You Know You Are A Computer Geek when.....

[TechJumper]

You know you are a computer geek when,


Your mom says, "Why are you yelling?" and you reply, "I got TIRED OF HOLDING SHIFT!"


HAHA lol. whatever.


POST YOUR FUNNIES,

michael

[Szech]

Your mother e-mails you to come downstairs for dinner.

You double click elevator buttons.

People look blankly at you. Constantly.

You try to overclock your toaster.

You're afraid you might read something in this post that's true.

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[voogru]

when you Hack The CGI files for your own MessageBoard to Up your Post count http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

-voogru

[King_Kooba_Fantastique]

When your car stops working, and you close the window just to open it again http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

KKF.

[welsh wizard]

When some one shouts FIRE

And you run out of the house carrying the computer not the wife!

WW

[Dputiger]

You know your a computer geek when...

You know how to use MS-DOS...

and think it was better than Windows....

but think an assembly-driven OS would be more fun...

and can write one.

[GroundZero3]

lol welsh wizard

Jason

[NDC]

When you power on your system when you get home dead tired from work before you go to bed....

I know there are many of you who are that way. Just turn on the system for no particular reason and click on a few links on the web or click on a few icons and then go to bed.....

[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 03-21-2001).]

[GroundZero3]

ndc sad to say it but i do that once in a while.

Jason

[dafremen]

You've got a small pile of Microsoft mice in the corner of your computer room with the left button pushed all the way through and your keyboard has some of the letters rubbed off.

Your wife has moved the living room set into the computer room so that you can spend more time together.

You haven't seen the cover to your PC's chassis since you got the thing, and you're pretty sure your wife threw it out.

For your anniversary you "got your wife" a CD burner.

8) Daffy




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[Orly]

Your wife wants a diamond for her birthday, and you get her a Diamond Stealth Video Card.

[ZENYO]

You know you are a computer geek when,

You spend more time at sysopt than anywhere else.

I need a life http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[dafremen]

When your wife is pregnant you spend more time picking out a domain name for your expected child's website than you do picking out names for the child.

On your way to the mall, when your wife says she's just going to browse, you immediately get a mental image of surfing the web at the Gateway Store.


8) Daffy

[BFlurie]

When you prefix the addresses on your postal mail with mailto: http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[TechJumper]

LOL Bflurie

[CMonster]

When you let someone cut in front of you in traffic and you expect an "ACK" hand wave in return.

[VERT]

You know your a computer geek
when you get recurring dreams about the software you use http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

[Szech]

Hee hee Dputiger!

That was me during the advent of Windows! Everyone else in my family loved it, and I hated it. They got mad at me because they had to type win to start it, because I had our 386 boot to the prompt. I explained to them that there's too much overhead running programs through Windows, and that DOS was much more efficient. They didn't have that, so I quickly solved the problem with a boot selection menu. Default selection was Windows, but there was also DOS, minimal DOS (only himem.sys and dos=high), regular Maintenance (virus scanner, quick scandisk, and defrag) and thorough maintenance (virus scan, thorough scandisk, defrag and memmaker) to choose from. BTW, the best memory manager was Qemm. I swear that thing could get me 800K of conventional memory! Well, not really, but it was great.

Memories http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Here's some more for the list:

1) You actually know what I was talking about.

2) You agree with me.

3) You still have that system.

4) It runs.

5) You use it.

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[welsh wizard]

But MS dos is better than Windows, after all when Windows Craps out what else do you use to fix it. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

WW

[KMBALO]

You know your a computer geek
When everyone else thinks you are...
like...
when you run into people you know at the store and the first thing they ask you is to build them a computer of fix thiers. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[prttybean]

-I have once washed a floppy left in my back pocket.

-Spare change jar also holds spare case screws

[KMBALO]

prttybean-
Case screws AND Jumpers!

[Dputiger]

Szech,

I umm, nail the first four on your list.

So here's my return post:

You know your a computer geek, if....

You've ever stayed up until three in the morning learning 'Elvish' in an RPG.

The phrase "You are in a maze of twisty little passageways, all alike" makes you break out in a cold sweat.

You know who Roger Wilco was.

You remember when 640K of RAM WAS enough for everybody

You built an Altair....

And discovered a use for it....

And actually made the computer WORK.

You've had more girlfriends in online games than in real life...

You occasionally have the urge to say "LOL", "ROFLMOA", or any kind of 'action' like <smiles>

It's easier to track you down by your AIM or ICQ SN than on a phone.

