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

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you have a 10,000 x 7,000 IMAX projector in your house. And you can actually use the full resolution. Can you imagine what kind of video card(s) that would require?!

[hhhhhx]

You know you're a geek when you have a 10,000 x 7,000 IMAX projector in your house. And you can actually use the full resolution. Can you imagine what kind of video card(s) that would require?!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195056 x3

[chris200x9]

you wish everything was recursive like terminal ( push up to repeat what you just typed/wrote)

[Kopachris]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195056 x3

That answers my question. Kinda expensive, though. Then again, we're talking about an IMAX projector...

[cegpope]

10,000 x 7,000 IMAX projector



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195056 x3

Max Resolution 2560 x 1600




I must not be geeky enough to get this.

[hhhhhx]

10,000 x 7,000 IMAX projector
Max Resolution 2560 x 1600
I must not be geeky enough to get this.
well i max projectors take it right from the film strip, but if your running it from a computer, this is as close as you can get

[LaRoza]

When you buy a flashlight with 95 LED's just so you can tell others about it.

[thenetduck]

You know your a geek when, both the top and bottom side of your for-arm are the same color... pasty white.

(this might not apply to everyone lol)

[Kopachris]

10,000 x 7,000 IMAX projector
Max Resolution 2560 x 1600
I must not be geeky enough to get this.

That card (2560 x 1600) times 3. And actually, you'd probably need more like 5 or 6 of them. And a heck of a lot of hard drive space.

[ElfQueen86]

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

Its Ez'er for you to use a MS DOS or a Terminal than using the given UI.
(not me)

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when this is your system (lotta fans in there...):

[GepettoBR]

You've thought of all the possible names for each version of Ubuntu from A-Z. C'mon, Erotic Elephant was a good idea.

We can still hope for Hardy +1 to be baptized Incestuous Iguana :guitar:

[corney91]

We can still hope for Hardy +1 to be baptized Incestuous Iguana :guitar:
Nope. (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-February/025136.html)
If only though...:p

[GepettoBR]

Nope. (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-February/025136.html)
If only though...:p
Intrepid Ibex? I like mine better.

Maybe Ibex+1 can still be the Jealous Jellyfish...

[gwoodard]

or "Icy Iguana"

[talsemgeest]

I just don't think intrepid Ibex fits with the rest. I mean, Ubuntu gutsy, Ubuntu hardy, but Ubuntu Intrepid?

I know its just an extra syllable, but it doesn't roll off the tongue like the rest.

[Chame_Wizard]

You compile to much :guitar:

[Mazza558]

...When plugging USB sticks and mass storage in on Windows, you instinctively look on the desktop. :)

[xuCGC002]

c, confusing your computer teacher
I once got in trouble for saying that I don't use Mac OS X or Windows.

[Superkoop]

...you don't have enough money to buy your GF a birthday present, and instead code her a program that tells her how much you love her in every language known to man, including elven. (both Quenya and Sindarin)

[Pethegreat]

Did you install Linux on it after that?
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Linux#H...e_Requirements
I need a small motherboard, then I can do it. I may just have to build a computer inside that old toaster oven. I would just have to cut out a slot for the outputs and a PSU.

You know your a geek when you spend your Sunday afternoon building a wood gasifier for a science fair project.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you already knew about the "Magic SysRq key" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key). I'll have to try that out when I finally get around to recompiling my kernel (need to add PTYs support for LFS).

[hhhhhx]

...When plugging USB sticks and mass storage in on Windows, you instinctively look on the desktop. :)
i knew windows was slow, but cmon when will it show up......oh..wait .... ya..nevermind :lolflag:

[MONODA]

... when you write the date for april 2008 on you term papers as: 8.04

[NightwishFan]

... when you write the date for april 2008 on you term papers as: 8.04

=D

[MONODA]

I got another one which is similar to the one I posted before:
when reading, if you come across october 2007 you read gutsy gibbon instead.
ex: the writing says: John was born in october 2007
you read it: John was born in gutsy gibbon.
ehh not too funny i know

[NightwishFan]

It would be fun to think that way.

Ancient Chinese Master:
Ahh, October 2007, so you were born in the year of the Monkey.

[gwoodard]

You know you are a geek when: your brother tells you he bought a 1,300 U.S. Dollar PC from Dell, and you go to Dell.com and look at what he bought, to discover he paid 30 U.S. Dollars more than he had too, called him back to tell him his mistakes :lolflag:

[Kopachris]

You know you are a geek when: your brother tells you he bought a 1,300 U.S. Dollar PC from Dell, and you go to Dell.com and look at what he bought, to discover he paid 30 U.S. Dollars more than he had too, called him back to tell him his mistakes :lolflag:

Why would anyone buy a computer from Dell? You could just buy the parts from TigerDirect or Newegg and get a better computer at a lower price.

You know you're a geek when you find it strange that people don't want to build their own computers.

[clanky]

Your system crashes and you see it as an opportunity to tweak rather than a pain in the ***.

[myusername]

when you have these forums as your homepage

[anantshri]

well for me the sign's of geek is

if you try to convince road side vendor to install a CRM,


or

if you write googling as you hobby.

[Trail]

When you modify the amarok OSD from the classic hyphens (Pink Floyd - Animals - Dogs) to C++'s scope resolution operator (like Pink Floyd::Animals::Dogs), because you prefer to think of the artist and album titles as nested namespaces.

[Kopachris]

when you have these forums as your homepage

Close, Wikipedia. I have u > tab > enter as my path to my Ubuntu forums subscriptions.

[Circus-Killer]

...you giggle at cars with license plates that contain letter-combinations like "BSD" and "PHP".

[NightwishFan]

=D yeah I do that.

[MONODA]

you explain your love to someone in reference to the Ph scale

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you have an Openmoko Neo1973. Dang, they're sold out! I sooo want one.

[MONODA]

You know you're a geek when you have an Openmoko Neo1973. Dang, they're sold out! I sooo want one.
yeah i want one too but im gonna wait for the mass market version.

[klange]

You know you're a geek when you feel that everyone who was ever important to you (outside of your close friends) is dying. RIP Gygax and Clarke.

[daanemanz]

...the first bite of your pizza is cold because you wanted to calculate pi from it (again).

...you get aroused by thinking that a 'female CAT5 connector' is a synonym for 'a hot pussycat'.

...

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you feel that everyone who was ever important to you (outside of your close friends) is dying. RIP Gygax and Clarke.

RIP Unnamed Marine #1, Unnamed Marine #4, Unnamed Marine #7
RIT (Rest in Terror) Stupid green zealot guy with the plasma sword I can't pick up in the first version

I need to convince my dad to get an Xbox 360. Would it be worth it just for the Halo games?
...the first bite of your pizza is cold because you wanted to calculate pi from it (again).

...you get aroused by thinking that a 'female CAT5 connector' is a synonym for 'a hot pussycat'.

...
:lolflag:

[beadazzler]

Hello,
I didnt realize that pyhton was an X rated site!!!!!!!!! I don't appriciate your direction to that site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

[Kopachris]

Hello,
I didnt realize that pyhton was an X rated site!!!!!!!!! I don't appriciate your direction to that site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

What? [PY]ro [H]igh [T]ech [ON]line web solutions. pyhton.com is just a web solutions thing. python.com, on the other hand... well. Just go to python.org instead.

You know you're a geek when your PC is submerged in Fluorinert.

[Pethegreat]

you have to watch .org and .com. One man's programming solution is another man's porno site.


I need to convince my dad to get an Xbox 360. Would it be worth it just for the Halo games?
Make sure you grab COD4, mass effect, and gears of war while you are at it.

[hhhhhx]

you keep a toolbox in your room, specifically for computer parts....

[NightwishFan]

You know you're a geek when you practice Starcraft until you have 370 apm only to play on bnet.

[money2themax]

you have to watch .org and .com. One man's programming solution is another man's porno site.


