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

[talsemgeest]

When you find it easier to download "Macbeth" than to walk downstairs and grab it from your bag.

[scorp123]

I wonder how cold those rooms are... typical server room temperatures, around 16° to 20° C ... all those machines generate lots of heat, and there is extensive air conditioning to keep everything at the right temperature ... not too cold, not too hot. Also add to this that many parts of CERN are up to 100m underground, so proper air conditioning is a must anyway.

[yanom]

You attempt to access the XML source of your dreams

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when someone asks you why you don't try to change the world, and you answer, "Because they won't give me the source code!"

[elmer_42]

You attempt to access the XML source of your dreams
You attempt to access the XML source of your dreams and succeed.

[GepettoBR]

You attempt to access the XML source of your dreams and succeed.

You attempt to access the XML source of your dreams, succeed and use it to model an immersive 3D First-Person gaming scenario.

Using nothing but the terminal and a safety pin.

[Pijits_1]

When you check your log notes after you sneeze to see if it was caused by something.

When your told to apt-get a brain, and you understand its an insult.

When you make clever Linux jokes and find that only you or another person is laughing hysterically.

When something terrible happens you shout "FSCK"

When you do these things without thinking anymore

[sci-fi guy]

When something terrible happens you shout "FSCK"


How do you even pronounce that, anyways?

[talsemgeest]

I say it "fisk"

[LaRoza]

How do you even pronounce that, anyways?

On the internet, no one can here you scream.

[money2themax]

On the internet, no one can here you scream.
and might i add

ahem

Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[schauerlich]

On the internet, no one can here you scream.

http://www.sound-effect.com/track/scream-male-1-1026/

They can for the low low price of $2.49.

[Kopachris]

You attempt to access the XML source of your dreams and succeed.

Forget the XML source code of your dreams! You know what would be incredible? If you found the C source code of the human brain. You could easily (from a programmer's point of view) hook up your brain to your computer!

You know you're a geek when you've jerry-rigged a whole bunch of fans in your computer. They're all just sittin' there at the bottom of the case, one pointed out some expansion slots, the others pointed upwards.

[money2themax]

Forget the XML source code of your dreams! You know what would be incredible? If you found the C source code of the human brain. You could easily (from a programmer's point of view) hook up your brain to your computer!

You know you're a geek when you've jerry-rigged a whole bunch of fans in your computer. They're all just sittin' there at the bottom of the case, one pointed out some expansion slots, the others pointed upwards.
i dunno i don't like ppl messing with my brain maybe they can copy it and tinker with it but not direct editing

[joe.turion64x2]

Forget about source code at all. No doubt a bunch of morons would like to DRM it later one if they learn it can be edited.

Wait!! Something like that already happens!

[Kopachris]

You know it's time to go to bed when you (without realizing it) put a metal chassis fan on the underside (it's actually facing upwards...) of your graphics card. My Dinosaur was working fine until I did that... For some reason, the built-in fan on the graphics card (ATI All-in-wonder Radeon 8500dv 64MB) will not turn. Probably needs some WD-40...

[arman.haghi]

You know you're a geek when...

you've posted in this thread.

You don't even need to say anything at all, just posting is enough.

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you've written a script to make your Wii Remote control your mouse, TV and stereo.

[schauerlich]

You know you're a geek if you can recite multiple Monty Python sketches flawlessly.

I can basically quote anything from Holy Grail, and I've memorized the entire "Old woman" "Man!" "Man, sorry..." scene.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek if you can recite multiple Monty Python sketches flawlessly.

I can basically quote anything from Holy Grail, and I've memorized the entire "Old woman" "Man!" "Man, sorry..." scene.

"...I've memorized Holy Grail really well. I can recite it right now, and have you ROTFLOL..."
Sadly, I've never seen that movie. :(

[rfr]

You know you're a geek when you've been through 202 pages of "You know you're a geek when..."

[talsemgeest]

You know you're a geek when you understand my location.

[jakupl]

hehe :) that's on mars right ?

[talsemgeest]

You tell me...

[NightwishFan]

I am not really geek but Sol = sun and 3rd planet = earth (as far as we know) So you are currently on earth o.o?

[talsemgeest]

Yeah, I would certainly hope so.

[corney91]

You know you're a geek when you understand my location.
You know you're a geek when you don't know, your first instinct is to google (http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=sol+3&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) :p

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you don't know, your first instinct is to google (http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=sol+3&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) :p

You know you're a geek when Google's first instinct is YOU (and once in a while you're still amused by Russian reversals)

[scorp123]

(and once in a while you're still amused by Russian reversals) Something like this?

"People in the America google the Internet to find stuff ...
.... In Soviet-Russia, the Internet googles YOU!"

(derived from "finding a party" ... "In Soviet-Russia, the party finds you!" )

[GepettoBR]

Something like this?

"People in the America google the Internet to find stuff ...
.... In Soviet-Russia, the Internet googles YOU!"

(derived from "finding a party" ... "In Soviet-Russia, the party finds you!" )

Something like that (but "Party" with a capital P, since it's the Communist Party)

Just in case anyone didn't get it, this is the original Russian Reversal:

"In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the Party can always find YOU."

There's also the mockery Togolese reversal, where you simply scramble the sense out of the sentence.

"In Soviet Russia, the Party can always find you. In Togo, you party finds can always the."

[popch]

You know you're a geek when you understand my location.

Since Pluto recently has been declared an un-planet, you just moved your home?

[marlocarloandro]

El oh El,
you know your a geek when you have a 203 page thread going.Lawl

[Tim0miT]

when your frind is haveing some fat rave with lots of drunk girls, and you would rather stay home and play CS with a can of relentless:lolflag:

not me, i would go get smashed any day of the week:)

[money2themax]

Since Pluto recently has been declared an un-planet, you just moved your home?
no i wouldn't because its counting from the sun Sol 3

Sol 0: The Sun
Sol 1: Mercury
Sol 2: Venus
Sol 3: Earth
Sol 4: Mars
Sol 5: Jupiter
Sol 6: Saturn
Sol 7: Uranus
Sol 8: Neptune
Sol 9: Pluto

[sci-fi guy]

Not quite.

Sol 0: The Sun
Sol 1: Mercury
Sol 2: Venus
Sol 3: Earth
Sol 4: Mars
Sol 5: Ceres
Sol 6: Jupiter
Sol 7: Saturn
Sol 8: Uranus
Sol 9: Neptune
Sol 10: Pluto
Sol 11: Eris

[popch]

Shouldn't you drop Pluto from the list?

[money2themax]

Shouldn't you drop Pluto from the list?
no
Not quite.

Sol 0: The Sun
Sol 1: Mercury
Sol 2: Venus
Sol 3: Earth
Sol 4: Mars
Sol 5: Ceres
Sol 6: Jupiter
Sol 7: Saturn
Sol 8: Uranus
Sol 9: Neptune
Sol 10: Pluto
Sol 11: Eris
i've never heard of 5 i have heard of 11 but i thought it was a commit or asteroid

[popch]

AFAIK, Pluto has been re-classified and is no longer considered a planet.

See Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto) Originally classified as a planet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet), Pluto is now considered the largest member[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#cite_note-wiki-kbo-5) of a distinct region called the Kuiper belt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt).

[NightwishFan]

Ceres is a large planetoid between jupiter and mars, i think you can see it with small telescope.

[money2themax]

well all thes additions and subtractions still don't change Sol 3 form being earth am i right?

[talsemgeest]

Pluto is now classified as a Trans-neptunian object. This was done because if it wasn't they would have to classify eris and ceres as planets.

[schauerlich]

"...I've memorized Holy Grail really well. I can recite it right now, and have you ROTFLOL..."
Sadly, I've never seen that movie. :(

Got a business doing websites. When my friends need code who do they call? I do HTML for them all, yo.

[money2themax]

you ever stared at you desk top whilst taking a coffee break at home on you Linux comp and noticed how kid like the desktop looks it's so friendly and inviting it is when compared to windows i mean even apple got that right

[GepettoBR]

Got a business doing websites. When my friends need code who do they call? I do HTML for them all, yo.
Even made a homepage for my dog

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you understand my location.

Understood it as soon as I saw it. Only took me .068 seconds (You're a geek if you understand the importance of that amount of time (Hint: It's an eternity to an android)) to process the meaning of "Sol 3".

