I'm so pathetically geeky (computer related) [Archive]

yosemite

11-12-2003, 07:14 AM

I know that I am not remotely as geeky as some of the rest of you, so this is just a starting point. Please add your geeky set-ups.

I realized today that I am beyond pathetically geeky. I'm sitting here, working on some Photoshop stuff, listening to iTunes on my PC. The only problem is, I'm on my Mac with Photoshop. I'm sharing a monitor between the Mac and PC (KVC switch--switch back and forth) and I am leaving the PC on primarily to listen to music! I sometimes switch over to the PC to adjust the music.

I think that's just a little pitiful, frankly. But I'm not going to stop doing it. ;)

Oh, and I've got an old Dell that is networked with the PC, because the old Dell runs something that the "main" PC can't. I also have another Mac that can be networked with the "main" Mac, but I don't have them hooked up right now.

So that's it. But the thing is, it's not nearly as pathetic and geeky as some of the rest of you, I am sure. So, please, share. Extra points for copious and detailed descriptions of hardware (amount of RAM, video card, etc.). I want you to really knock my socks off with your geekiness!

Oh yeah. I'd better start.

Mac: G4, OS 10.2, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB
PC: Athlon 1.4 Ghz, XP Pro, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB
Old Dell: 733 PIII, XP Pro, 256 MB, 16 GB
2nd Mac: G4, OS 10.2, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB

Call me Frank

11-12-2003, 08:52 AM

You own a Mac, tsk tsk tsk, for shame! You are not a true geek :)

yosemite

11-12-2003, 10:24 AM

Now, that's not an answer to my OP! Sheesh.

I am not a true geek (because I don't take apart my computers and tinker with their innardsâ€”at least not if I can avoid it) but I do have a lot of geeky hardware and I am pathetically geeky in some ways.

So, what geeky stuff do you have? (The collective "you.")

tanookie

11-12-2003, 11:42 AM

My 2 year old has her own pc on her own desk and her own software library (over 30 games)...

Hubby has us all on a wireless network and was actually on the roof with his laptop one day working on adjusting some of his weather system calibrations.

He also spends his midnight feedings browsing the web on his latest PDA type toy.

We have more pieces of computer crap than carter had liver pills.

I am not a true geek... but I sure did marry one!

idiotboy

11-12-2003, 12:26 PM

Heh...my computer has a window in it, with black lights and glow-in-the-dark cables. It's an Athlon XP 2000+, with 512MB DDR, 2 80 GB HDDs, and a Radeon 9500Pro video card. Have 3 monitors currently hooked up. One for IRC, one for the intarweb, and one for gaming.

At work, I have 4 computers hooked up to my KVM switch...file server, email server, my personal workstation, and my hardware testbed.

Geez...even my license plate gives me away:

24 7 GEEK

badmana

11-12-2003, 12:55 PM

Hah! This morning I spent 2 hours updated my HP Jornada and installing Ultima Underworld (ported for Pocket PC). Beat that!

This thing rocks. I use it in my car as my portable mp3 player (I have an AUX input) and now I have one of my favorite games on it! Oh baby, I'm right now looking online for Simcity 2000 (also for Pocket PC).

I, too, have a complete computer network at home, including a file server (with 350+ gigs) and 5 monitors for 3 computers KVM'ed (I also have a dual output Win2k machine for shit's'n giggles as well as an ATI all in wonder to allow me to record TV to watch later.

I don't have as cool a plate as Idiotboy, I got plates with my nick on it :D

Anonymous Coward

11-12-2003, 02:05 PM

AMD 1900+
Antec Truecontrol 550w powersupply that comes with a control panel with adjustable fan speeds and 3.3v,5v and 12v trim pots. I love this power supply.
1 gig Crucial RAM
97 gig HD
ATI 9700 non-pro flashed/OCed to Pro+ speeds

and several other slower PIII's on a KVM.

Ipaq 3630 handheld
Creative Labs 6 gig MP3 jukebox
several solid state MP3 players
Garmin GPS

and my tickle trunk full of misc. hardware/cables. I'm also in the process of hacking my Billy Bass so that it sings the Spam Song.

freetobeme

11-12-2003, 02:37 PM

I thought there'd be pages and pages more of unwieldy descriptions of every kind and type of thing with a plug sticking out of it or a battery jammed in it. Even though I'm geek-boy myself, I find the 'look what I got/my shit is more pisser than your shit' ramblings to be sort of narcissistic and unnecessary and reminiscent of the kind of dialog found on various fanboy sites.