Make sure you grab COD4, mass effect, and gears of war while you are at it.
yep thats happened twice to me. it pissed me off cus i thought the 1st guy was trying to be funny is an obscure manner the second time was my fault

[Kopachris]

you keep a toolbox in your room, specifically for computer parts....

Better, my garage has more computer parts than our local computer store. And they're all older than the ones at the computer store. (I wonder if I could rig up some of those fans in my case, even though they were meant for a processor? Hmmm...)

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you ask a couple guys setting up your school's new server if it [the server] has an Opteron or a Xeon, they say both, and you just crack up laughing. :lolflag:

[spupy]

So, I was sitting with my friends at lunch, talking about stuff. Somehow we came to my great idea of a giant remote controlled mirror on the moon. You point with your laser remote controller some point on the ground, the mirror rotates and reflects a beam of light to light this spot. Cool, eh?
Then someone proposes - why have only one mirror? Why not many mirrors on the moon, they all channel solar rays so you can fry thing on the earth just by pointing at them?

And I say: "Then it's no moon, IT'S A SPACE STATION!"

... all other 4 people on the table stare at me with blank look, wondering "what the hell is he talking about?" and I stare at them thinking "why the hell don't they react to the pun?"
:shock:

[hhhhhx]

So, I was sitting with my friends at lunch, talking about stuff. Somehow we came to my great idea of a giant remote controlled mirror on the moon. You point with your laser remote controller some point on the ground, the mirror rotates and reflects a beam of light to light this spot. Cool, eh?
Then someone proposes - why have only one mirror? Why not many mirrors on the moon, they all channel solar rays so you can fry thing on the earth just by pointing at them?

And I say: "Then it's no moon, IT'S A SPACE STATION!"

... all other 4 people on the table stare at me with blank look, wondering "what the hell is he talking about?" and I stare at them thinking "why the hell don't they react to the pun?"
:shock:
luke..cphhhh....i am ..... chphhh.... your .... chpphh ... father

[LaRoza]

So, I was sitting with my friends at lunch, talking about stuff. Somehow we came to my great idea of a giant remote controlled mirror on the moon. You point with your laser remote controller some point on the ground, the mirror rotates and reflects a beam of light to light this spot. Cool, eh?
Then someone proposes - why have only one mirror? Why not many mirrors on the moon, they all channel solar rays so you can fry thing on the earth just by pointing at them?

And I say: "Then it's no moon, IT'S A SPACE STATION!"

... all other 4 people on the table stare at me with blank look, wondering "what the hell is he talking about?" and I stare at them thinking "why the hell don't they react to the pun?"
:shock:

I have used a similiar line. It was an image of something, and we were discussing it. Someone said it looked like a moon. Then I exclaimed "Thats no moon...it's a space station!". But I was around cool people, so everyone got it.

[NightwishFan]

:popcorn:
Nice.

[Istonian]

You leave watching The Matrix and on the way home you are discussing about how we could actually be living in a matrix...

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you either program in var'aq, or you make your own C++ namespace based in Klingon and use it. I am unfamiliar with lisp, so I'm going to make a namespace. First few commands:

je = AND, &&
ghIq(){} = if(){} (lit. translate: then, subsequently)
bey''och() = cout<< (display conduit)
"a = x boq y" = "a = x + y"
boqHa' = subtraction
boqHa''egh = division
boq'egh = multiplication
HoS_choHwI' = "translate", will change strings to ints, ints to strings, ints to doubles, etc.
law' = double (means many, numerous)
tatlh = return

I'll have to pick up a Klingon dictionary (might get it for my B-day) first, though...

[coninsan]

You know you're a geek when...

your English translation at school ended up as a perfect code resepee of how to make a site with the translation on it.

[spupy]

...you watch the whole thing:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6626464599825291409

[hhhhhx]

...you watch the whole thing:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6626464599825291409
Whoa! I remember that from a link on geekology, and yes I did watch the whole thing

[tuxcanfly]

......you open the terminal to catch your flight !
,,,,..you wish the world had a gconf-editor too !
......your only friend is called TUX !

[Kopachris]

...you watch the whole thing:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6626464599825291409

Neat!

You know you're a geek when you're birthday cake candles are in binary (black for 1, white for 0).

[money2themax]

...you watch the whole thing:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6626464599825291409

holy **** thats cool too bad real hollow spheres can't do that:lolflag:

[Cyborg_572]

when small resolutions make you claustrophobic

[RebelwithoutaClue]

...you are reading an Ubuntu thread about geekiness on Easter Sunday morning with half an eye on the re-run of MoTD while your SO is at church and your 5 year old is playing happily, delightfully oblivious of the recently fallen slow.

:)

[MONODA]

... you see "Salsa Dip" but instead you read "alsa Dip" XD.

[spupy]

...you are reading an Ubuntu thread about geekiness on Easter Sunday morning with half an eye on the re-run of MoTD while your SO is at church and your 5 year old is playing happily, delightfully oblivious of the recently fallen slow.
:)
Not all of the forumers are catholic! I have to wait one more month for easter! ;)
An unfortunate side effect is that the shops are closed until Tuesday, and right now I'm starving! Oh well, guess I'll have to open the spaghetti stash.

[MONODA]

Not all of the forumers are catholic! I have to wait one more month for easter!
yeah so do I, i dont feel alone anymore XD.

[dacorr]

i have never realised i was a geek, i was told at a job interview "you could tell i was a scientist" I prefer that one, all i need now is a white coat other than the one i got that fastens at the back.

[Kopachris]

Not all of the forumers are catholic! I have to wait one more month for easter! ;)
An unfortunate side effect is that the shops are closed until Tuesday, and right now I'm starving! Oh well, guess I'll have to open the spaghetti stash.
lol, I planned on making spaghetti tonight for dinner.

You know you're a geek when you're making a Borg Cube for FS2_open. I should recompile my kernel today, but this shouldn't take as long. The model and texture was easy, just drag a cube in Anim8or, change the size to "1,1,1" (so I could set the scaling factor right when turning it into a format usable by the game), and for the texture, just copy a 333x333 pic of a Borg Cube all over a blank 2048x2048 pic in photoshop. Now I've drawn it on graph paper to plan where everything will go, and it's going to have 90 turrets, regenerative hull, and I'm going to make a model of a photon torpedo that I'll make two weapons from, Borg torpedo and Photon torpedo. You're gonna have a hell of a time taking that bad boy out. Over 3 km in diameter. Next comes a Borg Sphere.

For those of you not in the know, Freespace 2 is the sequel to Descent: Freespace -- The Great War. Both are excellent games. After the release of FS2, Volition Inc. decided to release the source code of the game engine so non-developers could have a look at what a real game's source code looked like. A bunch of projects were started based on this, and they were all umbrellaed under one main project, the Source Code Project. The SCP continues to make the game better by adding new features and improving on what they already got. The Freespace Upgrade Project is similar to the SCP. Their motto is, "The SCP writes the code; we make it pretty." That pretty much describes what they do. They make all the textures, models, etc. look a lot nicer. Freespace (both of them) is very easy to modify, and is widely done, even though the EULA actually forbids you to alter the game. Both games include FRED, the FReespace EDitor. FRED lets you make your own missions and campaigns for the game. Most of the game's data is stored in text files, so you can modify a lot from there (the mission files are text, also). And of course, you can make your own textures and models. The making of a new model also requires an entry in ships.tbl, or you can use a modular table file named xxx-shp.tbm to have the game add it at runtime. If you want to download Freespace 2 Open, including the data files (stored in Volition Packages), beware, it's 4 Gig. If you have the internet connection to download 4GB, I'd highly suggest it. There are also smaller projects that focus on modding the game to make things like Halo, Wing Commander, and Freespace 1 for Freespace 2. Visit www.hard-light.com for more info. And Wikipedia.

[Sam Lars]

when small resolutions make you claustrophobic

Yes, totally, even 1024 gets a bit hairy.



When a GUI comes out that makes things easier and you get nostalgic of the old days when it was more fun...

