
8. You have not seen the BIOS in eight days.

7. I am not sure I agree, real geeks build their own computers with the stuff most users would throw away. 8-[

8. Grrr... Nearly 8 days, but the power dropped this afternoon...

You are probably a geek if you are fixing a Windows computer and thinking to yourself "if this thing ran Linux, this never would have happened". Or if you could go through the Windows XP installer blindfolded, since you have fixed so many computers by just reinstalling (this is not how I fix mine, as I rarely have problems with Linux, but I do find it to be an effective virus removal method).

[joe.turion64x2]

When you always carry around at least one Linux LiveCD in case you need to recover files from a borked Windows installation.

[money2themax]

...when you keep a spare monitor, keyboard, and at least one mouse, so you can repair other peoples' computers without disconnecting your own.

...when you buy a larger computer desk so that you can work on -and run - multiple computers at once. Case in point - I am repairing one computer while posting this and my laptop is standing by if needed.

...when you have rebuilt a computer at least 5 times since you last changed the oil in your car (seen on a computer store gift card)

...you can 10-key left-handed

1. i have 3 of each
2. i have a dinner table in my room where i work [i'll post a pic] i also have a 2ftx2ft fan pointed at my comp at all times
3. what is a 10 key?
4. i work on mine once a week

[madsmeg]

When you take your live CD to uni because you hate using that M$ crap, and you get compiz etc running on it from live CD :p

[Pethegreat]

This is more general geek/nerd stuff.

You write a word on paper and wait for spell check to underline it in red.
You see any algebra equation and you try and find the first derivative.
You see any 2 random letters together and try to think of what element it is.
You have more than one working stereo in your room.

[ryanVickers]

guilty of all but the last one (but ... well this might be worse... I use my computer as one, and I hook up my mp3 player to home-made contraptions of random wires and electronics everywhere.... lol :D)

[joe.turion64x2]

When you carry, along with your MP3 player, all sorts of wires so you can connect it if necessary to any type of stereo.

[money2themax]

When you carry, along with your MP3 player, all sorts of wires so you can connect it if necessary to any type of stereo.

bypass the stereo go straight to any kind of speaker

[twin_57103]

1. i have 3 of each
2. i have a dinner table in my room where i work [i'll post a pic] i also have a 2ftx2ft fan pointed at my comp at all times
3. what is a 10 key?
4. i work on mine once a week

10-key is the numeric keypad on the right of most keyboards. We type on it left-handed while using a microscope (right-handed movement & focusing) at work.

[money2themax]

you know your a geek what you sig it this checking for beer in -lfridge... no
Warning: No beer found in fridge!
We highly suggest that you rectify this situation immediately.

or you find that funny like me i find that funny

[stephenbrazier]

1. When you get annoyed at the fact they use Windows at school.


Yup thats me but i complain out load to my ICT teacher :lolflag:

[money2themax]

Yup thats me but i complain out load to my ICT teacher :lolflag:
i complained to the head office

[corney91]

Yup thats me but i complain out loud to my ICT teacher :lolflag:

You know you're a geek when you feel the need to correct things like that:p

...Sorry couldn't resist :hangs head in shame:

[joe.turion64x2]

You know you're a geek when you feel the need to correct things like that:p

...Sorry couldn't resist :hangs head in shame:
You know you are a geek when your job's staff (school) asks you to assist them to move all machines to Linux.

[ryanVickers]

guilty of all but the last one (but ... well this might be worse... I use my computer as one, and I hook up my mp3 player to home-made contraptions of random wires and electronics everywhere.... lol :D)

the peak of my geekyness under this category was when I had taped wires all up my wall and had a speaker just taped there in the middle of the wall and it was hooked up to that if the door-nob was turned it would connect the mp3 player's power and then it would play through my electronics kit to the speaker on the wall not a siren like normal people but a song...
the only problem was that I had 120 volts running through the door nob so I used lots of tape to keep that safe! :D

[Ripfox]

You should have recorded yourself snoring, then you could be the high-tech Ferris Bueller!

[Pethegreat]

the only problem was that I had 120 volts running through the door nob so I used lots of tape to keep that safe!
You should have made a control circuit and used 5 volts.