Having said that, I run an ASUS A7V8X-X with an Athlon 2600+ 333 FSB running at 13.5X170mhz for 2.3Ghz, 512MB Corsair Value Select RAM at pretty tight timings 2-2-2-6 and an ATI Radeon 9500PRO modded to 9700PRO and overclocked. The CPU cooling is a Thermalright SK-7, lapped and mounted with a Panoflo high output fan.

My deal is to run fast, cheap and cool, which I do, and therefore my shit is WAY more pisser than your shit. :)

UncleBeer

11-12-2003, 02:43 PM

I have a slide rule.

McDeath_the_Mad

11-12-2003, 03:24 PM

Well here I go:

- I have wired my house with .5KM of CAT5e (4 data runs 2 coax to each room).

- I have 5 computers on a Windows 2000 domain.

- I am puting a PC in my wine cellar to monitor temperature and humidity, and will output that info to my webpage.

- My microwave has a LCD touch screen on it. http://www.sharp-usa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,70,00.html#

- I have built a VU meter (sits in a 3.5" drive bay) for my PC and spent over $100 CAN on LED's for it

- I have a Palm Tunsten E

- I spent $170 CAN on a LCD (4 line x 20 char) from Cyrstal Fontz for my new PC just because it looked cool.

MtM

Shade

11-12-2003, 06:24 PM

I was considering what to submit, but I think nothing I have can quite compare to:originally posted by Angua
Bwahaha! I'm even worse. Now this may be far too much TMI for ome, but I was in bed once, with my (now seperated) boyfriend, and all I could think about was how I could best model the point spread function of Chandra's mirrors. :eek: Talk about not being able to switch off!!

Lobsang

11-12-2003, 06:37 PM

Either that is a quote from a different thread, or Angua's post has been eaten.

Anyway, it reminds me of when I couldn't remember the name of a computer game while I was in bed. I spent hours saying "what the fuck is it called" to myself. Eventually I got out of bed and rifled through magazines. The game was 'Flashback'.

Another time me and a friend went insane trying to find the name of a celeb. We had seen a man in the street and I said that "looks like...erm... that singer. What's his name? always has model girlfriends" We spent the best part of a day madly searching s&p parker brochures, looking at every single face, thousands and thousands of little tiny pictures of celebrities.

It was Rod Stewart.

if6was9

11-12-2003, 06:56 PM

I can't hold a candle to most of you but here goes...

I have an Abit KT7A-Raid motherboard with an AMD Athlon XP 1900+
768 Meg SDRAM (not DDR :( )
30 Gig Western Digital 7200 rpm HD
10 Gig old Seagate POS (that's getting flakier by the day - I NEED a new one.)
GeForce 4 - MX 440 with 64 Meg of DDR
HP 8/4/32 CD-R
Creative 24x CD-Rom (old, but runs ANY game disk)

And I bought and built it all myself

I set up a Symphony wireless net to share internet connection with roomies.

Rant: Geeks say "768 Meg of RAM" - AOL/Dell/GateMoo/dolts say "768 MegS of RAM" :rolleyes:

yosemite

11-12-2003, 07:21 PM

Well done, well done, fellow geeks! (And fellow semi-pathetic geeks!)

Keep 'em coming!

Oh, I should say on my PC, it's got a nice ASUS motherboard, the A7N8X. It's not the highest end, but it's pretty nice. I looked up reviews on it on the web before I chose it for my PC. (I had the shop build the PC—I'm too chicken to do that myself.) I also got a (I think this is the name) GeForce 5600. Very nice video card.

I am holding out and am hoping to get a insanely great G5 Mac next year. But my two G4s are still dandy and while starting to show their age a little, they still work wonderfully.
pif6was9 wrote:
Rant: Geeks say "768 Meg of RAM" - AOL/Dell/GateMoo/dolts say "768 MegS of RAM"
I'm sure you're right some of the time, but my PC Guru Master friend (who is frightening in his knowledge and geekiness) says "megs." I usually say "megs" because I picked it up from him.

if6was9

11-12-2003, 08:01 PM

"insanely great" :D Only a TRUE geek would say that!