[Kopachris]

Yes, totally, even 1024 gets a bit hairy.
1024? What is this 1024 of which you speak? I use only 1600x1200 and 1680x1050. I know nothing of this fabled 1024. ;)
It's kind of strange how the point of higher resolutions isn't to make everything look bigger, but to make everything look smaller.

[money2themax]

hey i'm running at 1280x1024 @ 50Hz but i can go up to 66Hz [i don't know if i should on a Samsung SyncMaster 731B]

[LaRoza]

hey i'm running at 1280x1024 @ 50Hz but i can go up to 66Hz [i don't know if i should on a Samsung SyncMaster 731B]

We have the same monitor :-)

(Actually, this is just a temporary one while I get my replacement for my 22" Widescreen)

[money2themax]

cool thats great do you know if i can run it @ 66Hz

[schauerlich]

hey i'm running at 1280x1024 @ 50Hz but i can go up to 66Hz [i don't know if i should on a Samsung SyncMaster 731B]

My laptop is 1280x800, and I hook it up to a 1680x1050 screen, which is the primary monitor. That way I get portability and a nice big screen at my desk.

[hhhhhx]

1920x1200 at 60Hrz

[schauerlich]

1920x1200 at 60Hrz

You've got 2304000 pixels and one screen, and I have 2788000 pixels and two screens. I win. :guitar:

You know you're a geek when the size of your ego is based on the size of your screen.

[hhhhhx]

You've got 2304000 pixels and one screen, and I have 2788000 pixels and two screens. I win. :guitar:

You know you're a geek when the size of your ego is based on the size of your screen.
ya but your pixels have a split down the middle :razz:

[schauerlich]

ya but your pixels have a split down the middle :razz:

It helps keep things organized, IMO. It's like having a big bin and a small bin for your stuff, instead of one giant bin. You keep the stuff you're focusing on on the big screen, and stuff you only reference occasionally or want to keep visible at all times without being in the way on the small one. It's great for stuff like email, iTunes, or a web browser when I'm referencing it while writing a paper.

[hhhhhx]

It helps keep things organized, IMO. It's like having a big bin and a small bin for your stuff, instead of one giant bin. You keep the stuff you're focusing on on the big screen, and stuff you only reference occasionally or want to keep visible at all times without being in the way on the small one. It's great for stuff like email, iTunes, or a web browser when I'm referencing it while writing a paper.
i just use the cube lol

[schauerlich]

i just use the cube lol

Yeah, but with the cube, you still have to hit a keystroke to see the next workspace. With a multihead setup, a split second glance is all it takes. And, I get 8 sides of the cube without it being as confusing.

[wozzinator]

When you are typing out a path in the Forums and you try to tab-complete it.

You understood the above ;P

LOL, touche, I can't tell you how many times I've hit the tab button to try and autocomplete while web browsing or something.

[hhhhhx]

Yeah, but with the cube, you still have to hit a keystroke to see the next workspace. With a multihead setup, a split second glance is all it takes. And, I get 8 sides of the cube without it being as confusing.
or you could just minimize the programs that you are not using :lolflag:

[schauerlich]

or you could just minimize the programs that you are not using :lolflag:

Again, that requires a keystroke or a mouse click. I like my way better, but, to each his own. I don't think either of us could turn down Chris Pirillo's setup, though. Dual 30" monitors running at 2560x1600. Here's a blog/video by him on the matter: http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/21/one-big-monitor-or-two-smaller-screens/

[hhhhhx]

Again, that requires a keystroke or a mouse click. I like my way better, but, to each his own. I don't think either of us could turn down Chris Pirillo's setup, though. Dual 30" monitors running at 2560x1600. Here's a blog/video by him on the matter: http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/02/21/one-big-monitor-or-two-smaller-screens/
ya, i think that he beat both of us :-P

[cegpope]

You've got 2304000 pixels and one screen, and I have 2788000 pixels and two screens. I win. :guitar:

You know you're a geek when the size of your ego is based on the size of your screen.

2048 x 1536 @ 75 Hz

I see your 2,788,000 and raise you to 3,145,728 pixels on one screen.

[talsemgeest]

I feel so small and insignificant with only 1296000 pixels...

[hhhhhx]

this made me get out my 1280x1024 monitor and hook it up with my 1920x1200, 3614720 pixels total, beat that sucka's

[st0n3cutt3r]

you get excited about the latest release of your favorite internet browser.....

or even have a favorite internet browser.

[MONODA]

When people start putting something down, you tell them to stop flaming or bashing XD.
you write "and" 'not" "or" as AND NOT OR XD

[spupy]

you write "and" 'not" "or" as AND NOT OR XD

*ahem* &&, ||, ! ;)

LOL, touche, I can't tell you how many times I've hit the tab button to try and autocomplete while web browsing or something.

Quick, someone write a firefox extension! It will be awesome!

[Kopachris]

2048 x 1536 @ 75 Hz

I see your 2,788,000 and raise you to 3,145,728 pixels on one screen.

You know you're a geek when you're playing poker with pixels. Coffee mugs empty, gonna get some more.

[MONODA]

*ahem* &&, ||, !
cant forget that C

[cegpope]

this made me get out my 1280x1024 monitor and hook it up with my 1920x1200, 3614720 pixels total, beat that sucka's

Should I call your second screen raise and re-raise by digging out my old Gateway monitor which is good for another 1,920,000 at 1600x1200 which would give me a combined total of 5,065,728 pixels worth of screen space...... and a serious deficiency on desk space,


or fold since raising would be a hassle.






You know you are a geek when you know the capabilities of your hardware, but will not claim them until you actually hook everything up at run at max capacity for 5 min, just to put it all away again.

[NightwishFan]

You know your a geek when you are happy got your first coffee cup instead of beans at ubuntu forums. :)

[LaRoza]

You know your a geek when you are happy got your first coffee cup instead of beans at ubuntu forums. :)

Ah yes. I remember that day...

[NightwishFan]

One post after that one and I got 2. :lolflag:

[hhhhhx]

Should I call your second screen raise and re-raise by digging out my old Gateway monitor which is good for another 1,920,000 at 1600x1200 which would give me a combined total of 5,065,728 pixels worth of screen space...... and a serious deficiency on desk space,


or fold since raising would be a hassle.

don'tmake me get out my old CRT's :lolflag:

[corney91]

...when you are content with tinkering with your laptop, which only has a 1024x768 screen, and you can still find things to tweak;)

Mind you, I do have an old computer I was gonna take for a spin:)

[money2themax]

you get excited about the latest release of your favorite internet browser.....

or even have a favorite internet browser.

Let me guess your a firefox user too


3.0 i cant wait but i'm always looking even further ahead at 4.0+

[daanemanz]

...if you can actually hear the difference between 'n00b' and 'noob' or '1337' and 'leet'.

I rest my case.

[Kopachris]

Let me guess your a firefox user too


3.0 i cant wait but i'm always looking even further ahead at 4.0+

If you were a real geek, you'd be using the 3.0 beta. (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html) ;) Then again, you might be, but I just can't tell because of your (lack of) grammar. I'm sorry, I'm a stickler for that kind of stuff, and I don't mean to be rude. And if it's because you don't speak English, I'm even more sorry if I appear rude.

[LaRoza]

If you were a real geek, you'd be using the 3.0 beta. (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html) ;)

If you were a real geek, you would use the best browser, not the default one.

Lynx and Opera FTW.

[reacocard]

If you were a real geek, you would use the best browser, not the default one.

Lynx and Opera FTW.

but opera is not open-source. lynx/links2/elinks are awesome though, especially links2 since it can do images.

[LaRoza]

but opera is not open-source. lynx/links2/elinks are awesome though, especially links2 since it can do images.

Open sources doesn't make the geek. Using Firefox doesn't mean anything, no matter the version.

Now if one is using vimperator on Firefox, that is another story.

[money2themax]

If you were a real geek, you'd be using the 3.0 beta. (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html) ;) Then again, you might be, but I just can't tell because of your (lack of) grammar. I'm sorry, I'm a stickler for that kind of stuff, and I don't mean to be rude. And if it's because you don't speak English, I'm even more sorry if I appear rude.
umm...i read i don't write and no English is my only lang i just have a horrible time writing i have an IEP

[chancemb]

You know you're a geek when you find everything in this forum funny.

