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You know you're a geek when...
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You have two HP LaserJet printers connected to your home network using an external JetDirect box. And one of them is a business class color laser.
Your home router isn't a LinkSys or Airport Extreme like everyone else. It's a Cisco 2800 series.
You have an 8 port switch. And ran out of open ports.
Your home router isn't a LinkSys or Airport Extreme like everyone else. It's a Cisco 2800 series.
You have an 8 port switch. And ran out of open ports.
You have set up an Apple Message Pad 2100 as a server.
That only counts if you got it to run Leopard Server ...
You know you're a geek when
... you mentally reach for the fast rewind button on the remote in the middle of a conversation with a live person,
... when you devote more closet space to old computers, cables, and electronics gear than to clothes, or gear for any kind of sport or hobby,
... when the first thing you read in the Sunday paper each week is the Best Buy circular.
... you mentally reach for the fast rewind button on the remote in the middle of a conversation with a live person,
... when you devote more closet space to old computers, cables, and electronics gear than to clothes, or gear for any kind of sport or hobby,
... when the first thing you read in the Sunday paper each week is the Best Buy circular.
Snort! Sounds like a challenge. Ha ha!That only counts if you got it to run Leopard Server ...
Off I go ...
if you start using function keys to describe life.. i.e f5 refresh, f1 help, f11 fullscreen, cntl alt del restart, alt f4 quit.. etc etc.. only really applies to windozee, trouble is my mates are all windows fanatics so i havent got a choice!! i should make up some of my own ones!! lol
also when you can mentally calculate how many minutes operating time you have before you need to charge up a lappietop..
You own at least 5/6 USB stick type devices. i have 5 1gb, 1 4gb, 1 512mb, 1 2gb.. oopsie..
im definitely going to buy an Xserve at some point in my life just so i can say i have 4tb!!
also when you can mentally calculate how many minutes operating time you have before you need to charge up a lappietop..
You own at least 5/6 USB stick type devices. i have 5 1gb, 1 4gb, 1 512mb, 1 2gb.. oopsie..
im definitely going to buy an Xserve at some point in my life just so i can say i have 4tb!!
You pause a show on your DVR to drool over the Polycom conference system. Yes I am an über-geek.
When you work on them every day. They are kinda cool, but I really want to play with Cisco Telepresence.
When you work on them every day. They are kinda cool, but I really want to play with Cisco Telepresence.
Yeah me too now that I searchd it up on google.
Yeah, it rocks. Now all I need to do is convince my employers to ditch the Polycomms and buy the Telepresence. For some reason, they aren't agreeing to that.
YKYAGW you cringe whenever people talk bullsh*t about technology. For example "Macs suck because they aren't real computers. My dad said that Windows is the best OS because the most people use it. Internet Explorer is much better than Firefox because Firefox can't show OmniFlash and DirectPage properly" (Made up words)
Yeah, but Firefox has plugins for OmniFlash and DirectPage that will let them work on OSX.
YKYAGW you immediately understand the acronym. I mean, it took a few seconds for me to understand what YKYAGW means. Guess I'm not a geek.
I think about this thread in my spare time...
I remember when I was in junior high I was trying my hand at html code and would occasionally end essays with </html> and other tags like that on accident. I have a feeling that when I learn C++ or some other language I'll be speaking like that too.
PS: I just started a blog
I think about this thread in my spare time...
I remember when I was in junior high I was trying my hand at html code and would occasionally end essays with </html> and other tags like that on accident. I have a feeling that when I learn C++ or some other language I'll be speaking like that too.
PS: I just started a blog
Thats quite hardcore!! lol.. i didnt learn java or Javascript, or even unix (a lil bit) until i came to uni. Where my course almost necessitated it
PTP
Like flyfish29 said, it takes one to know one.
If you've ever turned a single sided floppy into a dual sided floppy with a ruler and a pair of scissors, you might be a really old geek.
LOL, I remember being taught how to do that in 7th grade by a teacher. Does that count?
Here's one:
Back in 8th grade, on the last day of school, we could do whatever we wanted before lunch. Most people went outside and played frisbee, football, or just hung out on the benches in front of the school. Me and three of my best guy friends went to the computer lab and programmed a new text adventure game that my friend Andy had gotten from a magazine. Apple IIe all the way, babe...
Good times...
first thing upon waking, you reach for your iPod Touch and check gmail, twitter, FML, and facebook.
As a voracious reader, you've read one physical book since getting the iPod Touch in March, and about 30+ eReader books... You are now addicted to manybooks.net. (Edgar Rice Burroughs was a pretty good scifi writer!!! He's more than just the Tarzan-guy!).
you were more excited about buying a new computer with the tax refund this year, than you were when you bought a newer car with the refund+stimulus last year (although the car is pretty sweet!).