Posted on 03/23/2009 3:51:21 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
Run All Your Essential Apps on a USB Stick
Straighten the Pins on an Older CPU
Know the 13 Basic HTML Tags
Get Through to Executive Customer Service
Beat Quake in Under an Hour
Watch TV Shows on the Internet (Legally!)
Get Around the Content Filter on Public Computers
Recite pi to 23 Decimal Places
Replace the Controller Board on a Hard Drive
Benchmark Your Computer
Decorate Your Room Using Only Printer Paper
Securely Erase Your Data So it Can't be Recovered
Get into a Windows Computer if you Forgot Your Password
Hide Porn from Your Significant Other
Explain What E=MC^2 Means to a Liberal Arts Major
Abstain from Buying Extended Warranties
Use Photoshop or GIMP to Imperceptibly Doctor a Photo
Use a DSLR in Full Manual Mode
Mooch Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi
Protect your Wi-Fi
Create an Animated Spray in Valve Games
Calculate a Pitchers Earned Run Average
Run Two Operating Systems
Install a Hard Drive in a Laptop
Pull Off an Elaborate Prank
Rocket Jump Without Using a Macro
Wire Your Home with Ethernet Cable
Know the 6 Most Important Linux Commands
Rip Your CDs to FLAC
Stream Your Movies, Music, and Photos to Any TV in Your House
Install and Configure a Virtual Machine
Run Multiple Monitors Like a Pro
Hack Firmware on a Router
Differentiate Between Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb
Avoid DRM on everything
Download Flash Video and Bend it to Your Will
Get Around In DOS
Overclock Your PC and Tune Your BIOS
Use Remote Desktop
Debate the Relative Merits of an Imperial Star Destroyer vs. the USS Enterprise
Build Your Own Computer
Guilty, but it wasn’t a punch used here, it was an Adel chassis nibbler!
Wow, I’m a geek, there’s only a handful of these things I couldn’t do, but why would I *want* to do things like decorate my room with printer paper? Although, I do have fond memories of playing in piles of the old-school stuff with all the perforations that could be unfolded into one, long, gloriously tangled mess... my childhood was very different, I have fond memories of ‘streaming’ movies to every TV in the house when I was about 13 and nobody had wi-fi (including us, that was a long and complicated story that may have violated more than a few FCC regulations, LOL), and constantly messing with the Commodore 64 <3
Would you STOP reminding me how long I've been in this crappy business! {;^0)
If a pin is bent too far for the credit card trick, use the barrel of a mechanical pencil to sheath the pin and gently bend it back up straight.
Wrong. Pencil lead is corrosive to metals.
I can do most of those including, sad to say, reciting pi to 25 places.
I only have PI memorized to around 14 places these days, but my daughter has had it to at least 25 places for many years -- we learned it together back when she was building up her first dual-boot Linux/XP system -- at age 11.
I may be losing geek ground but she's gaining it faster. ;-)
Scary! That's exactly how many digits I can recite.
Securely Erase Your Data So it Can't be Recovered
I've described here several times Dr. Thinking's Incredible Low Level Format with Extreme Prejudice -- disassemble drive, take out platters and shred.
So, you managed to lose the password to your Windows account....To do this, press f8 as the computer boots up. If you can get into the system in this mode, you can reset other users passwords by clicking the User Accounts icon in the control panel.
If that doesnt work, your best bet is to attempt to crack the password using a cracker like ophcrack loaded onto a bootable CD, floppy or USB drive.
Um, no, actually your best bet is to use ERD Commander and change the password to something you'll remember.
Only if they were in a pocket protector.
And if you run out of cards, you can get more here.
Ahem.
Hell yeah!
I got a punch only after a year or so of manually marking the slot, and using an exacto knife to cut it out.
How about "Install and configure a virtual cluster"?
How about "Install and configure a virtual cluster with the lustre filesystem installed over an iSCSI framework"?
< grin > I'm doing the latter now. I've done the former several times.
Done that. With a VT220 dumb terminal.
I just used a regular round hole puncher. The drive didn't care whether the edges were rounded or square, just that the hole was deep and wide enough for the sensor to fit into.
Buying a special punch was for suckers.
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