[Kopachris]

In Linux, default is usually good. In Windows, default is NOT good. In Mac, some is good and some isn't.

[Maupertus]

You know you're a geek when you wish you could have a cool avatar IRL.

You you're a geek when you have difficulties between Tha InTeRwEbZ and IRL.

And ofcourse:

When you talk about "In real life" seriously. (G*d as if there's a not real life somewhere, unless your talking about 5 wives on different continents, 40 children in 29 countries and a stack of passports next to your desk that's so high it's wobbling when your CPU fan engages)

[Twitch6000]

You know you are a geek when you have three times the stuff as Chris Pirillo lol.

Or better yet you know you are a geek when your computer has 750gb hard drive,4gb ram,and one major graphic card for a reason other then gaming.

[liquidfunk]

You know you are a geek when you have three times the stuff as Chris Pirillo lol.

Or better yet you know you are a geek when your computer has 750gb hard drive,4gb ram,and one major graphic card for a reason other then gaming.

I use mine to sit and watch the windows wobble.

[MONODA]

when you find that you are sore, you try to file a bug report.
you dont just google things, you have written a firefox extension to search answers.com, wikipedia and google XD

[Kopachris]

You know you are a geek when you have three times the stuff as Chris Pirillo lol.

Or better yet you know you are a geek when your computer has 750gb hard drive,4gb ram,and one major graphic card for a reason other then gaming.

When you're saving up for 3TB HDD, Phenom 9600, 8GB RAM, Liquid Cooling System, 2x 1GB ATI Radeon w/ X-Fire, plus more. About $7,000 for the best computer I can build with TigerDirect.

[Frak]

You know you are a geek when you have three times the stuff as Chris Pirillo..

You know your a geek when you know more than Chris Prillo.

[Kopachris]

You know your a geek when you know more than Chris Prillo.

That's not hard. Just a Chuck Norris for geeks. Not all that great, in my opinion. Now, if he could tell me why Windows keeps locking up for me every single time I use it, rather than not locking up like the Windows computers at school, and my dad's laptop, and our main computer, then I'd be impressed.

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you have more operating systems on your PC than friends from your workplace

[Wobedraggled]

Your first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 :)

[Mehashi]

..You start posting on threads like this....
It makes me happy to be geek!
^.-

[NightwishFan]

=D chris thats a monster machine

[MONODA]

you know your a geek when you almost cry when you accidentally delete all your crontabs.
...you always keep a backup of your crontabs.
the other day I deleted my crontabs without knowing and got really bumbed out, I have some awesome crontabs! good thing they were backed up!

[money2themax]

you know your a geek when you almost cry when you accidentally delete all your crontabs.
...you always keep a backup of your crontabs.
the other day I deleted my crontabs without knowing and got really bumbed out, I have some awesome crontabs! good thing they were backed up!

your what tabs?

[corney91]

Nuff said (http://www.13amp.org/pc/)

[sci-fi guy]

Nuff said (http://www.13amp.org/pc/)

#-o
VISTA :evil:
:x

[money2themax]

Nuff said (http://www.13amp.org/pc/)

what the crap whats wrong with your xbox and it that black box your tower!?!

[hhhhhx]

Nuff said (http://www.13amp.org/pc/)
**drools**

[Kopachris]

Nuff said (http://www.13amp.org/pc/)

N.F.F.! Not Flippin Fair!

[LaRoza]

Nuff said (http://www.13amp.org/pc/)

Obviously GIMP'd.

[Frak]

Obviously GIMP'd.
I thought that too.

[p_quarles]

I thought that too.
Yeah, the reflections are all wrong.

[Cyborg_572]

Originally Posted by corney91 http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4600418#post4600418)
Nuff said (http://www.13amp.org/pc/)
Is it just me... or does the 1-up mushroom follow the camera?

[larsenguitars]

You find it more natural to count 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 than 1,2,3,4,5,6..
The most physical part of your day is gowing up and down the stairs, getting more coke
Your chair has over time grown into a perfect replica of your ***
Somebody yells at you, and you're desperately looking for the "mute"-button

I find it very natural to count 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, etc...

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

You've just woken up and you feel that you can't get out of bed until you have mentally typed the code to do so into your thought pattern.

[money2themax]

Obviously GIMP'd.
I thought that too.
i dunno if anything is gimp'd it's that 1-UP Shroom

[MONODA]

Quote:
Originally Posted by MONODA View Post
you know your a geek when you almost cry when you accidentally delete all your crontabs.
...you always keep a backup of your crontabs.
the other day I deleted my crontabs without knowing and got really bumbed out, I have some awesome crontabs! good thing they were backed up!
your what tabs?
a crontab is a file which scheduals a comman or set of commands to be run at a certain time.

[money2themax]

a crontab is a file which scheduals a comman or set of commands to be run at a certain time.
how do you make/set them up?

[sci-fi guy]

how do you make/set them up?

And:
Will they run even if you have rebooted?

[Kopachris]

Obviously GIMP'd.

No, I don't think so. Looks more like he has some recessive lighting or some ambient lighting. If anything, it would be raytraced (Fooled my dad, who is very hard to fool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800_edit.png)), rather than GIMPed.

[MONODA]

how do you make/set them up?
you type in crontab -e and you will get nano (or vim) with a blank document. The first character should be the minute you want to run the crontab, the second is the hour, the third is the day (1 sunday 2mon 3tues) fourth for the month the fifth for the week. You can just type * to indicate every week/month/second/hour etc. after you write the times, you should type the command you want to run. Graphical apps will not work since it does not know which display to output to so if you want to run a graphical app you need to put export DISPLAY=:0 && <app path>
for example if I want to run miro at 11 pm every night I would put:
0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/miro
another thing I found helpful was to scheduale apt since I dont want to take up much bandwidth during the day. To create crontabs for root, run sudo -u root crontab -e
if I want to install wesnoth at 11 PM I would put:
0 23 * * * apt-get --force-yes -y -d install wesnoth > /home/dany/Documents/Logs/installlog 2>&1
I included that last part to pipe output into a log to check for problems.
Will they run even if you have rebooted?
yes but you computer must be on in order to run the crontabs and if a time is missed, it is not run untill the next time it is schedualed.
btw my crontabs are awesome, check them out:
##################################
#Kget every night at 11 pm
#0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/kget
#torrent every night at 11pm
#0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/deluge
#Miro at 11 pm
#0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/miro
#Guild Wars at 11pm
#0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /home/dany/Downloads/Gw.exe
#wget Rocks! at 11 PM
#0 23 * * * wget http://mirror.noone.org/gnustep/GNUSTEP-i486-1.0.iso -vo/home/dany/Desktop/log
##################################
#Other
##################################
#delete lockfile in external hard drive
#59 * * * * rm /media/disk/flyback/lockfile.txt
#Flyback Every Hour
#0 * * * * python /home/dany/Downloads/Tarballs/flyback/flyback.py --backup
#Copy files from cheese into /home every hour
#0 20 * * * cp -rf /home/dany/.gnome2/cheese /home/dany/Projects/Pictures
##################################
#Exit
##################################
#Deluge exit at 8AM
#0 8 * * * killall deluge
#1 8 * * * killall deluge
and for root:
# m h dom mon dow command
#For installing apps replace amarok with the app you want and later use apt-get install to install them
#0 23 * * * apt-get --force-yes -y -d install texlive texlive-base texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-common texlive-doc-en texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pictures texlive-base-bin > /home/dany/Documents/Logs/installlog 2>&1
# 0 23 * * * (apt-get update && apt-get --force-yes -y -d upgrade) > /home/dany/Documents/Logs/Updatelog 2>&1
#0 * * * * python /home/dany/flyback.py --backup #flyback
hope this helps :D
EDIT: the crontabs i gave you for apt will only donwload the files to you cache so later you can install them by using sudo apt-get wesnoth and not have to download anything.