Another one:
You own more than 5 pair of speakers(I got 8 pairs)
Only half of them work

[yabbadabbadont]

You have a large drum plotter in your home. (Houston Instrument DMP-60 ;))
You built your own serial cable with custom pin-outs in order to use it. :lol:

You still have the Intel reference manuals for chips that are no longer produced.

You still have the original installation disks for software that won't run on your current hardware.

Edit: You are proud of the above and post it in this thread. :D

[Bllasae]

You should have made a control circuit and used 5 volts.

Another one:
You own more than 5 pair of speakers(I got 8 pairs)
Only half of them work
Are you from the Filefront forums?

You know you're a geek when you have at least 5 hard drives in one computer.

[money2themax]

You should have made a control circuit and used 5 volts.

Another one:
You own more than 5 pair of speakers(I got 8 pairs)
Only half of them work

you know your a geek when you start giving advice to other geeks about their geeky projects

[Trail]

You know what "raising skinny elephants is utterly boring" refers to.

[Potatoj316]

You can carry on a conversation with another geek and no one else knows what your talking about.

[money2themax]

You know what "raising skinny elephants is utterly boring" refers to.
no i have no clue. what does that mean?

[reacocard]

no i have no clue. what does that mean?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=617349

when you know not only what most terms like that reference, but can provide a link for more information on them in less than a minute, without using a search engine.

[money2themax]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=617349

when you know not only what most terms like that reference, but can provide a link for more information on them in less than a minute, without using a search engine.

i don't understand wha...?

[ryanVickers]

your not geeky enough ;)

I get it , but wow 8 keys to shutdown... :shock:

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you didn't get a widescreen monitor to watch movies, but to ft more screenlets on your desktop.

[ryanVickers]

Isn't that the purpose of all screen upgrades? Fit more stuff? :p

[GepettoBR]

Isn't that the purpose of all screen upgrades? Fit more stuff? :p

yes, for us geeks (although I like it more because it lets me have bigger preview windows in Adobe Premiere and AfterEffects)

[reacocard]

your not geeky enough ;)

I get it , but wow 8 keys to shutdown... :shock:

well, it mainly intended for when you can't shut it off normally. I've used it myself a number of times and I have to say its nice to at least know my disks have been unmounted nicely, not something you can guarantee with a pure cold reboot.

[GepettoBR]

well, it mainly intended for when you can't shut it off normally. I've used it myself a number of times and I have to say its nice to at least know my disks have been unmounted nicely, not something you can guarantee with a pure cold reboot.

Geekiness aside, I've only ever used Windows and Mac (which never needs rebooting) up until recently, so I don't know: why is it important for the harddrives to unmount before reboot? God knows I've pulled the plug on Windows scores of times, but I've never had an HD crash or data loss because of it.

[sleepingdragon]

You are the family computer fixer, but none of the problems relate to Windows...

or Mac...

They were removed months ago. :)

[tech9]

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

Dream Code
(all you programmers out there know what I am talking about) :)

[Kopachris]

5. You started a flame war over whether or not Patrick Stewart is really French

Patrick Stewart is English, duh! Can't you tell by his accent? ;)

[yabbadabbadont]

your not geeky enough ;)

I get it , but wow 8 keys to shutdown... :shock:

You can get away with 's', 'u', 's', 'b', generally. It's generally a good idea to use a journaling file system too. (I use the 'data=journal' option on mine)

[reacocard]

Geekiness aside, I've only ever used Windows and Mac (which never needs rebooting) up until recently, so I don't know: why is it important for the harddrives to unmount before reboot? God knows I've pulled the plug on Windows scores of times, but I've never had an HD crash or data loss because of it.

I have never experienced data loss either, but it still does reduce the chances of it happening and it also saves you having to grope for the power button (if the comp is under a desk, for example).

[ryanVickers]

...when:

...You are becoming a machine:
-when you get a tear in your eye you see on top of the blur, the RGB separation...
-when your tired the whole world seems to flicker like a CRT at a low refresh rate

...You have stupid word/number recognition:
-during a Brazil unit in social, you still think of the file sharing service first when you hear the word "samba"
-you see the word "India" and thing "nVidia" just because they have similar letters...
-you here "what's the opposite of '-15'" in math and think "-9"...;) (think kill commands...)