And I mean that in the BEST possible way!

peritrochoid

11-12-2003, 08:22 PM

PowerMac G4 Dual 500, Mac OS X 10.2.8, 1.5GB RAM, 30GB 10,000RPM SCSI HDD, 40GB and 4 GB ATA HDD, Geforce and ATI video cards for dual monitors, external FireWire CD burner, external 80GB FireWire drive

PowerBook G4 667, Mac OS X 10.3, 512MB RAM, 30GB HDD, Airport

iMac G3 (Rev B), 128MB RAM, 4GB HDD, PPC SuSE Linux 7.2

PowerBook 1400 w/ NewerTech 233 G3 upgrade card, Mac OS 8.6, 64MB RAM, 1.1 GB HDD

Some old PC that was given to me, had a 4GB drive, 64MB RAM, and I installed FreeBSD on it to tinker with *NIX variants in preparation for Mac OS X.

Heart On My Sleeve

11-12-2003, 08:44 PM

I'm not a hardware gal so I can't give you specs off the top of my head, but I use 2 HP Windows 2000 Server Laptops running SQL Server, a cute little iBook with lightening bolt stickers on it as well as my PowerBook G4 that I keep in my living room in case I need to do some emergency lookup while I'm watching TV (wireless, of course). I also have an amateur music studio with an old G3 TiBook running Pro Tools and my Yamaha Clavinova (that's a computer, right?). I also have a Yamaha electronic drumset.

I still feel the need to keep my Palm account with my little i705, not a Tungsten, but it does the job. I'm just not ready to let that go.

I also have my t-mobile wireless account in case I should find myself at Starbucks or Borders.

I've also been known to carry my own self-contained client/server network with me on business trips.

Wow, I'm quite a geek. Not that I like technology or anything.

The 2 windows machines and the iBook belong to my company, though.

yosemite

11-12-2003, 09:25 PM

Ah! Some fellow Mac geeks! Oh, I do love to hear descriptions of Mac hardware!

Keep 'em coming (both Mac and PC)!

runner pat

11-12-2003, 09:51 PM

Compaq Presario
2.7 GHz
120 G HD
512 RAM
CD-RW/DVD-ROM

*hangs head in shame,places pocket protector on floor,leaves room in disgrace*

iamthewalrus(:3=

11-12-2003, 10:25 PM

File/Webserver:
Red Hat 9
700 PIII
768 MB RAM (and I say "Megs" and "Gigs" and always have)
150 GB total disk space (3 HDDs)
And (here's where the really geeky part comes in), I built the case (http://www.evilblog.net/woodencase/) myself.

Main Desktop
Win XP
1.2 Duron (so slow...)
512 RAM
80 GB drive

Mobile
iBook 700

Just upgraded the memory today to 640.
w00t!

FilmGeek

11-12-2003, 11:11 PM

Can I have some money?

I have a G4 running 9.1
30GB HD.

It's nice, but not so cool compared to all the above.

I also have (and am still paying for) a HP Windows machine.
120 GB HD
512 RAM
1.3? pentium 4
I bought this specifically to play games.

I want a PDA. That is all

1010011010

11-12-2003, 11:55 PM

Since OS X, it's okay to be a geek and own a Mac due to the BSD Unix connections.

Have a c.1997 desktop that's slowly undergoing hardware failure. Surprisingly, it runs Win XP Pro without complaints and fairly well. AMD K6 200MHz (or was that Hz? ;) 40GB HDD, 128MB RAM, onboard sound and video! The power supply fan died a while ago, but nothing's caught on fire yet. I (re)built this one myself.

A more recently purchased Compaq (Presario?). Is also has 128MB of RAM, I think it has a 60GB HDD... Pentium3 in the 700 range, maybe? Horrible chassis design, bitch to upgrade or maintain... lots of proprietary dongles that like to not work mysteriously.

Most recently: Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop. MPentium4 1.8GHz... 256MB DDR, 40GB HDD, nVidia GeForce (I think). Run Win XP Pro usually, but occassionally boot Knoppix from CD.

rjk

11-12-2003, 11:59 PM

Originally posted by UncleBeer
I have a slide rule.

Log scales are for sissies! I have an abacus!

