autodefe Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 This just took me about 15 minutes to type up.. Feel free to add/elaborate! The non-geek - You don't use computers very often, in fact you don't even own one. You rarely use the Internet and you dont know what an "IM" is. The wannabe geek - You subscribe to AOL. You only use your computer to read and write email and to read news. You just figured out how to download an mp3 last week. The casual geek - You use your computer on a daily basis. You subscribe to newsthreads and chat with your friends and family regularly. You have a rather small to modest collection of pirated software/music and you know what TCP/IP stands for. You own a Dell or Gateway or any other type of pre-built PC. The hardcore geek - You run Linux on your self-built computer. Your skin is pasty because you rarely go outside. You have your own webpage. You have a large collection of illegal software/mp3s. You use Trillian. You worship Star Trek and/or The Matrix. You use IRC on a daily basis. You have your own domain name. You have a 24 hour webcam that monitors your workspace. You know what PHP stands for. You are the president of your high school's internet club. You've reached the maximum amount of buddies allowed (200) on AOL Instant Messenger. You know what a "h4x0r" is. The ULTIMATE geek - You have dual processors with water cooling. You own a dremel (only for your computer case). You LIVE on IRC. You have an internet girlfriend/boyfriend. You NEVER go outside. You own an autographed copy of SuSe Linux. You own a pocket pc and wear it on your belt. You have a special case for LAN parties. You throw LAN parties. You've never been laid. You use "/me" outside of IRC. Linus Torvalds = God. You run multiple servers from your home T1 line. Your web domain is yourrealname.com. You use emoticons when writing snail mail and you dream in XML. You're an op of a large IRC channel. You are a h4x0r (really). You've memorized your (static) IP address. You have more than 2500 posts on Neowin :p:D Where do I stand? I'm probably somewhere between casual and hardcore. :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewster2100 Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 casual, with addition of i play lots of games, as it seems most are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autodefe Posted April 7, 2002 Author Share Posted April 7, 2002 Yeah if you can't vote for one (i.e., you're in between), just post a reply.. I think a lot of people are in between casual and hardcore :knocked: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 lmao this is great. I'm probably somewhere between casual and ultimate geek. Most of what is said i can relate to, except the not being laid part :p Yup, after long days of computer h4x0ring i find myself speaking in C++. Suddenly the world takes on a surreal, hi tech matrix style and everything looks like it has been broken down into machine code..... ahhhhhh !! :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurting101 Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 Originally posted by Opio You've never been laid. Does that count online sex :s :D I'm a casual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autodefe Posted April 7, 2002 Author Share Posted April 7, 2002 Originally posted by hurting101 Does that count online sex :s :D I'm a casual Haha, nope! :evil: Hmm now I wonder if people voting are will actually tell the truth.. :ponder: .. it is anonymous though hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewster2100 Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 also, I DONT GOT NO DAMN DELL! a compaq... lol jk, home built Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Otto Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 mix of casual and hardcore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 Here is how you know you are a geek. See how many apply to j00 !! You look at a movie trailer and think, "I have that typeface." You set up an automatic rerouting of your e-mail to your pager. You get sudden attacks of bittersweet nostalgic feelings when thinking about your long-lost old Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX-81, TRS-80 (or whatever hardware you were raised on), and use large amounts of money/time trying to track one down. You are wearing ten year old spectacles, made of steel. You realize you _never_ cook, eating only take-away pizza. You check your web access_page more than once a day. You seriously consider devoting a web page to your computer. (Not the brand, mind you, but the actual computer itself) You have more e-mail addresses than you do pairs of shoes. You get depressed when you get less than 10 e-mail msgs a day. You already know what you want to write both Master's papers and your dissertation about, and you just graduated from College. You can discuss the philosophical and physical differences among the tangos. Although vaguely insulted by pocket-protector jokes, you still find them funny. You plan to get two Masters degrees. You start getting paranoid you aren't getting all your e-mail.(If you have sent me e-mail, and there seems to be no life from me, try again.) Someone asks you what languages you know, and you reply Upper Slavic, French, Esperanto and C. You spend more than 10 minutes contemplating how traffic lights work. You can talk for hours about how, in 25 years, the whole country won't have E-Mail addresses. You buy a Mac SE, install 7.1 and MacHTTP, and become a web server - running over PPP (Hi Sean!). You design detailed floorplans before moving all of your furniture around. You've created a new variety of rose. If anyone has said to you: "You are Jhayden?!?! I see you on the Vax all the time!" (Insert the appropirate substitutions, as appropriate.) You set up your own newsgroup. If you know the correct pronunciation of Tex, Linux, and TCL. If you paid $6000 for your computer and $500 for your car. There's a newsgroup dedicated to you because of your netly activities. Someone mentions the Q Continuum, and you know what that means. You seriously consider scanning in a picture of a squirrel, just to bug Maryam. (Got the nice picture; am using it for blackmail.) You get really excited that your mixer has a dough hook. Everyone in the neighborhood brings you (to) their computers to figure out what is wrong. You can hold detailed technical conversations in a second language. You are on the Obscure Software and Computer Crap Junk Mailing Lists You can explain how AppleTalk Networks work. Sleep and nightime are no longer irrevocably linked You arrange to get e-mail access no matter where you go. WAIS is your life. You walk past a Con and people know who you are. You have a definite philosphy of stacking wood for fires. You hear the word "Scuzzy" and the first thing you think of is not an adjective. You went to a high school where the only team with a winning record was the Chess team. You rig up elaborate mechanisms to do really basic tasks. You know about USENET cultures in groups you don't even read. You put your pathfinder on the web You get REALLY excited when people from countries with limited access