Is cycling for geeks?

hisoka

jashburnham wrote:

Sewinman wrote:

prawny wrote:

Sewinman wrote:

I would come for beers on friday but have a hot date - woop. With a girl I met on the net.... :oops:

Be careful she's not an old man pretending to be an attractive girl, I saw about it on the news, make sure you tell someone where you're going and take a friend!!

It is a second date but she could be a master of disguise!

I'd be worried if she was a master of disguise... mistress of disguise would be better.

DaAmn it, beat me to saying that one!

Sewinman

hisoka wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Sewinman wrote:

prawny wrote:

Sewinman wrote:

I would come for beers on friday but have a hot date - woop. With a girl I met on the net.... :oops:

Be careful she's not an old man pretending to be an attractive girl, I saw about it on the news, make sure you tell someone where you're going and take a friend!!

It is a second date but she could be a master of disguise!

I'd be worried if she was a master of disguise... mistress of disguise would be better.

DaAmn it, beat me to saying that one!

That does not make sense though does it. If 'she' was a man who had dressed as a woman for the first date then she would be a master of disguise not a mistress.

Jay dubbleU

Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office - curse you Microsoft :twisted:

DavidTQ

Sewinman wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

Sewinman wrote:

I am 100% not a geek...really not interested in how stuff 'works'. I like cycling for the same reason that I like fly fishing and wine and other activities...it makes my mind go blank and gives me a nice buzz and then i sleep well.

I have no idea what you lot are talking about most of the time.

Trouble is, Sewinman, old boy, is that you've justyed outed yourself as a Geekolyte.

Who's the bigger fool? The geek, or the person who enjoys the company of geeks?

A geek freak! Who says I enjoy it eh!? I could be a sadist. I tell you what though - you guys have a LOT to say on some seemingly uncontroversial subjects.

Anyway I thought the definition of geek is to have online gaming friends. Anyone care to own up?

Hands up here, although far fewer online gaming friends now than a few years ago, mainly due to some disastrous dev decisions at my game of choice...

I was however a geek before the internet made geeks semi cool. I was working with binary, hexadecimal and machine code long before html came out, worse than that I was using my own portable computer in school when BBC masters were still being used to teach IT classes . I wrote my own operating system for that computer and then wrote my own games and actually played them my self. Quite often in class whilst pretending to work... Yep I was THE geek.

Surprisingly enough I ended up working in IT. I wanted to be an architect, but bah computers were the quick and easy route. Of course back then computers were something of a dark art...

I did however spend a few years away from the geekdom fold, still working in IT but not spending a second of time on IT outside of work, I spent this time competing in motorsport, partying and chasing girls. As soon as I got married all that stopped and my inner geek resurfaced

Alas for the upcoming generation my children seem to have picked up the geek gene. Three of them already have their own MMORPG toons...

Bassjunkieuk

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office - curse you Microsoft :twisted:

+1

As my sig over on the Ubuntu Forums reads:

I use Windows because I have too
I use Ubuntu because I choose too

Also another one of my favourites

Without walls and fences there is no need for windows and gates!

il_principe

linoue wrote:

There are Plentiful IT pro's posting on here
A Spattering of Smartphone/iPhone fanatics
A Modicum of Macolytes
Varied Video gamers
A Legion of gadget lovers
An Abundance of amateur digital photographers
Copious comic book fanboys
Umpteen Unbuntu users
Teeming Twitterers
Spotifiers early adopters

Actually, what browser do you all use? Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari?

Firefox and Chrome.
Safari on the iPhone (no choice)

Windows at work, gah! But still have Firefox thank god.

Bassjunkieuk

jashburnham wrote:

linoue wrote:

There are Plentiful IT pro's posting on here
A Spattering of Smartphone/iPhone fanatics
A Modicum of Macolytes
Varied Video gamers
A Legion of gadget lovers
An Abundance of amateur digital photographers
Copious comic book fanboys
Umpteen Unbuntu users
Teeming Twitterers
Spotifiers early adopters

Actually, what browser do you all use? Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari?

Firefox and Chrome.
Safari on the iPhone (no choice)

Windows at work, gah! But still have Firefox thank god.

Firefox Portable FTW! Runs from a USB stick so your never to far away from Firefox loveliness and you can take all your bookmarks/add-ons/settings with you everywhere!

Hit up www.portableapps.com for a huge selection :-)

linsen

Geek is a very subjective term

I don't think I know enough about anything to be considered a geek.

Obsessive, maybe.....

greg66_tri_v2.0

OK IT geeks, help me with this.

Why does FF crash regularly on my lappie at home (running W2000). I realise I've given out too much information already, but what's the answer?

andrewjoseph

jashburnham wrote:

....
Shut it geek boy!

Ha, at last, I'm a geek!

Is there a difference between 'geek' and Geek'? Like is 'Geek' ten times more geeky than 'geek'..... or sumpink?

Bassjunkieuk

Greg66 wrote:

OK IT geeks, help me with this.

Why does FF crash regularly on my lappie at home (running W2000). I realise I've given out too much information already, but what's the answer?

Cos your running W2000 ;-) Use a decent OS!

On a serious note I'd check what extensions/add-ons your using (disable each one and see if it helps) and that you have the most up-to-date version (currently 3.0.6)

andrewjoseph

Brixtonbiker wrote:

Does anyone understand this??