DreadCthulhu

11-13-2003, 01:13 AM

Well, the PC I have isn't bad, though it is starting to lag behind:

Athlon 2000XP, overclocked to 2100+ speed(dang thing won't go any higher :mad: )

1 GB Corsair 333mhz DDR RAM

100GB Western Digital Harddrive - 7200RPM
80GB Western Digital Harddrive - 7200RPM

My video card is a Geforce4 Ti4600, which I have got slightly overclocked. :D

Generic DVD-ROM and a CD-R/RW drive.

Soundblaster Audigty sound card
Logitech 540z speakers - cheap, and pretty good
And a 19"CRT monitor. Clear, big, and really heavy.

I dual-boot WindowsXP and Linux.

viking

11-13-2003, 01:19 AM

Bah. Hardware's for wanna-be geeks. As long as it has a decent shell, it's hardware enough. I think shelf-feet of O'Reilly books is the true measure. I only have about two feet, which is a good start but not quite there yet :)

Anonymous Coward

11-13-2003, 08:29 AM

Originally posted by viking
Bah. Hardware's for wanna-be geeks. As long as it has a decent shell, it's hardware enough. I think shelf-feet of O'Reilly books is the true measure. I only have about two feet, which is a good start but not quite there yet :)

Bah, real geeks let their work buy the O'Reilly books and save their money for hardware. :)

I consider myself to be an ex-geek, or a retired geek now. I geek out occasionally, but all in all the whole geek scene bores me now.

Angua

11-13-2003, 08:57 AM

Originally posted by Lobsang
Either that is a quote from a different thread, or Angua's post has been eaten.

It is from a different thread. :D But that is the level of my geekiness. By day, I am an astrophysicist, I sit in front of a computer all day. My officemates come to me with their technical problems. On my desk, I have my swish new phone/digital camera/mp3 player/pda, a mp3 cd player, "Unix in a Nutshell", I'm writing this post in Mozilla, running on Redhat 9.0, I have at least three different sets of earphones in my drawer, and I have a graphical calculator which I know how to program. :D

And that's just at the office. At home, my 1.2 GHz, half a gig of ram computer which I built myself has abotu 5 screws holding everything together. I managed to rig things up so that our dvd player, video recorder, Sky DigiBox and tv were all wired together.

I get caffienne withdrawl headaches, I can program in FORTRAN (beat that!!), I do a bit of Perl scripting, and do my HTML and LaTeX code manually. do I class as a bona fide geek?

Angua

11-13-2003, 08:59 AM

I also can't appear to spell at all today. Maybe I'll just sit here quietly now and calculate the entropy profile for my galaxy. :)

Shade

11-13-2003, 09:46 AM

It is from a different thread. But that is the level of my geekiness.To be exact, it's an infimum of your level of geekiness. Hey, do I get bonus points for using 'infimum' in casual conversation?

VenusProbe

11-13-2003, 11:01 AM

Originally posted by Angua
It is from a different thread. :D But that is the level of my geekiness. By day, I am an astrophysicist, I sit in front of a computer all day. My officemates come to me with their technical problems. On my desk, I have my swish new phone/digital camera/mp3 player/pda, a mp3 cd player, "Unix in a Nutshell", I'm writing this post in Mozilla, running on Redhat 9.0, I have at least three different sets of earphones in my drawer, and I have a graphical calculator which I know how to program. :D

And that's just at the office. At home, my 1.2 GHz, half a gig of ram computer which I built myself has abotu 5 screws holding everything together. I managed to rig things up so that our dvd player, video recorder, Sky DigiBox and tv were all wired together.

I get caffienne withdrawl headaches, I can program in FORTRAN (beat that!!), I do a bit of Perl scripting, and do my HTML and LaTeX code manually. do I class as a bona fide geek? I think I'm in love! :)

I currently have 5 computer on a 100mb wired LAN (wireless has too many security problems) and they are starting from the bottom:

Compac 5100
P1 100mhz processor
32megs of RAM
6gig hard drive
Windows 98SE
This is the print server and has the scanner attached. It also runs SETI 24/7/365

Custom (by me)
AMD K62 450mhz
Some off-brand mainboard Future Power I think
768megs O’ RAM
10gig hard drive
3com 10/100 NIC
ATI All in Wonder pro Video card
Windows 98SE
15” cheesy monitor
soundblaster live sound card
Lab Tech 5.1 surround sound speakers
This one lives in the kitchen attached to satellite receiver so we can watch TV and surf at the same time