[money2themax]

No, I don't think so. Looks more like he has some recessive lighting or some ambient lighting. If anything, it would be raytraced (Fooled my dad, who is very hard to fool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800_edit.png)), rather than GIMPed.
that picture is my wallpaper

[money2themax]

...you can proudly say you love to say up and watch Star Trek: Voyager at midnight and eat your favorite cereal

[NightwishFan]

...you can proudly say you love to say up and watch Star Trek: Voyager at midnight and eat your favorite cereal

I actually did that by accident before.

[money2themax]

I actually did that by accident before.
it's not an accident if you liked it

[NightwishFan]

That sounds unnerving. :lolflag:

[money2themax]

yeah it might be to some and btw where do i get a copy of Hardy? i've been meaning to give it a spin for feed back

[hhhhhx]

<snip>

[NightwishFan]

There is a link at the top of the main forum page. :)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2008-March/000108.html

[money2themax]

would it be a good idea to go with this one?
To upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Beta from Ubuntu 7.10,
follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades

The final version of Ubuntu 8.04 is expected to be released in April 2008.
as i could down grade if something goes amiss
and how do i upgrade when it comes out

i usually send for them in the mail due to my slow connection speed

[talsemgeest]

would it be a good idea to go with this one?
To upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Beta from Ubuntu 7.10,
follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades

The final version of Ubuntu 8.04 is expected to be released in April 2008.
as i could down grade if something goes amiss
and how do i upgrade when it comes out

i usually send for them in the mail due to my slow connection speed
The only way to downgrade is to reinstall...

[talsemgeest]

The only way to downgrade is to reinstall...
When you enjoy pointing out to people that time is like a ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff

[corney91]

you type in crontab -e and you will get nano (or vim) with a blank document. The first character should be the minute you want to run the crontab, the second is the hour, the third is the day (1 sunday 2mon 3tues) fourth for the month the fifth for the week. You can just type * to indicate every week/month/second/hour etc. after you write the times, you should type the command you want to run. Graphical apps will not work since it does not know which display to output to so if you want to run a graphical app you need to put export DISPLAY=:0 && <app path>
for example if I want to run miro at 11 pm every night I would put:
0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/miro
another thing I found helpful was to scheduale apt since I dont want to take up much bandwidth during the day. To create crontabs for root, run sudo -u root crontab -e
if I want to install wesnoth at 11 PM I would put:
0 23 * * * apt-get --force-yes -y -d install wesnoth > /home/dany/Documents/Logs/installlog 2>&1
I included that last part to pipe output into a log to check for problems.

yes but you computer must be on in order to run the crontabs and if a time is missed, it is not run untill the next time it is schedualed.
btw my crontabs are awesome, check them out:
##################################
#Kget every night at 11 pm
#0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/kget
#torrent every night at 11pm
#0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/deluge
#Miro at 11 pm
#0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/miro
#Guild Wars at 11pm
#0 23 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /home/dany/Downloads/Gw.exe
#wget Rocks! at 11 PM
#0 23 * * * wget http://mirror.noone.org/gnustep/GNUSTEP-i486-1.0.iso -vo/home/dany/Desktop/log
##################################
#Other
##################################
#delete lockfile in external hard drive
#59 * * * * rm /media/disk/flyback/lockfile.txt
#Flyback Every Hour
#0 * * * * python /home/dany/Downloads/Tarballs/flyback/flyback.py --backup
#Copy files from cheese into /home every hour
#0 20 * * * cp -rf /home/dany/.gnome2/cheese /home/dany/Projects/Pictures
##################################
#Exit
##################################
#Deluge exit at 8AM
#0 8 * * * killall deluge
#1 8 * * * killall deluge
and for root:
# m h dom mon dow command
#For installing apps replace amarok with the app you want and later use apt-get install to install them
#0 23 * * * apt-get --force-yes -y -d install texlive texlive-base texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-common texlive-doc-en texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pictures texlive-base-bin > /home/dany/Documents/Logs/installlog 2>&1
# 0 23 * * * (apt-get update && apt-get --force-yes -y -d upgrade) > /home/dany/Documents/Logs/Updatelog 2>&1
#0 * * * * python /home/dany/flyback.py --backup #flyback
hope this helps :D
EDIT: the crontabs i gave you for apt will only donwload the files to you cache so later you can install them by using sudo apt-get wesnoth and not have to download anything.
Damn. There's no Thanks feature in the Cafe Games.
Thanks, though :)

[money2themax]

The only way to downgrade is to reinstall...
thats a windowsie way to do things there needs to be a better way we are linux users for chris sakes

[talsemgeest]

thats a windowsie way to do things there needs to be a better way we are linux users for chris sakes
Take a look here then: http://http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=736738 (http://http//ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=736738)

[Kopachris]

that picture is my wallpaper

...you can proudly say you love to say up and watch Star Trek: Voyager at midnight and eat your favorite cereal

We have way too much in common. Just one problem, the episodes at midnight are the same as the ones during prime time, and I watch them while I eat dinner. I have now seen most of the series 3 times, about 1/3 twice, and a few episodes I was only able to catch this last time. I watch George Lopez at midnight now.
:lolflag:

I also have my screensaver as a picture of the broken screen of a PowerBook G4 (same as my computer) that got ran over by a hummer. :lolflag:

[whiskysmuggler]

You know you're a geek when "Your first computer was a TI 99-4A":guitar:

[Kopachris]

It's sad how unsecure my school's wireless networks are. The first one, the public one, does not use DHCP and the admin won't give me the ip address to connect. Easily defeat-able by finding the ip of a computer that's connected to it. Second network, the one produced by the COWs, is password protected and does not use DHCP. One of the computers that connects to it has the password stored in its keychain. To password used to view the keychain is simply the initials of my school, "scms". So now I'm enjoying relatively high-speed internet at my school. :lolflag:

[gwoodard]

It's sad how unsecure my school's wireless networks are. The first one, the public one, does not use DHCP and the admin won't give me the ip address to connect. Easily defeat-able by finding the ip of a computer that's connected to it. Second network, the one produced by the COWs, is password protected and does not use DHCP. One of the computers that connects to it has the password stored in its keychain. To password used to view the keychain is simply the initials of my school, "scms". So now I'm enjoying relatively high-speed internet at my school. :lolflag:

You know that is breaching your school's (if they have it) "Acceptable Use Policy"?

[money2themax]

We have way too much in common. Just one problem, the episodes at midnight are the same as the ones during prime time, and I watch them while I eat dinner. I have now seen most of the series 3 times, about 1/3 twice, and a few episodes I was only able to catch this last time. I watch George Lopez at midnight now.
:lolflag:

I also have my screensaver as a picture of the broken screen of a PowerBook G4 (same as my computer) that got ran over by a hummer. :lolflag:

nice well great geeks think alike :lolflag:

[Korarnithlas]

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.


****mind explodes*****

Heh, I'm not even a Ubuntu user (just a lowly Windows worm) and I think that every time I must interact with my parent's comp.

>_< makes me twitchy.

[Kopachris]

You know that is breaching your school's (if they have it) "Acceptable Use Policy"?

Yes, they have one. One of the first things I had to sign at the beginning of the school year. It'd be the same as checking out one the computers from the lab in the library during lunch, or using one of the computers in the lab in my Computer Tech class (of which I'm teacher aide now), I just prefer to use my laptop. I think the only reason why the network admin (I'm on a first-name basis with him ;)) wouldn't give me the password or the ip is because he's not allowed to by the district. It's not like I'm going to hack any of the computers on the network, I'm just using the internet.

[Kopachris]

Ran this nmap myself on a couple computers on my home network. The Ubuntu scan only had one port open, for TCP. The Windows machine... I'm not sure it even found a closed port. It says the OSScan might be unreliable because it couldn't find one open and one closed port, but it hit it right on the money. Neither of the computers have had any ports manually opened or closed. If they've been opened or closed, it was done by a process that I have not yet found.

