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

[scragar]

He knows how to set up and manage the school's internal network, print server, etc, but he doesn't really know how the internet works. Before I resorted to SSH, proxies and whatnot, I could just search for "jeux" "juegos", "spiele", etc and play abunch of in-browser flash games because he had only wordfiltered "games" and "jogos". Me, my friends and Google Language Tools are to blame for the school network to have rules blocking the word "game" and its variants in over 12 languages

12 languages? The internet works in a lot more languages than that, maybe you should consider using a better translator to get a few more on that ban list

[jimi_hendrix]

does 1337 sp3ak count as a language?

[darth_indy]

Wow, I'm half jealous. XD My husband has a TS80 for his first PC. Hope you're having a blast with that. Vintage computing is so much fun!

I am! I had to leave it behind for a couple days, but I'm getting back to it tomorrow night. I really want to bring it into class so my teachers look at me funny. I think I will.

For me it happens with family, friends and their friends...
Just as long as they pay for headache they cause!

I'm not charging for it... I enjoy tinkering with new computers. I know I'm letting them take advantage of me, but I like doing it so much, I feel guilty for charging it sometimes. Besides, she's my aunt. Friends get charged. And tech support beyond the fun tweaking is charged. I'm not entirely stupid

[Kopachris]

Well, Wikipedia tells me that it runs a Zilog Z80 processor (at a whopping 1.78 Mhz). And a bit of Googling pointed me to SDCC -- a Small Device C Compiler, which lists the Z80 as one of its supported targets. I figure you could use it to cross compile a small Linux system. Have you ever done LFS? I don't have any further details on how one would go about doing this, but I'm sure someone else here would be happy to help. I'm guessing you would have to make modifications to some of the kernel's code, though, since the Z80 isn't an x86 based CPU.

Hmm... I wonder if that would work with a TI-84+ SE graphing calculator? Linux kernel, bash, the standard /bin files... It would be fun to try!

[Eisenwinter]

You know you're a geek (or at least a grammar nazi) when improper usage of "your" and "you're" makes you twitch.

agree, it is indeed annoying.

[poetstorm]

Here's one. You know you're a geek when you really think you should count by starting at '0'

[scragar]

Here's one. You know you're a geek when you really think you should count by starting at '0'

I thought everyone counts from 0.

[poetstorm]

I thought everyone counts from 0.

LOL only the non conforming geeks. Non-geeks spaz out when you start counting from zero. XD

[sisco311]

I thought everyone counts from 0.

there are 10 types of people in the world:
those who count from 0 and and those who don't...

[Frak]

Hmm... I wonder if that would work with a TI-84+ SE graphing calculator? Linux kernel, bash, the standard /bin files... It would be fun to try!

It wouldn't. It doesn't support the Linux Kernel in any shape or form.