You know you're a geek when all the Discovery, Science, and History channel shows about space are boring to you now because you already know more than the people who make those shows. They said "nebula" came from Greek for crying out loud!

(Got myself a fannypack; they were having a sale down at the Gap.)

[rajaram_s]

when you can solve my problem of connecting adhoc networks using Wlan.............

[MongooseCage]

you know you are geek when you know that windows is far inferior than Ubuntu. Yeah, once you have posted you are officially a geek lol.

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you mail George Lucas to point out the physical inaccuracies in Star Wars. Am I the only one who's extremely bothered by loud explosions in the vacuum of outer space?

(Spend my nights with a roll of bubblewrap, pop pop hope no one sees me get freaky)

[Jammy4041]

You know when you are a geek when you talk about Linux

[popch]

You know you're a geek when you mail George Lucas to point out the physical inaccuracies in Star Wars. Am I the only one who's extremely bothered by loud explosions in the vacuum of outer space?

(Spend my nights with a roll of bubblewrap, pop pop hope no one sees me get freaky)

That, and the rumbling of cruising space ships, and huge tower sized structures tumbling as fast as if they were about furniture sized.

[adouglasmhor]

Ceres is a large planetoid between jupiter and mars, i think you can see it with small telescope.

I have competed in the highland games there, I didn't need a telescope http://www.ceresgames.co.uk/.

[money2themax]

You know you're a geek when you mail George Lucas to point out the physical inaccuracies in Star Wars. Am I the only one who's extremely bothered by loud explosions in the vacuum of outer space?

(Spend my nights with a roll of bubblewrap, pop pop hope no one sees me get freaky)

yeah well he's part of hollywood now isn't he and most ppl don't know or care about things like that [i almost won a bet with someone about walking on the moon with no spacesuit on]

[GepettoBR]

He isn't less wrong just because he makes money in the movies o.o

[gwoodard]

you are impatient in trying to tell someone that he/she has broken their video card by installing it in the wrong slot (EX. AGP installed into a PCI Slot) bye bye slot

or that they think they know what they are doing and tell you that a virus is the same thing as spyware (in certain cases yes...most, no)

Or that you HAVE to make sure that your friend dad's PC has security stuff installed, when installed, do scans and find boatload of crud and clean the computer of the "crud" and make it run faster (what stinks is that my friend's dad took the credit...)

[Periswell]

You know you're a geek when........you talk to yourself when you are on the computer.

i do that all the time.

[talsemgeest]

You know when you are a geek when you talk about Linux
When you dream about linux...

[sci-fi guy]

Wow. A new theme for Ubuntuforums

[talsemgeest]

You know you're a geek when........you talk to yourself when you are on the computer.

i do that all the time.
So do I. I think it might also be a slight indicator of madness...

[meanburrito920]

You've actually read this far into the thread.

[Kingsley]

You know you're a geek when you use Digg to ask a girl out to prom.

You know you're a geek when you hack Bejeweled into a marriage proposal.

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you understand meanburrito920's avatar.

[Joeb454]

It reminds me of a binary clock ;)

And you know you're a geek when you believe the Matrix is real

[other guy]

You now your a geek.. When you can refine this:

Corn army lend me your ears :
ptrace(ptrace_syscall)
wait
ptrace(get_regs)
Challenge:
Su
I am SYS EXEC
Kernel level access granted.

[sci-fi guy]

You know you are a geek if you cringe when you see a 700MB CDR used to hold a single PowerPoint presentation that likely could have fit on a floppy.

[Haegin]

You know you are a geek if you cringe when you see a 700MB CDR used to hold a single PowerPoint presentation that likely could have fit on a floppy.

Why? CDs are cheaper than floppy disks and if you are really worried you can make it a multi-session disc.

[darolu]

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

You understood the above ;P

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GUILTY

[MONODA]

You know you are a geek if you cringe when you see a 700MB CDR used to hold a single PowerPoint presentation that likely could have fit on a floppy.
uhh the thought makes me shudder, my brother uses entire cds to save a .doc document!

[banished_one]

you know youre a geek when your left hand tries to do ctrl + f combination when youre looking for your keys

[banished_one]

uhh the thought makes me shudder, my brother uses entire cds to save a .doc document!

hmm i use 8Gb dvd s then how geek am i XD

[ironwolfe]

When your vnc list (people for which you fix/maintain their computer) is longer than your phone list... ugh I have to start saying no...

[sci-fi guy]

Why? CDs are cheaper than floppy disks and if you are really worried you can make it a multi-session disc.

I would, but my sister doesn't.

[spupy]

...you write your ToDo lists in the form of typical RPG quests:
- The landlord needs you to collect 180 gold coins.
- Go to the mall dungeon to collect some ingredients for cooking noodles (to increase noodle cooking skill by 1)
- You need 20 Str to equip these Tight Jeans of Charm +3. Need to train additional 3 Str.

[GepettoBR]

...you write your ToDo lists in the form of typical RPG quests:
- The landlord needs you to collect 180 gold coins.
- Go to the mall dungeon to collect some ingredients for cooking noodles (to increase noodle cooking skill by 1)
- You need 20 Str to equip these Tight Jeans of Charm +3. Need to train additional 3 Str.

I rofl'ed. Think I'll start doing that.

[money2themax]

You've actually read this far into the thread.
hello fellow haker
You know you're a geek when you use Digg to ask a girl out to prom.
i'm gonna try that
You know you're a geek when you hack Bejeweled into a marriage proposal.
not a bad idea but i need the screen thats in down town new your to make it work
You know you're a geek when you understand meanburrito920's avatar.
yup

[schauerlich]

You know you're a geek when you're learning how to play the background music in Gerudo Valley in LoZ:Ocarina of Time on guitar.

My fingers hurt... it's been a while.

[talsemgeest]

You know you are a geek if you cringe when you see a 700MB CDR used to hold a single PowerPoint presentation that likely could have fit on a floppy.
Meh, try a 300GB Holographic disc...

[NightwishFan]

I remember my sister used one of my dvd-rs for one song, so she could bring it on her computer. :lolflag:

[joe.turion64x2]

When you need to create some sort of database to store the Admin passwords of all the external boxes you maintain/give support to (friends and such).

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you're learning how to play the background music in Gerudo Valley in LoZ:Ocarina of Time on guitar.

My fingers hurt... it's been a while.

So I'm not the only one? Yay!

I can play Gerudo Valley and Epona's Song on the guitar and Song of Time on the piano.

[schauerlich]

So I'm not the only one? Yay!

I can play Gerudo Valley and Epona's Song on the guitar and Song of Time on the piano.

I'll have to learn those next. I'm working on building up my calluses more than anything.

[gwoodard]

you find that you brain works similar to an Ipod

(The average person can remember some lyrics of an average of 10,000 songs- I can remember about 30,000):guitar:

[rouge568]

you recognize the reference in my sig without using google.

note: may not want to google this...

[NightwishFan]

When you use "It's over 9000!!!!" whenever possible in conversation.

[money2themax]

when you have the number of lines of code that you've written on your resume

and it's well over 20,000 and your only 18~23 yrs old

[Kopachris]

That, and the rumbling of cruising space ships, and huge tower sized structures tumbling as fast as if they were about furniture sized.
Remember the lever laws. The edges move faster than the center. Plus, with no (veeeeeeery little) friction in the (semi)vacuum of space, a huge tower sized structure can tumble as fast as, or look like they're tumbling as fast as something furniture sized.

So do I. I think it might also be a slight indicator of madness...
Sometimes, talking with oneself is the only way to hold an intelligent conversation ;)

You know you're a geek when you understand meanburrito920's avatar.
Hmm... 1, 5, 3. The first 3 prime numbers. Unless they're 4, 5, and 7, which is also an interesting sequence...

hmm i use 8Gb dvd s then how geek am i XD
I can't burn something for my friends because it's about 4.5GB and I only have 8GB DL DVD+R's. It would be a waste of space.

Meh, try a 300GB Holographic disc...
They're supposed to get as big as 3TB, but with the read/write speeds they're talking about (faster than SSDs), who cares about a "waste of space". Those things could eventually replace hard-drives! (If we ever got around to adapting the technology or -- Wait! No "hard-drives" at all! Just have 2 or more drives in your comp and live boot with all your data!)

Did anyone see PM's Mac vs. PC article? Who would buy a Gateway for $1800 anyway? The only thing the RAM (Mac: 1GB, PC: 3GB) would really affect is the stress-launch of Photoshop, which the Mac wasted the PC in anyway (Mac: ~28 sec, PC: ~48 sec). I'd still go with building my own PC, but for a laptop, I'd go MacBook Pro.

