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

    When a client calls with a problem with a custom application you developed two years ago and haven't modified, you try to explain to them that the interface the code calls to retrieve data from another vendor has apparently changed and you can't do anything about it unless the other vendor sends you the new spec, the client says the other vendor says they haven't changed anything, you quickly write some new code to get a really verbose stack trace, send it to them, they run it and send you the results, you see that your answer is right, try to explain it to the client and they ask "Is there some way you can fix this? We have a deliverable in the morning!"

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

    The strange thing in this story is that I have never used TurboPascal...

    No ad ever for the Citroën C4 made me think about C# though... (and I would feel very sad if they did).
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    Re: You know you're a geek when........

    you have trouble read books because you're use to computer code...

    you cant do math correctly because you use hexidecimals more then any other number system...

    you hear the computer reply to your questions...

    you can converse with your computer by typing with your ear... (try it)

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

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

    You throw a party celebrating the release of Java SE 8.

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

    The real party for geeks will be on Jan 19, 2038 at 03:14:08 UTC
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    Re: You know you're a geek when........

    When you start randomly saying "sudo apt-get install (Insert software name here)"

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

    Quote Originally Posted by portalhavoc View Post
    When you start randomly saying "sudo apt-get install (Insert software name here)"
    sudo apt-get install beer
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    Re: You know you're a geek when........

    Followed some time later by

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     sudo apt-get purge beer
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    Re: You know you're a geek when........

    I hung outdoor Christmas lights today and thought about modifying the flasher circuit with a RaspberryPi to flash RSS news feeds, translated into Klingon (because you can) and then flash them with Morse Code. Then I would set one of my zoneminder cameras so I could see the flashing lights over the web and then practice both my Morse Code and Klingon translation, while getting the news headlines while Christmas shopping.

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

    as you as you said modfy them i thought of doing that with a rPi and a my relay
    we could have audible Morse Code in addition to the lights

    when you do this with a old computer http://imgur.com/gallery/1QvjA
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