PROOF THAT UBUNTU IS BY DEFAULT MORE SECURE THAN WINDOWS:

PowerBook:~ Chris$ sudo nmap -A 192.168.1.107
Password:

Starting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2008-03-28 22:15 MDT
Interesting ports on 192.168.1.107:
Not shown: 1713 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 4.6p1 Debian 5ubuntu0.1 (protocol 2.0)
MAC Address: 00:1C:10:6C:DC:E8 (Cisco-Linksys)
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.6.X
OS details: Linux 2.6.22 - 2.6.23
Uptime: 0.049 days (since Fri Mar 28 21:04:32 2008)
Network Distance: 1 hop
Service Info: OS: Linux

OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://insecure.org/nmap/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.308 seconds
PowerBook:~ Chris$ sudo nmap -A 192.168.1.103
Password:

Starting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2008-03-28 22:22 MDT
Interesting ports on 192.168.1.103:
Not shown: 1712 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds Microsoft Windows XP microsoft-ds
MAC Address: 00:11:09:90:30:DD (Micro-Star International)
Warning: OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least 1 open and 1 closed port
Device type: general purpose
Running: Microsoft Windows XP
OS details: Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Network Distance: 1 hop
Service Info: OS: Windows

Host script results:
|_ NBSTAT: NetBIOS name: TVSERVER, NetBIOS MAC: 00:11:09:90:30:DD
|_ Discover OS Version over NetBIOS and SMB: Windows XP

OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://insecure.org/nmap/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 38.337 seconds


Another thing I found interesting: our linksys router runs Linux 2.4.x, "most likely embedded". I also found out that the server that hosts my school's website runs Free BSD.

[Samueltehg33k]

You know youre a geek when your idea of fun is making very large detailed pictures out of text on a old IBM computer on an afternoon *aka the only thing i did when i was at my grandpas house in 3rd grade* :lolflag:

[m60dude5]

Your computer costs more than your house.
You took out a second loan for a computer.
When the bank forecloses on you, they decide to take your computer and leave your house.
Your wife has asked you more than 100 times to stop upgrading the OS.
You cringe when people think they know what they're talking about and say things like: my CPU has two hard drives.

[money2themax]

Another thing I found interesting: our linksys router runs Linux 2.4.x, "most likely embedded". I also found out that the server that hosts my school's website runs Free BSD.
yeah most routers run Linux actually i've noticed most any embedded OS that doesn't say either Apple or Microsoft is Linux your cell phone might be Linux. oh and Mac runs of a version of BSD so the BSD might just be OSX server i know my school server is OSX

another thing if it doesn't have a HDD it's Embedded

[Kopachris]

yeah most routers run Linux actually i've noticed most any embedded OS that doesn't say either Apple or Microsoft is Linux your cell phone might be Linux. oh and Mac runs of a version of BSD so the BSD might just be OSX server i know my school server is OSX

another thing if it doesn't have a HDD it's Embedded

I asked the district IT guy. It's Free BSD.

[money2themax]

I asked the district IT guy. It's Free BSD.
really what ver?

[Kopachris]

really what ver?

6.2

You know you're a geek when you have a Star Trek mod for Freespace 2 Open, and you play it with your friends on the big screen TV.

[money2themax]

...you want one of these

http://www.gp2x.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X

[talsemgeest]

...you want one of these

http://www.gp2x.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X
Oh I love them, and I so want one!

[Frak]

Oh I love them, and I so want one!
I have one, only thing that runs slow is the Amiga emulator.

[Kopachris]

...you want one of these

http://www.gp2x.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X

Ooohhh... Aaahhhh...

[money2themax]

yeah if only it was sold in stores ppl like us would line up for something like that

[LaRoza]

yeah if only it was sold in stores ppl like us would line up for something like that

Can you honestly see people standing in a queue for that? We'd all be trying to be first.

Linux Mob!

[schauerlich]

...you want one of these

http://www.gp2x.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X

So, it's a Linux based, PSP shaped DS that runs emulators of old consoles? Cool. :)

[money2themax]

So, it's a Linux based, PSP shaped DS that runs emulators of old consoles? Cool. :)
yep i cant believe i found this i love 16bit & 8bit games and i have roms of games i own can you believe how hard it is to find a rom for Yoshi's Island!?!

[Frak]

... can you believe how hard it is to find a rom for Yoshi's Island!?!
... It is?

[money2themax]

yeah it is [i already have a copy but it took me a while]

Re: You know you're a geek when this is a reoccurring problem for you:

http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/15

[Kopachris]

yeah it is [i already have a copy but it took me a while]

Re: You know you're a geek when this is a reoccurring problem for you:

http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/15

:lolflag:

*goes to overclock his Athlon XP before it's too late...*

[twin_57103]

When your computer is too new for any of the stable versions of Ubuntu (had to use 8.04 beta) and is fast enough to run Vista as if it's XP (AMD Phenom 9500, 4 Gb RAM, GeForce 9600 GT video card)...hesitant to admit using Vista...but I nearly maxed the Vista performance ratings (scored 5.8 out of 5.9 and the only 5.8 was a SATA hard drive...must need 10,000 rpm for 5.9) :)

[Kopachris]

When you have no idea why BOARD ADMINS feel the need to do WEIRD STUFF to their forums for April Fool's Day! First changing all the links to "Rick Roll" over at hard-light.net, then the crazy colors here... I don't mind people pulling off pranks in real life, but must you do annoying stuff like this on the internet, too? Ah, well. It'll be over at 6:00 PM. Hopefully.

[gwoodard]

When you suffer from "Computer Withdraws" when you get grounded :lolflag:

[NightwishFan]

When you suffer from "Computer Withdraws" when you get grounded :lolflag:

When you simply cannot be grounded because you have a secret, hidden room in the basement you dub the "Command Centre" that absorbs more than 60% of the house's total power to even run the pure awesomeness that is within those walls.

[corney91]

When you simply cannot be grounded because you have a secret, hidden room in the basement you dub the "Command Centre" that absorbs more than 60% of the house's total power to even run the pure awesomeness that is within those walls.
YES! Now I have a holiday project! :D

[Kopachris]

When you find these (http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/23/1617255) funny.

Just tried overclocking my Athlon XP. I don't think it liked it. So now I'm at the Windows Error Reporting thing, and this is what I wrote to them:

Why?
* Information is wrong.
Information is confusing.
Information does not apply to the problem I was experiencing.

How can we make this information more helpful?
I don't have any other RAM to replace it with, and I don't trust your software. And I'm sure the problem was caused by my overclocking my CPU. Just you wait, Bill. I'm gonna take Microsoft down. DOS will no longer be associated with Windows or Microsoft. Dustbunny OS is coming...

Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback.
You won't be saying thanks for much longer...

[gwoodard]

When you simply cannot be grounded because you have a secret, hidden room in the basement you dub the "Command Centre" that absorbs more than 60% of the house's total power to even run the pure awesomeness that is within those walls.

nice solution... make sure it is sound proof from the outside... :lolflag:

[NightwishFan]

=D I didn't say I have one. Who doesn't want one though.

[Kopachris]

=D I didn't say I have one. Who doesn't want one though.

I don't want one in my basement! I don't have a basement. A big hole in the backyard, maybe, though...

[schauerlich]

When you simply cannot be grounded because you have a secret, hidden room in the basement you dub the "Command Centre" that absorbs more than 60% of the house's total power to even run the pure awesomeness that is within those walls.

Sounds like my room.

[wesley_of_course]

You know you're a geek when "Your first computer was a TI 99-4A":guitar:

Or a Compaq Portable ; at 28 pounds and $ 3590 !
And or both ; Motorola DynaTac 8000x (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC) , considered the first portable phone. Also , TRS-80 Model 4P . (http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/compaq/trs80_4p.html)


P.S. Weighed almost 2 pounds and fetched $4,000. The phone not Dr. Martin !

[jgrabham]

When you have a broken C64 under your bed that you cant face throwing away, even though youve never used it, you just dont have the heart, despite being born in 92, 10 years AFTER they were released XD

Ooh, got another one, you punch people / push them off the chair when they touch your computers. (My mates still not happy about that "incident" XD)

[talsemgeest]

When you have your own personal desktop pc with ubuntu at school.

