you're pulling things out of your pocket before you got to sleep and you pull out a stick of ram,
that shocked me...

2/4/2006 5:29:24 PM

buy $500 graphic cards to get a 30fps boost

2/4/2006 6:28:17 PM

geek in general:

at the bball game, i busted out "the voyager is smaller than the enterprise, it only holds 38 proton torpedos and two front phaser banks"

it was a sad day for me

2/4/2006 6:47:25 PM

Quote :

"pull out a stick of ram, that shocked me..."

well I hope you didn't shock it!
ESD's a bitch man, especially in the cold, dry winter

2/5/2006 3:29:52 AM

I got ram on my keychain. 1988 Kingston.

2/5/2006 6:55:18 AM

^standard issue geek

2/5/2006 9:33:09 AM

I've been considering buying some old core memroy off of eBay to use as a decoration

2/5/2006 10:06:27 AM

my last relationship didn't last long enough for me to restart my computer while it was going on.
to save me some credit... the computer went over 2 months without needing to be restarted

2/5/2006 10:32:34 AM

When you have:

- 2 raptors in a RAID 0
- SLI Video Cards that cost more than my entire computer
- Gay modded cases with gayer lights
- Any cpu that is over the price/performance sweet spot, i.e. buying 700$ processors to get another 200 mhz over the 300$ one

- If you have any of the above AND you use mommy and daddy's money - that is quadruple bonus geek points

2/6/2006 10:41:44 AM

^ i would say using your own money is geekier than using mommy and daddys

2/6/2006 11:12:51 AM

I have a wafer as a decoration peice.

2/6/2006 12:29:01 PM

i want a wafer for a decoration piece

2/6/2006 12:32:09 PM

i'm fucking hungry now

2/6/2006 12:43:00 PM

you have two computers hooked up in the same room... at the same desk.

2/6/2006 12:58:30 PM

Quote :

"you have two computers hooked up in the same room... at the same desk."

lol

2/6/2006 12:59:32 PM

j_hova told me i was a dork once cause i was like "yeah my roomate found an extra hd laying around and hooked it up to my ps2"

he was like "haha you got an extra hd laying around"

2/6/2006 1:00:17 PM

you have a ton and a half worth of IBM pSeries RS/6000 server equipment in your living room (with an expension cord running to the dryer outlet to get 250V), a vector processing supercomputer and 1.5TB RAID 50 fibre channel array in the 2nd bedroom, 20,000VA worth of UPSes, and a tri-monitor setup in the main bedroom.

I win.

2/6/2006 2:28:58 PM

What are you doing with all of that?

2/6/2006 2:33:39 PM

running up an $800/month power bill, talking on aim, and posting on tdub

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 2:36 PM. Reason : WITH REMOTE COOKIE STORAGE]

2/6/2006 2:36:35 PM

when you have clothing with microsoft on them,

2/6/2006 7:43:42 PM

i had an MSDN:AA tshirt i got in high school and a WindowsME launch pen. :-P

2/6/2006 7:48:41 PM

ive got microsoft, twc, namco, nintendo, et al.

edit: and brainbuzz

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 7:49 PM. Reason : ]

2/6/2006 7:49:23 PM

NM

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 7:54 PM. Reason : That was retarded]

2/6/2006 7:53:43 PM

i have an irc client for my cellphone

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 7:55 PM. Reason : and i chat on it while at bars]

2/6/2006 7:55:39 PM

^ and a w00t! shirt

2/6/2006 8:22:20 PM

^^ if you go to bars then you're not a geek

a geek would walk into a bar with a windows 98 shirt and order dr. pepper and play arcade games in the back

2/6/2006 8:37:50 PM

Meet my end tables.




The (unfortunately empty) shells of a Sun 4/470 server and its attendant Mass Storage Array. Functional and stylish.

That drives that used to inhabit that array were beastly. Each was over a foot long and weighed probably 50 lbs. Capacity was 1 GB.


[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 10:54 PM. Reason : eek! huge pics!]

2/6/2006 10:51:06 PM

.... when you know more about computers than you do your 9-5 profession...

2/6/2006 11:09:41 PM

..... you have a watch with a 128 MB USB drive in it.

