You Know You're A Geek If...

...You know your ISP's DNS Server addresses off by heart

 

you always have a man page open on some system call.

you wonder about how to maximize the display area on your monitors, you can display exactly three 80 column terminals w/ size 10 font, each with an instance of vim of course, on a 1920x1080 display and wonder how they managed back in the old days...

62 lines per instance, if not split vertically.

 

Hello,

laaaame . Don't you know the IP addresses of the machines you deal with by heart?

Regards
Gyro

 

Thanks for the affirmation

 

Hello,

you know you're a geek if on a sunny saturday noon with 35C outside you think about who could lend you one or two 2sj310 transistors .

Regards
Gyro

 

whrn u need a transistor ... U REALLY NEED ONE!

u know ur a geek when u have the timing diagram for the SN74AHC595-Q1 tri-state shift register stapled to your wall ..

 

Hello,

yeah and alsways on weekends or in the middle of the night . I want to build the active antenna they use for the SDR receiver at the University of Twente. They use only an active antenna area of 5cm by 10cm or so, which is very very small for HF and below. But they use a good pre amplifier, which the transistor is for.

I think I have a few 595 in stock. And tons of 593, for reasons that I don't fully understand .

Regards
Gyro

 

for reason that i dont fully understand .... haha lol

 

Hello,

I can't remember that I ever used them for anything, nevertheless I have a dozen or so of them. Maybe I had a great idea at some point in the past and it turned out to not to be that great .

Regards
Gyro

 

i have a project or two still in my head that could use one. i remember though i spent all day going to radioshack after radioshack collecting threir stock of TN2222 (or well , w/e eqivalent radioshack had) then afterwards found out i probably could have saved some time and could have used any of the NPN transistors they had there.

 

Hello,

those universal small signal types are so cheap, I usually buy them in bags of 100. That's enough supply for a few years for me, even if I burn a few . That's different for HF or HV types that cost a few bugs a piece. I don't want to bind money in things that I only need once a year or so.

Regards
Gyro

 

...you have more computers than friends

 

You spend wayyyyy too much time online?!?

 

Hello,

next month I will attend a geek conference. You can find all kinds of weired geek behaviour there. It's great (most of the time at least) to meet people in person, you know only from email contact.

Regards
Gyro

 

That sounds fun. Where is the geek conference held?

I've met a few of my internet friends in person, and only had one bad experience. That wasn't at the fault of the girl I was meeting though, but rather her husband.

 

Hello,

the conference is near the city of Cologne. Besides having lots of talks and workshops, there are usually bouncy castles at the venue, a BBQ, kids tracks, maybe a dog or two etc. Meeting on-line people in real life is always a challenge. Sometimes they are different than you thought they were, in one way or the other. But that isn't a big deal at a conference. There are so many people, if you don't know what to talk (many geeks might have that problem in general ;-)) just go on.

Regards
Gyro

 

With all those bespectacled geeks with braced teeth it could be carnage

You know you're a geek if your computers are your friends

 

Hello,

you have to frighten away the kids before you can have it for yourself .



Regards
Gyro

 

isn't that the mnemonic for the bands on the resistors .... and wasn't it black boys?