[MONODA]

as a senior prank, you install linux on your schools server and pc jack all the computers. XD

[NightwishFan]

as a senior prank, you install linux on your schools server and pc jack all the computers. XD

I didnt hit the server but I did pc jack one of my schools computer rooms.

They didn't know what happened. I am pretty sure they didn't even know what linux was. :)

[gwoodard]

When you wind up using the Beta release of EVERY Linux Release on a pc each

[GepettoBR]

as a senior prank, you install linux on your schools server and pc jack all the computers. XD

The Linux part should be a senior goodbye gift, not a prank.

[Pethegreat]

When you have your own personal desktop pc with ubuntu at school.
It is easier to carry your own ubuntu laptop to school every day. I take my system 76 pangolin vaule with me to school every day. That way you can share the goodness of ubuntu with more people.

I had a kick today watching a kid try to log on to my account in ubuntu. He tried for 10 minutes before giving up and handing it back to me.

[sci-fi guy]

I had a kick today watching a kid try to log on to my account in ubuntu. He tried for 10 minutes before giving up and handing it back to me.

As in, guess your password?

[talsemgeest]

It is easier to carry your own ubuntu laptop to school every day. I take my system 76 pangolin vaule with me to school every day. That way you can share the goodness of ubuntu with more people.

I had a kick today watching a kid try to log on to my account in ubuntu. He tried for 10 minutes before giving up and handing it back to me.
I just installed ubuntu on one of the school library computers, installed the latest compiz and listened to everyone begging me for a copy of ubuntu.

[money2themax]

I just installed ubuntu on one of the school library computers, installed the latest compiz and listened to everyone begging me for a copy of ubuntu.
nice how you get the admins let you do that?

[talsemgeest]

It was newly set up and they forgot to lock the boot menu. As far as I know they haven't checked it yet, but the librarians seem to like it.

[Kopachris]

I didnt hit the server but I did pc jack one of my schools computer rooms.

They didn't know what happened. I am pretty sure they didn't even know what linux was. :)

The District IT guy for my school also doesn't know what Ubuntu is :). His argument for not installing Ubuntu on the new COW laptops was, "How many kids at this school know how to use 'Ubuntu' (mispronounced "uh-bun-too")?" My unsaid argument: "They don't need to know you to use Ubuntu, you just double-click the little icon that says 'Internet' or 'TestNav', just like with the Windows ones." My said argument: "5". I could probably just leave a computer booted to the Live CD and they wouldn't know what hit them. :D

On Qo'noS, you don't program computers, computers program you!
(hint: What's tlhIngan Hol's word order?)
^My new siggeh, right there! :D

[sci-fi guy]

[QUOTE=talsemgeest;4649898...but the librarians seem to like it.[/QUOTE]

Well if you didn't install flash support, I can see why.

[Twitch6000]

you know you are a geek when,you have to try the newest version of each and every Linux distro.

[Dzenhax]

You read DECWARS and laugh.

http://www.bsd.org/decwars.html

[Kopachris]

http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/
^Heck yes!
:lolflag:

[MONODA]

you cant wait untill python 3
you use the python interperator as a calculator.

[LaRoza]

you use the python interperator as a calculator.

Everybody does that.

You are a geek when you use Haskell or Lisp as a calculator.

[jakupl]

SG93IGFib3V0IGlmIHlvdSBrbm93IHRoaXMgaXMgQkFTRTY0

[money2themax]

SG93IGFib3V0IGlmIHlvdSBrbm93IHRoaXMgaXMgQkFTRTY0
what is that? HEX?

[jakupl]

what is that? HEX?

base 64 ;)

[Pethegreat]

As in, guess your password?
Yes. Even if he would have got in, he would have been baffled since there is no start menu.

(mispronounced "uh-bun-too")
I had my laptop running in a class and someone pronunced it the same way. Likewise, the guy did not know what the difference between an operating system and a computer was.

[money2themax]

base 64 ;)
nice:KS

Yes. Even if he would have got in, he would have been baffled since there is no start menu.
you got a screen shot of that

I had my laptop running in a class and someone pronunced it the same way. Likewise, the guy did not know what the difference between an operating system and a computer was.
yeah i got "COMPUTER TEACHERS" who say the same thing it's aggravating to no end i keep asking them what school they went to so that they could teach computers

[GepettoBR]

At least they don't think that disabling a driver in Windows' Device Manager physycally disconnects it from the power source like a tech guy that came over once to switch our modem (on which my brother had politely spilled strawberry juice)

[gwoodard]

When you know how and have locked your brother out of his own account w/ out changing his password

[Pethegreat]

you got a screen shot of that

I just have a simple gnome desktop. Most people have no problem using Ubuntu once i tell them that all the programs are in the top bar.

I did get one kid to click on the "show desktop" button thinking it was the start button.

I think you would only need 3 minutes to train someone in how to use Ubuntu as well as a windows system.

[schauerlich]

You know you're a geek if you can recite the Anarcho-Syndicalist Peasant scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail from memory.

"I mean, if I went 'round, sayin' I was an emp'ror, just 'cause some moistened bink'd lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"

[money2themax]

I just have a simple gnome desktop. Most people have no problem using Ubuntu once i tell them that all the programs are in the top bar.

I did get one kid to click on the "show desktop" button thinking it was the start button.

I think you would only need 3 minutes to train someone in how to use Ubuntu as well as a windows system.
yeah i totally changed my desktop i completely removed all the buttons and both task bars. it was just a picture...of space

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek if you can recite the Anarcho-Syndicalist Peasant scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail from memory.

"I mean, if I went 'round, sayin' I was an emp'ror, just 'cause some moistened bink'd lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"

You know you're a geek when you have cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... with a herring!

[Barrucadu]

You know you're a geek when you changed the password on your friends Ubuntu computer and thought seriously about getting a black hat for similar occasions when it takes him half an hour to figure out how to change it back (recovery mode ftw).

[GepettoBR]

black hat ftw

[gwoodard]

When you are a computer/network specialist or know one that is in you fleet or clan named after STAR TREK or Star Wars

[gwoodard]

Or when you want to invent a device that makes all Cell Phones in the 10 ft. radius go crazy (ring, vibrate, or other "things") or inventing a device that fires a "mini" EMP charge at the target of choice...:lolflag:

[Kopachris]

When you think you made a virus using vbscript (it's supposed to copy itself all over the place, effectively ruining your Windows partition), but are too afraid to try it because Windows takes FOR-EV-ER(!) to install + update. So, you make a disk image in Ubuntu, try it out, and if it works, restore the disk image. :D My friend made the virus (he's trying to learn programming, doing pretty well), he's going to try it today.

Also, you know you're a geek when you enjoy either making or modding games more than playing them.

[money2themax]

Or when you want to invent a device that makes all Cell Phones in the 10 ft. radius go crazy (ring, vibrate, or other "things") or inventing a device that fires a "mini" EMP charge at the target of choice...:lolflag:
this would be cool in a classroom environment with those stupid kids who don't know jack about computers

When you think you made a virus using vbscript (it's supposed to copy itself all over the place, effectively ruining your Windows partition), but are too afraid to try it because Windows takes FOR-EV-ER(!) to install + update. So, you make a disk image in Ubuntu, try it out, and if it works, restore the disk image. :D My friend made the virus (he's trying to learn programming, doing pretty well), he's going to try it today.

Also, you know you're a geek when you enjoy either making or modding games more than playing them.
umm...i don't like virus makers unless it's for class

[gwoodard]

this would be cool in a classroom environment with those stupid kids who don't know jack about computers

yeah I agree...people should pay attention to the teacher, not the texting

[GepettoBR]

yeah I agree...people should pay attention to the teacher, not the texting

Sadly that only works if the teacher knows anything about what he's teaching.