You know you're a geek when:
...you spent about 30 minutes writing a single post on this forums.
...you're building a fusion reactor to prove:
E=mcmaterial2 a.k.a. K(x)=K4(x)*K3(ϒ) where ϒ is a photon, K(σ)={length=0, width, volume, speed, mass, charge, "valence" and other electronic properties in atoms, spin, strangeness, charm, bottomness}, and cmaterial is the velocity of light in a material in which a matter-energy reaction takes place, thus giving a possible use of "dilithium" from Star Trek in a matter-antimatter reaction. If "dilithium" has properties that cause light to go faster than it does in a vacuum, exponentially so when stimulated by an electromagnetic field, then that would yield a greater energy output, thus opening the possibility for warp-speed travel. We still haven't found any material like that yet, but the vacuum in "velocity of light in a vacuum" is not a true vacuum, and scientists have gotten light to go faster with quantum tunneling.

P.S. Does this forum have any subscript and superscript commands?

[talsemgeest]

Remember the lever laws. The edges move faster than the center. Plus, with no (veeeeeeery little) friction in the (semi)vacuum of space, a huge tower sized structure can tumble as fast as, or look like they're tumbling as fast as something furniture sized.


Sometimes, talking with oneself is the only way to hold an intelligent conversation ;)


Hmm... 1, 5, 3. The first 3 prime numbers. Unless they're 4, 5, and 7, which is also an interesting sequence...


I can't burn something for my friends because it's about 4.5GB and I only have 8GB DL DVD+R's. It would be a waste of space.


They're supposed to get as big as 3TB, but with the read/write speeds they're talking about (faster than SSDs), who cares about a "waste of space". Those things could eventually replace hard-drives! (If we ever got around to adapting the technology or -- Wait! No "hard-drives" at all! Just have 2 or more drives in your comp and live boot with all your data!)

Did anyone see PM's Mac vs. PC article? Who would buy a Gateway for $1800 anyway? The only thing the RAM (Mac: 1GB, PC: 3GB) would really affect is the stress-launch of Photoshop, which the Mac wasted the PC in anyway (Mac: ~28 sec, PC: ~48 sec). I'd still go with building my own PC, but for a laptop, I'd go MacBook Pro.

You know you're a geek when you spent about 30 minutes writing a single post on this forums.
Its only a theoretical 3 TB limit. The makers have only made a 300GB one so far.

...When you stay up all night waiting for hardy heron (its 00:38 25th of April here in NZ and http://www.ubuntu.com (http://www.ubuntu.com/) still hasn't been changed!)

[Kopachris]

Sorry for posting that twice. Firefox was malfunctioning...

"...supposed to get as big as 3TB..." Do you actually have an HVD?

[sci-fi guy]

...When you stay up all night waiting for hardy heron (its 00:38 25th of April here in NZ and http://www.ubuntu.com (http://www.ubuntu.com/) still hasn't been changed!)

It's changed now, but the site is slow to navigate. Use bittorrent if you can.

[GepettoBR]

you recognize the reference in my sig without using google.

note: may not want to google this...

It doesn't get more serious than a rhinoceros charging your *** o.o

When you use "It's over 9000!!!!" whenever possible in conversation.

I'm counting how many times I've said that... Oh my God! It's over 9000!!!!

Hmm... 1, 5, 3. The first 3 prime numbers. Unless they're 4, 5, and 7, which is also an interesting sequence...

Sorry. That's the Glider from Conway's Game of Life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life).

Edit: I hate not being able to post HTML code T_T

[Barrucadu]

When you read a few articles about Ext4 and get all excited and decide to upgrade your experimentation computer from Ext3 over the weekend...

Also, when you thought it a little funny when people didn't get the glider/hacking emblem reference.

[talsemgeest]

Sorry for posting that twice. Firefox was malfunctioning...

"...supposed to get as big as 3TB..." Do you actually have an HVD?
No, but the 300GB has now been created after years of wait.

[abuakel]

You know you're a geek when it's too late.

Dead on.. I've gone through soo many things.. especially my once beloved iPod by trying to mess with the BIOS and other parts that aren't meant to be played with.. But where's the fun in following the rules..:wink:
It's all about pushing the limits, especially the crap Apple comes out with.
But thanks to my screw up.. I've finally cut off everything from Apple! \\:D/

[Barrucadu]

Nobody is a true geek unless they have had a "Oh god, I hope that can be fixed" moment :lolflag:

[money2themax]

Nobody is a true geek unless they have had a "Oh god, I hope that can be fixed" moment :lolflag:
does it count if i had 5 of those moments at once

[sci-fi guy]

Also, when you thought it a little funny when people didn't get the glider/hacking emblem reference.

I didn't get it, but the Game of Life seems interesting. Is there a simulator for (k)ubuntu you would recommend?

[powerpleb]

Nobody is a true geek unless they have had a "Oh god, I hope that can be fixed" moment :lolflag:

You know you're an ubergeek when you break things to see if they can be fixed.

[Barrucadu]

I didn't get it, but the Game of Life seems interesting. Is there a simulator for (k)ubuntu you would recommend?

No idea, type "life" in Synaptic and sift through the results. I'm currently using "gtklife" in Arch, see if it in the repos.

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when your ringtone for the group "Family" is the Godfather Waltz and your "message received" tone is the Zelda "puzzle solved" jingle. (Mine was until last week when I changed it to the Final Fantasy "Battle Won" jingle from FFVII)

When you read a few articles about Ext4 and get all excited and decide to upgrade your experimentation computer from Ext3 over the weekend...

On that subject, is there a prediction of when a stable might be issued?

[Tim Sharitt]

You know you're an ubergeek when you break things to see if they can be fixed.
That's my favorite game.

[gwoodard]

when you miss the gallery to the forums

[Frak]

when you miss the gallery to the forums
Me too...

[talsemgeest]

Nobody is a true geek unless they have had a "Oh god, I hope that can be fixed" moment :lolflag:
Had one, yesterday; I accidentally deleted all my videos that have taken me months to download. Just about fainted.

[talsemgeest]

when you miss the gallery to the forums
They say it's coming back and going to be better than ever.

[LaRoza]

Had one, yesterday; I accidentally deleted all my videos that have taken me months to download. Just about fainted.

Data recovery?

[talsemgeest]

Data recovery?
I tried and tried and tried. Nothing worked. The thing was, when I realised what I was doing I clicked cancel, but they were already gone. None of the data recovery programs could find any of my videos.

Ah well, better get downloading...

[talsemgeest]

You join the new group: http://ubuntuforums.org/group.php?groupid=68

[jakupl]

You know you're a geek when you actually joined that group ;)

[kaboodle_fish]

You have moussaka for dinner and smash the plate on the floor afterwards

Hang on.....oh you said geek

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when you actually joined that group ;)
Joined!:)

You know you're a geek when your entire system, including, but not limited to, circuit boards and case, is custom-designed. Anyone like that here?

You know you're a geek when you'd rather get up an hour early to drink your coffee and work on your computer than sleep in for another hour.

You know you're a geek when you and your friends are doing a video project for science (Dinosaurs on a Plane), and you're doing it in Anim8or and X-Plane.

You know you're a geek when you sell your "soul" on ebay to buy computer parts and/or parts for a mini fusion reactor.:-\" "I have 'multiple personalities'. I keep my 'extra souls' in jars in my closet. Here, you can have one for $5,000."

You know you're a geek when for some reason, your speakers and all the music you play on them sound better with a flat graphic eq. setting. Dunno why, but they do...

You know you're a geek when you made a utopia on SimCity 4 without using cheats, but using your own cracks (in case anyone's wondering how, I made an invisible building in BAT, made a school, a hospital, a police dept., a fire dept., and a "purification plant" (super-park) out of it and props. I also made a landmark with 25,000 jobs that I can put in over and over, I put in a park with a monthly payment of -$1 billion/month for the first month, and went into the dat files to change the capacity of the different roads. I did, however use cheats in the beginning to get the Hydrogen Power Plant and the Large Water Pump.)

[GepettoBR]

Your have moussaka for dinner and smash the plate on the floor afterwards

Hang on.....oh you said geek

Hahaha!

I love my moussaka! How weird is it that I did have it for dinner the day before yesterday? I didn't break my plate though.

