I'm so pathetically geeky (computer related)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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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. :wink:

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

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

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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 innards—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.”)

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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!

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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

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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 :smiley:

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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.

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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. :slight_smile:

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I have a slide rule.

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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

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I was considering what to submit, but I think nothing I have can quite compare to:

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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.

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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 :frowning: )
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:

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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.

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.

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“insanely great” :smiley: Only a TRUE geek would say that!

And I mean that in the BEST possible way!

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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.

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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.

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

Keep 'em coming (both Mac and PC)!

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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

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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 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!