[Barrucadu]

You know you're a geek when you have a heated argument with your ICT teacher about whether or not only 'experts' can use a CLI (if you agree to that that makes pretty much all of us except the brand new peope 'experts')

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you get something in the mail and wonder why Thunderbird hasn't warned you about it.

[Frak]

You know you're a geek when you get something in the mail and wonder why Thunderbird hasn't warned you about it.
Ditto

Also, to the person who suggested modding games more than playing them... Amen!

[money2themax]

when your bothered by the fact that your autoshop teacher thinks windows 98/2000 is the most up-to-date OS he has ever known

[Kopachris]

Ditto

Also, to the person who suggested modding games more than playing them... Amen!

Couldn't bother to scroll down a few posts? :(

[Frak]

Couldn't bother to scroll down a few posts? :(
Sorry, wasn't quite in the mood (or within time constriants) to do a multiquote. I try not to double post.

[|{urse]

you know you're a geek when you spent all day figuring out the answer to the 2tb LBA limitation on a suse64bit install on a server you yourself built that is sitting next to a particle accelerator (that is currently running) and you get minimal cellular damage because you couldn't possibly tear yourself away from the console long enough to avoid being irradiated.

But that was just my day today lol

:lolflag:

[|{urse]

by the way my problem was rewriting gpt. in case anyone cared.

[Frak]

by the way my problem was rewriting gpt. in case anyone cared.
Macintosh I'm guessing?

[|{urse]

nope it was suse but somewhere around lba 34 the first header was corrupted and had to reinstall. poo on that.

[money2themax]

you want to make a Partial Projection Cannon (PPC) or a Partial Accelerator Cannon (PAC)

[Kopachris]

Sorry, wasn't quite in the mood (or within time constriants) to do a multiquote. I try not to double post.

:lol: I just meant that the previous posts are below the message box on the "Reply to Thread" screen, and that I was the one who said the thing about modding games. Do the Ubuntu forums have a multiquote button? Hmm... Yup! I'll have to remember that.

You know you're a geek when you're this ([---]) close to being able to turn fermionic strings into other fermionic strings, but you have to wait for technology to catch up so you can 1) target specific strings, 2) bring the string-particles together to the density you want, and 3) align the strings in a specific order to make a complex object. You know those extra dimensions string theory predicts? You know how the different "vibrational modes" of a string determine what particle we see it as? Well, what if we are actually perceiving those extra dimensions as properties such as volume, mass, charge, spin, etc., and that those are how we identify a particle, because they're so small we can't see them (well, some scientists were able to see some gold atoms with a scanning tunneling microscope (I want one!) here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Atomic_resolution_Au100.JPG), but even that was done mostly by calculation and computer modeling). But, that mass-to-charge ratio of ions tells me that we at least partly determine an atom's identity by its mass and charge. That brought me to the problem where when you increase an object's velocity, you increase its mass. Well, what about another dimension for volume? That would actually be the 3rd dimension, which we perceive directly. Closed strings, which form fermions, are 2-dimensional. They vibrate in this 3rd dimension, and they now have volume.

It'll probably end up being a flop (especially when I think about the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle...), but oh well.

EDIT: Found this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Particle_chart.jpg) poster when searching for how to spell the "Heisenburg" effect.

you know you're a geek when you spent all day figuring out the answer to the 2tb LBA limitation on a suse64bit install on a server you yourself built that is sitting next to a particle accelerator (that is currently running) and you get minimal cellular damage because you couldn't possibly tear yourself away from the console long enough to avoid being irradiated.

But that was just my day today lol
CRT monitor?

[vasiliymeshko]

When, in order to boot into Windows, you first have to boot $FAVORITE_DISTRO and then start up VirtualBox.

[|{urse]

Quote:
you know you're a geek when you spent all day figuring out the answer to the 2tb LBA limitation on a suse64bit install on a server you yourself built that is sitting next to a particle accelerator (that is currently running) and you get minimal cellular damage because you couldn't possibly tear yourself away from the console long enough to avoid being irradiated.

But that was just my day today lol
CRT monitor?

No lol.. a particle accelerator. CRT's only give me raster burn.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=raster+burn

[Kopachris]

I was just watching Spongebob (yeah, stupid thing to watch), the episode where Sandy has to leave Bikini Bottom because she can't invent anything, and it got to the part where Lord Reginald is in the combo hair-trimmer, nose-picker, ukulele-tuner, etc. machine, and it was tuning the monkey dude's ukulele, then it goes crazy, and I realized that the ukulele had a string that wasn't null-terminated.
:lolflag:

[LaRoza]

... and I realized that the ukulele had a string that wasn't null-terminated.


Probably using Pascal...

[fmonjaraz]

Are doing electromechanics homework and posting in this thread at 5:42 in the morning

[p_quarles]

I just installed MediaWiki on my laptop so that I could better organize all of my computing documentation (Apache only listening on the loop interface, of course). I think that probably belongs here.

[Kopachris]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Server-kitty.jpg
:lolflag: save the server kitties!

[valkarin]

Your six year old daughter can bash script from watching you do it over and over again.:)

Your six year old daughter thinks Super Mario Brothers is a rip-off of Supertux.

When you type || instead of the word or when you IM people

[scorp123]

Your six year old daughter can bash script from watching you do it over and over again.:)

Your six year old daughter thinks Super Mario Brothers is a rip-off of Supertux. My daughter is 1.5 years old ... and she already knows how drag & drop works. She can't speak yet (well ... a few words like "Mummy", "Daddy", but very very far from complex structured sentences yet!), she can't read, she can barely walk and stand on her feet .... And yet if I don't lock my screen and walk away from my computers she will grab the mouse, start dragging and dropping my desktop icons around and type random stuff into applications she has somehow managed to open ....

Looking forward to having her write bash scripts for me once we get around the "knowing how to read" problem :lolflag:

[scorp123]

... sitting next to a particle accelerator (that is currently running) and you get minimal cellular damage because you couldn't possibly tear yourself away from the console long enough to avoid being irradiated. Are you at CERN? ( www.cern.ch )

I once had the pleasure of seeing these "babes" here in action:

"CERN BOFH needs a bigger storage array"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/01/cern_netevents/

Quote from there:
" ... Even after information is filtered to concentrate on interesting events the collider generates a phenomenal volume of data, around 15 million Gigabytes of data a year. ... "

You know you're a geek when you experience "biological reactions" in your body after reading those numbers ... :lolflag:

[00arthuryu]

when you turn down a date for the star wars convention

[Pethegreat]

Quote from there:
" ... Even after information is filtered to concentrate on interesting events the collider generates a phenomenal volume of data, around 15 million Gigabytes of data a year. ... "
Think if you have to order, receive, and install enough Hard drives to store all that data. You would have to use 15,000 1tb hard drives every year. You could "take" a few home to store some "critical cern data for back up"

[scorp123]

Think if you have to order, receive, and install enough Hard drives to store all that data They of course use storage racks ... Think 19" racks filled from bottom to top with disks, disks and more disks. They wouldn't bother with ordering single disks. They order fully equiped storage racks filled to the max. They then attach this stuff to their SAN and their filesystems grow dynamically without the end-users (the scientists working on the collider) noticing anything or having to bother with it ....

I found these images via Google:

http://barry.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/new-servers-04-2007.jpg

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/070625/070625_cern_hmed_3p.jpg

Also look at these Picasa albums ... it shows more of CERN's IT:

http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190661952235682
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190670542170290
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190610412627970
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190614707595282
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190619002562594
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190627592497202
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190631887464514
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190636182431826
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190657657268370

Hard drives and more hard drives ...
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190644772366434
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190649067333746
http://picasaweb.google.com/convulted/GenVe/photo#5101190653362301058

[LaRoza]

They of course use storage racks ... Think 19" racks filled from bottom to top with disks, disks and more disks. They wouldn't bother with ordering single disks. They order fully equiped storage racks filled to the max. They then attach this stuff to their SAN and their filesystems grow dynamically without the end-users (the scientists working on the collider) noticing anything or having to bother with it ....


I bet they use FAT32.

I wonder how cold those rooms are...