[Kopachris]

Geekiness aside, I've only ever used Windows and Mac (which never needs rebooting) up until recently, so I don't know: why is it important for the harddrives to unmount before reboot? God knows I've pulled the plug on Windows scores of times, but I've never had an HD crash or data loss because of it.
I know exactly what you mean. We run our TV on our "main" computer in our living room. It NEVER gets restarted until it locks up. Nobody restarts it. And then it locks up and won't do anything and I push the reset button and then my dad get mad at me because we could loose our data. What data? All we do on that computer is watch TV. Yet still it runs, and still we watch Star Trek: Voyager Monday through Friday at 5 and 6, and still we watch Kathryn Janeway get beat up by the Delta Quadrant. All this aside...

You know you're a geek when...
you capitalize Alpha/Beta/Gamma/Delta Quadrant and other Star Trek names (like Quark).
you want to change the world, but they won't give you the source code. So you write your own source code.
you're planning to get a new computer in a few weeks and you stroke your computer saying, "I'll miss ya buddy". I'm going to sell my PowerBook G4 (which has served me for a long time and still runs very well. It's a 17" 1.67GHz with 1GB of RAM and 128MB VRAM) to a friend for $2,600. He actually made the offer, which I can't refuse.
you're reading the Ubuntu forums at school and get annoyed with some kids arguing about whether or not a peso equals 10¢, so you look it up and tell them and they shut up. For future reference, it's 0.09 USD.
every game you own you either downloaded (illegally), or you cracked yourself.

BTW, that "count to 31 on one hand" trick is awesome.:lolflag:

[dmacdonald111]

...you decide to move your system around the room and realise it's the messiest place in the room and find old pizza boxes and empty cans of energy drinks.

...you find an old, thumbed through copy of 'linux in 10 days' stuffed down the back of the desk and realise that you never actually finished reading it. So do so when the power goes down.

...you find it more comfortable to sit with your legs crossed.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you find it more natural to count on your fingers in binary rather than decimal.
You know you're a geek when you won't respond to anyone in the morning until after you've had two cups of coffee and have read the Ubuntu forums.

[money2themax]

You know you're a geek when you find it more natural to count on your fingers in binary rather than decimal.
You know you're a geek when you won't respond to anyone in the morning until after you've had two cups of coffee and have read the Ubuntu forums.
i actually do that but change morning to noon i stay up till 12AM~3AM and wake up at 12PM

[ryanVickers]

You know you're a geek when you find it more natural to count on your fingers in binary rather than decimal.
You know you're a geek when you won't respond to anyone in the morning until after you've had two cups of coffee and have read the Ubuntu forums.

you find it easier to think in BASH and actionScript (adobe flash) than english in most logic cases...

you think its normal to carry and old 128Mb USB stick, a new 4Gb Sd card (+ reader) and a 7.04 32 bit Ubuntu CD in your pocket at all times just in case you need to use a computer (and of course can't use windows!! :mad:) :D

[mysticrider92]

When you look at that AMD K6-2 sitting on the shelf and wonder if you could turn it into a usable Arch desktop (Ubuntu is probably a little bloated for it)...

You wish that all computer hardware was standardized so you don't have to use a dremel on that Dell Optiplex case to fit a non-Dell PSU in there...

[ryanVickers]

yes, for us geeks (although I like it more because it lets me have bigger preview windows in Adobe Premiere and AfterEffects)

exactly! all jokes a side, the purpose of getting a beiiger screen is always to a) fit more stuff or b) make everything look bigger

I usually go with a though... I used to run my old CRT (~16" viewable) at like 1920 x something... :D

[Ioky]

You know you are a Geek when you only know the first few letter of any word, and putting tab for the rest....

[pelicanghost]

Patrick Stewart is English, duh! Can't you tell by his accent? ;)
This refers to someone who knows he's English, and someone who just knows him from TNG (Jean-Luc Picard).