[Barrucadu]

I tried and tried and tried. Nothing worked. The thing was, when I realised what I was doing I clicked cancel, but they were already gone. None of the data recovery programs could find any of my videos.

Ah well, better get downloading...

I did that a few days ago... Lovely feeling isn't it? It's that "OH HELL!" moment that makes it all so worthwhile... Downloading time!

[dstew]

...you build your own computer processor...

[Kopachris]

...you build your own computer processor...
You design your own computer processor in Paint because you don't have the resources to build one and because that's the only thing Paint is useful for. I got halfway through the full adder on a 4-bit processor when I lost track of where I was. Oops.

[dstew]

Check my homepage.

[money2themax]

Check my homepage.
1. what does that have to do with being a geek?
2. how?

[dstew]

Click on my name in the header of this post, choose "Visit dstew's homepage!"

[LaRoza]

Click on my name in the header of this post, choose "Visit dstew's homepage!"

Cool.

[The_Shock_Master]

http://ubuntuforums.org/customavatars/avatar427126_1.gif

[gwoodard]

You know your a geek when camping in line for the the newest midnight release of World of Warcraft (if they ever do that)

[joe.turion64x2]

You design your own computer processor in Paint because you don't have the resources to build one and because that's the only thing Paint is useful for. I got halfway through the full adder on a 4-bit processor when I lost track of where I was. Oops.
Paint in Wine? It would be more geek to do it in GIMP.

[Jonny0204]

.... When you laugh in maths when an answer is over 50, and one of the generally accepted hexadecimal size capacities for flash drives ie. 64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 and so on.
.... Or u laugh at any numbers or equations resemble anything related to geeky computing, including architectres, your favourite piece of code etc.
.... you actually have a favourite piece of code
.... you compile from source every time, even when something like firefox will do it for you
.... you take a laptop with you anywhere u may need a computer, but your's is installed with your fav linux distro, so you don't have to even look at the window's genuine sticker

the list can go on, but i'm out of ideas :(

[meborc]

... you switched your repos to intrepid as soon as hardy was released, although the development has not started yet :guitar:

[schauerlich]

.... When you laugh in maths when an answer is over 50, and one of the generally accepted hexadecimal size capacities for flash drives ie. 64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 and so on.
.... Or u laugh at any numbers or equations resemble anything related to geeky computing, including architectres, your favourite piece of code etc.


I recall laughing out loud when during a test when the answer ended up being 386...

[_sluimers_]

You know your a geek when camping in line for the the newest midnight release of World of Warcraft (if they ever do that)

You hear your friend is doing this and instead camp online on WOW for the same amount of time in front of a random store. Then roleplay as your friend by for example telling anyone who passes by if they too are camping for the newest midnight release and try stopping them if they "cut in line".


(Sorry, I have never played WOW out of fear of getting too addicted to it, so I wouldn't know how far I could get with this joke.)

[popch]

You know you're an ubergeek when you break things to see if they can be fixed.

I fix things just to see if they can be broken. What does that make me?

[Frak]

... you switched your repos to intrepid as soon as hardy was released, although the development has not started yet :guitar:
Haha, I've actually been thinking of doing that ;)

[joe.turion64x2]

.... you take a laptop with you anywhere u may need a computer, but your's is installed with your fav linux distro, so you don't have to even look at the window's genuine sticker

That's exactly what I do (thought it was a common practice among tech-people, not just geeky stuff).

I don't know what I would need to see the sticker for, but I would certainly like to remove the one saying "Designed for Windows XP. Vista Capable". I'd probably end covering it with a Linux-sticker because I don't want to harm my machine.

[gwoodard]

.... When you laugh in maths when an answer is over 50, and one of the generally accepted hexadecimal size capacities for flash drives ie. 64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 and so on.
.... Or u laugh at any numbers or equations resemble anything related to geeky computing, including architectres, your favourite piece of code etc.
.... you actually have a favourite piece of code
.... you compile from source every time, even when something like firefox will do it for you
.... you take a laptop with you anywhere u may need a computer, but your's is installed with your fav linux distro, so you don't have to even look at the window's genuine sticker

the list can go on, but i'm out of ideas :(

or when you count time to the closest nanosecond

[gwoodard]

I fix things just to see if they can be broken. What does that make me?

anti-ubergeek :lolflag:

[The_Shock_Master]

01011001011011110111010100100000011010110110111001 10111101110111001000000111100101101111011101010111 00100010000001100001001000000110011101100101011001 01011010110010000001110111011010000110010101101110 00100000011110010110111101110101001000000110001101 10000101101110001000000110011001101001011001110111 01010111001001100101001000000110111101110101011101 00001000000111010001101000011010010111001100100000 01101101011001010111001101110011011000010110011101 100101

[money2themax]

beat this

MD2: ab37f79d964f8860c21ee378621487bb
MD4: bdb9d6827aff486f2e0a5265df3acfd9
MD5: 6424d97435bb07f41f630d2aa70eccc3
CRC 8, ccitt, 16, 32 : 9d, f422, 45fa, 87db846c

CRYPT (form: $ MD5? $ SALT $ CRYPT):
$1$y1QT6LOV$qgIUq5Fduj/BODtnj7ZZE.
(form: SALT[2] CRYPT[11]):
ps4nCawM6oIWM

SHA1: 0a2f279b6d07583470becf548496d0617950f2bc
RIPEMD-160:
232d8011 238a6368 b8251786 e21e6bb2 481eb617
SHA2-256:
fce4815bd8bb617b3cf49e1cdb8d5bdc
cda3f69cb4573cbd66ff4fb17a6db6b9
SHA2-384:
dc3308d6dc29744ac78401a4b056961e
5c116df2e6ebafadc4632ffba8d35950
de32410e508a93796e880cd952e05c66
SHA2-512:
109d4c1575b4e11a76b35c8df00b259a
ad8967f0a64a0c8b44db1da25fa1d2e9
d180acbb18dd670b7ea25ef6535e9d52
9d26645fa1882389b218d2efcfbb73fa

[The_Shock_Master]

beat this

MD2: ab37f79d964f8860c21ee378621487bb
MD4: bdb9d6827aff486f2e0a5265df3acfd9
MD5: 6424d97435bb07f41f630d2aa70eccc3
CRC 8, ccitt, 16, 32 : 9d, f422, 45fa, 87db846c

CRYPT (form: $ MD5? $ SALT $ CRYPT):
$1$y1QT6LOV$qgIUq5Fduj/BODtnj7ZZE.
(form: SALT[2] CRYPT[11]):
ps4nCawM6oIWM

SHA1: 0a2f279b6d07583470becf548496d0617950f2bc
RIPEMD-160:
232d8011 238a6368 b8251786 e21e6bb2 481eb617
SHA2-256:
fce4815bd8bb617b3cf49e1cdb8d5bdc
cda3f69cb4573cbd66ff4fb17a6db6b9
SHA2-384:
dc3308d6dc29744ac78401a4b056961e
5c116df2e6ebafadc4632ffba8d35950
de32410e508a93796e880cd952e05c66
SHA2-512:
109d4c1575b4e11a76b35c8df00b259a
ad8967f0a64a0c8b44db1da25fa1d2e9
d180acbb18dd670b7ea25ef6535e9d52
9d26645fa1882389b218d2efcfbb73fa


http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Flags/white-flag-25.gif I will have to admit I have no idea what any of that is. lol

[LaRoza]

01011001011011110111010100100000011010110110111001 10111101110111001000000111100101101111011101010111 00100010000001100001001000000110011101100101011001 01011010110010000001110111011010000110010101101110 00100000011110010110111101110101001000000110001101 10000101101110001000000110011001101001011001110111 01010111001001100101001000000110111101110101011101 00001000000111010001101000011010010111001100100000 01101101011001010111001101110011011000010110011101 100101

Everyone here can do that. That is not a geek trait.

[money2themax]

http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Flags/white-flag-25.gif
good choice lol

[The_Shock_Master]

Everyone here can do that. That is not a geek trait.

Not everyone can decipher what that means. :P

[money2themax]

Not everyone can decipher what that means. :P
actually they can

[LaRoza]

Not everyone can decipher what that means. :P

Yes, it is simple ascii encoded binary.

I used an opera widget to decode it in a second.

[The_Shock_Master]

Yes, it is simple ascii encoded binary.

I used an opera widget to decode it in a second.