Alternative Method (for the "vi" challenged)

If using vi across a telnet connection is not your cup of tea, you can also simply copy the rc.mxoparam file across to a shared folder, edit it from the shared folder location, and then copy it back:
cp /etc/init.d/rc.mxoinit /share/Public

(do edits from any editor ... as long as it supports unix text file format)
cp /share/Public/rc.mxoinit /etc/init.d/rc.mxoinit

You may want to make a backup first...

http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Open_M ... hard_drive

:roll:

Thats what i was working on in one window and this forum open in the other window

I must be a geek

I prefer Ted. But it's been a loooong time since I had to use it.

Clever Pun

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

prawny wrote:

Whats VI? :?

A console based text editor, found on most *nix computer OS's.
There is a infamous rivalry between the users of VI and emacs as they argue which is best :-)

Now why'd you go and say that... some people are best left in the dark. bad nerd.

Clever Pun

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

OK IT geeks, help me with this.

Why does FF crash regularly on my lappie at home (running W2000). I realise I've given out too much information already, but what's the answer?

Cos your running W2000 ;-) Use a decent OS!

On a serious note I'd check what extensions/add-ons your using (disable each one and see if it helps) and that you have the most up-to-date version (currently 3.0.6)

Why don't you just say

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

andrewjoseph

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

...
I love the fact that the whole mechanical process is so obvious ....

And yet there are still many people who don't understand how derailleur set screws work!

_Brun_

I can't be arsed reading five pages of this stuff but think I have the answer if it hasn't been figured out yet.

Is cycling for geeks? No

Are cycling forums on the internetz for geeks? Yes, largely

wgwarburton

_Brun_ wrote:

I can't be arsed reading five pages of this stuff but think I have the answer if it hasn't been figured out yet.

Is cycling for geeks? No

Are cycling forums on the internetz for geeks? Yes, largely

Yup, I was going to post that earlier, but Work got in the way...!

Which browser? Doesn't matter, it's just an application... use whatever's handy, they are all pretty much the same way anyway.

Vi over emacs- it's there when you boot (unless from tape- use ed) and you can pipe to the shell to do the smart stuff.

Spreadsheets? Geeks don't use spreadsheets...

Cheers,
W.

prawny

Clever Pun wrote:

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

prawny wrote:

Whats VI? :?

A console based text editor, found on most *nix computer OS's.
There is a infamous rivalry between the users of VI and emacs as they argue which is best :-)

Now why'd you go and say that... some people are best left in the dark. bad nerd.

It's ok I didn't understand a word of it :shock:

lost_in_thought

I think DavidTQ has out-geeked every one of us. Perhaps even all of us combined...

I use firefox on everything but my phone. Oh and sometimes Opera on my eeePC if firefox isn't playing.

DavidTQ

lost_in_thought wrote:

I think DavidTQ has out-geeked every one of us. Perhaps even all of us combined...

I use firefox on everything but my phone. Oh and sometimes Opera on my eeePC if firefox isn't playing.

I came to terms with me geek status long ago. The proof is all there, sci fi fandom, online gaming, IT career, programming, tabletop gaming, tolkien fandom (in fact just about any old tolkienesque fiction will do). Heck I even taught my 6 year old son how to convert 6 bit binary to decimal... (8 bit numbers get a bit big for him to work out in his head just yet).

Geek I have came to terms with, its inevitable. Nerdiness Im still in denial about but I did just find this old picture of me wearing a bow tie... :shock:

No Im not a nerd, Im not a nerd. A geek I can accept, Im a techy. But nerd is a step too far. That bow tie really hasnt seen much use honest

wgwarburton

Hi,
I have a fairly reliable test for geekery in IT/maths circles:

How high can you count on your fingers?

If the answer is 255, then you are talking to a geek.

If the answer involves looking at the fingers to work it out, you may be talking to a nerd.

If you don't understand the question, you may be Normal.

Cheers,
W.

lost_in_thought

Definitely not a geek then.

Good.

Glad that's sorted.

prawny

I understood the question and got 9

DonDaddyD

I have many quirks: Sci-fi like Star Trek, Star gate, computer games gadgets and hell I ever dabbled in IT. But there is one thing I'm reknowed for as a geek....

I'm a comic book fan of astronomical proportions. I used to spend close to £100 a month on comics before the credit crunch raised the price from £2.10 to somewhere closer to £3. I once wrote an entire breakdown of the history of Human Evolution in the Marvel Universal - I even included divergent human species such as the Eternals, Deviants and Inhumans. I love comics.

I think dressing up in lycra, cool looking shoes, helmet, wrap around and fingerless gloves may be linked to my desire of wanting to be a Superhero....

So yeah for m cycling reinforces that I'm a geek, wouldn't have it any other way. Being a geek or better put doing the things that make me a geek is a source of comfort for me - I like doing them.

steve-m

itboffin wrote:

What a scary thought, meeting people from the Internet

Sure, like they are real people!

flattythehurdler

prawny wrote:

I understood the question and got 9

Goddam triads are everywhere.

DonDaddyD

Does no one like Comic books!?!

jonginge

new avatar for DDD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Guy

lost_in_thought

DonDaddyD wrote:

Does no one like Comic books!?!

My ex-housemate was really into comics, and 'graphic novels' - really long comics. He lent me one - a batman one - which I was really keen to read, but just couldn't deal with the comic-book format.

So, sorry, but not me!

il_principe

DonDaddyD wrote:

Does no one like Comic books!?!

Nope, not really. Not enough words in them for me! I like some comic book movies - Batman etc. Looking forward to Watchmen as well.