[money2themax]

This refers to someone who knows he's English, and someone who just knows him from TNG (Jean-Luc Picard).
wow after you saying that he does sound French [the character he plays i mean]
:lolflag:

[FuturePilot]

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[Kadrus]

You know you're a geek when you attack your brother with a keyboard for saying that Open Source sucks.:lolflag:..Yes I actually did that..:p

[GepettoBR]

When you try sudo apt-get remove wisdom-teeth before actually going to see a dentist.

[money2themax]

You know you're a geek when you attack your brother with a keyboard for saying that Open Source sucks.:lolflag:..Yes I actually did that..:p
nice id have done the same thing...until my keyboard broke

[Kadrus]

nice id have done the same thing...until my keyboard broke

:lolflag:..:)

[money2themax]

:lolflag:..:)
yup i love linux it's like the family i never knew i had every other OS and co feels like the evil step mother from Cinderella

[MONODA]

... you get lost and try to pwd*
... you have the alphabet written on your wall..... in binary
... all your music and video files are .ogg*
... you have rockbox*
... and ipodlinux- on the same ipod- and its the newest generation
... you made a keyboard shortcut to the terminal*
... you backup more than once a day*
... you backup-period
... you are running an os that you helped develop
... your desktop is a cube*
... you have a chair with the debian logo on it.*
all the ones with a * apply to me :P

[GepettoBR]

... you have a chair with the debian logo on it.*
all the ones with a * apply to me :P
Cool. Where'd you get it?

[MONODA]

I dont remember. it was a few years back when I didnt know GNU/Linux existed and i thought that the drawing looked cool.

[Kadrus]

You know you're a geek when you have a a sticker of the Ubuntu Logo on your door. :p

[Kopachris]

... you get lost and try to pwd*
... you have the alphabet written on your wall..... in binary
... all your music and video files are .ogg*
... you have rockbox*
... and ipodlinux- on the same ipod- and its the newest generation
... you made a keyboard shortcut to the terminal*
... you backup more than once a day*
... you backup-period
... you are running an os that you helped develop
... your desktop is a cube*
... you have a chair with the debian logo on it.*
all the ones with a * apply to me :P
... you get lost and try to pwd
... you have the alphabet written on your wall..... in binary
... all your music and video files are .ogg
... you have rockbox
... and ipodlinux- on the same ipod- and its the newest generation
... you made a keyboard shortcut to the terminal*
... you backup more than once a day
... you backup-period*
... you are running an os that you helped develop*
... your desktop is a cube
... you have a chair with the debian logo on it.
all the ones with a * apply to me :P

When you talk to someone by signing binary ascii codes
When you write down the organizational system in your room like a filesystem*:

/room
/dev
/backpack
/dresser
/closet
/bin
mirror
clock
computer
calculator
door
notebook
/home
/me
/downloads
/book
chapter1.odt
chapter2.odt
/bed
/bin
blanket
pillow
mattress
sleep

and etc...

[kris_a]

Maybe when you are reading this forum at midnight on an Ubuntu machine whilst waiting for Gentoo to finish an emerge --update world on your xbox!

When you just can't keep quiet when the CIA computers in the latest movie go beep-beep-beep when the user is typing or when displaying text on the screen... I mean think about it, how annoying would that be!

:D

[Kopachris]

When you're appalled that some kids actually need a "Computer Tech" class to learn how to use a computer. I've been using MS Word for 10 years now, most kids in my class don't know how to open it from the start menu. Guess what? This first week or two of the semester we've been learning about the parts of a computer. My teacher said that the CPU was "The box underneath the monitor". No... the "box underneath the monitor" is just the "box underneath the monitor".

You know you're a geek when you have to constantly correct your computer tech teacher (at least in your head).

[ryanVickers]

lol yeah, I guess I'm lucky that, even though we use windows :mad:, the teacher owns a mac for home and also actually knows what he's doing ;)

EDIT: thought I should mention, I just take the class for extra easy marks, I don't actually need 4 days to learn to format a Word page... :p

[Pethegreat]

Are you from the Filefront forums?
On the interweb you can't hide forever.

You threaten people with going back to windows in order to get tech support for Linux.