to the 'net are frequent visitors to your pages. You don't hand in final papers unless they've been formatted on a desktop publishing program. You write web pages about your web pages. Your favorite part of Geometry was proving theorems. You've ever contemplated collecting graters. You can remember your web address faster than your phone number. You'll spend a long time customizing a computer you'll use for one day to the absolute pinacle of comfort, but you won't bother to spend two hours sewing up a skirt, and wear the damn thing sarong style. You do your best work after 11 p.m. You work in a building where you need a badge to move between floors. You calculate the odds of getting one of the primo parking spaces in relation to your apartment, factoring in time, weather, season, etc, and are accurate over 80% of the time. You can count the number of moderately good hacker/computer dude type films on one hand. (I promised not to froth at the mouth when I went to go see The Net -- I failed miserably. ) You've bought one of those license plate holders on which you can have your URL or E-Mail address embossed. You head straight past People and the always entertaining Weekly World News for this month's Computer Shopper You can track the geek gene through your family tree. You froth at the mouth when someone talks about the "Information Superhighway." You are a member of the USENET elite, invoked in posts in threads to which you have not posted. You can sing Tom Lehrer's element song. Not only is your computer in the center of your room, it's set up so as allow 'netting from your couch, as well as your desk chair. You arrange your jobs so you can telecommute. You organize your CDs, so the tops all face upward, alphabetically, or by record label (If you do more than one of these, you are an Anal-Retentive Geek). You spend a lot of time figuring out which of 100 adult goldfish are the most fertile, have the strongest genes, and combined to produce tiny little goldfish. You carry an 88 mb removable cartridge to and from work. You can sing any song from Grease 2. If you do the hand movements while singing, you should get out more. You plot to get your grandmother on E-mail. You've ever contemplated devoting a web page to World News Now, Kevin, Thalia, Bill, Shielah, Nissan, Okido, Asha, Dick Schapp, Willis, or, natch, Barry. Enjoy !! Keldyn:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autodefe Posted April 7, 2002 Author Share Posted April 7, 2002 Whoever voted for non-geek is full of crap! :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 7, 2002 I haven't left this computer today. That say anything? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modem Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 This is a copied post from this orignal comment over in the benching thread. :) Oh boy... lol Here is what I am and I'll let you all find a category for me: I'm 23, never have been out on a date, never made it to prom or any high school dances since I was working when the net was "young". The friends that I've most recently met have been from online and the few girls I've met have been from meeting in IRC channels. I currently have 6 machines and laptops running 24/7 maxing out a 512/512 dsl line with 250+ gigs of music, movies and software. Software and anything related is my best friend. I have 28 versions/distributions of Unix and linux in my bookshelf. I have every copy of Windows ever made, including 50% of every beta build from Win95 forward. Downloading is like breathing, if I can't do it, I get this weird empty feeling inside. During the day time I spend nearly every second on a computer since I own my own business meaning I consult, fix, build PC's for others. Current plans are to remodel half of our basement for a office/server room with a dedicated T1 line running into the house. Owning a T1 line to the house - $700... Building a self contained office/living room/Server room in the basement - $1300 Being 23 years old and haveing never dated a girl - Priceless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autodefe Posted April 7, 2002 Author Share Posted April 7, 2002 Keldyn: haha, nice! timdorr: no comment :dead: :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Otto Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 haha nice modem.... i have left this PC desk only to take a ****... and i counted how many times... 23... since 12:30 PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modem Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 Played Return to Castle Wolfenstein for about 5 and a half hours, then watched 3 divx movies and now got on here and checked out what is happening. Left a few times to head to the kitchen for lunch and moseied out to get the mail and that was it. Since we didn't have basketball this evening thats 10am - 1am next day of being on here. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted April 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 7, 2002 1'|/| ||07 4 g33|:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconman Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 Originally posted by configure 1'|/| ||07 4 g33|:D lol :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autodefe Posted April 7, 2002 Author Share Posted April 7, 2002 Originally posted by configure 1'|/| ||07 4 g33|:D heheh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted April 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 7, 2002 modem: you need to get a girl. seriously. i was a doubter, but now i don't know how I did without the warm, squishy feeling of her.......LOVE (sickos... ;) ) i gotta admit some people are designed for this indooor life though. I don't rag on them (mainly cause I'm like it myself). It's just a different attitude towards life.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CustardFD Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 Ok, I'm only 18 but too many of those things apply for me not to be worried... Its a good thing I have limited resources, otherwise it could be worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoL Veteran Posted April 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted April 7, 2002 casual here :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modem Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 Tim: It's not that I don't want one, but rather you tell them to change their minds about me. :p I've been burned 8 times straight in 6 years with the most recent as just this past December. So at the moment I'm really leaning towards not trusting any of them about as much as you want to trust Osama bin laden with your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 Oh my god im a casual Geek. Oh my god, Computers turned Osiris into a Geek, you *******s! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 I'm probably somewhere between Casual Geek and Ultimate Geek :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted April 7, 2002 Share Posted April 7, 2002 im atleast 10 hrs a day in front of my comp now a days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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