Posted on Jul 23, 2016
You're not a true [computer] geek until . . . . . . ?
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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.
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.
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From what I've seen, people that rep Emacs do so because they've spent so much time learning how to configure it to their preference. It's similar to people who buy Mac's and disregard Linux as even an option.
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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."
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.
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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
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Although I might create a powershell gui... Since I have never done it before, and it presents a challenge.
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SSG John Erny
SPC (Join to see) - Know of a way to get active directory users and computers to work with MDT 2013 to make the OU selection work to drop computers in the right OU bucket? We can $$$$ SCCM
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SSG John Erny
SPC (Join to see) - Johan Arwidmark who wrote the thing had nothing for me, I asked him.
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SGT (Join to see) 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.
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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....
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 ...
WCRE: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering 2017 2016 2015 ...
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