Ok, how about this then, only a geek would bother figuring out what that meant?! Not to mention, maybe everyone here can, but not everyone can. And so, you know your a geek when....

edit.... Or how about this..... You know your a geek when you actually have an Opera widget to do that!

[money2themax]

Bianary

01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 00100001

Hex

6a 75 73 74 20 6c 69 6b 65 20 74 68 65 79 20 63 61 6e 20 64 65 63 6f 64 65 20 74 68 65 73 65 20 74 6f 6f 21

Base 64

anVzdCBsaWtlIHRoZXkgY2FuIGRlY29kZSB0aGVzZSB0b28h

DEC / CHAR [i haven't the foggiest as to what this is]

106 117 115 116 32 108 105 107 101 32 116 104 101 121 32 99 97 110 32 100 101 99 111 100 101 32 116 104 101 115 101 32 116 111 111 33

and the rest

MD2: da42aa9634c03eacbaa19d4a59232ad5
MD4: 8e43b00550633143bae5c0a2e0e6a631
MD5: 286283ca0d433ed126d38fefaa4a39b9
CRC 8, ccitt, 16, 32 : dc, b69a, 2401, 9280d10c

CRYPT (form: $ MD5? $ SALT $ CRYPT):
$1$xNLv8CHk$1DhQMgCPJOzEIlB8oZLDu1
(form: SALT[2] CRYPT[11]):
psymuLuXRDr0E

SHA1: d99f17ddd31740ac4ab200c423fb19b2428e25a5
RIPEMD-160:
bd47d5fc 67c93c30 682b012b 641d11d0 83a05dbe
SHA2-256:
cee136213c426da65a940f9721e3ab29
4f0527e778cd97ba69d0e0fb10924449
SHA2-384:
40420c26366b0efda92ab19fd6e3fa93
6e83f4572f56b1c5658823b1483b5923
7f1a7e173a4b9480dbe98ea2b29b4326
SHA2-512:
4ecf143a26b980b79bde8d02463bd746
f575ea6f0ff6945e267106eaf6af747c
11c6265793fbb044d7eb7d675e1fdb08
0da99307690e4a0eda1aaf7890a3b492

Link:
http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/

[talsemgeest]

Link:
http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/
Yeah, thats one of the most useful websites when you are reading this thread...

[Frak]

Not everyone can decipher what that means. :P
Well...

You know your a geek when you can figure out this message

Vista sidebar gadget

[talsemgeest]

Well...



Vista sidebar gadget
YOUR WORDS, THEY BURN!!!

[Frak]

YOUR WORDS, THEY BURN!!!
My computer room is like a lab. I MUST run every current OS available to the public.

Amiga 4
BeOS
Solaris
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7 (I got access to the development builds thanks to the MSDN membership)
Variants of GNU/Linux
BSD
GNU/Hurd
Debian/Hurd
Haiku
ReactOS (I don't mess with it; I'm afraid it'll crash)
Mac OS 9 - 10.5
Finally, HP-UX (Can't remember why I bought it...)

[sci-fi guy]

*snip*

A classmate of mine claims to have the installation media for 29 OSs (although he doesn't have all of them installed, and I would bet that a large chunk of them are various versions of Windows)

[LaRoza]

A classmate of mine claims to have the installation media for 29 OSs (although he doesn't have all of them installed, and I would bet that a large chunk of them are various versions of Windows)

I installed 14 operating systems on a single 160 GB hard disk. One Windows, one BSD, the rest were Linux distros. They were all bootable.

I have over 200 distro disks and ISOs of various operating systems.

[talsemgeest]

I'm afraid I've been dragged back to windows again (worst of all, vista). At the moment it is impossible to get DVB-T in NZ under Linux, so I'm stuck with windows for that.

So I guess I can't complain...

[jjthomas]

You wanna ./configure make && make install a Linux government at /home/user[tab-complete]

LMAO. I fell out of my chair at work. (Slow night)

You know your a geek when you refer to the $ key as String.

-JJ

[Batatolol]

You know your a geek when you do open your window and you vanish to dust ._.

[GepettoBR]

You know your a geek when you do open your window and you vanish to dust ._.

Isn't that how you know you're a vampire?

[suziequzie]

You finally convince your SO to get their own computer so you don't have to take turns for Warcraft or City of Heroes... and you're more excited about their computer than they are. And that you can't wait to set it all up for them with their preferred apps/games and get it good to go...

(he didn't even *want* his own computer, but reluctantly agreed that if he's gonna be addicted to CoH, he'd damn well better fork out the $$ to get one...)

[Frak]

A classmate of mine claims to have the installation media for 29 OSs (although he doesn't have all of them installed, and I would bet that a large chunk of them are various versions of Windows)
I have them on various computers. Of course those that require certain hardware have it. I have them on several 1TB HDs.

NOTE: You can have an unlimited amount of partitions within an Extended/Logical partition. But usually only 4 primary.

Also, I just got a new OS today. SkyOS (http://skyos.org/)
Lastly, the Windows 7 builds look alot like Vista, but it is MUCH faster and responsive and its DEFINATELY not as buggy. Basically, it compares close to XP now.

[GepettoBR]

Lastly, the Windows 7 builds look alot like Vista, but it is MUCH faster and responsive and its DEFINATELY not as buggy. Basically, it compares close to XP now.

What, they're still in alpha but already more stable than Vista?

This reinforces my theory that, while working on Vista, one of the programmers accidentally copypasted a few dozen Wikipedia articles into the code.

[Martje_001]

I installed 14 operating systems on a single 160 GB hard disk. One Windows, one BSD, the rest were Linux distros. They were all bootable.

I have over 200 distro disks and ISOs of various operating systems.
You know you're a geek when..

joking of course ;)


But still..

[Frak]

What, they're still in alpha but already more stable than Vista?

This reinforces my theory that, while working on Vista, one of the programmers accidentally copypasted a few dozen Wikipedia articles into the code.
roflcopter

Vista is just a development build of Longhorn anyway. Microsoft only released it because their shareholders were becoming impatient for Longhorn to be released.
1. Expected to be released in 2003
2. Shareholders gripe | Vista Beta released to public to spark interest in shareholders in 2006
3. Multiple bugs fixed | Exptected to be released Christmas 2006 | Problems push release to early 2007 (Microsoft forgot to release information to hardware manufacturers)
4. Disregarding hardware, Vista is released in November 2006

The underlying core, Longhorn, is still in development stage (starting to remind me of GNU Hurd: take 10 years to develop something that still comes nowhere near stable, and by the time its out, the improvements in hardware have caused the advantages to become unnoticable)

Worse off, some improvements to Windows 7 were removed due to MS history of Anti-Trust lawsuits. Most are noticeable from the speed differences in builds.

Finally, the new MinWin kernel has around a ~60MB footprint on my computer. It is a Hybrid Kernel (Kernel interacts with software), but it's starting to look more and more monolithic.

[money2themax]

it's nice to know that somebody smacked M$ around btw i have heard off the M$ website that Seven is being developed in India [why does that just seem funny to me]

[Frak]

it's nice to know that somebody smacked M$ around btw i have heard off the M$ website that Seven is being developed in India [why does that just seem funny to me]
Somehow, every version of Windows that wasn't developed in-house was unusually very good (Windows 2000 for instance. Rock solid, yet not developed by MS)

[money2themax]

Somehow, every version of Windows that wasn't developed in-house was unusually very good (Windows 2000 for instance. Rock solid, yet not developed by MS)
yeah i'm convinced that the developers in America aren't picked on the basis of intelligence but back to why i find that funny is that stereotypically the people from India are the tech support

[milia]

You know you're a geek when it's too late.:lolflag::lolflag::lolflag::lolflag::lolflag: :lolflag:


...when you talk to your pc('s) and you feel emotionally attached to it...

Or better yet when you call it 'him' or 'her'...

...when you believe that science is a part of modern culture and any person
who would like to think of himself educated should be mathematically
literate. At least to be able to calculate mentally about how much
he must pay to the cashier at the supermarket with an error of about 10%
and know the main ideas of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos Theory...:rolleyes:

[Frak]

yeah i'm convinced that the developers in America aren't picked on the basis of intelligence but back to why i find that funny is that stereotypically the people from India are the tech support
:lolflag:

[The_Shock_Master]

My computer room is like a lab. I MUST run every current OS available to the public.