Custom (by me)
P III 500mhz
ASUS P2L97A mainboard
640megs O’ RAM
10gig hard drive
3com 10/100 NIC
TNT2 Ultra video card
Windows 98SE
17” CTX monitor
soundblaster live sound card
cheesy speakers
This is oldest daughters machine and needs upgrading badly

Custom (by me)
P III 800mhz
Another Future Power mainboard
512megs O’ RAM
4gig hard drive
3com 10/100 NIC
TNT2 Ultra video card
Windows 98SE
15” CTX monitor
soundblaster live sound card
cheesy speakers
this is youngest daughters machine. Also needs upgrading badly

Custom (by me for me)
AMD 1700XP (overclocked to a little over 1.8ghz)
MSI K7T266RU mainboard RAID, LAN, AC97 sound on board
512megs of ram (need more ram)
40gig 7200rpm hard drive
2 20gig 7200rpm hds RAID 0
win XP Pro
GeForct2 Ti 500 video card with VIVO (need a ATI 9800 pro)
19” AOC monitor
no speakers, but excellent headphones

I got a new one on the bench that will be my new machine but so far all I’ve decided on is the case and power supply and that It’ll be watercooled and overclocked to the max! :cool:

I'm an Oracle DBA and applications engineer by day, I do SQL Perl, TCL and web Development HTML Javascript. I have in the past used Pascal and Forth and assembly language.

World Eater

11-13-2003, 11:16 AM

Well for starters, you can physically trace all electronics in my house to each other.

Starting with "Core one", an ancient yet gnarled and strong as an oak tree Dell Dimension P3 600, a dual boot with Win98/Redhat Valhalla, 512 MB ram, 20 & 40 gig HD, Pioneer A05 Dvd burner, some cheap peripherals, but most importantly, houses my Lexicon CORE soundcard which is the heart of my recording studio.

The soundcard features 4 1/4" balanced inputs, and 8 1/4 balanced outputs, as well as a TOSlink out. The analog goes to my Mackie mixing board, and the digital goes straight into my receiver.

Snaking outwards, the Mackie is connected to about 15 pieces of outboard equipment (compressors, quadverb, aural exciter, etc) via inserts and sends connected to a Neutrik patchbay. From the patchbay I can route all the signals from any piece of audio to any other piece. My receiver plays an important part of my system as well, acting as a secondary core.

If it's not plugged into my computer it's plugged into the sony receiver. Full 5.1 home theater speakers setup on Set A, and Yamaha NS10 studio monitors on speaker set B. The receiver is hooked up via fibre (not an RCA CABLE in sight :))to the CD changer, the Minidisk player, and the DVD player. The 32 Sony inch Wega is connected via component video, and the sound from the TV is piped into the receiver. Where possible all the interconnects are Monstercable.

Everything is on 2 racks that go from the floor to my shoulder, and the whole resembling the bridge of the Deathstar contraption takes up about a third of my pretty large bedroom. There are over 15 speakers attached to the whole “thing” as well. "Core One" connects to an old legacy computer next to it, and to my roomie's computer via cat5 and a Netgear hub. All the computers connect to the outside world through a Linksys router using a shared 1.5 mps DSL connection. It withstands me and my roommate abusing people on completely different Quake servers, yet still graces each of us with a 20 ping.

Over the past few months I've been working on a secret project, code named "Core Two". I upgrade everything by going down the list of all the gear, one at a time, and replacing it. I have about 40 things so it works out to about every 4 years a piece gets upgraded or replaced. Well it was time for the new comp.

The legacy comp will be replaced by Core One, and Core Two will become the new brain.

Behold <drum roll........................>

Core Two!

P4 2.8 Ghz 512 cache 800 MHz fsb
Gigabyte 8KNXP Motherboard, featuring 800 Fsb, 875 chipset, DDR 3200 (6 dimm slots), gigabit Ethernet, dual bios, and is the winner of Tom's Hardware high performance motherboard shootout
Kingston Hyper X ram with heat spreaders
Lian Li PC-7 Aluminum case, 2 80 mm fans in the front (blue led), one on the back. (wanted a side window but didn't want EMI problems)
Antec tru power 420 watt dual fan PSU with variable speed connectors for the case fans.
Nvidia 5200 (just a temp till a 9800 or 5900)
52X CD burner
Pioneer A05 DVD burner
80 gig drive with XP
Blank 12 gig waiting for me to decide which Linux distro to put on.
Rounded cables and twisty tied for maximum airflow inside.

