Geek Rites Of Passage

[DruBo]

i think i read a thread in server admins about ppl tweaking their particular linux kernel to run NS better.. how INSANE is that

Only as insane as wanting to be able to run 2 servers on a given machine where you could have run 1.

That said, I can't think of much that you could tweak to get NS to run better... Though perhaps some of the memory access stuff would do it.

I reconfigured the kernel in my personal machine to take out all the crap I didn't want/need and add dual-proc support.  It runs really smooth now that it doesn't load scsi board drivers by default. Heh.

[Grimm]

What Johny and Spike? I know tim but thats all.  Ofcouse I stopped playing after Tempest but what are those two?

Timmy, Johnny, and Spike

Edit: Here's a quiz designed to determine which of the three you are. Post your results, I'd like to see what kind of Magic players we have out there. Me: "Your Type Is: Johnny / Spike"

[Dubbilex]

Mmmmm....I don't know any of these newfangled cards.  Curses!  Where the crap are me classic cards!?  :huh:


Maybe I should just guess, or something?

[lolfighter]

I stopped playing magic about six years ago or so, so I didn't know a single one of those cards. Couldn't take the test.

[Niteowl]

I reconfigured the kernel in my personal machine to take out all the crap I didn't want/need and add dual-proc support.  It runs really smooth now that it doesn't load scsi board drivers by default. Heh.

j00 sir, are an uber geek!!

[Dirty Harry Potter]

i apply to a good bunch of those, being a PC and RPG geek, about PC i know a little about a lot, but RPGs i know quite a lot about. and i say that D&D isnt all that geeky - at least not compared to other RPGs like: Shadowrun, old-school Warhammer Fantasy roleplaying or some other RPG i've played or heard about XD.

i've read HGttG and some of the Hobbit(it got too boring after a while, i was 14 or so) also seen the half movie of it, made by a group of Media student iirc.
Seen the first hour of Dune, played the Games, and seen the book at the libary.

And who haven't heard of Monty Python

Being eccentric and/or strange is definetly a geek trait.

[Grimm]

Would being gleefully sadistic be a geek thing, or just an evil thing?

[esuna]

I'd just like to add a few rites which i feel are pretty important...

- Terry Pratchett books
- Going to clubs or pubs and spending your entire duration there discussing computer hardware
- Knowing how to strip down and rebuild a machine in 20 minutes flat (or less)
- Having more cables in your house than your average office workspace

Just one or two things i find that you're just not a geek if you don't have / don't do.

[DruBo]

j00 sir, are an uber geek!!

winnar.

[Smoke Nova]

-LOTR, the books -- Yep[.
-LOTR, the movies, thus far -- Check, getting Two Towers Special
-Star Wars, pre-Jar jar -- Check, I owned them all, let a friend borrow, have not seen since
-LOTR animated series  -- I was warned to avoid this
-Robotech  -- Hehehehehe.  Winnar
-enjoy logic puzzles/programming/puzzles  -- Only if it's made by the Amish.
-have played D&D at LEAST once  -- Yep...and I play NWN a lot, plus KotOR.
-think the term "windows 3.11 tiled windows rox" is kinda funny -- I used to have Win3.x
-Battlestar Galactica  --Starbucks to the rescue!
-Dr. Who  -- I have a mug of him
-Monty Python  -- This bird is no more! It has ceased to be!
-HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy  -- 42.
-Isaac Asimov  -- Foundation & The Robot Code
-StarBlazers  --Sorry, X it out
-know who JRR Tolkien, Terry Brooks, and Robert Jordan are -- LotR, Shannara, Wheel of Time
-Forgotten Realms  -- the D&D universe books. I'm getting the Drow series for X-mas.
-The Gunslinger Series by Stephen King  -- Same as above
-Dune, the books  -- I've read them & own them, the ones by Frank Herbert, 4-6 times EACH.
-Dune, the movies  -- Sitting next to me is the DVD of Children of Dune.
-WarHammer  -- That's with the little guys and the painting and the thousands of them.
-Red Dwarf  -- I saw it all, just don't remember much.
-Rowan Atkinson and all his silliness -- Mr. Bean! Johnny English! Black Adder!
-has a doomed/cancelled/ended SciFi series -- Babylon5, Space Above and Beyond, FarScape, ST: DS9 for me
-attributes "Revenge is a dish best served cold" to the Klingons -- duh. I tried to learn Klingon.
-knows how effective a two fisted punch is -- Never fought. X
-secretly wishes (s)he contributed/contributes to the linux kernel -- I hate Linux. X
-if not a coder, wishes (s)he knew how to -- I know some C++ & VBasic.
-Lovecraft (Cthulhu et al) -- I know who Cthulhu is. And Lovecraft, the messed up guy.
-William Gibson (neuromancer) -- Read some of it.
-Hunt The Wumpus (and other SP BSD games) -- X
-NetHack (and other MP Unix games) -- X
-remember Cyrix (and hate them) --Evil evil.
-Tron (the movie) -- Yup
-Hackers (also the movie) -- Angelina Jolie = hawt
-Blade Runner (yeah) -- I own it, DIRECTORS CUT
-Caffeine addiction -- I hate coffeee, I worship Coke products
-have used epic4, bitchX, and/or IRCII for irc -- mIRC for me. X
-compiled your own damn kernel -- Nope. X
- Terry Pratchett books -- hehe. Don't forget Neil Gaiman.
- Going to clubs or pubs and spending your entire duration there discussing computer hardware --Yup
- Knowing how to strip down and rebuild a machine in 20 minutes flat (or less) -- Not completely, but most parts.
- Having more cables in your house than your average office workspace -- hehehe. Yep.


