You know you're a geek when you're up at 5:30am...

[Charli]

You know you're a geek when you've just slept 7 hours, can't stand being in bed anymore, you get up, head over to your mate's computer and begin to debug his trojan that he somehow got (don't know, don't care) and while you're looking up how to get rid of "ssp security alert" through SMITFRAUDFIX.COM, you decide to go thru all of his junk and clean out unused software through the control panel/remove software link.

Then while you're doing all of that you decide to get out your laptop and give it a good sweep as well. By the time you're done it's been two hours, both computers are swept clean of trojans, usused software, favorites added to toolbar, icons rearranged, you look up and it's 7:30am and you get a Eureka moment:

Oh my God, I'm not just a tomboy, I'M A GEEK!!!

I just wanted to share and uh, Anhar, am I looking quite sexy to you now, you tech geek? lol

[puredrifting]

You could stay in bed if you had Macs. But then you couldn't be a geek.

Dan

[Jay Rodriguez]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm a geek too though.

[GDV]

Wow...you actually get to sleep 7 hours?! ;-)

[ilauzirika]

Wow...you actually get to sleep 7 hours?! ;-)

that's what I thought, I sleep 6-7 hours everyday and I would expect a geek to sleep 1-3 if not none.....hahahaha

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

I'm actually happy to hear this. It's nice to see some of those females out there who can actually do something with technology. My female friends, mother, and sister call me all the time because they have computer problems or can't plug the frickin' dvd player into the television. Frustrating. It's like being around a bunch of 80 year olds.

My sister is in a sorority, and whenever someone in the house is having problems (I think 30 girls live in this house) my sister would say "oh! Call my brother he knows how to do this stuff..." There is nothing more frustrating then telling a sorority girl (you've never met and is 400 miles away), how do hook up and install a printer.

I am very happy to hear that this stereotype can be false! I wish there were more of you. I'm sure the technical support people all over the world wish the same.

I did not mean this to sound chauvinistic, but if you doubt the truth I will seriously forward all my phone calls to the non believers and you can help them. :beer:

[David Jimerson]

I've never fathomed why it's so difficult to figure out taking the yellow-tipped cable and plugging into the yellow socket on the DVD player and the yellow socket on the TV. Repeat for red and white. Presto!

I mean, at least make an effort.

[ilauzirika]

I've never fathomed why it's so difficult to figure out taking the yellow-tipped cable and plugging into the yellow socket on the DVD player and the yellow socket on the TV. Repeat for red and white. Presto!

I mean, at least make an effort.

Totally agree!!!

This year in the university we have a subject about web technologies applied to communications, and we deal with different webpages (ie. Mogulus) and people is unable to set up an account cause they find something strange and they get stuck. But the real reason is that they don't even bother trying they just stop and say that's it I don't know, lets ask someone. They get stuck in an installation and they freak out and come (for example to me) asking if I can install something, why can't they EXPLORE or EXPERIMENT!!!!! and they say "casue I'm afraid of breaking something" (note that I'm talking about software not hardware).

Or as an other example learning how to use a program. When I told someone that I learned to use a program bymyself they can't understand it cause they think that to learn something you need someone to teach you. I think that people should be encouraged to try, touch and experiment, you won't break anything by playing inside a program!!!!!!!

ok [/rant]

(note That I'm not saying that everyone is like this......)

[Anhar Miah]

You know you're a geek when you've just slept 7 hours, can't stand being in bed anymore, you get up, head over to your mate's computer and begin to debug his trojan that he somehow got (don't know, don't care) and while you're looking up how to get rid of "ssp security alert" through SMITFRAUDFIX.COM, you decide to go thru all of his junk and clean out unused software through the control panel/remove software link.

Then while you're doing all of that you decide to get out your laptop and give it a good sweep as well. By the time you're done it's been two hours, both computers are swept clean of trojans, usused software, favorites added to toolbar, icons rearranged, you look up and it's 7:30am and you get a Eureka moment:

Oh my God, I'm not just a tomboy, I'M A GEEK!!!

I just wanted to share and uh, Anhar, am I looking quite sexy to you now, you tech geek? lol


lol thats pretty much exactly what I end up doing (I find if best to ignore my mobile phones from friends ):

I do it pretty much with my eyes closed now:

1) run Hijack this log,

2) note suspects,

3) Safemode

4) Killbox off files

5) Clean Reg manually

6) Repeat :D ,

7) Check with S&R; run AV, run cmd > sfc /scanow ; check winshocks ; kill any weird user accouts cmd >> net user * delete...

Worse thing is these days I help out remotely via logmein.... *sigh* argh I just want some sleep!

we are geeks....

P.S

Finally a girl who actually understands what I taking about; we need more girls in the IT department!

[TwistedLincoln]

I do it pretty much with my eyes closed now:

1) run Hijack this log,

2) note suspects,

3) Safemode

4) Killbox off files

5) Clean Reg manually

6) Repeat :D ,

7) Check with S&R; run AV, run cmd > sfc /scanow ; check winshocks ; kill any weird user accouts cmd >> net user * delete...



Actually, there's a much simpler fix:

1) Backup data to DVD

2) Wipe hard drive and install GNU/Linux

3) Go back to bed

:thumbup:

[Anhar Miah]

Actually, there's a much simpler fix:

1) Backup data to DVD

2) Wipe hard drive and install GNU/Linux

3) Go back to bed

:thumbup:

Even faster;

run everything remotely on a virtual "sandbox" machine with data from a separate file server...

hit "Undo"


EDIT::

I wasn't kidding either:

http://www.devx.com/vmspecialreport/Article/30377

I gotta sleep...

[Charli]

You guys rock! Okay, some stuff you said Anhar, toward the end I haven't done, but I do get it.

Ryan - you'll love this even more and will want to get my number to those blondes at the sorority house... we bought 40 inch Sony Bravia tv and I hooked it up to our cable box and dvd player (you loving me yet, just wait) and I knew something wasn't working right with the cables, so I went to circuit city website and read all of the user's reviews and discovered I needed a fiber optic cable to finish the hook-up, bought it, hooked it up, viola!!!

Yes people, I know what to do when the electricity goes off and the light on the dvd player time is flashing, woo hoooooo!!!!!

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

Ryan - you'll love this even more and will want to get my number to those blondes at the sorority house... we bought 40 inch Sony Bravia tv and I hooked it up to our cable box and dvd player (you loving me yet, just wait) and I knew something wasn't working right with the cables, so I went to circuit city website and read all of the user's reviews and discovered I needed a fiber optic cable to finish the hook-up, bought it, hooked it up, viola!!!

You had me at 40 inch Sony Bravia TV. :)

(love those commercials they have too.)

[Adam J McKay]

Actually, there's a much simpler fix:

1) Backup data to DVD

2) Wipe hard drive and install GNU/Linux

3) Go back to bed

:thumbup:


I have said it before and I will say it again, I love the Linux....sooooo much. What I hate? NO REAL NLE. Come on adobe let's get some linux support kicking.

As soon as I am rocking a new comp, my laptop is going Linux and never going back...ever.

[MattinSTL]

Not exactly on-topic... but 5a central as I type this... 4-5a has become standard, but I don't fire up my geekdom until 7.