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50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have
Maximum PC ^ | Monday, December 8, 2008 | The Maximum PC Staff

Posted on 03/23/2009 3:51:21 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon

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To: Momaw Nadon
Recite pi to 23 Decimal Places

Sadly, this is me. My Brother and I used to compete at this when we were VERY young.

From memory: 3.1415926535897932384626

I need a life...
41 posted on 03/23/2009 6:02:49 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: Billthedrill

Guilty, but it wasn’t a punch used here, it was an Adel chassis nibbler!


42 posted on 03/23/2009 9:09:48 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
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To: Momaw Nadon

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


43 posted on 03/23/2009 9:16:59 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: jiggyboy
"Oh you kids today...When I was your age, a 360K floppy was good enough to hold FDISK, DOS, MASM, LINK, EXE2BIN, and just enough left over for a line editor if you didn't want to use EDLIN."

Would you STOP reminding me how long I've been in this crappy business! {;^0)

44 posted on 03/23/2009 9:24:49 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...

45 posted on 03/24/2009 5:25:37 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Momaw Nadon
Straighten the Pins on an Older CPU

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.

46 posted on 03/24/2009 5:32:33 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Momaw Nadon

I can do most of those including, sad to say, reciting pi to 25 places.


47 posted on 03/24/2009 6:24:09 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat (Sacred cows make the best hamburger.)
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To: Momaw Nadon
Hmmm, I can do or have done most of those, but not all...

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. ;-)

48 posted on 03/24/2009 6:40:42 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Momaw Nadon
Recite pi to 23 Decimal Places

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 user’s passwords by clicking the “User Accounts” icon in the control panel.

If that doesn’t 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.

49 posted on 03/24/2009 7:11:54 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Only if they were in a pocket protector.


50 posted on 03/24/2009 7:13:38 AM PDT by NCjim ("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
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To: Momaw Nadon
I am nerdier than 96% of all people. Are you a nerd? Click here to take the Nerd Test, get nerdy images and jokes, and write on the nerd forum!
51 posted on 03/24/2009 7:13:53 AM PDT by NCjim ("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
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To: Political Junkie Too
You also qualify if you can read the punches without the writing on the card.

And if you run out of cards, you can get more here.

52 posted on 03/24/2009 7:20:32 AM PDT by NCjim ("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
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To: Billthedrill

Ahem.


53 posted on 03/24/2009 7:20:54 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Tennessee_Bob
Piker

I am nerdier than 93% of all people. Are you a nerd? Click here to take the Nerd Test, get nerdy images and jokes, and write on the nerd forum!

54 posted on 03/24/2009 7:28:16 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Billthedrill
So who here has used a little punch on a 5 1/4-in diskette sleeve to turn it into a “high” density? Don’t lie to me. You know who you are.

Hell yeah!

55 posted on 03/24/2009 7:33:52 AM PDT by zeugma (Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
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To: Billthedrill

I got a punch only after a year or so of manually marking the slot, and using an exacto knife to cut it out.


56 posted on 03/24/2009 8:07:28 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Momaw Nadon
Install and Configure a Virtual Machine

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.

57 posted on 03/24/2009 8:35:38 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: tacticalogic

Done that. With a VT220 dumb terminal.


58 posted on 03/24/2009 8:40:44 AM PDT by B Knotts (Worst economy since the Third Punic War)
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To: Billthedrill
So who here has used a little punch on a 5 1/4-in diskette sleeve to turn it into a “high” density? Don’t lie to me. You know who you are.

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.

59 posted on 03/24/2009 8:48:31 AM PDT by whd23
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To: Just another Joe
Bow before me...

I am nerdier than 100% of all people. Are you a nerd? Click here to take the Nerd Test, get geeky images and jokes, and talk on the nerd forum!

First shot too...

60 posted on 03/24/2009 8:51:18 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (1000110010101010100001001001111)
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