You're not a true [computer] geek until . . . . . . ?

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:11:17 -0400

Response by Capt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 23 at 2016 10:12 PM

Capt Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:12:47 -0400

You've created true sentient AI

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Jul 23 at 2016 10:14 PM

CPT Jack Durish — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:14:55 -0400

You can tell time on a binary clock. I kept one on my desk wherever I consulted. It added to my mystique...

Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 23 at 2016 10:17 PM

CSM Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:17:56 -0400

Someone asks you if it is possible to reverse entropy and you respond with, "Not enough data to create a meaningful answer. That is the last question"

Response by Capt Daniel Goodman made Jul 23 at 2016 10:26 PM

Capt Daniel Goodman — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:26:47 -0400

http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/program?id=3026&f=Working%20Conference%20on%20Reverse%20Engineering

I realize this wasn't what you were asking here, however, even though I'd already submitted it as a general link, I thought, given your apparent technical interests, that you and or possibly others on here might conceivably find this of some possible real interest, it's a very serious albeit not all that well known technical society of the IEEE, hope you find it of use, be most eager for your thoughts, it's been a very real technical interest of mine for some considerable period of time now....

WCRE: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering 2017 2016 2015 ...

Response by SN Greg Wright made Jul 23 at 2016 10:27 PM

SN Greg Wright — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:27:03 -0400

At the very least not until you build your own systems.

Response by SSG Roger Ayscue made Jul 23 at 2016 10:28 PM

SSG Roger Ayscue — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:28:30 -0400

You walk around playing Poke man what ever and step off into traffic or off of a cliff...

Response by SSG Michael Hartsfield made Jul 23 at 2016 10:36 PM

SSG Michael Hartsfield — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:36:38 -0400

You spend 200 a month for a business class internet connection

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 23 at 2016 10:42 PM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:42:27 -0400

you post a question like this?? seriously, can you help me fix my computer?

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 23 at 2016 10:47 PM

MSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:47:38 -0400

You know "vi editor" without a cheat sheet.

Response by SGT Roberto Mendoza-Diaz made Jul 23 at 2016 10:57 PM

SGT Roberto Mendoza-Diaz — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:57:06 -0400

You have watched IT Crowd.

Response by SGT Aaron Atwood made Jul 23 at 2016 11:07 PM

SGT Aaron Atwood — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 23:07:11 -0400

Everyone in your office area goes to you for solutions to their computer problems.

Response by 1LT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 23 at 2016 11:25 PM

1LT Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 23:25:09 -0400

You knowingly copy what snowden did.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2016 1:01 AM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 01:01:38 -0400

Cursed Windows OS to confused novices while arguing the merits of linux.

Response by Capt Michael Greene made Jul 24 at 2016 1:19 AM

Capt Michael Greene — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 01:19:29 -0400

Instead of manipulating files in Windows, you can do it faster by opening a CMD window and programming a batch file in DOS.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Jul 24 at 2016 1:37 AM

PO1 John Miller — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 01:37:37 -0400

The CIO asks you to fix his computer.

Response by SSgt Mark Lines made Jul 24 at 2016 6:21 AM

SSgt Mark Lines — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 06:21:24 -0400

SGT Private RallyPoint Member You still carry around your TRSDOS disks and other data disks that you used on your TRS-80, when you move to a new house. Even though your TRS-80 died about 25 years ago and you do not know if they are still good.

Response by SSG John Erny made Jul 24 at 2016 10:12 AM

SSG John Erny — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:12:01 -0400

CMD, regedit, gpedit, services.msc, f-disk, disk part, netstat, msconfig, robocopy, format fs=ntfs, sfc scannow, gpupdate, gpresult, nslookup, route print, PING, and PSEXEC

Response by SSG John Erny made Jul 24 at 2016 10:15 AM

SSG John Erny — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:15:24 -0400

Have server 2012R2 data center fully licensed running in your house. Yes I really do.

Response by PO2 Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2016 1:04 PM

PO2 Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:04:40 -0400

Ohhhh, you had to open that can of worms, din't ya :)?