Amiga 4
BeOS
Solaris
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7 (I got access to the development builds thanks to the MSDN membership)
Variants of GNU/Linux
BSD
GNU/Hurd
Debian/Hurd
Haiku
ReactOS (I don't mess with it; I'm afraid it'll crash)
Mac OS 9 - 10.5
Finally, HP-UX (Can't remember why I bought it...)

I have them on various computers. Of course those that require certain hardware have it. I have them on several 1TB HDs.

NOTE: You can have an unlimited amount of partitions within an Extended/Logical partition. But usually only 4 primary.

Also, I just got a new OS today. SkyOS (http://skyos.org/)
Lastly, the Windows 7 builds look alot like Vista, but it is MUCH faster and responsive and its DEFINATELY not as buggy. Basically, it compares close to XP now.

What do you use each OS for anyhow? Never knew there was a need to have so many operating systems.

[GepettoBR]

roflcopter

Vista is just a development build of Longhorn anyway. Microsoft only released it because their shareholders were becoming impatient for Longhorn to be released.


The underlying core, Longhorn, is still in development stage (starting to remind me of GNU Hurd: take 10 years to develop something that still comes nowhere near stable, and by the time its out, the improvements in hardware have caused the advantages to become unnoticable)

Worse off, some improvements to Windows 7 were removed due to MS history of Anti-Trust lawsuits. Most are noticeable from the speed differences in builds.

Finally, the new MinWin kernel has around a ~60MB footprint on my computer. It is a Hybrid Kernel (Kernel interacts with software), but it's starting to look more and more monolithic.

So we should expect Windows 7 to be really good?

[money2themax]

So we should expect Windows 7 to be really good?
windows and really good should never be in the same sentence and they need a windows OS that can fit on a flash drive [and has ext support] so i can play GTA: SA

[imronak]

when your "hobby/favorite pass time" is making small verilog modules of self adopting or fast learning language chips for future communications with aliens "lolflag:

[cardinals_fan]

When English is your second language - and Perl is your first.

[Frak]

What do you use each OS for anyhow? Never knew there was a need to have so many operating systems.
Its one thing to compile for seperate architectures and Operating Systems, its another to make sure it works.
Plus, its fun

[money2themax]

Its one thing to compile for seperate architectures and Operating Systems, its another to make sure it works.
Plus, its fun
it also confuses the simpletons i swiched from windows 2 linux on my desktop infront of someone because all my tools were on my linux side and he didn't know that you could do that he thought it was some juju magic lolz

[Tuning_In]

you're reading all the posts in this thread:lol:

[nick09]

When you view the internet everyday.

[twin_57103]

...you have air filters in your computer (the foam/mesh kind, not just metal grates). (I have cats!)

[money2themax]

When you view the internet everyday.
no even the normal ppl do that
...you have air filters in your computer (the foam/mesh kind, not just metal grates). (I have cats!)
really i wanna know where you get some of those [cat = walking static electricity conductor]

[The_Shock_Master]

What about if you have a cigarette lighter in your computer as well as a electrically powered pop out cup holder, both controlled by a applet on your computer?

[money2themax]

What about if you have a cigarette lighter in your computer as well as a electrically powered pop out cup holder, both controlled by a applet on your computer?
yeah now that would be geek

[The_Shock_Master]

yeah now that would be geek

Does that mean I win the game? :guitar:

[money2themax]

Does that mean I win the game? :guitar:
no because it's not a game it's a list

[sci-fi guy]

no because it's not a game it's a list

He's talking about The Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)).

[corney91]

He's talking about The Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)).

DAMMIT!

lol ;) (http://www.xkcd.com/391/)

[Frak]

So we should expect Windows 7 to be really good?

Nah. Like all Windows OS's, there is registration, over-hype, and just dumb mistakes. I say its good, others paid by MS will say its amazing.

it also confuses the simpletons i swiched from windows 2 linux on my desktop infront of someone because all my tools were on my linux side and he didn't know that you could do that he thought it was some juju magic lolz

MinGW for compiling w32/64 programs. Works on all POSIX compliant OS's, even Windows itself.

[money2themax]

Nah. Like all Windows OS's, there is registration, over-hype, and just dumb mistakes. I say its good, others paid by MS will say its amazing.
and the rest of us call it junk


MinGW for compiling w32/64 programs. Works on all POSIX compliant OS's, even Windows itself.
i'm actually looking for a micro copy of XP if it exists say about 512MB~1GB

[jakupl]

You know you're a geek when you are so used to the add/remove program, that you forget to press "enter" when doing a google search :D

[talsemgeest]

When you view the internet everyday.
When you are the internet.

[The_Shock_Master]

He's talking about The Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)).

Well, I wasn't talking about that, however haven't you just lost the game by thinking of that game as you were posting it?

[Kopachris]

When you are the internet.
People call me a walking encyclopedia...

You know you're a geek when you're PO'd that your dad won't let you get a PayPal account so you can 1) put google adwords on your website and 2) build and sell computers (cheaper and better than the leading brands!). I have multiple computer labs at school that I'm not supposed to use to click on the adwords on my site... ;) I wouldn't be able to keep a .tk domain name if it weren't for those computer labs.

EDIT: One more thing:
You know you're a geek when you rewire your mobo to put 2 of the USB 2.0 ports in the front. I'm gonna have to look at that.

[Ptero-4]

You know you're a geek when you begin to feel cozy about using XP and the first thing you do is to run your brain through gdb to see where's the bug that makes you feel that and patch it.

[sci-fi guy]

Well, I wasn't talking about that, however haven't you just lost the game by thinking of that game as you were posting it?

That depends on if you think XKCD has the authority to end The Game. Anyways, I am very good at The Game. There have been times when people all around me are losing and announcing it, and I wouldn't lose. (I had to be re-taught, and only during the re-training do I realize that I have heard this before.)

[The_Shock_Master]

That depends on if you think XKCD has the authority to end The Game. Anyways, I am very good at The Game. There have been times when people all around me are losing and announcing it, and I wouldn't lose. (I had to be re-taught, and only during the re-training do I realize that I have heard this before.)

XKCD?

[LaRoza]

XKCD?

What?

You don't know about Xkcd?

You will see it constantly references on this forum, especially in the Programming Talk, and any thread about women on the internet.

Try it, post a thread about why there are so few women on the internet in OMG pInK pOnIeS and I bet within two pages you get Xkcd (Specifially, Pix Plz)

[schauerlich]

You know you're a geek when you regularly have 5+ tabs open in your browser of choice, and actually use them all, instead of leaving them open in case you want to come back.

"Reload All Tabs" is one of my favorite features.

[sci-fi guy]

XKCD?

That's right (http://xkcd.com/). It's a very popular webcomic. Specifically, this (http://xkcd.com/391/) is the relevant clip. If anything has the power to end The Game, its XKCD.

[schauerlich]

You know you're a geek if you like this comic: http://xkcd.com/416/

xkcd and Cyanide and Happiness are my two favorite webcomics.

[Jammin80503]

You know you're a geek when you've actually built XKCD's "new pet" (http://www.xkcd.com/413/)

on a related note, this thread is made of epic and win. Its been going since I joined.

[Kopachris]

http://xkcd.com/32/
Yes, actually, I have wondered that. But: We all have pretty much the same Cones and Rods on our retinas, so all our eyes work the same (unless you're color blind), which is how we know that dogs and bulls aren't color blind but actually see blue a bit muted than the other colors.

Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform?

[LaRoza]

You know you're a geek when you regularly have 5+ tabs open in your browser of choice, and actually use them all, instead of leaving them open in case you want to come back.

"Reload All Tabs" is one of my favorite features.

41 tabs open in Opera (22" monitor)

Another browser on another monitor has a couple also.

So I can see more than one at the same time.

[sci-fi guy]

http://xkcd.com/32/But: We all have pretty much the same Cones and Rods on our retinas

So that means that our eyes send all the same signals to the brain. But that isn't the point. Our brains have to learn to interpret those signals on their own. So the blue you see might look differently in my mind than yours.

[gwoodard]

that you want to find out the actual resolutions of High definition

ex. 1280x720=720p HD (Gaming preferred)
1920x1080=1080i or 1080p

[money2themax]

that you want to find out the actual resolutions of High definition

ex. 1280x720=720p HD (Gaming preferred)
1920x1080=1080i or 1080p
I knew it not i can tell my dad that he was wrong w00t!:lolflag:

[schauerlich]

on a related note, this thread is made of epic and win. Its been going since I joined.