[Tristicus]

"You have over 3 computers in your room runing and enough parts to build 2 more".

Like me sorta.....

[kool_kat_os]

You know you're a geek when..

You have used words like "lol", "leet" and "omg" in daily speech
You miss the F1 button under math classes
You say lol instead of laughing.. or you write :D, :P in essays at school
You try yo get into the BIOS of your car
You scream "Just ******* google it" when somebody asks a simple question in the class
You accuse everybody running faster than your self of using speed hack
You've got The Flu and are trying to do a virus check
Somebody asks you about your address, you give them: 192.12.0.140
You are seriously considering asking your doctor how much you can overclock your brain
At Macdonalds, you're ordering a 160MB hamburger
You wish you've ordered your house through Microsoft, it would be so easy to just take the backdoor in..

How do you get into to BIOS for you car?

[sci-fi guy]

How do you get into to BIOS for you car?

There is a port (usually under the passenger-side dash on most modern vehicles) called an OBD II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD2) connector. It allows access to the car's computer logs and stats for diagnostic purposes (commonly accessed with a rugged, $3000 real-time-access comp by mechanics but there are some cheap chips (http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/SearchDetail.asp?productID=15962) that will record certain logs for access later.

[money2themax]

When you're appalled that some kids actually need a "Computer Tech" class to learn how to use a computer. I've been using MS Word for 10 years now, most kids in my class don't know how to open it from the start menu. Guess what? This first week or two of the semester we've been learning about the parts of a computer. My teacher said that the CPU was "The box underneath the monitor". No... the "box underneath the monitor" is just the "box underneath the monitor".

You know you're a geek when you have to constantly correct your computer tech teacher (at least in your head).
yup i get that too and then when you try to correct them they tell you your wrong and you have no idea what you talking about [i brought my collage repair book i just bought to him and found the picture of Th MOBO and pointed to the CPU good thing it was labeled he didn't like me for out shining him]

[jaysons]

All too funny!!!

[money2themax]

meh he was an *** so i had to 1 up him before i moved up a grade

[Kopachris]

This might of already been said (possibly by me, not sure), but it just came to mind since I'm building LFS. You know you're a geek if you'll sit and watch GCC compile itself for hours.
You know you're a geek if it's never taken you hours to compile anything.

[brunovecchi]

(disclaimer:maybe it's been said, haven't gone through all the 101 pages to check!)

You know you are a geek when you write your groceries list in Vim. :)

[sci-fi guy]

You know you're a geek when you can dial Earth from any Stargate in the Universe.

[money2themax]

(disclaimer:maybe it's been said, haven't gone through all the 101 pages to check!)

You know you are a geek when you write your groceries list in Vim. :)
Vim?

you know your a geek when for fun you write [by that i mean render, compile, ect.] a sequel to the movie cars in Blender and try to get Disney to put it on DVD [or any other CG movie]

[ryanVickers]

Vim?

yeah, you know, Vim, or Vi, that terminal-based text editor with the, how did they put it, I don't remember but it was something to do with nonsensical key combinations, incomprehensible for new users, but very powerful... :p

[money2themax]

yeah, you know, Vim, or Vi, that terminal-based text editor with the, how did they put it, I don't remember but it was something to do with nonsensical key combinations, incomprehensible for new users, but very powerful... :p
like terminal? sry i'm only 17~18 i started using Linux abut the time SuSE 9.2~9.5

[ryanVickers]

like terminal? sry i'm only 17~18 i started using Linux abut the time SuSE 9.2~9.5

yeah in the terminal.

I know how it is, I'm 14 and I only started on Redhat 6 when I was about 10 years old ;)

[yabbadabbadont]

You guys make me feel my age. I learned how to read punch cards in the '70s...

[ryanVickers]

And now we have things like Python and AMD's tri-core* processor :p

Taylor said AMD's plan to ship a triple-core processor in the first quarter is still on track. "[Resellers] want triple-core as fast as they can because it gives them differentiation and it hits a sweet spot in the market," he added.

-Green IT > Power and cooling > Coming soon: low-power AMD processor (http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/e39c72f9-7739-46ce-a82f-5aa454231e5a.html)