2/7/2006 7:07:36 AM

you believe in ESD

2/7/2006 8:20:01 AM

^^^^ lol, he totally organized those end tables for the pics. Look at the exquisite placement of the magazines . nice idea for end tables

2/7/2006 8:46:41 AM

haha, that was actually right after I moved into my current place. A rare example of neatness and organization...

2/7/2006 1:01:51 PM

you know you're a geek when you're entire family participates in a lan party, including an uncle, 2 cousins, and a cousin in law

and you have a stick of ram on your keychain

and you format once a month just for the thrill of a clean install

[Edited on February 7, 2006 at 3:09 PM. Reason : bork bork bork]

2/7/2006 3:05:47 PM

who the fuck enjoys formatting? my computer isn't even rebooted once a month

2/7/2006 3:11:49 PM

Quote :

"you have two eleven computers hooked up in the same room... at the same desk."

2/7/2006 3:14:32 PM

^ now that's a geek's dream come true

[Edited on February 7, 2006 at 3:49 PM. Reason : pending his mom pays the power bill]

2/7/2006 3:48:13 PM

I used to have tons of computers hooked up doing shit, until I discovered VMware...

2/7/2006 3:51:08 PM

^^^ my dad had 15 running in the house at once. no joke.

i've got 4 right now up and running on the same desk.

2/7/2006 4:13:38 PM

Actually, upon photo inspection, it was 14 computers.

2/7/2006 4:21:30 PM

I've got a SS670MP, its the same form factor as that 470. I think Sun called it a "deskside"

2/7/2006 9:53:44 PM

Perhaps they recognized its end-table potential too, but didn't want to be so direct about it.

Both the SS470 and the storage array were complete and powered up when I got them, but I just couldn't justify keeping the innards (dual 25-mhz TI processors on the 470 what what!).

2/7/2006 10:20:31 PM

^ yeah they are quite a beast. I also have a matching storage array, its been awhile since I looked at it but I think it is differential SCSI and accepts 5.25" full-height hard drives. did you remove your innards just for weight savings? Or did you replace w/ something else. My 670MP had 4 sparc processors, I think they were around 100mhz or so, and didn't have much cache. Memory is maxed out at 128MB. The 1200watt power supply hardly made it worth running, even to play with.

2/7/2006 10:48:51 PM

having a nicer speaker setup on your comp than on your tv is always a good, but easy measure. doubly true when they arent actual computer speakers.

2/7/2006 10:56:20 PM

- If you sound system of your computer is better than the one in your main room.... and you compare them often to show off.

- If you have 3 computers at the same desk (2 Windows, 1 linux)... and they all work using the same keyboard and mouse. (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/)

- If the 5 books closest to your desk are about SQL, Cold Fusion, Cisco Firewalls, Crystal Reports and Baking Cookies for Dummies (don't ask).

- You bought an X800XT All In Wonder because you wanted no video lag when pwning people.

- You have a Steering wheel sitting on the side of your desk for easy access for use online.

- You put nails into your nice desk to hang not 1 but 2 different sets of headphones for use. One for listening one for gaming (mic).

- You can reach your DVD player, TV, All computers, Monitors and have a hidden stash of food within reach without having to move! (I want a mini fridge!).

[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 7:29 AM. Reason : !]

2/8/2006 7:29:07 AM

i think if you own anything made by sun you automatically qualify

2/8/2006 8:35:57 AM

vintage Sun is definitely bonus points though

anyone can jack something from work, it takes a little lot of dedication to restore and upgrade EOL'd Sun hardware past final specifications

[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 8:55 AM. Reason : !]

2/8/2006 8:54:02 AM

^^^ I love Synergy

2/8/2006 9:00:30 AM

lady geeks need USB drive earrings

2/8/2006 10:48:30 AM

Quote :

"did you remove your innards just for weight savings? Or did you replace w/ something else. "

In large part for weight savings when I moved. I couldn't justify keeping all that junk around just for old-hardware-cool-factor. I actually store stuff inside the 4/470 case; at some point I'd like to set up a media center PC and a wireless AP inside the array case though.

And that synergy thing looks pretty cool. I also have 3 computers at the same desk, but I went the KVM switch route.

2/8/2006 1:10:20 PM