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

**Futant** · August 27th, 2012

You go to a freeparty and spend all your time birdwatching... not just a computer geek...

**blackbird34** · October 4th, 2012

You do the Alt+SysRq+ R-E-I-S-U-B combination on a university Ubuntu computer to restart it and the person who got it stuck goes "wow, how did you do that?"

**Ubun2to** · October 5th, 2012

Originally Posted by blackbird34

You do the Alt+SysRq+ R-E-I-S-U-B combination on a university Ubuntu computer to restart it and the person who got it stuck goes "wow, how did you do that?"

That or use Ctrl+Alt+F2 and restart LightDM to fix the problem via the terminal.

**pqwoerituytrueiwoq** · October 5th, 2012

when you ssh into a system to use zenity to tell the user something case they don't read there IMs

**bodhi.zazen** · October 5th, 2012

Originally Posted by pqwoerituytrueiwoq

when you ssh into a system to use zenity to tell the user something case they don't read there IMs

you point out that notify-send is better suited =)

**MG&TL** · October 5th, 2012

Originally Posted by Ubun2to

That or use Ctrl+Alt+F2 and restart LightDM to fix the problem via the terminal.

When you feel an urgent need to point out that this won't work on the rare occasions you've frozen all six terminals and X.

**cbanakis** · October 5th, 2012

When you play Dungeons & Dragons at your bachelor party.
(Not me, but someone I know)

**pydsigner** · October 6th, 2012

When you fix broken packages for fun.

**blackbird34** · October 17th, 2012

you accidentally (hand)write a full stop/period in front of a word and think "Ooooh, that's the name of a hidden file!!"

**jamvaru** · October 20th, 2012

you feel compelled to post to a thread called "You know you're a geek when........." with advice about being vegan and eating only organic and voting for GMO labeling, even though you know it falls on mostly deaf ears, lol.