It's been going on much longer than that. November 2005, if I'm not mistaken.

[schauerlich]

41 tabs open in Opera (22" monitor)

Another browser on another monitor has a couple also.

So I can see more than one at the same time.

How can you even use that many tabs? I sometimes keep the last page of a thread I'm following open, but even then, I rarely get above 10 or 15. But then again, you are omnipresent...

[jeffimperial]

You know you're a geek when


You have unwashed coffee cups and empty coke cans piling up on your table/desk
You hated it when your sister nagged you about learning how to insert HTML tags in Friendster comments
You use your mouse only when you're in Photoshop and other suchlike. (Everything else has a keyboard combination; if something isn't on a keyboard shortcut, you make one for it)
You curse the heavens and hell when your modem's ADSL Link led starts blinking
You simply have to offer to give a copy of the latest Ubuntu desktop to any new acquaintance who knows how to use a a PC
If you read these threads without getting bored quickly

[The_Shock_Master]

On a related note, you know your not a geek when you actually use DSL, especially when you factor in it is the same price for less service as cable (hint: take a look at your phone bill, wondering what that $20.00 (est.) internet charge is for?)

[talsemgeest]

that you want to find out the actual resolutions of High definition

ex. 1280x720=720p HD (Gaming preferred)
1920x1080=1080i or 1080p
I have 1080i dvb-t on my pc now.
I am pretty sure that makes me a geek (especially since it took me 3 weeks to get working)

[LaRoza]

How can you even use that many tabs? I sometimes keep the last page of a thread I'm following open, but even then, I rarely get above 10 or 15. But then again, you are omnipresent...

http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg0030il8.jpg

[money2themax]

you know your a geek when you find this funny
http://xkcd.com/178/

[GepettoBR]

You know you're a geek when you don't even click the XKCD links on this thread because you've read them all, and wake up earlier every Monday, Wednesday and Friday just to read the new ones.

[Kopachris]

You know you're a geek when the first things on your "When I have the money list" are:
Upgrade Dinosaur computer
Get a server
Pay for own internet service (6.5Mbps Cable) so you can actually host the server

[LinuX-M@n1@k]

http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg0030il8.jpg

Is this your computer ? Awesome ! :D My monitor is 17" CRT, lol. I don't have space for my keyboard on the desk !

you know your a geek when you find this funny
http://xkcd.com/178/

I'm a geek then :D It's kind of funny asking someone about Ubuntu, and he answer you that he doesn't watch pokemon :D

[gwoodard]

I have 1080i dvb-t on my pc now.
I am pretty sure that makes me a geek (especially since it took me 3 weeks to get working)

Right now I use 720p DVI-D Connection on my PC (w/ a ATi HD 2400 Pro video card) my monitor, is a Sony SDM-m81 18" LCD (White model)

[HeresJohnny]

...You walk into a Best Buy and say, "I could totally pwn you guys."
...You forget your wife's bday, but are up at 5 am checking the mirrors on Distribution Release Day.

[NightwishFan]

I love confusing the people at best buy, they are clueless.

[sci-fi guy]

...but are up at 5 am checking the mirrors on Distribution Release Day.

Bad idea. It is far better to get the RC the week before.

[money2themax]

I love confusing the people at best buy, they are clueless.they are fun aren't they:lolflag:
EDIT: my update manager is saying that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is available [right after i updated the update manager] should i upgrade?

[sci-fi guy]

they are fun aren't they:lolflag:

I plan to start saving my old LiveCDs just for them.

[LaRoza]

Is this your computer ? Awesome ! :D My monitor is 17" CRT, lol. I don't have space for my keyboard on the desk !


That is actually two computers, you can see them in the lower left.

(See my blog for the story behind the second one)

[Jim_1981]

You know you're a geek when you get asked on holiday what languages you speak and you think "C++, fortran, python..."

[Frak]

On a related note, you know your not a geek when you actually use DSL, especially when you factor in it is the same price for less service as cable (hint: take a look at your phone bill, wondering what that $20.00 (est.) internet charge is for?)
DSL is technically superior to Cable, at least, depending on where you live.

Cable
Pros: Usually faster than DSL | Some companies offer cable at or less than DSL. | Comparing to ADSL (not SDSL) Cable has a nearly equal upload/download speeds.
Cons: You are NOT on a dedicated line. This means that you SHARE your internet with your block (not your street block, your cable block. Much larger) | Cable tends to be more expensive. ( I use AT&T, 1.5Mbits for $10 is cheapest plan. Cable in my area is $40 for cheapest, and only plan. In some areas this may be different, but not much.)

DSL
Pro: Usually very cheap, even cheaper than dialup (ancient). You use a dedicated line, so nobody on your block affect your connection.
Con: Cable has a slight edge of speed over DSL in peak conditions. | In some areas, Cable is cheaper than DSL. | ADSL usually has a significantly lower upload to download speeds. SDSL has equal.

Then again, in my area DSL is cheaper in the long run. I can get 8Mb internet for $80 (Some popular website servers restrict any speed higher than 4Mb to decrease load) or 24Mb Cable for $230, or 8Mb for $120 (For comparison reasons).

By the way, Mb is Megabit, not megabyte.

[Kopachris]

If you can easily afford it, I'd suggest ~45Mbit T3 for about $7,500/month ;). Problem is, I can't afford that. We're paying over $100 for packaged Cable TV and 6Mbit cable internet. Now that DSL has been set up in our area, we're thinking of switching to DSL and DirecTV.

You know you're a geek when you're watching TV, movies, etc., see the CGIs, and wonder how many people use raytracers.

[The_Shock_Master]

( I use AT&T, 1.5Mbits for $10 is cheapest plan. Cable in my area is $40 for cheapest, and only plan. In some areas this may be different, but not much.)



Like I said, just take a close look at your phone bill to realize your paying a lot more then $10.00 for it. Your paying about 30.

[The_Shock_Master]

If you can easily afford it, I'd suggest ~45Mbit T3 for about $7,500/month ;). Problem is, I can't afford that. We're paying over $100 for packaged Cable TV and 6Mbit cable internet. Now that DSL has been set up in our area, we're thinking of switching to DSL and DirecTV.

You know you're a geek when you're watching TV, movies, etc., see the CGIs, and wonder how many people use raytracers.

DSL, not a very good price, again, hidden charges on your phone bill. DirecTV, I wouldn't suggest that either. Depending on your setup it can be as much as double the price of cable. Keep in mind in their quoting of channels, they are counting PPV and music channels. Which equate to 90 channels. Now factor in the fact that you absolutely neeeeeed a box on every tv you use it with. 5.00 (last time I checked) for each additional box. Usually it equates to very expensive tv. Which, from experience, you usually can't even watch due to the wind blowing. lol Should I go into the nastiness of Qwest phone service next? lol Comcast is the oooooooonly way to go. Damn, its almost like I work for em.

Edit: Almost forgot, say goodbye to the beauty of Video On Demand

[nineowls]

...you realize you will never study for another windows (*re*)certification on a new **cough** operating system that oh-by-the-way won't run on any of your existing computers--and that's not a problem financially, emotionally, politically...

[gwoodard]

EDIT: my update manager is saying that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is available [right after i updated the update manager] should i upgrade?

No, I did that to my machine earlier (about two days after 8.04 came out)

better not risk it

[money2themax]

No, I did that to my machine earlier (about two days after 8.04 came out)

better not risk it
I hope your not yanking my chain and btw i dled the alternate installer onto a disk i'm rally bent on keeping up-to-date with my OS and Computer

[Frak]

Like I said, just take a close look at your phone bill to realize your paying a lot more then $10.00 for it. Your paying about 30.
I have Internet only with Skype for phone. My bill comes up to $20 for service (2Mbits). With fees its $22.00 flat (8.5% tax is $21.70, another .30 for service charge).

Also, I have DirecTV, and its very nice to have. Cheaper than cable with more channels, but it does go out during bad weather (BAD weather, not a light mist).

[peatrap]

When ever thing works on your computer

[darth_indy]

You know you're a geek when you send your Significant Other PNGs of roses instead of real ones...

...And you know your Significant Other is a geek when they love them.

(OK, I know, someone will say "geeks don't have relationships." I happen to be the recipient of said PNGs. :-P)

[money2themax]

...you update constantly

speaking of should i upgrade to the new 8.04

another side thought what am i missing 7.10 to 8.04 what happened to the other .96?