I'll be doing the hardcore geek stuff like putting the crystalfonz on the front and other fine things.

Whooooo, that was fun!!! :D

World Eater

11-13-2003, 11:18 AM

I hope all you geeks have home owners insurance. If you don't, get it soon, there's some nice stuff in this thread. :)

Angua

11-13-2003, 11:19 AM

Yup, I do. In fact, it's all my geeky equipment that's caused my insurance to go up! :)

idiotboy

11-13-2003, 11:59 AM

well...renter's insurance right now, but, yup!

VenusProbe

11-13-2003, 12:10 PM

Originally posted by World Eater
I hope all you geeks have home owners insurance. If you don't, get it soon, there's some nice stuff in this thread. :) Yep, covered to the hilt, computer hardware is the reason.

World Eater

11-13-2003, 12:12 PM

Good to hear. Statefarm is our friend.

jon_pi

11-13-2003, 12:55 PM

I have 4 comps, one is currently disassembled, two are PCs and one's a laptop.

Neo is a Lian Li PC-70 Case with window mod, 1.8GHz P4, 512RDRAM, 40GB HD, GeForce4(128meg DDR), Soundblaster Live 32bit, and NewEQ Platinum Equalizer, with Logitech quintaphonic speakers, wireless keyboard and optical mouse. He's hooked up to a 19" CRT, my printer, scanner and webcam.

Morpheus is a Lian Li PC-70 case, 1GHz AMD, 512SDRAM, 20GB HD, Geforce 3(64DDR), Soundblaster Live 16, 17" Flat Panel screen, and a hands free hadset.

Trinity is a HP Laptop, 2GHz P4, 512 RAM, 20GB HD Dunno much about the rest of the insides cause I didn't build her.

All are networked through my router(Matrix) on a DSL connection. The true measure of my geekdom is that I'm paying on 4 Everquest accounts, and soon as I get a monitor for the last bits of computer pieces I have laying around, I'll be able to play all of them at the same time.

astro

11-13-2003, 01:21 PM

Originally posted by yosemitebabe
I know that I am not remotely as geeky as some of the rest of you, so this is just a starting point. Please add your geeky set-ups.

I realized today that I am beyond pathetically geeky.

And yet, you still found a man to love you. Love you hard!

Ponder Stibbons

11-13-2003, 01:40 PM

Marine_One

11-13-2003, 01:45 PM

I have actual punched cards !!!

But, I've kissed a girl..so I'm even....

Ryle Dup

11-13-2003, 02:40 PM

Daamn, my computers are old in comparison to these new boxes you all got. Lessee...

I'm on my wireless networked laptop.

Compaq Presario 2800
1.4ghz ( I think)
384m SDRAM
GeForce 2 MX ( I think)
30 gig 5400 RPM HD
CDRW-DVD

Connect to a wireless network using a 802.11b d-link airplus wireless laptop card. From the wireless I run another hub outward, and connect that hub to my cable broadband.

Yay, cable is like.. 1.8mbps downstream, 384kbps upstream I believe.

From there it goes into 4 more computers off the main hub, 3 are the same models

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
1gig DDRAM
GeForce 4400 Ti
60 gig HD 7200 RPM
CD-RW/DVD

and another one which is a crappy old 600 mhz 128mb Tnt2 shitbox.

In my "inventory" (read: old crap) I've got.. like 4 hard drives, couple CD-ROM drives, several floppy drives, 3 motherboards, 4 chips, endless screws and cables, 2 cases, 1 broken up case, assorted broken mice, assorted broken keyboards, several network cards, a couple 56k modems, 2 old monitors, 1 broken monitor.

I have headphones all over the house, most are broken. All of em have voice attachments.

heresiarch

11-13-2003, 02:49 PM

yosemitebabe, ditch the KVM switch and install a remote desktop connection client (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/DOWNLOAD/MISC/RDC.xml&secid=80&ssid=9&flgnosysreq=True)on your mac(s). You can control all your networked PCs from a window on your mac.

I get some geek points for suggesting this, right?