Response by Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2016 6:04 PM

Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 18:04:23 -0400

Your Christmas wish list reads like a Newegg advert.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2016 11:14 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 23:14:24 -0400

I have android phones, an iPad, Microsoft desktops and several flavors of Linux VMs. I also computerized my Platoons training records back in the mid 80s. (I was the Training NCO at the time and hated paperwork!)

As an aside, to prove my geek-ee-ness:
"The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from each other) sometimes makes it difficult to remember which language you're using. This guide is offered as a public service to help programmers in such dilemmas."

http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html

A couple of my favorites:

Assembly
You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover that you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot.
You crash the OS and overwrite the root disk. The system administrator arrives and shoots you in the foot. After a moment of contemplation, the system administrator shoots himself in the foot and then hops around the room rapidly shooting at everyone in sight.
By the time you've written the gun, you are dead, and don't have to worry about shooting your feet. Alternatively, you shoot and miss, but don't notice.
Using only 7 bytes of code, you blow off your entire leg in only 2 CPU clock ticks.

C
You shoot yourself in the foot.
You shoot yourself in the foot and then nobody else can figure out what you did.

C++
You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there."

Shooting yourself in the foot in various programming languages

The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from each other) sometimes makes it difficult to remember which language you're using. This guide is offered as a public service to help programmers in such dilemmas.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 24 at 2016 11:18 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 23:18:01 -0400

I forgot to say:

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 25 at 2016 9:04 AM

CW5 Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 09:04:19 -0400

You engineer the CHU shared satellite internet connection so that it provides QoS and port forwarding for World of Warcraft and sequesters 50% of the available throughput to your box during raids.

Also, you're an old geek when you still have your COBOL and LOGO disks and you also know what POKE 53280,0:POKE 53281,0 means.

EMACS forever. Screw vi.

Response by SPC Jimmy Bowling made Jul 26 at 2016 8:05 AM

SPC Jimmy Bowling — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:05:38 -0400

You know that the Cuckoo's Egg is not something you eat!

Response by GySgt Carl Rumbolo made Aug 21 at 2016 10:09 PM

GySgt Carl Rumbolo — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:09:38 -0400

...when your home network has dual WAN in an loadbalance / failover configuration, firewall, two routers running OSPF , 3 internal networks, a transparent firewall protecting an isolated network segment, 4 wireless access points with 5 SSID, 3 switches, (one is a 10G-BASE-T switch), a network management server, 2 NAS servers, 48 TB of NAS storage....

Response by GySgt Carl Rumbolo made Aug 22 at 2016 8:45 AM

GySgt Carl Rumbolo — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 08:45:36 -0400

....when someone talks about building a backbone carrier network based on RFC 1149 and RFC 2459 and you get the joke...

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 11 at 2016 1:10 PM

PO1 Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:10:30 -0400

You use social media sites and search engines as come on lines.

"Hey pretty lady, what's your IP address, cause I would Twitter your YouTube and Google your Facebook until you scream Yahoo!"

"I wanna insert my Floppy Disk in your Laptop" (idk)

Ok, I've creeped myself out;

Response by SFC Steven Wheeler made Oct 12 at 2016 1:35 PM

SFC Steven Wheeler — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:35:26 -0400

Just two months ago I was sizing up my daughter's new boy friend who is 26 years old to find out after ten minutes he had no idea what I was talking about. Fail!!! I thought I was talking about basic computer stuff. This kid has a laptop, but must live under a rock.

Response by Cpl Justin Goolsby made Oct 13 at 2016 9:39 AM

Cpl Justin Goolsby — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:39:04 -0400

you've provided some kind of tech support and wish you chose another field when the solution ends up being "Is it plugged in"

Response by CPL Eric Escasio made Apr 18 at 2017 10:40 PM

CPL Eric Escasio — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:40:16 -0400

You do not to use a mouse and just plain keyboard. Or have a room filed with over 40 computers working and non working ,and running a server for your family with a database created for your family's use.Or get excited debugging lines of codes. Or pushed at one point in your educational adventures by your teacher to get a CEH certification from EC-Council. And for fun you build and configure PID settings for your racing drones and enjoy flying it.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 4 at 2018 10:51 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:51:34 -0400

You used a 286, no mouse, F keys only.