[Cifra]

You use have 12 text editors installed

[Frak]

...you update constantly

speaking of should i upgrade to the new 8.04

another side thought what am i missing 7.10 to 8.04 what happened to the other .96?
7.10 = Release date of October (10) of 2007 (7)
8.04 = Release date of April (04) of 2008 (8)

Its not actually a system of version numbering based on previous test releases, but on the date on which it is released.

[The_Shock_Master]

I have Internet only with Skype for phone. My bill comes up to $20 for service (2Mbits). With fees its $22.00 flat (8.5% tax is $21.70, another .30 for service charge).

Also, I have DirecTV, and its very nice to have. Cheaper than cable with more channels, but it does go out during bad weather (BAD weather, not a light mist).

http://www.qwest.com/legal/highspeedinternetsubscriberagreement/ Yeah..... um, no. Sorry, and those "other charges" is exactly what I am talking about.

As for DirecTv well https://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/wizard/buildYourSystem1.jsp The comparible package to standard cable, after their promo is up, is $52.99. Well, your already roughly $10.00 above the price of the average cable providers standard cable package. Which doesn't need a box on every tv. If you want a box on one or two tv's to get in VOD (which isn't available on satellite) you can get it for $1.50 roughly depending on your provider. Lets see the average home has what, 3 tv's? Ok, go ahead, I will let you take the time to look up how much a month it is to have extra boxes on your DirecTv account..... throw those on, how much are we saving over cable? Oh, we aren't...... ouch. By the way, what exactly extra channels are you getting over there with DirecTv? (Hope I could save ya there from going that direction Kopachris)

[Frak]

http://www.qwest.com/legal/highspeedinternetsubscriberagreement/ Yeah..... um, no. Sorry, and those "other charges" is exactly what I am talking about.

As for DirecTv well https://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/wizard/buildYourSystem1.jsp The comparible package to standard cable, after their promo is up, is $52.99. Well, your already roughly $10.00 above the price of the average cable providers standard cable package. Which doesn't need a box on every tv. If you want a box on one or two tv's to get in VOD (which isn't available on satellite) you can get it for $1.50 roughly depending on your provider. Lets see the average home has what, 3 tv's? Ok, go ahead, I will let you take the time to look up how much a month it is to have extra boxes on your DirecTv account..... throw those on, how much are we saving over cable? Oh, we aren't...... ouch. By the way, what exactly extra channels are you getting over there with DirecTv? (Hope I could save ya there from going that direction Kopachris)

I still like DirecTV better than Cable. It's not that much more, and I get full HD. Comparatively, HD from my cable company is a lot more than DTV.

Also, I use AT&T, not Qwest. If you have an issue with them, give them a call, its not my issue. Umm, sorry about that bloke.

[The_Shock_Master]

I still like DirecTV better than Cable. It's not that much more, and I get full HD. Comparatively, HD from my cable company is a lot more than DTV.

Also, I use AT&T, not Qwest. If you have an issue with them, give them a call, its not my issue. Umm, sorry about that bloke.

Sorry to burst your bubble here but:

http://www.usa.att.com/dsl/plans/index.jsp

1 This limited-time offer provides the first 12 months of AT&T DSL Service at $20 per month off the current rate of the AT&T DSL Service Standard Plan (currently $39.95 a month) and Preferred Plan (currently $49.95 a month) for new customers only.

Now in your case, there would not be two bills, you are correct, however 1.5 for $39.99? I would rather pay $42.99 for 4.0Mb service from Comcast. Wether or not thats worth it to you is up to you however. Though when you factor that 3.0Mb service from AT&T is $49.99 and Comcast 4.0Mb service is $42.99........ Yeh, it just doesn't add up.

Edit: What cable company do you have? I would love to blow the HD thing from DirecTv out of the water too! Gimmie the opportunity! I'm begging you!

[Frak]

I guess I've learned my lesson from talking to trolls.

Forum Troll, Please Avoid
Help your neighbor by ignoring them.

Troll Spray! (http://pics.bikerag.com/Uploads/data/500/258Troll_spray.jpg)

BTW, AT&T (formerly SBC) offers deals to old customers. So before you start thinking that a quick google search proves everything, it doesn't.

[The_Shock_Master]

lol Not being a troll here dude, just proving a point. And successfully I might add. And this isn't google, this is their own websites. And your probably right, there are promos, but promos aren't regular rates.

Edit: Or at least thats not what I was trying to be if thats how I came out. Looking back, I can see how it might look that way, but that is far from what my intention was.

[talsemgeest]

I wish NZ used the system from overseas, over here we only get a limited amount of downloads (6GB for me for $40 a month). We do get unlimited speed though.

[The_Shock_Master]

Damn, no offense, but that really bites. Kinda hard to have "unlimited speed" when you are limited in how much you can use it. By the way, what kind of connection has unlimited speed?

[talsemgeest]

They say its unlimited but it's really just adsl with the isp doing nothing to slow you down (until you hit you data cap when they cut you back to dialup speed)

[Kopachris]

DSL, not a very good price, again, hidden charges on your phone bill. DirecTV, I wouldn't suggest that either. Depending on your setup it can be as much as double the price of cable. Keep in mind in their quoting of channels, they are counting PPV and music channels. Which equate to 90 channels. Now factor in the fact that you absolutely neeeeeed a box on every tv you use it with. 5.00 (last time I checked) for each additional box. Usually it equates to very expensive tv. Which, from experience, you usually can't even watch due to the wind blowing. lol Should I go into the nastiness of Qwest phone service next? lol Comcast is the oooooooonly way to go. Damn, its almost like I work for em.

Edit: Almost forgot, say goodbye to the beauty of Video On Demand
We don't watch very many channels anyway, all we really need is fox, CNN Headline News, ESPN, the Discoveries, the Histories, NatGeo, and Nick. Also, we need the boxes for cable, too, and we only have 2 TVs. As for Video On Demand, our main TV is piped through an ATI All-in-wonder Radeon, so our cable signal get cleared up, we get the surround sound, and we can still record whatever we want. I do, however agree with the losing the signal. We had DirecTV at the last place we lived, and it was out half the time. (with the Radeon card that now resides in my Dinosaur computer working just fine)

P.S. Who'd want to watch Dirty Jobs in HD? :p It would be nice to use that HDTV, though.

[Mulenmar]

You might be a geek if...

You spend your first block checking threads on Ubuntu's forums.

[dlobo]

When you tell jokes like:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary and those who can't.

[sci-fi guy]

When you tell jokes like:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary and those who can't.

No, it's "those that know binary, and people who have [girl]friends."

[gwoodard]

I hope your not yanking my chain and btw i dled the alternate installer onto a disk i'm rally bent on keeping up-to-date with my OS and Computer

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769369

read this

[money2themax]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769369

read this
i see i should wait until the "First Release" bugs are worked out. is that what your saying?

[corney91]

i see i should wait until the "First Release" bugs are worked out. is that what your saying?

The majority (including me;)) voted 8.04, but only marginally - it's been fine for me but really it's up to you. I'd check all your hardware can work well with the LiveCD then decide:)

[Barrucadu]

You know you are a geek when you install Ubuntu simply to make use of the new Intrepid repos.

[Frak]

You know you are a geek when you install Ubuntu simply to make use of the new Intrepid repos.
Yep, that'll be me.

[sci-fi guy]

You know you are a geek when you install Ubuntu simply to make use of the new Intrepid repos.

Where can I find them?

[money2themax]

You know you are a geek when you install Ubuntu simply to make use of the new Intrepid repos.
ok now can you tell me what those are?

[Barrucadu]

According to a thread on these forums (somewhere) the development repositiories for Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex have appeared. Switching to them will be a case of changing every occurence of "hardy" in your apt sources.list to "intrepid".

[Frak]

According to a thread on these forums (somewhere) the development repositiories for Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex have appeared. Switching to them will be a case of changing every occurence of "hardy" in your apt sources.list to "intrepid".
Yes, replace all instances of hardy in your sources.list to intrepid then do a dist-upgrade.

[money2themax]

isn't intrepid the distro AFTER Hardy?

[sci-fi guy]

isn't intrepid the distro AFTER Hardy?

Exactly. He is moving on to the alpha before work on it has even started.

[GepettoBR]

No, it's "those that know binary, and people who have [girl]friends."

Actually, the 10 types of people in the world are the ones who know trinary, the ones who don't, and the ones who mistake it for binary.