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| You Know You're a Computer Geek when...; Kudos to Nubi for the idea... | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 7 2010, 07:09 AM (181 Views) | |
| Zanaras | Feb 7 2010, 07:09 AM Post #1 |
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Ah yes, to all the geeks out there, I'm sure there have been those times when you realize, once again, that you are in fact a computer geek. The concept of this topic is pretty simple. Finished the statement "You know you're a computer geek when..." with something from your own experience. I'll start I figure. You know you're a computer geek when you begin to notice spam mail trends. |
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| Schneeraubtier | Feb 7 2010, 09:48 AM Post #2 |
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You know you're a computer geek when you think in programming languages You know you're a computer geek when you name your computer (mine is named Blue) You know you're a computer geek when you know the model of your motherboard You know you're a computer geek when you know the difference between a bit and a byte You know you're a computer geek when you know what hexidecimal means You know you're a computer geek when you are one of two people in a school of 600 studying computer science You know you're a computer geek when you know how the difference between cracking and hacking You know you're a computer geek when you have over 200 hours playing a game online with dial-up You know you're a computer geek when you have this many things to say about it -_-' |
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| Zanaras | Feb 7 2010, 10:03 PM Post #3 |
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You know you're a computer geek when you can actually do math in hexadecimal. You know you're a computer geek when you know that dial-up modems transfer in kilobits, not kilobytes. You know you're a computer geek when you can explain how a explain in lay man's terms how a computer operates, including how bits play into this. You know you're a computer geek when you know the maximum transfer rates of not just the cables used to connect to hard drives, but the hard drive itself (7200 RPMs is slower than USB 2.0 by the way!) |
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| Schneeraubtier | Feb 8 2010, 05:12 AM Post #4 |
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You know you're a computer geek when you know the difference between a quad core and a dual core You know you're a computer geek when 1TB is just not enough memory You know you're a computer geek when you know what RAM and CPU stand for You know you're a computer geek when you can explain the concept of virtual memory in layman's terms |
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| Zanaras | Feb 8 2010, 06:43 AM Post #5 |
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You know you're a computer geek when you remember the days that 66Mhz was fast. You know you're a computer geek when you have 5 computers setup in one corner, two of which don't work for various reasons, one of which runs a version of linus, another that runs XP, and a third that runs Vista, soon to be upgraded to 7. (I don't have this, but a guy I know does.) |
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| PainWhisper | Feb 8 2010, 10:24 PM Post #6 |
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You know you're a computer geek when you can get a computer to start working again with just one kick. |
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| Schneeraubtier | Feb 9 2010, 04:30 AM Post #7 |
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But hitting therapy is one of the best ways to fix technology, dun diss it. You know you're a computer geek when you are the one giving the tech help You know you're a computer geek when you are one of two people in a school of 1200 studying computer science (my original number was just a bit off) You know you're a computer geek when you're proud to say so |
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| Nubi | Feb 13 2010, 07:51 AM Post #8 |
 
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You know you're a geek when you can find perverse humor in a gaming/computer statements. |
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| Zanaras | Feb 13 2010, 07:53 AM Post #9 |
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Case in point, see my sig. You know you're a computer geek when you can use your geekiness to corrupt the non-geeky into becoming geeky. |
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| Nubi | Mar 16 2010, 01:23 AM Post #10 |
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You know you're a computer geek when you try to ctrl + z (undo) when using physical pencil and paper. Yeah, doesn't work. You know you're a computer geek when you get impatient with a teacher's total lack of understanding and haste in regard to computers. You know you're a computer geek when you correct your Computer/Programming teacher on various occasions.
This happened to me as well, smaller school though. 2 students, myself and another, in the Computer Programming class. Was awesome. |
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| Schneeraubtier | Mar 16 2010, 04:00 AM Post #11 |
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I sadly had to share the class with four other classes... people in my school DESPISE computers. With a passion. The grade 11 and 12 courses for Web design and Information Technology (or w/e they call is really just a glorified Microsoft Office class) were taught at the same time by one teacher, a combined class of maybe 20 people. So I was stuck in a room using a shit comp running windows 2000 learning Visual Basic from a book with minimal intervention by the teacher. The two of us were not even in the same class, and the other person had to share with the grade 10 web design class which is just as bad as what I had to do. Same amount of people too >_>. As if to add even further insult this curriculum was just introduced this year by the University of Alberta. Took them this long... and one year too late... In summary the class was hell. But maybe it will be better next time... sigh... You know you are a computer geek when you suffer through that and still wanna continue with the course. |
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| SnapDragin | Mar 16 2010, 05:34 AM Post #12 |
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You know you're a computer geek when you reply to this topic more than once. Or maybe even four times. |
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| Chrono T. | Jul 25 2010, 09:52 AM Post #13 |
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You know you are a computer geek when you have, using nothing but your own wit and vigor, kept a computer working at speeds rivaling a brand new computer despite aforementioned computer having been in the family for 7 years and having collected more viruses in that time than Paris Hilton, only to hold a funeral, complete with grave, when it finally succumbs to the dreaded horror of Windows ME (and windows in general)'s complete lack of virus protection that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. (true story) You know you are a computer geek when 011010111010111010101010001010101010101101010 101010101010101101011000100101110100001010110 101011011011010101101101010000101011010100010 010101011011110100011010110100101010101000101 010101011010111010101001001001010101110101010 You know you are a computer geek if you just tried to translate that sentence from binary into something intelligible and somehow succeeded. |
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| Nubi | Jul 25 2010, 06:46 PM Post #14 |
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k®ª*«UUZĺ«m[PD«z5¥TUZê’UÕ� ... That's what I got. Intelligible, not exactly. |
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| Killer Kitty | Jul 26 2010, 03:40 AM Post #15 |
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ERROR Binary is arranged in octets. That has the wrong number of binary digits to be translatable. Take away a single digit and it can be translated. Or is there something I am missing here. |
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