Wyatt

11-13-2003, 04:35 PM

Small gray box with a wind-up key ... but I Can wind it up 26 1/2 winds before it's fully wound, I reworked the power supply to also accept input from a footpedal from an old sewing machine that gives me exercise while I surf the net,
a back-lit screen with 3 separate candles, but I'm thinking of upgrading to kerosene lamps, changing candles is getting old, I custom re-worked my net-connection to be able to upgrade to a full-sized "Hi-C" can with double waxed poly-cotton blend string and I rewired a classic Remington typewriter, to avoid having to use one of them fancy curved keyboards.

peritrochoid

11-13-2003, 05:58 PM

Wyatt, dude, will you build me one?

PLEEEEEEEEEZE!!

yosemite

11-13-2003, 05:58 PM

Wow, you people are wonderful! Love the detailed descriptions of geeky hardware! Wonderful stuff! Originally posted by heresiarch
yosemitebabe, ditch the KVM switch and install a remote desktop connection client (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/DOWNLOAD/MISC/RDC.xml&secid=80&ssid=9&flgnosysreq=True)on your mac(s). You can control all your networked PCs from a window on your mac.

I get some geek points for suggesting this, right? Yes, indeed you do! I will be definitely looking into this. Thanks so much!

iamthewalrus(:3=

11-13-2003, 06:14 PM

Originally posted by heresiarch
yosemitebabe, ditch the KVM switch and install a remote desktop connection client (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/DOWNLOAD/MISC/RDC.xml&secid=80&ssid=9&flgnosysreq=True)on your mac(s). You can control all your networked PCs from a window on your mac.

That reminds me. We have a computer hooked up to our TV in the lounge (dorm life), to watch movies and cartoons on and listen to music. I go and sit way back on the couch with my iBook and control it from there.

Best. Remote. Ever.

N9IWP

11-13-2003, 06:24 PM

Angua sez:

I can program in FORTRAN (beat that!!)

I converted some FORTRAN coordinate code (lat/lon to state plane (lambert conformal conic)) to C, but I still have my wire-wrapped 8085 based computer and used to be able to do assembly and even some machine code programming (as in type in hex values). Not anymore tho :(

Long time ago I tapped into a b/w TV and extracted the video signal and displayed it on my Apple ][ monitor. (I know use a VCR, but still have the monitor) (speaking of which I have a Sony b/w VTR also)

I have a HP 122AR Vacuum tube Oscilloscope (former owner AEC/Sandia Corp)

Brian
retro-geek mode

ThreeLeggedBob

11-13-2003, 06:58 PM

I still have a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 from 1984. It's a bootable 5 1/4 " floppy.

System requirements: 64K (yes, K) of memory, one disk drive, IBM color graphics card. IBM PC Jr requirements are 128K.

(I was a geek before some of you were born.)

Troy McClure SF

11-13-2003, 11:36 PM

You are a geek if the following makes you laugh:

There are 10 kinds of people in the world- those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Dinaroozie

11-14-2003, 03:14 AM

You know that geeky female from one of the Wayne's World movies (I don't - I'm going by a report from someone else, here)? You know how her geekiness was demonstrated by (among other things) a book she was carrying? It was called 'The Unix Programming Environment', and it is all white, with the title and author on the front in the least interesting way possible. That book is on my shelf right now, right next to 'The C Programming Langauge' from the same series.

Plus, I think Nintendo makes the best games. Say no more!

~ Isaac

PS I should say that despite all this, there are those far geekier than I, at least in regards to computer know how. I guess in that respect I'm just a geek-in-training.

PPS Geek points to anyone who thinks of the words 'say no more' as a Python reference.

Angua

11-14-2003, 04:46 AM

Originally posted by Ponder Stibbons
Fortran? I tested out of fortran (FORmula TRANslation language) in college back in '83. How about FORTH or LISP? And I would have nothing but the geekiest of respect for anyone that could produce a useful program using APL.

Having said all that, my fave is still C++ :p

I use LISP on occiasion. :) I do a bit of S-Lang scripting, does that count? The data processing packages I use are really obscure - CIAO, HEASoft, and IRAF. This probably won't mean anything to anyone, but I still use AIPS. AIPS is the "Astronomical Image Processing System", originally designed in Cambridge, and written in FORTRAN60 ( I think), for processing interferometer data. Its still written in FORTRAN, and the interface still harks back to the days when GUIs were a pipe dream. :)

Looking at my bookshelf, it is very very geeky - a couple of books on Unix and FORTRAN programming, a math text large enough to be a dorrstop, a book on relativity, another on analytical mechanics, an introduction to radio astronomy and one on high energy astrophysics. There is also "Analysis Fur Physiker und Ingenieure" - yup a math text in a foreign language - which I can read and understand. :D

Do I retain my geek-girl status?

