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
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.
Log scales are for sissies! I have an abacus!
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. 
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.
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.
It is from a different thread. 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.
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 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.
To be exact, it’s an infimum of your level of geekiness. Hey, do I get bonus points for using ‘infimum’ in casual conversation?
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! 
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.
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!!!
I hope all you geeks have home owners insurance. If you don’t, get it soon, there’s some nice stuff in this thread.
Yup, I do. In fact, it’s all my geeky equipment that’s caused my insurance to go up!
well…renter’s insurance right now, but, yup!
Yep, covered to the hilt, computer hardware is the reason.
Good to hear. Statefarm is our friend.
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.
And yet, you still found a man to love you. Love you hard!
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++ 
I have actual punched cards !!!
But, I’ve kissed a girl…so I’m even…