You're a computer geek?

[GermyBoy]

Can't spell geek without EE.

 

[Mattster]

Originally posted by: Electrode
<- Hopeless geek

* I run Linux, and know how to do cool things with it
* Every computer in my house, save for 2, was built by me
* I have a working Commodore 64
* I have a nervous breakdown if the power goes out for more than an hour
* I have a somewhat less dramatic episode if the cable goes out for more than 2 hours

* I have 2 working Commodore 64's and a 128 that still runs too!
* Built all of the computers I have and have parts for about 2-3 more in the closet
* I dabble with Linux when I have the time now (Gentoo!)

But having a g/f for the last 9 months has slowed me down quite a bit compard to how I was for the first 27 years of my life

So I was a hardware geek for the most part, but have been swayed away from total geekdom!

Matt

 

[Geekbabe]

no geek here

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: ynot167
Many of you, I'm sure, are on the computer a lot. Do you consider yourself a computer geek? If not, then what is a computer geek?

Hell yeah.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
no geek here

If the word 'geek' appears in ANY online nametag... yer a geek.


You will be assimilated. It is useless to resist us.

 

[xirtam]

No amount of rehabilitation could cure my geekness.

 

[cpals]

I'm half geek... half james bond.

 

[cvstrat]

I've worked selling computers since I was 16, 4 years... Built probably 40 or so computers, every computer part known to man, spend about 10 hours/day on a computer. I used to overclock everything I had, celly 333a @450, athy 550@700, etc... Used to see how fast I could make windows boot, how fast I could make my 14.4 modem download, I used to be a major geek. Now I don't get into the details as deep as I used to but I still think I'm a geek!

 

[Warthog912]

Originally posted by: oblizue
If you built your own computer than that'd be pretty geeky.

 

[Electric Amish]

I am all geek!

amish

 

[CraigRT]

I must be... I don't really consider myself a computer nerd.... but I am on a lot.... (a lot of the time at work, nothing i can do about it)

 

[Shade4ever]

I've built every computer I've owned...I'm a Comp. Engineering/Comp. Sci major, so I can & do code on occasion...I like to overclock, but like to game more. Yeah, I'm a geek.

OTOH, I've had a steady g/f since my last year of HS (just over 3 years now). Does that d/q me, or does the fact that she games too even things out?

 

[Anubis]

no i consider myself a "Computer Junkie"

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Hatari Chic
I'm a wannabe geek, since I know zip about computers beyond the basics of running one but I love the company.

You love some of the company more than others.

ZV

 

[BatmanNate]

Still working on my geek resume, here are some exerps:

Owned an original Kaypro (yes, Darth Vader's lunchbox with the foldout keyboard.)
Owned several Xerox dedicated word processors with the 7" floppies and 128k ram.
Owned 386sx laptop that was much larger than my lap.
I have 4 running computers at the moment, and 9 processors between them.
I built have built numerous cooling systems for computers out of home depot and junkyard parts. (one included a 12v 1/12th horsepower water pump motor and over hood fan assembly )
I've turned a 17" Sun monitor into a fish tank almost successfully.
Idiot friends and I tied a full tower 386 with monitor behind my old pickup with about 40 feet of slack and went gallavanting through a field with it, and got it on tape.
I built a computer in said truck as an MP3 player that would autoload MP3 cd's and ran it into my deck's aux. Used a invertor for the power, and ran the cdrom into the armrest area.
My girlfriend earnestly enjoys Commander Keen, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and Worms.
I am currently building a computer inside a guitar amp.
Different idiot friends and I coded a program in Q basic to generate madlibs using Frog and Toad and Curious George stories.


....and I could go on forever! Good thread.

 

[giguana]

i'm a geek. i'll admit it. i openly admit it to all my friends. i'm not much as far as a coder, hardware is more my forte.