You know your a geek when.....

nekros · Post by **nekros** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:29 pm

So I thought I'd ask you guys....

Zenith · Post by **Zenith** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:17 am

You know you're a geek when...

You try to justify everything you do by calling yourself a geek.

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:58 am

You know you're a geek when your face is paler than your butt.

lukem95 · Post by **lukem95** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:05 am

you get into OS dev?

jzgriffin · Post by **jzgriffin** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:09 pm

You have dreams about writing assembly in Vim, assembling it with fasm, then running it in Bochs.

earlz · Post by **earlz** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:07 am

when playing an awesome game, being able to think of nothing else but to wonder how they made it and imagine creating something like it...

lukem95 · Post by **lukem95** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:12 am

hckr83 wrote:when playing an awesome game, being able to think of nothing else but to wonder how they made it and imagine creating something like it...

i agree with this one. I long for the days of ignorance where i did not think about physics engines and how the AI works

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:49 am

I would say geeks are born, i myself am not a geek because i find coding, OS Dev, writing posts etc, very hard, as i am not a natural.
Give me a set of tools and i will build you anything in metal, wood, plastic etc.
But as for academic stuff, i am no good.
But i once set myself a challenge to code a simple OS and now i must complete the challenge, or my OS will finish with the 100 of other half finished hobby OS's.
I wish i was a geek like the rest of you, i wish i had done well at school, and gone on to univ, and then i would not have to try so hard.
So i am prof that even none geeks, can make half finished OS, if they keep at it.

jzgriffin · Post by **jzgriffin** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:30 am

lukem95 wrote:
hckr83 wrote:when playing an awesome game, being able to think of nothing else but to wonder how they made it and imagine creating something like it...
i agree with this one. I long for the days of ignorance where i did not think about physics engines and how the AI works

I've had that issue with every game I've played for the past 6 years, including Crysis...

Also, when you build your own Linux distribution without Linux From Scratch or even CoreLinux.

earlz · Post by **earlz** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:29 pm

whenever you are hungry you think of 64153 (0xF00D)

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:42 pm

...when you think gentoo is the most user-friendly linux distro...

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:10 pm

You've memorized how to compile a linux kernel and what most/al of the config options mean.

-JL

JamesM · Post by **JamesM** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:07 am

make mrproper
make menuconfig
make

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:19 am

> make menuconfig
> make && make modules_install

xyjamepa · Post by **xyjamepa** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:28 am

excuse me ... but what does geek mean?