[turbo]

dos IS better than windows isn't it hu!!!

turbo;-]

[welsh wizard]

Not much hope for me then, I still remember when 8K was plenty of ram.

WW

[turbo]

OK WW we are onto it was that bad when!!!!!!

I remember back when 2 cans and a piece of string was advanced technology.

turbo ;-]

[dafremen]

I Remember when 4K was plenty of RAM!!!

You know you're a geek when:

You spend your first date teaching your girlfriend the Rune alphabet from The Lord of the Rings and the rest of the week writing letters to her using it.

You've got an Einstein poster and you've designed and made your own Einstein iron-on T-Shirt.

You break out the Waite's Turbo C/C++ Bible when your girlfriend asks if you want to "fool around".

The COVER of your Waite's C/C++ Bible is held on with duct tape.

The majority of your electric bill is the result of cooling fan activity.

Revenge of the Nerds was your idea of the "Feel Good Movie of the Year" and you're suprised when you find out that it WASN'T "based on a true story".

8) Daffy

[Szech]

- You have more computers in your house than you do people.

- You teach your dog to fetch www.news.com (http://www.news.com) in the morning.

- You hit the check mail button, and if there are no new messages, you hit it again.

[KMBALO]

lol
It's all so true..
"look at what I just got! a 386 SX with 4 Mbytes of RAM and a 200 Mbyte Hard-drive!""
LOL
OR you fix peoples computers for free.'because you enjoy it' http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
Worst-you remember tape drives- AND had one.
OR
Graduated from the Commadore 64 to the Amiga 1000 and though it was the BOMB!With a external 9600 Modem! It was, wasn't it?(The graphis were great!) In 1988 I thought PC's couldn't get much better!

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[CMonster]

...when you get a tan from your monitor

[dafremen]

When your idea of a tan is really more of an "off-white".

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

8) Daffy

[TechJumper]

...the brightness from your monitor is your only source of light http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif


...You turn down a date because you have a 'chat party' to attend http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

...YOU TALK TO YOUR COMPUTER

........IT TALKS BACK LOL

...Bring a glass of water for yourself, and another one for your computer

...you use AOL cd's as the saucer for the water.

...you tell a computer joke and no one gets it


...you post on this thread :P

[Ed_S]

You're implying that someone, somewhere, considers Windoze superior to DOS??!!

Szech - Y Y N N N
(The 286/386's are gone, but I do still have my old stuff! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif)

You know you're a comp geek when:

You STILL have a huge collection of software...on 5 1/4 floppies!!

You remember when memory was measured in kilobites, and came in individual chips.

You carry a boot disk, always - just in case!

[dafremen]

You know yer a computer geek when...


You know what a datasette is and you know how to use one too...

You once had the fastest modem on your block, and its transfer rating was in BAUD.

[KMBALO]

I already posted this once and it's not there..
You know your a computer geek when..

You go to the Auto Parts store to "upgrade" your car instead of tune it up' and you try to put a drivers disk into your Clarion Car Stereo after "Installing" the new cap & rotor, spark plugs and over clocking the timing belt!
AND (I am very guilty of this one..)
You are showing the 'new employee' at the store how to navigate on the computer!

[Sweeper]

In my case:
My computer's apart more then it's together because I just know...I know that it can go faster!!!!!!!!!!!! And I will prove it to all!!!!
Sweeper

[welsh wizard]

When you can remember your first computer and "Tick Tac Toe" was your first paid for state of the art software program, and you got 0&X's as a bonus game. (and then you realised you could have writen it yourself with Machine code after a few days study of the cpu architecture ( anyone remember what a stack was?) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

WW

[Ed_S]

This is turning into something more like:

"You Know You're An OLD Computer Geek when..."
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Here's one-

...you routinely interrupt CompUSA employees that are saying something stupid to a customer. (Yes, I have been asked to leave over this! I declined...)

[TechJumper]

lol ed_s

[S.D.Willie]

you know youre a geek when youve installed 95,98.98SE, etc. and know the cd keys by heart and have no reason at all to look for them!!!


SD

[surrealchereal]

When you have muttered the phrase
FDisk is my life!, or I can FDisk with my eyes closed.

[Szech]

When you first meet _________'s friends, they know you as the person who fixes ________'s computer. (I actually don't like when this happens http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif).

You saved parts from a broken computer.

It was really broken.