I r the uber-geek

[Gunner2k]

Ahha! Here it is, the all to good geektest I was looking for!  ^^
http://www.thegodanubis.net/geektest/. I got 12 Questions right  :lol: I'm a Delta Geek, Which is pretty low since there's 48 Questions on the test.
My response was: You are a Delta Geek
- The lowliest geek in the geek pecking order. You use a PC, but you do not use a PC. When your cursor moves across your screen, you flinch like a frightened rabbit because you do not know what is happening. Your suspicions are correct: It IS a funny little arrow, and it IS trying to kill you.

What did you guys get?  ^^

[Malevolent]

Woohoo, I got 17, but I still failed. Some of those questions are hard. I don't think that many could get a prefect score.

The title I got was:

You are a Gamma Geek
- not the lowliest dog feasting on the sinew of gutted testing systems, but certainly not as digitaly dominant as the Alpha Geek. Still, you do know your way around a PC with some level of competency. Good enough for government work, indeed.

[Dubbilex]

You are a Gamma Geek

- not the lowliest dog feasting on the sinew of gutted testing systems, but certainly not as digitaly dominant as the Alpha Geek. Still, you do know your way around a PC with some level of competency. Good enough for government work, indeed

18, baybee!


 ^^


Makes me wonder...most of my guesses...err...answers were blind shots in the dark.

[Isamil]

16
You are a Gamma Geek
- not the lowliest dog feasting on the sinew of gutted testing systems, but certainly not as digitaly dominant as the Alpha Geek. Still, you do know your way around a PC with some level of competency. Good enough for government work, indeed.

I'l apply to the CIA as soon as I'm old enough.

[Niteowl]

hrm, never really considered myself a hardware geek at all, actually:

26 or something right
You are a Beta Geek
- You know more about PCs than some PC magazine editors, and MOST PC magazine readers. You eat, drink, and breathe PC hardware, which explains why your nickname is "Fun Tony" at LAN parties, but "Relentlessly Annoying Tony" at PTA meetings.

[lolfighter]

25, beta geek. I take my seat at Niteowl's right hand, as it should be.

[JHunz]

38
You are an Alpha Geek
- Woah! Once again, WHOAH! You are Alpha Geek, the one and only, the font of all PC knowledge, god-like and omnipotent, the master of all things PCB. Now go outside and get some fresh air... your office chair is develping a depression deeper then the Grand Canyon.

...Fitting enough, I guess :lol:

[esuna]

25, Beta Geek.

[Uranium - 235]

-have played D&D at LEAST once -- Yep...and I play NWN a lot, plus KotOR.

 <_< This REALLY needs to be re-worded to 'PEN AND PAPER RPGS'

Computer RPGs don't count at ALL.

[DruBo]

Just a reiteration of my forum title, of course.

You are an ALPHA GEEK!

- Woah! Once again, WHOAH! You are Alpha Geek, the one and only, the font of all PC knowledge, god-like and omnipotent, the master of all things PCB. Now go outside and get some fresh air... your office chair is developing a depression deeper than the Grand Canyon.

winnar.