PS - [B]Venus Probe[/i] - I think there's a queue forming. :D

ccwaterback

11-14-2003, 07:00 AM

Only a true geek would run a free version of Linux on a 10 year old server he/she is using as a home computer :D

heresiarch

11-14-2003, 09:28 AM

Here's a geek riddle (stolen from this new t-shirt (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/6596/)) at thinkgeek.com:

How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?

Answer:57,006

In case you don't get it:'dead' in hexadecimal = 57,005 in decimal

ccwaterback

11-14-2003, 02:29 PM

I took the cover off my PC a long time ago, I don't even know where it is now.

So there!!!

I just love the sight of ribbon cables flying in the breeze.

:)

Wyatt

11-14-2003, 02:52 PM

Originally posted by peritrochoid
Wyatt, dude, will you build me one?

PLEEEEEEEEEZE!!

Well, Ok, Peritro but YOU have to drink the Hi-C!
I'm not doing That again!

VenusProbe

11-14-2003, 03:45 PM

Originally posted by Angua
Do I retain my geek-girl status? You are a geek-goddess in my eyes. :)
Originally posted by Angua
PS - Venus Probe - I think there's a queue forming. :D :eek: :smack:

Parallax

11-14-2003, 05:52 PM

Is it geeky to be posting this on a wireless PDA while sitting in the bathroom supervising my daughter's bath?

N9IWP

11-14-2003, 06:05 PM

Angua, FORTRAN in itself is mildly geeky, but using it for astronomical image processing, now THAT's geeky (and cool!)

Brian

gotpasswords

11-14-2003, 07:31 PM

Meg / Megs...? I count 'em in gigs. The small Unix boxes here have 4 gig of RAM.

I was using my Palm the other day and realized it has more RAM than my first PC that had a hard drive had drive space. .....does that make sense...? it's not parsing well to me on re-read, but what I mean is my first PC that had a hard drive had a 10 meg drive and my palm has 16 meg of RAM in it.

My camera has way more memory than my second, 20 MB drive.

First computer had 2K (Yes, two K!) of RAM and no drives. I think keyboards have bigger buffers than that now.

Now? My primary box has a gig of RAM and a 120 gig drive.
2.8 GHz P4C overclocked to 3 GHz.

But perhaps a truer measure of geekiness can be found in my doorbell. The outside button is an IBM Trackpoint cap.

sezyou

11-15-2003, 01:29 AM

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (build 2600) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.15 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: http://www.abit.com.tw/ NF7-S/NF7-M/NF7 (nVidia-nForce2) 1.X
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 07/02/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
123.51 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
80.08 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-816B SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
SONY DVD RW DW-U14A SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

IC35L120 AVV207-1 SCSI Disk Device (123.52 GB) -- drive 0

Had to post. Just got this one. I'm spoiled rotten.

Angua

11-15-2003, 03:05 AM

Originally posted by VenusProbe
You are a geek-goddess in my eyes. :)

Why, thank you. :D :D :D

alibey

11-15-2003, 04:56 AM

Originally posted by rjk
Log scales are for sissies! I have an abacus!

I have a rock:)

and a toshiba libretto ct50

umop ap!sdn

11-15-2003, 04:50 PM

Originally posted by UncleBeer
I have a slide rule.

I have a pocket protecter and a pin that reads "Alpha Geek". A friend gave it to me in a Windows NT administration class - and we were using DEC Alphas. :D

My PC is one of those big towers, with one side panel open and a fan set up to keep the space between the hard drives cool. (They tend to overheat and the system locks up.)

Inside is a P4 1.6GHz with 256MB RAM and about 30GB between the 2 drives. This machine was built from scratch in 1999 and upgraded in more recent years.

Really geeky: I hooked up the video output of my Commodore 128 to the auxiliary input of my WinTV card, and can actually transfer data (one-way) between the two computers through the video interface.

Then there's my collection of 1980s style computer chips. :D